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Missouri Western State
University, 4525 Downs Drive, St. Joseph, MO 64507, 816-271- 4200
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Western students were back in class
starting Monday, Aug. 30. The day's activities included the Western
Warm-Up, with campus and community businesses, departments and
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Look Ahead
Friday, Sept. 3
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Griffon soccer vs. East
Central University (Okla.), 2:30 p.m. at Emporia, Kan.
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The Western soccer
team begins the 2010 season on the road. The Griffons had the best
season in the program’s brief history last year, with an 8-10-2
season, and every player returns. They were picked fifth in the MIAA
preseason coaches’ poll.
Click here to view the media guide for the 2010 season.
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Griffon volleyball vs.
Cameron University (3 p.m.) and Ouachita Baptist University (7 p.m.) at
Memphis, Tenn.
Saturday, Sept. 4
Sunday, Sept. 5
Monday, Sept. 6
Tuesday, Sept. 7
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Griffon men's golf, Missouri Intercollegiate
Champion, at Sunrise Beach, Mo.
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Pre-audition "meet-n-greet," 7 - 10 p.m.,
Potter Hall Theater
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Students interested in auditioning for the
theatre department's production of Neil Simon's "Laughter on the 23rd
Floor," directed by Dallas Henry, are invited to come read through the
script, ask questions, etc. The actual auditions will be held at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 15 in the Black Box Theater, Potter Hall 106. Contact
Dallas Henry, assistant professor of theatre and video, at 271-4442, or
dhenry2@missouriwestern.edu.
Wednesday, Sept. 8
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Griffon men's golf, Missouri Intercollegiate
Champion, at Sunrise Beach, Mo.
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Staff Senate, 3 p.m., Blum 220
Thursday, Sept. 9
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Griffon soccer vs. University of Nebraska
Omaha, 3 p.m., at Omaha, Neb.
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Griffon women's golf, Iowa Western CC/Reiver
Fall Classic, in Council Bluffs, Iowa
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Griffon football vs. Lincoln University, 6
p.m., Spratt Memorial Stadium
Friday, Sept. 10
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Griffon volleyball vs. Drury University,
noon, and Chadron State University, 4 p.m., in Rolla, Mo.
Saturday, Sept. 11
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Griffon soccer vs. Northwest Missouri State
University, 1 p.m., Spratt Memorial Stadium
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Griffon volleyball vs. Upper Iowa
University, 1 p.m., and Missouri S&T University, 5 p.m., in Rolla, Mo.
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Performing Arts Association "ABBA Mania," 8
p.m., Missouri Theater, 717 Edmond St.
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Please be advised there are two live
entertainments coming to the Missouri Theater courtesy of the Performing
Arts Association and you can win tickets! On Saturday September 11 at 8
p.m. get ready to rock to ABBAmania! Tickets are $12 to $27 (take $5 off
for Western discount!)--but we have a few FREE vouchers to give
away! Be the first to call Roger Swafford at Ext. 5649 and name ALL SIX
of the Missouri Western Values and you could win a pair of tickets to
ABBAmania! But wait! That's not all! On Tuesday, September 14, PPA is
bringing THE WATER COOLERS to the Missouri Theater at 7 p.m.! Word of
mouth has made THE WATER COOLERS one of the hottest tickets in town
according to E! News Daily, E! Entertainment TV "It's like Dilbert meets
Forbidden Broadway!" Again The Water Coolers tickets are going for
between $12 and $27 (take $5 off for MWSU discount) but you can win 2
free tickets to the Water Coolers by being the first to call Roger
and tell him the day and year that MWSU officially became a University.
You may order tickets today from the PPA by calling 816-279-1225 or
order online at
http://www.saintjosephperformingarts.org.
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Enrollment Tops 6,000 |
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When the official enrollment census is taken after
four weeks of the fall semester, Western will exceed 6,000 students for
the first time.
Enrollment has steadily grown for seven consecutive
years, and has been at record highs for the last six straight years. Since
fall 2003, the number of students has grown by at least 21 percent.
As of the first day of class Aug. 30, there were
1,271 new freshmen and 471 transfer students, both records.
