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KFD purchases new AEDs

By Emily Merkle Staff Writer

Submitted Photo Missouri House Speaker Todd Richardson addresses The Capitol Press Corps following the Missouri veto session Sept.

14 in Jefferson City. The Veto Session is an annual meeting in September among Missouri’s legislators to determine whether to overturn vetoes on bills originally passed by Missouri’s congress.

City departments in Kirksville and surrounding areas, including the Kirksville Fire Department, recently purchased Automated External Defibrillators from NEMO Heart Health. Often found hanging on walls in busy places, AEDs automatically administer shocks to the heart if needed during a medical emergency.

Kirksville Fire Chief Tom Collins said the Kirksville Fire Department purchased two AEDs from NEMO Heart Health. Collins said the department has two frontline trucks that run standard calls which already had AEDs on board. He said the new AEDs will be available for use on ladder trucks or smaller vehicles.

Collins said the department paid $200 for each AED and will have ongoing costs to keep the AED pads and batteries updated. Collins said the department used money from their small-equipment budget to purchase the AEDs. Collins said having the AEDs on all of the department vehicles will be advantageous because the sooner a shock is administered, the more effective the shock is at saving a life.

He said having the AEDs on the trucks decreases time needed to get an AED to an emergency scene.

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Students weigh in on Veto Session

by Clayton Berry Staff Writer

Truman State University students express competing views on new and upcoming state laws pertaining to concealed carry and voter identification, which resulted from the Missouri General Assembly voting to overturn vetoes on bills during last week’s Veto Session.

The 2016 Veto Session took place from 12-9 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 14 at the Capitol Building in Jefferson City. The Veto Session is an annual meeting during September where the Missouri General Assembly determines whether to overturn vetoes on bills that originally passed through the House and Senate during regular sessions, but were vetoed by the Missouri governor.

This year, the General Assembly voted to override seven House vetoes and six Senate vetoes. The General Assembly failed to override two other vetoes, and the seven remaining vetoes were not discussed.

State Representative Nate Walker, R, represented Adair County at the Veto Session along with Representative Craig Redmon, R, and Senator Brian Munzlinger, R. Walker said Senate Bill 656’s veto was overridden, and Walker said this bill was sponsored by Senator Munzlinger to increase gun rights for Missouri citizens. Walker said the bill contains several new state laws that will go into effect at various times, but none of them later than Jan. 1, 2017. He said some of these laws include removing the need of a concealed carry permit, removing the requirement that one must retreat from an assailant before it is permissible to use a firearm in self-defense, allowing citizens to apply for a lifetime open carry permit, and allowing college faculty to carry concealed firearms on college campuses if permission is granted by a university’s highest governing body.

Walker said House Bill 1631’s veto was also overridden, but this new voter identification law must be voted on in the November election as an amendment to the Missouri constitution. If passed, Walker said the new law will require Missouri citizens

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to have a photo ID to vote in future public elections. Walker said counties currently can recommend voters bring a photo ID to elections, but said they cannot require it unless HB 1631 becomes state law.

Representative Walker said these bill vetoes have been discussed at length among legislators for some time now, so he said the Republican legislators met with their majority caucus on Wednesday morning to make a final decision on what bills to bring to a vote during the Veto Session.

He said they first asked the bill’s sponsor if they wanted to bring up the vetoed bill.

If they wanted to, then Walker said the caucus tried to determine how many votes the veto override would most likely get, as well as how much of a priority the bill was among the others. Walker said some bills didn’t have time for a discussion, so those bills are probably over. However, he said they can make changes to those bills and bring them up in future sessions, or even make changes to bills that do pass and become law if they discover the bill did not have the intended results. Walker said the General Assembly’s votes were not too different from when the bills originally passed because both parties made up their minds on them during the Regular Session. Walker said he got a lot of feedback from his constituents about SB 656 and HB 1631, among others, and said he voted according to their feedback. Walker said he tries to include student feedback as much as possible, and he said students can contact him, Redmon, or Munzlinger if they have any feedback.

“I visit campus quite a bit,” said Walker.

“I encourage students to email me if they need to reach out to me.”

Senior Jake Buxton, College Republicans State Chair, said he was satisfied with the results of the Veto Session. Buxton said he organized a trip with college students from across the state, including Truman State, to attend the session. Buxton said the two goals for the visit were to support the veto overrides, as well as get more students involved in the political process.

“The biggest thing was to advocate for what we believed in,” said Buxton. “I think

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the students who went with us will be the future of the College Republicans.”

Buxton said he spoke in favor of concealed carry rights on college campuses during last Spring semester’s gun control debate at Truman. He said he was disappointed most students present voted against his position because he said concealed carry would help students defend themselves from threats to their safety, such as active shooters. Buxton said student concealed carry was supposed to be part of HB 2698, which was brought up in Regular Session in March 2016, but said student concealed carry was taken out of the bill because the issue was still an ongoing debate. However, he said he was satisfied with SB 656’s veto override, because he said it would potentially allow faculty trained in firearm safety to protect students in crisis situations. He said SB 656 might make it easier to pass future legislation involving students’ gun rights, and he said he is confident state legislature will revisit this topic in the near future.

Buxton said he also supported HB 1631 because he said photo identification will prevent voter fraud. He said if we need to show photo identification to get into R-rated movies and rent out books in the library, then he thinks we should have to provide photo identification to vote in elections. He said voter fraud can have a big impact on local elections, and said there are several examples of past elections that were determined by a very small margin of votes amidst allegations of voter fraud.

He said individuals can simply take a sensitive document from another person, vote in their name, and get away with it. He said he also disagrees with Democrats who say photo ID requirements disenfranchise some potential voters, because Buxton said the state would provide free transportation, a free photo ID if they do not have one, and other means to attain identification. Buxton said that the best case scenario is voter fraud isn’t a big problem, but he said there is less to lose from implementing more voter ID rules than hoping the problem doesn’t exist.

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“I’m very proud and excited for what we accomplished, and our work is only just starting,” said Buxton.

Junior Jacob Brooke, Director of Recruitment for College Democrats for Missouri, said he believed the Veto Session was much more controversial than Republican legislators made it out to be, because he said Democrats do not have enough representation in the House or Senate to be able to oppose either of the Republican super majorities. He said super majorities can be defined as having more than 2/3 of the total legislators needed to override bill vetoes. Brooke said it is difficult for Democratic legislators to represent their constituents because their party has been the historic minority in the General Assembly. But Brooke said the Democratic legislators still do their best to represent their constituents, including this Veto Session, by using filibusters, such as one that lasted more than two hours in opposition to HB 1631.

