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Student run since 1911
Dental Dash to raise funds for clinic
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Former Southeast student arrested for involvement in New York bomb plot ERIN NEIER AND BRITTANY TEDDER ARROW STAFF WRITERS
Former Southeast Missouri State University student Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis was arrested by the FBI on Oct. 17 for his involvement in a plot to bomb the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. Nafis, 21, came to the United States from Bangladesh in January 2012 on a student visa. He attended Southeast during the spring of 2012. He was pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in cybersecurity and was enrolled in 12 credit hours, according to Southeast News Bureau director Ann Hayes. Hayes said Nafis asked the university to transfer his records to another school, which she could not identify, this summer and that the university followed homeland security procedures that are required when an international student transfers. The Department of Industrial and Engineering Technology Programs began offering a degree in cybersecurity in fall of 2011. According to the university’s website, Southeast is the only university in Missouri that offers cybersecurity as a bachelor degree and students “learn to use technology to secure and defend information systems.” Mushfiqur Rahman, a sophomore international student from Bangladesh, met Nafis at an off-campus party in Cape Girardeau last semester. “What I heard about him today, I cannot believe my own ears,” Rahman said. According to Rahman, Nafis was elected vice president of the Muslim Student Association while at Southeast. “Not just anybody can be an officer
of that organization,” Rahman said. “You have to be hard working, and he was.” Rahman said that Nafis never shared any radical religious beliefs with him. “We chit-chatted about Islamic religion, but he never talked about our religion in a negative way,” Rahman said. According to the criminal complaint, Nafis first contacted an FBI confidential informant in early July 2012 to recruit the source to assist him in carrying out a terror attack in the United States. Nafis had multiple phone conversations with the source, during which he said that he was in New York and had come to the United States to wage “jihad.”
“What I heard about him today, I cannot believe my own ears.” Mushfiqur Rahman Nafis plotted to bomb the financial district of New York but changed his target several times before he decided on the Federal Reserve Bank. Nafis planned to detonate an explosive device using a cellphone. “All I had in my mind are how to destroy America ... I came up to this conclusion that targeting America’s economy is most efficient way to draw the path of obliteration of America as well as the path of establishment of Khilapha,” Nafis was quoted as saying in the criminal complaint.
Fundraise Everyone is invited to attend The Missouri Dental Association Foundation’s Dental Dash, a fundraising 5K run/walk, which will benefit the second annual Missouri Mission of Mercy charity event in the spring known as “MOMOM.” “It’s a free dental clinic that we are having May 4 and 5,” said Tracey Cooley, a registered dental hygienist at Roupp & Roupp Dentistry in Cape Girardeau. “We are just wanting to get the word out about this fundraising event because this is the first time we’ve hosted it.” Read the full story at southeastArrow.com.
Meeting Board of Regents approves residence hall at River Campus
Former Southeast student Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis was arrested Oct. 17 after he attempted to bomb the Federal Reserve Bank. Associated Press photo An undercover FBI agent who posed as an al-Qaida member collected evidence as he assisted Nafis in the planning process. On Wednesday morning, the agent and Nafis traveled to New York in a van filled with what Nafis believed were explosives. Just before the planned attack Nafis recorded a video statement in which he said, “We will not stop until we attain victory of martyrdom.” Nafis covered his face, wore sunglasses and disguised his voice in the video. Nafis then attempted to detonate the bomb by placing multiple calls to the cellphone that was the initiating device for the detonator. The FBI observed these calls and traced them to the phone attached to the detonation device. Agents placed Nafis under arrest after confirming the detonator had been activated.
The Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents approved the feasibility of constructing academic space and a residence hall at the River Campus at its meeting Friday. The board also gave Southeast administration permission to contract design development services. A conceptual proposal details the academic and residence hall to be included in a building on the northeast corner of the River Campus, with another possible location being on the north side of Morgan Oak Street, according to vice president for finance and administration Kathy Mangels in a press release.
Organization Nepalese Student Association will host two events in November The Nepalese Student Association will host two events in November. The first will be a fundraiser from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Nov. 7 at the University Center. There will be henna tattoos, a Jalapeno eating competition, calligraphy and performances. Donations at the event will go toward Mother’s Home, which is giving shelter to 80 homeless women and 15 children of war in Nepal. “Nepali Night” will take place at 6 p.m. Nov. 17 at Centenary Church. There will be a cultural show, a dance, traditional music from Nepal and door prizes. There will also be authentic food from Nepal and games. The event is free for Southeast students.
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VOLLEYBALL TEAM AT HOME
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The Southeast volleyball team will play SIU Edwardsville at 6:30 p.m. and Eastern Illinois at 2 p.m. on October 26 and 27, respectively, at Houck Field House.+
SOUTHEAST football THE REDHAWKS HAD 94 YARDS OF TOTAL OFFENSE MORE THAN UT MARTIN BUT LOST 27-17
Southeast football team loses third consecutive game ERIN NEIER SPORTS EDITOR
Southeast’s wide receiver D.J. Foster misses a pass in the end zone by inches during the homecoming game against UT Martin on Saturday. Photo by Nathan Hamilton
Football player plans to attend medical school SPENCER MICHELSON ARROW STAFF WRITER
Wide receiver D.J. Foster may soon be known as Dr. Foster. Most students around Southeast Missouri State Univeristy know him as the leading receiver on the football team, but Foster plans to attend medical school after graduation in hopes of becoming a chiropractor. “Just being in and out of the doctor’s office every so often as a kid kind of interested me, and that just kind of inspired me,” Foster said. “I liked biology a lot, so it was just easy to get interested in.” Foster had to visit the chiropractor’s office growing up to treat his scoliosis, a medical condition where the spine abnormally curves from side to side. He suffered from an acute case, which was painless and allowed him to play football. “I had a slight angle in my back for like four or five years, but I grew out of it,” Foster said. “I had a growth spurt right at the end of high school, so after that I kind of grew out of it.”
As a biology major, Foster looks at class as being just as important to him as playing football. “I’m a student-athlete, so the student part comes first,” Foster said. “I always make a good effort to study as much as I can and use the time that I don’t have football to my advantage.” Foster leads the team in every receiving category. He has 28 catches for 404 yards and four touchdowns.
“I’m a student-athlete, so the student part comes first.” D.J. Foster “I’ve made some big plays, but there are definitely some areas where I could just continue to better my game,” Foster said. “But, I’m pretty happy with how the season’s going so far.” Wide receivers’ coach Joel Beard believes Foster will be successful in life due to his work ethic. “He’s got a great desire to do good,”
Beard said. “He works hard and wants to be successful. He just needs to make sure that he stays on that path.” Although football is a big part of Foster’s life, he knows it will end soon considering he is a junior. “I plan on playing football for the rest of my life, but I know that isn’t possible,” Foster said. “So, I have to say I plan to go back home up to Chicago and get into a medical school up there.” Beard thinks football will help Foster during medical school. “I think football is the ultimate team sport,” Beard said. “It’s the closest sport to real life. It prepares any studentathlete for what life brings later on.” Foster doesn’t believe that the team’s 2-5 record has indicated the amount of effort the team has put into its season. “We’re making strides as a team,” Foster said. “We just put in so much work going through fall camp. It really reflects on the field, we just, there’s small problems that hold us back from the wins. But losing doesn’t always determine the effort put forth by the team.”
