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Truman mourns loss of students

By Austin Hornbostel Editor-In-Chief index.editor@gmail.com

Photo by Lindell Sconce/TMN This classroom’s walls have been broken down and cleared out. Many professors who taught in this classroom and other classrooms in Baldwin Hall now teach across campus and have offices in Fair Apartments.

Professors move to Fair Apartments

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English and Foreign Language professors’ offices have been moved to Fair Apartments during the Baldwin renovation.

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Two Truman State students have died since August 8, with one death taking place early last Saturday morning.

Sophomores Alex Mullins and Jacob Hughes were found dead in separate incidents on August 8 and August 27, respectively. Both Mullins and Hughes were active members of Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity.

Lou Ann Gilchrist, vice president for Student Affairs, sent email notices to the Truman community in the days following both deaths. Following Hughes’ more recent death last weekend, Gilchrist explained the resources available to students at the University Health Center and University Counseling Services. Students can call and schedule an appointment with UCS at 660-785-4014, and UCS crisis counselors are available after hours by calling 660-665-5621.

In the most recent email, Gilchrist also encouraged students to take care of themselves in the wake of these events, and to talk with faculty and staff who would be willing to share their perspectives regarding positive ways to cope with grief and uncertainty.

According to the email, Student Affairs — in collaboration with Greek Life — will host a series of activities to explore the topics of grief, supporting others and positive psychology.

UCS will host an open house, where students can stop in and meet UCS counselors, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Sept.

1 at the Counseling Center, located in the McKinney Building. According to the email, UCS will provide information about grieving, self-care, support resources and mental health screenings. According to the same email, students will also have an opportunity to share their thoughts and memories of Hughes and Mullins.

TMN will provide more information as it becomes available.

Truman searches for new president

By Austin Hornbostel

The search for a new permanent University president is underway, with the Truman State University Presidential Search Committee finalizing plans for the entirety of the process this academic year.

Truman has been operating with an interim University president, former Provost Sue Thomas, since July 1, after former University President Troy Paino announced his move to the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, last semester.

Following that announcement, Truman’s Board of Governors established a Presidential Search Committee, led by co-chairs Cheryl Cozette, Board of Governors secretary, and Debra Kerby, dean of the school of business.

The Search Committee briefly recapped its first meeting, which took place Aug. 6 and included discussion about confidentiality requirements for the search process, according to an email update sent by the Presidential Search Committee to the campus community. The Board agreed on a desired appointment deadline of March 2017 and planned to start collecting campus input at meetings with Jessica Kozloff and Eric Richtmyer, consultants with Academic Search — a search firm for higher education leadership positions, according to the email. These meetings took place on campus Aug. 30 and 31 and provided forums for faculty, staff and students to discuss the search process firsthand.

The Presidential Search Committee now plans to finalize an advertisement

for the position and begin recruiting through Academic Search by mid-September, according to the same email.

The campus can expect to hear about semi-finalists for the position before the semester break and the Search Committee plans to schedule neutralsite interviews after the spring semester begins, according to the email.

Following semi-finalist interviews, the Presidential Search Committee will select three to five finalists for interviews with a to-be-established Stakeholder Advisory Committee, according to the email. The committee would replace open campus meetings and forums and will draw from University faculty, staff, students, alumni and community members.

Sarah Burkemper, Board of Governors chair, said the reasoning behind the Stakeholder Advisory Committee lies in the University’s desire to keep the presidential search process confidential. Burkemper said open campus meetings could cause complications for potential candidates with their current positions. She said this final part of the search process will be the biggest difference between Truman’s last big administrative hire, when Thomas was hired as provost in 2015.

“Having those open forums would not allow us to have the biggest and best pool of candidates,” Burkemper said. “Many people would not want to enter a search if they knew that they would have open forums that then could be out on social media.

Their current employer could find that out.”

Burkemper said faculty and students will instead have representatives on the Stakeholder Advisory

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Committee who will perform the same function as open campus forums, while allowing Truman to make the search more attractive to the top candidates. She said Truman’s administration learned after Paino left, since the University of Mary Washington was able to attract a candidate like him because of a method that protected candidate confidentiality.

Burkemper said the next phase of the process will be to determine the parameters for forming the Stakeholder Advisory Committee itself. In the meantime, Burkemper said the campus shouldn’t expect any broad changes to the search structure the Presidential Search Committee laid out in its email correspondence to campus.

“What we’ve laid out and shared is really where we are, and we will just continue to keep everyone updated as progress is made,” Burkemper said.

Burkemper said she encourages students to participate in and take the time to be part of the search process, and she said the Board of Governors’ goal of selecting the best candidate for the next president will only be possible with the campus community’s input.

Outside the presidential search process, Thomas hit the ground running after taking over for Paino last summer.

Thomas stepped into a busy role during the summer break, after Paino left a host of projects in process upon his exit, including renovations to Baldwin Hall and the progress of faculty Blueprint Teams. Thomas said because she and Paino worked closely during her time as provost, she was aware of all the details surrounding the existing projects. Thomas is now tasked with overseeing, which

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she said was intended to make for as smooth a transition as possible for her and the campus.

“We aren’t going on pause,” Thomas said. “There are a lot of dynamic things taking place at Truman right now and we’re moving forward with all of those things this semester.”

Moving forward, Thomas said she’s focused on advancing projects like the Baldwin renovations and Blueprint Teams, as well as other projects such as the planned renovations at Stokes Stadium after the football season and the transition for the Greenwood School from a storage building to a functioning autism clinic.

Thomas said since she took on the position in July, her focus as interim president has been meeting people and learning the ropes of how things work outside of her more internally focused previous role as provost. She said the opportunity has been an uncommon one for her because she has gotten to experience two very different positions.

“It’s been cool because you don’t usually get the chance to try out a job like you’d try on clothes, but I’ve gotten to do that,” Thomas said.

Regarding the search for a candidate to fill the position permanently, Thomas said she will have no role, as the search is up to Truman State’s Board of Governors. Instead, Thomas said she will primarily focus on advancing projects and University goals during the rest of her time at the helm. She said she won’t be sure about whether she’ll be applying for the permanent position or returning to her role as provost until the campus is back in full swing. @trumanindex

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NEWS IN BRIEF

Kneib snags PR internship The Public Relations Office selected senior Kain Kneib, communication major and art minor, as the Fall 2016 Public Relations Office Intern.

Kneib’s duties as Public Relations Office intern will include helping put together Truman Today and the Truman Review. Kneib said he is doing this internship to gain experience in the hopes of starting a career in nonprofit LGBTQ+ activism.

Truman named top Master’s university

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Photo by Damian Soane/TMN Top Left: William Funk of R. William Funk and Associates speaks during the Presidental Search forum. The company came to see what students, faculty and staff wanted in a president. Top Right: Debra Kerby, dean of Truman’s business school, listens during the forum. Because of lack of attendence, the forum was short. Bottom: Funk listens while Bill Funk, also of R. William Funk and Associates, talks to the audience. Attendees said they wanted a president that would get along well with the students, try to improve mental health on campus and help newer students settle into campus.

Truman State University was recently named the number one Master’s University by the Washington Monthly. The Washington Monthly bases rankings on criteria like research, service and social mobility.

Last year, Truman State was number two in the nation and this year was the only Missouri school in the Top 100 Master Universities.

Library hosts editorial cartoon exposition The Classic and Modern Language Departments will host “Drawing Freely,” an editorial cartoon exposition, in Pickler Memorial Library. The exposition will have posters featuring cartoons designed by 50 different editorial cartoonists around the world.

Themes of the cartoons will include women’s voices, corruption, racism and the dangers of online media.

Lyceum begins in new season The Kohlenburg Lyceum series 2016-17 season will begin Sept. 24 with the Kansas City Chorale in Ophelia Parrish. The Lyceum series would normally take place in Baldwin Hall.

However, the revnovations have moved the series to Ophelia Parrish.

Tickets for any event in the series are $5 and can be purchased up to two weeks in advance.

STUDENT SENATE IN BRIEF

The Senate read a resolution designating the new constitution and standing rules of Student Government.

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The Senate read over the 20162017 budget.

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Mark your calendar Faculty artwork exhibit 5 p.m.

Sept. 6 Ophelia Parrish 1114

A reception showcasing the artwork of Truman art professors Laura Bigger, Amanda Breitbach, Aaron Fine, and Francine Fox is free and open to the public. The artwork will be on display from Sept. 1 through Oct. 8.

Garden Club Planting Lessons 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Sept. 1 Parking lot between West Campus Suites and Student Recreation Center

All are welcome to join the Community Garden Club who will host “Lettuce plant radishes on campus,” where they will teach people how to prepare a garden bed and plant radishes, lettuce and turnips.

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Construction | Professors settle in to their new offices in Fair Apartments while Baldwin undergoes renovations Continued from Page 1 The apartments, located on Patterson St. next to Ryle Hall, have been refitted to work as temporary office space for English and Foreign Language professors. Professors were grouped by two and graduate student teachers and research assistants grouped by three per residence. Each office has a window with an air conditioning unit, a desk, two to three chairs and space for shelves. While the space is usable, there are mixed feelings about current arrangements.