Brooke said the filibusters were useful because they helped prevent some legislation from being voted on, but more importantly he said filibusters were used as a last resort to express dissent to an issue, thus making a moral point to delay the passage of something for as long as possible to protect their constituents. Brooke said Republican legislators ended the filibusters with a previous question,w which ended the filibuster, ended the debate, and called everyone to vote. Brooke said ending filibusters via P.Q. has been historically rare to do in Missouri politics overall, but said it seems to be recently frequent from the current Republican legislature as a means to oppress opposition. Also, he said P.Q. has been used to end Democratic filibusters three times in the last two Veto Sessions, which were the only three times P.Q. has ever been used in Missouri Veto Session history.

“The Republican legislators didn’t want to listen to those who disagreed with them,” Brooke said. “At least not enough to respect their colleagues and voters, so they forcibly shut it off.”

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

SAB hosts color Zumba class

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The City Council approved a resolution authorizing a cooperative agreement between the City of Kirksville, the North Baltimore Street Community Improvement District and the developer Kirksville Commons, LLC. The City Council approved an ordinance authorizing a special use permit to allow construction of a low-power, non-profit FM radio station at 612 North Boundary St. The City Council approved a proposal of services from K.A. Shook Design, LLC for architectural services for the Downtown Revitalization Program.

Top: Sophomore Ann Lipari smiles as she dances along with Zumba instructers at the Student Activities Board Color Zumba event. The event took place Sept. 19 at Red Barn Park.

Right: Students dance under clouds of pink and blue colored powder.

Students were told that if they had allergies or did not want to get the color on themselves, there was a separate area for them to dance in.

Bottom: As students dance, an SAB member shoots off a green colored powder. The first 50 students who came to the event were given white t-shirts that could be covered in the colored powder.

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The City Council approved the reappointment of Rodger Bland, in a Land Owner position, the appointment of Greg Miller in the Community Citizen position, and the acceptance of Ben Wodika in the Truman State University Science Professional position, to the Watershed Management commission.

The City Council approved the reappointments of Pam Windtburg, a voting member, and Martina Mudd, and ex-offico member, to the Kirksville Housing Authority.

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The Senate read a resolution designating the new Constitution and Standing Rules of Student Government.

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Women and Gender Studies Conference prepares for 21st year

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The Women and Gender Studies Conference is asking authors to submit papers for its 2017 conference in January. This will be the conference’s 21st year taking place at Truman State University. The conference will take place January 26-28, but students and faculty are being asked to submit an abstract about their submission by Nov. 16. The theme is “Engendering Social Justice.” Applicants’ submissions can be about disability and embodiment, education, sexuality, violence, inequality and poverty, criminal justice, creative writing or a literary analysis.

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Mark your calendar Kansas City Chorale

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The Kohlenberg Lyceum Series will host its first event of the school year with the Grammy-award winning Kansas City Chorale.

Those interested in attending are limited to purchasing two tickets at five dollars per ticket.

Student Affairs will host a weekly support group open to students and staff to discuss important or emotional events happening each week to provide support and seek better understanding. The support group meetings will take place every Tuesday for the rest of the semester.

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[ Our View ] The Missouri State legislature recently passed Senate Bill 656 over Governor Nixon’s veto, which lowers the requirements for carrying concealed firearms.

SB 656 removes the firearm training, education and background check requirements that were previously in place, includes a “stand your ground” provision, lowers the legal carrying age to 19 and creates a special kind of permit that is valid for life. Earlier versions of this bill would have allowed concealed weapons on college campuses, but SB 656 exempts universities from most of these changes.

We, the Truman Media Network Editorial Board, oppose this bill, which will go into effect Jan. 1, 2017.

Supporters of the legislation argue it is a necessary protection of Second Amendment rights, and we agree that these rights are important for our democracy. However, there are restrictions on nearly every Constitutional right, including the Second Amendment. We believe the eight-hour training courses provide essential information to those who wish to carry lethal weapons, especially the technical use of weapons and when it is justified to open fire on another human being. Furthermore, eliminating the background check step allows people who have pled guilty to felonies, as well as people who have been convicted of misdemeanor assault, to carry concealed firearms. Only a small part of the population will be excluded from carrying, which means anyone in a public place could be surrounded with weapons — without their knowledge.

The “stand your ground” provision is also worrisome, allowing a person to use their firearm if they feel reasonably threatened. Actions that count as threatening vary from person to person, and we believe this kind of legal protection might justify future tragedies. One well-publicized use of the “stand your ground” defense was the shooting of Trayvon Martin in 2012, whose killer was not convicted of murder.

We, the Truman Media Network Editorial Board, encourage students and other members of the Truman community to remain aware of this legislation and stay politically engaged. When this bill began its journey through the House and Senate last semester, our campus was in an uproar. We discussed and debated its potential consequences on Yik Yak, in the student media, a public debate and a forum organized by Student Senate, which was one of the most well-attended Student Senate forums in its organizers’ memory. But after summer, the conversation

nearly died, even though the bill was entering its most important legislative steps. Truman students should organize more forums and debates to keep the discussion going in addition to other forms of political action — from voting to demonstrations. The current bill’s most significant ef-

fect on our campus is lowering the legal concealed carry age from 21 to 19, meaning a majority of Truman students could carry while off-campus. However, if a future bill were to allow weapons on campus, as some current legislators wish, we should be informed and ready.

Don’t get me wrong — I’m a huge advocate for teaching the dangers of drug abuse. I believe more education on drugs and drug abuse will lead to a fewer amount of drug users. D.A.R.E aside — which has varying levels of success for different people — there are correct and effective ways to educate the masses about the dangers of substance abuse, but we need to do more than just teach the negative effects of drugs. We need to educate students about how other developed nations handle drug abuse in the justice system and in the healthcare. In the U.S. we more often criminalize our drug users than we treat them medically or attempt to rehabilitate them. The Bureau of Prisons reports 48.6 percent of individuals jailed in federal prisons and about 16 percent of those jailed in state prisons were sentenced for drug offenses.

It wasn’t until taking a Global Issues class here at Truman that I even considered the intricacies of the politics of health care regarding and surrounding drug addicts and their access to these resources. I had never considered the differences between treating drug addicts like criminals and treating drug addicts like patients in need of critical health care. The National Institute on Drug Abuse reports on the costs of substance abuse that is broken up into three categories of tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs. From here it breaks up what costs come out of health care overall.

According to NIDA, the combination of tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs cost the nation $166 billion in healthcare.

This is out of a total of $700 billion spent annually in costs related to crime, lost work and healthcare. Only 23 percent of our nation’s spending in substance abuse costs is toward healthcare. I find this absolutely ridiculous.

I believe that a large part of the stigmatization of drug abusers as criminals rather than individuals in need of healthcare is partly attributed to our lack of education about rehabilitation. In addition to this, the policies we use against drug use need to be studied and taught in schools to help develop a more in-depth and rounded understanding of drug abuse and how our lawmakers attempt to control it. Like many social and political trends throughout the globe, we need to follow the leaders in this situation, like Switzerland, Finland and other European countries. We need to start sending substance abusers to hospitals rather than to jails — to spend federal dollars on healthcare and rehabilitation rather than on beds and prison quotas.

ing. There’s a lot of relief that comes from simply having the option to lock my door, a luxury I have never had before — it allows for an expectation of privacy, and it means I can have complete comfort that isn’t at the expense of my roommate.

