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COVID-19 CASES RISE IN ADAIR COUNTY
Students take notes during an inter financial accounting lecture. The latest COVID-19 case count on Truman’s campus is 25 students and 3 employees. Photos by Emily Collins Dr. Jordan Palmer is the medical director at Complete Family Medicine, the company that RACHEL BECKER AND manages the Student Health Center and counseling services at Truman. Palmer said last fall GENEVIEVE TLUSTOS there was a spike in cases, referring to Aug. 31 where there were 21 active cases among the Editor in Chief, Features and Opinions Editor student population, followed by cases dying down. Now cases are rising again, Palmer said. “Now with Delta and Omicron, which is in our area, we’re seeing a significant inCOVID-19 cases are continuing to rise in Adair county, with Jan. 10 seeing the highest number of reported cases so far at the Adair County Health Department with a total of 58 crease in cases at Truman. So many more positive tests [are] coming back. That’s probably two fold, one is that it’s just such a highly transmissible variant, and then what we’re cases, according to Adair County Health Department administrator Jim LeBaron. Recently, Adair County has averaged about 60 cases a day, and as of Jan. 14 the total num- seeing because of the timeline is all of those students who have just returned from winter ber of cases in Adair County has now reached a total of 4,927 according to the Health Depart- break likely were exposed on winter break and then are manifesting disease and then ment. As of Jan. 14, there have now been 48 deaths in Adair County because of COVID-19, that’s getting spread somewhat just like it is in the rest of the community and the rest of the nation,” Palmer said. according to the Health Department. “So please get tested, is what I would say, as soon as you start experiencing Truman currently has 25 active student cases and three active employee cases. Last semester, from October through December Truman’s active case counts among symptoms and then follow those guidelines,” Palmer said. students stayed below 10. There has been a recent surge in cases since student’s have returned to campus. See COVID page 3
LGBTQ+ resource SERVE Center offers center to open soon service opportunities RACHEL BECKER AND ANAKIN BUSH Editor in Chief, Managing Editor
The LGBTQ+ resource center is getting close to opening its doors for Truman State University students who need resources on campus. At the end of the fall 2021 semester, Truman’s Student Government and the Center for Diversity and Inclusion made an advisory board for the resource center. Shania Montufar, president of Student Government, said the committee
has only had one meeting so far to establish where the resource center will be. The final location of the center is room 101 in Baldwin Hall. Montufar said this room was specifically requested, as Student Government hosted several events there. Not many classes were held in this room either. Montufar also said it was important that the center remain close to the CDI. “The room is both visible and accessible, but it’s not something you accidentally walk into, which is important,” Montufar said. See LGBTQ+ page 3
Furniture and decorations in the LGBTQ+ resource center reflect what the center represents. Most of the items were donations from the community.
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MAT T FRANK Staff Writer The Truman State University SERVE Center is a student-led organization that offers a hub for students and organizations on campus to find service opportunities within the community. The goal of the SERVE Center is to match volunteers with service opportunities in the Kirksville community. The SERVE Center has been at Truman for about 10 years, J.D. Smiser, director of the Office of Citizenship and Community Standards, said. The SERVE Center, which stands for Service, Education, Resources, Values and Exploration is located at the Student Union Building; however much of their service coordination happens online. The SERVE Center uses a website called TruService, which is accessible through the Truman portal and through the SERVE Center’s website. Through TruService, students can locate service opportunities within the community. These service opportunities are placed by various community organizations. TruService also has a directory of categorized community organizations that individual students or groups can contact to inquire about volunteering opportunities. The TruService website also tracks how many service hours and activities an individual has worked. Students can also log service hours completed independently. With this function, the website can then generate a service resume. The SERVE Center has plans to raise awareness about this website and how to utilize it. Those plans include explaining its usefulness to new students during orientation, Smiser said. See SERVE page 5