Language Professor Matthew Tornatore, whose office is currently Apartment 2, said he learned he would be moving to the apartments during the middle of last semester. There are a few issues with his office, including moisture, and professors are required to run the air conditioner constantly to prevent mold, Tornatore said.

“What I personally most dislike about it is the isolation,” Tornatore said. “I was used to being in a very busy hallway where I could walk out and find colleagues.”

Tornatore said appointments and visits by students have not been a problem, and while a few have mentioned it is an odd arrangement, he said he doesn’t think it has affected their work so far.

While student visits are working, the professors have to commute as well. Professor Linda Moore is teaching classes in Barnett Hall, Magruder Hall and Violette Hall this semester. Moore said her office is fine but said she has complaints about the parking. Moore drives to a class she teaches in Barnett Hall three

days a week, meaning she has to give up her space at the office.

“I get back here at 10:30 p.m. and there’s absolutely no place to park,” Moore said. “And so this morning I had to park in that commuter parking place that’s north of Barnett.”

She said she thinks there are blue and green decal cars parked where they shouldn’t be. She said she hopes the issue will be resolved to accommodate the increase in faculty cars around the offices.

“There are a lot of red decal places around, it’s just that there are a lot more of us on this side of campus,” Moore said.

Samantha Battrick is a first year GTRA and said she is happy with the arrangements. Battrick said all of her classes — the ones she teaches and the ones she takes — are in Violette Hall across the street. She said though she shares her office space with two other graduate students they all have different schedules, meaning they are not normally in at the same time. Her friend Natalie Wrhel has an office next door and they sometimes work together.

Wrhel is also a first time GTRA and said the student traffic appears the same as it would be in Baldwin.

“I don’t know if the students feel like it’s less convenient to come here to talk than they would if my office was over there,” Whrel said.

“The fact that this is closer to the residence halls than Baldwin is probably something that helps.”

Greitens campagins in Kirksville

Photo by Damian Soane/TMN Eric Greitens , Republican Missouri gubernatorial candidate, addresses citizens in Adair County during his political rally for Missouri Governor. His campaign office in Kirksville was his last stop of the day.

By Clayton Berry Staff Writer

Eric Greitens, Republican Missouri gubernatorial candidate,visited his Kirksville campaign office 5:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 26, as part of his General Election Kickoff tour.

The office, located at 212 N Franklin St., was his last of four stops that day, according to Greitens’ website. There was a variety of people in attendance, including Truman State University students, as well as Kirksville residents, politicians, business owners and residents from other parts of Adair County.

State Representative Nate Walker was among the speakers introducing Greitens at the event. Walker said he was happy to see such a large turnout of local and countywide residents at the campaign office, and he said he was glad there was such a high voter turnout for the primary elections.

Walker said he first met Greitens at a Missouri Chamber of Commerce event about Photo by Damian Soane/TMN two years ago, where Greitens was the keynote speaker.

Eric Greitens signs flooded his campaign office on 212 North He said he initially supported Franklin St. People of all ages, both Truman students and KirksThomas Schweich, former ville citizens came to see Greitens. state auditor and Republican candidate for Missouri governor, until Schweich died February 2015. Walker said he endorsed Greitens in September 2015 after Greitens stepped into the political scene by announcing his candidacy. Walker said Greitens has made five campaign stops to Kirksville since then. “[Greitens] is the guy we need in the state legislature to push things forward,” Walker said.

Greitens asked those in attendance if they were ready to win the election. He said Photo by Damian Soane/TMN he wants to put an end to Greitens speaks with a Kirksville citizen. Greitens said he encourages politics as usual because he people living in Missouri to step up and take back their government. said he thinks the current political establishment has been responsible for Missouri being rated 47th nationwide in

economic growth for the past decade. He said he met many people who are out of work and leaving Missouri because of economic conditions.

“The government doesn’t create jobs — it should be creating the conditions necessary for job growth,” Greitens said.

Greitens said he and his supporters must take action by making phone calls, posting signs and outworking his political opponent, Chris Koster, state attorney general and Democratic nominee for Missouri governor. Greitens said he will improve the Missouri educational system by opposing Common Core standards and returning power to local schools. He said he will also try to lower college tuition and fee rates, although he did not specify if he would call for another tuition freeze. He also said he will support Missouri’s law enforcement community.

Greitens said he thinks the current administration hasn’t done a good job in these areas. He said Koster and Missouri Governor Jay Nixon failed to handle the University of Missouri’s 2015 protests, and said that caused a drop in enrollment of thousands of students and a $40 million budget shortfall for the university. He also said Koster abandoned the law enforcement community during the 2014 Ferguson protests.

“People from around the state are stepping up to take their government back,” Greitens said. “I promise I will outwork Chris Koster.”

In contrast, Koster’s Communications Director David Turner said Greitens has not been stating the facts about Koster. Turner said Koster has a clear plan and is running a clean campaign despite Greiten’s claims. Turner said Koster has returned over $100,000 in campaign donations while instituting stringent conflictof-interest policies, thus limiting the power of lobbyist and

special interest donations. He said Koster also plans to cut business taxes while closing loopholes, expand Medicaid, and implement other policies he said are projected to bring in billions of dollars for Missouri taxpayers.

Turner said many of Greitens’ claims are factually incorrect, such as Greitens’ claim that Koster used taxpayer money to redecorate his Jefferson City Attorney General Office. Turner said the AGO was facing numerous structural problems, such as asbestos and paint-peeling.

Turner said the money didn’t even come from the state’s general revenue, and he also said Koster had been running his office $30 million under budget, while making a 15 percent reduction in staff to do his best to save taxpayer money. Turner said Koster had been praised for his work with the law enforcement community, including endorsements from the Missouri Fraternal Order of Police, as well as a unanimous vote of endorsement by the Police Union.

“Koster was the first state official on the line, after dark, and talking with the protesters,” Turner said. “Greitens just doesn’t know the facts.”

Turner said the Missouri General Assembly has cut higher education funding by about 40 percent in the past two decades, and he said Koster plans to make smart investments in higher education to reverse this trend. Turner also said Koster would probably be open to supporting another future tuition freeze.

Chris Koster’s campaign office and the Adair County Democrats are both located on Franklin Street. Turner said Koster will visit the office again before the general election.

“Chris Koster is bringing people together from all corners of the state,” Turner said.

Both candidates hope to secure a spot as Missouri Governor and serve Missouri citizens.

History department faces changes

By Emily Merkle Staff Writer

Many departments have made changes because of the Baldwin renovation, but the history department is also facing curriculum and faculty changes.

The history department is looking to change requirements for the major and has also had several faculty members leave and new faculty join the department.

Kathryn Brammall, history professor and department chair, said in the past three years two tenured professors resigned to pursue other opportunities, and three tenured professors retired. Brammall said temporary faculty are helping cover areas left behind, including Masters of Arts and Education and internship coordination. Brammall said she is excited to have the temporary faculty.

“We are really grateful that [the temporary faculty are] here,” Brammall said.

“They’re great scholars.

They’re great teachers, but it’s possible they will find permanent positions elsewhere and they won’t be here in the future. That’s one thing we worry about, is not being able to ensure our students have that kind of stability in

the program over the course of years.”

Brammall said there still is no ancient historian on faculty, but a medievalist is helping fill the void in premodern history. She said while medievalists have wide range, they cannot cover many things ancient historians can.

Brammall said the department relies on an art historian colleague and the classics department to help fill gaps in ancient history.

Brammall said the history major currently requires 12 three-credit classes. She said the department has proposed a change requiring 10 fourcredit classes. Brammall said this would allow flexibility to do different writing assignments and provide students with more individual attention. Brammall said the major would still have a research requirement and the senior seminar would remain the same. She said students will still be encouraged to take a variety of classes, and she said she hopes the department will continue to have the means to offer a range of classes.

Brammall said the proposal will be an action item at the next Undergraduate Council meeting September 8. Brammall said the shortest

time approval could take is a month. She said she is hoping if it takes longer, it will be in time to be implemented during fall 2017.

History professor Sally West said with history faculty leaving in recent years, those who remain have to cover a little more. West said next semester, she will teach the senior seminar, which is not a class she usually teaches.

West said she was one of three tenure-track faculty hired during 1995. West said since the late 1990s, no new tenure-track faculty have been hired.

West said one benefit she sees in tenured faculty is their long-term investment in Truman State University.

West said tenure helps create longevity in the department. “[They] are able to put down roots in the community because they feel that this is where they are going to stay,” West said.

West said the department has had several temporary hires come in to cover areas left by former faculty. West said the temporary professors have done a great job of filling specialty areas and everyone has been cooperative in sharing the work of getting everything covered.

West said history courses often include a lot of reading and writing, which she thinks is already equivalent to four credits. She said the change will be recognition of the work students put into the major. West said by having fewer classes to take, students will have more time to dedicate to the work and get more out of the classes. However, West said one drawback to the new curriculum is students will have exposure in fewer areas.

