International
Week Features Robert Pringle
Debate Team Places Third at Nationals
Truman’s forensics and debate team placed third in the National Parliamen-tary Debate Association’s National Championship Tournament held at Metropolitan State College of Denver March 24-26. Students reaching the semi-final round of the tournament were partners Shane Mecham, senior political science major from Lincoln, Neb.; and Kris Stroup, junior political science major from Lansing, Kan.Several of the team members placed individually or reached the final rounds. Combined, the seven debate teams took sixth in the sweepstakes competition. Ian Samuel, freshman computer science major from Pueblo, Colo., and Brian Amsden, junior communication major from Fenton, Mo., reached the tournament quarter finals.
Robert Layne II, senior communication major from Kansas City, Mo., and Tyler Unsell, sophomore communication major from Parkville, Mo.; Michael Denham, sophomore justice systems major from Kansas City, Mo., and Henri Harmon, junior pre-accounting major from Kansas City, Mo., all reached the triple-octafinal round.
Jacob Stutzman, senior communication major from Manchester, Mo., finished 14th out of 542 speakers. Mecham placed 13th. Ian Samuel was the only freshman to advance beyond the octafinal round, and was ranked second among novice speakers.
International Week Offers Variety of Events
The students and faculty of Truman State University will celebrate International Week April 2-7 with a theme called "Global Reflections."Highlighting the week’s events is the keynote address by Dr. Robert Pringle from the Patterson School for Diplomacy and International Commerce at 6 p.m.,
April
6, in Violette Hall 1000. Pringle serves as a Central Intelligence Agency
professor in residence after serving 15 years with the CIA. He joined the
Patterson School at the University of Kentucky in Lexington in 1996. In
1999 he was awarded the Career Intelligence Medal. Prior to his career
with the CIA, he worked for the U.S. Foreign Service and served in the
U.S. Army. Pringle received his doctorate from the University of Virginia.
His appearance is being sponsored by the FAC.
Patterson School is one of only 17 graduate schools of foreign affairs in the nation and was cited by the Ford Foundation as “one of the most prestigious centers in the United States.” (Information and photo provided by the Patterson School website.)
Additional International Week events will take place daily and include an African Village display and International Fashion Parade from 7-8:30 p.m., April 3, in the Ryle Hall Main Lounge. An Interna-tional Coffee House will feature student performances in an informal setting from 7-10 p.m., April 4, at Washington Street Java Co.
The Residential College Program will sponsor International Movie Night from 6 p.m. until midnight, April 5, in Centennial Main Lounge. The Mexican Mariachi Band "Del Alma," will perform at 7:30 p.m., April 6, in the SUB Activities Room.
Culminating activities include the Show Me Units exhibition from 1-3 p.m., April 7, in Centennial Main Lounge and a cricket workshop from 3-5 p.m., April 7, in the Student Rec Center.
For more information about Interna-tional Week events call 785.4215.
The Kohlenberg Lyceum Series
former UPI White House correspondent
Helen Thomas
8 p.m., April 7
Baldwin Auditorium
Free tickets for students are available in the SAB office
and for faculty and staff in the CAOC.
For more information
about the Kohlenberg Lyceum Series call 785.4016.
Students Receive Academic Honor Awards
The Academic Honor Awards assembly will begin at 7 p.m., April 9, in the Georgian Room. These awards are presented for outstanding scholastic achievement among Truman State University undergraduates and graduate students.The following students will receive awards:
| Outstanding Undergraduate Student in Accounting........................................................Michelle
Marie Wray
Outstanding Graduate Student in Accounting.....................................................................Christa Lea Rutledge Outstanding Student in Business Administration-Management.................................Wayne Anthony Prichard Outstanding Student in Business Administration-Finance............................................Heather Grayce Mackie Outstanding Student in Business Administration-Marketing............................................Emily Luella Etchason Outstanding Graduate Student in Special Education..................................................................Joy
Lynn Painter
Outstanding Student in Theatre............................................................................................Katie
Lynn McKay
Outstanding Undergraduate Student in Communication Disorders............................................Lisa
Ann Berna
Outstanding Student in Spanish........................................................................................Emily
Kyle Beyer
General George C. Marshall ROTC Award ...........................................................Christopher Alan Nagelvoort Outstanding Senior Student in Mathematics......................................................................Renee
Lee McCullar
Outstanding Student in Agricultural Science.....................................................................Beth
Ann Luebbering
Outstanding Student in Justice Systems.............................................................................Jennifer
Lynn Cole
Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award..........................................................................Shirley
Diane McKamie
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Truman State University
Dog Days
11 a.m. until 4 p.m., April 7
Rugby Field
carnival rides
organizational booths
oldtime photo booth
sky dive simulator
Rain site is Pershing Arena.
Mark your calendars for upcoming cultural arts events!