Of course this means a few things are standard to living alone for the first time — pants and headphones are optional, my sleeping patterns are known only to me and eating at odd hours isn’t as frowned upon — mostly because there’s no one to do the frowning. But for me, the real irony is I have actually been sleeping at better hours, consistently so, than when I ever had a roommate. Granted, my roommate last year was also notoriously bad with sleep schedules. It was such an immediate response to getting here that I can’t help but point it out — during the summer I was going to bed at four or five in the morning, but the second I got here and settled in, I was going to bed while the time was still in double-digits.

All of that said, the biggest downside is I don’t have anyone to help remind me to study or do homework. Time management has never been an area I’ve excelled in, and not having another person in the room to even passively remind me — by doing his homework, he reminded me to do mine — has changed how I approach time manage-

ment. I’m definitely going to have to put in more effort to keep myself on task, and getting help with my studying is definitely going to be a problem.

There’s also the problem of how this affects my social life. Not only did I lose the roommate I’d spent significant time and emotional investment in, I also have two new suitemates who I don’t know very well and don’t always have the emotional energy to get to know. With all the other people I knew on my floor having moved as well, I also have to spend more effort to keep in contact with people, another skill I have never really had. Hopefully the necessity to develop this skill will finally push me to do so.

I really do enjoy having a room to myself. It’s nice and quiet and I don’t worry as much about disrupting others.

And I have the ability to just be comfortable with myself and my solitude. But it is a major change in my life that is going to require effort on my part to maintain. At the very least, that can be considered a good thing.

Health class should teach about rehabilitation

Trista Sullivan Throughout my time in the public school system and bleeding slightly into my college experience, I have been required to take a number of health classes. While it is very important to start these classes at a young age, there are some dangers in teaching about drugs and drug abuse without connecting those conversations to drug rehabilitation and the health care that is accessible to drug addicts.

To me, it has always seemed that the teachers have gone over the details of the drugs, be it chemical make up, the effects they have on the mind and body, and the negative health and wellness consequences that come from using these illicit drugs. That’s where the lessons end.

Trista Sullivan is a senior sociology major from St. Louis, Mo.

Living alone has unexpected benefits

Trevor Hamblin I don’t have a roommate this semester.

That might sound like a simple fact, but for me it’s a very personal and very important change in my life. I grew up with a twin brother — since I was born I’ve had to share my room and living space with another human being. So living with a roommate changed very little about how I approached privacy and my living space — well, beyond further segmentation and some re-learning of boundaries and schedules.

With my roommate gone for personal reasons, I now have the room to myself. And as an introvert, it’s amaz-

Trevor Hamblin is a junior English and communication major from Moberly, Mo.

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AEDs | Kirksville city and other NEMO area departments collaborate to purchase new AEDs

Continued from page 1 “Rapid AED intervention is what saves a lot of lives as compared to just straight CPR,” Collins said. “If they need to be shocked back it needs to be very quick. Even if we were on scene and had to wait three or four minutes for our other truck to bring an AED that three or minutes is very valuable. So, by paying a couple hundred dollars for … [an AED] that had been replaced due to upgrade, it works really well for us.”

Joe Schilling, NEMO Heart Health President, said NEMO Heart Health is a non-profit organization formed in 2009. Schilling said community leaders had the idea for the organization after an incident at Northeast Regional Medical Center. Schilling said someone was brought to the back side of the hospital in cardiac arrest, but no AEDs were available on that side of the building, and the patient died. Schilling said NEMO Heart Health aims to promote safety, health and wellness of residents in northeast Missouri.

Schilling said NEMO Heart Health’s first initiative was to place 50 AEDs in various locations within the community. He said a fundraiser took place in 2009 and raised $55,000 to purchase 26 AEDs. Schilling said currently, over 100 AEDs are located at various businesses in Adair County and the surrounding area, including 10 on Truman State’s campus. Schilling said AEDs walk through step-by-step of what should be done in a medical emergency and do not require special training to use.

Schilling said the AEDs out in the community were the G3 model. He said the G5 model recently came out and NEMO Heart Health wanted to update the AEDs in the community. Schilling said 50 were replaced this year and 50 more will be replaced in the next four years.

With new AEDs, Schilling said NEMO Heart Health looked for places to deposit the old ones. Schilling said a company was found who offered $200 a unit. Schilling said the NEMO Heart Health board decided if it could only get $200 for each AED, they would rather keep the AEDs in the community. Schilling said the solution was to sell each AED to local law enforcement and city departments. He said NEMO Heart Health first contacted Kirksville departments and the Adair County Sheriff’s office. Schilling said NEMO Heart Health then reached out to departments in Knox, Schuyler, Putnam, Sullivan and Scotland counties. Schilling said several of these departments wanted AEDs, but budgetary restrictions prevented them from being able to afford one. He said a rate of $200 made purchasing AEDs more accessible for these departments.

“Instead of letting [the AEDs] go to someone else and them picking where [the AEDs are] sold and probably making some profit off of them, our board thought they would be better utilized here and impacting the citizens of northeast Missouri,” Schilling said.

Schilling said AEDs are important to have around the community because cardiac arrest can happen to anyone at any time. Schilling said it is important for people to know how AEDs work. Schilling said AEDs provide step by step instructions, including the steps of CPR. Schilling said people should be willing to try CPR in emergency situations, and compressions are the most important part of CPR. Schilling said saving lives starts with CPR before emergency services arrive. He said even if it’s unknown whether the person is breathing, it is good to try CPR. “It’s better to react and stop than to question whether you should react,” Schilling said. “You have to start that process. If you do nothing for them, they’re still going to be dead. If you do something for them, you might actually save their life.”

Schilling said though CPR certification is not necessary to be able to help in emergencies, it can be helpful to have. He said several classes are offered in Kirksville.

For more information on CPR classes, contact the Kirksville Fire Department and ask for Captain Schilling.

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the city to decrease the required number of parking spaces and increase the size of its sign.

Kirksville Code and Planning director Brad Selby said the number of parking spaces required by the city of Kirksville depends on factors like the size of their working crew, as well as its customer traffic. Menards’ justification for fewer parking spaces was during its busiest time of the year, which according to data from other Menards stores is the Sunday of Mother’s Day, the store only needed a certain amount of parking spaces. Menards neogtiated with the city to have the required number of spaces reduced, but even now, Menards still has more parking spaces than needed.

“The formula that we’ve got doesn’t seem to work very well on these super large buildings,” Selby said. “[Menards] recognized that ‘Hey, that’s really more parking spots than we need,’ they’ve built hundreds

Photo by Athena Geldbach/TMN AEDs like this one in the library can be found throughout campus. The AEDs around the community were a G3 model, but NEMO Heart Health hopes to update the AEDs to the most modern G5 model within the next four years.

