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Pipes BurstPhoto by Phil Jarrett

Water rushes down Franklin Street near Patty’s University Bookstore the night of Oct. 18 because of a pipe break.

Nathan BeckerAssistant News Editor

Two men were injured and two others are in jail in connection with stabbings outside of local bar Toons at about 1:30 a.m. Saturday.

Forest Roberts, 27, is in the Adair County Detention center on $10,000 cash-only bond for unlawful use of a weapon, and Jahmell Robinson, 25, was jailed on $50,000 cash-only bond for fi rst-degree assault and armed criminal action. Both men are Kirksville residents.

Kirksville police offi cers Steven Fee-ney and Jon Crouse were radioed to a large fi ght in front of Toons, located in the 300 block of West McPherson, at 1:36 a.m. Saturday. Kirksville Police Chief Jim Hughes said Toons closes at 1:30 a.m.

“It’s not unusual to encounter fairly large crowds at bar-closing time, especially on the week-ends,” Hughes said.

When Feeney and Crouse arrived, they saw Roberts on the sidewalk with his right arm raised above his head and holding a kitchen knife with a six-inch blade. Roberts was yelling and moving toward a crowd of more than 50 people, according to a probable cause statement issued by Crouse.

“The expression on Mr. Roberts’ face was one of anger,” accord-ing to the statement.

Roberts complied with police and pocketed the knife before being arrested, according to the statement.

During Roberts’ arrest, Robinson ap-proached the offi cers, who handcuffed him for their safety. The offi cers then re-

moved a pocket knife from his right front pocket, according to a probable cause statement issued by Feeney.

Jonathan Norfolk, 24, then approached offi cers with what appeared to be a knife wound in his left shoulder, according to the statement. Hughes said Norfolk, a Kirksville resident, was taken to North-east Regional Medical Center.

Hughes said he couldn’t release the other victim’s name but could say he is a 45-year-old Kirksville resident who also was taken to the hospital for treatment.

Although Hughes said he couldn’t comment on the extent of Norfolk’s inju-ries, he said the charges against one of the suspects, later determined to be Robinson, are indicative of the degree of injury.

“One of the charges ... is fi rst-degree assault, which does require fairly serious injury or the likelihood of serious injury,”

Hughes said.Robinson was released

from the scene, but he later returned to the Police De-partment for questioning and was taken into custody, Hughes said.

“[Robinson] was arrested once the offi cers developed probable cause [for his ar-rest],” he said.

Upon his return, Rob-inson waived his Miranda Rights to speak with police.

He then stated that Norfolk said Robin-son attacked him. Robinson also admit-ted to having his pocket knife, with blade drawn, in his hand during the fi ght. Police found blood on Robinson’s knife, and they found what appeared to be blood on his shirt, hands and ring. Hughes said

Please See FIGHT, Page 7

Two men stabbed outside of Toons

Kristyn PotterStaff Reporter

Commit a felony, lose a state pension.

A new proposed amendment to the Missouri Constitution would require government of-fi cials who have been convicted of felonies to forfeit their state pensions, which are partly funded by taxpayers. Rep. Scott Lipke, R-Jackson, proposed the amendment.

“We have a citi-zens’ commission of compensation, so it is just fixing the broken system,” Lipke said.

A Missouri law already states that government offi cials who are convicted of felonies directly related to their duty will have to forfeit their pensions, Lipke

ity to veto by two-thirds vote,” Lipke said.

Although the proposed amend-ment doesn’t appear to have any opposition, Lipke said it is pos-sible that people do not support it 100 percent. But because the amendment is sensible and di-rectly benefi ts taxpayers, its like-lihood of passing is fairly high, he said.

“It just gets tougher on the few that put themselves in this position,” Lipke said.

Another proposed amend-ment to the Missouri Constitu-tion would exempt veterans’ organizations from being taxed on property solely for nonprofi t purposes. The local branch of the Veterans of Foreign Wars

Please See BALLOT, Page 7

The Kirksville Area Chamber of Commerce sponsored the event

Amy AikinStaff Reporter

The Kirksville Area Chamber of Commerce hosted a local can-didate forum and question-and-answer session Tuesday at the El Kadir Shrine Club.

Kristie Swaim, incumbent as-sociate judge and candidate, said the public forum was a good op-portunity for voters to learn about all candidates of all parties run-ning for local offi ces.

“When you hear radio ads or see a newspaper ad, you don’t really get to compare apples and apples, and I think at least seeing and hearing them at the same time gives you an opportunity to judge them,” Swaim said.

Two sets of campaign tables lined the walls with political can-didates, representatives, brochures and information. On one side, the Republican candidates were avail-able, and the other side featured

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Board of Governors approves plan for $1M-plus museum

Jessie GaschNews Editor

The Offi ce of Admissions will fi nd a new home in an old fi rehouse.

On Friday, the Board of Governors allocated about $1 million and authorized Univer-sity President Barbara Dixon to proceed with plans to create the Dr. Ruth Towne Museum and Visitor Center. The mu-seum, which also will house the Offi ce of Admissions, will

be in the former fi rehouse on Franklin Street. The Uni-versity acquired the building from the City of Kirksville during former President Jack Magruder’s administration.

“Think of the old visions of the people ... of the fi rehouse being on the second fl oor and jumping on the pole and sliding down,” Dixon said. “There’s this whole part of it, basically, that goes all the way to the ceiling. And then there’s a great big mammoth space where they would have stored fi re trucks.”

The space is ideal for dis-playing a collection of arti-facts from the University’s

history, as well as for provid-ing a welcoming environment for visiting students and fami-lies, she said.

The museum will be funded in part by a $1-million endow-ment from Towne and in part by a second donation of about $150,000. The University also will use rollover, money that was not spent in the last fi scal year, to complete the construc-tion, said Dave Rector, director of institutional research and budgets. Dixon said $250,000 of the endowment can be used on capital, but the remaining money is designated for the operating costs of the muse-um. If the University had been

unable to use it in this way, it would have gone to a second recipient.

“That will be an endowment that will generate resources for the upkeep,” she said.

Dixon said administrators discussed the Offi ce of Ad-missions as well as the Ad-vancement Offi ce as possible candidates for the move to the museum.

“What made the decision to fi nally go with Admissions as opposed to Advancement or anything like that is the amount of public traffi c,” she said. “Admissions, you might say, won the toss.”Please See MUSEUM, Page 7

Proposed amendments involve felons, veterans

Candidates greet citizens

Democratic candidates. In attendance were Gary W.

Jones and Jack Ward for Presid-ing Commissioner, County Clerk candidates Pam Speaks and San-dra Collop, County Recorder can-didates Pat Shoush and Claudia Minor, Prosecuting Attorney can-didate Mark Williams, Associate Circuit Judge candidates Kristie Swaim and Wallace Trosen and Circuit Court Judge Candidates Russell Steele and Tom Hensley.

Candidates for State Represen-tative Rebecca McClanahan and Nancy Summers were introduced at 7 p.m. Local media and radio personalities asked the opponents questions ranging from where they stand on the stem cell initia-tive to where their passion lies.

Some members of the public also contributed by writing ques-tions on note cards that were read

Please See FORUM, Page 7

Phil Jarrett/IndexKirksville resident George Sullivan is a WWII veteran who vol-unteers at the Veterans of Foreign Wars lodge off of Highway E. The VFW supports the proposed amendment that will ex-empt veterans’ organizations from taxes on nonprofi t buildings.

said. But with this new resolu-tion, regardless of its correlation

to their duty, they will be forced to for-feit their pension.

“If you commit any felony while in offi ce, you will lose [the pension], re-gardless of your duty or not,” Lipke said.

The process of put-ting an amendment on the ballot and getting it passed involves several steps.

“The amendment has to get passed, the commis-sion has to make a recommen-dation and include inquiries and the legislature still has the abil-

“The expression on Mr. Roberts’ face was one

of anger.”

Probable Cause Statement by

Offi cer Jon Crouse

“It is just fi xing the broken

system.”

Scott LipkeMissouri Representative

INSIDE FRONT Thursday, October 26, 20062

NEWS In BriefPolice arrest two men in local burglary

Kirksville Police responded to a report of a burglary in progress at about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday at Motters Feed and Grain in the 200 block of West Potter. An employee arriv-ing to work at the location interrupted the burglars in the act, according to a press release from the Kirksville Police Department.

After investigation, Police arrested Melvin Lazear, 30, of Kirksville, and Robert Stiffl emire, 21, of Kirksville, on a charge of second-degree burglary, a class C felony. Police said the investigation is ongoing, and additional charges might be fi led.

Blunt unveils new sex offender registryGov. Matt Blunt announced on Monday a new Sex Of-

fender Registry and toll-free number for Missouri. The changes are a result of the passing of House Bill 1698, which was signed into law June 6.

The updated registry offers more information regard-ing sex offenders, such as names, aliases, dates of birth, more physical descriptive information including tattoos and scars, home, work and school addresses, information about vehicles offenders might drive, their victims’ ages and confi nement information.

It also will offer updated photos because photos are now required to be submitted more often. Additionally, the registry will include a mapping function to map the listed offender’s address.

To use the new registry, users can visit www.mshp.dps.missouri.gov and click the “Sex Offender Registry” link at the top of the page.

Those without Internet access can obtain sex offender information via the new toll-free number 1-888-SOR-MSHP (1-888-767-6747). Missouri State Highway Patrol employees answer the number Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Student Senate In Brief• Senators senior Erica Flanagan and junior Emily

Meyer were absent.• Former speaker alumnus Grant Mulkey addressed

Senate on his experiences since graduating and relating them to Senate.

• Speaker junior Joe VanAmburg announced his intent to resign as speaker by the end of November.

• External affairs chairwoman junior Mindy Maness announced a new date for the off-campus housing forum. The forum will now be at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 15 in the Ryle Hall Main Lounge

• Senate passed a correcting money motion, proposed by Maness, for $2 to cover cost overruns from Saturday’s alumni reception.

• Senate passed a money motion, proposed by associate senator senior Matt Seibert, for $150 to cover publicity ma-terial for AIDS Awareness Week from Nov. 28 to Dec. 1.

• Senate passed a money motion, proposed by cam-pus diversity chairwoman sophomore Nadia Mozaffar, for $300 to cover expenses related to a speaker for AIDS Awareness Week.

• Senate passed a money motion, proposed by treasurer senior Cory Kessler, for $35 to purchase a lock for Sen-ate’s laptop computer.

• Senate passed a money motion, proposed by Kessler, for $100 to purchase ink toner for Senate’s printer. Senator senior Robert Kelchen amended Kessler’s original motion of $80 to the increased amount.

• Senate passed a money motion, proposed by incom-ing senator freshman Jonathan Graber, for $50 to purchase two gift cards as prizes for a future survey gauging interest in Arabic classes.

• Senate passed a money motion, proposed by Kessler in behalf of scholarship chairwoman senior Becky Hadley, for $1,000 to fund two leadership excellence scholarships.

• Senate passed a money motion, proposed by Kessler, for $200 to purchase 1000 sheets of letterhead and enve-lopes containing Senate’s logo.

• Senate read a resolution, introduced by senator senior Josh Kappel, concerning the University’s parental notifi -cation policy.

• Senate discussed extended course descriptions and online course surveys.

“China is gaining more attention and power in the matter of

international relationships. This is a demand for people knowledgeable about China and competent in the Chinese language who understand this ongoing change, its impact on

the world economy and its infl uence on world affairs.”

China Summer Study ProgramFIRST STEP INTO CHINA

The program is a fi ve-week trip providing:• A one week tour of Beijing (the capital of China): the city of Bejing, Tiananmen Square, Museums, the site of summer Olympics 2008, the Great Wall, the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace.•Four weeks of language and culture instruction at Shanghai University in Shanghai, and weekend fi eld trips to the Shanghai Museum, Jianmao Tower, Pearl of Orient, Jade Buddha Temple, Chenghuang Temple, Yu Garden, and a night cruise on Huangpu River, as well as a visit to the cities of Hangzhou, Suzhou and Wuzhen.

Students may partcipate without prior knowledge of the language and students will earn six or seven credit hours.

First informational meeting:

Oct. 26, 7:00 p.m. @ SUB Alumni RoomContact Julie Minn for more information at 785-6015 or jminn@truman.edu

Chris BoningStaff Reporter

The Ophelia Parrish Fine Arts Center is about to un-dergo its third set of repairs in fi ve years.

Last Friday, the Board of Governors approved the allotment of about $1 mil-lion to replace roofi ng tiles of the OP Performance Hall. These repairs will come less than a year after the University had the fi rst-level fl oor tiles replaced and less than fi ve years af-ter the building itself was renovated completely.

General Counsel War-ren Wells said the repairs involve putting down thicker paving blocks on the roof as well as moving ventilation machinery. The goal of these repairs is to cut down on outside noises coming into the Perfor-mance Hall, where faulty acoustics have been a ma-jor issue, he said.

Rain has been the source of many of the hall’s problems.

“There aren’t too many in-side venues where you have to cancel events because of rain,” said Bob Jones, dean of fi ne arts.

He compared the current roof to a drumhead.

“The roof is basically too thin right now, in my opinion,” Jones said. “It’s stretched like the head of a drum, and so when a rain-drop hits it, it just amplifi es it. It sounds like someone beating on top.”

Junior music major Christina Scheperle said she

remembers when it rained during an orchestra concert.

“It was so loud it dis-rupted the performance,” Scheperle said. “It is a nice performance hall, and to have performances disrupt-ed is not professional. I’m excited they’re replacing the roof.”

Jones said the acoustical issues became evident the fi rst time the fi ne arts fac-ulty used the Performance Hall during the summer of 2002.

“It was very disappoint-ing to move in and fi nd things inherently wrong with the building that would pre-vent us from being able to do what we needed to do, which was instruct our students,” Jones said.

Both Wells and Jones said it is unclear how much repaving the roof will help with the overall acoustics.

“We’ve retained some additional architects and gotten some additional ex-pert advice on acoustics and construction for this kind of facility, and all we can re-ally do here is do what the pros tell us,” Wells said. “We believe it will produce very good results for us.”

The University is taking legal action against the ar-chitects responsible for the original renovation in 2002. Wells said the Board has chosen to approve the con-struction even though the lawsuit is still pending be-cause it views repairing the roof as a priority.

In addition to repairing the roof, the University will

completely replace some sections of drywall that grew mold as a result of fl ooding in OP in 2002.

Jones said the many re-pairs on the building have been a frustration for the fi ne arts department.

“It disrupts our teaching, our class schedules, our traffi c through the build-ing,” Jones said. “It restricts what we can schedule in terms of outside events to bring into the space. It’s very discouraging.”

University President Barbara Dixon acknowl-edged the amount of con-struction Ophelia Parrish has required in just the past few years.

“There are always a few things in new building, but the fl aws in the fi nal prod-uct were more extensive in Ophelia Parrish than I think we’ve experienced in any other building,” Dixon said. “That’s the real issue — is it a design issue or is it a construction issue? ... But it’s wrong, whichever it is, it’s wrong.”

Campus Planner Doug Winicker said a new archi-tect, Cannon Design, has been chosen to do the re-pairs. A definitive timeline has not been set, other than construction will be com-pleted by mid-April 2007. Following the repaving of the roof, both Wells and Jones said the University likely will address the internal acoustics of the hall.

“It is my hope all of this will be resolved,” Jones said.

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Phil Jarrett/IndexThe roof of Ophelia Parrish will be replaced with thicker paving blocks to cut down on outside noise coming into the OP Performance Hall.

OP to undergo $1M reroofi ng

Senate members urge policy shift

DPS ReportsReport of vandalism to vehicle in Parking Lot 31

10/22

Sophomore Michael Masucci was issued a Missouri Uniform Complaint and Summons for minor in possession of intoxicants.

10/22

Report of bicycle theft from Campbell Apartments

10/20

Report of bicycle theft from Violette Hall10/20

Freshman Benjamin Rusk was issued a Missouri Uniform Complaint and Sum-mons for theft, and resisting/interfering with arrest.

10/19

Freshman Lauren Jacoby was issued a Mis-souri Uniform Complaint and Summons for minor in possession of intoxicants.

10/19

Chris Boning Staff Reporter

Senior Josh Kappel is campaigning for a change in University policy.

He and fellow Student Sen-ate member sophomore Matt Szewczyk have co-sponsored a Student Senate resolution regarding parental notifi cation for students who have commit-ted a drug or alcohol violation.

Current policy states that the University reserves the right to notify parents of de-pendent students in all cases regarding improper conduct, parents of nondependent stu-dents under the age of 21 who have committed a drug or al-cohol violation and parents of nondependent students facing a health or safety risk.

Lou Ann Gilchrist, dean of student affairs, said calls to parents are rare, and according to the Offi ce of Citizenship and Community Standards Conduct Code Statistics, par-ents were notifi ed in about 5 percent of violation cases.

Kappel and Szewczyk’s resolution recommends the University eliminate the no-tifi cation of parents of a stu-dent over the legal age of 18, except in cases of hospital-ization or repeat offenses.

Kappel said he thinks the current policy treats students like children.

“The policy doesn’t allow students to be responsible on their own and contact parents on their own behalf,” he said. “A lot of times with this policy, most students do contact their parents, but sometimes students don’t contact their parents, or don’t want to contact their par-ents. There’s a reason for that. We need to respect that.”

Szewczyk pointed out the differences between proce-dures for notifying parents and something as simple as billing statements.

“They won’t send my parents money so that they can charge interest to my ac-count if I don’t send them the bill, but they’re going to go and tell on me the fi rst mo-ment I do something wrong,” Szewczyk said.

The issue fi rst appeared as an initiative on the ballot for the most recent Student Senate elections in spring 2006. Ac-cording to the resolution, the added ballot question asked, “Should the administrators of TSU notify the parents of stu-dents who violate the drug and alcohol provisions of the Stu-dent Code of Conduct when there is not an imminent threat to students’ lives and the stu-dent is not a repeat offender of those provisions?”

Gilchrist said she took is-sue with the wording of the question.

“I would be opposed to any policy that is so narrowly defi ned that we can’t take in-dividual circumstances into consideration,” she said.

Gilchrist added that the University takes a moder-ate approach and respects students’ privacy by calling parents only when there’s a threat to a student or when the University no longer can han-dle diffi cult cases by itself.

Kappel, president of the University chapter of Stu-dents for Sensible Drug Policy, said he put the initia-tive on the ballot with the intention of getting it into the Code, which was being revised at the time of Senate elections. Kappel’s version of the policy did not make it into the new code, despite a majority vote of 77 percent in favor of the change.

Gilchrist said the Board of Governors, which ap-proves the Code, was noti-fi ed about the vote, received input from a summary she submitted and saw a presen-tation by Kappel.

Szewczyk said he expects the resolution to pass in the Senate when it comes up for vote Sunday.

“Student Senate is not a legislative body,” Sze-wczyk said. “We don’t make policy, we don’t en-force policy. We don’t have power in that sense. We do have power from taking students’ voices as a whole and giving them a chance to be heard and giving them a conduit to be heard.”

Parental Notifi cation Resolution

Design by Shane Haas/IndexSource: Senate’s proposed resolution

A parental notifi cation policy may discourage students from seeking medical attention for prob-lems related to drug and alcohol use out of fear that their parents will be called and notifi ed.

On April 17 and 18, The Truman State Student Association voted 77 percent to 23 percent against a ballot question regarding community standards that asked, “Should the administra-tors of TSU notify the parents of students who violate the drug and alcohol provisions of the student code of conduct when there is not an im-minent threat to students lives and the student is not a repeat offender of those provision?”

The student government requests either a change in a policy that would be in alignment with each member of the community’s defi nition of community standards or a written response stating how the students’ defi nition of com-munity standards or a written response to the ballot initiative in April 2006, was implemented when creating the community standards which students are now required to adhere to.

Law enforcement hopefuls learn the job through Explorers

Richard Boggsfor the Index

NEMO Justice Systems Ex-plorer Post 660, a program that cooperates with the Boy Scouts of America to teach young people law enforcement skills required for jobs in the fi eld, began its operations in Kirksville this semester.

The program focuses on peo-ple between the ages of 14 and 21, although adults are encouraged to participate as well.

When sophomore Nick Zotos heard about a Kirksville Post, he saw an opportunity to help.

