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Jazz Between Friends
The jazz recital title, Jazz Between Friends will take place at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 9 in Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.
Phillip Wise, Music, will be joined by a talented group of jazz musicians which includes: Robert Ensor, piano; Scott Harris, trumpet; Wesley J. Smith, saxophone; Robert Terry, bass; Joe Leiter, guitar; and Damon Graue, drums. A variety of jazz music will be performed including: Days of Wine & Roses, Bernie’s Tune, Beautiful Love, and A Child is Born.
Also slated for the concert are original compositions by Wise and Harris.
An accomplished trombonist, Phil has performed as a member of Clark Terry’s “BIG BAD” Band and has appeared in concert with Louis Bellson, Marshal Royal, “Snooky” Young, Mike Vax, Dave Stahl, and others.
History Day today on campus
The Missouri Southern Social Science Department will host Missouri Region 6 History Day on Friday, March 6. Students from area high schools, junior high schools, and middle schools have been invited to enter.
Winners from the regional contest will have the opportunity to compete in Missouri State History Day on April 4 at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Winners from the state competition may go on to the National History Day contest in June at College Park, Maryland.
Opening ceremonies start in Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall at 8:30 a.m. Judging begins at 9 a.m. The Awards Ceremony will be held in Corley Auditorium at about 4 p.m.
The National History Day Office has selected "The Individual in History" as the annual theme. Students may explore any facet of World, American, or local history pertaining to the theme, so long as their entries include evidence of primary and secondary research and indicate the topic's significance in history. An entry may take the form of a research paper, an exhibit (a display similar to a museum exhibit),a performance, a documentary presented on slides, videotape, or Powerpoint, or a website.
This year, area schools have submitted over 270 History Day entries, an almost 25 percent increase over the past five years. Participating schools include:
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Today's Brown Bag
At today's Brown Bag presentation, Willie Edwards, Teacher Education, will discuss the 2007 pilot program initiated in the island nation of Mauritius to ensure that all students who complete the basic education program there will achieve high levels of competency in reading and writing. The approach was developed by technical experts from UNESCO and the International Reading Association. Willie will use a PowerPoint presentation with enhanced digital photographs to provide a sense of life on Mauritius, located some 1000 kilometers east of southern Madagascar.
The lecture series is free and open to all faculty and staff. The event will begin at 12 noon in Room 202 of the Art Department. Enter through the main door, room is immediately to the left, opposite the Spiva Gallery.
Bring your own brown bag lunch and enjoy an opportunity to witness some of the research and creative works being accomplished at Missouri Southern. For additional information contact Frank A. Pishkur, Art, at ext. 9735.
Program on binge drinking scheduled
A special program on binge drinking featuring nationally-known speaker Patty Spady will come to the Missouri Southern State University campus at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10.
Spady will speak in Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall. The program is free and everyone is encouraged to attend.
Spady 's appearance honors the memory of her daughter, Samantha Spady, a 19-year old student at Colorado State University, who died of alcohol poisoning in 2004.
Binge drinking kills more than 1,400 college students each year. It is a major hazard often unanticipated by students and parents.
Patty Spady's visit at Missouri Southern is sponsored by Advising, Counseling and Testing Services (ACTS) and Sigma Pi. For information, contact Natalie Bruce, ACTS, at 625-9529 or e-mail bruce-n@mssu.edu.
Model UN Club attends MMUN in St. Louis
The Model UN Club attended the Midwest Model United Nations (MMUN) in St. Louis, Feb. 18-21. The MSSU delegation represented the country of Malawi.
Rebecca Elo, senior International Studies major from Joplin, a participant in all of MSSU’s Model UN delegations since 2004, served on the MMUN staff at this conference as President of Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
Prior to the conference, the students researched important global issues and prepared positions reflective of the foreign policy of their respective countries. During the conference, they worked with approximately 500 students, representing 87 other UN member states from 54 colleges and universities throughout the nation to find solutions to the topics on the conference agenda. For more information about the conference, see http://mmun.org/.
In the 2010, MSSU’s delegation will represent Canada.
"We look forward to utilizing information from programs in MSSU's fall 2009 'Canada Semester' in our efforts to learn about the vital interests of the country we will represent and its positions on important global issues," says Paul Teverow, History, co-sponsor of the club.
Paul and Bill Kumbier, English, who co-sponsor the club, accompanied the delegation to St. Louis. For more information, contact Dr. Teverow at (417) 625-4114 or e-mail teverow-p@mssu.edu. For a complete list of students who attended and issues covered, visit http://www.mssu.edu/news/2009/modelUN_spring09.html.
