October 31, 2017

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THE STANDARD M I S S O U R I S TAT E U N I V E R S I T Y

VOLUME 111, ISSUE 10 | THE-STANDARD.ORG The Standard/The Standard Sports

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Shuttle bus dents downtown university building, injures 3 HANNA SUMPTER Senior Reporter @hannasumpter

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University officials and supporters cut the ribbon at the Glass Hall grand reopening.

Glass Hall now open: ‘We’re celebrating more than just a building’

A Missouri State university building was hit by a shuttle bus Friday afternoon in downtown Springfield after a car collided with the bus on Boonville Avenue. Springfield Fire Department Battalion Chief Kevin Trogdon confirmed that the two-vehicle accident caused the bus to run off the road.The bus scraped against the Jordan Valley Innovation Center. The bus was hit by a Honda Civic said Joe Fry, a security employee with MSU’s Department of Safety and Transportation. Trogdon was not on the scene himself, but spoke with the officer on the scene, Fire Chief David Pennington. Three people were transported to the hospital, Trogdon said. The damage to the building was considered cosmetic by the campus architect, said Alan Kunkel, the associate vice president of Economic Development at the Jordan Valley Innovation Center. Kunkel also said the crash chipped the brick exterior and dented a metal window frame. A light pole on the sidewalk next to the building was also hit by the bus, Kunkel said. A traffic cone was placed where the pole previously stood.

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A fence went up on campus around Glass Hall two years ago, increasing the time it took to walk to classes. That fence came down on Wednesday of last week, to the enjoyment of many students and faculty. “It’s going to cut down my walk a little bit, but I feel like I’ll be spending more time in Glass because there are so many new spots to hang out,” Courtney Rellergert, senior market research and advertising and promotion major, said. Glass Hall officially reopened Thursday morning with the David D. Glass Hall Grand Re-Opening and Robert Gourley MACY STEVENS/THE STANDARD Student Success Center Dedication and featured remarks from President Clif Glass Hall had its grand reopening on Oct. 26. Smart, David D. Glass and Robert Gourley. “We’re celebrating more than just a in these four walls,” Brent Dunn, vice said during his welcome speech. building, we’re celebrating what happens president for University Advancement, u See GLASS, page 3

Photo courtesy of Kevin Cozad.

Matt Campbell and Lily Cozad pose.

University allows demonstrations Homecoming king indoors, bans weapons and explosives and queen crowned in emotional ceremony HANNA SUMPTER Senior Reporter @hannasumpter

Changes to university policy will allow indoor demonstrations and ban the use of weapons at demonstrations as a reaction to “expressive activity” on other college campuses over the last few months. The Board of Governors approved multiple changes to the Expressive Activity Policy Friday, outlining where people are allowed to be and what they are allowed to do on campus during demonstrations and rallies. One of the changes to the policy includes allowing demonstrations and rallies to take place inside some university buildings. Kendall Seal, one of the board members, said so long as the activities do not “disrupt campus operations and ... comply with time, place and man-

ner restrictions established by the board and the administration,” the events will be allowed inside. “The current policy prohibits rallies and demonstrations from occurring indoors,” Seal said in the board meeting Friday. “ H o w e v e r, that policy has not been uniformly enforced in every instance. The administration has recommended that we remove this strict prohibition and, instead, allow indoor demonstrations that comply with particular requirements.” Restrictions to indoor expressive activity will limit

where demonstrations take place, what items are not allowed to be used during these demonstrations and for how long they can exist. The changes to the policy presented in the board’s agenda Friday will allow demonstrations inside any university buildings, except residence halls and apartments, “entertainment and athletic facilities” and the Greenwood Laboratory School. Demonstrations are also only allowed to occur inside so long as the demonstration is within business hours of the building. “I feel like it is kind of disruptive,” Lauren Kinzie, soph-

Banned: ammunition, explosives, body armor, helmets, mace, masks, vehicles and torches

omore special education major, said. “If I’m in class and I see this big rally outside of my classroom that’s going to distract me. I understand people are free to protest and everything, I just think inside academic buildings just takes away from our learning.” According to the policy changes, demonstrations inside university buildings are limited to silent demonstrations, such as sit-ins, that “do not interfere with the reasonable operations of the specific indoor space, comply with campus instruction, do not extend beyond the business hours of the university’s indoor space, or do not otherwise violate any policy of the university.” Sapana Subedi, a public health graduate student, said she wouldn’t mind so much if protests were related to education, but she didn’t like the

ALIA AARON Staff Reporter @AliaFaith29 Matt Campbell and Lily Cozad were crowned Missouri State’s 2017 Homecoming king and queen during halftime at the football game on Saturday. The student body was given until Oct. 27 to vote for their desired candidate. “Being part of the student-body vote and all of the interviews … it’s nice knowing that other people in the community believe in you and they were like ‘these are the right people for this title,’” Campbell, a junior professional writing major, said. Emotions ran high in the Cliff as the newly crowned royalty met with their friends and family. Senior Carly James and senior Molly Kate Adelmann stood to the side and waited for pictures with their best friend Cozad, a senior public relations major. Through tears, they said they’ve known Cozad through Alpha Chi Omega since their freshman year. “I feel so happy and overwhelmed,” James, a speech-language pathology major, said. “I think it’s a really genuine win when you’re able to know so many people who are just

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