Photo by Rachel Fechter/TMN NEMO Heart Health and the Adair County Ambulance district are located at 606 W Potter Ave. Currently, there are more than 100 AEDs at various businesses in Adair County and the surrounding area.

Plans for new Menards in the works Staff Writer

Menards will open a new store in Kirksville on North Baltimore Street next to Home Depot.

Menards first reached out to Kirksville, and after discussion with the city, it has received approval for construction, which is tentatively scheduled to begin early 2017.

Assistant City Manager Ashley Young said Kirksville wants to finish other projects first.

Menards’ market research showed that a high number of people traveled to other cities such as Ottumwa, Iowa ,and Quincy, Illinois, to go to Menards.

With the new addition of a major retailer, city officials hope to see a rise in Kirksville’s economy.

“The amount of money that our city is losing out on because people are going elsewhere for retail and commercial

activity is a real problem,” Young said.

“And it’s one that we need to address, and I think that this development helps do that.”

Young said the public has responded with mostly excitement, but he said there has been some concerns about the project because employees at Home Depot and Westlakes ACE Hardware fear their jobs may be in jeopardy.

“While that is a legitimate concern, we want to be that regional destination for retail and commercial activity,” Young said. “Whenever you go to another city to go to a specific business, you’re not just spending money at that business. You’re probably going out to eat, and you’re probably going to the mall, and you’re shopping, and maybe you go see a movie or you go downtown for a few drinks with friends or whatever it might be and you make a day out of it.”

During the process of approval, Menards requested special permission from

and hundreds of stores all over the country. They know how many parking spaces they need. So we took their number, we went to city council and planning and zoning, and they approved that.”

Selby said the approval for signage was a similar process.

“Our sign code did not allow the sign to be as big as they wanted to be,” Selby said. “Their store normally sits way back off the road. They want their sign on the front of the store to be very noticeable, and then they do have a detach[able] sign which is out by the street. And they wanted to have a message sign underneath that. And with that, it was bigger than what our sign code allowed. So we took those to city council and they approved those variances.”

Young and Selby at this time are unsure when the Menards will be finished and opened to the public.

VETOES | Two students weighed in on their concerns and opinions regarding overridden vetoes in Missouri House and Senate Continued from page 1 Brooke said he did not support SB 656, and said he was not alone. He said he thinks Munzlinger wanted the bill to allow students and faculty to conceal and carry on campus, but said Munzlinger probably kept the bill faculty-only after receiving high opposition from students and faculty from many of the state colleges and universities that debated on the issue. He said many university officials were concerned that if students could carry guns on college campuses, then this might lead to more harmful situations than what Missouri legislators thought they would prevent. He said officials are also concerned this could potentially increase student suicide rates by providing more means to access firearms, and guns might become a difficult issue to oversee among Student Advisers and Residence Life. Overall, Brooke said he does not think there is enough support from Truman’s students or faculty for Truman’s Board of Governors to allow concealed carry on Truman’s campus. But even if the Board would allow it, Brooke said he doesn’t think any of the faculty would want to carry guns on campus anyway.

Brooke said supporters of the bill might think more guns are better, but said statistics

are not in their favor. He said gun-related crimes in Missouri have been steadily increasing since Missouri stopped requiring background checks in 2007.

“Now correlation isn’t causation, but when it comes to guns, things seem to correlate in a bad way,” said Brooke.

Brooke also said he disagreed with HB 1631, since he thinks legislators are trying to fix a problem that doesn’t exist. Even if the state mitigates some of the costs for potential voters to get photo IDs, Brooke said this process is still more of an inconvenience to voters than it is an effort to reduce voter fraud. He said he thinks voter fraud has little to no impact on major elections, and thinks the goal of this legislation is really to dissuade some voter demographics from going through the voting process, which he said would give the Republican legislature more of an electoral advantage in elections. However, Brooke said he does not think this legislation will have much of an impact on Truman students, since he said they are able to use their student IDs as a form of photo identification during elections. Nevertheless, he said this will be a big change for people across the state who are not going to be used to this potential change in the voting process.

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BY AUTUMN SHEPARD Staff Writer

Fraternities and sororities often provide a place where all students fit in, but that goal can be difficult to achieve when organizations are forced to disband — as was the case with Delta Sigma Theta.

Delta Sigma Theta is now making a comeback with the help of students and Center for Student Involvement staff members. This past spring, Truman State University welcomed Delta Sigma Theta back into the ranks of its 240 student organizations.

Delta Sigma Theta was an organization at Truman for years but during the 201415 school year it was issued a cease and desist order because of unfiled compliance papers with their national headquarters, CSI Director Laura Bates said.

Delta Sigma Theta is a sorority founded in 1913 to provide a way for women to serve their communities, primarily African American residents, according to deltasigmatheta.com. Delta Sigma Theta is a member of the National PanHellenic Council.

Bates said in the same semester, Delta Sigma Theta as a national organization ordered a moratorium, which meant no chapter could accept new members while it restructured aspects of its organization.

Despite CSI’s involvement, the organization faced complications with getting back together because of the need for an adviser.

“We didn’t have any active NPHC women on campus [during the spring],” Bates said. “We reached out to people, gauged interest based on students and held informational meetings. We reached out to local offices because each chapter must be overseen by a graduate advisor.”

The new adviser is Truman alumna Clara Maxwell, who is able to visit the organization once a month to help and has been hands-on during its intake, Bates said.

Bates said NPHC organizations participate in intake rather than formal recruitment. Delta Sigma Theta will host informational meetings and meetand-greets that anybody interested in the organization can attend, she said.

From there, Bates said there is a membership application. These applications help active women identify women who share their same values, she said.

Bates said this process typically takes place in the spring. Though Delta Sigma Theta is not accepting applications during the fall semester, it is getting its name out this semester with different events to allow women who are interested to get more information.

Bates said Delta Sigma Theta was a partner in heart health programs and was also known for doing a lot of general service work in the community.

Bates said one of the organization’s biggest fundraisers was in buying fans for families without air conditioning during the summers. She said Delta Sigma Theta also did a school supply drive for local elementary schools as NPHC and hopes this mission continues.

“The demands tend to be more difficult, but reactivation on campus is always exciting,” Bates said. “Newer alumnae who haven’t been able to be involved up to this point have an opportunity to get recommitted to their organization in a new way.”

Alumni will have their first opportunity to reconnect with the reactivated chapter this fall during Truman’s homecoming, Bates said.

Bates said she is excited about welcoming old students back, but she said she is also looking ahead to expanding the sorority.

“My hope is that they continue to grow because growth is always really important,” Bates said. “I hope they stay committed to making sure they’re on top of deadlines and dates and that the organization stays thriving.”