“Because I am a justice [sys-tems] major, they sent out an e-mail letting us know that Kirksville’s going to try to start one up,” said Zotos, a Post member at the Ches-terfi eld, Mo., branch. “I was more than happy to help them set it up.”

This interest eventually led to the group’s fi rst organized meeting in August.

The Kirksville Police Depart-ment perceived a local interest in the Post, said Detective Jeremy Cordray of the Kirksville Police Department.

“Our Explorer Post is specifi -cally targeted toward law enforce-ment,” Cordray said.

However, he said Explorer Posts can focus on a number of subjects ranging from culinary skills to medical education, all of-fering skills in varied fi elds.

“Explorer Post can be any-thing,” Cordray said.

Because the Kirksville Post di-vision still is emerging, members have a distinct opportunity to help mold the organization as they see fi t, Zotos said.

Post 660 helps members devel-op a broad range of skills, giving them an educational experience with different aspects of law en-forcement, from being a prosecu-tor to a probation offi cer and even being in the FBI, Zotos said.

This convergence of law en-forcement offi cials makes the Kirksville Explorer Post unique compared to others across the country, he said.

“It’s a co-op effort between a

lot of different agencies and a lot of different groups,” Zotos said.

Aside from the Police Depart-ment, the Post also involves the Schuyler County Po-lice Department, the Conservation Depart-ment, the Department of Public Safety and the justice systems division offi ce, among others.

“It’s kind of this conglomerate of justice entities,” Zotos said.

This cooperation created a pool of re-sources that previously did not exist for the Post, he said.

For example, the Explorers had the privilege of attending a local law enforcement fair, which featured an assortment of vehicles, weapons and tools. The Explorers also could speak with informational instructors.

An average Post meeting incor-porates many hands-on activities, including interacting with drug dogs, Taser demonstrations and a visit from the SWAT team, Cor-dray said.

“One lucky person got to shoot

the Taser,” said senior Erin Roper, an adult adviser in the post.

The Explorer Post sparked Roper’s interest early on.

“When I was a kid, I saw a com-mercial [about Ex-plorer Posts] on TV,” Roper said. “In high school, [I] asked about it at the police department, they had a Post, so I joined it. I was 14 then.”

Now 22, Roper is an adult adviser to the local Explorer Post here in Kirksville.

“I’m really interested in white-collar crime,” she said. “That’s where the real bad guys are.”

Post 660 meets twice a month at 6 p.m. on Thursdays, but the orga-nization is not tied to one specifi c location.

Above all, the Explorer Post edu-cates participants on proper behavior in the presence of authority fi gures.

“A lot of people don’t know how to talk to police, and that’s not good for their safety or their con-stitutional rights,” Roper said.

3IndexThursday, October 26, 2006

MOHELA chairwoman resigns because of confl icting viewpoints

Nathan BeckerAssistant News Editor

The chairwoman of the Mis-souri Higher Education Loan Au-thority board resigned Wednes-day, citing disagreement with the plan to sell assets of the popular student loan authority.

Karen Luebbert, former MO-HELA chairwoman, was one of two board members who voted Sept. 27 against enacting the MOHELA plan. Four other board members voted to enact Gov. Matt Blunt’s plan, which is designed to renovate higher education build-ings across the state.

Luebbert could not be reached for comment at her Webster Uni-versity offi ce, but a Webster spokeswoman provided a state-ment Luebbert had written to ad-dress the situation.

“MOHELA needs a united board as it moves forward in im-plementing the Lewis and Clark Discovery Initiative,” Luebbert said in the statement. “I cannot support the selling of assets and, therefore, believe it is in the best interest of MOHELA that I resign, effective immediately.”

This is the latest of many twists and turns for the MOHELA sale, which include several board mem-bers resigning for different reasons and a lawsuit brought by the Mis-souri Attorney General’s offi ce, alleging that the sale violates the Missouri Sunshine Law.

It was revealed Oct. 15 that Blunt told two members of the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority board in a conference call that he wanted the agency’s executive director replaced, ac-cording to a report from the Co-lumbia Daily Tribune.

The phone call took place just hours before the board met and fi red acting Executive Director Mike Cummins on Jan. 24, but the board did not replace him with Blunt’s choice, Rick Fouts, a for-mer MOHELA controller. Instead, it appointed Raymond Bayer Jr., MOHELA’s associate director of business operations.

The phone call involving Blunt is described in sworn statements given in August by some MO-HELA board members to Attor-ney General Jay Nixon’s offi ce. The depositions were obtained by the Columbia Tribune via an open records request to the attorney general’s offi ce.

Melinda Wood, Truman fi -nancial aid director, said the sale of MOHELA especially could impact students whose loans are consolidated.

She said MOHELA offers unique benefi ts, such as reduction and interest rates, that might not be reproduced by the buying com-pany once the loans are sold.

“If that portfolio were sold, I’m not sure the students would retain those benefi ts,” Wood said.

Will Shaffner, associate direc-tor of business development at MOHELA, said the next step for the plan is to go before the Gen-eral Assembly.

“The board took up the resolu-tion, they voted on it, they passed it, and it’s now in the hands of the state legislature,” Shaffner said.

Monster YardPhoto by Lisette Metz Grulke

A resident of a house on East Mill Street exhibits some spooky spirit, dotting the lawn with infl atable decorations to get into the Halloween swing of things.

“One lucky person got to

shoot the Taser.”

Erin RoperSenior

Youth explore force

Kristyn PotterStaff Reporter

Freshman Teshome Assefa is one of the many University stu-dents who has received an en-dowed scholarship.

“If the scholar-ship amount that I received were high-er, I would greatly benefi t by putting the extra money towards books and other edu-cational expenses,” he said.

For Assefa and other students like him, the University Foundation Board has raised the mini-mum standard for new endowed schol-arships from $10,000 to $15,000.

Proposed Friday at the semi-annual meeting by the Board’s

development committee, the new standard will result in an additional $250 each year for students who receive these en-dowed scholarships.

“I think it will be very benefi -cial to [students],” said Joe Bam-

benek, member of the University Founda-tion Board and devel-opment committee.

The Board’s de-velopment committee proposed the initia-tive because the cost of education has in-creased. The $10,000 standard was set 15 years ago, and the cost of education has gone up signifi cantly, Bambenek said.

“The idea is to give recipients of the scholarship more money,” he said.

The University puts $10,000

in an account that earns 5 percent interest. With an endowed schol-arship, the interest accrued on that investment is the money that se-lected students will receive annu-ally as a scholarship.

Mark Gambaiana, vice presi-dent for University advance-ment, said the development committee researched other in-stitutions, and the scholarship minimum of endowed scholar-ships at the University is sig-nificantly lower than at other institutions, which also contrib-utes to the desire to raise the minimum amount.

“There is typically a $25,000 or higher minimum to establish a named endowed scholarship [at other institutions],” Gam-baiana said.

The process of establishing a named scholarship takes at least a year while the investment earns interest, Gambaiana said.

If donors aren’t able to provide the $15,000 for a named endowed scholarship, they have the option of providing annual scholarships.

The minimum for an annual scholarship is $1,000 and is typ-ically for those who don’t have the resources for a named en-dowed scholarship, Gambaiana said. Annual scholarships are terminated when the donor is un-able to provide funds, while en-dowed scholarships are perma-nent once they reach $15,000. He said about 75 percent of named scholarships are endowed.

“I think it will be a positive thing because it is going to pro-vide more benefi ts to students,” Gambaiana said. “I think it was a really solid decision.”

This new initiative will not affect donors who already have a named scholarship established. Only scholarships awarded after Oct. 20 will increase.

Newest resignation plagues MOHELA Board, initiative

Scholarships’ payoffs will increase

“I think it will be a positive thing because it is

going to provide more benefi ts to

students.”

Mark Gambaiana Vice President for

University Advancement

Blunt originally announced his plans to sell MOHELA on Jan. 26.

Although the board members approved the plan Jan. 31, their vote was rejected because there had been no public input. The board, then composed of several new members, re-approved the plan at its Sept. 27 meeting.

If approved, the sale is project-ed to provide about $350 million for higher education, including $21.6 million for Truman, which would go toward the renovation of Pershing Building.

Jan. 24: Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority Board of Directors fi res Ex-ecutive Director Mike Cum-mins after a few members have a teleconference with Gov. Matt Blunt.

Jan. 26: Blunt announces the Lewis and Clark Discov-ery Initiative, his plan to sell MOHELA assets to raise money for capital improve-ments at Missouri public universities and for new scholarship endowments.

Jan. 27: Raymond Bayer Jr. named interim MOHELA board director.

Jan. 31: MOHELA board votes to adopt Blunt’s plan.

Feb. 14: Attorney General Jay Nixon sues MOHELA board members for violating the Sunshine Law, which requires many government proceedings to be open to the public.

March 10: MOHELA board holds public meeting to reconsider plans.

June 16: Kathryn Swan re-signs from MOHELA board.

Aug. 28: Blunt proposes “cooperation agreement” between the state and MOHELA.

Mid-September: James Ricks, Marilyn Bush, and Charles McClain resign from MOHELA board.

Sept. 19: Stem cell re-search clause added to agreement.

Sept. 22: Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder tells Nixon to stop blocking the sale of MO-HELA assets.

Sept. 25: Coordinating Board of Higher Educa-tion announces support of Blunt’s plan.

Sept. 27: MOHELA board votes and approves Blunt’s plan.

Oct. 25: Karen Luebbert, MOHELA chairwoman, re-signs from MOHELA board.

Reported by Jessie Gasch and Nick WilseyDesign by Nick Wilsey/Index

MOHELA Timeline of Events

A university’s renovations are never done.

The roof of the Ophelia Parrish Per-formance Hall soon will be repaved to improve the acoustical quality within the hall [See story, Page 2].

Apparently the rain and other natural elements create such a racket that musi-cal events have been canceled, much to the dismay of student and faculty musi-cians campuswide.

Nonetheless, there isn’t a student or faculty member in Kirksville who is un-aware of the budget diffi culties that face not only our own university but higher education institutions statewide.

Therefore, the fi rst question after hearing about this expense that imme-diately springs to mind is, “So, where is the money coming from?”

The Board of Governors on Friday approved a $1-million allotment to rec-tify the problem.

The money will come from the main-tenance and repair budget, said Dave Rector, executive director institutional research and budgets.

In fact, President Barbara Dixon said the BOG members themselves were the ones to decide the hall’s repairs were of top priority.

“At some point [the BOG] said ‘Look, we just have to get this fi xed,’” she said. “And instead of waiting until we were done with all of the whys and wherefores and how comes, fi ghts and everything, they authorized us to go ahead and get it fi xed.”

It is diffi cult to criticize an adminis-trative body who takes action rather than hemming and hawing over coffee and donuts. Yet, concerns crescendo with the

downbeat of this decision.Is this one of the most immediate fi -

nancial needs on campus? Will the rather expensive repair actually eliminate the sound problem? Hasn’t OP had enough attention from construction workers in the past fi ve years?

Granted, the University is pursuing legal action for the shoddy outcome of the 2002 renovation, but the constant apparent favoritism of the music building above others on campus is approaching excessiveness.

Four years — the amount of time the average student spends to earn a college degree — is how long it has taken to ad-dress the issue legally.

And yet the original renovation errors still have not been rectifi ed, despite the fact that Bob Jones, dean of fi ne arts, said the University was aware of the acoustical issues immediately following the 2002 renovation.

Thus, the needed attention for other campus buildings has been either pushed off or neglected. Kirk Building fi nally is receiving roof repairs after years of the building existing in partial uselessness.

Baldwin Hall, in all its dilapidated glory, is a constant source of complaint among students and faculty.

Furthermore, there is no guarantee the $1-million roof repavement will cease the interruption of the elements during the “Hallelujah Chorus” or any other performance.

Without a completed lawsuit and the opinions of tuition-paying Truman students, perhaps the risk of such a cost might be worth the “whys and where-fores” where the precious little money of the University is involved.

4 EditorialThursday, October 26, 2006

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Index unfairly portrays Leverson in marijuana distribution article

It’s unfortunate that last week’s front page news [“Senior arrested for selling marijuana,” Page 1] went right for the throat, indicting the accused for an incident that has not yet been resolved by the courts.

This paper has been more courte-ous to alleged arsonists and suspected rapists.

It’s also unfortunate that Coach Currier’s comment had more to do with his own feelings of being cheated, rather than showing any concern for a young man who is now facing 10 years to life in prison and is a victim of entrapment.

But what’s most unfortunate is that an outstanding scholar and athlete, who represents the very best character of our students at Truman, has been branded a criminal by an institution he respects and a community he has served when we could be more supportive of our own.

Because if the accused was set up (in a pre-election round-up meant for “cleaning up the streets,” perhaps), then his tragedy is not his own. It’s all of ours and it affects us all. And it could affect any of us at any time.

For example, under Chapter 195 of the Missouri Revised Statutes (2005), “possessing a controlled substance” doesn’t mean one has to have something on one’s person. Basically, one can have knowledge of where something is (even if it’s not his), or one can know someone who has something, and this gives au-thorities the right to bust an individual.

Easily twistable laws such as this are vague but powerful, since they can be manipulated to incarcerate people. This is the case in the 2,000-foot drug-zoning law (Missouri Revised Statutes, Section 195.211.2) meant for protecting school children, which was inappropriately used to target a member of our community. A parallel analogy would be the Government manipulating the Patriot Act to arrest citi-zens as terrorists because it was possible.

So anyway, people should be a lot less quick to judge this thing until the full story comes out or a judge says it’s over. And students, in particular, should be aware that our civil liberties might not be as easy to protect as we think they are.

Mark Spitzer

Assistant Professor of EnglishAdviser for NORML and SSDP

Possible prison sentence of Leverson doesn’t fi t the crime

Arrested senior Jerard Leverson is at risk of spending 10 years in prison — and for what, allegedly selling grass? He might be put into a brutal prison for a decade, forced to live amongst real monsters and have his life destroyed, and for what?

Authorities have never been able to adequately explain why marijuana is illegal. “It’s a gateway drug,” said my good old DARE Officer Bulla back in 5th grade. Well, if that’s the logic, what about cigarettes or beer?

Marijuana is less dangerous than either cigarettes or beer.

Marijuana is less dangerous than driving on the freeway. The only reasons for its continued illegality are the government’s inability to find a reliable way to tax it and its refusal to admit it has lost the “war on drugs.” New solutions to drug use are in or-der, and they don’t include perpetually making drugs illegal.

Were marijuana legalized, gangland violence would drop, and the quality of the products would improve, along with its safety — and the same goes for other drugs. Remember Prohibition and a great American businessman named Al Capone? Capone never would have been powerful and dangerous were it not for a silly bunch of tyrants in Con-gress. Markets exist whether a particu-lar lobby in this country wants them to or not. And consider this: If drugs like marijuana were legal and they harmed people in very serious ways, consum-ers could sue the manufacturer. This is what reasonable people do when products don’t work.

A few years ago, when a big U.S. car company had a problem with its products gas tanks exploding, state legislatures and the federal government didn’t outlaw cars. Curbing freedom is never a solution to a problem, but hold-ing people to the contracts they make usually is.

The Leverson case is highly instruc-tive. Is it really worth the death of a young man’s future and his banishment to hell on earth (kept as a hell by the government, I might add. Do a little re-search on the staggering level of male-on-male rape in prisons in this country and the unwillingness of wardens to do anything about it, and you’ll see what I mean [makes Abu Ghraib look like Barney]) and all in the name of keep-ing something as harmless as marijuana illegal? It’s a bad trade. Wake up.

Jonathon BurnsSenior

Smoking ban takes away the right of choice for business owners

Smokers are the only minority I know of off hand who can have their rights taken away by a vote of “the ma-jority” because more than 70 percent of the Kirksville residents are non-smok-ers and under 30 percent smoke.

However, consider this: Accord-ing to “Breathe Easy Kirksville,” 21 percent of the population here smokes. This translates into 3,600 people, according to our census data. Now if they all quit going to bars and restau-rants and assuming they were spend-ing $1,000 a year eating and drinking out (to me this is a very low figure, our family spends closer to $3,000 a year eating and drinking out) this will cost the local businesses more than $3.5 million a year and about $300,000 in lost sales tax.

Financial concerns aside, what happened to the business owners’ rights,

the person that put up the thousands and in some cases, hundreds of thousands of dollars to open a business? Why can’t he or she say “this is a smoking establish-ment — non-smokers not welcome”?

Now I know this offends the sensibil-ities of some people, to think that they are not wanted somewhere or that their business is not appreciated, but non-smokers aren’t protected under the Con-stitution. I own a small local business and do not employ any non-smokers.

However, Jill McCord is not correct in saying that non-smoking students have a hard time finding work at a non-smoking business. At the time of this writing, there are five local shops that don’t allow smok-ing with “help wanted” signs out. McCord and Jeff Newton probably couldn’t vote on this issue as coun-cilmembers since they both own businesses that serve food. I don’t, as a free American, feel that others’ views of behavior should be shoved down others throats. If you don’t like to be around smoke, then follow Dale Blesz’s advice, and go to the 13 out of 40 establishments in town that vol-untarily do not allow smoking, and stay out of the ones that don’t want your business anyway.

Charles CannadayKirksville Resident

Football’s practice fi eld affects others, not just the football team

Truman’s men’s and women’s rugby teams are club sports and as such, we are not permitted to reserve the south field for practice during the week. We can reserve the field for intercollegiate matches only on a first-come basis.

In recent weeks, the Truman foot-ball coaching staff has moved football practices to the south field, citing a desire not to ruin their practice field. There is no question of access, since apparently they have first right, and we have no rights to the field. The rugby teams are relegated to small patches of uneven ground for prac-tice. Not only are we forced to move to smaller and less desirable prac-tice fields without notice, but in the process, the football team tears up our only available game field. On the best of days, the south “rugby” field is only minimally adequate as a playing surface. In fact, this field is inferior to the home fields available to every col-lege team we play, so it is even more embarrassing and frustrating when other collegiate rugby teams come to Truman to play on a field that is com-pletely torn up. We do not understand why the football team can’t use their own practice field, and let the men’s and women’s rugby teams continue to share the south field for practice and games.

Tim HageSenior

President of Bulls Rugby Club

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l Steven Chappell’s byline in his letter to the editor [Page 4, Oct. 19 issue] is incorrect. Chappell was a former assistant professor of communication at Truman, not an associate professor. Chappell also is not a professor at Middle Tennessee State University but is the Director of Student Media.l The story “A.T. Still invests in advanced $10-million technology center” [Page 1, Oct. 19 issue] contains a statistical error. On Page 7, the article states that “KCOM had until June 1 to raise nearly $8,000, the amount needed to receive the Kresge award.” The amount needed is actually $800,000.l An indirect quote was misattributed in “Monday coronation allows for sigh of relief” on Page 1 of the Oct. 19 issue. Senior Kelsey Umbarger said the committee believed having the King and Queen, as well as the rest of the court, present at activities throughout the week was another incentive for announcing [the winners] Monday because attending the parade has been one of the only activities they have, not senior John Allen as the attribution implies.

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5Other VoicesThursday, October 26, 2006

Around the Quad

Shantay Guytonfreshman

This week’s question:“Which building on campus needs the most

improvement?”

Billy Millerjunior

Becky Whitfordfreshman

Dibyesh Neupanefreshman

“I’d have to say Baldwin. Out of all the buildings I’ve been in, it’s not nice. Baldwin’s kind of old and dark.”

“The main diffi culty is in the [elevators]. They’re quite old.”

“I guess BNB because, some of the stories I’ve heard, some of the rooms are falling apart, and it’s the oldest residence hall.”

“[I would] probably say Baldwin, because it smells bad and it’s really hot.”

Chris Waller

“ I don’t know what comes over me or

anyone else that causes us to run for dark,

deserted places and embrace a chance to

scream.

“

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I know that many of you will say, ‘But I never

smoke and drive.’ Neither did he, until

that balmy April afternoon.

Marriage should not be treated youthfully

Phil Jarrett

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The problem is the motivation behind

marriage. For many, the answer is, ‘Because it seemed like the next

natural step.’

Departure of two columnists inspires reflection of their work

In something reminiscent of the way we all snatched up car keys the moment our biological clocks rolled over to 16, I have recently watched a handful of friends pop the big question. Mazel tov!