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The Southeast Missouri State University football team had possession of the ball for nearly 12 minutes longer than UT Martin. The Skyhawks had 94 yards of total offense less than the Redhawks. But turnovers and a missed field goal kept a victory out of reach for Southeast. The Redhawks lost 27-17 to UT Martin on homecoming Saturday. It was Southeast’s third consecutive Ohio Valley Conference loss. “Losing sucks either way, but whenever you lose by 10 or less it hurts even more because it’s one play here or there that can change the whole game around,” senior linebacker Blake Peiffer said. “One stop on defense, one finished drive on offense, even something on special teams. It’s just you miss out on one little thing.” Southeast and UT Martin were tied 7-7 after one quarter. The Redhawks got the ball to the UT Martin 3-yard line during the first drive of the second quarter but settled for a field goal attempt. Senior kicker Drew Geldbach missed the 20-yard field goal wide right with 11 minutes, 35 seconds left in the half. Southeast had four turnovers during the game, including a fumble with 22 seconds left in the first half that led to a UT Martin field goal. The Skyhawks had scored a touchdown and completed the extra point to lead 14-10. Freshman running back DeMichael Jackson fumbled the kickoff, and the Skyhawks recovered the ball at the 25-yard line. “I was glad it was just three points because I was like, ‘Oh, we really don’t need to give them a touchdown on this thing going into half,’” Southeast coach Tony Samuel said. “We came out OK and continued to battle in the second half.” Redshirt freshman quarterback Scott Lathrop had a fumble and an interception during the fourth quarter. After the team gained 66 yards on 11 plays, Lathrop fumbled and UT Martin’s D.J. Roberts recovered the ball at the Skyhawks’ 16-yard line with 11:02 left in the game. “I had it high and tight,” Lathrop said. “That guy just made a great play.” Lathrop also had a pass picked off in the end zone by UT Martin’s Thad Williams. Williams returned the ball to the Southeast 31-yard line, but the Skyhawks had a personal foul that resulted in a 50-yard penalty. “Sometimes it happens,” Samuel said. “We try to make sure we spend an awful lot of time protecting the ball and that’s not our style. ... We’ll go back and keep working on it.” Senior running back Levi Terrell rushed for 136 yards on 22 carries. It was the fourth consecutive game and the fifth time this season that he has rushed for over 100 yards. “The offense is moving. That front line, the holes are huge, and it’s making my job easier,” Terrell said. The Redhawk defense was led by Peiffer, who had 12 tackles. Senior free safety Tylor Brock had Southeast’s only interception. He intercepted a pass by UT Martin quarterback Derek Carr in the end zone and returned it 47 yards. Southeast’s record fell to 2-5 on the season and 1-3 in OVC play. “I can tell you this, we’re not going to give up on the season,” Peiffer said. “We’re going to come out every week and practice our butts off and try and get better, and we’re going to come out on game day and give it everything we’ve got, every week.” The Redhawks next game will be against Austin Peay at 4 p.m. Saturday in Clarksville, Tenn.
Southeast’s quarterback Scott Lathrop scores a touchdown in the first half of Oct. 20 game against UT Martin. Photo by Nathan Hamilton
DODGEBALL SIGN UPS
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Students interested in playing intramural dodgeball can sign up at imleagues.com until 11:55 p.m. Thursday.+
GOLF club started at Southeast THE CLUB WILL RAISE MONEY BY PARTICIPATING IN CADDY DAYS AND SELLING APPAREL THAT MEMBERS DESIGNED
BRIEFS Southeast Soccer Redhawks game ends in scorelesss tie The Southeast Missouri State University soccer team’s game against Belmont on Friday ended in a scoreless tie after two overtimes. Senior Renee Kertz made seven saves in the game and recorded her fourth shutout of the season. The Redhawks will play its final regular season games on the road against Tennessee Tech and Jacksonville State on Friday and Sunday, respectively. Southeast and Belmont are tied for fifth in the Ohio Valley Conference standings and are one point ahead of Eastern Illinois.
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Founders of the golf club talk to students who are interested in joining during their first meeting on Oct. 3 in the Student Aquatics Room at the Student Recreation Center-North. Photo by Nathan Hamilton
Golf club will practice with new golf simulator and at local courses and driving ranges
Redhawks lose two straight games The Southeast Missouri State University volleyball team lost its first Ohio Valley Conference game of the season against Morehead State on Friday. The Redhawks were swept 24-26, 22-25, 18-25 at Morehead. The Eagles remain the only unbeaten team in the OVC. The Redhawks also lost to Eastern Kentucky 19-25, 27-25, 25-23, 20-25 and 15-8 on Saturday. Junior Emily Coon led Southeast with 18 kills and junior Colleen Yarber added 15 kills against Eastern Kentucky. Southeast’s next games will be against SIU Edwardsville and Eastern Illinois at Houck Field House. The Redhawks play SIU Edwardsville at 6:30 p.m. Friday and Eastern Illinois at 2 p.m. Saturday.
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Ryan Bressner, a marketing graduate assistant, along with associate director of Recreation Services Jason Lipe developed the idea of a golf club this fall. “It’s a pretty unique club. Most of our clubs are either recreational, competitive or just a social club. The golf club is all three,” said vice president Bressner. The first meeting was held Oct. 3 in the Student Aquatics Room at the Student Recreation Center-North. More than 20 people attended to gain more information on the club. Funding for the team will come straight out of pocket for the members
Men’s basketball holds scrimmage The Southeast Missouri State University men’s basketball team’s red team won 82-57 over the black team in an intrasquad scrimmage on Saturday at the Show Me Center. Junior forward Tyler Stone led all players with 24 points. Southeast’s first exhibition game will be against Ouachita Baptist at 7 p.m. Monday in the Show Me Center.
for now, which is an estimated $200 per student a semester, Bressner said. President Shawn Heuring and Bressner described their plans for fundraising, which included designing and selling their own apparel and also participating in caddy days. The members of the club will go to a local golf course and carry the equipment for the golfers for caddy days. Practices for the winter will be held indoors at the Student Recreation Center-North. Kent Phillips, an alumnus of Southeast, will help coach the members. Phillips was a member of the Southeast golf team, which played its final season in 2006. Recreation Services also purchased a golf simulator, which is a virtual golf game.
“The Rec Center is going to rent it out to the community and the golf club will be able to use it for our practices, which will be nice in the winter when it’s cold,” treasurer Robert Shanahan said. Once spring arrives the members will hold practices at driving ranges and golf courses around the area. The goal is to help teach each other, have fun and to participate in some tournaments, Bressner said. Anyone interested should attend the meetings held at 9 p.m. on the first Wednesday of every month in the Student Aquatic Center Room. “Come to one of our meetings and just see who we are. Even if you’re not the best golfer, that’s not what we’re all about,” Heuring said.
