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Student Senate looks to fill open positions BY DANA BARTCH Staff Writer
Left with multiple open positions, Truman State University’s Student Senate is currently searching for new members for specific committees and a student representative for the Board of Governors. Student Senate recently had a successful fall election in September, but only 12 of 15 voting senator positions were filled. Senior Keaton Leppanen, Student Senate speaker, said in the last spring election
Student death in traffic accident BY NICOLAS TELEP News Text Editor
not as many people ran as was expected, which created a deficit that even all the students who ran during the fall could not fill. Senior Kyra Cooper, Student Senate president, said Student Senate has the power to appoint a voting member. However, they are choosing not to do so this term. “The perspective that we took on it is the students at Truman elected people that they wanted to represent them, and so we shouldn’t then just give out votes,” Cooper said. “We are only appointing people to serve
in those positions, and then if they want to vote, they can run in the next election.” Cooper said Student Senate is scouting for students to fill chair positions in the Diversity and Environmental Affairs committees and general members in other committees. She said they are eager to add more members to the Academic Affairs Committee — which worked on the recent Liberal Studies Program forums — and the Health, Wellness and Safety Committee — Which currently have larger projects concerning mental health in the works. See STUDENT GOVERNMENT, page 6
New student organization focuses on ethics and trust
A car accident on U.S. Highway 63 Monday killed three people, including a Truman State University student. Sophomore Rachel Morris was killed in the accident, according to a campus-wide email from Lou Ann Gilchrist, vice president for student affairs. Morris, a resident of Queen City, Missouri, was a nursing major and a member of the Bulldog women’s track team. The accident happened at 2:19 p.m. Oct. 23 on the U.S. Highway 63 bypass around one-quarter mile north of the intersection of U.S. Route 63 and Illinois Street, according to a statement from the City of Kirksville. Gwendolyn Laudwig and Wayne Laudwig — both residents of Greentop, Missouri — also died in the accident, according to the statement. Gwendolyn Laudwig was driving northbound with Wayne Laudwig as a passenger. The vehicle crossed the center line and collided with the vehicle Morris was driving southbound. Both Gwendolyn and Wayne Laudwig were pronounced dead at the scene and Morris was transported to Northeast Regional Medical Center, where she was later pronounced dead. Students seeking assistance can contact University Counseling Services at (660)-785-4014 or the Office of Student Affairs at (660)-785-4111.
Arts Center looks to rebuild after fire
Submitted Photo Truman State University students are working to create a chapter of the Student Center for the Public Trust — a national organization which promotes ethics — on Truman’s campus. BY SPENCER FOUST Staff Writer Truman State University students have formed their own chapter of the Student Center for the Public Trust to promote ethical conduct and prepare students for future careers. The Student Center for the Public Trust was formed after events like the Enron scandal in an effort to restore public trust and sponsor ethics seminars on honesty. The formation of the organization is an effort to instill the same kind of ethics training before students begin their careers. According to the StudentCPT’s website, chapters have been established at universities all across the country, and because of students like Truman StudentCPT President junior Nikki Muenz, Truman now has its own chapter. The organization has already started hosting meetings. The first guest speaker at Truman was CPT President Alfonzo Alexander. Muenz said Alexander spoke about the Reyes Model, which Muenz said is a method for tackling ethical dilemmas. Muenz wants students to know the StudentCPT isn’t just for business
majors, and she said if students want to get their ethics certification or get help with an ethical dilemma, StudentCPT is open to anyone. In creating the organization, Muenz said she was assisted by Chuck Boughton, a business administration instructor who is the club’s faculty adviser. “So far, the hardest part has been working through the paperwork of getting the group chartered,” Boughton said. Getting charted as an official student organization would allow the group to participate in public relations events like the Student Activities Fair. Boughton said while the Center for Student Involvement has a great understanding of how to get groups like the StudentCPT chartered, communication can be difficult. To get chartered, organizations must provide proof of sustainable membership, but without being able to participate in bigger recruitment events, it can be hard to reach sustainable, Boughton said. “The way we’ve approached this is to say, ‘This is a School of Business sponsored organization,’” Boughton said. “When you’re starting a new organization, you need that first level of sponsorship in order to be successful, and that’s what the School of Business has done.”
Kirksville and MoDOT partner for federal street improvement grant application BY RYAN PIVONEY Staff Writer
Submitted Photo The Kirksville Arts Center was destroyed by fire in December 2016. The Kirksville Arts Association is looking at options for rebuilding. BY SETH WOLFMEYER Editor-in-Chief The Kirksville Arts Association is early in the process of rebuilding the Kirksville Arts Center after a fire destroyed the building last December. The Kirksville City Council approved a site plan for the new building during a meeting earlier this month. The Arts Association has been in contact with an architecture firm to design the new building and is planning a capital campaign to pay for the project starting with a dinner and art auction in the SUB Activities Room on the anniversary of the fire, Dec. 2. See ARTS CENTER, page 3
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has pledged funding for both, which increases the city’s chances of getting the grant. “With the TIGER funding, they tell us that persistence is key,” Halstead said. “We are hoping that this third time is the charm.” See TIGER, page 5
The City of Kirksville has partnered with the Missouri Department of Transportation on two federal Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery applications to address improvement on Baltimore Street and create a “Kirksville Entrance” — a complete street on Illinois Street from the Alternate Route 63 to Elson Street. TIGER is a competitive federal grant program that provides funding for communities to improve infrastructure. Kirksville has applied for TIGER grants twice before, making it to the final round each time yet never receiving funding. Sarah Halstead, Kirksville administrative services Photo by Nicolas Telep/TMN coordinator, said this year, both The Missouri Department of Transportation and the City of applications are partnered with Kirksville have applied for federal funding to build sidewalks MoDOT, and she said Kirksville and bike lanes along Illinois Street east of Baltimore Street.