Temporary professor Caleb Owen said this is his first year at Truman. Owen said this year, he is teaching world history for non-majors, “World History I” and “History of Modern Africa.” Owen said he is a trained Africanist and the latter class is within his specialty. Owen said Truman does a good job of valuing temporary faculty. He said this position has allowed him to learn from other faculty members while still being respected. Owen said while learning from other faculty, he has also had the opportunity to share his ideas and provide a new perspective.

“In terms of my position, for me, it’s a very unique opportunity as a learning environment,” Owen said. “I have the

opportunity to work with people who are in the later stages of their career. They have a broad range of knowledge.”

Royce Kallerud, English and linguistics department chair, said the Bachelor of Arts implemented updated curriculum during fall 2013 and the linguistics Bachelor of Science implemented updated curriculum during fall 2016.

Similar to what the history department is looking to do, Kallerud said the English and linguistics majors switched from a three-credit model to a four-credit model. Kallerud said this allows students to focus on the subject of a class more by reducing the number of required classes.

Kallerud said to get the changes approved, each major reviewed the respective proposed curriculum. He said the department reviewed the proposals and then submitted them to Undergraduate Council and Faculty Senate.

Kallerud said the changes were then reviewed by the Provost, and in some cases the President, and approved.

Kallerud said the English changes were developed and passed in about a year and a half and the linguistics changes were developed and passed in just under a year.

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[ Our View ] We are a campus in grief.

It’s always difficult losing a member of the Truman community, since it seems like everyone knows — or at least recognizes — all of the students on our campus, whether as just a familiar face in passing or as close friends. It’s difficult in a lot of ways. It’s difficult to talk about our struggles with mental health, and it’s difficult to report on the loss of important members of our thriving community.

With that in mind, we, the Truman Media Network Editorial Board, join in offering our condolences to the family, friends and loved ones of Alex Mullins and Jake Hughes. We hope to offer a platform for anyone who knew these men to share their stories with those who might not have known them personally. We think it is most important to emphasize their lives — not their passings — moving forward, and hope to provide an avenue where we can remember Alex and Jake.

We, the Editorial Board, also want to keep the conversation about mental health going. We have noticed an older Index article from 2014 being shared a lot recently — it’s titled “Truman ranks high on students with depression” and was written by alumni Dan Mika and Ingrid Roettgen. We want to reopen this conversation and encourage it to continue so we don’t look back two years from now and see only one article about mental wellness on our campus. A tragedy that rocks our community shouldn’t be our only prompt — we should always make it a point to discuss the services available through our University Counseling Services, the stigma of mental illness and how important it is to reach out to those who need it. These are issues that affect us all.

We, the Editorial Board, wish to emphasize that anxiety and stress shouldn’t be treated with offhandedness. Our willingness to joke about how we’re going to have a panic attack or about other serious symptoms that can arise from insufficient self-care serves to trivialize our thoughts about our own mental health, and that’s part of why there is such a stigma associated with mental illness. We even know, as students, that there’s a high anxiety level that can come along with being a full-time college student, but we often decide it isn’t “serious” because it applies to most Truman students. We’re all hardworking and involved, and it’s hard to take a step back and realize the mental health resources on campus aren’t just for those students who we might deem as having bigger problems than stress about an upcoming test. Stress can snowball and become too great, and it’s important that we take the first steps and don’t shy away from talking to people about our stresses and anxieties. It’s okay to feel like something is wrong or for a situation to arise regarding your mental health, and we urge students not to feel ashamed or guilty for asking for help.

Furthermore, we, the Editorial Board, encourage students to reach out to others who are suffering through grief, loss or stress of their own.

The grieving process is not simple — there’s no set way for every single person to grieve, and everyone deals with these feelings differently. Grief is also not something short-term, as it requires support beyond the immediacy. We hope students will take every opportunity moving forward to provide a listening ear or a welcome distraction from the grieving process to those who need it. There’s an opportunity to listen and be heard soon, facilitated

by Student Affairs and Greek Life and hosted at University Counseling Services in the McKinney Center. From 5:30 to 7 p.m. Sept. 1, students can meet UCS counselors and learn important information about the services they provide. It’ll also be an opportunity to share thoughts and memories about Alex and Jake. TMN will send at least one staff member, if not more, to the event, and we hope to see many members of the Truman community there.

We’re all part of a bigger community — a residence hall, Greek Life or the whole of Truman State University. It’s important that we’re there for each other, now and in the future.

Truman should decrease its investment in fossil fuels

Ben Wallis

During the summer, former University President Troy Paino sent a farewell message to campus in which he took the opportunity to assess the accomplishments and setbacks that took place during his tenure.

One of the accomplishments he discussed was Truman State University’s increased environmental sustainability.

Specifically, he congratulated the formation of the President’s Sustainability Action Committee, investment in an Energy Savings Plan, installation of solar panels around campus and the restoration of Bear Creek. All of these projects do deserve praise, as they are deeply necessary.

However, despite these successes, Truman is not unequivocally dedicated to environmental sustainability.

Currently, through the University’s endowment, approximately half a million dollars are invested in fossil fuel companies such as Conoco, the Hess Corporation, BP and Total. If sustainability is understood to be a worthy commitment — as both the overwhelming majority of scientific evidence and Paino’s parting message suggest — it is imperative for the University community to reconsider the legitimacy of these investments and whether we should divest from fossil fuels altogether.

As it stands, there is a virtual scientific consensus that global society faces severe ecological challenges — the legitimacy of human-driven climate change is debated only in the margins. A 2014 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change describes human influence on the climate system as clear and its effect on human and natural systems as widespread. The report goes on to state human-produced greenhouse gasses will cause further warming, increasing the likelihood of “severe, pervasive, and irreversible impacts.” The concrete manifestations of these “irreversible impacts” will not simply be hotter temperatures, but poorer crop yields and less accessible surface water — phenomena which will significantly reduce the food security of the world’s most vulnerable populations.

As 35 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions come from the energy sector, Truman’s investment in fossil fuel industries represents a portion of the capital making these climactic changes possible. And these changes — credibly linked with fossil fuel emissions by the IPCC and others —

will have serious negative impacts on societies around the world. It would therefore be inappropriate to disregard or bracket off ethical questions about how these funds are being used.

Thankfully, sustainability has already proved to be a guiding principle in many of Truman’s activities. The programs reviewed in Paino’s message build on a shared understanding that the University has responsibilities to the communities it interacts with and is a part of. This is reflected in the 2013 Truman Sustainability Report, in which a number of the University’s “Sustainability Principles” are outlined. Among them are “conserving natural resources,” “acknowledging the interdependence of humanity and nature,” and “embracing intergenerational stewardship.”

However, the public declaration of these commitments appears to seriously conflict with Truman State’s private investments. If Truman recognizes its Sustainability Principles to be legitimate, it should ensure they are borne out comprehensively — throughout all University operations including its financial activities.

The investment policy of the Truman State University Foundation, the body responsible for managing the endowment, “attempts to maintain a balance between funding current Truman State University Foundation operations and growing the endowment’s value,” according to its 2016 Policies and Bylaws. Fair enough. The Foundation’s investment philosophy and Truman’s public commitments to sustainability are not mutually exclusive.

In 2015, the University’s endowment was worth $39.8 million, according to the Foundation Endowment page on Truman’s website. This means the fossil fuel investments discussed in this article account for only 1.3 percent of the endowment’s total value. Divesting an amount of this size is both practical and possesses numerous precedents. To cite only one example — in 2014 the University of Dayton began the process of divesting some $35 million from fossil fuel companies, accounting for nearly 5 percent of the school’s overall endowment. Dayton then held a conference on how it should reinvest this money. There are many profitable and socially responsible alternatives to fossil fuels, one of course being alternative forms of energy. It is therefore extremely unlikely that divestment from fossil fuels would seriously undermine the integrity of the University’s endowment. However, investment in fossil fuels does seriously undermine the credibility of the University’s public commitments to sustainability and social responsibility. If these principles are to be taken seriously, as Paino’s message suggests, then students must begin to demand immediate steps toward divestment. We have a great deal at stake in the future.

Ben Wallis is a junior poltical science and history major from Troy, Mo.

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Native American struggles AROUND THE are often overlooked

Eboni Miller From my observations, the United States’ history is not as clean as the education system might present in its curricula. This country was built on stolen cultures and legacies, on stealing the cultural expressions and subverting the great legacies of the original people, one of those legacies being the Native American people. Native American history is often omitted or altered in textbooks included in school curricula.

Georgianna Lincoln, a prominent Native American political leader, reviewed American history textbooks from elementary school through college and found that native peoples are heavily misrepresented. Lincoln found that the textbooks portrayed them as savages. For example, these books do not explain how they become chiefs, how they determined boundaries, what the family structure was like or details as simple as transportation before the influx of white settlers. Their suffering is usually overlooked or just forgotten.

There are approximately 627 treaties between the U.S. government and Native American peoples, according to the “American Indians Truth” radio program in July 2015. But guess what — our federal government broke every last one of them, never followed through with one treaty, according to the same radio program.