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1. Rowdy the Redhawk and the Southeast Sundancers pose for a photo at the free tailgating event. 2. Southeast students wave for Jimmy John’s sandwiches to be tossed to them. 3. Dana Meyers, Lora Tindall, Tiffany Kopp and Katelyn Glenn enjoy free tailgating. 4. Southeast students Zach Barker, left, and Jacob Haun, right, watch the game from the student section. 5. Derek May and Leshay Mathis, were named 2012 Man and Woman of the Year. 6. Southeast students Pamela Avila, left, and Becky Hermann, right, show team spirit with painted faces. Photos by Nathan Hamilton A Partnership with Southeast Missouri State University and Rust Communications • To advertise, call 573-388-2741
RETRIBUTION
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FASHION show THE THIRD ANNUAL VINTAGE NOW WILL BE AT 6 P.M. OCT. 30 AT WEST PARK MALL
Vintage Now supports Safe House for Women HANNAH PARENT ARROW STAFF WRITER
Deb Maevers, owner of Pastimes Antiques, wanted to start a fashion show in 2010 that showcased how the modern woman could use vintage pieces in her everyday wardrobe. She wanted Vintage Now to be not only about fashion, but also about raising money for a good cause. Maevers chose the Safe House for Women. The event has sold out the past two years, at Buckner Brewery in 2010 and at The Venue in 2011. Vintage Now 3 will be at a bigger venue, the former Steve and Barry’s location at West Park Mall. Vintage Now 2, held at The Venue, had over 700 guests, and there is space for 1,000 people this year. Maevers’ daughter Kyleigh Baliva, the manager at Pastimes Antiques and music coordinator for the event, said the Vintage Now Fashion Show is the first fashion show event in Cape Girardeau. She said it is popular because it is different from an average charity event. “We’ve outgrown every place we have been,” Baliva said. “There are over 40 models this year. And we have 50,000 square feet to work with. We are trying a ‘U’ shaped
runway this year with seating available all around it.” Hayley Keith, a freshman biomedical sciences major at Southeast Missouri State University, modeled in the show two years ago and will model this year. She is signed to Ford Models in Chicago and Centro Models in St. Louis, and she often models in fashion shows in St. Louis. She said she loves to model for Vintage Now because it is so much more fun and low key than St. Louis fashion shows. “The show is about mixing and matching the old and the new,” Keith said. “Vintage clothing can be modern. But it’s also for a good cause and it’s mainly a fundraiser. I care about what I can do with modeling as a platform.” Students and faculty in the fashion department on campus are involved in Vintage Now shows. Lynn Moore, an instructor in the fashion merchandising program at Southeast, modeled last year and is excited about the clothes she will be modeling this year. Students in the major and in the fashion club on campus are also involved in modeling for the show. According to Baliva, the event will be bigger, but they plan on keeping the same format that past attendees are used to seeing.
Fashion merchandising instructor Lynn Moore models in Vintage Now 2. Submitted Photo “Like last year, there will be a 1960’s inspired performance by students from the Academy of Dance Art,” Baliva said, “And we also will have the 2013 ‘Vintage NOW calendar’ for sale as an additional fundraiser for $10 each. The models in the calendar portray vintage women famous in fashion, like Jackie Kennedy and Diana Ross, to name a few.” Michelle Scherer, executive director of the Safe House for Women, said Vintage Now 2 raised $30,000, and event coordinators have set a goal of $50,000 this year. Scherer said the money Vintage Now raises is crucial for the Safe House. The nonprofit organization
gets most of its money from federal grants, but the grants do not cover school supplies, uniforms, transportation and other things. The women and children the Safe House helps often need basic things, since they have to uproot themselves from their lives to get help. “Local funding provides access and makes our women and children more comfortable,” Scherer said. “We are just grateful for the coordinators of Vintage Now for choosing us. Local funding is very critical for our success in funding the services we provide.” The event may be about vintage fashion, but Scherer said the focus
is on helping victims of domestic abuse. This year’s speaker Karen Bowlin will talk about her experiences with domestic violence. “The goal is to have fun, but also to include awareness of the Safe House for Women and the services we provide,” Scherer said. Vintage Now 3 will be at 6 p.m. on Oct. 30 in the former Steve and Barry’s location at West Park Mall. Tickets are available at Pastimes Antiques and cost $25 for seats by the runway and $30 for general admission. The event will also include a silent auction, and guests will receive a free drink and hors d’oeuvres.
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STUDENT MUSIC RECITAL
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The 2012 Athenaeum Series will include a student recital event at 12:30 p.m. Oct. 31 at Sadie’s Place in Kent Library.+
FILM festival at Rose Theater APPROXIMATELY 50 FILMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE SUBMITTED FROM STUDENTS IN MISSOURI
Fault-Line Film Festival accepts films from any Missouri college student ANDREA GILS COPY EDITOR
The Fault-Line Film Festival is a competition organized by the mass media department at Southeast Missouri State University for students to showcase their talents by putting together a story for film. Dr. James Dufek, professor of mass media and TV and film operations manager, said this festival is not just for TV and film students. “It’s for everybody because everyone has a story,” Dufek said. Students from all disciplines can tell a story through comedy, drama, science fiction or animation. Dufek said that students have the propensity to use profanity in every film they make. “Last year the festival was for a mature audience because they were very expressive with their dialogue,” Dufek said. “This is not for kids. Some of the things are very simple and wouldn’t offend anybody, and some are trying to make a point by using their tools available.” Dufek said that he does not want the audience to categorize the event as one where only profanity is shown. “We don’t know what the product will be this year,” Dufek said. “You want them to be as open and expressive as they feel necessary.” Students and faculty work together to organize and produce the event, including the Department of Mass Media, Department of Theatre & Dance, Earl and Margie Holland School of Visual and Performing Arts, College of Liberal Arts, Department of Industrial and Engineering Technology and the Douglas C. Greene Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Southeast. According to Dufek, there is an artistic and creative background with all the developers and the judges. The seven or eight judges will select the winners and runners up according to a determined criteria, such as contextual and storytelling techniques, composition, sound bed, music, dialogue, acting and lighting.
Dufek said it is a combination of production and storytelling. “We had a couple of submissions where the quality of the product is just beautiful, but there’s no story,” Dufek said. “Then we have some that the story is developing but the production quality is so bad we weren’t able to hear it, understand it.” This is the third year of the festival but the second year that it is going statewide. Any student from a Missouri university is eligible to participate in the festival. There were almost 50 entries last year and organizers hope to have more this year. There is no limit to the number of students that can be involved in each film, but films can be only 10 minutes long. Last year there were some teams that had 20-30 students involved, while some groups had only four members. Students who are not mass media majors are not allowed to use the department’s equipment becuase it is expensive and they need to teach students to use it. Students have used their own cameras and iPhones and edited on their laptops. “It’s been proven now that you don’t need the highest end, high-end digital HD stuff to do a good story,” Dufek said. “It would be wonderful to have a shot in HD and better lighting, but the fact that the story was told was moving, did its job, you look past some of the production elements that could have been better because they did a good job with what they had.” Associate professor Fred Jones and Dufek worked with the advertising and public relations students to build a plan. But when they had a marketing and development plan, they had no way to fund it nor resources to promote it. According to Dufek, this is where James Stapleton from the Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship came in. Dufek said Stapleton wanted to include the mass media in the center’s Global Entrepreneurship Week. “This wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship,” Dufek said.