French Play
“L’Avare”
by Molière
8 p.m., April 5 & 6
SUB DownUnder
Mariachi Band
“Del Alma”
7:30 p.m., April 6
SUB Activities Room
Student Play
“Somewhere In Between”
8 p.m., April 17-21
Little Theatre
Lyceum Series
Truman Showcase
7:30 p.m., April 18
Baldwin Auditorium
Phi Kappa Phi Week To Be Held April 8-14
| Phi Kappa Phi members recently donated videos to the Adair County Public Library. Left to right are Sandra Fleak, Julia DeLancey, Debra Kerby, Glenda Davis, librarian; Tina Patel, Mary Lou Woehlk and Angie Ingraham. |
Kicking off Phi Kappa Phi week, April 8-14, members
will hold the 2001 Spring Gathering at 2 p.m., April 8, in the SUB Activities
Room. Dr. Cornelis W. Koutstaal, head of the Division of Human Potential
and Performance, will be the guest speaker.
Initiation of new faculty, staff and student
members will be held during the meeting. Other activities scheduled include
the presentation of the MaGee/Korslund Phi Kappa Phi Scholarship, recognition
of the national Fellowship nominee, the May 2001 degree candidates and
the Kirksville High School recipient of the Phi Kappa Phi Award.
For the fourth consecutive year the Phi Kappa
Phi organization has made a donation to the Adair County Public Library.
This year’s donation is a set of videos on the history of jazz. The group
is also finalizing the compilation of a World Percussion Video Library
for Pickler Memorial Library in memory of Truman percussion professor Michael
Hooley.
Truman’s chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, chartered
in 1991, is part of the oldest and largest honor society in the nation.
This group recognizes and encourages outstanding scholarship in all disciplines.
For more information about the week’s
events and reception or the Truman chapter, contact Mary Lou Woehlk at
785.4691 or Debra Kerby at 785.4363.
You are cordially invited to attend
Faculty and Staff
Service Recognition Banquet
6:30 p.m.
April 10
Georgian Room
Tickets are $8.50 per person and RSVPs must be received no later than April 4.
A complete listing of honorees appeared in the March 27 issue of Truman Today.
For more Information or to make a reservation call 785.4031.
Student Ambassadors will compete for scholarships ranging from $500
to $5,000.
The program will be held in Kansas City, Mo., in Oct. 2001.
The application deadline is Sept. 15.
~~~~
Percy S. Lorie Scholarship
Students who have completed 90 hours of college level courses and are
majoring in an
insurance-related field are eligible.
For more information
contact the
Financial Aid Office at 785.4130.
Notables
Jim Barnes, writer-in-residence and professor of comparative literature, has had five translations of Dagmar Nick’s German poems accepted for publication in Great River Review, Minnesota’s oldest literary magazine. Barnes’ spatially constructed poem entitled “Remembering Cap Canaille” appears in the April issue of Poetry (Chicago).Patricia S. Burton, associate professor of philosophy, presented her paper “Despising the Body: Augustine on Stoic Corporeality and Christian Incarnation,” at the Mid-America Medieval Association Conference in Kansas City, Mo. Also at the conference were Kurt Haas, alumnus, who presented “Competing Discourses: Military versus Rhetorical Construction of the Social in The Knight’s Tale;” and Rebecca Kniest O’Malley, alumna, who presented “‘My choys al fre’: Alternate Visions in House of Fame and Parliament of Fowls.”
Dereck Daschke, assistant professor of philosophy and religion, delivered a paper at the Midwest Regional American Academy of Religions Conference in Chicago. His talk, “Black Comedy at the End of Times, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apocalypse,” examined the structural relationships between apocalyptic works and black comedy.
Shirley McKamie, graduate music student, was awarded the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award for her thesis entitled “Three Cubist Portraits: An Examination of the Related Aspects of Time Manipulation and Amorality Within Gertrude Stein’s Word Portrait, Picasso (1909), Pablo Picasso’s Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1910), and Igor Stravinsky’s Portrait of a Peasant Bridge in the First Tableau of Les Noces (1917).” McKamie has been invited to attend the annual meeting April 17-20 in St. Louis and will be presented with a $500 honorarium. Her faculty mentor, David Nichols, professor of music, will be invited to attend the ceremony.
Notes
The Faculty Development Lunch Series, at 12:30 p.m., April 4, in the Spanish Room, will present Tom Zoumaras, associate professor of history, discussing “Things Change: The Unstoppable Organism We Call Research” and Patricia Burton, associate professor of philosophy, discussing “Stoic Perturbations: Animadversions and Conversions in Augustine.”A physics colloquium will be held at 4:35 p.m., April 4, in Barnett Hall 252. Michael Schulz, from the department of physics at the University of Missouri-Rolla, will be lecturing on “The Many-Body Problems in Physics.”