Bates said she wants to see Delta Sigma Theta stay committed to its values and having longevity.

Junior Aaliyah Butler, Delta Sigma Theta Vice President, said she would also love to see the sorority grow over time.

“The Truman minorities have grown, and I would love to see more National Pan-Hellenic Council sororities on campus,” Butler said. “I want us to keep going and to collaborate with the National Panhellenic Council, as well as other organizations.”

Butler said she is looking forward to the events they have planned because they want to get their name out there. The sorority just finished hosting an absentee ballot assistance, which many people attended, she said.

Butler said throughout the semester the organization will be hosting forums, information panels, a movie night and other events people can attend.

“Our organization is based on five thrusts, and every event we hold must contain at least two of these thrusts — they’re a lot of fun,” Butler said.

The five thrusts include economic development, educational development, international awareness and involvement, physical and mental health, and political awareness and involvement, according to dstzetazeta.truman.edu.

For more information about Delta Sigma Theta, visit its website dstzetazeta.truman.edu.

The current executive board President Royalle’ Moore, Treasurer Erica McBride and Vice President Aaliyah Butler pose using the Delta Sigma Theta symbol. The sorority is returning to Truman’s campus after being disbanded during the 2014-2015 school year.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Sound Opinions Local DJ misses local shows and phones it in this week

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I was excited to have the new Cymbals Eat Guitars album, “Pretty Years,” slide across my desk this week — their last release, 2014’s “LOSE,” left me ravenous for new material from them as soon as I was finished with it, with the hints of revival emo ingrained into it from songs about reminiscing over a friend’s death.

The band has always had a sum greater sound than the bands predating them.

Their first album, “Why There Are Mountains,” has found its way into my CD player at least once a week since I first heard it in the fall of 2009.

It was an album that came at the tail end of a decade that labeled anything that deviated from Top 40 radio as “indie rock,” and while it sounded like a release that pulled influences from the heart of 1980s college radio, sonically it was something completely different — like standing up to a wall of sound that only made sense if the volume was turned all the way up. It was loud, it was gritty, it was unapologetically trying to make sense of the teenage angst of the 2000s, and it struck me on many levels.

“It was loud, it was gritty, it was unapologetically trying to make sense of the teenage angst of the 2000s, and it struck me on many levels.”

I was 17 years old at its release, overly romantic and hellbent on standing outside of someone’s window with a boombox, a la “Say Anything.”

Photo by Chris Burk/ TMN The album cover depicts a small sample of the variety of themes included in the album. This is the band Cymbals Eat Guitars’ fourth album.

The lyrics talked about being lost and surrounded by mail-order tobacciana gifts that the singer’s dad spent a fair part of the 90s and his lung health saving up to buy.

The band’s frontman, Joseph D’Agostino, touches on those glazed over memories again in the third track of the new release, “Wish,” a piece that sounds like a classic Springsteen track, including a saxophone solo that sounds positively like Clarence Clemons being plucked from Bruce

Springsteen’s “Born To Run” album, with lyrics that matched what I was doing at 17.

Track number seven, “Beam,” is a screamer in both pace and sound, with overtones of Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.” It is the strongest track on the album, and I would contend it shows the overall progress of their sound progression over four albums.

With “Wish” and “4th of July, Philadelphia (SANDY)” echoing Springsteen, it’s possibly the sign of the band maturing the sound of their first release over the better part of the last decade.

Instead of taking the path that deviated them from their original form on 2011’s progressive “Lenses Alien,” a sophomore release that maintained the gritty attitude of their first album while moving towards a more progressive sound.

The album ages like a fine firecracker. The first couple of tracks are the fuse being lit, and the sound really explodes for the tail end of the album, which absolutely requires a large set of speakers so the rest of your apartment block knows what you’re listening to.

Tracks like the last two, “Well” and “Shrine,” cement their place not into a race for album of the year, but for the strongest expansion of a band’s sound over their career.

The album is a great example of what a band’s evolution in sound should be over the course of more than half a decade after deviating from their norm and then coming back toward it.

Go listen to this album, and then listen to their back catalog if this is your first exposure to them, as they have most certainly left their signature on rock ‘n’ roll for the future to come.

As always, lodge your complaints to me at burk992@ gmail.com, and drag your day across the finish line by listening to “THE CHECKERED FLAG” on KTRM 88.7 the Edge, 4-6 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

For more information about Cymbals Eat Guitars, their four albums and singles or the band members, visit their website cymbalseatguitars.com or their Facebook page.

Throwback Thursday: All-night movie nights When we were looking through our archives this week, we stumbled upon an old event we feel should be revived — all-night movie nights.

There was a movie marathon from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. in the Kirk Building Gymnasium, according to the March 18, 1975, issue.

The marathon showed a variety of movies including “The Way We Were” — released in 1973, starring Barbra Streisand and telling the story of two desperate people in a romance whose political views and convictions drive them apart — “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” — released in 1969, starring Robert Redford and telling the story of Butch Cassidy — “Skyjacked” — released in 1972 and telling the story of a plane hijacking by a veteran from Vietnam — and short clips of the “Little Rascals” and Abbott and Costello.

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Some of the female students in 1975 had curfews, as passes had to be handed out and signed. “Passes will be given to those on ‘hours’ at 1 a.m.

They must be signed, dated and time reported as holders leave the movie session. One half-hour is allowed for women to return to their dorms, where they must present their pass and ID card.”

As the article does not explain why only female students had curfews, we cannot say for certain if there was a specific reason behind the curfews, and why they only seemed to apply to female students, or if it is simply a difference in the culture over time.

We would love to see if an event like this can come back to campus, but for now we can reminisce through our archives and hold our own Netflix marathons with friends.

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Women’s Soccer takes down No. 9 Bellarmine The Truman women defeated 9th ranked GLVC rival Bellarmine 1-0 in overtime Saturday. The win pushed Truman to No. 13 in national rankings.

BY CAROLINE KISER Staff Writer

The Truman State University women’s soccer team took a standout conference win over GLVC rival Bellarmine University with a 1-0 overtime victory last Friday afternoon. Junior midfielder Kelsey Murphy sealed the game with a goal about 40 seconds into overtime with 90:43 total minutes of play on the clock. That goal, assisted by redshirt senior forward Stephanie Williams, was Murphy’s first goal of the season and fourth in her career.

The match was a highly anticipated battle in a nationally ranked rivalry, with Truman ranked at No. 25 in national polls and Bellarmine ranked No. 9.

Senior forward Allie McDonell and Photo submitted by Sonam Wagnal/ Truman Athletics senior midfielder Megan Casserly said Senior forward Stephanie Williams looks to make a play on the ball against a this would be a key match for Truman Bellarmine defender.

Williams assisted Truman’s game winning overtime goal. and a good chance to see what their team is made of.

Head coach Mike Cannon said the ence a couple years ago,” Cannon said.