Students celebrate after the announcement of the Audience’s Choice award winner last year. Photo by Hunter Hempen TV and film graduate Robert Speurlock developed the logo while he was a student at Southeast. “We wanted to tie in the earthquake faultline with the festival,” Dufek said. “If you are from this area we are sitting in a pretty intense fault line that could erupt in any time so we just tied in with the FFF.” The Fault-Line Film Festival Group was formed to combine different talents and share resources, abilities and skills to make the festival possible. The group also helps with the marketing, set up, screening and other manual labor activities. The festival features a guest speaker each year. Steven Poster, 2002-2003 president of the American Society of Cinematographers in Hollywood, was one of the featured speakers Southeast brought to talk about light shooting in the masters class during the award winners ceremony last year. This year’s speaker will be David Johnson, president and partner of Coolfire Media and board member at Cinema St. Louis. Coolfire Media is a St. Louis company that produces commercials and a reality show called “Sweetie Pie’s” on the Oprah Winfrey Network. The award ceremony will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 14, at the Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall. There will be $4,000 in awards and prizes. Each team will get a crystal trophy if they win an award.
The awards include: Best in Show and a certificate to runners up, the Judges Award, and an Audience Choice Award. This award will be determined by tallying ballots handed out at the two-hour screening of the winners and other entries during a screening open to students at 7 p.m. on Nov. 16. at Rose Theatre. There also will be a screening open to the community on Saturday, Nov. 17. Dufek said he hopes students understand the script to screen process. “Putting that on their lap, giving it to them and saying produce this, with no support, no help, having to coordinate their production and talent schedules, post-production, plan their script, book locations, compose shots in a single camera style, are among the several things students need to take into account while shooting a film,” Dufek said. In order to collect funds, there will be T-shirts sold at $12-15, and the Saturday screening will cost $5 to attend. “We want to have a donation attached to it to help offset costs in the future,” Dufek said. There is no profit made with any of the selling. The money collected goes right back into the festival to help fund the event. The committee’s long-term goal is to make the festival nationally recognized. “We want this to be able to grow and students to get exposure to go to the next level, to independent film-making,” Dufek said. “We hope to go national.”
Haunted downtown walking tour gives eerie history of Cape Girardeau BRITTANY TEDDER ARROW STAFF WRITER
Port Cape, the Sherwood-Minton House and Old Lorimier Cemetery are just a few places in Cape Girardeau that have an abundance of history and ghost stories. The Haunted Downtown Tour is a walking tour that begins at the Boardman Pavilion across from Hutson’s Furniture on Main Street in downtown Cape Girardeau, travels along Spanish and Lorimier Streets to the River Campus and ends back at the pavilion. Christy Mershon, the assistant director of the Office of Extended and Continuing Education at Southeast Missouri State University, and local photographer Tom Neumeyer are the tour guides. Mershon said during the tour she and Neumeyer talk about and visit different buildings downtown along the corridor where Broussard’s, Buckner Brewery and Port Cape are located, depending on the time of night and how many people are in the buildings. “Sometimes we go into some of the buildings, depending on how busy it is,” Mershon said. “We’ve gone into Port Cape, the River Campus and the Glenn House property, a historic house right down from the River Campus.” Mershon said last year she heard some strange noises at the Glenn House while she was talking to a group of
teenagers about the history of the building. “It was a 16th or 17th birthday party, and the kids and their parents were with us,” Mershon said. “I was in the process of telling the history of the Glenn House, and we heard what sounded like either sobbing or laughter inside the house. The kids thought we staged somebody, but we definitely didn’t.” Mershon said there have also been stories of strange happenings during construction of the River Campus. “When we do the haunted tours, we hear a lot of people who say ‘I worked on that job site, and this happened,’” Mershon said. “It seemed to be a lot of things like tools being moved.” According to Mershon, the Sherwood-Minton House on Washington Avenue is arguably the most haunted place in Cape Girardeau. “It’s a house that is thought to be so haunted that in times that it’s been sold, the real-estate signs disclosed that the house has been said to be haunted to avoid any lawsuits,” Mershon said. Joel P. Rhodes, a professor in the Department of History, said one association of its haunting is the idea that the Sherwood-Minton House was a smallpox hospital during the Civil War. The legend is that the soldiers who died in the hospital were carried to the Old Lorimier Cemetery at night. “Some of the ghosts’ stories that are associated with that involve bobbing lights over in the cemetery, which
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apparently connects to taking the bodies out at night using lanterns or candles,” Rhodes said. There is also folklore that there is a tunnel that connects the Sherwood-Minton House to the Old Lorimier Cemetery, Rhodes said. However, there never has never been any proof. Mershon said that the alleged tunnel was used by the Union soldiers to take the dead bodies to the cemetery during the night because they did not want to show weakness or their forces thinning down. “It’s thought that potentially more Civil War soldiers died in Cape Girardeau than at the Battle of Appomattox, not because of the battle but because smallpox was so bad,” Mershon said. The tapping ghost is the most well-known story in Old Lorimier Cemetery, Mershon said. “You’re in the cemetery looking around, and you feel a tap on your shoulder, you turn around and there’s nothing there,” Mershon said. “Not a lot of people said they saw things, just felt a tap.” Mershon said people can bring flashlights and cameras, and they should dress appropriate for the weather and wear comfortable shoes to the tour. The next scheduled tours are at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday and 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Sunday. Each tour lasts 90 minutes. Contact the Office of Continuing Education at 573-9866879 for reservations.
PANEL DISCUSSION REVIEW
Artists dicussed themes of identity and cultural experiences seen in Looking Ahead: Portraits from the Mott-Warsh Collection. Read at southeastArrow.com/entertainment.+
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THE MID AMERICA PRINT COUNCIL WILL HOLD BIENNIAL CONFERENCE NOV. 1-3 AT THE RIVER CAMPUS
2012 Outstanding Printmaker featured in Art Gallery exhibit WHITNEY LAW ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
The Mid America Print Council chose James D. Butler as its 2012 Outstanding Printmaker, whose work is featured in the River Campus Art Gallery at Southeast Missouri State University. The MAPC is an educational organization that promotes the appreciation of making original prints, books, drawings and handmade paper as well as providing information on the art of printmaking. The 2012 MAPC Biennial Conference entitled Pressing Prints/Pressing Palms: The Entrepreneurial Printmaker will be hosted at the River Campus Nov. 1 to Nov. 3. As a part of the conference, Butler will not only have 30 of his lithographies, oil paintings and drawings on display in the art gallery, but also give an artist talk from 6 p.m. Nov. 1 at the Donald C. Bell Performance Hall discussing his featured work.
