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Columbia, Missouri • Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Vol. 77, No. 14
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Jungle tailgate sees highest attendance of semester SARAH CLANCEY Reporter
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LGBTQ Resource Center Coordinator Ryan Black serves rainbow cake to those attending the celebration Monday in the Center for Social Justice. The Center for Social Justice commemorated its 15-year anniversary on National Coming Out Day.
LGBTQ Resource Center celebrates 15 years of advocacy, education JIMMY HIBSCH Staff Writer When Nikole Potulsky accepted the position as one of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Resource Center’s first coordinators 15 years ago, she said she knew change was on the horizon for MU’s LGBTQ community. “When I started hanging out at the resource center it was a library,
open by appointment only,” she said. “At the time, as students were coming out, they could go to the Triangle Coalition, the Women’s Center or bars — those were your options. The resource center was available, but it wasn’t really staffed.” In October 1995, a small group of graduate students and Women’s Center Director Laura Hacquard initiated the center. An undergraduate at the time, Potulsky and
MU switches emergency alert provider MICHELLE GAO Reporter Cooper Notification is the new provider of the UM system’s Emergency Mass Notification System, as of this semester. The system is provided to ensure emergency communication, delivering free alert messages to all campuses using multiple communication methods, including text message, e-mail and voice messages to cell and land-line phones. The UM System signed a three-year contract with Cooper Notification in May 2010. The contract with the old provider Everbridge, formerly National Notification Network, ended Aug. 27 and was not renewed. The Everbridge contract lasted for three
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years, beginning in 2007. Everbridge put in a bid for the UM System notification system contract again, but didn’t win the business, said Terry Robb, Division of Information Technology director. “We looked at all the features of the companies who offered bids,” Robb said. “We compared the features plus the price. Everbridge had fewer points than Cooper based upon our criteria.” Cooper Notification Marketing Vice President Ted Milburn said the reliability of Roam Secure Alert Network solution helped them win out. “The role of any mass notification system is extremely important on campus,” Milburn said. “It provides the ability to effectively alert first responders, students, faculty
and staff in the event of an emergency and provide real-time information and instructions.” Milburn said Cooper Notification will expand the notification capabilities so they can offer better service to ensure safety and security. Robb said the notification system provided by Cooper is about equivalent to that of Everbridge, but the Cooper system is more limited in how the notification is executed. “Cooper limits you to one contact cycle,” Robb said. “In other words, you can create your message and send it just once. While with Everbridge, you could send the same message as many times
Diversity requirement stagnant for two years ZACH MURDOCK Associate Editor
This is the second part of a three-part series on the diversity general education course requirement. It took pushes from two directions to get talks about a general education diversity course requirement off the ground — a letter from the Legion of Black Collegians and a report from the Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative. Although both students and administrators backed proposals, it has been more than five years, and such a requirement does not yet exist. Among the list of 34 public Association of American Universities institutions, more than 20 have some kind of existing requirement for a diversity course, Chief Diversity Officer Roger Worthington said. MU is listed as having a partial requirement, partly because of students’ ability to voluntarily apply for and take classes fulfilling the Multicultural Certificate
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Diversity at MU Series: Part 2 of 3
Everett Diedle, a then-graduate student, accepted co-coordinator positions at the center shortly after its inception. Potulsky said she saw the progression of the center firsthand. “Through our presence there, keeping the doors open and doing all kinds of programming and community organizing, people started utilizing the center more,” Potulsky see LGBTQ, page 6
The Jungle tailgate had 24 spots filled by 19 student organizations and groups of students Saturday. Ben Hansen, Missouri Students Association Department of Student Activities director and MSA presidential candidate, said this was the best-attended Jungle tailgate thus far. For the first time, MSA allowed students to reserve tailgate spaces for free for Saturday’s game. Previously, it cost $20 to reserve a spot. In addition to this change, individuals, regardless of whether they were affiliated with a student organization, were also allowed to reserve a space and vehicles were allowed in the tailgating area. Aside from the policy changes, MSA increased its efforts to promote The Jungle in the weeks following the game against the University of Miami-Ohio and before Saturday’s tailgate. “This is a promotional change mostly affecting the price,” MSA President Tim Noce said.
“Everything will work the same way it did previously.” Sixteen tailgating tents are available for use on a first come, first serve basis so students don’t have to bring their own. Students that reserved a tailgating spot received a VIP wristband, allowing them to check out games and sports equipment for use on Stankowski Field. The Jungle Steering Committee was created by MSA leaders in conjunction with the MSA Campus and Community Relations Committee to better plan and publicize the tailgating area. “We want to get students there to see how fun it is,” Noce said. “We are trying to dispel some of the myths.” Last week, Steering Committee members talked about The Jungle at Residence Hall Council meetings, passed out flyers at the B.O.B. concert and held a mock tailgate in Speakers Circle, where they grilled hamburgers and handed out free T-shirts. Committee Chairman Greg Loeffler said the increase in adver-
Tigers coast by Buffs The Missouri football team relied on an especially strong performance from its defense and special teams in the win. Sports, page 15
program. “The Multicultural Certificate is a voluntary thing,” Deputy Chancellor Mike Middleton said. “If somebody wants to get one, they do it by choice, but that’s sort of like singing to the choir.” The purpose of a mandatory diversity requirement, he said, is so all students are exposed to fundamental diversity concepts. INITIAL EFFORTS Following the Campus Climate Study, an initial push to impact diversity on campus led to several changes in the administration and by students. As a result of the campuswide study, a task force was charged to tackle a list of recommendations addressing diversity. The task force’s report spurred MU to create the Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative in 2006 and to appoint Roger Worthington its chief diversity officer. Worthington said the initiasee CLASS, page 6
A history of MU's cannon Tales of tradition and mischief surround the history of the cannon used at Faurot Field on football gamedays. Arts, page 13