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Tuesday • April 24, 2012 • Vol. 105 Issue 28

Briefs

SGA approves solar panels for roof of Meyer Library

Students help the community by eating cereal

Missouri State students are helping end hunger by eating bowls of cereal in campus dining halls this month. For every bowl of cereal consumed by students, Kellogg’s is donating a bowl of cereal to Ozarks Food Harvest, the regional food bank. The Kellogg Company’s “Eat, Share, Prosper” campaign gives university dining operators the opportunity to use daily cereal consumption as a way for students to get involved in hunger relief. The campaign ends April 30; Kellogg’s will donate the same pounds of cereal that was consumed by students to Ozarks Food Harvest. The Food Bank serves 250 pantries and feeding sites across 28 Ozarks counties, reaching roughly 170,000 individuals.

Restore Fest 2012 to celebrate Joplin

Convoy of Hope is partnering with a number of businesses and organizations to hold the second annual Restore Fest in Joplin, Mo., on May 26 and 27. Restore Fest 2012 will include 20 musical acts and a family-oriented community carnival to celebrate the restoration and growth in the Joplin community. Featured artists include Jeremy Camp, Mandisa and Superchick. The two-day concert is part of the Convoy of Hope 50-state community outreach tour. Volunteers will provide thousands of people with services such as free groceries, hot meals, haircuts, health and job fairs and activities for children. The city of Joplin has declared May 26 as ‘Convoy of Hope Day’ to recognize the organization’s effort to provide assistance to its citizens after the May 2011 tornado. Reserved and general admission tickets for the festival are available for a limited time. Tickets can be purchased at http://www.restorefest.org and range from $15 to $60, depending on when the tickets are bought and how many you buy at once. The website also provides a full concert line-up and event information.

Calendar April 24 to April 30

Tuesday

Surviving Test Anxiety Workshop, noon to 12:50 p.m. at Meyer Library 101 Student Government Association, 5:30 to 7 p.m. at PSU 313 Arts of the East, 7 to 9 p.m. at PSU Food Court “Conflict Resolution in College” student meeting, 8:30 to 10 p.m. at Craig Hall 205

Thursday

Students for a Sustainable Future meeting, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Temple Hall 105 Surviving Test Anxiety Workshop, 6 to 6:50 p.m. at Meyer Library 101

Friday

Last day to drop or withdraw, declare pass/not pass, and change to or from audit for second block classes, all day Sleepout for the Homeless, all day at the Hobby Lobby and Mardel Parking Lot on E. Battlefield

Saturday

Annual Showcase Fashion Show “Journey,” 4 to 5:30 p.m. at University Plaza Expo Center, $10

By Nicolette Martin The Standard

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Michelle Bruhn, a global studies graduate student, uses The Growl equipment in adviser Brian Calfano’s office on Monday. The Growl will relaunch as The U in early May.

The Growl returns University radio station will soft launch in May with a new name: The U By Amy Fuemmeler The Standard With a new outlook, students and name, The U, the new name for the university radio station, once called The Growl, will soon be back up and running with a whole new approach. Adviser of the station and political science professor Brian Calfano, who took over after Derek Haff left the position in 2010, believes the old radio station was out of control and wasn’t serving its purpose, a profes-

sional experience for students. In spring 2011, The Growl was shut down by the university. “The station went in the direction all unsupervised stations go — not a really organized format, so the department dropped it,” Calfano said. The station is now in Calfano’s office in Strong Hall and consists of a soundboard, microphones and three computers. “Even though a lot of this stuff is going to be pre-taped and be automated, I’d like to get to the

point where it Summer Rasdoesn’t reside in coll, a senior my office,” Calbroadcast journalfano said. ism major, is a Calfano is part of the talent using his political search group, science class, which is in charge Women in Poliof finding hosts tics, to make a for the shows. Calfano unique, femaleAuditions were friendly station that still held April 23, but a sechas a male listenership. ond set will be held at a The class was split up into later date. The group is groups that each had a looking for more females task pertaining to the to take part in the shows. development of the new Each show will have a station. male and female host. The station will have Along with a new specialty shows, includ- name, a new slogan and ing a sports commentary, logo is needed. Senior that will cover both male political science major and female university Zach Braucher, a member events, an advice show of The U, is working with about relationships and his group to come up with self-defense and a com- slogans people can take munity show about what’s going on in Springfield. See GROWL page 14