But something is nagging at the back of my brain. Perhaps it is that inner denial that will not allow me to acknowl-edge that I am offi cially up for grabs in the marriage meat market. It could be the devastatingly high divorce rate for those who marry before the age of 27. I want to be an idealist, but I reckoned a long time ago that my brand of idealism is entirely unique.

The problem is the motivation behind marriage. For many, the answer is, “Because it seemed like the next natural step,” as if this was on some sort of checklist of things to do before they die. It most likely is. In this mind set, love is enhanced by marriage. In fact, love is not love without marriage. Eureka! I have found the problem.

From my understanding, love is supposed to be infi nite, selfless and all-encompassing, an intimidating per-spective on a word so casually thrown around. For many, marriage is a sym-bol of something bigger, a love shared between two people, a metaphysical melting of two individuals into one while tapping into some sublime infi nity of affection or something equally ambigu-ous and cheesy. I am not here to bash love. Rather, love is the grand prize and marriage is just the trophy. If love is pure and eternal, then it certainly should be self-sustaining.

For the religious reader, I understand this does not comply with your notion of marriage whatsoever. Coming from a religious background, I understand your opinion that without divine approval, this love would not be wholesome. Es-sentially, this is God’s go-ahead on the dirty deed. And you know what? Make haste, clear things with the creator. This is an expression of your faith, and it is a vital part of it. If it has a celestial rubber stamp, by all means it should be self-sustaining.

What is not needed is state contract with potential to ruin — if God forbid, and for some of us that is literal — the whole thing fall through. Why is it we need legal validation of a cultural and religious practice? Perhaps it says some-thing about our faith in divine authority, our society or even our partner. Whatever the reason, this move from a symbolic covenant of love to a contract of obliga-tion has proven again and again to be the real threat to the sanctity of marriage.

Tax incentives aside, if a romance needs legal boundaries not to go careen-ing out of control, is it the kind of rela-tionship one really wants to waltz into?

‘’Tis the season’ takes on a different meaning in October

Daniel Glossenger

You just never know when the plastic chain saw is going to get you.

No matter where you turn this time of year, a host of ghoulish, growling, grotesque creatures are ready to leap out at you and knock your heart into your throat for the next 11 months. There’s no short-age of haunted houses, barns, cornfields or basements to give you the case of the creeps and provide oppressive claustropho-bia. And for some reason, we like it that way.

Sure, it’s autumn, but it’s also the Season of the Scare, that time close to Halloween when we throw caution to the wind and dive straight into the arms of the nearest werewolf. We play Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” continuously, become strangely fascinated with cobwebs and fake blood in Wal-Mart and spend hours watching horror movie marathons instead of toiling away at homework. We do all this, but for the real fun, we wait until darkness creeps in and the full moon rises before merrily trooping to the nearest haunted place. It doesn’t matter where, so long as we’re guaranteed to scream and dash madly for the exit.

I’m just as guilty as anyone when it comes to getting my thrill fi x. Halloween isn’t my favorite holiday by far, but I love a good scare like anyone else. For the past few years, I’ve made it a point to visit one of eastern Iowa’s premier autumn attrac-tions, the “Haunted Barn.” As the name suggests, this is indeed a small, run-down barn that, during the month of October, is filled with all things frightening. Despite its remote location and lack of public-ity, you’ll have to wait a good hour on weekends before even setting foot in the

building. That’s part of the fun. While standing in line and attempting to avoid death by wind chill, you can hear all sorts of tall tales about what really takes place inside Iowa’s version of the haunted house, everything from dismemberment to heart attacks to ghost sightings. One year, I hugged some sort of masked creature that was haunting the crowds, and another year I saw an unfortunate teenager get trapped in the bathroom as a man with a plastic chain saw lurked outside.

The hilarity only continues once you’re fortunate enough to get inside. Although the Haunted Barn is roughly the size of a large garage and has far too many places for the lunatics to hide. I’ve had more than my fair share of near-death experiences. I’ve been chased by crawling creatures that barked and howled, crashed into the Grim Reaper, ran headlong into walls and was once forced into a corner by the same thug with the chain saw. Ap-parently, he liked teenage girls, but I man-aged to escape without any missing body parts. You would think these experiences would reduce me to tears, but I laughed hysterically the whole time and vowed to

come back for more the following year. Honestly, I’m lucid and mostly normal

for the other 11 months of the year and so are the friends that I drag along with me to the haunted locale. I don’t know what comes over me or anyone else that causes us to run for dark, deserted places and embrace a chance to scream. Maybe it’s a sugar rush from too much Halloween candy or some demented desire to reenact a scene from “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” Maybe life is just too mundane for our liking, or maybe we want a second crack at those childhood monsters that lurked under our bed. Maybe we just enjoy screaming until we’re hoarse, with pounding hearts, goose bumps and defying doctor’s orders.

Whatever the reason, it’s become a tra-dition to pursue all things frightful during this season. The world is too crazy not to embrace the crazies once in a while. So run for your life, and pardon me if I trample you in my dash for the doors. I’m not get-ting trapped in any dark corners this year.

Sarah Shebek is a sophomore communication major from Iowa City, Iowa

Is that undying love or never-ending duty? So little consideration is given to the fi ne print in a legally recognized marriage, leaving it easy to walk into and a torment to leave. For those who would suggest that having no consequence would make marriage inconsequential, I offer this token: It has not stopped us before.

Limited outlets of civil union and do-mestic partnership, which can encompass heterosexuality, still exist. Granted, the tax breaks and joint-filing are non-exis-tent, there is no establishing of kinship, marriages cannot be used for immigra-tion purposes and, oh, no wedding presents.

Because the government has shown itself to be so incapable of keeping mar-riage sacred, it is time for its grand exit from the institution altogether. Now we do not have to worry about gay marriage interfering with religious exclusiveness. The legal entanglement for the romanti-cally entangled would be down played. No more obligation over infatuation.

The fact remains, heterosexuality still is enjoying superiority. However, superiority comes with a high cost. If anything, booting the state from our love lives might promote a healthy cynicism rooted in personal responsibility and the time required to nurture an intimate understanding of our partners.

But until that fateful day, college kids need to apply their critical thinking outside of academia. This early mar-riage phenomena might be the more romantic option, but it certainly is not the wisest.

Phil Jarrett is a junior philosophy and religion and communication

major from Chesterfield, Mo.

I sell marijuana online.Yes, you read correctly. I’m engaged in

the sale of what would be an illicit and con-trolled substance, if that were the whole truth. To be forthcoming, I’ve been addicted to the game “DopeWars Online” for about three weeks now, gleefully selling and stealing in a complete fantasy world of Internet drugs.

However, I’m also glad that in the real world, marijuana remains illegal.

Last week, senior Jerard Leverson was arrested for distribution of a controlled substance near a school, specifi cally, mari-juana near A.T. Still University of Health Sciences, according to the Oct. 19 issue of the Index. A guilty verdict for such a hefty offense carries with it the penalty of a mini-mum of 10 years in prison, according to the grand jury indictment.

However, Leverson is not alone in his plight. Every 42 seconds, a person is ar-rested in the United States for a marijuana-related offense, according to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

So why am I happy that we have laws that would imprison Leverson and others like him if they are found guilty? Why am I set against the reform of marijuana laws, which would allow for decriminalization?

Quite simply, marijuana is dangerous. In the United States, the Controlled

Substances Act of 1970 compartmentalizes drugs, marijuana included, into separate cat-egories of addiction, danger and medicinal use. According to its placement in Schedule I, marijuana has a high potential for abuse, has no currently accepted medical use as treatment in the United States and has no accepted safety method for use, even under medical supervision.

But let’s assume that you, like me, trust

nothing that the government has to offer, especially Nixon-era blanket statements about some “high potential for abuse” or a “lack of accepted safety for use.”

Then I’ll offer up the simple reason why I don’t smoke and have no desire to do so. It certainly isn’t the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.

Like many other future educators, I was inspired by a teacher I met in high school. She taught me physics and chemistry, and before I graduated, she told me the story of why she wore her daughter’s high school class ring.

Her daughter was ranked third in her class and was two weeks away from her graduation ceremony. She was driving home from school in her small evergreen Nissan truck, and as always, she was wearing her seatbelt.

A little blue Chevrolet crossed the thin yellow lines on the curving country road outside our suburban country town. And that little blue Chevrolet collided with the small green Nissan being driven by my teacher’s daughter.

A friend of her daughter knocked on my teacher’s door — an accident had happened nearby. At this point, my teacher began to

speak slower with fewer sentences. A green truck. Sirens. Broken glass. And she was gone.

The other driver stated that he began us-ing marijuana some time ago and then later became addicted to other drugs. He was under the infl uence of marijuana when he got behind the wheel of his vehicle.

I know that many of you will say, “But I never smoke and drive.” Neither did he until that balmy April afternoon. I know others among you will say, “But all I do is smoke marijuana, nothing more.” He would’ve said the same.

I can’t expect this column to convince you not to sell marijuana, much less decide not to smoke at all. But I can expect for you to just ask yourself, honestly, “Why?” Is your life that hard? Do you really need to escape that badly? Is it really that rebellious anymore?

In the words of one of my close friends, “It’s a ridiculous fad.” Unfortunately, for my former teacher, it’s a bit more than that, I’m afraid.

Just a bit.Daniel Glossenger is a junior

history major currently studying in Accra, Ghana

Sarah Shebek

“They didn’t inspire me to begin to write columns, but their work let me

know it was safe to do so.

Experience illustrates ills of marijuana usage

I’ve never written a eulogy before, but after sitting down to write this column, I have a strange feeling of what writing one would feel like.

Both avid readers of the Index and new-comers alike will notices two holes in the paper for the rest of the semester. I’m not talking about an actual blank spot in the pa-per (the editors would never let that slide) but instead the holes that will be left in the opinions section by the resignation of two of the most tenured and talented members who contributed to the Index.

Unfortunately, veteran columnists Joel Anderson and Chris Matthews both resigned from our paper last week, taking a combined six years of experience with them. Their decisions to leave were dif-ficult for both of them. Joel and Chris both thoroughly enjoyed writing and beyond that, they truly believed their columns made a difference in the community we share here at Truman. They believed their columns spurred public thought, debate and most importantly, communication. In my opinion, they did.

Their columns were unique and thought provoking, and I remember when I fi rst read them in the paper, I was amazed that someone at Truman had the guts to say the things they were saying, let alone the gall to print it. They didn’t inspire me to begin to write columns, but their work let me know it was safe to do so. They wrote

about sensitive topics when no one else would and oftentimes, put their own necks on the line as a result.

Joel and Chris are a rare breed. They didn’t write for their own personal gain, for the ability to have their picture in the paper every other week or for the money (trust me, no one here writes because of that). They wrote because they believed they could make the world a better place because of it. They believed the world had many issues that needed to be brought to attention, issues that needed to be talked about. They believed that they were providing a voice to the masses that had previously gone unheard.

And because of actions and decisions beyond their control, they felt as if the voices they had created had been silenced. They have both decided to take their work elsewhere to places where they feel their

talents can be used more effectively.I respect both Joel and Chris a great

deal for this decision, and even though their absence will be felt in the opinions section and in the paper as a whole, I believe they made the correct move. They were willing to take a stand when no one else would and were willing to give up everything, including their careers at the paper, for it.

They were both assets to the paper, and their contributions will be greatly missed. Speaking on behalf of all of their fans in the past few years, I would like to thank both of you for the hard work you’ve put into the paper, and I wish you both luck on your future endeavors.

Chris Waller is a senior communication and English major

from St. Joseph, Mo.

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6 Community Thursday, October 26, 2006

VIENNA CHOIR BOYS

Nathalie

Free to all Truman Students and Faculty

Oct. 26, 2006Downtown Cinema

7 p.m.

The festival was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Em-bassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC), the Florence Gould Foundation, the Grand

Marnier Foundation, the Franco-American Cultural Fund, and the Truman State University Divisions of Fine Arts, Language and Literature, Social Science, and Education and the offi ce of

the Vice President for Academic Affairs

French Dialogue with English Subtitles

Laura PratherStaff Reporter

Imagine being able to commu-nicate with someone by looking at them on a TV monitor.

Beginning January 2007, the Speech and Hearing Clinic at Tru-man will begin to develop its ser-vices as a new site in the Northeast Missouri Telehealth Network.

Truman clinicians will be able to have sessions with clients via TV monitor and camera with au-dio and video capabilities, said Paula Cochran, professor of com-munication disorders.

“I consider it to be pretty cut-

ting-edge,” Cochran said. “But it isn’t like nobody has ever done this before. People have already shown that this can be effective. It just hasn’t been done in Missouri or northeast Missouri.”

In the 2004-05 academic year, 109 clients received speech thera-py on a regular basis at the Speech and Hearing Clinic located in Bar-nett Hall, Cochran said.

The number of clients will not increase with the extended servic-es because of the limited number of clinicians, Cochran said.

“We are not expanding the number of clients, but a different kind of client will have better ac-

cess to us,” Cochran said.The communication disorders

department applied to be a part of the NEMO Telehealth Network and were informed of their ac-ceptance at the begin-ning of the semester.

“[It] won’t cost the University any-thing,” Cochran said. “It’s a service to the citizens of northeast Missouri and a great opportu-nity for students, so it’s like a win-win all around.”

The NEMO Telehealth Net-work, which is funded by a

grant from the Mis-souri Foundation for Health, began in July 2005, said Celia Hagan, project coor-dinator for NEMO Telehealth Network.

The main pieces of equipment are a TV monitor and camera, which send the video and audio through a broadband T1 line, Hagan said.

Other variations of equipment can be used for specifi c func-

tions, Hagan said.Cochran said Truman is ex-

pected to receive the equipment by the end of the semester so stu-dents can begin their training in the spring.

Students will learn how to use the equipment in their clinical practice course, Cochran said.

Currently, undergraduate and graduate student clinicians treat clients in need of speech therapy, senior Kate Carlson said.

Carlson, in her second semes-ter of being a clinician, said she is looking forward to being a part of the new project before she gradu-ates in December.

“If I go elsewhere, I’ll be one of the few people to say, ‘I’ve worked with Telehealth. I’ve experienced it, and it works or doesn’t work,’” Carlson said. “I’ll be able to bring that into future jobs.”

Carlson said that although she was skeptical at first, she thinks the new services will benefit everyone.

“I think it will bring a lot of positive attention to the Univer-sity,” she said. “Other universities don’t have the chance to provide this kind of service, and we’re stepping out in a new way, and I think that can only refl ect really well on the University.”

Citizens discuss smoking ordinance, Council approves new notifi cation system

Jackson GrovesStaff Reporter

More than 70 people packed city hall Oct. 18 to let council members know how they felt about a proposed smoking ban.

The ordinance would ban smoking in all bars, restaurants and city parks in Kirksville. Before the Council’s regular meeting, about 25 people went to the po-dium to speak on the issue, and all were unanimous in their support of the ban. They cited medical studies, per-sonal experiences and even used demonstrations to en-courage the City Council to vote on the ordinance rather than put it on the ballot.

Senior Josh Kappel sup-ported the ordinance but raised concern, saying people who go to bars to drink, and then go outside to smoke, might inadvertently violate public intoxication laws.

“In passing the ordinance, you have to look at the whole picture,” Kappel said.

Dr. Tom Mayer, of Academic Medi-cine Inc., said he has had to diagnose lung cancer in many patients and said fears of economic loss are far outweighed by the detrimental effects of smoking on health.

“There is overwhelming evidence that a smoking ban would help businesses,”

he said. “This is a health issue, not a per-sonal rights issue.”

Freshman Brittany Schultehenrich dem-onstrated how smoke circulates in a restau-rant by bringing to the Council a fi shbowl with masking tape down the center.

“On the right side of the tape, we have the no-smoking section,” she said. “On the left side is the smoking section. This dye represents a smoker. Watch what hap-pens when I put the dye in the bowl.”

After a few minutes, the dye had cir-culated throughout the entire bowl, par-alleling how smoke circulates through-out the restaurant.

Later in the meeting, the Council gave approval to Kirksville Police Chief Jim Hughes to begin the process of installing a new emergency telephone notifi cation system.

Hughes said the system would use existing phone lines and an automated mes-sage system to notify citizens of a wide variety of emer-gency situations. He said the system will notify citizens in every house in Adair County or specifi c neighborhoods if

the emergency is more localized. “Take, for example, a tanker spill out

on Highway 63, and there was a toxic plume of some type,” Hughes said. “We could estimate where it was headed and draw a circle around where that plume is going to go ... and the system would call every single home identifi ed by that circle on the computer system.”

Hughes said the system also would be

able to notify groups of people such as all physicians or city employees if an emer-gency was happening that needed their response. He also said people would have the option to put their cell phone numbers on the list so they could be notifi ed even if they were not at home.

He said the system would be pur-chased solely using money from a $51,000 grant from the Department of Homeland Security and would not cost local taxpayers anything.

The University tentatively had agreed to house phone lines for making the local-ized calls, which would mean that the city would save money and not have to pay additional expenses, Hughes said.

“There are a number of diverse uses for

this system,” Hughes said. “The primary purpose is as an additional emergency no-tifi cation system. Based on the system’s parameters, we have the ability of mak-ing a phone call to every single resident in Adair County within 30 minutes.”

Hughes recommended that the Coun-cil approve purchase of a system through GeoComm because it handles the routing of 911 calls in the area. Hughes said the Police Department had arranged to set up a “bank” of 50,000 one-minute phone calls, which would be enough calls to make four mass notifi cations of everyone in Adair County.

After the 50,000 calls are used up, the cost per call for the mass calls would increase to 15 cents per 30-second call,

Hughes said. He said he did not know of any com-

munities in northeast Missouri that had a similar system. He said he thinks the system could be up and running by January.

The system would be useful for a wide variety of different uses, including getting word out about epidemic outbreaks of viruses, hazardous material spills, lost or abducted children, escaped suspects and boil orders, Hughes said.

The system would not replace weather sirens, emergency broadcast system or the cable notifi cation systems currently in place because each one serves a slightly different purpose, he said.

“This is just another tool in the emer-gency notifi cation toolbox,” Hughes said.

Ban discussion draws crowd

Jackson Groves/IndexFreshman Brittany Schultehenrich demonstrates at the City Council meeting Oct. 18 how smoke dissipates from the smoking section of a restaurant to the nonsmoking section by using a fi shbowl with masking tape and dye.

University’s Speech and Hearing Clinic will join NEMO Telehealth

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??who died in 1998.

“She really made history come alive,” Mach said. “It was really a great desire of hers to make sure that in some way we were able to historically bring alive the great story of Truman State University, which is her dream, not only just to have a museum but for it to be visible, to be something that could engage the public.”

Mach said the Board deliber-ated before allocating the Univer-sity funds to the museum.

“We are always very frugal, and we are very cautious about making sure we never spend our funds in a frivolous manner,” she said.

At the Board meeting Friday, Mach said the current Offi ce of Admission is directed inward to-

ward campus and that this adds to the anxiety students feel on their fi rst visit to the University.

“I know the apprehension that young freshmen take with them to the campus, not only the stu-dents, but their families,” she said. “I think of this as sort of a gateway or pathway into the in-ner campus, a way to feel good and secure.”

7IndexThursday, October 26, 2006

On the Ballot Constitutional Amendment 6

Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to include a tax exemption for real and personal property that is used or held exclusively for nonprofi t purposes or activities of veterans’ organizations?

Constitutional Amendment 7 Shall Article XIII, Section 3 of the Constitution be amended to require that legislators, statewide elected offi cials, and judges forfeit state pensions upon felony conviction, removal from offi ce following impeachment or for misconduct, and to require that compensation for such persons be set by a citizens’ commission subject to voter referendum?

Source: sos.mo.gov

Photo Illustration by Samantha SanchezSenior nursing major Julie Bahr demonstrates how to give an infl uenza vaccine Monday. Junior Sheryl Adams received her fl u shot earlier that day. Now students will be able to get fl u shots anytime during normal Student Health Center hours.

Phil Jarrett/IndexThe fi rehouse at the corner of Franklin and Normal Streets will undergo massive renovations before it opens as the Dr. Ruth Towne Museum and Visitor Center in 2008.

Continued from Page 1off by the media personalities.

After Summers and McClana-han had answered the questions, candidates for State Senator Bob Behnen and Wes Shoemyer, were in-troduced and went through the same process.

