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Week of March 26 - April 1, 2007 Welcome to the Tower Topics E-newsletter for faculty, staff and students at Western. |
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Missouri Western State University, 4525 Downs Drive, St. Joseph, MO 64507, 816-271- 4200 |
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Two Join Western's Board of Governors Dan Danford and Tommye Quilty joined the Western Board of Governors when they took the Oath of Office at the Board of Governors meeting March 22. Danford and Quilty were appointed by the governor in February, and confirmed by the Senate this month. Both terms on the Board will end Oct. 29, 2012. Danford (R), of St. Joseph, is president and founder of Family Investment Center. He holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Western in 1978 and a master’s in business administration from Northwest Missouri State University. Danford is a Certified Retirement Services Professional®, a designation awarded by the Institute of Certified Bankers. He has served as an adjunct instructor at Western and has been a presenter at local, regional and national workshops and conferences. Quilty (D), of Mound City, Mo., is a billing manager with Northwest Missouri Cellular. She is also a Western alumna, earning a bachelor’s degree in speech communications in 1996. She is a member of the Missouri Employers Planning Committee in Maryville, a member of the St. Joseph area Society for Human Resource Management, and a member of the Rural Cellular Association Business Development Committee.
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Home Hosts Needed for Western's International Guitar Festival Applications are currently being accepted for home hosts for the fifth annual St. Joseph International Guitar Festival and Competition sponsored by Western. The festival, which will be held May 16-20, draws participants from throughout the United States and several foreign countries. “Home hosting is an opportunity to become personally involved in the festival and to get to know some of these brilliant artists,” said Anthony Glise, festival director and instructor of guitar at Western. Home hosts receive two complimentary tickets valid for entrance to all festival events, a $300 total value. For more information or to receive an application to host a participant, call the Western music department at 4420. “This (home hosting) is a chance to introduce our tremendous community to the foreign and United States musicians that come for this monumental event,” said Glise. Former guests to the festival have come from 20 foreign countries including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Serbia, and Ukraine; and throughout the United States. This year, prize money and gifts are in excess of $8,000, which places the festival among the top four classical guitar competitions in the United States.
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Western Announces Residential Hall Room and Board Rates for 2007-2008 The residence life room and board rates for the 2007-2008 academic year were approved by the Western Board of Governors at its meeting March 22. The new rates approved by the board are an increase of four percent over the current rates, reported Ron Olinger, vice president for financial planning and administration. Olinger made a presentation to the board members about residence life that included the recommendation of the charges for 2007-2008. First-year students will pay $2,892 per semester to live in the Living Learning Center with a 20-meal plan, a $115 increase over 2006-2007. “Western continues to remain very affordable compared to other universities. In fact, this increase translates to only about a dollar per day in room rates and 15 cents per meal.” Olinger noted that both the increase in the cost of living and minimum wage increase were factors that contributed to the need to raise rates. He also reported that a survey of off-campus living revealed a cost of approximately $6,360 per year, which is more than $800 per year higher than the cost of living on campus. “In addition to being about the same cost, the benefits of living on campus outweigh those of living off campus,” said Dr. Paul Shang, dean of student development. “Our students tell us it is much more convenient to be right on campus where they can sleep a little later, be on hand for activities, and just feel more involved. National studies show that students who live on campus are more successful, more satisfied with their college experience, and more likely to graduate.” During his presentation, Olinger described Western’s residential options that include the Living Learning Center for freshman, apartments for freshman through seniors, and suites for sophomores through seniors. Beshears Hall was renovated last year in order to provide a number of private baths and upgrades in room amenities for junior and senior students. In addition he noted that on-campus living provides the convenience of the following amenities: computer labs, meeting/study space, residential hall commons building with snack bar and convenience store, and enhanced safety and security that includes staffed front desk operations, security cameras in hall common areas and gated parking lots.
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Western Offers Guardstart Class Recreation Services at Western will offer an American Red Cross “Guardstart: Lifeguarding Tomorrow” training classes for students ages 11-14. The class will be held from 10 – 11 a.m. from March 31 – May 19 at the Looney Complex indoor swimming pool. The eight-session course will help youth develop the skills needed to take the American Red Cross lifeguarding course once they reach the age of 15. Students enrolled in the Guardstart course must be able to swim the front crawl for 25 yards, tread water for a minute and swim underwater for 10 feet in order to enroll in the class. Cost is $75 plus a $7 book fee. Payment is due at the time of registration. Class sizes are limited to the first 10 students to enroll. For more information or to enroll call 4247. “Guardstart: Lifeguarding Tomorrow” is a new class offered by the American Red Cross to provide youth with the skills and opportunity to practice lifeguard training until age 15 when they can obtain lifeguard certification. Although no certification is earned for Guardstart, many of the same skills are taught. Participants learn reaching/throwing assists, walking assist, entering the water, two-person removal from the water, caring for head, neck and back injuries; conscious choking, rescue breathing, unconscious choking, CPR, and First Aid. Other important lifesaving skills taught are survival floating, HELP/huddle position, and self-rescue with clothes. Cognitive knowledge and critical thinking are also a part of the course. |
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The tennis team need our help! Cheer the women on at their matches! Congratulations to Inga Buzoka for being named to the NCAA Division II Kodak/WBCA All-America Basketball Team! Congratulations to Josh Keister for being named WBCA Region 6 Coach-of-the-Year! Baseball
Softball
Tennis
Men's Golf
Women's Golf
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Mystic Dance Team Tryouts If you are interested in trying out for the 2007-2008 Mystics dance team, tryout dates are: March 31, April 21 and May 19. Please visit the website at http://www.missouriwestern.edu/orgs/mystics for more tryout information including time, location, and requirements. Important Registration News Advisement for the summer and fall 2007 terms begin March 28. If you do not know who your advisor is please check on My Western self-service page under Student & Financial Aid, Student Records, View Student Information. Please contact this individual or the department concerning sign-up opportunities for advisement. When you meet with your advisor you will be given an Alternate PIN. You will use this 4 digit number to access Registration through My Western self-service page and enroll in classes. Registering will start at 7 a.m. on each date listed for the respective classification. The schedule listed below will be followed for degree-seeking students only:
To calculate your class you may add your cumulative earned hours and the current hours you are attempting this semester. Students who have a registration hold on their records will not be allowed to register. To check if you have this type of hold access My Western self-service page under Student & Financial Aid, Student Records, View Holds. Remember, a registration hold can be added to your account at any time. If you have any questions please call the Registrar's Office at 4211. Bill Eickhorst Exhibition An exhibition of recent works by retired Western art professor Bill Eickhorst will be on display in Gallery 206 on the second floor of Potter Hall from March 26 through April 19. An opening for the exhibition will be held in the gallery on March 26 at 7 p.m. In his recent work, the artist explores the definitional / aesthetic boundary between photography and painting. The resulting works are visually ambivalent and embody elements of both media. Homecoming Steering Committee Applications for the 2007 Homecoming Steering Committee are now available in the center for student engagement, Blum 207. Please consider being a part of this memorable experience in 2007. Applications will be accepted until April 2. Command Spanish Courses The Western Institute is offering three Command Spanish® courses for the workplace in April and May. The courses require no prior knowledge of Spanish, and class size is limited. To enroll in any of the courses, call 4100. The following courses are offered:
Chinese Philosophy Professor Western will host speaker Dr. Zhenhua Yu, professor of philosophy at East China Normal University in Shanghai, China, who will speak on “Thick and Thin Epistemology: Some Ideas from Traditional Chinese Philosophy and Comparisons with Western Philosophers” at 4 p.m. April 2 in Popplewell Hall, room 105. The event is free and open to the community, and there will be time for questions and conversation at the end. Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that investigates the possibility, origins, nature, and extent of human knowledge. Dr. Yu earned a PhD in Chinese philosophy in 1998, and in June 2006 he finished a second PhD at the Center for the Study of the Natural Sciences and Humanities, University of Bergen, Norway. His recent dissertation was titled “On the Tacit Dimension of Human Knowledge.” Dr. Yu has won both teaching and scholarship awards, and his writing has been published in both English and Chinese. Dr. Yu is currently a visiting scholar at the Yenching Institute, a nonprofit foundation located at Harvard University that is dedicated to the advancement of higher education in the humanities and social sciences in east and Southeast Asia. The event is sponsored by the Co-curricular Events Committee; the department of communication studies and theatre; and the department of history, philosophy and geography. For more information, contact Dr. Mei Zhang, assistant professor of communication studies, at 4387 or meizhang, or contact Dr. Phil Mullins, professor of religious studies and humanities, at 4386 or mullins. |
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