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MSU engineering team preps for national competition
Bears quarterback charged with DWI, speeding
EMILY COLE News Editor @EMCole19 Missouri State’s mechanical engineering and technology program has earned a spot in a national engineering competition for the first time. Some of the MET students will be working as a team to compete in the Society of Automotive Engineers International’s Collegiate Design Series competition. The CSD includes eight different competitions, like Formula Hybrid or Clean Snowmobile Challenge, but the MSU team was drawn to one — Baja SAE. Dalen Sloan, junior MET major and team manager, said the competition is a test of participating students’ mechanical engineering skills. Each team builds a dune buggy, similar to those seen in the Baja California Desert. Baja SAE is made up of three main categories — design, vehicle performance and cost analysis, Sloan said. “The competition gauges not just the vehicle, so it’s not just a speed race, but really, the teams are scored on their ability to do engineering design,” Kevin Hubbard, assistant professor of technology and construction management and faculty advisor to MSU Baja, said. Hubbard said the team is required to submit design documentation, as well as cost estimates and final cost analysis, to see if they met their budget. “It’s not just throwing something together real quick before the day,” Sloan said. A winner is chosen in each of those categories, as well as one overall winner. Winners receive trophies and monetary awards. However, Mohammed Jubary, senior MET major and MSU Baja member, said there’s more to be gained.
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Dalen Sloan and Aaron Abrudan, two members of MSU Baja, work on their dune buggy’s roll cage. The team will compete in Baja SAE in 2019. “I think one of the biggest advantages is recognition nationally,” Jubary said. “MSU named as an engineering program — that’s a really big thing, just getting in and competing. This will draw more students here and draw a lot of attention to the university.” The MET degree program at MSU was formed in 2014, and this is the first time in the history of the university that a team from MSU will compete in Baja SAE, said Hubbard. Sloan said MSU tried to enter last year, but they only made the 60-team wait list and ultimately did not compete. He compared the registration process to something many students are familiar with.
“It’s just like classes,” Sloan said. “If you’re not registered within the first minute, some of your classes — you might not get ‘em.” The morning that registration opened, several hopeful students were waiting for the right moment to hit refresh. “We stuck a couple of people in the computer lab,” Sloan said. “We had everybody manned on a computer, waiting until that 9 o’clock mark hit and…” “They all started clicking!” Hubbard said. While they didn’t make it last year, this year they are team 77 out of 100, eligible to compete u See BAJA, page 10
Missouri State backup quarterback Anthony Monken has been charged with driving while intoxicated after an incident in May. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol documents, Monken, 22, was stopped on May 12 at 2:47 a.m. for exceeding the speed limit and weaving violently within his lane. In the report, the officer describes a strong scent of alcohol coming from Monken and that Monken had glassy eyes and slurred speech. Monken told the officer he had consumed four to six drinks between 7 a.m. and midnight, according to the report. The officer conducted field sobriety tests on Monken, during which he determined Monken was impaired. A preliminary breathalyzer test result for Monken was over the legal blood alcohol concentration of .08 percent, according to the report. A follow-up breath sample result showed Monken’s BAC was .187 percent, On Friday, Oct. 19, Monken was charged with the DWI as well as exceeding the speed limit by 16-19 miles per hour. The statement said this was Monken’s first alcohol-related arrest. Monken, orginally from Libertyville, Illinois, started his collegiate career at the University of Louisiana-Monroe. He redshirted then transferred to Fresno City College, a community college in Fresno, California. He played two seasons and recorded seven touchdowns in seven games. 2017 was Monken’s first year at Missouri State, but he had to sit out due to eligibity rules. He has not played in a game yet for the Bears football team in 2018. Monken is the nephew of Tampa Bay Buccaneers offensive coordinator Todd Monken and the cousin of Army West Point head coach Jeff Monken.
Exploring LGBT history at MSU LAYNE STRACENER Senior Reporter @LayneStracener Fourteen years ago, Missouri State University’s president at the time refused to add sexual orientation to the non-discrimination policy. Now, there are many resources and groups for LGBTQ students, and LGBTQ pride is celebrated on campus during LGBT History Month in October.
1980s:
The first LGBTQ organization on campus was the Gay and Lesbian Student Association, in the early 1980s. The name was changed to Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Alliance in 1997, and that name changed to Spectrum in 2011. According to the Missouri State website, the organization’s purpose is to include a safe social environment for LGBTQ students and “attempt to create a greater positive visibility of LGBTQ persons.” In 1989, the MSU Department of Theatre and Dance’s production of “The Normal Heart,” a play about the AIDS crisis, drew attention from media worldwide. One student was offended by the content and gave the script to his minister, who sent it to Republican then-state Rep. Jean Dixon. Dixon began a petition drive and media campaign to attempt to stop the production, according to Missouri State history professor Holly Baggett in her essay, “The Creation of a Community: A History of Gay and Lesbian
Springfield, 1945-2010.” Dixon’s media campaign was not the only form of opposition to the play; there were numerous protests and boycotts. The university president at the time, Marshall Gordon, received thousands of letters from around the world asking that the production be canceled. He refused. During opening night, the Los Angeles Times reported that a suspicious fire gutted the house of supporter Brad Evans, the president of People Acting With Compassion and Tolerance, killing his cat and destroying his home. By December, Springfield fire officials had not identified a suspect in connection with the arson.
1991 - 2005:
In 1991, the university drew national attention with the fight to include sexual orientation on the non-discrimination policy. The Faculty Senate passed a resolution calling
to include it to the policy, but university President John Keiser and the Board of Governors refused to sign off on it. During the next eight years, Faculty Senate passed at least four resolutions to include it in the policy. The Staff Senate and Student Government Association passed similar resolutions. Baggett, BiGALA, LGBTQ faculty and staff group Lambda Alliance, and activists on and off campus supported the resolutions. Year after year, they asked the Board of Governors to include a vote to add it to the policy. The board did not make a motion to vote on the resolution. During a board meeting in 2004, a motion was made but not seconded. According to the board's minutes, Keiser advised the board to turn down the resolution. He Graphic by KRISTINA KHODAI/ said adding sexual oriTHE STANDARD entation to the policy
would be unnecessary. The policy did not change until Keiser retired in 2005. Baggett witnessed the change from one president to the next. “Keiser was clearly – and I do not throw this term around lightly – a homophobe,” Baggett said. “He called us ‘biological perversions.’ The sad thing was the board went along with him even though we knew at least a couple of them disagreed. There was also anxiety and fear on campus among LGBTQ faculty and staff that was unnecessary. It was a long and exhausting experience.” Keiser also refused to sign into curriculum a course called Sexual Orientation and Public Policy, but he eventually signed off because the chair of the Faculty Senate said he would take it up with the Senate as an academic freedom issue. In 1998, then-SMSU gave a $10,000 scholarship to a football player who had not yet finished his sentence for beating a gay man unconscious, according to Baggett. Around the same time, BiGALA was funded to include street banners to celebrate National Lesbian and Gay History Month, said Missouri State alum Brent Husher, who was a member of BiGALA, in a LGBTQ roundtable discussion sponsored by the Ozarks Lesbian and Gay Archives in 2011. The members submitted the design to Ozark Mountain Interiors, the university’s preferred printing company. Husher said the banner read something generic like “Celebrate Diversity u See LGBT, page 10
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