“It’s a sort of summary of my work in printmaking, painting and drawing since 1971, and so it’s sort of a sum of the parts you know. I do all kinds of different things in my studio, and so I wanted to make sure that all of those facets of my work output are contained in the exhibition in one way or the other.” James D. Butler The artist talk is titled “Extending Traditions: Projects, Means and Values.” “[The artist talk] will look at my work in a kind of brief survey of about 40 some years of work, and we’ll be looking at work from my undergraduate days to work that I’m doing currently,” Butler said. “The lecture will be about 40, 45 minutes long, and we’ll hit some of the high points.” Butler, who has work on display in 175 galleries including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and Chicago Art Institute, said being chosen as the Outstanding Printmaker was a big honor and he was surprised by the recognition. Butler, distinguished professor of art emeritus at Illinois State University, chose the pieces to be featured in the Art Gallery showing. The collection was first displayed Oct. 15 and will hang in the gallery until Nov. 16. It displays Butler’s work from his 40-year career as an artist and Butler said he thinks it looks really good in the gallery space. “It’s a sort of summary of my work in printmaking, painting and drawing since 1971, and so it’s sort of a sum of the parts you know,” Butler said. “I do all kinds of different things in my studio, and so I wanted to make sure that all of those facets of my work output are contained in the exhibition in one way or
the other.” Assistant professor Justin Miller took his Drawing I students to the gallery to show them the display on the day that it opened. Miller had gallery coordinator Kristin Powers Nowlin explain the complex process of lithography to his class, and she also discussed the wide variety of work in the exhibit. “I’m an artist who works in a representational manner, some people might call it realism, so the work is drawn from my environment,” Butler said. “In the early days there was a lot of still life work, and recently I’ve been working with the landscape.” According to Nowlin, Butler treated this exhibit as a retrospective tour of his whole career. She said his work fits in well at Southeast because much of his work focuses on the Mississippi River and that printmaking has a really strong presence in the Midwest. “His technical facility is really amazing. It’s really great for our students but also the community to just see such technical facility with drawing, painting and printmaking,” Nowlin said. The MAPC Conference will also include printmaking demonstrations, panel discussions, two other speakers, open portfolio sessions, First Friday with the Arts receptions, vendor’s fairs and a publisher’s fair where original artwork will be on sale. Many events are open to the public and Southeast students can attend for free. “On Friday afternoon we have something called open portfolio sessions where about 150 artists will put their work out on tables for people to look at,” Nowlin said. “That’s one of my favorite things at the conference because it’s so overwhelming, there’s so much art and you get a really good glimpse of what contemporary printmaking is like around the country.” Students, faculty members and professionals will show their work at the event. “This is an opportunity that comes along like maybe once in a lifetime for students to be able to go to a conference without having to travel and for it to come to the students,” Nowlin said. Butler said he is delighted with the way Nowlin, who has been on the MAPC board for six years, has organized this event. Nowlin said she suggested the conference be held at Southeast this year and that the gallery displays a variety of artwork for the rest of the year. Every year the gallery has at least two shows from artists outside of Cape Girardeau. They also have BFA exhibitions that are for graduating students and a show dedicated to a faculty member in the art department. This year’s faculty member show will be a solo show by assistant professor of art Emily Denlinger. The gallery also hosts an exhibition for a regional professional artist to act as juror for the Department of Art’s Annual Juried Student Exhibition. This year’s juror show will feature associate professor of graphic design at the University of Central Missouri Clint Orr in a solo exhibition. A full list of upcoming gallery events can be found at www.rivercampusevents.com. To find more information on the MAPC Biennial Conference and the 2012 Outstanding Printmaker, visit the organizations website where a full list of events has been posted.
Butler’s exhibit includes 30 pieces of art from his 40-year career as an artist. Southeast Missourian Photo
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Campus reacts to former student’s arrest Nafis attended Southeast during spring semester
Admission goes against university’s stated policy Brittany Tedder Arrow staff writer
Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis arrived at Southeast Missouri State University before the university evaluated his transcript from the university he attended in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Southeast President Dr. Kenneth W. Dobbins said at a press conference Thursday that Nafis came to the United States on Jan. 9. Southeast received his transcript from North South University on Jan. 18, the day after classes started. Nafis was arrested for planning to bomb the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City on Oct. 17. Nafis attended Southeast only in the 2012 spring semester. Nafis was admitted into Southeast before he came into the United States and did not put his college transcripts on his application, Dobbins said. According to the university’s admissions application for international students, applicants are required to submit complete secondary and post-secondary transcripts that are verified by their previous schools and confirmation of graduation. “He submitted his scores from high school,” Dobbins said. “When he came to Southeast, he brought his transcript, we evaluated his transcript and told him he could not be regularly admitted and changed his admission status.” Dobbins said that a letter was sent to Nafis stating he was on academic probation. Dobbins said academic requirements for international students are higher than non-international students.
Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis. Associated Press photo “Their test scores have to be a little higher,” Dobbins said. Heather Meng, the assistant director of International Admissions, told the Arrow on Thursday that she would not be available to discuss the process of international admissions until this
week. According to an Associated Press report, a North South University official said that Nafis was “a terrible student who was put on probation and threatened with expulsion if he didn’t bring his grades up and that he eventually stopped coming to school.” Nafis continued his pattern at Southeast. Dobbins said he spoke with a few faculty members who had Nafis in their classes. The faculty members told Dobbins that Nafis frequently was absent. Dobbins said during the press conference that Nafis had poor grades at North South University but was not failing. Earlier Thursday Dobbins said he was unaware of Nafis’ academic problems in Bangladesh when asked about them by an Arrow reporter. “I have no knowledge of that and even if I did, which I don’t, under the Family Educational Rights of Privacy Act, I can’t talk about that,” Dobbins said. “That university actually can’t do it either, and that’s a federal law.” Nafis requested his transcript be transferred to a Brooklyn, N.Y., institute over the summer, according to Dobbins. “We complied by his request and followed the procedures of the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, which means we sent his records and notified homeland security that he had left Southeast,” Dobbins said. Dobbins met with the Federal Bureau of Investigation Thursday morning. Agents told him that Southeast was never a target of terrorism and that the campus was safe. Arrow reporter Cameron Jeffery and sports editor Erin Neier contributed to this report.
EVENTS LEADING UP TO the ARREST of nafis Jan. 9, 2012 Came to Southeast on a student visa Jan. 18, 2012 Nafis’ transcripts arrived from school in Bangladesh
Early July 2012 Contacted an FBI confidential human source to join a jihadist group to carry out a terror attack in the U.S.
