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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 110, ISSUE 29 | THE-STANDARD.ORG The Standard/The Standard Sports

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Board of Governors discusses tuition increase, campus improvements Sarah Shepard Staff Reporter At the Board of Governors meeting on Wednesday, April 19, plans for construction and renovation were approved –– students should see a few changes on campus by next fall. Tuition Increase Students will face a slight tuition increase for the 201718 school year. For Missouri resident undergraduate students, the rate per credit hour will be increased to $210, a $4 increase from the 2016-17 year. Non-Missouri residents will face an $18 increase, from $440 per credit hour to $458. Missouri resident graduate students will see a $10 increase per credit hour, and non-Missouri resident graduate students will see a $21 increase. For most students, the tuition increase is not largely significant, Virginia Fry, the chair of the Board of Governors, said.

Budget

With the decline of state revenue, higher education in Missouri faced significant cuts. Gov. Eric Greitens cut $68 million in funding to colleges and universities this year, and in a press conference, Greitens said that the 2017 fiscal year budget will cut funding to higher education by $116 million. Facing these cuts, the Board of Governors has been working to find a solution for

next year’s budget. As of right now, according to Fry, the Board is working to make sure that students are not significantly affected. “We are very concerned, and we didn't want to pass that burden on to the students,” Fry said. Fry said that they are attempting to avoid cuts from academic areas, instead making an effort to evaluate operational procedures and the athletics department. “What can get more efficient?” Fry asked, referring to possible places for reductions in spending. “You have to get a little smarter and a little more efficient,” Fry said.

Construction and Renovation

Along with some of the budget changes, students will see some new completed projects by next fall. Lot 39, south of Kentwood Hall, will face an expansion over the summer in time for the fall 2017 semester. It will include 215 new spaces, so the lot will total 279. While not official, it was mentioned at the Board meeting that the lot will most likely be a “rainbow lot,” so a student with any color parking permit will be permitted to park in the lot. The total budget for the construction is $700,000, with over $500,000 pulling from the Public Safety budget. Residence Life and the President Program Enhancement fund will also help cover the costs. The lot will be concrete, u See BOG, page 9

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Kristen Hadeed, founder of Student Maid, speaks to students about building her business.

Cleaning company ‘helping people become better leaders’ Megan Burke Staff Reporter @Megs96 “Seven years ago my phone rang at 1:30 a.m,” 29-year-old Kristen Hadeed started as she spoke to a large crowd of MSU students on Tuesday, April 18. “I answered the phone, and it’s a client. He said, ‘I’m wondering if you can send one of your employees, Meghan, to hospice?’” The crowd could feel the emotion in Hadeed’s story as she went on to tell how the man’s mother wanted Meghan, who cleaned their house every week, to come hold her hand as she was dying. “We’re a cleaning company. On what planet do you want your cleaning person to hold your hand as you die? What I realized in that moment is that you can find meaning in anything that you do,” Hadeed said. After starting the company Student

Maid during college in Gainesville, Florida, at just 20 years old, Hadeed has now owned and operated her own business for eight years. In that time, she has employed anywhere between 150 to 500 students per year. She has also given a TED Talk titled “How to Retire by 20,” which has received over two million views. Through her business, she strives to help her employees, who are all college students, become better leaders and discover where their passions are in life. “There were things I really didn’t want to do, but my parents still encouraged me to try. They pushed my sister and I to do things that were uncomfortable,” Hadeed said. Growing up, Hadeed says she was an aspiring entrepreneur throughout her childhood, from putting up flyers for a babysitting business at age six, to selling her parents’ items from her makeshift “store” in fifth grade. She said the key to her success has been curiosity, her

promise to value people over profits and her willingness to try whatever it took to succeed. What started as an ad on Craigslist to clean houses turned into a business that would grow to become Florida’s largest independently owned cleaning service. “I always thought that I would move to New York and work on Wall Street. I wanted to make a lot of money,” Hadeed said. Hadeed later realized, empowering others to succeed inspired her more than any paycheck she ever received. According to the 2016 Gallup report, “Employee Engagement in U.S. Stagnant in 2015,” employee engagement has consistently averaged less than 33 percent over the past 15 years, which means over 67 percent of people are consistently disengaged from their jobs. u See HADEED, page 9

Alumnus discusses tensions in Middle East Brenner Moore Staff Reporter @brennerm2 On Tuesday, April 18, Dr. Kamran Bokhari gave a presentation about the rising tensions in the Middle East. Bokhari is a Missouri State alumnus and currently works for a few think tanks that specialize on solving issues in and around the Middle East as an expert on Middle Eastern Affairs. His talks centered around three topics that he felt were the most pertinent issues concerning the Middle East. His whole goal with this talk was educate students on the current affairs in the Middle East to foster a world of understanding to find a viable solution. COLLIN HADLEY/THE STANDARD He started off the talks with MSU alumnus Dr. Kamran Bokhahi addressing extreme Jihadism. He began by explaining the difference

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between crimes committed in the name of Islam and actual Islamic terrorism. “Terrorists. These are the names given to us as Muslims by media outlets,” he said in regards to life as a Muslim in our current world. The talk then shifted to a term coined by Bokhari: ‘Geo Sectarianism.’ This concept is the idea that terrorism is not a battle of good versus evil; it is a battle of years worth of man-made political and religious struggles. “I have been told I have coined this term, and to me, the definition is religious sectarianism on a geopolitical scale,” Bokhari said. He explained that terrorism is not simply one religion against another; it is a power and land-grab in an attempt to push an agenda. “Over the years it has evolved from a religious realm to a geopo-

litical one,” he said. After addressing both of these issues, Bokhari spent the majority of the presentation focusing on his final topic, autocratic meltdown. Autocratic meltdown is the idea that once a corrupt leader falls out of power, the country falls into chaos. “We are seeing many autocratic meltdowns happen, even though there are no democracies emerging,” Bokhari said. He expanded on this idea by saying that the fall of these dictators is beneficial in the long run, yet detrimental in the short term. When there is no dictator in power any more, there is no government to lead the people. “These meltdowns are only happening in Arab states,” Bokhari said. “Yet the monarchies stay standing.”

Bokhari explained that the states that are experiencing these issues are all states that have attempted to become democratic after being freed from a dictator in the past. He wrapped up his presentation by exploring how these three topics all related to one another. “Jihadism has expanded due to numerous amounts of autocratic meltdown(s),” he said, “Building from that, the way that groups like ISIS are succeeding because of geo sectarianism.” He concluded by alluding to the current issues that America faces. “It creates a new interest for the United States; the other thing is that the Iranians are happy to see ISIS hollow out the Arab World,” Bokhari said.

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