Jay Forness
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A day in the Life of three-term SGA Vice President Greg Felock
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Student Government Association Vice President Greg Felock hurried in to the University Center as President Benny Dorris told him that the copier jammed when others tried to make 50 copies of the SGA agenda. Felock darted toward the copier without hesitation to fix the problem.
In the past hour, Felock had rushed from an SGA Executive Board meeting to introducing Nicholas Sparks at the Show Me Center and then back to the Center for Student Involvement in the University Center, leaving his job of organizing the SGA senate meeting to Dorris.
While Felock cleared the paper jam, loaded paper into the copier and started making more copies, Dorris joked that whenever Felock couldn't be there to set up the senate meetings, they should just be canceled.
Felock is the only three-term vice president in the history of SGA at Southeast Missouri State University and has ran senate meetings and been an influential voice for Southeast students since he was a sophomore.
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Dr. Carlos Vargas-Aburto announced as next university president
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
When Dr. Carlos Vargas Aburto entered the Glenn Auditorium side by side with current president, Dr. Kenneth W. Dobbins, on Feb. 4, everyone knew Vargas had the job.
Vargas sat silently next to Dobbins during introductory speeches until Doyle Privett, the chair of the Presidential Search and Screening Advisory Committee, named Vargas the 18th president of Southeast Missouri State University.
It wasn't until Privett made the official announcement, saying the board unanimously voted for Vargas in its first vote, that Vargas teared up and took to the podium.
"I have an internal feeling that I cannot express in words," Vargas said. "Just please believe me when I tell you that this is something that I had never dreamed of. You have in front of you somebody who is the typical low-income, first generation student. I never thought that I would be here. I never thought that I would be able to be at an institution contributing to promoting it, continuing to help the institution educate students. And so for me, this is quite amazing."
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GSA drag show well attended by students
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
The Gay Straight Alliance hosted their annual drag show Oct. 30, with around 400 people in attendance.
"It's all about humanity and expressing yourself as an individual, representing your community, but also representing yourself within that whole compass of 'We're people, we want to be treated right, and this is just a form of entertainment,'" Khrystal Leight, the MC of the show, said.
Leight, who has done female impersonation since 1993, started the first drag ball ever in the Midwest at Washington University in St. Louis, and brought the drag ball to Southeast Missouri State University in 1996.
"You see how acclimated our society is to this different counter-culture that we are living in not just in our own gay community, but also in society," Leight said.
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Mathematics department changes curriculum
Friday, February 7, 2014
The mathematics department has changed its developmental curriculum by taking away the current developmental classes and adding corequisites to the logical systems classes.
Currently, students who come to Southeast Missouri State University and have an ACT math score lower than 21 have to take two developmental math classes before they can take one that will satisfy the university studies requirement. Those students with an ACT math score lower than 15 take an additional math course. Students then still need to take another mathematics class to fulfill the logical systems requirement for university studies.
With this new program most students will not have to take more than four credits of mathematics to get a degree, according to Dr. Chris McGowan, dean of the College of Science, Technology and Agriculture.
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Spring Into Dance shows off Southeast dancers
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Spring Into Dance 2014, which opened April 10 to a crowd of about 100 people, showed off the energy and skill of Southeast Missouri State University's dancers. The show, which was less than an hour and a half long, featured seven dances over two acts.
The first piece was "Sound Effects," which was choreographed by guest choreographer Sam Watson. The piece contained 12 dancers who entertainingly embodied horses, car engines, and riders on a roller coaster as the dance went on. The performance was a circus, an interpretive dance and a Warner Brothers cartoon combined, complete with rainbow-colored socks.
"Sound Effects" was followed by Zak McMahon's piece "Hozho." Hozho is a Navajo concept of beauty and harmony. The dance featured Brandace Anderson, Hannah Matheney, and Lauren Tustanowsky. The dance slowly built with repetition, giving the dance a smooth and fluid quality that contrasted well after the comedy of "Sound Effects"
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'Batman v Superman' is surprisingly entertaining (B-)
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
I went into “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” with the lowest of expectations. I found “Man of Steel” to be ultimately boring and was not excited that that film and the Zack Snyder tone was going to be the building blocks on which a DC cinematic world was to be based. Each released preview of “Dawn of Justice” made me have less and less hope, and by the time I went into the movie theater, the best I was hoping for was to watch something to make fun of.
However, this film was actually very entertaining. Every 10 minutes I assessed my feelings, and every time I was shocked that I wasn't hate-watching this movie. That does not mean that this was a perfect film. There is a lot to nitpick about. The plot only kind of makes sense, there are way too many dream sequences and Oscar-nominee Amy Adams has nothing to do in this film.
The movie also feels both too long and too short. There are so many different plot threads that it seems like they weren't sure what movie to make, so they decided to just make all of them. There seems to be a good "Man of Steel" sequel movie in there, as well as a decent Batman reboot and Justice League prologue. The problem is that none are able to have enough time to be satisfying.
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New fee required for all graduate students
Friday, October 30, 2015
Southeast Missouri State University introduced a zero-credit course with a $50 class fee this fall for all graduate students to take every semester they are at the university.
The class, GR 609, was designed to replace three previously offered classes, GR 698, GR 699 and GR 799. Before this fall, each graduate student would have to take one of those classes during their last semester.
Those three eliminated courses were capstones for the school of graduate studies, where students could get credit for defending their thesis, taking the required comprehensive exam or other specialist degree requirements for graduation. While the classes could cost the same as one credit hour, if the graduate student was enrolled in any other courses that semester, there was no fee.
The Board of Regents motion also said implementing the special course fee for GR 609 was estimated to increase revenue of $67,000 per fiscal year.
Read the full article at southeastarrow.com/. After this article was published, the Board of Regents reversed the added fee as reported here.
