Current Issue: Volume 27 - Number 11 - April 10, 2009
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Honoring Sallie L. Beard, Sandra A. Scorse DeTar, Mark W. Frerer, Annetta E. St. Clair, Virginia J. Laas, David E. Throop, Charline S. Lewis, Maryann Weber, William R. Livingston, Tran Van Thuong, Ann M. Marlowe, and Karolyn L. Yocum. |
MSSU to celebrate Administrative Professionals Day
All MSSU staff are invited to a cookout at the Pavilion to celebrate Administrative Professionals Day on Wednesday, April 22 from 12 noon to 1 p.m.
A drawing for door prizes will be held at 12:30 p.m.
The day will include brats, burgers and hotdogs grilled to perfection, door prizes and fun people.
Please join this effort to pay tribute to our hard working and dedicated staff. Those attending should RSVP by calling 659 -5435 (ext. 5435) no later than Wednesday, April 15.
Southern to end tennis program
The Missouri Southern State University administration and the Athletics Department have announced that the women’s tennis program will be dropped at the end of the current season.
Six players are on the roster and the team is managed by part-time coach Larry McGregor, who had already informed University officials that he was leaving the team at the end of the season.
Missouri Southern will continue to field teams in football, baseball, softball, men’s golf, men’s and women’s basketball, women’s volleyball, men’s and women’s track and field and cross country, and women’s soccer.
The University has implemented a number of cost-savings measures and this step is expected to reduce expenditures by approximately $20,000.
“Every budget director on this campus has been given the charge to find ways to cut more expenses,” said Athletics Director Sallie Beard.
Students on the tennis team who receive athletic financial aid will have the option of remaining enrolled at MSSU with their scholarships honored.
“After examining the financial issues that currently face us, and taking into account the well-being of the athletics department as a whole,” Beard said, “I came to the conclusion that downsizing was necessary.” With this step, the University will maintain appropriate alignment within NCAA Division II and the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA).Prepare for Earth Day, '09
Mike Kennedy, Biology/Environmental Health, wants to remind the campus about Health Sustainability Committee activities leading up to Earth Day. Students are invited to compete in two competitions.
There are scholarships being awarded for the best sustainability posters, these will be displayed in Reynolds Hall on Earth Day.
There is a design competition for slogans and logos for the campus recycling program. Entries are due to the Students Activities Office in Billingsly Student Center today, Friday, April 10.
The top entries will be displayed at the recycling booth on Earth Day and winners announced at the picnic on May 1.
SJO plans Spring Showcase Concert
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The Missouri Southern Jazz Orchestra (SJO) invites the community to attend its Spring Showcase Concert featuring special guest artist, saxophonist Heath Jones.
The concert will be held at 7:30 p.m.on Thursday, April 23 in Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall. This concert is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
Jones is the Director of Jazz Studies at Oklahoma Christian University in Oklahoma City.
He will perform a wide variety of selections with the Southern Jazz Orchestra. They will include North Beach Breakdown, by John Oddo; Poet, by Mike Loveless (this is a tribute to the memory of trumpeter/band leader Don Ellis); and Don Menza’s modern classic for big band, Groovin’ Hard.
This performance by the Southern Jazz Orchestra is dedicated to memory of Russ Holden. Holden was a long time supporter and frequent guest of the band program at Missouri Southern.
This performance by Heath Jones is being graciously sponsored by Larry McIntire, D.O., and Kent McIntire, D.O., of the McIntire Ear Nose & Throat Center in Joplin.
The SJO is under the direction of Jeff Macomber, head of the Music Department. This concert is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
For information, contact Jeff at (417) 625-9635 or e-mail at macomber-j@mssu.edu.
Meet the SJO online at: www.mssu.edu/music/newjazzorchestra.html.
Library fields Trivia Night team
Spiva Library entered a team to compete in the Miller High School 3rd Annual Trivia Night. Wendy McGrane, Library, says the team, The Collegians, consisted of: library student employees Katrina Baker, Sarah Gowdy, Amber Hall
Library faculty & staff were represented by Melissa Forsyth, Charles Nodler, Wendy McGrane, and Spiva Library family member Howard Forsyth.
The team took 1st place by answering 89 of 100 questions correctly. Questions covered current events, music, sports, gambling, history, movies, and more.
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, April 10, in Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall.
The film is The Willow Tree (Iran, 2005; 96 minutes).
When a blind man's sight is unexpectedly restored, his experience is simultaneously enriched and thrown into confusion as he attempts to claim his lost life. Numerous critics have described the film as emotionally intense and visually rich. The film was directed by Majid Jajidi (director of Children of Heaven and The Color of Paradise).
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.
The final film of the semester will be shown this semester on April 24.
MSSU on Facebook
Check out Missouri Southern’s Facebook organization. This page includes:
- Links to the universities
- Award winning student news paper website
- Important Registration dates
- Educational and Social events Sponsored by Missouri Southern
- A link back to Missouri Southern’s home page
- and much more
Just see the WWW.MSSU.EDU Home page click the Facebook logo at the bottom left hand side of the page.
Suzuki Violin Academy schedules Play-In
Suzuki Violin Academy’s spring Play-In Concert is schedule for 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 11, at Corley Auditorium on MSSU campus.
Kexi Liu, Music, says the program includes selected solos, group performances, and play-in.
The concert is open to public and admission is free.
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Exit interviews
All graduates with student loans are required to complete exit counseling/interviews prior to May 16, 2009.