Before white Europeans landed in America, there were 1,200 thriving native tribes. But when the Europeans got here, the governments they set up manipulated the native peoples and conducted heinous genocidal practices on them. Because of their actions, there are a little over 500 tribes existing today.

The very little history we do know about native peoples isn’t enough. Our textbooks in high school and college don’t necessarily inform us that Benjamin Franklin — along with the “founding fathers” of the U.S. — “befriended” the Iroquois tribe and created the U.S. constitution. However, the ideas and principles in it were stolen from a document known as “The Great Law of Peace” written by the Iroquois Confederacy, according to the same “American Indians Truth” broadcast.

I never understood how any human being can take pride in the stealing and the raping of a people. I never understood the patriotism of a nation that practices the same barbaric tactics they did while conquering other nations centuries ago, seen today in the Middle East.

This generation is finally waking up to the problems that are often swept under the rug and completely go unnoticed. Today, we have movements that challenge the fundamental structures of society. Raising awareness to the physical and mental state of the Red community builds solidarity with the native peoples of this

land. To show that, we must draw attention to their well being.

For example, in their communities there is a staggering suicide rate. Forty percent of suicides are between the ages of 18-24, according to the Washington Post in March 2014. Their graduation rate is 17 percent — that’s lower than the national average, according to the same article. Where is the national awareness for this? Where are the commercials and heavily funded foundations for this? Within the reservations, there is an abundance of human trafficking crimes that are not brought to light, according to Indian Country Today Media Network May 2015. Human trafficking in this community dates back to the very first day Columbus arrived, according to the same article. He provided indigenous women to his crew to do with them what they wanted — but very few people have bothered to research facts like these that contradict what is considered common sense.

There is a quote that always reminds and motivates me to be well-informed and bring awareness to the struggle by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad — “our unity is more powerful than an atomic or hydrogen bomb.” True unity is what will produce change — it is what will prevent cultures from being forgotten the way Native American culture is today. I’m not just talking about sit-ins and protests — I’m talking about coming together for economic empowerment.

What does this have to do with understanding the Native American culture? By uniting and pooling our resources, we as a nation can come together and create our own corporations and our own textbooks that will provide the full truth and not negate or fabricate anyone’s struggles. For example as a first step, we could stop shopping at Walmart, Target or Schnucks. What would happen if we stop buying Coca Cola products? We could easily shut down much of America’s economy just on those corporations alone, and nonviolently because America’s source of power is consumption.

Taking away from businesses and corporations that rarely help underrepresented communities will put a dent in America financially. With the unity of underrepresented communities, they wouldn’t need any assistance from this government and they wouldn’t be suffering the way that they are today.

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What is the most interesting thing you’ve learned so far this year?

Ashley Merideth Freshman

So far, out of all the amazing things I’ve learned at Truman, the expectations that I had for Truman and what it is as a school are much lower than what I’ve actually experienced. The teachers are all very wonderful, and my three English classes have broadened by view of psychology and the intersectionality of how English and sociology and everything connects in the world.

Briana Kyles Junior

That a guy donated his body to science and then had them build a mannequin around his body and put it in a museum.

Eboni Miller is a junior justice systems major from St. Louis, Mo.

Feel positive about your body

Lesley Reno Throughout the centuries, the definition of beauty has changed, but what hasn’t changed is the pressure on women and men to conform to certain standards.

In the 1920s, during the era of the flapper, a rail thin figure was coveted with an emphasis on long legs. In the 1940s and 50s, curves were all the rage, with an emphasis on a plumper figure. Then the 1960s rolled around, and we returned to the rail thin figure with the popularization of fashion icons like Twiggy and Audrey Hepburn. In the 1990s, if Twiggy’s rail thin figure wasn’t enough, women were asked to become skinnier, and this figure is coveted even today. There are two ends of what is considered beautiful today — either you have an extremely thin or curvy body.

Even with the curvier body, though, it is still expected that you be streamlined with no excess skin, meaning you have to have a flat stomach and a tiny Jessica Rabbit-esque waist, which is almost impossible to obtain without the help of a corset or surgery.

Men are also under pressure to conform to beauty standards — they are often pressured to be the macho man with washboard abs and a muscular physique. If you do not possess the ideal figure, you were shamed and looked down upon. Because of this, all different types of dieting have become popular as well as dieting pills and steroids, which are more often than not harmful to your body. If that wasn’t enough, women and men are further thinned and perfected with the use of photoshop in the media. The result of this is a perfect, unattainable body.

As you can imagine, it is hard to feel positive and love your body. I, as well as many other men and women, struggled with this on a daily basis. I have always been a curvier girl. I have never possessed the coveted thin body and thigh gap that has been popularized in recent times. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and think I was beautiful. I would avoid certain types of clothing, like shorts, because I didn’t think I could wear them. I avoided any activity that required me to show any type of excess skin. I refused to go swimming, even though it was one of my favorite activities, because I was afraid I would look disgusting in a swimsuit. I tried the pills and the

diets, but no matter how much weight I lost, I never felt beautiful.

It was after years of this that I realized no matter how much I weighed I would never feel beautiful if I didn’t come to love myself from the inside out. So I stopped comparing my body to those unattainable bodies I saw in magazines and started concentrating on how I saw myself. I started wearing the clothes I wanted and doing the activities I wanted. No longer did I stray away from bathing suits or from swimming. I came to realize I was beautiful and that just because I wasn’t thin or didn’t possess a thigh gap it didn’t mean I was any less beautiful as those who did.

Even though I came to love myself, there are many men and women out there who do not. Hopefully this will change. In recent times, plus size models like Ashley Graham, Mary Lambert and Zach Miko are paving the way for a more inclusive definition of what beauty really means. They are fighting for people to reconsider what type of connection size has with beauty. The answer is that size should not have any bearing on how beautiful someone is. Beauty is not measured by the size of the gap between your thighs or by the size of your jeans. It is not measured by how many push-ups you can do or by how muscular you are. Beauty is in you and in everything you do. Beauty encompasses every shape, size and color — it is all inclusive and it knows no bounds.

Jesse Hassinger Sophomore

I learned that there are lawn mowers with cabs that have air conditioning.

Lauren Schultz Graduate student

I have learned how beneficial it is to be able to drive around Kirksville and be able to park on campus when I go to class and not have to walk.

Ifeanyi Nnaji Sophomore

Integration by parts in my calculus class.

Lesley Reno is a sophomore communication major from Renick, Mo.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Pokewalk brings growth to downtown Kirksville

by Lindell Sconce Staff Writer

The Parks and Recreation Department hosted a Pokewalk last Friday 6-8 p.m. to bring more people into downtown Kirksville to spur business growth.

“I can’t say that it has increased my business, but it has definitely made it more entertaining here.”

- Sweet Espressions owner Sarah Mitchell

The Pokewalk was inspired by Pokemon Go, a game that allows players to catch Pokemon in realworld locations with their devices using an augmented reality. The Parks and Recreation Department used the game as a way to bring citizens to The Square, offering prizes for picking up trash and finding Pokemon-themed items hidden in the area.

Assistant City Manager Ashley Young handed out fliers for the event at a booth near City Hall. Young said a number of people thought of the idea to host this event, and when he began talking with his colleagues, planning went quickly. Fliers and maps took some design work, as well as promotional material but in general, preparation for the Pokewalk was light, Young said.

“It took very little work in the sense that all we’re trying to do is

bring people into the downtown by having some of these contests as part of an existing game,” Young said.

Young said the walk was intended to get more people outside of their houses and let them enjoy downtown Kirksville.

Downtown businesses have also recognized the potential of the game. Savannah Wheeler, who works at Sweet Espressions, said during her 11 years living in Kirksville, this is the first summer The Square has looked lively.

“There’s always someone downtown,” Wheeler said. “It just looks like everybody’s having a good time and enjoying themselves. That was pretty rare before.”

Wheeler said different age groups walk through downtown now, including many college students and a few high school students. She also said the game has brought in more customers because Pokemon are caught inside the store.

Sweet Espressions owner Sarah Mitchell said the game might help bring in more people, but she cannot tell for sure.

“Many of the people who are here catching Pokémon are also good customers anyway,” Mitchell said.

“I can’t say that it has increased my business, but it has definitely made it more entertaining here.”

Players can buy lures in the game that attract more Pokemon, and Mitchell said she has tried to buy a few to attract more people to the store, but technical issues prevented her from doing so. Regardless, customers continue to catch Pokemon in the store and post pictures of them on the Sweet Espressions Facebook page, Mitchell said.

Photo by Lindell Sconce/TMN

Photo by Lindell Sconce/TMN

Top: Kirksville’s Parks and Recreation Department runs a Pokewalk booth outside City Hall. The department says events like these are a cost-efficient way to bring people into the downtown area. Bottom right: A Pokemon appears outside Sweet Espressions Coffee House. Pokemon Go could bring more customers to downtown businesses if the game continues in popularity. Bottom left: Truman State seniors Derek Neubauer and Kelly Proctor look for Pokemon to catch. Pokemon Go has brought many people through downtown Kirksville since its release this summer.

