News in Brief
Issue date: 11/12/09 Section: News
Upward bound hosts info session
Upward Bound is having an informational meeting about 2010 spring and summer employment opportunities at 5 p.m. Monday in the SUB room 3204. Past mentors and current Truman students will be speaking at the event.
Students speak at Museum
COMM 270 and COMM 170 students will give speeches whose origins range from historical figures to movie characters from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Ruth W. Towne Museum. Approximately 35 students are involved in the project that is organized by communication professor Barry Poynter and sponsored by the Communication Club.
Students can experience Vietnam
Love in Future Tense, the International Student Affairs office, West Campus Suites and the Multicultural Affairs Center will host "Hello Vietnam" at 6 p.m. Sunday in the West Campus Suites Multipurpose Room.
This event will introduce students to Vietnamese culture through food, music and costumes. The meal will include four main dishes, dessert and beverages for $5 per person.
JINS course travels to New Mexico
Monica Barron will explain "Road Trip as Pedagogy," at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Baldwin Hall 318. The course is a cluster of three courses - ENG 418 Southwest Lit, JINS 315 Nuclear Weapons and any Spanish course - and a spring break trip to Taos, Los Alamos and Santa Fe, N.M. For more information, visit air.truman.edu/roadtrip.
SAB to host blogger, author
Student Activities Board will host Christian Lander as the fall speaker at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Baldwin Auditorium.
Lander is a blogger and best-selling author known for his book "Stuff White People Like." The book is a humorous anthropological study of upper-middle-class white culture and a handbook to succeeding in modern, urban, white society.
Students can pick up their free ticket at the SAB office and the general public can purchase tickets for $2.
Staff council hosts blood drive
Staff Council will host a blood drive from noon to 4 p.m. Dec. 2 in the Georgian Room of the Student Union Building. To sign up for an appointment, visit www.givelife.org. The Staff Council also is bringing back the holiday door-decorating contest. To enter your office or department in the door contest, contact Linda Davenport at lindadav@truman.edu by Nov. 20.
Parking lot scheduled to be closed
The parking lot east of Pershing Building will be closed Nov. 23 until Pershing renovations are completed. River City Construction Company will be fencing off the area. The renovations are scheduled to be completed by the end of 2010.
Students place 6th at tournament
Senior Mike McCarthy and junior Spencer Clark, members of the University's Fishing Club, competed in the National Guard Forrest L. Wood College Fishing Challenge Oct. 31 to Nov. 1 in Murray, Ky. They placed sixth out of 20 teams.
Student Senate in Brief
•Student Senate passed a resolution Endorsing Freshman Seminar within Future Curricular Models.
•Student Senate passed a resolution endorsing an experiential learning component in future curricular models.
Crime Reports
11/4 A bicycle was reported stolen from Missouri Hall.
11/5 A theft was reported at McClain hall for less than $500
Upward Bound is having an informational meeting about 2010 spring and summer employment opportunities at 5 p.m. Monday in the SUB room 3204. Past mentors and current Truman students will be speaking at the event.
Students speak at Museum
COMM 270 and COMM 170 students will give speeches whose origins range from historical figures to movie characters from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Ruth W. Towne Museum. Approximately 35 students are involved in the project that is organized by communication professor Barry Poynter and sponsored by the Communication Club.
Students can experience Vietnam
Love in Future Tense, the International Student Affairs office, West Campus Suites and the Multicultural Affairs Center will host "Hello Vietnam" at 6 p.m. Sunday in the West Campus Suites Multipurpose Room.
This event will introduce students to Vietnamese culture through food, music and costumes. The meal will include four main dishes, dessert and beverages for $5 per person.
JINS course travels to New Mexico
Monica Barron will explain "Road Trip as Pedagogy," at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Baldwin Hall 318. The course is a cluster of three courses - ENG 418 Southwest Lit, JINS 315 Nuclear Weapons and any Spanish course - and a spring break trip to Taos, Los Alamos and Santa Fe, N.M. For more information, visit air.truman.edu/roadtrip.
SAB to host blogger, author
Student Activities Board will host Christian Lander as the fall speaker at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Baldwin Auditorium.
Lander is a blogger and best-selling author known for his book "Stuff White People Like." The book is a humorous anthropological study of upper-middle-class white culture and a handbook to succeeding in modern, urban, white society.
Students can pick up their free ticket at the SAB office and the general public can purchase tickets for $2.
Staff council hosts blood drive
Staff Council will host a blood drive from noon to 4 p.m. Dec. 2 in the Georgian Room of the Student Union Building. To sign up for an appointment, visit www.givelife.org. The Staff Council also is bringing back the holiday door-decorating contest. To enter your office or department in the door contest, contact Linda Davenport at lindadav@truman.edu by Nov. 20.
Parking lot scheduled to be closed
The parking lot east of Pershing Building will be closed Nov. 23 until Pershing renovations are completed. River City Construction Company will be fencing off the area. The renovations are scheduled to be completed by the end of 2010.
Students place 6th at tournament
Senior Mike McCarthy and junior Spencer Clark, members of the University's Fishing Club, competed in the National Guard Forrest L. