Board Meeting to air on KGCS

KGCS-TV will provide taped coverage of this Friday's Board of Governors' meeting. The meeting will be replayed in its entirety Sunday evening at 7 p.m. (or following the conclusion of the Canadian Football League playoff game shown that afternoon on the America One network).

KGCS programming may be seen on UHF channel 57, Cable One Channel 7, Mediacom Channel 77 and on cable systems served by Southern Instructional Television.

AAUW to hold Holiday Auction this weekend

The American Association of University Women (AAUW) invites the community to its Holiday Auction, scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 17 at the First Community Church, 15th & Murphy Blvd. in Joplin. Doors will open at 1:30 p.m. with the auction beginning at 2 p.m. Proceeds will benefit the group's scholarship fund for MSSU.

A wide variety of items will be sold including food items, reading material, themed baskets and miscellaneous items including a signed Dennis Weaver print and a Darral Dishman print. Christmas items, tickets to a Branson show/dinner, hors d'oeuvres and refreshments also will be available.

Mary Parker, Student Support Center, says new members are always welcome. The group meets the third Saturday of each month at Twin Hills Country Club in Joplin (except in November, which concentrates on the fund raiser). Dues are $68 for the year. For information, call Mary at ext. 9363.

Suzuki Academy students to perform this Saturday

Missouri Southern Suzuki Violin Academy students of Paul Carlson, Kexi Liu and Carolann Martin, Music, will perform two recitals on Saturday, Nov. 17, at Webster Hall Auditorium on Missouri Southern State University campus.

The first recital starts at 2 p.m. and the second one at 3:30 p.m.

The piano accompanists are Anna Buckley and Alison Hasselquist. The recitals are free and open to the public.

For further information, please contact Kexi Liu, Director of Suzuki Violin Academy, at (417) 625-9681.

Jazz Orchestra schedules "Swingin' Holiday Show"

The Southern Jazz Orchestra invites you to attend the (first) “Swingin’ Holiday Show” at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 29 in Webster Hall Auditorium on the MSSU campus.

This concert will feature seasonal selections that will put you in a “holiday” frame of mind!

Come enjoy numbers like Irving Berlin’s timeless White Christmas, a big-band arrangement of Mannheim Steamroller’s “take” on Good King Wenceslas, The 12 Days of Christmas as done by the Stan Kenton orchestra, and of course, Silent Night. 

The band welcomes soprano sophomore music major from El Dorado Springs Lauren Alumbaugh. Lauren will sing several of these wonderful selections with this wonderful big band. 

CAPTURE THE SPIRIT of the holidays with the help of the Southern Jazz Orchestra.  This concert is free and open to the public. No tickets are required. Just come and enjoy!

For information, contact Jeff Macomber, Director, Southern Jazz Orchestra, at ext. 9635 or e-mail:  macomber-j@mssu.edu. macomber-j@mssu.edu .

Meet the Southern Jazz Orchestra online by visiting www.mssu.edu/music/newjazzorchestra.html.

Today's Brown Bag

Betsy Griffin, Academic Affairs, reminds faculty/staff about the Brown Bag lunch for today, Friday, Nov. 16. Brian J. Fronzaglia, Music, will speak about Chinese and Taiko drums.

The Brown Bag will be held from 12:10 - 12:50 p.m. in the Keystone Room on the 3rd floor of the BSC. Lunch is provided courtesy of Academic Affairs and Sodexho.

Just pick up your lunch at the buffet and prepare for an interesting presentation. All faculty/staff are welcome to attend.

"Southern Lights" Nov. 29 on the Oval

The entire campus community including students, faculty, staff and alumni is invited to the Missouri Southern Holiday Festival Southern Lights, Thursday, Nov. 29 on the Oval. Activities will include the following:

• 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. - Horse drawn Sleigh Rides, Ornament Making, Decorating the Oval Tree, Hot Cider, Cocoa & Cookies
• 6 - 6:30 p.m. - Caroling with the Missouri Southern Concert Chorale
• 6:30 p.m. - Tree Lighting Ceremony with Interim President Dr. Terri Agee & Family
• 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. - Holiday Pictures with the MSSU Lion
• 7:30 p.m. -- MSSU Jazz Orchestra's "Swingin' Holiday Show" in Webster Hall Auditorium

Come one, come all!

Deadline: Tuition and fees due December 17

Missouri Southern has implemented a fee-collection policy change for the spring 2008 semester. 

The University will implement the policy that 100% of tuition, fees and books will be due prior to the beginning of classes for spring 2008. 

Pre-enrolled students’ payment must be received by the Business Office by Dec. 17 of 2007.   Students’ options for payment remain open for this fee collection policy change. 

Financial aid that is completed and ready to process to the student’s account with full payment will preserve the student’s class schedule.  

Please note that deadlines for filing FAFSA for the fall 2008 semester have been moved up to ensure that students’ financial aid is packaged in time to coincide with fee collection policy changes.
 
Students are encouraged to view and pay their accounts online via LioNet using the Quick Pay channel. LioNet offers secure access to payment online by credit card (Visa, MasterCard, Discover) and check. 

Using this option for payment will help the student avoid the long lines associated each semester with fee due dates.

TuitionPay, a monthly payment plan company used for years by MSSU, will be available for students still wishing to make payments for any current balance on their account. 

Signing up before Dec. 1 enables students to enroll for a 5 month payment plan. However, students must be signed up for this option prior to the fee due date.

Going Green:  MSSU implements electronic bill policy Paper bills for student accounts will no longer be mailed beginning in spring 2008.  Students will now be responsible for viewing their student account details for the desired term online via LioNet.  To accommodate students, a Quick Pay channel has been added to LioNet.  This channel gives students one-click access to a real-time view of their student account and one-click access to pay their account via credit card or check.  Students may view their account immediately following enrollment and the current balance on their student account will reflect the charges incurred upon enrollment.  Book charges do not show on students' accounts until the books have been picked up from the Bookstore and, due to a software interface, those charges lag slightly in posting to accounts.

China Semester programs

Ethan Michelson, assistant professor of sociology and East Asian languages and cultures at Indiana University-Bloomington, will make two China Semester presentations this morning, Friday, Nov. 16.

Michelson will present "Family Planning in Rural China" at 10 a.m. this morning in Webster Hall Auditorium. Admission is free.

At 11 a.m., he will present "Sources of Conflict in Rural China" in the same location.

His research on Chinese lawyers, grievances and disputing in rural China, and newspaper legal advice columns in urban China have been published in the top journals in his fields, including the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, The China Quarterly, and Social Problems. He has an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago.

Flu shots still available

The Student Health Center at MSSU has made arrangements with Freeman Occumed, 32nd and McClelland in Joplin, for flu shots.

Pam Hosp, Student Health Center, says the shots, which cost $17, will be given from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at that location until further notice. No appointment is necessary.

If further information is needed, please call Freeman Occumed at (417) 347-6625.

Warming communities . . . one coat at a time

Winter is nearly here and children need coats. The MSSU Golden Crest Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honors Society, is collecting clean, reusable coats and jackets to assist the One Warm Coat community service effort. Coats of all shapes and sizes are welcome and nearly all children's sizes are needed.

One Warm Coat is dedicated to distributing reusable coats, free of charge, directly to local children and adults.  The program is a wonderful way for you and your family to pass along coats and jackets that you no longer need.

ODK makes donating a coat simple. Bring your coats and jackets to the blue boxes located in the following MSSU buildings: Webster Hall; Hearnes Hall; Reynolds Hall; Billingsly Student Center (Lion's Den); Taylor Education Building; Spiva Library; Plaster Hall; and East, McCormick and Blaine Residence Halls.

The coat drive will last until Friday, Dec. 7. More information is available at http://www.onewarmcoat.org.

Since One Warm Coat's inception in 1992, more than 400,000 coats have been provided at no cost to those in need. For information, contact Elaine Freeman, Teacher Education, at ext. 9759 or ODK president Sarah Johns at (816) 752-5888.

Gardasil clinic

Pick up a pre-registration form and fill it out now for the next Gardasil Clinic at MSSU.  The dates and times are 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., Wednesday & Thursday, Nov. 28 - 29.

If you missed the first clinic, it’s still not too late to start the series. Pick up an information packet from the Student Health Center ASAP.

Gardasil is for girls and women ages 9 to 26. Gardasil works when given prior to contact with HPV Types 6, 11, 16, and 18.

If a woman is already been infected with HPV, she may still benefit from Gardasil because it is unlikely she has been infected with all 4 types of the virus.

Canadian football playoffs, championship on KGCS

Professional football action north of the border heads into the final two weeks on America One and KGCS-TV, with the Canadian Football League division championship games and Grey Cup Championship game scheduled to air the next two Sundays.

On Sunday, Nov. 18, Canadian Football presents the East Championship game at noon, with Winnipeg at Toronto. At 3:30 that afternoon, the West Championship game is present, featuring Saskatchewan at British Columbia. The CFL season concludes with the annual Grey Cup Championship game at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 25.