Student Senate petitions are available in the Student Senate office. Deadline for completed petitions is 5 p.m., April 5, in the Senate office. For more information call 785.4193.
Social Science Lecture Series will sponsor “Catastrophic Infectious Diseases and International Relations,” a lecture by Terrence M. O’Sullivan, of the University of Southern California. It will be held from 7-8:30 p.m., April 5, in the Governors Room.
Faculty Development and the Teaching, Learning, Technology Roundtable will hold an intermediate HTML class from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., April 6, in Pickler 103. Interested faculty should contact Sherry Dare at 785.4026 or sdare@truman.edu.
The Public Relations office is now accepting resumés for the fall 2001 internship position. Interested students should stop by the Public Relations office, McClain Hall 102, call 785.4016 or e-mail Linda Gordon at lgordon@truman.edu, no later than April 6. Internship applications for academic credit should be turned into the Language and Literature Division no later than April 17.
Student organizations who have not returned their community service questionnaires to the Public Relations office should do so no later than April 6. For more information call 785.4016.
Beta Alpha Psi and the Accounting Club will be offering volunteer income tax assistance free of charge from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m., April 7, in Violette Hall 1010. For more information contact Carrie Phillips at 627.1170.
A Truman Board of Governors meeting will be held at 9 a.m., April 7, in the SUB Conference Room.
Student Council for Exceptional Children will host the Northeast Area Special Olympics-Missouri games, beginning at 12:30 p.m., April 7, at Stokes Stadium. The events are open to the public. For more information call 785.5082.
The social science faculty research seminar will meet at 3:30 p.m., April 9, in SUB Room 4. There will be a discussion of Jerry Hirsch’s paper “Disability in the Family?: New Questions About the Southern Mill Village.” For more information contact Marc Becker at 785.6036 or marc@truman.edu.
Magruder Hall Observatory public viewing dates are as follows: (weather permitting) 8-9 p.m., April 9 and April 23. Access to the observatory roof is located outside Magruder Hall 274.
The Career Center is accepting applications for the Career Expo student committee. Four representatives from each undergraduate division are needed. The application deadline is April 20. For more information contact Lesa Kerlin at 785.4353.
Ryle Hall Senate will host Clips for Chemo, from 12-7 p.m., April 22, in the Ryle Main Lounge. Clips for Chemo is raising money for Locks of Love, an organization that makes wigs for children in chemotherapy. Professional hairdressers will donate their time to give haircuts for $5. Haircuts that are ten inches or longer may be donated to Locks of Love to be made into wigs. Those who donate their hair will get their haircuts for free. For more details call 785.5828.
The University Career Center will host a student focus group at 3
p.m., April 27. Refreshments will be provided. RSVP to 785.4353 or
careers@truman.edu.
On Campus
3 Tuesday
7-8:30 p.m.-International Week Event, Ryle; see p. 1
7:30 p.m.-Beuge lecture, Blanton4 Wednesday
12:30 p.m.-Faculty Development Lunch Series, Spanish Room; see Notes
2 p.m.-Softball vs. Mo. Western State College
4:35 p.m.-Physics colloquium, BT 252; see Notes
6:30 p.m.-Beuge display, Activities Room
7 p.m.-International Coffee House, Java Co.; see p. 1
7:30 p.m.-MAE Foreign Language meeting, SUB Rm. 45 Thursday
6 p.m.-12 a.m.-International Movie Night, Centennial
8 p.m.-French play, L’Avare
DownUnder; see Notes
8 p.m.-Presidents String Quartet, Baldwin Auditorium6 Friday
Bulldog Classic (w. golf)
1 p.m.-Softball vs Emporia State University (Kansas)
6 p.m.-International Week keynote speaker, VH 1000; see p. 1
7:30 p.m.-Mariachi Band “Del Alma”, Activities Room
8 p.m.-French play, L’Avare,
DownUnder7 Saturday
Bulldog Classic (w. golf)
9 a.m.-Board of Governors meeting, SUB; see Notes
12:00 p.m.- Softball vs Washburn University (Kan.)
12:30 p.m.-Special Olympics, Stokes Stadium; see Notes
1 p.m.-Baseball vs. Pittsburg State University (Kansas)
1-3 p.m.-Show Me Units display, Centennial; see p. 1
3-5 p.m.-Cricket workshop, Rec Center; see p. 1
8 p.m.-Helen Thomas lecture, Baldwin Auditorium; see p. 18 Sunday
1 p.m.-Baseball vs Pittsburg State University (Kansas)
2 p.m.-Wind Symphony & Concert Band, Baldwin
2 p.m.-Phi Kappa Phi Spring Gathering, Activities Room9 Monday
7 p.m.-Academic Honor Awards assembly, Georgian Room; see p 2
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