Calendar of Events available
An all-new "Calendar of Events" is now available via Southern's WWW.MSSU.EDU home page.
Rod Surber, University Relations and Marketing, says the new page allows those posting items to select from a variety of categories including Academic, Fine Arts, Themed Semester and others. He says the new calendar, sponsored by fourstateshomepage.com, is a vast improvement over Southern's previous online calendars.
The calendar is viewable by selecting "Calendar of Events" under the News & Calendars site on the homepage (viewable directly from http://www.calendarwiz.com/calendars/calendar.php?crd=mssucalendar&).
A list of upcoming events also is now visible on the Southern News Service site, (pictured at right) available from the same drop-down menu or directly from http://www.mssu.edu/news/.
This page features a continuing list of news releases from Missouri Southern for each month of the year and archives of releases from previous years.
"We feel both the calendar and the list of upcoming events will help us all communicate more effectively," Rod says.
Adidas and Reebok donation drive
The Citizens of the World (C.O.W.) Club is sponsoring the first Old Athletic Shoes Drive at Southern. It will go on the week after Spring Break, from March 23 - 27 . All the shoes collected will be sent to Nike's Reuse-a-Shoe recycling facility in Oregon, taken apart, and made into various sports surfaces, zipper pulls, buttons etc. This is a great, easy way to reduce amount of trash in the landfills!The brand, size, or condition of the shoes is not relevant, although it would help if they're not wet or caked with mud. Cleats will not be accepted. Go through your siblings closets, check in the garage, and ask the ones you love for their worn-out, holey (no, not sacred) Reeboks or Adidases and bring them back with you from Spring Break.
Drop off your old smelly sneakers into a box at any of the convenient locations: Lions Den, the lobby of Young Gym, the Student Life Center, or right inside the side doors of Webster.For information, contact Olga Bulgurova, vice president of the club at bulgurova-o001@mymail.mssu.edu and check out the group's facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/group.php
Czech film next in International Festival
The film ...And Give My Love to the Swallows (…a pozdravuji vlastovky) (Czechoslovakia, 1972) will be shown at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10 in Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall at Missouri Southern State University. The film is being presented as part of the continuing 47th Annual International Film Festival.
No admission is charged and the film is open to the public.
The acclaimed Czech New Wave film maker Jaromil Jires directed this true story of Maruska Kuderikova, a young Moravian girl who became a national hero when she joined the Czech Resistance during World War II and was arrested and executed during the Nazi occupation.
Kuderikova chronicled her experience as a prisoner in her diary but was optimistic for the humanity of her captors and did not by any means hate them. Jires transformed her story into an uplifting tale of sacrifice for the sake of a better life and future. International Film Guide called the film “a powerful and moving work."
After president Antonin Novotny’s hard-line regime was replaced by Alexander Dubcek in January of 1968, Czech directors were finally able to make daring and innovative films in an attempt to give socialism “a human face.” But after the Soviet invasion in August of the same year, the Czech film miracle came to an end. The manager of Czechoslovak Film industry was arrested and several directors went into exile while others were fired. Some films were shelved and “banned forever.” Only in recent years the films of the enormously creative Czech New Wave movement re-emerged.
COMING TUESDAY, MARCH 24
Andrzej Munk’s acclaimed anti-heroism satire Bad Luck
Stone featured at Artist Lecture
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The Art Department in conjunction with the George A. Spiva Center for the Arts will host a visiting Artist Lecture beginning at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 7 in Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall.
Jim Stone, the juror of the March 6 - May 3 PhotoSpiva photography exhibition, will discuss his work and current trends in studio photography.
Stone turned to photography while studying engineering at MIT. His photographs have been exhibited and published internationally and collected by the Museum of Modern Art, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He also has had three books of photographs published, Stranger than Fiction, Historiostomy and Why My Pictures are Good.
Stone has received awards from the Massachusetts Arts Council, The New England Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He was the editor of Polaroid’s Newsletter for Photographic Education, and taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and Boston College. He currently teaches at the University of New Mexico.
For further information about the lecture or to reserve space please contact (417) 623- 0183.
Small Business and Technology Development Center featured
The Small Business and Technology Development Center at Missouri Southern State University will be the focus of the upcoming Newsmakers interview program.
Guests include Jim Krudwig, Lisa Robinson and Karen Bradshaw of the Center. They discuss the services provided by the center, including training and counseling services.
Newsmakers will air at the following times:
KOAM-TV:
* 5:30 a.m. Saturday, March 7
KGCS-TV:
* 6:30 p.m. Sunday, March 8
* 5:30 p.m. Monday, March 9; and
* 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 11
Newsmakers is produced by KGCS-TV, which operates as a service of the Department of Communication at Missouri Southern.