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Photo by Chris Burk/TMN Evan Bird (left) and Jordan Smith (right) of Diarrhea Planet rock out during their set. The Maha Music Festival featured indie rock bands throughout the day.

Sound Opinions

BY CHRIS BURK

Contributing Writer

Photos by Chris Burk/TMN Top: Evan Bird of Diarrhea Planet plays guitar during the festival. The Maha Music Festival took place in Omaha, Nebraska.

Middle: Alex Luciano of Diet Cig leaps while playing. The energy of the festival remained high throughout the entirety of the performances.

Bottom: Will Toledo of Car Seat Headrest sings to the audience. Although the location was damp from rain, performers improvised to put on a great show.

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On August 20, Truman State University’s student-run radio station, KTRM-FM, found itself in a predicament not experienced by disc jockeys in the history of the radio station before — covering a large music festival in the name of college radio. Maha Music Festival, located in Omaha, Nebraska, was the destination, and it was a long trip across unvaried Iowa highways to get there.

We headed to Omaha without a real idea of what we were in for, armed with some cameras, a backpack full of granola bars and a rough framework of objectives we wanted to accomplish. Maha Music Festival was working on its 8th annual iteration in the largest city of Nebraska, but among the three of us, it would be our first experience covering a music festival. With junior Matt Ragsdale, senior Mike Menkhus and myself all crammed into Mike’s luxurious 2006 Honda Accord, we spent four and a half hours contemplating if we had made a large mistake by driving out into the middle of nowhere with only a tiny sense of direction and no cell service throughout the entirety of Iowa. To be completely honest, Matt and Mike spent quite a while contemplating. I dozed in the backseat and only woke up to confirm our itinerary every so often.

We had no trouble finding the festival in the Omaha downtown area. Fit snugly within the confines of Aksarben Village, the festival grounds were nothing more than a local amphitheater and a scaffolding stage butted up next to each other.

We picked up our press passes before entering the grounds to find many milling about among the vendor booths and grassy knoll.

We stopped in front of an area where two pop-up tents were close together.

Folding tables were set up in a row, with extension cords leading to God-knowswhere snaking their way through the grass and connecting to many kickable power strips. A pair of Omahan grandparents sat at the table and smiled at us upon our arrival. “Are you press?” the grandmother asked. They were tasked with watching gear and treating us like long-lost grandchildren. Our own press tent was Spartan. It was clear we were not Very Important People in the grand scheme of things. I dropped my bags and went searching for subjects to shoot, a camera on each shoulder. Matt and Mike went searching for B-roll footage and interviews with festival organizers.

The day’s festivities were running behind schedule — Omaha had gotten three inches of rain the previous evening, so none of the technical aspects of the main stage had been checked. As they ran through lighting rigs and PA systems looking for bugs and electrical shorts, all the early afternoon acts found themselves confined to the amphitheater, a large brick shelter with a hip-high stage I found comfortable enough to lean against as musicians confidently stuck their faces right in front of me, knowing I was looking for a Pulitzer in feature photography.

It’s always good to dream big.

The main stage was less indulging — with the stage floor being approximately 10 feet off the ground, a lack of good lenses, and the struggle of shooting with both a Canon and a Nikon body, I found most of the pictures I took from main stage to be lackluster. The intimacy of the amphitheater allowed me to take gem after gem during afternoon acts like Diarrhea Planet, Diet Cig and Car Seat Headrest. Main stage acts like The Joy Formidable did not end so well, with poor enough results that staying for the headlining acts like Grimes and Passion Pit was not going to end with any usable snaps. Because Grimes asked that the photo pit be closed for her entire set, and the schedule was an hour behind because of the early day technical issues, we bailed on seeing Passion Pit entirely, opting instead for an exit that would get us back to Kirksville before 5 a.m.

The festival itself was a blast. While Matt and Mike functioned on a professional level in getting excellent interviews with festival organizers and Diet Cig, and my eyes hardly left the viewfinder of my cameras all day, we still found time to unwind. We watched somewhere around 5,000 people pack into a nice, grassy knoll and have a good time as we sipped on Gatorade and the endless supply of water from the multiple filling stations around the village and enjoyed the unseasonably mild August weather.

Even without a fleshed-out list of objectives for the day, it was a largely successful day for KTRM, working under the umbrella of Truman Media Network.

It’s definitely not the last festival of the year we’re going to be infiltrating, on top of our nonstop coverage of the local music scene. Stay tuned — it’s going to be a big year for your favorite student-run radio station.

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Online harassment affects students THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

BY COURTNEY KAUFFMAN

Lifestyles Text Editor index.featureseditor@gmail.com

In the ever-advancing world of technology, many experience the benefits of a visual generation and an instant connection to peers, but too often instances of technological misuse are overlooked or under-discussed — such is the case with online sexual harassment.

Those aged 18-29 are more likely than any other demographic group to experience online harassment, according to an article by the Pew Research Center. Sixtyfive percent of internet users aged 18-29 have been the target of at least one element of harassment, and among those aged 18-24, the proportion is 70 percent, according to the Pew Research Center.

Title IX officer Jamie Ball said handling sexual harassment cases depends on the form of the harassment occurring, both on campus and in general. Ball said harassment cases involving members of the Truman State University community would be considered a violation of Truman’s non-discrimination policy, and there would be an opportunity to address the situation through campus policy and seek out a response according to regulations on a case by case basis.

Ball said there are also some great tools being developed, like the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, a website with tools and resources for people who have been affected by harassment online.

“Unfortunately, lawmakers are not entirely keeping pace with technology in terms of developing laws that address these kinds of situations through the legal process,” Ball said. “But that is something the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative is trying to address as well.”

Ball said handling harassment cases involves trying different tactics and seeing what works most effectively.

Ball said Title IX requires all responsible employees to report situations on campus so the University can respond how the affected student wishes.

“Typically we try to allow a student who has been affected by any form of sexual misconduct to maintain the authority to make decisions on what happens and the consequences of that,” Ball said.

WHERE ONLINE HARASSMENT OCCURS

Of internet users who experience online harassment:

66%

said their incident occurred on a social networking site or app

22%

said their incident occured on the comments section of a website

16%

said their incident occurred while online gaming

16%

said their incident occurred in a personal email account

10%

said their incident occurred on a discussion site such as reddit.com

6%

said their incident occurred on an online dating website or app

Ball said there are some exceptions — for example, in a situation where there is a perceived ongoing threat to the community — when additional steps would be taken to address that threat, regardless of how the individual student felt. She said steps taken would depend on the particular situation, but it is a fairly rare circumstance where the actions taken would be at odds with the student’s wishes.

Ball said she thinks online harassment is something to expect to grow in frequency based on current trends. She said instances of revenge porn, the sexually explicit portrayal of one or more people distributed without their consent, or nonconsensual pornography are becoming especially prevalent issues in online harassment because more people have access to cameras.

“It’s not just the idea that someone who knows you personally is using personal images to get back at you and hurt you,” Ball said. “It’s the idea that once the images are out there [on the Internet] sometimes they are bought and sold or used for commercial motives.”

Ball said individuals should make an effort to safeguard what they store on any sort of online platform.

Ball said she would also encourage people to get acquainted with the tools available through any of the social media platforms they use. Students should

Source: Pew Research Center Survey respondents had the option to select multiple resopnses.

understand the policies of the different social media platforms they use, Ball said, so they are appropriately prepared to work with that social media platform should there be a problem.

“It’s not the fact that the personal photographs exist — that’s not the problem,” Ball said. “It’s the fact that someone would exploit those photographs and exceed the boundaries of privacy that were expected regarding those photographs.”

Ball said the Kirksville Police Department has a detective unit dedicated to cyber crimes. She said because one of the challenges is identifying who is involved and where they might be located, detectives in law enforcement and resources on campus can lend a hand identifying who is potentially involved.

Ball said she would recommend a student experiencing harassment to contact her so she can connect them with resources on campus and in the community.

Senior Kristina Kohl said she has experienced online sexual harassment firsthand. When she was in high school, Kohl said she was in a long-distance relationship and there was some pressure to send private photos.

Years later, she said she opened her Facebook account to see threats from a complete stranger calling her derogatory names, along with personal photographs of her from high school. Kohl said she

didn’t know the images even existed. The stranger threatened to send the images to her family if she blocked him, she said.

“I was under the impression that I was doing things for the person I loved in absolute confidence, and I was unaware that any kind of screenshots were taken,” Kohl said.

She said she contacted who she believed would have had access to those past images, but they said they did not have any knowledge of them existing.

After Google searching the images, Kohl said she discovered a website where individuals trade and share their photo collections of girls and women. Kohl said she felt violated.

Kohl said the help she received immediately after the threat from Facebook was rather hit or miss. She said her hometown law enforcement provided two very different experiences — either being dismissive or helpful with providing a next step.

Upon returning to Kirksville, Kohl said she has received a positive reaction.

“The day after I posted [on Facebook about her experience], I got this long email from Ball,” Kohl said. “I’m very impressed with how quickly the University found out about it and how much they want to help.”

Kohl said she wants to encourage people to be cautious when participating in personal activities. She said she wants to aid in destigmatizing these types of situations.