McDonell said Bellarmine’s quickness and aggressive mindset challenged main focus for his team heading into this “They have been very good the last couTruman, but the team worked hard and important match was to rest up and stay ple years, and they’re off to a good start healthy. Cannon said his team plays simi- this year also.” prepared for this match all preseason.

Cannon said he thinks soccer is a Casserly said she agreed the team larly to Bellarmine’s in that both emphahad training with redemption in mind. size passing and keeping the ball within game of chance, and he feels like his “This is definitely one of our big- their control on the offensive end. Can- team needs to take more control in cregest match-ups this season, losing to non said this was a test for the ‘Dogs be- ating breaks for themselves. them in [the] regular season and in cause the Knights brought an offensive “We need to create more chances the NCAA tournament last year,” Cas- attack they had not seen yet this season. and put some more chances away,” serly said. “Just like any other game, Bellarmine entered the match unde- Cannon said. “We have been good there is a lot of mental preparation feated and 2-0 in GLVC play. The Knights defensively … Usually it’s a one-goal involved and definitely a lot of built- played in the Sweet Sixteen of last year’s game, close games. So not conceding up motivation and desire to beat NCAA national tournament and began a goal always helps. You can’t lose if them. We have been working hard 2016 ranked 8th in Div. II, the highest you don’t get scored on.” at practice to fix the simple things ranking in their program history.

Truman has learned this firsthand, in our play and work together to be“They have always been a good pro- now having shut out its last five opcome better.” gram, even before we joined the confer- ponents, backed by reigning GLVC defensive player of the week, junior goalkeeper Katie Mattingly.

As expected, game time proved the two teams to be evenly matched. The Bulldogs finished with five shots overall and two on net but were slightly outshot by the Knights, who finished with nine shots overall and three on goal.

The Bulldogs claimed this match, but it’s more than likely this is not the last time the ‘Dogs will have to deal with Bellarmine. As a strong contender nationally and in the GLVC, Cannon said his team can expect to see the Knights further down the road, ideally in the conference or national tournament later this season.

After beating Bellarmine Friday afternoon, women’s soccer capped off the weekend of conference play with another win against the University of Southern Indiana. In another shutout, the ‘Dogs took the match 3-0 and Photo by Rachel Steinhoff/ TMN boosted their record to 5-0-1.

Junior Kelsey Murphy attempts a corner kick in Friday’s match. Murphy scored Truman will remain on the home the game-winning goal, her first this season and the fourth of her career. Murphy field this week, hosting Drury Univeradded another goal to her resumé in a 3-0 win over Southern Indiana on Sunday. sity Friday, at 1 p.m. Sept. 23.

Truman Athletics announces 2016 Hall of Fame inductees

BY CURT WICHMER Staff Writer

For many students, it is difficult to imagine dedicating four years of their lives, let alone their entire careers, to a university. Truman State University, however, has a Hall of Fame to commemorate just that.

Every year, the Truman Hall of Fame inducts outstanding personnel who have shown dedication to Truman athletics and have made a lasting impression on the program. In the 2016-17 academic year, Truman will add five people to the hall of fame — the late baseball pitcher Roy Neff, tennis coach Pete Kendall, soccer player Quinn Ross, and broadcasters Brad Boyer and Hank Janssen.

Quinn Ross played for Truman State University — then called “Northeast Missouri State” — from 1986 to 1989 and earned the “Rookie of the Year” award in ’86 after tallying six goals and eight assists. Ross said though he grew

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up in Oregon, going to a university in the Midwest appealed to him because he wanted to feel more independent. He said when he joined, the soccer program was not quite as established as it is now, and the team was coming off a losing season. Following Ross’ signing, the Bulldogs won at least 11 games each year he played, with Ross earning co-most valuable player his sophomore year.

Following his college athletic career, Ross was drafted by the Portland Timbers, becoming the first soccer player from Truman State University to play professionally. Ross said though the tryouts and drafting process were exciting and nerve-wracking, the pressure to perform disappeared when he started to play. Ross said he continued playing soccer until 2000, and he said he has played on a large number of teams, including the Columbus Xoggs, the Lyngby Futbol Club in Denmark and the Milwaukee Rampage — with whom he won the A-League National Championship in 1997.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Football defeats S&T away BY: STEPHANIE HULETT Staff Writer

Truman State University football collected its second straight win, defeating Missouri University of Science and Technology in the GLVC opener Sept. 17 by a score of 44-20. S&T is just one position ahead of the Bulldogs at third in preseason conference rankings.

The Bulldogs’ defense allowed 72 rushing yards and scored off a 97yard interception by junior Ben Chaney as time expired in the first half. Chaney’s interception return in the third quarter is the sixth longest in Truman history and second longest in the history of the GLVC. When Chaney intercepted the ball, he said he made a split decision to keep going down the field.

“I caught it, and [senior] Austin Zoda actually told me to get down right away,” Chaney said. “Then I realized that where I caught it, all the fast guys were behind me, so I just started going, and I saw a hole of white jerseys to my left blocking for me. It all opened up around the 50 yard line, and at that point, I was like, ‘Run faster, do not get caught.’”

However, Chaney said allowing those 20 points was not acceptable, and compared to last season’s defense, something has been different.

Truman’s defense led the GLVC last season and ranked highly in the nation in points allowed per game. Chaney said the tenacity of the defense has not changed in the past year, but an improved team atmosphere on the defensive side of the ball should make them an even greater power this season.

“Our practice habits so far this year have been incredible, and I think that carries over big time to Saturdays,” Chaney said. “I’ve been here for four years now, and I don’t know if we have had as good of team chemistry on defense as we do this year. I can feel that difference.”

Chaney’s interception set the tone for the second half, but another Bulldog set the tone for the entire night. Freshman Jordan Salima tallied 267 all-purpose yards in Saturday’s match. Salima contributed 173 of those yards on kick returns, 11 on a pass reception and 83 on 28 rushing plays. He also ran for one Bulldog touchdown.

Truman posted 199 rushing yards on 134 passing yards for a total of 333 yards on offense. The Bulldogs struck first on the opening drive with a 24 yard field goal from junior Nick Dolezal. The team piled on seven more points on its next drive with a rushing touchdown from redshirt freshman quarterback Jaden Barr. Truman was able to score again before half to gain the 17-14 lead.

“Our game plan every week is to win the rush battle, win the turnover-takeover ratio and, most importantly, finish

strong,” Salima said. “For the most part, we executed very well, we had more rushing yards than the opponent, we capitalized on turnovers and put points on the board. We developed an assassin’s mentality and brought home a W.” Salima’s yardage is the second most in Truman history since 1997. This performance earned him GLVC Special Teams Player of the Week honors, the first conference award for the ‘Dogs this year and only the third of its kind for Truman in three years.

“For the most part, the reason we’ve had so much success is because of our practice habits,” Salima said. “QBs and receivers practice routes non-stop to perfect timing, while the line perfects technique. Both are essential in the passing game, and for us these habits translate to the field.”