July 14, 2012 Told an undercover FBI agent he wanted to return to Bangledesh to receive training from al-Qaida Sept. 27, 2012 Nafis decided to attack something in the financial district of New York City and he hoped it would interrupt the upcoming presidential elections Oct. 15, 2012 The undercover agent said they would be ready to proceed with the attack on Oct. 17.
President Kenneth W. Dobbins had a press conference Thursday, where he told attendees that the campus was safe, according to the FBI. Photo by Travis Wibbenmeyer
The father of Quazi Mohammad ReRezwanul Ahsan Nafis holds up his son’s photo. Associated Press photo
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Oct. 17, 2012 Attempted to detonate a bomb on the Federal Reserve Bank using a cell phone
Jan. 17, 2012 Classes started at Southeast
Summer 2012 Requested that Southeast transfer his transcripts to an unnamed school in New York City
July 5, 2012 Told an undercover FBI agent he wanted to wage jihad for al-Qaida
Southeast President Kenneth W. Dobbins called a meeting for all Resident Assistants last Thursday. Resident Assistants mingle as they wait for the meeting to start. Photo by Kyle Thies
Aug. 27, 2012 Nafis told an undercover FBI agent that Nafis thought he was now a member of al-Qaida Oct. 4, 2012 Brought explosives to a warehouse, which Nafis thought would be a good place for storing them
Oct. 16, 2012 Nafis called the undercover agent and said he wanted the attack “to happen, no matter what.”
Oct. 17, 2012 Arrested by FBI after they saw the detonator had been activated
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President meets with RAs and international students Erin Neier and Whitney law editorial staff
Southeast Missouri State University President Kenneth W. Dobbins released information and met with international students and resident assistants about campus safety after a former Southeast student was arrested for his plot to bomb the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City. “I have met with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and have been assured that there is no reason to be concerned about safety issues on the Southeast campus,” Dobbins said in a letter to Southeast students, faculty and staff released Thursday. “The FBI has indicated that Southeast was never a target of terrorism and the campus community can rest assured that all possible safety and security procedures have been and are continuing to be followed.” Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis was a student at Southeast during the spring 2012 semester. “I just hope by reading your article … that people understand that there are bad people,” Dobbins said in an interview with the Arrow. “And sometimes you don’t know who they are, but thank heavens we have this network of security that ferrets those folks out and that’s what happened — it worked.” Nafis was an international student from Bangladesh and served as the
vice president of the Muslim Students Association while at Southeast. “I hope that people realize that there are individuals that aren’t international students that would like to do terrorist activities or what we classify as terrorist activities,” Dobbins said. “We shouldn’t stereotype every one of our international students. That’s not right. It’s a wrong assumption.” Dobbins said there are more than 700,000 international students in the United States. Dobbins met with international students Thursday evening in the University Center. Members of the counseling center, international program staff and some university faculty and staff were invited to the meeting. “We want to make sure they know that if there’s some issues, we want to know about them,” Dobbins said. “We want to let them know that we appreciate what they do at our institution and that we feel that this is just a one-person incident. It could’ve happened in any of the universities that have those 700,000 students.” Dobbins held a meeting with resident assistants earlier Thursday in the University Center to ensure them of campus safety and to make sure that they were making international students welcome as much as ever. Logann Driskell, an RA at Dearmont Hall attended the meeting. She said that safety was a
focus of the meeting. “We just need to be supportive of our residents is kind of what the meeting was about,” Driskell said. “As you’ve seen in the media already what’s going on. ... It’s pretty much just basically to be there for our residents and let them know that we are a safe campus and that we are doing things to help them be more safe.” Driskell said that residents on her floor had not been talking about Nafis prior to this meeting and that most college students do not keep up with the news. “This, like, makes me realize there’s bigger things going on around us that we need to be aware of and we need to realize, but at Southeast I think we’re genuinely safe as a university and Dr. Dobbins is doing a great job,” Driskell said. Towers Complex RA Bradley Beran said that he heard about the incident involving Nafis online Wednesday night. He attended the RA meeting with Dobbins as well. “There was no private information shared, public information, just kind of informing the RAs and other professional staff what’s going on and to make sure we’re still remaining a presence on the university. And that more than ever now we need to be here for the rest of the international students and remember that they’re still at home,” Beran said.
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INTERIOR design accreditation PROGRAM COULD BECOME ONE OF FOUR IN NATION TO ACQUIRE TWO ACCREDITATIONS
Interior design faculty prepares program for accreditation MARISSA FAWCETT ARROW REPORTER
The Department of Human Environmental Studies’ interior design program is on the verge of acquiring its first accreditation this March and already is planning for its second accreditation, which would make it one of only four programs in the nation to obtain both. National Kitchen and Bath Association is for all interior design professionals in the kitchen and bath industry, according to NKBA’s website. Council for Interior Designers Association is an organization that accredits college and university interior design education programs, according to CIDA’s website. The faculty of the interior design program started the NKBA accreditation process in 2008. Carol Nesler is the NKBA accreditation facilitator, Shelby Hicks is CIDA accreditation facilitator and Michelle Brune is the curriculum coordinator. “We really looked at it because it establishes credibility for our program, and that’s what we were looking to do,” Nesler said. Credibility is one reason why accreditation is important, but it is also important because of the appeal of an accredited program for future students coming to Southeast Missouri State University. “That’s one of the first questions that [future students] ask, ‘Are you accredited?’ because they’re doing their homework and realizing that that gives them more marketability, more ability to get a job potentially,” Brune said.
NKBA and CIDA accreditation gives students many benefits. While students still are in the interior design program, both accreditations will give them more opportunities to submit their work into competitions for NKBA- and CIDAaccredited schools only. Accreditations will also save students time when they take postgraduate exams. “When they graduate, they normally would have to sit for the Certified Kitchen Designer Exam or Associate Kitchen Designer exam,” Nesler said. “For the academic portion of that exam the students have to have two years of field experience. Going through this program waives that two-year work experience requirement.” The first step in the process was to complete a self-study, which required interior design faculty to look at the entire interior design program and analyze whether it was meeting the NKBA body of knowledge objectives, and if it was missing those objectives, how they could be incorporated into courses. Accrediting organizations each have a body of knowledge that are specific goals and objectives a program has to meet in order to gain accreditation. “Developing a timeline for each course and each class period and what part of the body of knowledge would be covered and how it would be covered was very daunting and time consuming,” Brune said. The NKBA reviewed the interior design program self-study and gave it a “supported” status in December, which meant that it was fulfilling the requirements of the body of knowledge and allowed it to continue to the next step in the process, Nesler said.