Kohl said she posted about her experiences because it took away the power from her harasser, and she said she doesn’t believe she is the only one to have this experience. She said she thinks a lot of people carry shame after experiencing harassment, and seeing others work through a similar situation helps to alleviate that shame.

“We make mistakes,” Kohl said. “It doesn’t do us any good to live in fear of the mistakes we have made, we just have to work towards helping ourselves.”

Kohl said she encourages anyone who is put in a similar situation to reach out to the resources available in the community and on campus.

For more information about the steps to take if in a situation of harassment, contact Ball at 660-785-4354 or Kirksville Victim Support Services at 660-665-1617.

Greek community hosts interest BBQ The Greek communities held an interest BBQ Sunday in the Student Union Building Georgian rooms. The event allowed new students the opportunity to meet current members of the Greek community and gather information about joining fraternities and sororities.

For more information the Greek community at Truman State contact the Center for Student Involvement at (660) 785-4222 or email greeklife@truman.edu.

Photo by Austin Hornbostel/TMN Above: Potential new members listen intently as current sorority members explain joining procedures. For more information on how to become a part of the Greek community on Truman’s campus contact the Center for Student Involvement at (660) 785-4222 or email greeklife@truman.edu.

Photo by Austin Hornbostel/TMN

Left: Those who attended the interest BBQ were treated to hot dogs and other snacks. The event had a large turnout even though it had to be moved indoors due to inclement weather, filling a majority of the Georgian Rooms located in the Student Union Building.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Sound Grenade explodes onto campuses

BY COURTNEY KAUFFMAN

Lifestyles Text Editor index.featureseditor@gmail.com

Students across the country are being armed with the latest self-defense device — grenades. But don’t worry, no ammunition is contained within the new device — only sound.

ROBOCOPP, a company based in California, has created two versions of the Sound Grenade that emit a range of sound from 120- to 130-decibels — which equates to that of a rock concert — when uncapped to deter potential threats, according to their website.

Sam Mansen, ROBOCOPP CEO and co-founder, said his inspiration for creating the Sound Grenade had two main sides. On the personal side, he said he was looking for a non-aggressive self-defense tool he could give his younger sister while she attended college.

“From a business perspective, we think technology can do a lot more for personal protection than there is right now,” Mansen said.

Mansen said he was really surprised to find the only options available for self defense were types of sprays, like pepper spray, or pocket knives — mostly forms of aggressive self-defense. He said most consumers aren’t comfortable arming their families with weapons. Mansen also said his research demonstrated most people weren’t properly trained to use such weapons and could potentially hurt themselves as well as any threat to them. Mansen said this knowledge prompted him to look into non-aggressive types of self-defense.

Mansen said personal arms aren’t a new concept, but no one has updated existing devices in decades.

After product research, Mansen said ROBOCOPP discovered one of the best deterrents for crimes was a loud alarm. He said 68 percent of bank robbers would flee the scene without any items upon hearing alarms, according to the National Institute for Criminology.

Mansen said ROBOCOPP was interested in creating a new device that was small and easy to use. The design of the device was crucial, he said, but it was also a goal to ensure the device required no training to operate.

“We have a really simple philosophy,” Mansen said. “Repeat what works.”

Mansen said he thinks people don’t often consider the power of sound. It’s an amazing and invisible way to affect someone, he said, which is part of what makes the Sound Grenade so effective.

Jill Turner, ROBOCOPP public relations director, said she got involved because of her interest in developing self-defense tools.

“I was really drawn to this idea that a personal safety device like [the Sound Grenade] didn’t exist yet,” Turner said. “We have all the technology lined up, but they haven’t been put together.”

Turner said ROBOCOPP made modifications to the design of the pin of the device to make it more effective. ROBOCOPP noticed other devices used a

Submitted Photo Above: The Sound Grenade is about the size of a flash drive. The convenient size allows for it to be portable and easy to access.

Right: Students from UC Berkeley gathered at ROBOCOPP’s latest promotional event. Jill Turner, ROBOCOPP public relations director, said their informational table was visited throughout the day. straight pin which would come out accidentally, she said, and deterred users from using them. She said the Sound Grenade uses a jagged pin to ensure the pin won’t come out without an intentional pull.

“Feeling more confident when you’re alone decreases your chances of being an easy target.

We love that [the Sound Grenade] is instilling confidence in people.”

-Jill Turner, ROBOCOPP public relations director

Turner said the company’s website contains many reports and videos from users discussing their experiences using the Sound Grenade. She said confidence tends to be the biggest piece of feedback ROBOCOPP receives.

“Feeling more confident when you’re alone decreases your chances of being an easy target,” Turner said. “We love that [the Sound Grenade] is instilling confidence in people.”

Sara Holzmeier, Department of Public Safety director, said although she thinks Truman State

Submitted Photo

University’s campus is safe, the Sound Grenade is not a bad idea.

“From what I’ve seen from the device, you pull it to attract attention,” Holzmeier said. “Then people using their cell phones or the blue emergency phones throughout campus [could] quickly bring aid to whoever had pulled it.”

Holzmeier said she encourages anybody who feels unsafe to take advantage of the resources available on campus. Truman has 10 commissioned law enforcement officers available 24 hours a day, she said.

Truman also offers a safe team escort program, Holzmeier said, and has 22 emergency phones with blue lights and another 30 emergency buttons — primarily in elevators — located around campus.

Holzmeier also said she always encourages the buddy system. “[Truman is] a small enough campus, mostly someone is [going to] be within that 100-150 feet and be able to hear [the Sound Grenade] clearly and know something is going on,” Holzmeier said.

“I think it would be helpful [to carry].”

For more information on ROBOCOPP’s mission and their available devices visit their website robocopp.com or email their customer service at hello@robocopp.com.

Throwback Thursday: A focus on Baldwin Hall The official plans, including diagrams, were announced February 4, 1925. The proposed Baldwin Hall plans included a swimming pool and full gymnasium, including lockers, showers and additional restrooms. There was also an auditorium comparable to the most recent one with a full balcony.

The classrooms and offices within the building were meant to be a place for music and English majors, as well as drama students. The estimated cost at the time was $500,000 — amounting to $7,036,462 in today’s economy — which caused conflict during the early planning stages because, much like today, the budget was tight.

It wasn’t until 13 years later in 1937 when a new Baldwin Hall was completed and ready to be used for classes again. Hopefully the current renovations won’t take as long.

Submitted Photo

Submitted Photo Above: The above design was included in the Feb. 4, 1925, issue of the Index. Though the building began to take shape during 1925, it wasn’t until 1937 when the new building was completed on campus.

Left: Also included in the Feb. 4 edition was a possible floor plan.

Unfortunately, the proposed pool is not a part of our current Baldwin Hall.

2016-2017 Schedule

As renovations begin at Baldwin Hall, the Index looks back to another time Baldwin was shut down and under construction.

January 30, 1924 was a hectic day for students and staff at Truman State University because Baldwin Hall was on fire and crews worked long hours to put it out. With all the damage, classes and offices were displaced much like today. Though plans had been in the works to update Baldwin prior to the fire, in 1924 the importance grew. By September 1924, building and landscape architects were employed and plans were moving along to prepare for the renovations.

The plans included a three-story building with a basement measuring 240 feet long and 120 feet deep. Another stipulation for the building was for it to be fireproof to avoid similar situations in the future.

Kansas City Chorale Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016 7:30 p.m. • Ophelia Parrish Performance Hall

Seussical™ Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016 (Lyceum sponsored performance) 7 p.m. • Ophelia Parrish Severns Theatre The popular Theatre for Young Audiences version is presented through special arrangements with Music Theatre International and will be performed by Truman’s Theatre Department.

Additional shows will be performed for the public Nov. 9, 11 and 12.

Saint Louis Brass Monday, April 3, 2017 7:30 p.m. • Ophelia Parrish Performance Hall

The Kohlenberg Lyceum Series events will relocate temporarily to the Performance Hall and the Severns Theatre at Ophelia Parrish during the 2016-17 academic year due to the renovation of Baldwin Hall. Both locations will provide a wonderful venue for the performances, however, both locations have a smaller seating capacity, with 450 and 225 seats respectively, compared to 1,395 in Baldwin Auditorium.

Tickets

A limited number of tickets will be available two weeks before each performance for $5 each.

A limit of two tickets per person may be purchased at: • University cashier window • Edna Campbells • lyceum.truman.edu

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Movie Night 8 p.m. Sept. 1 Violette Hall 1000 Come out to see “God’s Not Dead 2” at the movie night hosted by Ekklesia Campus Ministry. Bring your blankets and enjoy a thoughtprovoking film.

Study Abroad Meeting 6:30 p.m. Sept. 1 Magruder Hall 2050

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The Study Abroad office is hosting an informational meeting to discuss a faculty-led study abroad course based in South Africa. Anyone interested is welcome to attend.

We’re sure you’ve heard the hype about Train Bridge, especially if you’re a freshman. It might not look like much during the day, but add some stars and a train speeding by, and it’s definitely worth checking out at least once.