Debi Boughton, project manager for the Chamber of Commerce, said her organization does not support a particular party or endorse specifi c candidates. They have been holding candidate forums for several years.

“We like to edu-cate the public, so our goal is to give opportunities ... so the voters can

vote for who they want and on the issues they want,” said Boughton.

Boughton said all Adair Coun-ty candidates not running unop-

posed chose to attend the forum. About 250 citizens showed up to the event.

Kirksville citizen Roger Nettleton said he attended the forum to support McClanahan and Shoemyer and to fi nd out how the candi-dates felt about issues like the stem cell initia-tive. He said he wished the candidates had more time to speak and ex-pand on their issues.

“You get kind of a fast glimpse that really doesn’t always repre-sent how [the candi-

dates] really feel about an issue,” Nettleson said.

More convenient fl u vaccines will cost students $15

Lisette Metz GrulkeAssistant Features Editor

The Student Health Center wants to stick as many students as possible — at their convenience.

Starting Tuesday, students can get an influenza vaccine at the health center on a walk-in basis for $15.

“The faculty and staff will still have a flu shot clinic, a couple set hours that they can come in and get them,” said Brenda Higgins, director of the health center. “But students will be able to come in at any time besides those hours and get the shot then.”

In the past, students only could receive flu shots during flu shot clinics, which occurred once during the fall semester.

Higgins said they made

changes to ease the process of getting a flu shot.

“We’re trying to really make it more accessible for students so that more students are able to get them,” she said. “We always try to do everything we can to prevent students from getting sick.”

Senior Liz Raine said she thinks the convenience factor of the new flu shot availability will en-tice more students to get them.

“If you think about the blood drives, where you have to sit and wait an hour to give blood, I’d think the same would happen at a flu shot clinic,” Raine said. “If you can just walk in and get one, people will be more likely to get one.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recom-mends that anyone who wants

to avoid getting influenza re-ceive a flu shot in October or November, according to their Web site.

People in groups at high risk for complications from influ-enza, like people with asthma,

compromised im-mune systems, young children and the el-derly are especially encouraged to re-ceive a flu shot.

People who are al-lergic to eggs should not receive flu shots because of a poten-tial allergic reaction, according to the CDC Web site.

It’s a common misconception that a

person can get the flu from re-ceiving a flu shot.

“You can’t get the flu from getting a flu shot,” Higgins said. “You can get a little achy, or have an immune response that will give you some flu-like

symptoms, like a runny nose or a low-grade fever. But you can’t actually get the flu.”

Although the vaccine is rec-ommended and the health cen-ter is trying to make the process as easy as possible, many stu-dents still will not get the flu vaccine.

“I see the health importance of getting one, but I don’t think I need one,” Raine said. “I don’t think I’ll ever get the flu.”

Junior Amanda Senn said that although it might be easier to get the shot now, she is not likely to get one.

“I’ve never really gotten a flu shot before because I’ve never gotten the flu,” Senn said. “I don’t know if I’d get one at the health center because I’ve been there before, and I don’t really trust the information they’ve given me.”

Senn said cost also is a fac-tor that plays into her decision.

“Maybe I’d get one if it was free,” she said.

Students walk in for shots

Continued from Page 1John Fraire, associate vice presi-dent for enrollment, was involved with the decision of relocating the Offi ce of Admission.

“I was happy when the Uni-versity decided to make the move and also to have the admissions offi ce there,” Fraire said. “It’s a central location. ... It’s to our ad-vantage that students and parents and guests see a modern welcom-ing center.”

Brad Chambers, co-director of the Offi ce of Admission, said the move won’t take too long.

“With our operation, it seems we’re always open,” Chambers said. “I suspect the move will be very quick, so we’re not unavail-able to visitors at any time.”

He said the new location will help Admissions counselors to tell the University’s story visually.

The extra space in McClain Hall that will become available will not go to waste.

Dixon mentioned several offi c-es that are cramped, including the Business Offi ce and the Human Resources Offi ce.

“Certainly a piece of Advance-ment would ... come upstairs,” she said. “But there are many ways in which you can reconfi g-ure space.”

Dixon said the museum is set to open in 2008.

Campus Planner Doug Winick-er confi rmed that the construction of the museum should take about 18 months. However, he said the University has not chosen an ar-chitect yet.

The Board authorized a feasibil-ity study for the fi rehouse in May, Winicker said. He said the study, which was conducted by HKW Architects, cost about $15,000. The cost was split between the University and the University Foundation, which is the nonprofi t organization that manages private donations to the University.

“We looked at various fi rms and made a recommendation as to someone well-qualifi ed to do the study,” Winicker said.

Ruth Mach, president of the Board, said the museum will honor Towne, a 1939 University graduate and longtime professor

MUSEUM l Feasibility study determined former fi rehouse could be converted

Continued from Page 1these were part of the prob-able cause for Robinson’s arrest. Robinson also had three small cuts on his hand, according to Feeney’s state-ment.

The investigation is ongo-ing, meaning more charges might be filed, Hughes said.

He said police still are seeking witnesses to the event.

“We know there’s a lot of witnesses out there that have yet to come forward, and we’re asking for the public’s help,” Hughes said. “Give us a call, and let us know what you saw or heard.”

Roberts is being repre-sented by local attorney Jay Benson. Roberts’ preliminary hearing is set for 2 p.m. Nov. 22, and Robinson’s will be the same day at 9 a.m.

Neither Norfolk nor Ben-son could be reached for comment.

FIGHT l Police chief asks witnesses to come forward

“You can’t get the fl u from getting a fl u

shot.”

Brenda HigginsDirector of the Student

Health Center

FORUM l All Adair County candidates not running unopposed attend Tuesday’s event

BALLOT l Proposed amendments join listContinued from Page 1strongly supports this amendment.

“I would judge by the sign on the front door that we support the amendment,” said Richard Ellis, Vietnam War veteran and member of the VFW. “I’m 99.9

percent satisfi ed with the way that [veterans] are treated.”

The Secretary of State offi ce approves all ballot items. Stacie Temple, media contact for the secretary of state, did not return repeated phone calls.

“We like to educate the

public ... so the voters can vote

for who they want and on

the issues they want.”

Debi BoughtonProject Manger for the Chamber of Commerce

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Locals unite with devout collegians

photo submittedSenior Allison Roth (front, center) roasts apples with members of the Grace Community Bible Church youth group at an event last year. Roth frequently helps out with youth events at the church.

Stefani Wittenauerfor the Index

When Truman students move to Kirksville each school year, they bring more to the community than just added revenue.

Students also bring a dedi-cation to religion that impacts faith-based communities in the Kirksville area. Members of the community and Truman students often join together to practice their faiths.

Christian Students Volunteer Time, TalentCollege students are often de-

picted as nonreligious people who only care about partying, but new research suggests that this stereo-type is incorrect.

A majority of college students say religion is important in their lives, according to a Harvard University poll released this year. The poll also found that 25 percent of students said they had become more spiritual since en-tering college.

Junior Zach Smyth feels the same way and chooses to volun-teer at an area church.

Smyth spends every Wednes-day night serving as a youth group leader through the Mary Immacu-late Catholic church in Kirksville.

Smyth said he volunteered at Mary Immaculate because he re-members the positive impact his youth group leaders had on him when he was a teenager.

“I had really inspirational and cool people that I could look up to when I was in youth ministry and stuff back in high school,” Smyth said.

Chris Korte, coordinator of youth ministry for Mary Immacu-late, said Truman students such as Smyth serve as role models for youth group members.

“The example the college stu-dents set is golden,” he said.

During the summer, when many Truman students leave Kirksville, Korte said weekly youth groups do not meet because of the lack of available leaders. Korte said student volunteers from Truman are essential to youth ministry at

Mary Immaculate.“They’re really the youth min-

isters of our parish,” Korte said.Korte said the experience often

benefi ts both the teenagers and the college students.

“[The college students] get to know the teenagers and kind of build that sense of bond with them,” he said.

Area Churches Welcome Students

Although college students do not usually make large financial contributions, area churches view them as important mem-bers of their congregations. Many churches, such as the Kirksville Church of Christ, spend valuable time and re-sources on college-aged mem-bers of their congregations.

Alan Klein, a deacon at the Church of Christ, said the church community wants to help students strengthen their faith during their college years.

“We look at the college time as being the most vulnerable time,” Klein said. “It’s important for us to keep [college students] strong and give them a reason to follow God.”

To achieve these goals, Klein said the Church of Christ tries to make students feel welcome by offer-ing free meals every Sunday evening and gearing Bible studies toward college stu-dents.

Other area church-es also make efforts to welcome college students into their congregations.

Senior Corey Hasting, a member of Grace Commu-nity Bible Church, said her church makes her feel like she is part of the Kirksville community.

Grace Community Bible Church offers college students the opportu-nity to be “adopted” by a Kirksville family for the school year. Hasting

said she signed up for the adopted family program and feels that it has helped her build relationships with non-students.

“It’s nice to have somebody in the community who you can go to,” she said.

Hasting said she knows that if she ever has a problem or needs help, her Kirksville family will be

there for her.Nancy Cham-

berlain is Hasting’s adoptive mother at Grace Community Bible Church. She has adopted eight Truman students this semester be-cause she wants the students to feel at home in Kirksville. Chamberlain said she feels sympa-thetic toward the students because of her own daughter.

“After my daugh-ter went to college, I realized what it’s like for a kid to be

away from home and not have other adults that really care about them,” she said.

She and her family invite the college students to their home for meals and other activities.

“We have them over for dinner on Sunday afternoon when most of them can make it,” she said. “We have lunch together, and we just have a good time talking.”

Hasting said that although she is involved with Campus Cru-sade for Christ, an on-campus ministry group, she still enjoys forming bonds with other mem-bers of the community.

She said her participation with an off-campus church allows her to meet new people and learn from their experiences, instead of only interacting with college students.

Non-Christian Religions Come Together

For some Truman students, however, a place of worship is not right around the corner.

Some Jewish and Muslim stu-dents drive more than 90 miles to Columbia, Mo., to visit their places of worship because the Kirksville area does not have a synagogue or mosque.

Therefore, those students who practice faiths other than Christi-anity form their own communities in Kirksville.

Junior Andrea Cluck, president of the Muslim Students Associa-tion, said Muslim students at Tru-man come together despite the ab-sence of a mosque in Kirksville.

“We do our Friday prayers ac-

tually here in a room in the library, and we just try to have a room re-served for that because you can pray in any clean place, so we just kind of put a sheet down on the fl oor and go about our business,” she said.

Cluck said the Muslim Stu-dents Association exists foremost as a community for the Muslims on campus, but the organization also strives to provide informa-tion to non-Muslims. She said she thinks it’s important that people have a better understand-ing of Islam.

“There just isn’t a lot of access [to information about Islam] other than what you see on CNN, and even if that’s factual, it’s almost never positive,” Cluck said.

Christians make up 93 per-cent of Adair County residents who claim a religious affilia-tion, according to the Associa-tion of Religion’s County Mem-bership Report.

Although Muslims are a mi-nority in Adair County, Cluck said she has felt accepted at Truman and in the Kirksville area.

“I think overall, the commu-nity treats us positively and are receptive of us, especially when-ever we do education experienc-es,” she said.

Similarly, Jewish students at Truman are a religious minority

in Kirksville. Sophomore Anna Horowitz, president of Hillel, the Jewish student organization on campus, said Hillel allows Jewish students to feel connected to one another.

Because Kirksville does not have a synagogue, Horowitz said Jewish students usually only at-tend religious services for major Jewish holidays.

“During the holidays, we take cars down [to Columbia],” she said. “It’s hard because we really can’t do a weekly thing.”

Horowitz said interacting with Jewish faculty members and their families helps students feel wel-come.

Daniel Mandell, adviser of Hillel and associate professor of history, coordinates gatherings for Jewish holidays.

“My family is Jewish,” Man-dell said. “We celebrate Jewish holidays, and we invite Jewish students and other Jewish fac-ulty members and people in the community who we know to cel-ebrate with us.”

Horowitz said Hillel is a small group with only about 12 to 14 active members, but the organiza-tion gives Jewish students a sense of belonging.

“It’s basically a place to go, a community,” she said.

“I think overall, the community

treats us positively and

are receptive to us, especially

whenever we do education

experiences.”

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Busch asks for vote on locally inspired beerSt. Louis brewery tries hand at specialty beverage as consumers favor microbrews to draft beer

Richard Boggsfor the Index

This election requires voters to be 21 years or older.

The Specialty Brewing Group of Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. is having a beer election in October called “You Choose It, We’ll Brew It,” in which adults choose between three beers that em-body a unique Missouri theme. Based in St. Louis, Anheuser-Busch is promoting Mule Kick Oatmeal Stout, Confl uence Amber Wheat and Pilot House Pilsner.

“We were asked to get creative and brew some-thing different that would appeal to the tastes of Mis-souri’s specialty beer drinkers,” according to a press release from Mark Fabrizio, assistant brewmaster of the Specialty Brewing Group. “We’re looking for-ward to tapping the fi rst keg of the winning beer for the people of Missouri.”

Legal participants can choose their favorite by voting online at originalbeers.com. The election ends Oct. 31, and the winner will be announced the next day.

The Wooden Nickel restaurant and bar already of-fers the most common Anheuser-Busch products.

“Bud Light’s the No. 1 seller,” Wooden Nickel owner Dan Vogt said. “Doesn’t matter if it’s a keg or if it’s in bottles. Usually whenever they come out with something new, we give it a shot.”

However, Vogt said he is not surprised that An-heuser-Busch is moving into the micro-brew mar-ket.

“They just want it all,” Vogt said. “They don’t want a small piece of the pie. They want the whole pie.”

Following the competition, the winning beer will be inaugurated into the Missouri market Jan. 8, 2007. The elected beer will be available only in Mis-souri and “other select local markets as a draught-only brew,” according to an Anheuser-Busch press release.

“They make money making Bud and Bud Light, that is where their business is,” said Bob Sullivan, vice president and chief marketing offi cer of Boule-vard Brewing Co.

The Kansas City-based brewery is the No. 2 beer producer in the state.

With regular beer sales dropping and specialty beer sales on the rise, Sullivan said he thinks Anheus-er-Busch is trying to appeal to a broader market.

“It’s kind of like throwing darts at a wall and see-ing what sticks,” Sullivan said. “They’ve tried so many things.”

The three beers Anheuser-Busch is offering to Missouri voters all are associated with the state in several ways.

Mule Kick, an oatmeal stout, is a thick combina-tion of caramel and chocolate fl avors with the added elements of coffee and oatmeal. It has an alcohol content of 5.9 percent. Much like Missouri, the beer is represented by a mule, “known for his stubborn-headed kicking-style,” according to a press release from Anheuser-Busch.

Confl uence, a lighter amber wheat beverage, conveys the union of many Missouri state riv-ers. Brewed with both wheat and caramel malt, the drink has an alcohol content of 5.35 percent

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Students clean donated skeleton

Samantha Sanchez/IndexCharlie Apter, associate professor of agriculture, examines the donated bones of a horse. The bones were moved to Magruder Hall this week for cleaning.

Katie JohnsonStaff Reporter

Freshman Kate Richardson recently spent an afternoon collecting bones on the University Farm with a skull staring her down.

Richardson and Charlie Apter, associ-ate professor of agriculture, were gather-ing the bones from a skeleton of a horse who died at the University Farm. Volun-teers from the Introduction to Equine Sci-ence class will create a new skeleton from the bones like the one that normally stands in the downstairs display case of Magrud-er Hall.

“It was a little creepy to have the skull laying there and have it, like, looking at you,” Richardson said.

Alumna Tammy O’Haver owned the horse whose bones will be on display.

The horse, named Mystique, was 25 years old and had terminal liver cancer when O’Haver decided to donate Mystique’s body to the Truman science department.

“She went downhill pretty fast,” O’Haver said. “Her quality of life wasn’t good enough to try any treatments.”

O’Haver said she knew the skeleton they had was going to be put in the display case and not pulled out for labs, which is something she had greatly enjoyed as a Truman student.

After speaking with Apter, O’Haver said she brought Mystique from where she had been stabled in Queen’s City, Mo., to the University Farm. The horse was put to sleep in a remote spot on the farm, she said.

The horse’s body was surrounded with fencing to form a cage to prevent other animals from scavenging it. The body lay in that position for two years as the fl esh

disintegrated and deteriorated, Apter said.Apter helped others collect the bones.“It’s like an archaeological thing,” Ap-

ter said.The bones were collected as system-

atically as possible, he said. The vertebrae were threaded onto a long piece of wire to keep them in order. Originally, the plan was to have a bucket to collect the bones for each leg, but because the legs weren’t as separated as they had suspected, that didn’t work.

Although the bones are in good con-dition, the skeleton needed to be cleaned before it could be assembled.

“It still has tissue sticking to it in some parts,” Apter said.

Students began cleaning the bones Oct. 17. Apter said he plans to use the same cleaning process for this skeleton that was used for the fi rst skeleton. First, the bones

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Photo submitted, Design by Lindsay Koski/Index

Julie WilliamsStaff Reporter

Respect that ice cold glass of beer and not just for the obvious reasons.

Brewing beer is a process that takes weeks from start to fi n-ish. From the breweries at An-heuser-Busch Companies, Inc. to the kitchens of beer fanat-ics across the country, brewing beer requires some knowledge of various ingredients and how they will react with one another to produce a good blend.

“Most college students see beer as just a way to get really drunk, and they don’t really care

how it’s made or what the fl avor is or anything,” said sixth-year senior Greg Smith. “Not only is it a semi-complicated process, but you do learn a lot about the chemical processes.”

Smith is a history major, who said beer has been around since the beginning of civilization, when people used the brewing process to kill bacteria in their water. He said he has dabbled in brewing his own beer, par-ticularly a Sumerian recipe he found. He said that turned out pretty well.

“It does take a little bit of know-how to do it,” Smith said. “Once I’m out and have

my own place I’ll probably just brew some for my own tastes.”

Adam Franklin, brew-er and bar manager at Il Spazio, has been the man behind the restaurant’s beer for two years. He said he trained for three months under the previous brewer, who was an agriculture science and biol-ogy major, and therefore had a much better understanding of the science behind brewing.

“[Brewing beer is] very easy to look at overall, but once you start getting into the nitty gritty of

i t , it starts to get really, really complex,” Franklin said.

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Iraq veteran loads game with his artillery skills

Master Sgt.Jack Glasscock

Military service: As a member of the mili-

tary for 20 years, Glass-cock has served at bases throughout the U.S., North Korea, Germany and Iraq. While in Iraq, Glasscock said he commanded 108 soldiers in the 3rd infantry division.

Classes he teaches: As a senior military instruc-

tor for ROTC, Glasscock does training and leader-ship preparation for juniors in the Leadership Develop-ment Assesment Course.

Truman football: Glasscock oversees the

ROTC members who fi re the cannon at Bulldog Foot-ball home games. At the game Saturday, Glasscock said he did a back fl ip to encourage the team.

Reported by Diane Poelker

Chris Tharp/IndexMaster Sgt. Jack Glasscock reloads the ROTC cannon after Truman scored a touchdown against Washburn University on Saturday afternoon during the Homecoming game. The ROTC fi res the cannon every time the Bulldogs score.

Diane Poelkerfor the Index

Master Sgt. Jack Glasscock commanded artillery in Iraq. Now, he fi res up football fans.

Glasscock works as the senior military instructor for Truman’s ROTC program. At home football games, he dedicates his time and expertise to overseeing the can-non crew.

“It’s a lot of fun,” Glasscock said. “It ... connects us to the school in one way that we’re part of the team, and it also instills mo-rale with the football team.”

Glasscock said cannons are rarely found at schools of Tru-man’s size. The cannon, a Pac 75 Howitzer, fi res before the start of the game, at halftime and every time the Bulldogs score. Three crew members, who learn drill, ceremony and rifl e movement, man the cannon. Seven other ROTC members also join the crew on the fi eld.

“They do push-ups every time [the Bulldogs] score,” Glasscock said.

Although Truman’s cannon is used only for ceremonial purposes, Glasscock had fi rst-hand experi-ence with artillery in battle. In Iraq, Glasscock commanded 108 sol-diers in the third infantry division. One of his platoons shot fi ring mis-sions using a Howitzer cannon. His unit also provided security escorts for personnel of the different min-istries in the Baghdad area.

