Ice Bears sweep University of Illinois and win the MACHA regular season title. See page 6.
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Extreme makeover: Craig edition Renovations will color code hallways to make third floor easier to navigate next fall By Zachary Fletcher The Standard @ZachSFletcher
It’s easy to lose track of all the building projects going on at Missouri State these days, but students in the College of Arts and Letters may want to take note of the renovations coming to Craig Hall this summer. According to University Architect and Director Doug Sampson, the project will focus on making Craig’s confusing third floor easier to navigate. Rather than significantly altering the building layout, the plan is to use a simple color system to help distinguish between corridors. “The cross corridors, which are the corridors running from the south to the north… we’re going to have a strong color on them. And signage will be incorporated into it, that type of thing, so you know if you have a class on the blue corridor; it’s going to be very easy to find,” Sampson said. The east-west corridors will also be color-
coded, each in a shade inspired by art and graphics from the College of Arts and Letters. “Students on the committee were excited about it,” he said. The budget is “in the $200,000 range,” which Sampson said is fairly low given the size of the project. “There’s 7,000 square feet of corridor up there… when you start dividing the $200,000 by 7,000, all of a sudden you don’t get a lot of money to do a lot of things.” One addition that is being researched by SGA is a more sustainable lighting system, using LED bulbs, but there’s no guarantee that it will happen. “There’s other things we would have loved to have done, but we just don’t have the budget for (them).” Because the project is related to Craig’s classrooms, funding will come mostly from the university’s classroom upgrade budget. The renovations are set to start over the summer and are expected to be completed by the beginning of the fall semester.
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Proposed art from SGA shows a color system that will be implemented on the third floor of Craig Hall to make navigation easier in fall of 2015.
One stop cookie shop Insomnia Cookies opens near campus, delivers goodies until 3 a.m.
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Matt Bennett serves a box of cookies to Ryan Pulliam, an MSU student who recently got a job at Insomnia Cookies’ nearby location.
By Sofia Caito The Standard @SofiaCaito
Late night cravings are a curse that almost every college student faces. Thankfully, Springfield has tons of options to help satisfy those cravings. For all the cookie-lovers out there, there is something new in town to get excited about. Insomnia Cookies is now here in Springfield, in between Qdoba and Firehouse Subs on Kimbrough Avenue, to satisfy your cookie cravings. They deliver until 3 a.m. every morning. Insomnia Cookies was founded in a college dorm room in 2003 at the University of Pennsylvania by Seth Berkowitz,
who was a student at the time. Berkowitz created the company after realizing that, by the time he was hungry in the evenings, either nothing was open or his options consisted of only heavy meals. Since then, the company has expanded to over 50 stores, and they now have offices in both Philadelphia and New York. The marketing manager for Insomnia Cookies, Giana Marinelli, said that the cookie company chooses locations for their stores with a thriving community that they can become a part of, and Springfield’s community is exactly what they were looking for. Marinelli says that both the school locations and city locations have been successful. “It is hard to find someone who doesn’t love a warm cookie,” she added. Cookies, cookie cakes, brownies and ice cream are served at every location. Two weeks ago, representatives from Insomnia Cookies were walking around and handing out free cookie coupons in the PSU. Erika Duggan, a sophomore secondary education major, took one after she heard that Insomnia delivered to the residence halls. She plans on ordering 500+ for an upcoming sisterhood event for her sorority. “Ice skating and hot chocolate and cookies go well together,” says Duggan. Byron Himes, a senior double major in Spanish and computer science, was at Insomnia the night they opened, as well as the day after. “I got one ‘deluxe’ cookie, a s’mores and one regular double chocolate mint for $4.42 total. It was definitely enough to satisfy my cookie cravings,” he said. Himes said that he waited in line for about five minutes on his first visit, but that the wait had quadrupled on his second visit to the store. “Overall, they have potential. But if they want to contend with the allure of Hurts (Donut), they’ll have to up their cookie variety game,” says Himes.
Joel Graybill, a junior marketing research major, was thoroughly impressed with his visit. Graybill went with his roommates for this first time this past Saturday night. “It was packed,” recalled Graybill, who added that the line wrapped in a circle around the inside of the store. He ordered a s’mores deluxe cookie and a cookie sandwich. “I think it’s genius, honestly. You get to pick any two cookies and any kind of ice cream. There are a million combinations, and they looked amazing so I had to try one.” Insomnia Cookies has an app that you can download in the app store of your smartphone to start earning free cookies. For every $1 you spend on your cookie order, you earn one point. Once you rack up 100 points towards your loyalty account, you get $10 toward your cookie purchase. For orders over $20, you will get 1.25 points for every dollar spent. Orders must be placed in the app or in the store in order to earn points. You can also order online or on the phone. To place a phone order, call 215-261-7229.
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Insomnia Cookies has varieties ranging from classic Snickerdoodle to deluxe Double Chocolate Mint.