Musicals on Netflix

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Take a trip back to the ‘80s to small-town Bomont — a town where dancing and music are banned. Enjoy “Footloose,” a beloved classic, because it comes out on Netflix today.

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When one hears “Rent” is based on an opera, they tend to lose interest, but this revamped rock musical is all but boring. It’s a great musical that is more than its opening song — go check it out.

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One of the all-time classics taking place in the ‘50s, “Grease” focuses on the issues of society. A perfect movie for the hopeless romantic, as well as anyone wanting a good laugh.

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“Hairspray” highlights the social tensions of the ‘60s and the struggles Tracy, a teen trying to fit in, faces in high school. Full of humor and quirky characters, it’s a must at any girls’ night.

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A guilty pleasure from many of our own school days, “High School Musical” provides a chance to go back in time and fall in love with Troy Bolton — or Gabriella Montez — all over again.

BOLD lifestyles Meet Tim Hudson

BY BRENTLEY SNEAD

Lifestyles Multimedia Editor index.featureseditor@gmail.com Junior Tim Hudson is currently serving as the Student Activities Board president.

Hudson first became a part of SAB during fall 2014 as a freshman. Outside of SAB, Hudson has a double major in accounting and finance. Hudson is also the vice president of Alpha Kappa Psi and the Greek Week chair for the Delta Chi fraternity.

Why did you first become involved in SAB? Actually, SAB was one of the reasons I wanted to go Truman.

Every ambassador always brings up SAB and all the cool stuff they do, more from the perspective of all the cool events you can go to. For me, I was like ‘How can I get on this board?’

What’s unique about Truman’s activities board is that it is really student-run — we have a lot more autonomy as students. I did student leadership in high school and I wanted to go to a school where the students had the opportunity to be leaders.

What made you interested in becoming the SAB president?

I’m a very goal-oriented person. At my first interview for SAB, the president sits in on all the interviews and when I met [then-

president] Liz Marler and I just remember that when I met her I thought ‘I want to be in that position one day.’ Liz and I actually ended up becoming really good friends throughout that year.

What do you hope to accomplish in your time as president?

I want to, as a board, be more receptive to the student body. I want to find creative outlets to really connect with the students as much as possible, and better represent students. I want to make sure that we are bringing events the campus really wants and really enjoys.

I also want to implement more internal things. I want to try to be more honest with ourselves in our evaluations of our events, and I want us to be able to work through it right after the event of ‘How can we improve this in the future?’ and ‘How can we document this for future board members?’

I want to be better about personal growth and accountability of board members. I want to try, as president, to be someone that encourages members of the organizations to not lose sight of that and to take opportunities that are going to help strengthen them and challenge them and make them into better people. Ultimately, I want to be honest with them about performance, and I want other people they work with to be able to be candid with them.

I want to encourage people to do self-evaluations as well — to be honest with themselves about how we are doing and to be able to reflect on that, I want to have conversations with boards members about that, too, and help them make sure I am empowering them in the ways they want to improve and helping them to accomplish the goals they want to accomplish.

How often do you find your schedule full for the day?

Very often — the schedule fills up really quickly. I find myself meeting with both my roles as SAB president and vice president

of Alpha Kappa Psi individually with people all the time. People just reach out and I really value personal communication.

I’m a very academically focused person, academics do come first in my life, so all of my involvement forces me to be very proactive with my time management.

What are some interesting things about you that you want students to know?

I’m definitely always down for any adventure. I love road trips — sometimes if there’s a group of friends who say ‘let’s just drive to Iowa tonight’ I will for no real reason. I really value friends. I was also born in the same city as Kelly Clarkson — I always use that as my go-to fun fact. Also, I love Truman a lot and I will be sad to graduate.

What’s your favorite road trip memory?

I remember we took a road trip to California from Texas — I was originally born in the Dallas area — and I was around 9 or 10. We made the trip, four days there and four days back, because we stopped at all these cities in Arizona and saw the Grand Canyon and Albuquerque and all these places, so that was a lot of fun and that memory stands out to me.

What makes Truman home for you?

Definitely the people. The people are what made me want to come here in the first place and they are what make me want to stay. When I say people I mean the staff that I get to work with through my organizations — the faculty because I love all of my professors and students. I love that no one takes themselves too seriously — I’ve met some of the smartest people I have ever met at Truman, but no one just flaunts it and you wouldn’t know it just by looking. Everybody is really humble about it and I think that is really cool.

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Training with TRUST

WOMEN’S SOCCER 9/2 2p.m. vs. Ashland Bulldog Soccer Park

9/3 Noon vs. Ohio Dominican Bulldog Soccer Park

FOOTBALL 9/3 7p.m. Midwestern State Stokes Stadium

MEN’S AND WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY 9/1 6p.m. Lindenwood Dual Countryside Course, Kirksville, Missouri

Photo by Rachel Steinhoff/TMN Members of the Truman Volleyball team celebrate a point in their annual Purple vs. White scrimmage on Friday, August 26.

Prior to the three set scrimmage, the team held a clinic to share teamwork and fundamentals with area youth.

BY STEPHANIE HULETT Staff Writer

The Truman State University volleyball team aims to improve its previous season’s 17-13 record after work during the offseason and a clear focus heading into every practice.

Senior Lacy Hill said the team members maintained a clear focus during preseason and built its practices around TRUST. An idea they created to remind them what they are working towards each and every practice. She said the “T” stands for trust, “R” stands for reason, “U” stands for us, “S” stands for self and “T” stands for training.

Hill said the team talks about TRUST before every practice to keep it fresh in their minds.

“While we are at practice, we always have to change what we are doing in order to get better and trust the changes we have to make in order to come into the season strong and

better than we were when we first started,” Hill said.

The first weekend of competition for the Bulldogs will be in St. Paul, Minnesota, and will be a big weekend, according to both Hill and head coach Ben Briney. The ‘Dogs will be facing some of the top teams in the country, two being in the top five nationally after preseason rankings came out. The first game will be against #1 Concordia University, St. Paul followed by #17 Northern State, who they will play twice that weekend, and finally, #5 Western Washington.

Hill said these rankings do not intimidate the squad, and it will be a good test to open up the season against these teams.

“When you say top teams, we try to eliminate that label for them because it’s just another game,” Hill said. “We get to go up against that kind of competition so it’s an opportunity to get better because we know they are super skilled and we

can only learn from it. We are just excited to have the opportunity to play against them.”

Redshirt sophomore Claire Wandrey said the team has been preparing for challenges like this during the preseason when the team focused on building the group as a whole.

“We’ve been working on coming together as a team,” Wandrey said. “We want to focus on trusting each other, trusting in our training, working hard and having a good attitude to go out there and compete.”

Briney said training for this season started long before preseason. He said he sent the women home with a summer workout plan which kept them engaged throughout the summer. He said the women were able to call and check up on each other to hold everyone accountable.

“They all have a summer workout, so it gives them a plan every day in the summer of what to do whether it’s a rest day or a play day,” Briney said.

“They have that and I know a lot of

them played as much as they could, and it showed these first couple days in practices –– they did work hard this summer.”

The team has six freshmen this year and one sophomore transfer, Savvy Hughes. Briney said Hughes will be a setter along with freshman Meghan Gasper in the team’s 6-2 setting system. Briney said the squad has a solid foundation of returners this year who saw time on the court last season.

“We have three returning seniors — Kayla Bastian, who was All Conference in 2014, Bailey O’Drobinak, who saw significant playing time last year, and Lacey Hill,” Briney said. “A couple redshirt sophomores and a junior are returning — Claire Wandrey, who is a libero, and junior Jasmine Brown who has seen significant playing time over her time here.”

Briney and his team will debut this Friday, Sept. 2, at 12:30 p.m. against #1 Concordia- St. Paul in the Concordia St. Paul tournament.

Left: An attack by senior Lacy Hill makes it through a block during the Bulldogs’ annual Purple vs. White Scrimmage last Friday. The ‘Dogs used the scrimmage to prepare for their season-opening match Friday, Sept. 2, against Concordia University, St. Paul in the Concordia St. Paul tournament.

Right: Sophmore Savvy Hughes backsets the ball to a hitter behind her.

After Truman’s setting spot opened up in the middle of last season, Hughes transferred to Truman from Central Methodist University in Fayette, Missouri. Hughes arrived during the second semester of last year to participate in postseason workouts but will play her first real match as a Bulldog tomorrow.

Rec center updates complete Photos by Rachel Steinhoff/TMN

A University expenditure of over $100,000 welcomes Truman rec goers back to school with equipment and facility updates and custom-made workout machinery.

BY CURT WICHMER Staff Writer

The Truman State University Student Recreation Center is a familiar gathering spot on campus, but returning students who enter the rec center will be surprised to find a lot has changed after an update over the summer.

Janes Dreamweaver, the rec center’s fitness and wellness director, said the University improvements include new mirrors, exercise machines, dumbbells, weight plates and a custom muscle-strengthening system.

Dreamweaver said the rec center updates had been in planning for several years, and they had designated the auxiliary budget to pay for the improvements. He said the total cost of renovating the rec center was over $100,000. Dreamweaver said the rec center renovation project was the most complete update the University has made to the rec center since it VOLUME 108

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was first built. Dreamweaver said the renovation could not have happened at a better time.