2009 National Issues Forum: COMMIT AN ACT OF SELF-GOVERNMENT! Early in our democracy, citizens gathered to talk and learn together about their common problems before deciding how to solve them. We can still gather and deliberate to create a reasoned public voice. Since 1981, National Issues Forums (NIF) has supported a nonpartisan, nationwide network of locally-sponsored public forums for that purpose. Area residents, community organizations, and Missouri Southern students, faculty, and staff are invited to gather in small groups and deliberate on one of this year’s NIF topics: The Energy Problem: Choices for an Uncertain Future Breaking the Habit of Deficit Spending |
Identify Theft Seminar
The MSSU Small Business & Technology Development Center (SBTDC) and the Joplin Chamber of Commerce will co-sponsor a seminar on Identity Theft from 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. on Friday, March 27 at the Chamber's office at 320 E. 4th St. in Joplin. The cost is $55 at the door which includes lunch.
Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes in the United States. The seminar is presented by retired FBI Special Agent Jeff Lanza, who focuses on methods used to steal identities for personal profit, steps to take to keep identities safe and actions to take if identity theft takes place.
The presentation also includes information regarding protecting yourself from scams and frauds that pervade our society. During the presentation, Lanza provides numerous resources and specific tips and recommendations for audience members. He has appeared on a number of nationally-broadcast programs including Larry King Live, The Today Show, Good Morning America and programs on CNN.
To register, contact the the SBTDC at (417) 625-3128, e-mail sbdc@mssu.edu or register online at www.mssutraining.com. Registration is requested by March 26.
Contemporary Foreign Film Series offering tonight
The next feature film for the spring 2009 season of the Contemporary Foreign Film Series will be shown at approximately 7 p.m. tonight, Friday, March 6, in Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall.
The film is Waiting for Happiness (Mauritania/ /France, 2002), directed by Abderrahmane Sissako.
The film contrasts the experiences of Abdallah, a college student returning home to find himself alienated from his native culture, and Khatra, a boy apprenticed to a wizardly local electrician who shows how him how oppositions such as magic and technology and globalization and village life can be reconciled.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch called the film "visually intense, emotionally rich" and the Village Voice described it as "refreshing. As welcome as a cool breeze on a summer afternoon."
This film will be shown as part of a Missouri Southern Continuing Education Class. The cost of the class is $10 per person per semester and those interested may register before the film tonight. For further information about this film series, please contact Bill Kumbier, English, at kumbier-w@mssu.edu or Nick Kyle at kyle-n@mssu.edu.
SPRING JOB EXPO is coming!!! Encourage ALL students to attend this event. |
Julie Blackford will become the Director of the Project Stay Program as of March 9. She presently serves as Interim Director.
Joey Brown, English, gave a reading last week at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Conference. The SW/TX PCA took place in Albuquerque, NM from Feb.25-28. She read a selection of her poems entitled Oklahomaography.
Joyce Courtney, IT, and Judy Elimelech, Learning Center, attended a conference Feb.23 – 28, which brought together campus and community members who represented computing, disability, and veteran stakeholders to explore ways to broaden participation in computing through the recruitment and support of veterans with disabilities. The conference, held in Seattle, was grant funded through the University of Washington’s Do-It Center.
Tim Klein, Theatre, thanks everyone who auditioned for the one-act play festival. He says nearly 100 people tried out and those selected should have received calls by now. Some actors may drop out in the coming weeks, so a few others still may be needed. "We also need stage managers, people to help actors with lines, and others," Tim says.
CLASSIFIED
Wanted: Looking for a fairly low cost white refrigerator and microwave. If anyone has them to sell, e-mail bruce-n@mssu.edu.
For Sale: 4' x 16' (Intex) above ground pool, and accessories (ladder, pump, filters, etc.). Set up last summer and only used for about two months. - $300. Contact: ext. 4442 or (417) 529-8296.
Wanted: Land to build home on for family. Prefer timber. 10 to 20+ acres under $20,000. Please e-mail offers or suggestions of people to contact to thomas-j@mssu.edu.
For Sale: Treadmill- Simplicity by Athlon. Originally priced at $1,200 sacrificing at $700. Also have Baldwin console piano purchased for $7,500. Willing to sacrifice for $5,000. Oak veneer, top of line. 1 1/2 yrs old with over 8 years left on transferable factory warranty. Purchased in Joplin. Local tech approved. Call 627-9154. Serious inquiries only.
Situation Wanted: Missouri Southern student, willing to house-sit this summer for faculty/staff member or other community member. Contact Martha at e-mail mynatt-m001@mymail.mssu.edu.