“It’s a different story over there,” Glasscock said. “It’s not what you see. I loved [Iraq]. In a perverse way, I loved it. I actually volunteered to go with the unit that was deployed.”

Glasscock said his experiences ranged from daily patrols and e-mails home to an attack by a sui-

cide bomber that nearly killed him. He relocated to Truman in February and began his fi rst civilian assign-ment in his 20 years of service.

Glasscock said the main reason he started teaching at Truman was to spend time with his family.

“A lot of times in the afternoon we’ll go on a run, and we’ll stop at [Glasscock’s] house,” said Katie Theismann, sopho-more ROTC student and leader of cannon crew. “He brings his son and his daughter sometimes to football games. ... He brought his son to Ab Blast-ers.”

Glasscock’s main duty at Truman in-volves preparing third-year students for the Leadership Development As-sessment Course. The summer af-

ter junior year, cadets attend camp at Fort Lewis, Wash., to practice small unit tactics and battlefi eld skills.

“He’s very knowledgeable about how real world stuff works and book stuff,” junior Jeff Nick-

erson said. “He’s got a lot of fi eld experi-ence which is good.”

Much of Glass-cock’s unique style can be credited to his recent deployment.

“I teach some out of the text, most out of experience,” he said. “The good thing about it, though, is now I have a way to infl uence these cadets that are soon to be offi cers before they get on the bat-tlefi eld. ... They’ll go

in as much confi dent and knowl-edgeable leaders.”

“It’s a differ-ent story over there. It’s not

what you see. I loved [Iraq]. In a perverse way, I

loved it.

Master Sgt. Jack Glasscock

Senior Military Instructor for ROTC

In the words of the late TuPac: “Picture me rollin’.”

Just sitting behind the wheel of my beloved Joey — a candy red 2000 Pontiac Sunfi re with squishy zebra-striped dice swing-ing from the rearview mirror.

I’m cruising down Interstate 70 headed back to my hometown from an eventful weekend at my grandma’s house.

It’s a warm summer day, and most of my fellow motorists have their windows down, shades on and music blaring.

Including him.In fact, when this board-shorts

clad fella pulls up beside me in his yellow Jeep Wrangler, I’m grateful my dollar-store sunglass-es prevent him from noticing my blatant staring.

This guy is the reason blond hair exists.

And from the look he’s got, most likely he’s heading to a beach to meet his gorgeous, four-pack-abs girlfriend. (Don’t ask me where the beach might appear in eastern Missouri.)

But somewhere between con-centrating on the absolute chore that is driving on I-70 in St. Louis and sneaking peeks at my new favorite highway attraction, I realize he’s staring back.

At me.Being the complete and total

dork I most often embody, a grin stretches across my face from ear to ear.

And suddenly, I have the confi dence of a recently crowned Miss America.

I’m sexy. I’m beautiful. Mr. Cool-Collected-Surfer Guy is tossing me one of those half smiles that undoubtedly say, “What a shame we’re not in the same car, so I could ask your name.” In a British accent no less.

And thus, the strategy of car fl irting begins.

Car fl irting, as I discovered this summer, is an infi nitely better way to pass the 35 minutes from home to work in downtown Kansas City than, say, look-ing for out-of-state license plates or counting how many billboards advertise awkward subjects (Viagra, Vagisil, etc.).

Initially the practice seems almost boringly simple. After all, what’s dif-fi cult about taking the time to glance out the window and send some friendly karma to another driver who just happens to be the spitting image of Heath Ledger (or Keira Knightley)?

And the benefi ts far outweigh the effort necessary to put forth. Think of that stranger at the grocery checkout who compli-mented your new jeans.

Car fl irting is the exact same thing but without the scary pressure of having to verbally respond.

And if you have any imagina-tion at all, in no time you’ll be cruising down the Vegas strip with Heath (or Keira) by your side.

It is, as with all great things, as easy as it sounds. My best strategy of yet is traveling in the middle lane — if you have three to choose from — for optimum opportunity.

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From there, follow a few sim-ple steps: Watch as a car pulls up on either side of you, and take note of the driver’s gender.

For me, this summer, my target was a male, preferably traveling alone or accompanied by one or two other males.

Once you locate an attractive subject, make eye contact and smile.

Then wait. If the person reciprocates

interest, he or she might make an effort to keep their car next to you. Or, if he or she is the immature, show-off brand, they

might speed ahead and then slow down again to reconnect.

Of course, you can develop your own car fl irting style.

I refrained from anything vulgar and most often wasn’t brave enough to speed up or slow down to adjust

myself to another’s pace. But if the right vehicle model

comes along, who knows what you’ll do.

Car fl irting isn’t for everyone. And many of you might think the concept is silly or beneath you.

But just wait until that sandy-haired chap in a Jeep drives next to you, grinning for a solid mile.

I once had a car full of guys waving and hollering at me while I was driving home from a long night at work, looking like I’d been run through a printing press.

It does wonders for your mood.

And although I’ve since traded in my wandering eyes for an “In a Relationship” status on Facebook, I’d highly recommend giving car fl irting a chance.

Just don’t forget to keep your eyes on the road.

photo submittedMaster Sgt. Jack Glasscock in Iraq during his last tour of duty.

IndexThursday, October 26, 2006

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Scene

Arts, education, leisure can be found about an hour from Kirksville

April Murdock for the Index

Seventy-three miles from Kirksville lies a town rich in his-tory and the arts.

Quincy, Ill., has a lot to offer college students. Within the span of one weekend, students can fi nd a multitude of things to do in Quincy from shows to exhibits to tours.

“We have wonderful architec-ture on Maine Street, a number of galleries,” said Judith Winkel-mann, executive director of the Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County. “We have a water-color society, very talented artists, a symphony and dance compa-nies.”Saturday: 7:30 p.m. River North Chicago Dance Company performance at Morrison Theater

The Quincy Civic Music Asso-ciation is in its 80th season of pro-viding professional concerts. The association typically puts on fi ve concerts each season, which lasts from September to April. One of the concerts in their series this sea-son features the River North Chi-cago Dance Company. The Satur-day performance of the Company will feature both jazz and modern dance.

Mowbray Allan, president of the Civic Music Association, said the concert will give people a chance to unite and enjoy a cul-tural event.

“It provides live entertainment that brings people together from the community to share an expe-

The subject of the 1998 Robin Williams fi lm will speak Nov. 1

Julie WilliamsStaff Reporter

The Student Activities Board secured students’ No. 1 choice for a fall speaker this year, and he is coming to Truman on Nov. 1.

Patch Adams, the comedic doctor played by Robin Wil-liams in the 1998 movie “Patch Adams,” will speak next week in Baldwin Auditorium.

Adams is a medical doctor who in 1972 founded the Gesundheit! Institute, a health care institute that addressed his concerns with health care in America, according to patchadams.org. Adams is a full-time fundraiser for Gesund-heit! and also has written a book by the same name, according to the Web site.

Adams said he speaks at about 50 universities each year and has been speaking to the public for the last 23 years. He said he generally is on the road 300 days of the year.

Adams’ visit to Truman is part of a 12-day speaking tour of 12 cities in the U.S. and Canada. He said he recently made similar trips to Italy and Australia.

The topic of Ad-ams’ presentation next week is health and humor. Adams said he does not think laughter is the best medicine for a person but that hu-mor is a context for living and enjoying life.

“I think friendship is the best medicine,” he said.

SAB member junior Mindy Maness said the organization put together a list of 15 possible speakers for a survey last spring, and Adams was a runaway fi rst. She said she thinks Adams will be a good speaker at Truman be-cause he gives both an education-al and entertaining presentation.

“I think that he’s diverse enough to where we can actually bring in some of the Kirksville community, while at the same time, students are going to be in-volved,” Maness said. “It’s some-body that students have heard of and have seen the movie ‘Patch Adams’ and recognize it.”

Maness said SAB was care-ful to look into the topic of Ad-ams’ speech this year after some students were disappointed last year with the discussion topics of the Discovery Channel’s Myth-Busters.

“He’s going to describe how it is to have humor actually affect the degree to which you let the disease ... take over your body and how it actually helps,” Ma-

Patch Adams

Weekend away offers cultural optionsrience,” Allan said. “People in all parts of the world have always en-joyed dance performances.”

The performance will be at Morrison Theater on 14th and Maine streets. Tickets are $22 in advance and $25 at the door. For more information, call 217-224-5499.Sunday: 2 p.m. John Wood and

Free Frank “The Slavery Question” lecture at The Quincy Historical SocietyThe Historical Society of Quin-

cy and Adams County schedules programs that are hosted through-out the year. The most recent se-ries will feature the Underground Railroad. The second lecture of that series will be at 2 p.m. Sunday and will focus on John Wood and Free Frank, who founded Quincy and New Philadelphia, Ill. respec-tively.

The lectures in the series are al-ways free of charge and are always on Sundays. Winkelmann said the lecture not only draws parallels between the two founders but also shows what the past was like.

“It gives people a broader look at what the area was like at the time,” Winkelmann said. “A lot of blacks trying to escape slavery would come across here at Quincy. We had an Underground Railroad site here.”

Quincy and Adams County share the historical society. Pres-ervation of history through educa-tional programming, exhibits and tours are the goals of the society. The society fulfi lls these goals with the use of artifacts of the commu-nity and the people who live here, Winkelmann said.

The lecture will be at the John Wood Mansion at 425 S. 5th St. Call 217-222-1835 for more infor-mation.

Sunday: 6 to 8 p.m. Quincy Museum Halloween Party

The Quincy museum is housed at the Newcomb-Stillwell Man-sion. The museum fi rst moved into the mansion in 1980, when Quincy Museum, Inc. purchased the man-sion, said Barbara Wilkinson, executive director of Quincy Mu-seum. The organization has spent millions of dollars on renovations to the mansion, she said.

The museum is dedicated to Victorian lifestyle, natural and local history. It consists of three fl oors. The fi rst fl oor is a restored high-style Victorian residence. The second and third fl oors both showcase exhibits, the third fl oor is dedicated to natural history. But on Oct. 29, the fl oors will look very different.

For the past nine years, the mu-seum has hosted a Halloween party for children and parents to attend.

For $1, parents and children can

ness said. “He’s going to do it in a funny way.”

Although Adams is a big-name speaker, bringing him to campus did not eat up SAB’s entire special events budget. Maness said special events still wants to bring another speaker and possibly a debate to campus next semester.

“We’re not trying to limit this at all,” she said. “We only spent half of the special events budget on this because we want to be able to expand and bring other people.”

Stephanie Powelson, asso-ciate professor of nursing and nurs-ing program direc-tor, said she is only familiar with Patch Adams through the movie based on his life but still thinks he will give an inter-esting presentation.

“I just think he would be of general interest to any popu-lation,” she said.

Powelson said she thinks Adams uses an individual-ized approach to his patients and that Truman students can benefi t from hearing him speak.

“I think he had an alternative style using humor in patient interactions,” she said.

Senior John Brockman, American Medical Students As-sociation pre-medical trustee-at-large, said he heard Adams speak during the summer and thinks his work and ideas are revolution-ary. He said Adams does not ac-cept payment from his patients, and speaking is one of his only sources of income.

Brockman said Adams is someone who is considered outside the mainstream medical community, and it will be good for students to hear how he prac-tices medicine.

“I think that it is a great op-portunity for the Truman com-munity,” Brockman said.

Adams will speak at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Baldwin Audito-rium. Tickets are free for Tru-man students, and $5 for general admission and can be picked up in the SAB offi ce between 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Tickets also can be purchased at the door, how-ever, SAB is expecting a sell-out crowd.

participate in crafts and games, in-cluding painting pumpkins and pin the nose on the witch, Wilkinson said.

“It provides kids and their fam-ily a safe and fun place to celebrate Halloween,” Wilkinson said. “I realize it’s a couple of days before Halloween, but it has become a tra-dition for a lot of families.”

The museum is located at 1601 Maine St. For further information, call 217-224-7669.

A Weekend in QuincyQuincy’s arts scene leaves hard-

ly a dull moment for the town. Win-klemann said a city bursting with history and a love for the arts hardly sleeps.

“It’s hard to fi nd a weekend in Quincy when nothing’s going on,” Winklemann said. “If there is a weekend where nothing’s going on, it’s rare, and it’s probably because everyone is tired from all that they have been doing the week before.”

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photo submittedThe Quincy Museum hosts an annual Halloween party where guests can decorate crafts. This year’s party will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday.

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Entertainment12 Thursday, October 26, 2006

The Killers’ sophomore release lacks group’s former poppy profundity

Jessie GaschNews Editor

“Sam’s Town,” the newest effort by The Killers, isn’t exactly a death sentence. It’s more like an hour-long lecture class by a monotone professor just outside of a construction zone.

I knew as soon as I heard the pre-view on the 2006 MTV Music Awards that this album wasn’t going to be anything special. Don’t get me wrong — I can appreciate the brilliance of their song “Mr. Brightside” as much as the next person — but if you’re looking for more of those catchy lyrics, jaunty beats and the occasional surprising pro-fundity, you won’t fi nd it here.

The biggest disappointment is just how noisy this album is. The CD has so much synthesized, elec-tronic chordage all the time that even when someone manages to fi nd an interesting riff (like the arpeggios that mimic water cur-rents in “This River Is Wild”), no one can hear it.

For some hair bands and Thom Yorke’s solo efforts, the electronica effect works. But for a poppy album that’s too loud to be meditative and not upbeat enough to be dance-able, I found myself adjusting the volume too many times.

“Sam’s Town” begins with the title track, which includes lead singer Brandon Flowers’ trademark strained, almost vibrating, vocal style and an effective fi ddle ending. Then The Kill-ers move into an “enterlude,” in which Flowers calms down and accompanies himself on piano while singing “We hope you enjoy your stay/and it’s good to have you with us/even if/it’s just for the day.” Aw. I felt appreciated.

Most of the songs feature bland, sometimes insipid lyrics (like in “Bones”: “Don’t you want to come with

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1. John Carpenter “Halloween”

2. Koji Kondo “Super Mario Brothers”

3. Ne-Yo “Sexy Love”

4. Buckcherry “Crazy Bitch”

5. Bubba Sparxxx “Ms. New Booty”

6. Michael Jackson “Thriller”

7. Nickelback “Far Away”

8. Rascal Flatts “What Hurts The Most”

9. Henry Mancini “The Pink Panther”

10. Dem Franchize Boyz “Ridin’ Rims”

Concert CalendarConcert Calendar Oct. 26 through Dec. 7Oct. 26 through Dec. 7

KirksvilleFriday 11/3 Dashboard Confessional Pershing Arena 8 p.m.

Tuesday 11/7 The Vienna Boys’ Choir Baldwin Auditorium 7:30 p.m.

Friday 11/17 The Ike Riley Assassination The Dukum Upp 9 p.m.

ColumbiaSunday 11/5 Ben Folds Jesse Auditorium 7 p.m.

Saturday 11/11 Cursive Blue Note 7:30 p.m.

Kansas CitySunday 10/29 Five for Fighting Grand Emporium 7 p.m.

Wednesday 11/1 Anathallo Jackpot Saloon 10 p.m.

Thursday 11/2 Gwar Beaumont Club 8 p.m.

Sunday 11/5 Hawthorne Heights Uptown Theater 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday 11/15 HelloGoodbye The Granada 6 p.m.

St. LouisThursday 10/26 Indigo Girls The Pageant 8 p.m.

Friday 10/27 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts Mississippi Nights 8 p.m.

Tuesday 11/14 Regina Spektor Creepy Crawl 7 p.m.

Monday 11/27 Death Cab For Cutie The Pageant 8 p.m.

Sunday 12/3 Mannheim Steamroller Scottrade Center 7 p.m.

Des MoinesWednesday 11/1 She Wants Revenge House of Bricks 5 p.m.

Wednesday 11/8 Angels and Airwaves Val Air Ballroom 8 p.m.

Thursday 11/14 Hootie & The Blowfi sh Surf Ballroom 7 p.m.

me/don’t you want to feel my bones/on your bones.” Seriously.), but a few bright spots gave me some hope. The fourth track “For Reasons Unknown,” seems to give a pretty insightful ac-count of aging with “My lips/they don’t kiss/they don’t kiss the way they used to/and my eyes don’t recognize/you no more.” And in “Why Do I Keep Count-ing?” Flowers defends himself with the logical “If I only knew the answer/then I wouldn’t be bothering you.”

It’s not the lyrics that save this al-bum from my giveaway pile. There are so many musical effects that the laws of probability govern that a few will fall in the right spot. The harmonies in “Bling (Confession Of A King)” are ad-dicting, and the entrance is reminiscient of Ewan McGregor’s haunting voice in “Moulin Rouge.”

In “Read My Mind,” one of the best tracks on the album, the backup vocals sound like wind. It’s anyone’s guess whether this was intentional, but it works well. And “Uncle Jonny” is one long, slow-motion, air-guitar moment that features a tambourine and a clichéd (but satis-fying) modulation toward the end

The token ballad, “My List,” gives up halfway through, but the drumstick-click entrance is interest-

ing and the piano accompaniment actu-ally makes use of some rarer, complex chords. All of these songs, though, put the fi rst single to shame.

“When You Were Young” is repeti-tive and sickly, featuring a pulsing bass and more synthesizer that clashes with the nostalgia theme but leaves listeners nostalgic for the clear-cut singability of “Somebody Told Me.”

To parallel the enterlude, an “exit-lude” thanks the listeners for, well, lis-tening. Not exactly innovative, but the quiet of the acoustic guitar and piano is a welcome relief, and I can’t help but imagine the gratitude is sincere. Flow-ers’ edgy voice is a little too labored for a piece like this, but then again, maybe that desperation is real: The Killers should be thankful that I made it that far.

Damon Gough, the artist also known as Badly Drawn Boy, has created the unlikely with his most recent release: a radio-friendly concept album.

“Born in the U.K.” has the same sub-tle, somewhat distant vocals as Gough’s previous works, including the soundtrack from “About a Boy,” but it lacks the experimental nature that made his other albums so good. Before, Gough’s vocals were just a component of his music.

However, Gough has gone in an oppo-site direction with his new release. This is not music that can be favorably compared to an airport on a Thursday morning (like “Cause a Rockslide” from “The Hour of the Bewilderbeast”). This is music that can be favorably compared to a combi-nation of Iron & Wine on a particularly rock-y day and an unbelievably mellow Ben Folds. This is not a bad thing — this is just a new thing and most certainly what immediately comes to mind when Badly Drawn Boy is referenced.

These songs are more melodic, more tune-driven and just plain ask more of the listener. You not only have to actively listen to them, but you also have to con-template how each song relates to British history since the mid-1970s, albeit, only if you are nerdy enough to care. The historical references aren’t blatant at all. Thankfully, Gough has not created the next “American Idiot” but a decent album that not only history majors will enjoy. — Lisette Metz Grulke

Zach Braff has done it again.With “The Last Kiss,” Braff followed

the formula that made the “Garden State” soundtrack pure gold:

1. Make a list of songs that everybody patently likes (Imogen Heap’s “Hide and Seek” and Rufus Wainwright’s “Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk (Reprise)”). They predispose a listener to liking the album.

2. Throw in a few lesser-known songs by some pretty popular artists (Snow Pa-trol’s “Chocolate” and Coldplay’s “Warning Sign”). This gives the popular group sound to the album without making people think, “Man, that song was so good in that car commercial/on “Grey’s Anatomy”/six mil-lion times on the radio.”

3. Mine the best of indie gold (Rachel Yamagata’s “Reason Why” and Aimee Mann’s “Today’s the Day”). If you listen to college radio, you have heard these bands before and already like them. If not, you will like them because they are new to you.

4. Throw some stuff in there that no one has ever heard before (Turin Brakes’ “Pain Killer” and Athlete’s “El Salvador”). Zach Braff knows what’s up. And now that they have been on a soundtrack of his, these bands are offi cially up.

5. Have THE song — the one song that everyone will love, will keep on incessant repeat for days at a time and won’t be able to get out of their heads (Joshua Radin and Schuyler Fisk’s “Paperweight”).

6. Make another soundtrack that’s im-possible to dislike. —Lisette Metz Grulke

With a name like Shiny Toy Guns and no reference to toys or guns in any of their cover art or songs, one has to wonder what this new album is trying to pull.