“We replaced most of the flooring in the [rec center], and most of it was original,” Dreamweaver said. “It’s been sitting there for upwards of 18 years, and I’m not sure if we would have been able to hold onto it for much longer.”

Though many improvements came with the update, the project’s main feature is the new, custom Life Fitness SYNRGY360 System. The Life Fitness website describes the system as “ideal for dynamic small-group training, one-on-one personal training and for individual exercisers.” Numerous weight training tools are attached to the system, but the staff members at the rec center are well-versed in the system’s variety of functions.

Weight room instructor Katherine Nace said the new system offers a diverse number of workouts.

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New staff brings offensive redirection

BY CAROLINE KISER Staff Writer The final countdown has begun. In just a few short days, Truman State University football will face Midwestern State in its first game of the season.

Along with the veteran players and freshmen arriving to campus to participate in fall camp, the team saw some new faces in the coaching staff. Jason Killday was named the new offensive coordinator and quarterback coach for the Bulldogs. Previously, Killday held the co-offensive coordinator position at rival conference school Quincy University in Quincy, Illinois.

Another new face on the sidelines this year is Chris Symington, also known to players as Coach “Symo,” stepping in as the new offensive line coach for the Bulldogs. The last five seasons, Symington coached offensive linemen and served as the run game coordinator at Colorado State UniversityPueblo. In addition to his coaching experience, Symington played on the offensive line at Colorado State University-Pueblo and signed a free agent contract with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1998.

The new coaching staff joins a Bulldog team coming off a 4-4 conference record in 2015. The ‘Dogs finished in a tie for fourth place in the GLVC last season and recently received a fourth place ranking for 2016 in the GLVC coaches preseason polls. However, Killday and Symington said numbers and statistics are not the most important factors right now.

The coaches said their philosophy is to take things one day, one week and one game at a time.

Symington said he is looking to make changes, stressing his plan to add focus on physicality and physical play to his line. He said he wants his offensive linemen to have more of a leadership role.

“We are the biggest people on the campus — we are the biggest people on the field,” Symington said. “We need to be leaders.”

“... If we can get our offense up to the level of our defense ... then that’ll be hard to stop.”

-Offensive Line Coach Chris Symington

Both coaches had positive things to say about how the team is looking for this upcoming season.

“Our defense is awesome,” Symington said. “They’re really good every year. That’s what Truman has been known for. What Jason [Killday] and I are trying to do is bring the offense up to that level. If we can do that, if we can get our offense up to the level of our defense ... then that’ll be hard to stop.”

With a scoring offense that finished last in the league last season, Killday said his offense will undergo changes this season. Killday said his offense will be a little more run-oriented with another focus on spreading personnel. Killday said there is a lot to look forward to in terms of the offense. He said he thinks the quarterback spot, which has several players competing for it, will be a position to watch.

“It’s too early to tell about the season right now, but we have a good group of guys in [sophomore] Randy Schroeder and [redshirt freshman] Jaden Barr,” Killday said. “They are playing extremely well, and we have a good group of freshman that came in and really impressed me also.”

Kickoff is at 7 p.m. this Saturday, September 3, in Stokes Stadium.

Photo by Rachel Steinhoff/TMN Bulldog football players track the ball as it is in flight during oneon-one drills. The ‘Dogs open their season in Stokes Stadium this Saturday, Sept. 3 against Midwestern State.

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Coaches Chris Symington and Jason Killday watch players during an offensive drill as they prepare for the first game of the season. Killday is stepping in this season as an offensive coordinator, and Symington will be the offensive line coach.

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UPDATES | The Student Recreation Center underwent various renovations prior to the 2016-17 school year. Included in the project is the custom made SYNRGY360 fitness system.

Photo by Damian Soane/TMN The Truman State University Student Rec Center has undergone over $100,000 worth of renovations since last school year. Improvements to the facilities include new flooring, exercise machines, mirrors, weight plates and dumbbells as seen in the photo above.

Photos by Seth Wolfmeyer/TMN Left: The custom-made SYNRGY360 fitness system offers a variety of workout equipment that is capable of working many different areas of the body. The system includes kettlebells, heavy training fitness ropes, medicine balls and more.

Right: Weight benches are now equipped with new rubber weight plates. All renovations made in the project were paid for by a designated auxiliary budget.

Continued from page 11 “The purpose of SYNRGY360 is to give people a lot more variety while working out,” Nace said.

She said the machine has so many different components that you can choose different exercises for various parts of the body. The machine is equipped with heavy training fitness ropes, kettlebell free weights, medicine balls, pulley apparatuses and more.

“You can incorporate your core as well as other resistance and weightlifting items, so it just creates a variety for people, especially for those looking for something a little different from free-weight lifting,” Nace said.

For some, however, the additions to the gym feel bittersweet. Senior Levi Perry, a regular at the rec center, said while many additions were needed, some changes might end up being a liability.

Perry said he didn’t like the removal of mirrors in front of the squat bench, because most gyms have them to improve form while weightlifting. Perry said this could cause problems because poor form often leads to injuries while exercising.

Perry gave an account of the SYNRGY360 system after routinely using the device in his workout regime.

“I definitely appreciate the new fitness system and the investment they put into it, and I’ve used

it every time I’ve come in,” Perry said. “I was a little disappointed at first because they got rid of a lot of other equipment to make room for it. I think Truman got it to bring more people into the weight room who may not know how to correctly lift yet.”

Perry said the system can be used even without much experience, but it might make the rec center less useful for people who have experience weight-lifting.

The rec center officially opened its doors for the academic year August 22, and, according to its website, will maintain regular hours until the end of the fall semester.

Truman State welcomes athletic honor fraternity Chi Alpha Sigma, the National College Athlete Honor Society is set to open a Truman chapter in 2017. The organization recognizes athletes nationwide for excellence in the classroom and athletic competition.

BY BROOKE BAILEY AND RACHEL STEINHOFF

Staff Reporter and Sports Text Editor tsusportseditor@gmail.com

Chi Alpha Sigma, the new athletic honor fraternity on campus, will induct its first induction class spring 2017.

Michael Bazemore, Truman State University’s newly hired associate athletic director, said the athletic honor society’s purpose is to give recognition to the athletes for representing what all student athletes should strive to be. This is an honor that can be noted on resumes and applications alike.

Given the success of the chapter at his former institution, Bazemore said he knew the athletes here would benefit from the highlighting of their academic accomplishments. Bazemore said there will be no cost to student athletes joining the organization, just an annual membership fee paid by the athletic department. To be eligible, Bazemore said an athlete must be of junior or senior standing, have a 3.4 cumulative grade point average and

have received a varsity letter. All memberships are for life.

Bazemore said the ultimate goal is to have a minimum of 70 percent of eligible student athletes inducted into the new honor fraternity.

The organization was established in 1996

by Depauw University head football coach Nick Mourouzis, according to the Chi Alpha Sigma website. Mourouzis’ organization gained nationwide attention and established a governing board that represents athletes in all levels of competition for both the NCAA and NAIA. The website states 284 universities currently hold membership in the fraternity.

In Missouri, however, only four other universities have been accepted to represent a chapter of the fraternity, according to the CAS website.

Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, is one school that offers Chi Alpha Sigma to their student athletes.

Julie White, Westminster athletic department manager, said the school established their CAS

chapter in 2002 and has since initiated 243 members. White said their chapter averages 20-25 initiates per year but tightened its standards in 2014 to make the honors even more selective after a very large initiation class.

At Westminster, White said newcomers are welcomed to the fraternity with an induction ceremony during National Division III Week in early April, but after induction no meetings or social events are required. White said the other athletic organizations have always been more of an active focus at the college, but he hopes the fraternity can become more involved and get some recognition for its members.

“We could definitely do more, and I think we should try to be more active,” White said. “There’s just not a lot of people who know about CAS and what those athletes are like, so giving it more publicity would be good.”

Initiates and initiation dates for the inaugural class are to be determined by the Truman Athletic Department.

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Christa Reisinger Sophomore Outfield

Kindra Henze Alumna Pitcher

Kelsea Dorsey Alumna Pitcher

First team All-GLVC

Second team All-GLVC

Cate Simon Alumna Third Base

Lex van Nostrand, Senior Catcher

Ashley Murphey Junior First Base

Third team All-GLVC

Third team All-GLVC

Second team All-GLVC

Nick Agliolo Junior Shortstop

Dave Gambino Junior First Base

T.J. Wood Alumnus Center Field

First team All-GLVC, ABCA/Rawlings All-Midwest region second team

Second team All-GLVC

Second team All-GLVC

Karina Critten Junior Thrower

Nicolle Barmettler Junior

GLVC Freshman of the Year, First team All-GLVC, NFCA all-Midwest region first team outfield, NFCA Freshman of the Year finalist

Cassidy Smestad Freshman Thrower, Shotput Conference champion, First team All-GLVC shotput, 15th at NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships, 12th at USATF Junior

All-GLVC women’s golf

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