Unequal funding for Frisbee Men’s team gets $5,000, only $738 for women By Damien M. DiPlacido The Standard Everyone’s heard the old adage: Breaking up is hard to do. But for the women’s Missouri State Ultimate Frisbee team, it may have been the best decision for them. The women’s Ultimate squad climbed to the upper echelon of the national ranking system this season and secured themselves a spot at 24th overall. Last weekend, they played in a regional tournament in Colorado, hoping to land themselves a spot in the national tournament. Junior hospitality and restaurant administration major Casey Fults explained some of the dynamics behind the split from the unified Ultimate club that took place two years ago. “Us being on our own is like proving that we can hold our own,” Fults said. “We’re badass chicks. It’s truly cool for other girls to hear about us and how good we are. Being on our own just makes us that more compelled to win and prove it to everyone else.” The disbanding the women’s team went

through didn’t come easy financially. This season, the men’s Ultimate club was awarded $5,000 from the Student Organization Funding Allocation Council (SOFAC), while the women only received $738. Fults says one of the reasons for the men receiving so much more funding is the fact they have two teams, equaling twice the amount of hotel fees and overall travel expenses. Senior English major Heather Craig says the decision for the women to embark on their own was a financially driven, strategic movement. “SOFAC originally gave all clubs $5,000,” Craig said. “Two years ago they decided they were going to give clubs $2,500, so we decided to split so we could both get the full SOFAC money. This year they switched it back to $5,000. That’s what the guys got. We didn’t even get the full $2,500.” According to Craig, there’s no bad blood between the men’s and women’s teams. The split up simply made it easier to operate.

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The Missouri State women’s Ultimate Frisbee team is ranked 24th in the nation. “It’s just easier to do things on our own,” Craig said. “We all still hang out. It’s just easier financially to keep it separate.” When it comes to staying in hotels and paying for gas and food, $5,000 doesn’t go far, let alone $738, Fults said. A single road tournament

can cost upwards of $1,000. To cover many of the road expenses, the women’s ultimate team did a great deal of fundraising work at JQH Arena. “We worked a lot of concerts and basketball See FRISBEE page 15

Higher education solar capacity has grown by 450 percent in the last three years, according to the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, an organization with the mission of “empowering higher education to lead the sustainability transformation.” Missouri State will become one of many campuses throughout the country to use solar energy following the passing of a proposal sponsored by the Sustainability Committee of the Student Government Association to install a solar panel atop Meyer Library. Student Body President Scott Turk said it isn’t every day students get to have a hand in something that will have such a substantial impact. “To the credit of other institutions, students have always Turk been really forward thinking in terms of sustainability, which has been evident across a lot of campuses,” Turk said. “But I think this is something that will really set Missouri State apart from other schools.” The solar panel will be used to power the lights on the John Q. Hammons fountain, which according to the proposal authored by Devin Moore and Kara Andres of the Sustainability Committee, consume 133.5 kilowatts of electricity per day and about 32,000 kilowatts per year. According to the U.S. Energy Information Association, the average American household in 2008 used 30.16 kilowatts of energy per day. Andres, the director of sustainability for SGA and president of Students for a Sustainable Future, said she believes Missouri State needs renewable energy on campus, both as an educational component and to be ethical leaders in the community. “Burning fossil fuels for energy is detrimental to both human health and the environment,” she said. “MSU needs to consider how we can be utilizing renewable energy in order to reduce these negative effects.” With the help of Shane Franklin and Moore from the Sustainability Committee, Andres worked with members of administration to determine the feasibility of such a project, including doing extensive research on an ideal location, the cost and the benefits. The committee studied potential locations for the array, and according to the proposal, it was found that a 2,400-square foot grid tied photovoltaic solar array would be necessary for offsetting the power usage of the lights in the JQH fountain and that atop Meyer Library the array could get adequate sunlight. The proposal states the project is feasible within the proposed budget of $120,000, and over the next 30 years electricity cost savings will be in excess of $109,000 while at the same time preventing 26,000 pounds of coal from being burned per year. The money will come out of the Sustainability Fund, which was created in an effort to give students the opportunity to make their campus more environmentally sustainable, according to the proposal. “As of now, MSU obtains its energy from City Utilities and only a very small portion of this See SOLAR page 2


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