Graduate enrollment has soared. There are currently
125 students enrolled in graduate programs, compared to 70 last year, a 79
percent increase.
Uncooperative weather forced the postponement of one
planned celebration of the enrollment milestone. The Falcons Skydiving
Team was scheduled to jump into Spratt Memorial Stadium on Sept. 2 before
the Griffon football season opener against Mesa State, and one of the
jumpers was to trail a banner with the number 6,000, to be presented to
Howard McCauley, director of admissions, and Dillon Harp, president of the
Student Government Association. Rain and winds forced the jump to be
scrubbed. It has been rescheduled for Sept. 25, prior to the Family
Day/Hall of Fame game against Pittsburg State.
Griffon Edge
The growth is reflected in the Griffon Edge class:
953 incoming freshmen or transfer students were enrolled, the largest
Griffon Edge class to date.
The Griffon Edge students participated in more than
40 service projects on campus and around the community as part of the Day
of Service. Students who helped build two Habitat for Humanity houses were
featured in the
St. Joseph News-Press and on News-Press 3 Now and
KQ2.
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(Left): President Vartabedian cuts
into a cake symbolic of the 6,000 student milestone during a
tailgate party prior to the first football game of the year on Sept.
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Griffon Edge Day of Service |
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doing community service as part of the Griffon Edge class last week.
Students worked at more than 40 sites, some on campus but most in the
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Moliere
and Shakespeare...Together for One Night!
Missouri Western State University presents a night of
back-to-back classic playwrights, as Timothy Mooney performs the one-man
shows “Molière than Thou” and “Lot o’ Shakespeare” at 7 p.m. Tuesday,
Sept. 21 in the Kemper Recital Hall, inside Leah Spratt Hall. The
performance is sponsored by the Alliance Française de Saint Joseph, the
Western Honors program and the MWSU Foundation. It is free and open to the
public.
“Molière than Thou,” the first performance of the
evening, finds Molière alive and well, if a little bit freaked out from
his fellow performers all having come down with food poisoning from eating
“the same sort of shell fish.” Given that his company is in the middle of
a capital campaign to buy new curtains, he cannot just refund the
audience’s money, but offers instead to share what bits and pieces he can
perform on his own. Fortunately, he originally played most of the leading
characters in his various plays, and the King’s quirky demands for command
performances from the back catalogue have kept a large array of characters
fresh in his memory.
As such, he moves from “School for Wives” to
“Bourgeois Gentleman” to “Tartuffe,” “Scapin” and “Precious Young Maidens”
with surprising ease, constantly employing (some say exploiting) members
of the audience as his scene partners and objects of attention. It’s a
17th century rogues’ gallery of Fops, Scoundrels, Cuckolds and Conniving
Servants! “Molière
Than Thou” has won “Best of” awards from the San Francisco Fringe
Festival, and was listed first of the “Top Ten Artistic Events of 2006”
from the Chattanooga Pulse.
Following a brief intermission, Mooney will return to
the stage for “Lot ‘o Shakespeare.”
In a dazzling display
of memorization and characterization, Mooney has memorized one monologue
from every Shakespeare play, capturing some of the most stirring speeches,
the most outrageous situations, the most wicked double-entendres and the
most delicious sonorous soliloquies ever to emerge from Shakespeare’s pen.
Each performance of “Lot o’ Shakespeare,” is entirely unique, as the
monologues that Mooney performs are chosen entirely at random, controlled
only by a bingo cage, which spits out ping pong balls labeled with
Shakespeare’s plays. Lot o’ Shakespeare lets the audience play
along, as they fill in their Bingo cards (actually “IAGO” cards), while
the monologues spill out.
Mooney is the author of 18 rhymed verse variations of the plays of Molière
(many of them published with Playscripts, Inc), bringing a dexterity of
English speech to these works which were so dazzling in their original
French.
For further information on Tim Mooney and his plays, visit
http://timmooneyrep.com/.
For more information about the performances at Western, contact Dr. Susie
Hennessy, professor of French, at
hennessy@missouriwestern.edu
or 816 271-5813.
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