Sheila Saba, Financial Aid, says the interviews can be completed in person or they can be completed online. Those not completing the interviews will not be able to obtain records, which are vital as students enter the next phase of their education or careers.
Information can be obtained by contacting Financial Aid at (417) 625-9325
One-Acts April 13 -18 in Bud Walton Theatre
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What happens when you ask a class full of beginning directors to write a play?
What happens when you ask those novice playwrights to direct their own work?
The answer - three evenings of brand new, exciting, student-directed, student-written one act plays.
Southern Theatre will present Upward Reflections: A Festival of Student-Directed One Act Plays April 13 - 18 in the Bud Walton Theatre on the campus of Missouri Southern State University.
This eclectic assortment of original dramas will be performed according to the following schedule:
* Four plays performed on April 13 will repeat on April 16.
* Four plays performed on April 14 will repeat on April 17.
* Four plays performed on April 15 will repeat on April 18.
Each evening, the first two plays will be presented at 6 p.m. The next two plays will begin at 8 p.m., following a 30-minute break.
The casts consist of actors from MSSU faculty/ staff and students, as well as several members of the Joplin community.
The plays are rated “M” for mature audiences only. There may be explicit language and adult situations.
Admission is free. Reservations are required for the Festival due to the limited seating capacity. The Theatre Box Office will open Monday, April 6. Hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For reservations, call the Box Office at (417) 625-3190. For theatre production information, contact Terri Spencer at (417) 625-9393.
Lyle Burrow, Theatre, says a special segment on the One-Acts will run in the 6 a.m. time slot on KSN's Hometown Today program on Monday, April 13.
Jazz Between Friends
A jazz concert titled "Jazz Between Friends" will be performed by The Phil Wise Septet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 16 in the Elsie Plaster Community Center on the campus of Crowder College. The concert is free and open to the public.
The performance will feature a number of outstanding professional musicians from the area. Phil Wise, Music, will be joined by Robert Ensor, piano; Scott Harris, trumpet; Wes Smith, saxophone; Robert Terry, bass; Joe Leiter, guitar; and Damon Graue, drums.
Selections include jazz standards "Bernie's Tune", "A Child is Born", "Days of Wine & Roses", and "Beautiful Love" along with three original bossa novas written by Phil Wise.
Come enjoy an evening of jazz.
Foreign Language Field Day Tuesday, April 21
Approximately 1,500 students from schools in the four states will explore the world of foreign languages at the 35th Annual Modern Foreign Language Field Day, Tuesday, April 21.
The theme for this year's event and poster contest will be "Exploring the Corners of the World.”
Leslie Parker, Director of the International Language Resource Center, says tests will be administered throughout the day at various locations on campus.
Students of French, German and Spanish will compete in Culture Bowls, geography, reading comprehension, vocabulary recognition, poetry reading, a poster contest and skits in their respective foreign languages.
Non-competitive events include foreign language lessons in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish throughout the morning. This year's event will also feature an International Idol competition in the afternoon where students will sing in their respective foreign languages.
Those wanting more information should contact Leslie Parker at (417) 625-3109.
Canadian Gift to Spiva Library by way of KXMS
Jeff Skibbe, 88.7KXMS/Fine Arts Radio International, says the station has had a productive relationship with Raymond Bisha, Naxos Music Library Sales (Canada), for some time now, and recently acquired over 80 new classical releases, including 32 new music video DVD titles, some of them in the new Blu-ray format
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While the new classical CD titles will be accessible to all MSSU employees through the KXMS record library (39,000 titles located at Webster Hall) after they are catalogued, KXMS is gifting the new music video DVD titles to Spiva Library to maximize their accessibility.
"KXMS' association with Canada through our contact at Naxos certainly has been productive to date. After the Canada Semester site is posted on the Web, we will approach ATMA Classique located in Montreal for a substantial contribution of recorded Canadian music to share with the Four States," Skibbe says.
Joey Brown, English, gave a reading of her poetry at the Scissortail Writing Festival. The festival was held at East Central University in Ada, Okla. April 2 - 4.
Patricia Murphy, English, presented a paper this month at the 18th and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference. The paper explored the troubling views of empire in a late-century novel, The Danvers Jewels.
CLASSIFIED
For Sale: 2007 Zero-turn DIXON lawn mower, 20HP, 44"cut $2600. and 2004 Kubota lawn tractor, 12.5HP, hydrostat, 44" cut $1,200. Call Jan at ext. 9558.
Needed: A couch. Anyone wanting to get rid of one or sell one (cheap) would be greatly appreciated. Just call 483-5811 (cell) or 624-3558 (home).
For Sale: Equestrian Lexington riding helmet; velvet w/brim - mint condition;classic style; Size 6 7/8, asking $50.
Also: Baldwin console piano, top of the line, excellent condition. $5,000 firm. E-mail peterson-e@mssu.edu.
Situation Wanted: Student looking for work thru May 15. Available afternoons for yardwork (use your equipment), raking, mowing, lifting, etc. References upon request. Call (417) 529-8107.
UPWARD BOUND SCHOLARSHIP
For Purchase: Please Contact Megan (ext. 9886) or Kevin (ext. 9890) in the Mansion Annex or call ext. 9880. |
Student Nursing Blood Drive! Monday, April 13 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Look for Bloodmobile in parking lot near Hearnes Hall Thanks for Giving Back |