Whether you like to dance around your living room or sit and contemplate the meaning of life, Shiny Toy Guns’ new CD “We Are Pilots” has a song for you.

These guys, and girl, play their hearts out to songs like “Don’t Cry Out,” “Chemistry of a Car Crash” and “Rainy Monday.” The lyrics are deep, and the vocals are excellent, especially with the female vocalist, Carah Faye, who takes over in some of the songs to produce a knife-sharp sound. This piercing rever-beration can be heard in the song, “Don’t Cry Out,” where bells, electronic disco and duo vocals come together to provide a thumping beat to dance and fl ail your arms in the air while humming “7,6,5,4/ and we’re having fun.”

In contrast, “Le Disko” has a sound of a leather whip hitting a concrete fl oor while riding a motorcycle. Perhaps it’s an inconceivable image, but Shiny Toy Guns manages to capture the sound in one song.

Every song on this album provides decent music for any purpose. The poetic drive of their music and each song’s catchy lyrics show that Shiny Toy Guns isn’t just another fl y-by-night rock band. If you have ever lived, you can relate to the poignant sound of Shiny Toy Guns, whether you like toys or not. —Katie Monaghan

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Mule KickOatmeal Stout

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Flavor notes: caramel, chocolate, roasted coffee

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Confl uenceAmber Wheat

Named for the meeting of Missouri’s many rivers.

Flavor notes: caramel, wheat, barley

Pilot HouseImperial Pilsner

Named for the great riverboats of Missouri

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Samantha Sanchez/IndexJunior Abbi Howe pours a draft of Fitz’s Root beer on the Quad. Delta Zeta and Bacchus and Gamma teamed up to put on “I Have A Choice Week” Oct. 16 to 20.

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Continued from Page 9like sucrose, dextrose, wart and hops. The Il Spazio brewery makes 130 gallons of beer at a time, and each brew takes about two to three weeks from start to fi nish — 24 hours of which is manual labor.

“You’re making something that people are drinking for months to come,” Franklin said. “ ... There is a total art and science to brewing.”

Il Spazio is the only micro brewery in Kirksville and offers a variety of beers that are brewed on site, such as the Dog Slobber Stout and Worker Bee Wheat. The beer at Il Spazio is made from a specifi c recipe. Most mi-cro breweries keep their recipes under wraps. Franklin said the recipes have a lot to do with mix-ing hops.

“Hops are plants that add fl a-vor, especially to the beer, either

Continued from Page 9were scrubbed clean of dirt and laid to dry in the sun for several weeks. Fat held in the marrow cavities of the longer bones will be cleaned out. The bones will be soaked in isopropyl alcohol and then acetone.

They will then be bleached, rinsed and air-dried.

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Groups sponsor second annual “I Have a Choice Week,” mock car crash

Laura PratherStaff Reporter

Junior Ed Kymes died last week, but unlike many real vic-tims, he got up and walked away 45 minutes later.

Kymes was one of six students who participated in a mock car crash on campus as part of the second annual “I Have A Choice” week Oct. 16 to 20, sponsored by Bacchus and Gamma, a stu-dent organization that focuses on prevention of alcohol, and Delta Zeta.

Senior Andrew Spiegel, who also was a participant in the mock crash, simulated a seriously in-jured victim who had to be evacu-ated via helicopter.

“I was anti-drunk driving be-fore, but I had never witnessed a drunk driving incident, and per-sonally, I had not been affected by it,” Spiegel said. “So actually see-ing the car crash and the Jaws of Life and everything that goes into rescuing someone, it just changes you.”

Spiegel said that after this ex-perience, he will try to make sure neither he nor any of his friends ever drive drunk.

“When you’re involved with something like that — the car crash — or knowing someone that’s been hurt the same way, then you see what kind of choice you have and the choices that you’re making and how to change them just to better yourself, if not to better others,” Spiegel said.

He also said heavy drinking should not necessarily distract from the academic intensity of the University.

“There’s a huge difference be-tween calming down with a drink, and calming down with 12,” Spie-gel said.

Although 40 percent of stu-dents at Truman said they do not drink alcohol, 28.5 percent of

Continued from Page 9Pilot House, an imperial pilsner, represents Missouri’s riverboat history, according to the release. With the highest alcohol per-centage of the three at 6.5 per-cent, Pilot House is made using a unique dry-hopping technique, allowing for both a sweet and bitter fl avor.

Anheuser-Busch has conduct-ed similar contests in other states, where Ohio residents picked Burnin’ Helles as their state beer. Demon’s Hop Yard IPA was cho-sen in New England.

Jeff Newton, co-owner of Il Spazio, which brews its own beer, said he is pleasantly surprised by Anheuser-Busch’s campaign.

“I’m just glad that the big guys are fi nally feeling that they need to make a more traditional beer,” Newton said. “If it wasn’t for the microbrewers of the past 25 years, they wouldn’t be doing it.”

Newton said Anheuser-Busch’s motives lie in capturing a larger percentage of the Mis-souri microbrew market, which is dominated by the Boulevard Brewing Co.

“That’s who they’re trying to compete against with these prod-ucts,” Newton said.

Il Spazio offers a total of nine homegrown beverages, ranging from stout to the best-selling honey wheat and are all made

from wheat instead of rice or an extract.

“It’s all made here, and it’s all made with whole-grain infusion,” Newton said.

Although Newton said he is re-luctant to carry the winning beer

at Il Spazio’s tap, he said he has a good idea which beer will win.

“I would say the one that’s go-ing to win is probably this amber wheat,” Newton said. “Myself, I would be drinking the oatmeal stout.”

MICROBREW l Students, faculty enjoy homemade beeraromatic fl avor or bitter fl avor,” Franklin said. “When you taste the beer and actually taste the fl a-vor, you’re tasting it in two ways: one with your tongue but one with your nose.”

Il Spazio strives for consis-tency with each of their beers, but Franklin said sometimes things like color will vary slightly. He said a little inconsistency in their beer is one thing that makes the brewery unique.

Jason Miller, associate pro-fessor of mathematics, is one of a number of Truman faculty and staff members who brew beer at home. He said he generally brews beer in fi ve gallon batches, which he bottles for himself and his friends. From the fi rst steps to the ready-to-drink stage, each batch takes Miller about four to six weeks.

“It’s very complicated,” Mill-er said. “I’m a mathematician.

I’m not a chemist or a biologist. There’s so many things that are happening when a beer is being brewed. I wish I understood it better.”

To make a batch of beer, Mill-er uses kits ordered from a com-pany in Minnesota. He said a kit will contain basic ingredients like grains, barley, malt, yeast and priming sugars. Most kits also come with a recipe, which Miller said can be tweaked to get differ-ent effects. He said some home brewers come up with their own recipes, although he is not at that stage yet.

Miller said he can’t remember when he started brewing beer. He said learning how to brew has given him more respect for the beer he drinks when he goes out.

“It makes me aware of how complex beers can be, how inter-esting beers can be and how bad beers can be,” he said.

those that do drink admit to hav-ing driven a car while under the infl uence of alcohol at least once, according to the 2005 Core Sur-vey.

Phil Jorn, a counselor at Uni-versity Counseling Services, said part of being responsible is choosing not to drink and drive.

“We focus a lot on don’t drive drunk, try to get a designated driver,” Jorn said. “Also, mak-ing sure that if you’re drinking, you’re drinking with people that you trust.”

Jorn said he is also the faculty adviser of Bacchus and Gamma, and the group’s focus is not on the prohibition of drinking.

“It’s not that we’re saying that drinking is bad no matter what,” Jorn said. “It’s try and do it responsibly if you choose, which I think is a good message, because there are a lot of students that drink and, being realis-tic, what are some ways that we can make sure that they’re drinking more responsibly.”

According to the Core Survey, in the past year 8.6 percent of stu-dents have thought at least once that they might have a problem with alcohol abuse.

UCS offers counseling to stu-dents who come in voluntarily as well as students who are referred for alcohol-related issues.

“[Referred students come be-cause they] get caught with alco-hol in the halls, or they get caught drunk or intoxicated on campus,” Jorn said. They are mandated to go through an alcohol education course.”

Sophomore Rachelle Wil-liams, president of Bacchus and Gamma, said it is the group’s fi rst year being a part of “I Have A Choice” week.

Bacchus and Gamma’s spe-cifi c focus for the week was to reestablish their message as an organization, Williams said.

“Most of our messages are we’re not going to tell you that you have to stop doing some-thing, but if you would like to, we’re going to help you do that too,” Williams said.

In 2005, there were 53 alco-hol-related arrests, up from 29 in 2003, according to the annual Campus Crime Report.

Sgt. Chad Whittom said the Department of Public Safety has programs to remind students of their choices when making the

decision to drink or not to drink.

“When people consume alcohol, sometimes they do things they normally wouldn’t do, which leads to other prob-lems — sexual as-sault, physical as-sault, drunk driving and things like that,” Whittom said.

Last year 36.6 percent of students admitted regretting at least one thing they had done because of alcohol use, accord-ing to the Core Sur-

vey.Whittom said he hopes “I Have

A Choice” week had a profound effect on students by calling to attention the effects their choices have on themselves and others.

“I think a person has to keep in mind that ‘I’m responsible for my behavior, it’s my choice whether I do this or not, and therefore I have to face the consequences of what happens because of my ac-tions,’” Whittom said.

Having a mock car crash helped create awareness, he said.

“I think when you can see it right in front of you rather than someone telling you, I think it has more of an effect to actually experience it yourself,” Whittom said.

“There’s a huge difference between

calming down with a drink and calming down

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eton was made of steel and the teeth were glued in.

Susan Guffey, assistant profes-sor of biology, said she helped with the identifi cation of the bones in the fi rst skeleton and will continue to be of assistance with this project.

“I’ll help them identify the names of bones and decide which one belongs to right legs and left

legs,” Guffey said. “On some of the irregular shaped bones, sometimes it’s a little tricky to fi gure out which side is the front or the back.”

Guffey said the project will teach the students about anatomy and bone structures.

“This is something that will stay around here for decades,” Guffey said.

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Mike Cannon didn’t know how his team would react.

After his team lost two critical MIAA road games during Oct. 14 and 15, Cannon, the women’s head soccer coach, was uncertain what his team would do next.

At the time, the squad was three-quar-ters of the way through the toughest four-game stretch on the schedule and was on the verge of slipping out of the playoff pic-ture. At 3-3-2 in the conference,

the Bulldogs needed a strong fi nish to possibly get a spot in the postseason.

“We were at the point where some teams may roll over and die and decide the season is over,” Cannon said. “Instead, we had a strong week of practice. The team understood what was at stake and wanted to keep playing.”

Essentially, they couldn’t af-ford another loss. Another defeat would undoubtedly push the Bulldogs out of the playoff pic-ture, a picture they had been part of for the past two months.

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Basketball: 7:30 p.m. Saturday Oct. 28 vs. Dreambuilders (exhibition) Soccer: 11 a.m. Sunday Oct. 29 vs. Saginaw Valley State (Mich.)

Volleyball: 2 p.m. Satur-day Oct. 28 vs. Northwest MIssouri State University

Final PushWomen’s soccer needs to win its fi nal two games to earn an NCAA Div. II playoff berth

NCAA Central Regional Poll Oct. 25

Rank Team Record1 Nebraska-Omaha 16-0-12 Washburn 14-1-33 Missouri Southern 10-3-44 Central Missouri 10-4-25 Truamn 10-4-3

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Bulldogs campaign for Div. II playoff berth

Adam Kabins/IndexJunior forward Katie Ruefer cuts off a Washburn University defender during Saturday’s 1-1 draw.

Women lose key regional game to UCM

Chris Tharp/IndexSophomore linebacker Jason Thier hits Washburn University running back Ra’Shawn Mosley during Saturday’s rain-fi lled contest. The Bulldogs defense shut down the Ichabods 21-7.

Football wins in rain, mud

Defense propels victory

Sadye Scott-HainchekStaff Reporter

With 10 seconds to go in the game, the screams began.

Yesterday’s game between Truman and the University of Central Missouri essentially would determine which team went to the postseason.

UCM held the fourth and fi nal spot in the latest regional rankings — one spot ahead of the Bulldogs.

As time ran out on a chilly, damp game, time also might have run out on one team’s season.

Unfortunately, that team was the ’Dogs, who concluded a three-game homestand with a 1-0 loss to UCM.

“It doesn’t mean we’re com-pletely out, but unless they mess up this weekend, I don’t think we’re going to get in,” head coach Mike Cannon said. “We’ll see, but we still need to win both games just to make sure.”

Truman fell to 10-4-3 and 4-4-3 in the conference and, more impor-tantly, fi fth in the regional rankings behind fourth-ranked UCM.

UCM scored early in the game when Lindsay Hoerl took a pass from Carrie Twellman and scored the game’s only goal. It was the fi rst goal of the season for Hoerl.

The ’Dogs had several good chances to score, but came up short. Cannon said the ’Dogs had

the statistical upper hand although UCM grabbed the victory.

“These are those kinds of games where it’s going to be de-cided by a goal, and they got it to-day, and we didn’t,” he said.

The ’Dogs entered yesterday’s game with a solid weekend, bol-stering their playoff hopes. Against Washburn University on Saturday, they were down 1-0 with six minutes to play.

Then junior midfi elder Emily Newsham sent the ball to Wiegert, who took it down the fi eld to tie the game. Wiegert said she was in shock after the goal.

“I didn’t realize it had gone in,” she said. “It was kind of a cheap goal because the goalie dropped it, and I was just there to kick it in.”

The ’Dogs wound up with a 1-1 tie after two scoreless overtime periods. Tying wasn’t bad considering the conditions. The teams played through the rain on a muddy fi eld, which changed the tempo of the game.

“The fl ow of the game was a lot slower because the ball kept stop-ping in puddles, but we just tried to make the best of it,” Wiegert said.

Washburn, an aggressive at-tack-style team, actually benefi ted from the conditions because of the

ball’s unusual bounces, junior for-ward Katie Ruefer said.

“That’s how they got their goal,” she said. “The ball would bounce weird [and] get stuck in a different spot.”

Despite not winning, the ’Dogs played well against Washburn, which entered the game at 13-1-3 overall and 8-1-2 in the conference.

“I think it showed a lot about our team, the way we adjusted to the conditions and played through

probably the worst conditions I’ve played in at Truman,” Ruefer said.

A win would’ve helped the women, but avoiding a third-straight loss was cru-cial for the team, too.

“We couldn’t af-ford a loss,” Cannon said. “A tie doesn’t hurt us at all, I don’t

think. A win would’ve helped us a lot more, but a tie’s not bad.”

Coming off two tough losses, the ’Dogs shifted a few players around in both games this weekend.

Ruefer joined forwards Wieg-ert and senior Lauren Hawks up top intermittently. Also, freshman defender Kelsey Richters started in place of sophomore defender Kim Wolff, who rolled her ankle during practice last week. Richters hadn’t started a game yet, appear-

ing in six games off the bench. Although Sunday was Senior

Day, the freshmen stepped up against Emporia State University as well. Five minutes into the fi rst half, it looked like the ’Dogs were going to take an early lead. Wieg-ert caught Emporia’s goalie out of the box and had a clear shot, but the ball went just wide.

Then, about 10 minutes later, Hawks headed a pass into the goal, but the referee called the goal back, saying Hawks was offsides.

Halftime changed the direction of the game, however. Ruefer said that in addition to passing diago-nally more often, the ’Dogs ben-efi ted from switching goals.

“It was a lot better to have the wind at our backs instead of going against the wind,” she said. “The ball traveled better, and that side of the fi eld was not as mushy as the other side.”

Six minutes into the half, Wiegert redirected one of Rue-fer’s shots for the ’Dogs’ fi rst of-fi cial goal, which motivated them to push even harder.

“With the fi eld being as bad as it was, easily they could’ve got-ten another [goal] just for getting lucky, so we needed to get another one,” Ruefer said.

Halfway through the second period, freshman forward Isabel Gaeta scored an insurance goal. The ’Dogs went on to win 2-0.

Team prevails against Washburn despite poor fi eld conditions, now 4-4

Joe BarkerAssistant Sports Editor

Rain or shine, Stokes Stadium has become a tough place to beat the Bulldogs.

On Saturday it was the rain that helped the ’Dogs dispatch the Washburn Universi-ty Ichabods 21-7 in a football game that lasted two hours and 14 minutes.

With the win, the Bulldogs evened their record on the season 4-4. The pur-ple and white now stand alone in fourth place in the con-ference standings with a 4-2 record in MIAA games and are ranked 11th in the NCAA South-west regional rankings.

“This is a win we needed to set ourselves up in that upper echelon of the conference, which we have been trying to get back

to,” senior tight end Richard Mayson said.

The victory was the third in as many games and the fourth in the last fi ve for the team. The ’Dogs also have won three straight home contests.

“They are learning how to win,” Washburn defensive co-ordinator Chris Brown said. “[Head coach Shannon Currier] is taking them a long way from

where they were in the past. They are playing with con-fi dence, they are playing physical and they are play-ing aggressive.”

On the swamp-like fi eld, both teams eschewed the pass in favor of trying to pound the ball with the running game. Combined, the Ica-bods and Bulldogs threw the ball only 11 times.

Currier said he thought the poor play-

ing conditions favored his squad.“We felt that it would be an ad-

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Young group forces six turnovers in contest, leading to 21-7 victory

Joe BarkerAssistant Sports Editor

His face caked in mud, sopho-more defensive end Les Hammers ate a celebratory cookie.

The 6-foot-4-inch, 260-pound Hammers deserved the cookie af-ter he and his defensive teammates helped the Bulldogs capture their fourth victory of the season 21-7 by shutting down the Washburn University Ichabods.

“Our defense is playing like they’re the best defense in the country right now,” senior tight end Richard Mayson said. “That’s huge because every time your de-fense comes out to play you have a chance to win.”

The win matched the combined victory total of the previous two seasons of the Shannon Currier Era, and the development of the new 3-4 defense was a big part of it.

“Championship teams have good defenses,” Currier said. “That’s the fi rst thing you have to have on a good team. You have got to stop people.”

The entire defense made plays, holding Washburn to just 151 yards when they averages almost 338 yards of total offense. The unit forced six turnovers in the second half. Please See DEFENSE, Page 19

Freshmen provide offensive punch for women’s soccer

Conor Nicholl

First-year trio helping to keep Bulldogs in playoff contention

Nathan BeckerAssistant News Editor

The Bulldogs women’s soccer team isn’t scoring as much as it used to.

To the team, and especially to a trio of key freshmen, it doesn’t seem to make a difference.

Freshmen Jessica Wiegert, Isa-bel Gaeta and Kristin Haluszczak have scored several key goals this season, allowing the women’s team to stay in the hunt for the NCAA playoffs, something the team has made every year but once since the 2000 season.

The ’Dogs are averaging 1.37 goals per game this season, and the team’s scoring total has fallen each year since it topped out in 2003 at 2.7 goals per game. But the ’Dogs are still in contention, thanks in large part to contribu-tions from Haluszczak, Gaeta and Wiegert.

Haluszczak, a midfi elder who head coach Mike Cannon de-scribes as a hard worker, scored the only goal in a 1-0 win versus conference rival University of Central Missouri on Oct. 6.

“That was a big game,” Can-non said. “It’s probably going to be a one goal game. They’re a very good attacking team, so it was very important for us to score. ... It was a key goal.”

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“This is a win we needed to set ourselves up in

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which we have been trying to get

back to.”

Richard MaysonSenior Tight End

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SPORTS In BriefHammers earns weeklyhonor for the third time

Sophomore defensive end Les Hammers earned the MIAA Defensive Player of the Week Award for the third time this year and for the second co-nective week.

Hammers, a 6-foot-4-inch, 260-pound Jacksonville, Ill., native, has won all three of his awards in the last fi ve weeks.

In Saturday’s 21-7 victory against Washburn University, Hammers record-ed eight tackles and picked up a fumble.

Seven of his tackles were solo and the fumble that he recovered came deep in Washburn territory. Hammers also led a defense that allowed just 151 yards of total offense.

Hammers also ranks among the conference and team leaders in several key statistics. He is tied for second in the MIAA with three forced fumbles. Among the team leaders, Hammers is second on the team with 48 tackles and six tackles for loss. He is tied for fi rst on the team with three sacks and six tackles for a loss.