In addition to Salima, the Bulldogs have had a steady stream of young running backs contributing this season. Louie Ramirez, graduate assistant and running backs coach, said his young players all bring different attributes to the table.

Ramirez said this depth gives the offense freedom to determine who sees playing time based on the game plan for each specific opponent. “[Sophmore] Malique [Robbins] is able to go out in the slots and run and catch, and Jordan can run and catch the football, but he’s more of a power runner,” Ramirez said. “And then [sophomore] Andy Satulla can again run, catch and block, and it’s all centered around our game plan. We have an idea of how many touches we want to get these guys in a game.”

Ramirez also explained the ability of the Bulldog offense to explore other options, particularly in the quarterback position, which is moving between Barr and sophomore Randy Schroeder.

“Jaden is really multiple as far as his ability to throw the football, and Randy is great,” Ramirez said. “He has done everything we have asked him to do, and he is going to kind of be our situational guy, but really Jaden [Barr] has been able to bring something from a different dimension to the table.”

The Bulldogs have scored 68 more points so far this season compared to the same time last season.

Ramirez said everyone showed up to play Saturday and did what was asked of them, putting Truman in complete control of the game.

“It’s a mix of everybody doing their job and executing it well,” Ramirez said.

“It’s a team effort and not one position is doing better than the other. Everyone was executing at a high level in all three phases of the game, and this allowed us to be dominant throughout 60 minutes of football.”

Truman returns to home turf this weekend to host non-conference opponent Lincoln University at 7 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 24 at Stokes Stadium.

Photos by Stephanie Hulett/ TMN Top: Freshman running back Jordan Salima is tackled by two S&T defenders.

Salima was recently named the GLVC Special Teams Player of the Week. He had 267 all purpose yards during the game. .

Above: Junior defensive back Ben Chaney intercepts a pass and runs the ball 97 yards to score a touchdown.

Bottom: Salima finds a hole to make a successful run down the field. Salima totaled 173 yards on kick returns alone against S&T.

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Volleyball splits opening weekend in GLVC play THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

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After a 1-7 start to perhaps one of the toughest opening schedules in the nation, Truman State University volleyball returned to the familiar grounds of the GLVC. The Bulldogs opened the 2016 season against four nationally ranked teams, playing at least three matches each weekend and struggling to put results in the win column. Friday night, the ‘Dogs picked up their second win of the season during yet another road match versus GLVC opponent, the University of Illinois-Springfield.

Head Coach Ben Briney said his team was able to bounce back from the early losses by holding confidence in the fact that players are improving daily during practice and buying into the mentality that they have time to make the changes they need to be playing their best by November.

Briney said UIS is a building program that is making strides to the top third of the conference, and it was a good win for the ‘Dogs.

“When our offense is going and we’re playing consistent, it’s very very tough to beat us,” Briney said.

“It’s a lot of fun to watch this team go whenever we’re really feeling it and doing what we need to do. We’re playing faster even than we did last year, and people are putting up some big numbers.”

Among those putting up big numbers on the offensive side are Truman’s outside hitters, senior Kayla Bastian and junior Jasmine Brown. Bastian led the offense with 12 kills and a notable six aces from the serving line. Brown posted 11 kills on the outside, followed by six kills from senior Lacey Hill and five from redshirt sophomore Holly Hildebrand.

The hitters were supported by 23 assists from sophomore Savvy Hughes and 19 from freshman Meghan Gasper. Another freshman contributed to the victory, with 26 digs coming from Lauren Wacker in the back row.

The weekend did not end with a win, however, as Truman faced rival Mckendree University with a similar playing style.

Truman dropped the GLVC rivalry match Saturday, losing 3-1.

Bastian led the ‘Dogs in the front row once again with 13 kills, followed by 10 kills from freshman Jocelynn Livingston.

Truman’s record fell to 2-8 overall and 1-1 in conference after the weekend. Briney said the team has maintained a positive attitude despite taking early losses and still has a lot to look forward to.

“I can’t wait for next weekend to be in front of a home crowd and let them see this team,” Briney said.

“We’re not as big as we have been in the past, but we’re really athletic, and our offense can put up some big numbers when we’re dialed in.”

Briney also said he has seen positive changes in his freshmen who have done a good job of adjusting to the game and he said he applauds his setters — both of whom are new to the program this year — for stepping in and working to run an efficient offense. Briney said it has been fun watching Hughes and Gasper work hard to make technical changes and fit the game tempo. He said the setter/hitter relationships are starting to form and he is excited to watch them further improve.

Hughes said she and Gasper have been working together from the start to help each other with the transition into the program.

“Transferring and coming in freshman year are both very stressful things to do,” Hughes said. “We definitely help each other out physically in practice and emotionally as well ... we definitely push each other so we can be the best we can be for the team.”

Other areas of the Bulldog offense search for growth in experience at the beginning of this season. Truman graduated regular starters in opposite hitter Abby Heise and middle hitter Emilee Walters. The Bulldogs also graduated an instrumental part of the front row in 6’2 All-American middle hitter Ali Patterson.

The height and experience of Patterson might be unmatched on Truman’s team this season, but as a true testament to the ‘small but mighty’ mantra of the 2016 Bulldog offense is 5’9 sophomore middle Natalie Brimeyer. Under-sized for a typical middle, Brimeyer recorded 10 blocks in a three set match against North Alabama last week, putting her atop the entire nation in this category. Brimeyer also ranks third in NCAA Div. II averaging 1.6 blocks per set.

“I think all of the training this spring helped me improve my blocking movements,” Brimeyer said.

“Working on staying disciplined and then going fast is a key part of blocking success.”

To achieve overall team success, Brimeyer said she hopes to see her team be more consistent and terminal. She said the team thrives when every person focuses on doing their job for the sake of the team, and said she thinks that will be a major point to stress for the remainder of the year.

After 11 road matches to start the season, Truman now looks forward to its home debut. The ‘Dogs will host the University of Southern Indiana at 7 p.m. Friday and Bellarmine University at 1 p.m. Saturday in Pershing Arena.

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Continued from page 7 Kendall had a large impact on Truman’s tennis program. Kendall said though he played many sports during his teens, tennis is the sport that stood out the most to him. Kendall said he played tennis through college at William Penn then moved on to coach for his alma mater. After some time at William Penn, Kendall said he was hired by the nation of Bahrain as a “National Tennis Advisor” and was tasked with coaching and training the junior team.

After some time abroad, however, Kendall said he and his wife missed the Midwest, so they moved back to the States.

Kendall said after a brief stint coaching at Methodist University in North Carolina, he found out Truman was looking for a tennis coach and applied for the position. During his 20 years as coach from 1992 to 2012, Truman won a combined 476 duals matches, two Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association titles and appeared in 13 NCAA Tournaments.

