NEWS | In Brief
Issue date: 3/24/05 Section: News
Kirksville Police Department looking for volunteers to be mock terror victims
The Kirksville Homeland Security Response Team, Hannibal Forward Regional Response Team and the Missouri State Emergency Management Agency will conduct a full-scale exercise at the NEMO Fairgrounds on April 19. Those conducting the exercise are searching for simulated role players to volunteer to help with the drill. Volunteers will be mock victims of a terrorist attack involving a chemical agent. During the appropriate decontamination, participants will be washed and re-clothed. A bathing suit, shorts and a shirt or other outfit under clothing, plus a change of clothes and a towel, are recommended.
Volunteers will be assisting responders in the Kirksville community as they prepare to respond to an attack if called upon.
Those interested in volunteering may visit the Kirksville Police Department and sign an Actor Information and Release Sheet. Participants should report at 8 a.m. April 19 to the multipurpose building at the fairgrounds.
Three faculty members surprised during class with presentation of fellowship
University President Barbara Dixon; Garry Gordon, vice president for academic affairs and Mark Gambaiana, vice president for University advancement, presented three faculty with the $10,000 Walker and Doris Allen Fellowship on March 9. Julia DeLancey, associate professor of art; Jeffrey Osborn, associate professor of biology; and Priscilla Riggle, associate professor of English each received a 2005 Fellowship.
Riggle and DeLancey came to Truman in 1995, and Osborn has been at the University since 1991.
The presentation of the Fellowship was done in front of each faculty member's class, surprising the faculty member and his or her students.
Alumni Walker and Doris Allen established the Fellowship four years ago with one of the largest outright gifts ever made to the University Foundation. The $10,000 fellowship recognizes outstanding faculty members who have greatly contributed to the success of the University and its students.
Union ends tournament season with success after national championships
Members of the University Forensics Union left with a second-place finish at the 2005 National Parliamentary Debate Association National Championship Tournament March 18 to 20 at Texas Tech University-Lubbock. The Truman team was the runner-up to the National Champions from the University of California-Berkeley in the tournament. Seventy-one institutions competed in the tournament, in addition to international participants from Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.Â
The union also continued its streak of elimination-round successes, placing four teams in elimination rounds for the sixth consecutive year. Senior Tyson Helder and sophomore Samuel Hodge reached the quarterfinals of the tournament, putting them among the top eight teams in the nation out of a field of 212 two-person teams. Sophomore Sara Archer and freshman Matthew Snyder reached the double-octafinal round (top 32 teams). The teams of seniors Matthew Harms and Ryan Walsh and freshman Todd Turner and junior Stefani Wittenauer reached the triple-octafinals (top 64 teams).Â
The tournament uses a gradual elimination process similar to the NCAA basketball tournaments. Teams were required to have a winning record to reach the elimination rounds. The eventual winner of the single-elimination process was Lewis and Clark College (Ore.) which took possession of the championship cup earned by Truman in 2004.
Out of a field of 424 individual speakers, Helder ranked 13th and Hodge 16th. Truman also placed 16th in the season-long sweepstakes, a system which measures year-long performance at tournaments.
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The Kirksville Homeland Security Response Team, Hannibal Forward Regional Response Team and the Missouri State Emergency Management Agency will conduct a full-scale exercise at the NEMO Fairgrounds on April 19. Those conducting the exercise are searching for simulated role players to volunteer to help with the drill. Volunteers will be mock victims of a terrorist attack involving a chemical agent. During the appropriate decontamination, participants will be washed and re-clothed. A bathing suit, shorts and a shirt or other outfit under clothing, plus a change of clothes and a towel, are recommended.
Volunteers will be assisting responders in the Kirksville community as they prepare to respond to an attack if called upon.
Those interested in volunteering may visit the Kirksville Police Department and sign an Actor Information and Release Sheet. Participants should report at 8 a.m. April 19 to the multipurpose building at the fairgrounds.
Three faculty members surprised during class with presentation of fellowship
University President Barbara Dixon; Garry Gordon, vice president for academic affairs and Mark Gambaiana, vice president for University advancement, presented three faculty with the $10,000 Walker and Doris Allen Fellowship on March 9. Julia DeLancey, associate professor of art; Jeffrey Osborn, associate professor of biology; and Priscilla Riggle, associate professor of English each received a 2005 Fellowship.
Riggle and DeLancey came to Truman in 1995, and Osborn has been at the University since 1991.
The presentation of the Fellowship was done in front of each faculty member's class, surprising the faculty member and his or her students.
Alumni Walker and Doris Allen established the Fellowship four years ago with one of the largest outright gifts ever made to the University Foundation. The $10,000 fellowship recognizes outstanding faculty members who have greatly contributed to the success of the University and its students.
Union ends tournament season with success after national championships
Members of the University Forensics Union left with a second-place finish at the 2005 National Parliamentary Debate Association National Championship Tournament March 18 to 20 at Texas Tech University-Lubbock. The Truman team was the runner-up to the National Champions from the University of California-Berkeley in the tournament. Seventy-one institutions competed in the tournament, in addition to international participants from Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.Â
The union also continued its streak of elimination-round successes, placing four teams in elimination rounds for the sixth consecutive year. Senior Tyson Helder and sophomore Samuel Hodge reached the quarterfinals of the tournament, putting them among the top eight teams in the nation out of a field of 212 two-person teams. Sophomore Sara Archer and freshman Matthew Snyder reached the double-octafinal round (top 32 teams). The teams of seniors Matthew Harms and Ryan Walsh and freshman Todd Turner and junior Stefani Wittenauer reached the triple-octafinals (top 64 teams).Â
The tournament uses a gradual elimination process similar to the NCAA basketball tournaments. Teams were required to have a winning record to reach the elimination rounds. The eventual winner of the single-elimination process was Lewis and Clark College (Ore.) which took possession of the championship cup earned by Truman in 2004.
Out of a field of 424 individual speakers, Helder ranked 13th and Hodge 16th. Truman also placed 16th in the season-long sweepstakes, a system which measures year-long performance at tournaments.