Overall, his play has helped a de-fense that allowed nearly 40 points a game last season to permit just 24.5 points per game in 2006. Overall, the Bulldogs’ revamped 3-4 defense under new defensive coordinator Josh Kot-lenicki, ranks fourth in the conference in overall defense.

Hammers fi rst won the award after the 24-21 victory against University of Central Missouri in Week 4.

Football enters regionalrankings for fi rst time in ’06

Football entered the Southwest Re-gional rankings for the fi rst time this season. After its 21-7 victory against Washburn University on Saturday, the Bulldogs are 4-4 and 4-2 in the MIAA.

The Bulldogs are one of four MIAA teams in the rankings. North-west Missouri State University (8-0) is No. 1, Missouri Western State Uni-versity (7-1) is third and Pittsburg State University (7-1) is ninth. The Bulldogs will play at Pitt. State on Saturday.

The top four teams in each of the four regions will make the Div. II playoffs.

Men’s basketball opens year on Saturday with exhibition

The men’s basketball team will have their annual Bill Cable Purple and White Game vs. Dreambuilders contest at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Dona-tions will be accepted for Research and Fight for Parkinson’s.

No. 1 ’Dogs defeat UCM

Chris Tharp/IndexSophomore oustide hitter Eli Medina delivers an attack in the Bulldogs’ 3-0 victory against NAIA foe Columbia College (Mo.) on Saturday night.

Top-ranked volleyball beats Jennies 3-1, earns 30th win for fourth straight season

Tyler MadsenStaff Reporter

Life’s never easy on the road in the MIAA.

The No. 1 Bulldog volleyball team recovered from an early defi cit to gar-ner a 3-1 (27-30, -25, -20, -25) victory against the No. 12 University of Central Missouri Jennies Wednesday night in Warrensburg, Mo.

Senior outside hitter Kelsey Wackerman stepped up for the ’Dogs, registering another triple-double with 14 kills, 24 assists and 16 digs. Sophomore right side Melissa Keck registered 13 kills. She was one of four Bulldogs with double-fi gure kills.

“We started out a little slow,” head coach Jason Skoch said. “However, we were able to pull it together in the fi nal three games and put together a great bal-anced effort.”

Sophomore outside hit-ter Eli Medina tied a career high with 29 digs. The team combined to hold the high-powered Jennie offense to a .142 hitting percentage. The ’Dogs hit .400 in game three to improve their total match mark to .215.

Prior to last night’s trip to Warrensburg, the ’Dogs concluded the non-confer-ence portion of their sched-ule against a pair of NAIA opponents Saturday.

In the fi rst match, the squad faced off against the Columbia (Mo.) College Cou-gars, the No. 6 team in the NAIA national poll. The ’Dogs took advantage of several Columbia mistakes and rolled to a 3-0 (-20, -27, -27) victory.

“We played really consistently [against Columbia], which was really important,” junior defensive specialist Erin Leavitt said. “Coach says we struggle with ath-letic teams, and they were really athletic, so it was great to get the win.”

Sophomore middle blocker Allie Cher-ven set the pace with 11 kills, while a pair of seniors, Wackerman and outside hit-ter Sarah Shearman, each recorded eight kills. Shearman also led three Bulldogs in double-fi gure digs, with 17.

Defensively, the ’Dogs held the Cou-gars’ top hitter, Rael Rotich, in check — forcing her into a .000 (12 kills, 12 errors) hitting percentage.

The Cougars also struggled to keep the ball on the Bulldog side of the net as their six total blocks for the entire match fell well short of the squad’s average of 4.4 blocks per game.

“With all respect to their team be-cause they are very athletic, they play some very weak opponents by default because they are NAIA,” Skoch said. “But I would like to give our team some credit, though, because we were hitting with purpose, so it came down to just a balance of those two factors.”

After receiving about an hour to rest, the purple and white took the fl oor again, this time against the Iowa Wesleyan Col-lege Tigers. In what turned out to be a lopsided match, the ’Dogs used plenty of reserve players and turned up the pres-

sure early and often in a 3-0 (-10, -8, -13) romp.

“I love it that Coach actu-ally trusts his bench players to play because any playing is good at the college level,” freshman middle blocker Lau-ren Graybeal said.

The squad’s freshmen ben-efi ted the most in the victory.

Outside hitter Susie Lesh-er led the way with 13 kills in two games while Gray-beal put down 11 kills of her own. The two combined to hit .553 (24 kills, 3 errors, 38 total attacks).

Meanwhile, setter Krysta Tholen nearly recorded a double-double, (nine assists, 14 digs), and outside hitter

Erin Hattey had three kills in just one game of work.

“I thought [the freshmen] played real-ly well,” Skoch said. “I was able to see a lot of things that show how much they’ve improved already, and that is really en-couraging.”

Since 2000, Pershing Arena has proven to be one of the toughest places for oppo-nents to play. The ’Dogs have registered an astounding 81-7 record at home in that time-span. More notably, the squad is 9-0 at home this season with eight of those matches consisting of 3-0 sweeps.

“It’s much easier to play at home because you’re not tired from bus rides and traveling,” Leavitt said. “All of our friends get to come and watch us play, so even though we don’t get as many

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“I would like to give our team some credit,

though, because we were hitting

with purpose, so it came down to the balance of

those two factors.”

Jason SkochHead Volleyball Coach

fans as we’d like, the atmosphere is still really great.”

In the AVCA National Poll released Tuesday, the ‘Dogs again held the top spot, garnering 30 of the 36 potential 36 fi rst-place votes. The University of Tampa held on to the second spot for the third straight week and grabbed one fi rst-place vote.

In Wednesday’s release of the South Central Regional poll, the ’Dogs held

the top spot over UCMi. And after last night’s win on the road over the Jennies, the odds are in the Bulldogs’ favor to host the Regional

The squad continues its road trip to-night with a match against Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Mo., before returning home this weekend to conclude the regular season against Northwest Missouri State. First serve on Senior Day is scheduled for 2 p.m.

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Senior nearly wins title, women rank seventh at the competition, men are sixth

Dan Rettkefor the Index

Senior Jacquie Faust made her move early in the MIAA Conference Champi-onship. It nearly resulted in a victory.

Trying to become the fi rst Bulldog since 1980 to win the MIAA Confer-ence cross country championship, Faust found herself trailing one of her rivals, Southwest Baptist University’s Amy Broadhurst, early in the race.

“Cross country is like a chess game— you have to wait and make the right move, and my move was to sit un-til the three-kilometer mark and make my push there,” Faust said.

That was exactly what she did. At the 3K point, Faust took the lead from Broadhurst and held it until about the 800-meter mark.

At that point, the race’s eventual

winner, Emporia State University’s Jo-nel Rossbach, captured fi rst place.

“Rossbach opened up a lead, and I just couldn’t get it back,” Faust said. “She ran a great race.”

Instead, Faust fi nished second, the Bulldogs’ highest fi nish by a woman since Beth Luebbering was the runner-up in the 1999 meet. Faust was very pleased with her fi nish.

“I am defi nitely at the top of my game,” Faust said. “I haven’t been this mentally sharp in the eight years I’ve ran.”

Although she was disap-pointed with how the team fi nished, Faust was happy with the way she ran, fi nish-ing in 21:49.

“I defi nitely would have liked to have fi rst, but I am happy with the race I ran,” Faust said, “I raced effectively and carried out my game plan that coach and I had worked

on.”The women’s cross country team fi n-

ished a disappointing seventh place out of eight teams.

Other Bulldogs possibly joining Faust at regionals are sopho-more Danna Kelly, fi nishing 23rd with a time of 22:57 and senior Alana Walker, who fi nished in 24:45 and placed 49th. The other Truman runners fi nished 55th, 64th and 66th in the 70-runner event.

“I think that every-one was disappointed with how we ended up, but it was pretty consistent with how we ran all year,” Faust said.

Head coach John Cochrane was also very disappointed with the seventh-place effort.

“It was the worst fi nish in the 27 years that I’ve been here,” Cochrane said.

He said if they would have run well, they could have placed sixth or possibly even fi fth.

“We did not have a good meet,” Co-chrane said, “We were not very tough, focused or tenacious. We did not per-form well.”

Cochrane said he hopes the team runs much better at regionals.

The men’s cross country team fin-ished in sixth place, just one point shy of fifth.

Freshman Zach Chapman led the way with an 11th place finish, finish-ing with a time of 25:14.

“Zach [Chapman] ran the fastest time ever for a [Bulldog] freshman, and that definitely was the highlight of the weekend,” head coach Tim Schwe-gler said.

Schwegler said he expected the freshmen to be a big part of the team but with Chapman’s performance, he was pleasantly surprised.

“Zach’s running a little faster than I thought he would, and that’s great,” Schwegler said.

Senior Jason Simpson, running just behind Chapman with a time of 25:19, placed 13th. This marked a large im-provement for Simpson after fi nishing last year’s conference meet almost two minutes later in 27th place.

Rounding out the Bulldogs’ top three was senior Steve Porath. He fi nished 28th with a time of 26:05.

“I am pleased with the seniors, and I commend them for all that they have done,” Schwegler said.

The rest of the Bulldog fi eld fi nished between 37th and 65th in the 71-runner fi eld.

Schwegler said the team still has some things to work on for the rest of the season.

“For regionals, we need to make some improvements,” Schwegler said, “Our four through seven runners need to group up better.”

Regionals are set for Nov. 4 at Uni-versity of Central Missouri.

Men tie Miners 1-1, likely out of the playoff chase with two games left in year

Chris WallerStaff Reporter

The men’s soccer team needed a win Friday to have any chance of making the playoffs.

After a big 1-0 loss at home to long-time rival Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville last weekend, the Bulldogs’ needed to defeat the University of Mis-souri-Rolla and win the fi nal two games of the season to obtain any chance at the postseason.

“It was a long shot, but we knew we had to win out the rest of our games if we were going to be able to go,” senior midfi elder Ryan Cravens said.

Instead, the squad man-aged only a 1-1 draw against the 9-8-2 Miners at Friday’s Homecoming kickoff event.

“We all felt that this was a game that we could have won and should have won going into it,” Cravens said. “After the fi rst 20 minutes ... we dominated. They came out and played pretty well. They dominated us after that, so maybe it was good that we came out with a tie.”

The last time the Bull-dogs lost to UM-Rolla, a member of the Great Lakes Valley Conference after a stint in the MIAA, was a 3-0 defeat Sept. 23, 2001.

The Miners had shutout the Bulldogs in their last three meetings, winning the contests by a combined score of 5-0.

The tie didn’t help the squad in the NCAA Great Lakes Regional poll re-leased Tuesday.

The team remained out of the top six in the offi cial NCAA regional rankings. Because only the top four teams are al-lowed to continue playing, the squad has slim postseason chances.

After making the playoffs last year and advancing to the NCAA Div. II Sweet 16, this will be the fi rst year since 2004 that the squad has missed the postseason.

The loss kept the Bulldogs at a .500 mark for the season and takes away any chance the team has of getting double digits in the win column.

On Friday, they had several chances to tally a goal. They scored early, when

senior midfi elder Matt McCarthy capi-talized on an assist by junior midfi elder Aldo Muniz.

It was McCarthy’s fi rst goal of the sea-son at the 12th minute mark.

After the ’Dogs took the lead, they had to fi ght hard to stay ahead.

Sophomore goalkeeper Ryan Farrar made three stops in the fi rst half alone, and Rolla tied the game in last seconds on a shot that hit the crossbar.

“At halftime we were ahead, but I knew they were going to come out re-ally hard in the second half,” Farrar said. “They turned up the intensity. They fought hard to get back into the game.”

After a break, UMR came right back out shooting.

Once again, Farrar’s goalkeeping skills were put to the test, as the Min-ers had 10 shots in the sec-ond half, six of which were on the mark.

Farrar was able to make fi ve saves in the second half, including three in one minute, but one shot was able to sneak past him in the 58th minute.

The goal knotted the score at 1-1, and it stayed that way until the end of regulation.

“They fi nally got an equalizer goal, and the rest of the way they just kept pounding it in there,” Farrar said. “I thought that sometimes we had some problems in the back get-ting the ball out. They were able to capitalize on a couple of those times

where we were just unable to clear or not able to clear it well enough.”

Both teams played hard in the over-time. Farrar made three more saves in the second overtime period, giving him 11 saves for the game — the most by the Bulldogs’ keeper this season.

Despite Farrar’s performance, the of-fense could not produce another goal, and the game ended in a draw.

Head coach Duke Cochran had control of the match.

“I think we should have won,” head coach Duke Cochran said. “We were all over them in the fi rst 25 minutes, and then we took our foot off the gas. They out-played us for the majority of the game, and we still came away with a tie.”

Even with the stalemate, Cochran be-lieves his team should still receive post-season consideration.

“I think they are looking at overall re-cord instead of regional record because in

Faust finishes second at MIAA cross-country meet

Soccer ties Mo.-Rolla

Ross Houston/IndexBulldogs’ sophomore goalkeeper Ryan Farrar and Southern Illinois-University Edwardsville midfi elder John Matthews fi ght for the ball in SIUE’s 1-0 win on Oct. 15 at Truman Soccer Park. Freshman midfi elder Ben Green looks on. After tying University of Missouri-Rolla 1-1 on Friday, the Bulldogs are 7-7-3 on the season.

“We all felt that this was a game

that we could have won and

should have won going into it. After

the fi rst 20 minutes .... we dominated, they came out and played pretty

well.”

Ryan CravensSenior Midfi elder

the region we are 5-3-3,” Cochran said. “There are teams in other regions that are worse than that and are in the top six. We could get there, but I don’t think we have a chance to get into the top four because we only play one more regional game, and if they’re not looking at us now, then probably not, and, at .500, that’s fair.”

The team has only two games left

this season, one on the road against NAIA school Columbia College (Mo.) on Friday, before ending the regular season at home Sunday against Saginaw Valley State University (Mich.).

The contest against Saginaw Valley State is the team’s Senior Day contest. Several seniors, including Cravens, Mc-Carthy and senior back Dan Gajewski.

Cochran said the upcoming games are still important, but the team morale has changed.

“Any team that is used to getting into the postseason is going to be frustrated when you don’t,” Cochran said. “Some people are defl ated. It’s tough. I would much rather have a long shot than not have any chance.”

“I defi netely would have liked to have fi rst, but I am happy with the race I ran. I raced effectively and carried out my game plan

that coach and I had worked on.”

Jacquie FaustSenior runner

18 Index Thursday, October 26, 2006

VolleyballRegularSeasonFinale

Saturday 2 p.m. vs. Northwest

MissouriThank you, Seniors!

Kelsey WackermanChristine Wagener

Sarah Shearman Alex Baker

Senior Day

Seniors honored prior to match

Blake ToppmeyerStaff Reporter

The difference was fi ve one-hun-dredths of a second.

That was the margin of defeat the women’s 200-yard medley relay team suffered in the season’s opening event.

The result of event one served to fore-shadow the type of bittersweet dual meet the women experienced last Saturday at Div. I Missouri State University. The opening 200-yard medley relay victory sent the Bears on their way to a 162-132 defeat of the Bulldogs. Despite the loss, the women outscored Missouri State 132-130 in swimming events.

“When we lost the fi rst relay by fi ve one-hundredths of a second, I knew we weren’t going to be able to outscore them,” head coach Mark Gole said. “I knew we could still win the swimming portion.”

The 200-yard medley relay team, con-sisting of senior Brigit Brunsman, juniors Emily Greenwood and Laura Harp and freshman Kate Aherne achieved a time of 1:47.92, which qualifi ed them for nation-als. This proved to be little consolation to some of the relay members.

“We were more disappointed that we got second place,” Greenwood said. “We weren’t really concerned with our time at that point.”

In addition to qualifying for nationals

in the 200-yard medley, Greenwood also captured a fi rst-place fi nish in the 100-yard backstroke, narrowly missing an A-cut qualifying time. Although Greenwood trailed Missouri State’s Allison Zeller at the halfway point, she made a late push to take the win.

“When it comes down to that last [50 yards] ... that’s when I pour on the legs,” Greenwood said. “That’s where we beat people, the last half of every race.”

Greenwood’s victory was one of fi ve the women captured. Junior Whitney Wodstrchill led the way with victories in the 1,000-yard freestyle and the 200-yard backstroke.

Gole said the 200-yard backstroke turned the meet around for the women. They claimed the top three spots, with Greenwood and senior Lija Kaleps-Clark fi nishing just behind Wodstrchill.

“I think our one, two, three fi nish in the 200 backstroke was huge for the women’s team,” Gole said.

Soon after that event, junior Molly Po-lette took fi rst in the 500-yard freestyle, and senior Brittany Anderson won the 200-yard breaststroke. Anderson passed three swimmers in the last 50 yards to win her event.

“It always turns out that I have a lot of energy [left] in the last 50 yards,” Ander-son said. “I’m not, like, saving up, but it’s just, like, ‘OK, this is the last few laps, I have to go as fast as I can.’”

Although the women lost the meet, the

Ben YarnellStaff Reporter

The wind, rain and cold were not enough to keep alumnae Stacy Pfeiffer and Renell Strait from watching the leg-acy they helped start.

Both women braved the elements Sat-urday to come out to the Truman Bullets Rugby alumni game and support the team they were a part of 15 years ago.

“This is totally rugby weather,” Strait said. “I don’t know how many games we played up here like this.”

Both opted out of actually playing in the game.

“My knees don’t like it when I run anymore,” Pfeiffer said.

However, even without Pfeiffer and Strait, the Bullet Alumni trounced the current team 20-0.

Senior player-coach Natalie Gerhart said her team had something to show the

alumni.“I think they were a little surprised at

how hard we hit,” Gerhart said.Even though the game was intended to

be simply a fun scrimmage, play had to be halted several times to attend to many injuries of different alumni players.

This game was the last match in three weeks for many of the Bullets. The team plans to make its way to Kansas City, Mo., next week to assist in the women’s Sweet 16 tournament.

The following week, as many as 12 Bullets might practice and play with the Heart of America under-21 select side team. Gerhart said the status of the game is still up in the air.

“If that game is played, it will be a re-ally good chance to play some really com-petitive rugby,” Gerhart said.

Further down the road, the entire Bul-lets squad will get back into competitive mode Nov. 11 and 12 for the Ozark Tour-

nament in Arkansas. Playing against Bul-lets of the past helped out the 2006 team, Gerhart said.

“Any chance we get to play a game is good practice, but we will defi nitely see a different style down in Arkansas,” Ger-hart said.

With the rain showing no signs of let-ting up and players of past and present making plans to get together later that evening, the teams were anxious to turn over the pitch to the Bulls for their own alumni game.

Bill Sexton, men’s head coach, was the fi rst of his team at the pitch, because he served as referee for the Bullets’ game. Sexton said he enjoys helping out with their game.

“I usually do it every year if I’m available, and it helps keep it kind of loose and just let everybody have fun,” Sexton said.

By the time the Bulls took the fi eld,

certain areas had standing water, giving a bit of a water show whenever a player would slosh into the end zone for a try.

The men had a smaller showing from their alumni but were still able to play a shortened game, with the alumni winning 37-15.

The fl ow of the game was broken up at halftime by a different sort of competi-tion, when current rookies and fi rst-year alumni took each other on in a powdered doughnut eating contest.

One of the fi rst-year alumni was for-mer All-American Sean Foley, who said he sees good things down the road for the Bulls from what he saw Saturday.

“They’re really young, so they’re going to be good,” Foley said. “The more they play, the better they are go-ing to get.”

Sexton said he would have liked to see the team play better against the alumni, but he can’t be too upset.

“I can’t be disappointed that they lost since all but one of the guys out there learned how to play rugby from me,” he said.

Sexton said he expects the Bulls’ fi nal match of the fall season, which will be next Saturday at home against the University of Nebraska, to be a very tough match.

“Their coach, Tim Russo, is a Truman alumnus,” Sexton said. “He’s played for the Kansas City Blues, a super-league team, and a territorial senior men’s team, so he’s played at a good level. He’s got some good ideas and is working at creat-ing a very good program.”

The Bulls will come into the match 2-0 in league play after winning by default against the University of Kansas. Sexton said a win against Nebraska won’t come as easily.