"A lot of people enjoy watching Canadian football, with its slightly different rules and field layout," says Judy Stiles, KGCS-TV General Manager. "We have received phone calls throughout the CFL season, wanting to know when games would be televised. So, KGCS will stay with America One on the next two Sundays for complete coverage of the playoff games and championship game."

KGCS programming may be seen on UHF channel 57, Cable One channel 7 and Mediacom channel 77.

Free admission to home opener

Kevin Greim, Athletics, says admission will be free to the Lions women's home basketball opener beginning at 6 p.m., Wed., Nov. 28.

The Lions will play Webster University. Donations to help fund breast cancer research will be encouraged at the entrances. All proceeds from donations and concessions will go to the American Cancer Society and the Hope 4 You Breast Cancer Foundation.

Also, Freeman and St. John's hospitals have sponsored commemorative pink uniforms for our girls to wear that night. We will auction off the jerseys and all money raised will also be split between the two charities.

Bid on the jerseys by visiting http://www.mssu.edu/athletics/pinkout.htm.

KGCS program focuses on Cross Country

Missouri Southern's men's and women's Cross Country teams are the focus of a special Sports Spotlight program on KGCS-TV. The program features Patty Vavra and Kimi Shank from the women's team, and Tom Rutledge and Dustin Miller from the men's team.

They reflect on their successful year, which included conference and regional championships. They also look ahead to the NCAA National Cross Country Championships, to be held at Southern on Nov. 17. Megan Morrison, Sports Editor for The Chart, hosts the half-hour interview program.

The program may be seen the following days and times on KGCS:

• 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11,
• 9 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12,
• 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13 and
• 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14.

KGCS programming airs on UHF channel 57, on Cable One Channel 7 and Mediacom cable channel 77. The station is operated as a service of the Department of Communication.

FACULTY/STAFF

Delores Honey, Asst. Vice President for Assessment and Institutional Research, attended the MidAIR Conference in St. Louis on Nov. 7-9. MidAIR is a regional affiliate of the Association of Institutional Research. Dr. Honey participated in a panel on "The Qualities of an Effective Institutional Research Director in today's Higher Education Environment". Participants were from five Missouri public and private institutions.

Suzanna Long, Robert Plaster School of Business Administration, presented her paper, "Globalizing the Curriculum in Applied Science and Supply Chain Management Programs" at the American Society of Engineering Management Annual Meeting in Chattanooga, Tenn. She also moderated two sessions at the conference. The first session explored employment trends and infrastructure in technology-driven professions. The second examined education trends and practices in quantitative management programs.

Jude Meche, English, read from his poetic work at the Deep South Festival of Writers in Lafayette, La. Nov. 1 - 4.

Christian Morrison, Steven Feken, Aaron Golden, Public Safety, Danielle Dunn and Brett Miller, Residence Life, Julie Blackford, Project Stay, and Faustina Abrahams, Mary Parker and Kelly Wilson, Student Support Center, attended a two-day training in Applied Suicide Intervention Skills (ASIST) in Springfield.   ASIST teaches a practical, skill based and helping strategy model to prevent the immediate risk of suicide.   This was part of  MSSU’s Campus Safety initiatives funded by the Missouri Partners in Prevention Coalition.

Art Saltzman, English, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his essay "Mr. Gibbon's Syndrome," which originally appeared in Lilies and in Cannonballs Review.

CLASSIFIED

Sale: Take an additional 20 percent off all clearance items at the MSSU Bookstore. Sale lasts through noon on Wednesday, Nov. 21. Free gift with an $10 apparel purchase.

For Sale: 96 Chevy Lumina. Maroon in color. Clean and all service records. Runs perfect and gets good gas mileage. 106,000 miles. Asking $3,500. Call (417) 540-2265

Popcorn: Show your patriotism by sending popcorn to America's men and women in uniform for only $25. Other selections, too. Available through Cub Scout popcorn sale. Call ext. 9506 or e-mail smith-se@mssu.edu.

For Sale: 2006 Equinox LT, black with gray interior, with a mere 12, 500 miles on it. Virtually new! 6 cylinders, great gas mileage, still under factory warranty! Moon roof, CD player and more. Garaged. Only $16,400 or best offer. Call ext. 5425 (office) (417) 540-3423 (cell) or (417) 782-9643 (home). Great car, priced to meet your budget. Check Kelly Blue Book for price comparison.