“I feel very gifted,” Kendall said. “I’m proud of our conference wins, and I’m grateful to the parents for all their support. My fondest memory is seeing all the great kids I got to coach over the years — they really make it all worth it.”

Bulldog broadcasting duo Janssen and Boyer have been side-by-side with Truman athletics for 22 years.

Boyer said he and his partner have been through a lot at Truman and have fond memories of the Bulldogs’ nail-biting wins, buzzer-beaters and winning streaks. He said between just football and basketball, there is a lot of work involved. He said much of the time is spent traveling from one game to another, and the locations he and Janssen travel to are subject to change depending on if Truman changes its conference, which it has done in the past. Boyer said he is honored to be inducted into the hall of fame alongside his friend and broadcasting partner.

“I’ve been at this for 22 years, but Hank has been around 40 if you count what he’s been doing before I came along,” Boyer said. “We’ve had lots of great traveling opportunities. For as many miles as we’ve traveled, we’ve been blessed with always arriving safely.

It’s humbling to receive this award and to be following in the footsteps of so many greats.”

Ross is scheduled to be inducted as part of a Bulldogs home soccer weekend Friday and Saturday. Janssen, Boyer, Neff and Kendall are set to be inducted 6 p.m. Oct. 21 during the Truman Homecoming Alumni and Friends banquet in the Student Union Building.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

EVENTS

IHSA Stock Show 1 p.m. Sept. 24 and 10 a.m. Sept. 25

University Farm Love horses, or want to learn more about horse shows? Come cheer on the equestrian team in the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association stock show. Admission is free, and all are welcome.

“The Wake of Jamey Foster” 8 p.m. Sept. 22-24 James G. Severns Theatre

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The theatre department comedy “The Wake of Jamey Foster” continues its run for the next three nights. Tickets are $5 and available at the box office in the atrium of Ophelia Parrish or for purchase the nights of the performances.

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Photo by Courtney Kauffman/ TMN

Need a nice getaway park that is nearer than Thousand Hills State Park? Brashear park has your name all over it. Located within walking distance at 9855 Grange Road and offering covered benches and a playground, this park offers a nice place to study or bring out your inner child.

Surprising Banned Books Did you know the dictionary has been banned from libraries in California because it includes sexual definitions?

The Where’s Waldo series was met with controversy in schools in Michigan and New York after objection to some of the characters depicted in crowds.

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Shel Silverstein’s book of poems, considered a classic by many readers, was banned in some Florida schools because of concerns it promotes violence and disrespect.

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The well-known fairy tale, “Little Red Riding Hood, “ was banned by two California school districts because she carried wine. She should’ve stuck to her water bottle.

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Even Dr. Seuss has been banned by a California school. “The Lorax” offended readers with its use of the word “stupid,” but the logging industry was insulted by the anti-deforestation plotline.

BOLD lifestyles Meet Maggie Messitt

BY COURTNEY KAUFFMAN

Lifestyles Text Editor index.featureseditor@gmail.com Maggie Messitt has a BA in journalism and a human rights interdisciplinary program from Boston College, an MFA from Goucher College, and is one dissertation defense away from a PhD in creative nonfiction at Ohio University. She is teaching a creative nonfiction class this semester.

How did you end up at Truman State University?

Since this is a unique position supported by the Ofstad Endowment, the English and linguistics department likely saw a combination in my work not often represented in creative nonfiction classes. My first book, The Rainy Season, is immersion and narrative journalism based in South Africa — where I lived for eight years — and the book I’m working on now is part memoir, part investigation, the story of my aunt who went missing in 2009. I suspect they also knew I would shake things up a bit in a traditional nonfiction workshop.

How did you end up in South Africa?

To make an extremely long story — that might be a book one day — short, I had an opportunity presented to me. It was my chance to work on the long form, narrative journalism I wanted to write and to focus on human rights issues. I started with the goal of developing a portfolio that authentically represented the writer I wanted to be, as opposed to a writer who

was purely writing on assignment. I also ran a school, edited a newspaper and a magazine in a community with such an important and intense history, but had very little written about it. This is one thing that kept me there.

How would you describe your writing style?

I would describe most of my work as immersion and narrative journalism. Immersion describes the type of reportage and narrative describes the type of writing. The simplest way to think about it is as a documentary on paper — I’m behind the camera, observing for great lengths of time and slowly allowing a story to unfold. When I’m thinking about writing, I’m thinking cinematically, asking myself — how do we translate the emotion, the action and character development onto the page so it can be as vivid and engaging as when you were inside it.

What class are you teaching?

I’m teaching a creative nonfiction workshop and asking my students to do things that are deeply uncomfortable and make some of them nervous. I require them to leave campus to experience immersion reporting on their own. It’s important they try to understand what it’s like to hang out with people, to shut up and listen, absorb the dialogue around them, to think about place as character, and to learn how to take notes and think, ‘How do I go home and write a story about someone other than myself?’ In some ways, my class in about taking risks and being uncomfortable within safe spaces. Simultaneously, we’re working on one personal essay – slowly, throughout the semester, draft after draft. I’m also realizing this class is teaching them to write on a not so intense deadline. There’s no time to wait for inspiration; you have to sit down and figure it out.

Is this your first time teaching?

No. I’ve taught since 2002 in varying circumstances. When I was in South Africa, I ran a writing school for rural African women for five years. Since returning to the United States, I’ve taught within the Writers in Prisons Project in Wisconsin,

for alternative writing programs like Creative Nonfiction and Lighthouse Writers Workshops, and at the university-level at Ohio University, Elizabethtown College and now here. My experience is a blend of traditional and non-traditional which is really what I love.

How have you liked Kirksville so far?

I love living in the city, but I have strong affection for small towns. When I was in South Africa, I lived in the middle of nowhere, so Kirksville seems really big compared to my home there. If you look at my Instagram account, I am slowly falling in love with Kirksville sunsets, hidden artwork around town and the small, unexpected moments I encounter on my long walks everyday. But, most importantly, people are genuinely kind — that’s been a breath of fresh air.

How long is your stay at Truman?

I am here until Oct. 12. I have a reading on Sept. 21, and I am all over campus every day in a couple secret spots in the library and elsewhere working on this book. Truman has really given me the gift of time to step away from my everyday life and focus exclusively on teaching and writing.

What projects are you currently working on?

The book I’m working on right now is one of things I tried not to write, but it just kept writing itself into every other thing I was working on. So I had to say, “Okay, I have to work on this in order to ever move past it.” It’s deeply personal and may just be the hardest thing I ever write.

Do you have any advice for writers?

I think people assume someone inside a classroom is truly going to train them to do everything they need to know, but they’re not. You have to figure out what you want to do and then you have to play with it and be willing to take risks, experiment and recognize it’s not going to be perfect. It may never be perfect. It’s a commitment to doing something better with each try, learning from each attempt and being thoughtful in your process.