“These guys are big, and they are fast,” Sexton said. “They are playing very good rugby right now. I expect it to be a very diffi cult game.”

Swim teams drop opener

fact that they outscored Missouri State in swimming events proves they can com-pete with schools at the Div. I level.

“They’re just so close in ability,” Gole said. “If you look at the results, the fi rst through fourth [place fi nishers] are all close.”

The men experienced a much more diffi cult time of competing at the level of the Missouri State swimmers. The Bears swept all 16 events en route to a 176-103 victory.

Nevertheless, Gole said he thinks the men did perform well in certain events and that his team got stronger as the meet progressed.

“The early stages of the meet were a little rough for us, just because I think the lack of warm-up took a toll on them,” Gole said. “As the meet got going, the swims started coming around, and they

got better and better.”While the men lacked a first place

finish, they did have some swimmers capture multiple second place finishes. Junior Ryan Ferrell, who finished run-ner-up in the 100-yard freestyle and butterfly, and senior Robert Fletcher — the second-place finisher in the 100-yard and 200-yard backstroke — had several quality races.

“I thought Ryan Ferrell and Robert Fletcher swam probably the most con-sistent on the men’s side as far being there in every one of their swims,” Gole said. “Ryan is surprising me right now because he’s way ahead of where he was last year. ... I think he’s setting up a really good year.”

Although the men did not technically win any events, they did receive fi rst place points in the 400-yard freestyle relay. The

Missouri State teams swam for exhibition times in this event.

“I thought the 400-free relay was pret-ty rock solid for this time of the year,” Gole said.

Junior Alex Totura, a member of the 400-yard freestyle team, fi nished third in the 500-yard freestyle and was the top Bulldog fi nisher in the 200-yard freestyle.

“The way [Missouri State] swam, I thought that’s about the right place I should be,” Totura said. “ ... More im-portantly, I swam the way I needed to swim.”

Despite the losses by both the men and the women, Gole is not alarmed.

“I’m really pleased with where our team is at as far as training goes,” Gole said. “And that’s really what I’m more concerned with at the time being.”

Rugby teams defeated by alumni in wet, muddy conditions

Chris Tharp/IndexFreshman Andrew McCall swims a few laps after practice last week. McCall and the rest of the men’s team fell to Missouri State University 176-173 at the season opening dual meet.

Thursday, October 26, 2006 Index 19

KEY TURNOVERS

DECIDING FACTORPlaying in marsh-like conditions Saturday afternoon, neither Truman nor Washburn could move the football effectively. Turnovers led to great fi eld position and a Bulldog victory

Truman WashburnScore 21 7Turnovers 1 6Pts. Off Turnovers 14 7

Mistake Derek Rodriguez fumbles a Washburn punt at the Truman 12-yard line

WU’s Trent Hearn fumbles at Washburn’s 30-yard line

WU’s Brad Cole fumbles at the Washburn 17-yard line

Result Washburn scores three plays later, ties the game at 7

Chandler Terry picks up the fumble and scores a TD, gives Truman 14-7 lead

Matt Ticich scores two plays later, gives Truman a 21-7 lead

Time1st Quarter

3rd Quarter

4th Quarter

DEFENSE l Ball-hawks force six turnovers, score touchdown while leading team to third straight win

FOOTBALL l Bulldogs alone in fourth place in MIAA after third straight victory and fourth in fi ve weeks

Chris Tharp/IndexThree members of the Bulldogs defense pull down Washburn University’s Ra’Shawn Mosley during the ’Dogs 21-7 win Saturday.

PLAYOFFS l Women’s soccer likely a NCAA playoff team after defeating UCM

Oct. 14 at Emporia StateSite: Kirksville, Mo., Stadium: Stokes Stadium

Score by Quarters 1 2 3 4 ScoreWashburn 7 0 0 0 7Truman 7 0 7 7 21

First Downs Rushes-Yards PASSING YDS (NET) Passes Att-Comp-Int Total Offense Plays-Yards Fumble Returns-Yards Punt Returns-Yards Kickoff Returns-Yards Interception Returns-Yards Punts (Number-Avg) Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards Possession Time Third-Down Conversions Fourth-Down Conversions Red-Zone Scores-Chances Sacks By: Number-Yards

RUSHING: Washburn – Hearn, T. 16-52; Mosley, R. 17-47; Walker, B. 14-39; Cole,B. 4-16; Wofford, B. 2-2; TEAM 2-minus 24Truman – Ticich, M. 21-81; Bembry, M. 13-56; Kenney, P. 8-22; TEAM 2-minus 8

PASSING: Washburn – Wofford, B. 3-7-1-19 Truman – Ticich, M. 1-4-0-14

RECEIVING: Washburn – Gardiner, A. 2-15; Hearn, T. 1-4Truman – Kenney, P. 1-14

INTERCEPTIONS: Washburn – None Truman – Sternberg, E. 1-11

FUMBLES: Washburn – Walker, B. 1-1; Mos-ley, R. 1-1; Hearn, T. 1-1; Wofford, B. 1-1; Cole,B. 1-1 Truman – Rodriguez, D. 1-1

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Continued from Page 15it ended up being to our advantage,” Cur-rier said.

For the second straight week, the ’Dogs’ “D” was the difference maker in the contest. The unit held the Icabods to 151 yards of total offense, averaging a paltry 2.4 yards per play.

The defense stopped Washburn in both halves but really stepped things up in the second half. The Bulldogs ended all but one Washburn drive by forcing six turn-overs in the half — fi ve fumbles and one interception.

“We really didn’t change anything,” junior free safety Chandler Terry said. “We just had to keep playing hard like we did in the fi rst half and just keep getting after them.”

Terry recovered one of the fi ve Icha-bod fumbles and turned it into six points. Terry picked up a ball that was forced loose by junior strong safety Jesse Cooper and returned it 30 yards for a touchdown.

“Coop made a nice play and made the guy fumble,” Terry said. “I just saw the ball close to the sidelines, so I just tried to stay inbounds and pick it up and try and score.”

The lone Washburn touchdown came on a 12-yard drive, courtesy of a muffed punt by sophomore punt returner Der-ek Rodriguez. On the play, Rodriguez charged in on a punt that sailed over his head. He got a hand on the ball as it was going by him, and Washburn picked it up on the ’Dogs’ 12-yard line.

Rodriguez’s turnover was the ’Dogs only one of the day.

“One thing we did a great job with was no turnovers on offense,” Currier said. “ ... They had fi ve, and that was the difference.”

Offensively, the Bulldogs did just enough to win the game. The purple and white registered a season-low 151 yards of total offense and punted eight times. Still, the team managed to score when it mattered and secured the victory.

Sophomore quarterback Matt Ticich led the way for the offense, although he did little throwing the ball. Ticich threw for just 14 yards on one of four completions.

Most of the fi rst-year signal caller’s damage came on the ground. For the third consecutive week, Ticich led the rushing attack, gaining 81 yards on 21 carries and scoring two touchdowns.

The rest of the running duties were split between two freshmen running backs. Marvin Bembry had 13 carries for 58 yards, while Phil Kenney had 22 yards on eight attempts in his fi rst game back from injury after missing the previous four games.

Kenney also caught the only complet-ed pass in the game.

Junior Jake Cunningham missed his second game in a row with a knee injury.

For the second straight week the ’Dogs will take on the team directly above them in the conference standings. The team will make the long trip to Pittsburg, Kan., to take on the Pittsburg State University Gorillas on Saturday. At 7-1, the Gorillas are tied for second in the conference and are ranked No. 8 in the nation and No. 9 in the regional poll.

Continued from Page 15“Coaches stressed that way before the

game — we got to get the ball out,” Ham-mers said. “ ... And that’s what we did.”

In the wet conditions of the “lake” for-merly known as the Stokes Stadium fi eld, both teams were forced to run the ball early and often. The Bulldogs were ready for Washburn.

“We knew what they were going to do, and our defense really, really stepped up,” Hammers said. “ ... We just came out and did what we had to do.”

Currier said this year’s defense has something that he didn’t have in previous years: skill players who can make plays.

“Every good football team has play-makers,” Currier said. “It’s easy to see playmakers that catch the ball, throw the ball and run the ball, but defensively the playmakers are the guys that come up with those forced fumbles, batting the balls down, big tackles and sacks.”

Hammers, one of the playmakers, had another stand out game. His eight tackles, one forced fumble and one fumble re-covery performance earned him his third MIAA Defensive Player of the Week Award and his second in two weeks. He was not alone in his dominance of the Ichabods.

Sophomores Kyle Glenn and Courtney

Jordan each came up big for the ’Dogs. Glenn, a 6-foot, 230-pound linebacker, led the team with nine tackles.

Jordan, a defensive end who started for the fi rst time in three weeks, was a ball hawk, recovering three fumbles.

“Coaches always tell us to get to the ball,” Jordan said. “I just happened to be on my way trying to get in on the tackle, and the ball came out, and I just fell on it.”

Freshman linebacker Eric Sternberg, a benefi ciary of the team’s switch to the 3-4 system, had his best game as a col-legian. He recorded eight tackles, forced a fumble and picked off a pass in the fourth quarter to seal the victory for the ’Dogs.

The dominating games from the un-derclassmen set up the potential for good things to come for the rest of the season — and years to come.

“It just means that the future is going to be even better,” Hammers said.

After installing a new scheme late in summer practice, there were concerns that the defense wouldn’t be ready to compete at a high level. Those questions are no longer around.

“We are just growing as a defense,” Hammers said. “From game one to now, we just keep growing. The defense is just rolling.”

Continued from Page 15Emporia State University 2-0. Still, they couldn’t avoid a loss Wednesday afternoon against University of Central Missouri, falling 1-0.

The loss to UCM essentially ends the Bulldogs’ season. For the fi rst time since the MIAA women’s soccer conference was formed, the purple and white won’t win the regular season conference title.

Even more disappointing — the Bulldogs, barring any mas-sive collapse by UCM in the last weekend of the year, will miss the playoffs. If the Bulldogs had captured the victory, they would have been in the driver’s seat for the fi nal playoff spot.

This is a squad that shouldn’t have missed the postseason at the beginning of the year. This is a postseason-caliber team, but that awful Oct. 14 and 15 weekend left them in too deep a hole to recover.

“We have had a great year, we have just had one bad week-end,” Cannon said.

And that weekend – two gut-wrenching road losses to Southwest Baptist University and Missouri Southern – was very similar to Wednesday afternoon.

The Bulldogs lost 1-0 in each of those contests. They outshot the opposition in each contest. They put more shots on goal each contest. They played better each contest. They lost both contests — one time in such a fashion that Cannon didn’t know what to say to his team after the game.

The same applied to Wednes-day’s showing. It was another 1-0 defeat. Another game where the Bulldogs outshot the op-position (11-8) and placed more shots on goal (5-2). They controlled the ball in the fi nal 15 minutes of the contest.

They just couldn’t win. Statistically, the Bulldogs are the conference’s best team. They rank fi rst in fewest goals allowed and stand third in total offense. But they rank as the fi fth-best team in the conference in the most important numbers:

wins and losses.All season long, it has been

the same theme: This is a team capable of achieving great things, but one play, one goal forces a loss or causes a tie. They tied a Family Day contest against Southwest Baptist on a late no-call when senior midfi elder Lauren Hawks was tripped up inside the penalty box by a Bearcats’ defender.

A few weeks later, senior midfi elder Rachael Schmidt hit the post in the fi nal minute of overtime in the 1-0 loss to SBU on Oct. 14.

Against UCM, the Bulldogs controlled possession and con-trolled the offensive fl ow. They just couldn’t capture the victory.

This team — with an abundance of freshman playing key roles — has played very well this season, especially in a MIAA conference that will place three teams in the postsea-son for the fi rst time ever.

This squad has defeated — or tied — every top team in the conference. They haven’t lost to any team that is worse than they are. All of their defeats are one-goal margins, four of the 1-0 variety. They played a tougher non-conference slate than most of their regional competition, especially Southwest Baptist.

They will likely fall short of the playoffs, even if they win their fi nal two games of the season against Missouri Western State University and Northwest Missouri State University. Both are mediocre teams — Mo. West ranks as the worst team in the conference. The Bulldogs haven’t lost to either of the squads since the MIAA was formed eight years ago. Two wins should be easy.

The problem lies with Cen-tral Missouri. They also face-off against Mo. West and North-west. The chances of losing either of the contests is slim.

Just like a few weeks ago, the Bulldogs will need to react strongly and capture the fi nal two contests.

And become Mo. West and Northwest’s biggest fans.

Continued from Page 15In the 61st minute, Wiegert

crossed the ball and Haluszczak knocked it in with her thigh, giving the ‘Dogs a lead they wouldn’t relinquish.

“It wasn’t so much that I scored,” Haluszczak said. “I would have been happy for anyone to score it. I was just glad for the team that I scored because we worked so hard that game, and we totally deserved to win.”

Cannon said one of the ad-vantages of playing Haluszc-zak is that she can strike the ball well with her left or right foot, so she can play on either side of the field.

“For her size, she just hits the crap out of the ball,” Can-non said.

Fellow midfi elder Isabel Gae-ta is the opposite of Haluszczak’s workhorse style, Cannon said.

Gaeta has started only one game so far this season, but Can-non said that when Gaeta plays, she has a nose for the net.

“She has a little bit of that offensive flair, which is what we need,” Cannon said. “She likes to get forward. She’s definitely going, ‘I’m going to cheat a little bit, try to get in front of my mark,’ and she just likes to be around the goal.”

The offensive talent has paid off, with Gaeta scoring the game winner versus Wino-na State University early in the season and adding an insurance goal on Sunday to help defeat Emporia State University.

Wiegert also knows about big goals. She is tied for the team lead in goal scoring with senior Lauren Hawks, and she leads the team in points with 17.

Cannon said Wiegert’s per-formance this year has been admirable.

“For a freshman, stepping in and being depended upon to score goals is a lot to ask,” Cannon said. “She’s going to be a very good player for us for the next four years.”

Cannon said that on top of untimely injuries, the other main reason for the lack of scoring this season is inexperi-ence.

YOUTH l Three freshmen supply steady offense for the women’s soccer team this season

“[One is] the fact that we are playing a lot of freshmen in those attacking positions,” Can-non said. “That’s going to hap-pen, and for the future, it looks pretty good, actually, because they’re going to get more expe-rience, they’re going to get bet-ter, and they’re getting a lot of

playing time.”But this year, the ’Dogs are

working hard to make the play-offs, and Cannon said the team essentially needs to win out the rest of the season to get there.

Gaeta said the key to winning those remaining two games on the schedule is to take control early.

“I think we have to score right off the bat, so then we have some security,” Gaeta said. “And once we start scoring, we should score another one right away so we can ... get into them mentally and take the control right away because [teams] usually come out strong in the second half.”

Adam Kabins/IndexFreshman forward Jessica Wiegert dribbles the ball in the team’s 1-1 tie against Washburn University on Saturday afternoon at Truman Soccer Park. Wiegert is one of several key freshmen for the team.

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Thursday, October 26, 2006

Athlete of the Week

Mike SheldenSport: FootballYear: SeniorPosition: CenterHometown: Eureka, Mo.

Shelden delivered one of the finest games of his four-year careerin Saturday’s 21-7 win against Washburn University. Playing in marsh-like conditions because of a steady downpour that begin a few hours before kickoff , Shelden enjoyed a terrifi c day. He didn’t have a single turnover in the shotgun spread off ense. The Washburncenter, Dan Schneider, and the Ichabods’ twoquarterbacks, BeauWoff ord and BrandonWalker, had problemson snaps the entire game. Overall, Washburnturned the ball over six times in the contest,leading to 14 points.The Bulldogs, 4-4 overall and 4-2 in the MIAA, won its fourth game in the last fi ve weeks.

Mike Shelden doesn’t havea bad snap in wet and windy conditions Saturday

Conor NichollSports Editor

Head football coach Shannon Currier made certain he found one player after Saturday’s contest: senior center Mike Shelden.

A few minutes after the Bulldogs defeated Washburn University 21-7 in pouring rain and quagmire-like condi-tions, Currier spotted Shelden talking with friends near the west goalpost.

He walked over to his veteran center, gave him a high-fi ve and said, “Great job snapping today.”

Shelden’s solid snaps provided the dif-ference in a contest ultimately decided by turnovers and ball control. With help from several offensive players, the senior suc-cessfully navigated through the muck of Stokes Stadium. He never committed a miscue the entire contest.

“Mike Shelden, our running backs and [sophomore quarter-back] Matt Ticich can all be players of the game only be-cause of ball security, even if they didn’t make any yards,” Currier said. “The key to this game was to not turn the ball over. That was the difference.”

On the other hand, Washburn center Dan Sch-neider and the Ichabods’ quarterbacks turned the ex-changes into a constant strug-gle, losing fumbles six times.

On a day where just two drives went over 45 yards, the turnovers — including several deep in Washburn territory — provided the Bulldogs with short fi elds.

The purple and white took advantage, scoring 14 second-half points off Icha-bod miscues and winning their fourth MIAA contest in their last fi ve games.

“It was one of those things where you had to handle the ball, especially today, you really had to take care of the foot-ball,” Washburn defensive coordinator Chris Brown said. “If you don’t take care of the football, you can lose a ball-game that way.”

After fi nishing 4-18 in the fi rst two seasons of the Shannon Currier era, the Bulldogs are now 4-4 (4-2 in the MIAA)

in 2006 and have a very good chance to fi nish above .500 for the fi rst time since 2002 and possibly earn a trip to the Min-eral Water Bowl. With the victory, they also entered the regional rankings (No. 11) for the fi rst time since Currier took over as head coach.

“I said all week, ‘This is the big-gest game of my career,’” Shelden said. “They had a great defensive line, and we had to win to keep our postseason hopes alive.”

Shelden was the crux for the offen-sive line, plowing holes for an attack that ran the football 44 of 48 offensive plays. He also perpetually supplied a steady snap in the shotgun spread of-fense.

When he fi rst walked onto the fi eld about three hours before the 2 p.m. kick-off, Shelden knew the conditions were going to be very rough.

Rain started pelting Stokes Stadium about 9 a.m. and wouldn’t stop until well after the contest. By kickoff, the fi eld was soup-like.

By the end of the game, Stokes was a brown-and-green version of oatmeal.

Several huge brown clumps dotted the fi eld, especially between the 30-yard lines.

Players would sink a few inches every time they stepped on the fi eld, providing the worst con-ditions Shelden, a two-time MIAA Honorable Mention All-Conference lineman, had ever played in during his fi ve-year collegiate career.

Still, the senior — play-ing in his 40th collegiate game and making his 30th straight start — delivered an outstanding contest. In pregame, Shelden focused on making every snap per-

fect and clean.He always holds the ball on the laces

before every exchange, but on Saturday he especially focused on fi nding a solid grip. Shelden also called on the offi cials whenever possible.

“Every time I thought that it was get-ting too wet, I would ask the referee for a new ball,” he said. “They did a good job of switching it out. I knew it was going to be a pretty sloppy afternoon at Stokes. It was all about just trying to keep my concentration and just trying to snap it.”

Center helpsBulldogs win

On the other side, Schneider and the Washburn offense treated Saturday like a normal game.

“We just dry [the balls] off with the towel, and hopefully it doesn’t get too wet,” Brown said.

Shelden and the offense rarely used towels on the fi eld.

“After a minute or two, it gets kind of pointless because the ball gets so [soaked],” he said.

Instead, Shelden tried to stay dry and keep his hands from getting cold in the windy, 51-degree temperatures.

“The biggest thing is the mental game,” Currier said. “You have to believe that you are going to get the ball back there

and make certain you are not letting your body feel cold. You have to have a mind that is stronger than the elements.”

Shelden kept his mind alert and his hands from getting too cold. His hands were freezing after the Bulldogs’ fi rst of-fensive possession, but he started using hand warmers — small heating packs of-ten used by skiers and snowboarders on the mountains — that some players bought.

“I just wanted to keep my hands warm,” he said. “I would also run and get a towel and start wiping off my hands and trying to keep my entire body clean, too.”

That process helped secure the foot-ball for the Bulldogs, yielding another critical win in a remarkable season.

“Mike Shelden, our running backs and Matt Ticich can be players

of the game only because of ball security, even if they didn’t gain

any yards.”

Shannon CurrierHead Football Coach

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