The second step in the NKBA accreditation process was submitting general information, such as the history of the interior design program at Southeast, the history of the university and how many faculty and credentials the interior design department has, Brune said. Along with this step, the interior design faculty members had to submit letters of support from administration. “That’s a big part of the accreditation is that we have the support of the people around us,” Brune said. “Otherwise, we probably wouldn’t be able to continue to stay accredited.” Lastly, an Advanced Kitchen and Bath Design course had to be added last spring to meet the body of knowledge objectives and the work from students in that class was sent to the NKBA to be evaluated. The student work received a rating of “outstanding to very nice,” which allowed for the scheduling of the accreditation site visit March 24-27, Nesler said. “We’ve secured some space for students’ work to be displayed, and we have a learning laboratory,” Nesler said. “They will visit in March, and then in the first part of April we have a CIDA consultant who will visit and also review that student work. They’ll do a report, and we hope that will be kind of a path or map to show us where we need to take the program.” When future students considering studying in Southeast’s interior design program ask about accreditation, they ask about the CIDA accreditation because that is the accreditation to get, Nesler said. CIDA and NKBA are both concerned with the health, safety and welfare of the public, but CIDA standards are much broader, and
A floor plan for a bathroom designed by an interior design student in Scully Building. Photo by Nathan Hamilton the body of knowledge covers a lot more. “We looked at the NKBA accreditation as a step toward CIDA accreditation because it’s kind of the same thing on a smaller scale,” Nesler said. “And so it was kind of a step in that direction.” Nesler, Hicks and Brune expect enrollment in the interior design program to increase after obtaining these accreditations and that it will give students higher confidence to succeed in the professional world. “It’s a great way to create a path for them because they can either choose kitchen and bath or go into commercial development or residential design, and it won’t matter because they’ll have everything they need,” Hicks said.
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POLITICAL polls DR. WILL MILLER PROVIDES STRATEGIC ANALYSIS TO CANDIDATES AND ISSUE GROUPS
Former Southeast assistant professor conducts political polls BRIAN ASHER ARROW REPORTER
Dr. Will Miller is a former assistant professor of political science at Southeast Missouri State University, and he now works as an assistant professor of public administration at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Fla. He has worked on multiple political campaigns and currently conducts polls, as well as advising and management.
Q: What exactly is the kind of work that you do or have done during political campaigns? A: I have served a variety of roles for various campaigns in my life. I started out mainly doing opposition research, which unfortunately many view as the dirty side of politics. I became very good at finding out about every aspect of a candidate’s life and beliefs and determining strategic ways by which to utilize that information. Eventually that grew tiresome, and I began working in polling. Today, I mainly work as a pollster and provide strategic analysis for candidates and issue groups based on that data. But I also will still provide overall campaign management for candidates I truly believe in.
Q: What kinds of polls do you conduct, and what do these polls tell you? A: I’ve conducted a number of different polls. The primary type of poll we conduct at the local level is a benchmark survey where we try to gather as much information as possible for a candidate regarding voter attitudes and opinions. Most local officials can only afford one or two polls, so we pack as much information as possible into them. These polls help establish priority issues and potential marketing strategies. With higher stakes races, we focus on tracking polls. These are shorter and occur regularly and are used to look at trends in approval and support. We also will conduct quick polls after major speeches or campaign events to track what voters learned and how they respond. Off the campaign side, I do community polls where nonprofit and civic groups buy questions to determine citizen awareness and attitudes toward their programs and goals.
Q: How do you conduct a
Dr. Will Miller is a former assistant professor of political science at Southeast Missouri State University. Submitted Photo
poll to ensure that it gives you accurate information? A: To begin, as campaigns, we use different polling companies than you hear about in the news every day. Companies like Gallup and Rasmussen are doing commercial polls for general interest and news organizations. Campaigns hire myself and other pollsters to get information for only their use. We use various, different call centers and phone research companies to accomplish the goals of the candidate. To ensure accurate information, we pretest our surveys. In other words, we field some sample calls and make sure the questions we ask are actually measuring what we want to. Further, we are extremely careful and deliberate with sample selection. Major
news polls you read about today — especially the major news organizations — simply allow respondents to state they plan to vote and count that as a likely voter. We, on the other hand, actually go through a battery of questions and determine from that whether someone is actually going to vote. We also call to speak to an individual. Most major news polls call a phone number or address and speak to a member of the household. We know, however, that there can be vast differences within a household regarding political opinions. If we call to talk to Brian Asher, it’s because demographically, we want to talk to you.
Q: How can an interested person determine whether
or not poll results shown in the media are accurate? A: Most major media sources have become better about giving citizens a glimpse into their procedures. First off, always pay attention to margin of error. If the difference is less than the margin of error, it’s technically a tossup. Second, if there isn’t information provided about how the sample was selected, I’d generally disregard the poll. Most importantly, know the perceived bias of the polling agency. Rasmussen, for example, tends to oversample conservative voters while CNN tends to underestimate them. It doesn’t make their results untruthful; it just means you have to read between the lines a little bit more.
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Chad Grapperhaus My girlfriend is coming down the weekend before, and we are going to hangout and maybe go to some parties dressed up.
Ryan Hale Hopefully I will be able to get together with friends and go to some haunted houses, do some chemistry extra credit and scare some kids.
Ashley Lindsey I will be in my evening class, so I will not get to celebrate.
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NEW INITIATIVE SPELLS OUT SKILLS STUDENTS SHOULD LEARN IN EACH CLASS
Student Learning Outcomes in first semester of application HANNAH PARENT ARROW STAFF WRITER
Southeast Missouri State University is instituting a new initiative that seeks to create Student Learning Outcomes. According to Dr. Dave Starrett, chair for the Student Learning Outcomes Q2 Committee, these are measurable skills that students should gain from any course. Recent federal legislation has established new requirements for courses offered at accredited colleges and universities that receive federal financial aid. According to the Student Learning Outcomes page on Southeast’s website, a Student Learning Outcome is defined as “a statement that specifies what students will know, be able to do or be able to demonstrate when they have completed or participated in a course, project, activity or program.” Starrett said the outcomes must include action verbs and be able to be demonstrated as well as be measured. Starrett said the outcome model should consist of a sentence that describes that the student will demonstrate an understanding of something learned. For instance, he talks about avocados in his biology classes, and an example of a Student Learning Outcome statement for that class would be “Students will name two species or types of avocados.” Starrett said Student Learning Outcomes are a “promise that in class, that these are the outcomes students can expect to learn.” Syllabi in any course will have to include at least three Student Learning Outcome
statements. “Student Learning Outcomes are the outcomes that faculty makes in order to determine what students are taking away from a specific course,” said Hannah Thomas, the Student Government Association representative for the Student Learning Outcomes Q2 Committee. “They assess their students in specific ways to see how many meet the outcomes they’ve set and how many do not. I think that they will prove to be beneficial to students, because students will have a clear idea about the direction their course is going.” Outcomes can be assessed in any form such as tests, papers and presentations. At the end of each semester a faculty member must measure how many students have accomplished the outcomes they have in their syllabus. Starrett said these outcomes are not to be confused with course objectives. The main goal of the project is to give faculty members a way to adjust how they teach an objective in the following semesters and to work on increasing learning opportunities for students. “Faculty, teachers and instructors are always assessing what students are doing though tests, presentations, papers,” Starrett said. “These are assessments of student learning and they lead to letter grades. But those don’t necessarily tell how well you did on specific objectives. Did you learn X? Did you learn Y? Did you learn Z? The idea of a Student Learning Outcome is that we formalize this in the syllabus.” Starrett said the initiative is a way to more accurately figure out what students are learning in their classes and to give them a better
Dr. Dave Starrett Photo by Nathan Hamilton understanding of what the courses they sign up for are about. “We put [Student Learning Outcomes] in the syllabus so students know they have an opportunity to develop this outcome or skill,” Starrett said. According to Dr. Allen Gathman, a Student Learning Outcome Q2 Committee member, there are two things that are different about the Student Learning Outcomes Initiative than past initiatives. One is that the analysis of learning is done at the course level as opposed to observing improvements of university programs as a whole. The other different characteristic is it is being applied to every course at Southeast.
Gathman said a goal of the initiative is to develop a long term set of comparable data to determine how student learning improves in a specific class over time. Student Learning Outcomes can be used to compare online courses with in-class courses to see if they are offering the same level of learning opportunities. Gathman said another goal Student Learning Outcomes are important is because they will help Southeast meet the federal criteria for a college credit hour, which is one hour of in classroom time and a minimum of two hours of out-of-class student work each week of a semester. Online courses are required to meet this criteria by equaling the time they would spend doing academic work in a traditional classroom setting. He said faculty will better be able to justify the importance of a specific course with Student Learning Outcomes put in place as well as adjust courses to better fit the criteria. Gathman said that the Higher Learning Commission plans to visit Southeast Missouri State University in fall 2012 or spring 2013, and getting Student Learning Outcomes on syllabi across campus is important to keep up with accreditation standards. Though Student Learning Outcomes are a nationwide requirement, Starrett said the most important goal for the initiative at Southeast is fine tuning how students learn and improving how faculty members teach. “So the idea is that students are in the classroom learning things,” Starrett said. “What we want to know is what they are learning.”
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My favorite costume is a little girl who dressed up like a cow and her parents took her to Chick fil a and they all got a free meal. For me, I always loved my homemade pirate costumes.
Savanna Maue
I love costumes that are creative, last year a group of my friends dressed up as the entire cast of The Hangover. Shaved heads and Mike Tyson tattoos included.
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A clever costume I have seen is “Crazy Cat Lady.” You wear an “old-lady” dress and put stuffed animal cats all over it and make your hair look like a mess. It’s pretty funny!
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I have seen a man wearing a box done up as a tampon box, and then for his hat, it was an actual tampon.
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ELECTION 2012
SOUTHEAST STUDENTS MAKE THEIR CASES FOR CHOOSING PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
Q: Which presidential candidate will you vote for and why? Vote Obama DANICE GRANGER PRESIDENT OF COLLEGE DEMOCRATS
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As a college student I take a lot of things for granted. However, one thing I don’t take for granted is my right to vote. Every election allows me to take part in a process, which has defined American culture and history since the Constitution was signed. Before each election the most important thing is making an educated decision on who will get my vote. With all of the ads and mudslinging sometimes the facts are hard to find in such a mess. However, after sorting through everything I have decided to support President Obama for a second term. I’m not going to say things are perfect right now, but I think our nation has come a long way and under good leadership can go a lot further. I want to share with you why President Obama has earned my vote and deserves a second term. There are many things Barack Obama has done that have earned my vote for 2012. In countless ways, he has improved the lives of young Americans. First, he has doubled the amount of Pell Grants and significantly increased the number of students receiving these awards. Investing in young adults allows us to compete for higher-skilled and higher-paying jobs. Additionally, to help young adults under the Affordable Care Act, President Obama has created the ability for young Americans to stay on their parents’ health insurance plan until they are 26. Previously, children were cut off at the age of 18, leaving many students attending college without the benefit of health insurance. The Credit Card Act of 2009 made predatory issuance of credit cards harder by restricting the use of credit cards in very young adults and limiting marketing activity on college campuses. Further, Obama has been a champion of student loan reform and forgiveness programs for career areas with the most need, such as nursing. Obama said, “The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.” I believe his policies and actions stand behind this statement and I want a president who stands behind me and other young Americans. Obama has led the way in equal treatment for women. The first act signed by the president was the Lily-Ledbetter Fair Pay act. President Obama has made it clear that equal and fair pay for women won’t just make women’s lives better, but it will also make the economy stronger. Overall, Obama is a champion for equal rights for Americans regardless of race, gender, age or sexual orientation. In the 21st century I believe any president we elect should be able to stand up for all of those he or she represents.
Liv Plumlee, center, Maddi Enzmann, left, and U.S. congresswoman JoAnn Emerson. Submitted photo Danice Granger, left, and State Representative Steve Hodges, right. Submitted photo Foreign policy is a complex subject with plenty of room for debate. However, Obama has overall shown the power and capability to skillfully represent the United States abroad. He brought an end to the war in Iraq and Osama Bin Laden’s reign of terror. Additionally, Obama has shown the ability to take responsibility for his actions, the actions of American agencies and all Americans. Finally, I have to look at the economy. I completely see our recovery from “The Great Recession” has been a long road that we are still traveling. However, I see improvement. I believe a plan that is showing improvement is better than no plan. Without more details from Gov. Romney, I can’t perceive he has a better plan for America. At an economic time like this, I don’t want to leave the economy to a plan without details. I’d rather elect someone with a clear vision and plan. There are definitely arguments to be made that a faster recovery is possible. However, without details of this plan I can’t support it. I don’t think America can gamble with its recovery. Overall, I have plenty of reasons Obama has earned my vote in 2012 and I haven’t shared all of them with you today. This decision wasn’t based on a debate or the overwhelming amount of information from advertisements. Research is the best tool a voter has, and my secret weapon is poltifact.com. I looked at the claims both campaigns made and make my own decision. Most people wouldn’t hire a babysitter without checking their references so before we hire a president we have a responsibility to check out their claims and find out the facts. When it comes to a job like president, facts really do matter. The facts showed me President Barack Obama deserves my vote for President.
Vote Romney LIV PLUMLEE COLLEGE REPUBLICANS VICE PRESIDENT - EVENTS COORDINATOR
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We are not experiencing thriving times in our nation. The debt and deficit we see each year is alarming and only getting higher. Our current president has been unable to tackle the concerning financial issues of the U.S. (which I see as the most urgent problem today). I don’t want to see another 4 years of broken promises and lack of economic growth. China is sneaking up on us. If we don’t contain ourselves, stop overspending and giving away free handouts, China will exceed us as the number one country in the world. I don’t want to look back one day and tell my children about the times when America was number one. I want the United States to continue to be number one. For this we need to re-focus. I ask for anyone who is unsure who to vote for to ponder this: Maybe you’re unsure of whether or not Romney can get the job done. That we don’t know. What we do know is that Obama can’t. That he’s proven to us. Therefore, I’d say you have nothing to lose by giving Gov. Romney a chance. Hard times can get better if we elect the right leaders. Is Romney the perfect candidate? I don’t know. Maybe nobody’s perfect. But like I said, we don’t need to repeat what we know doesn’t work.
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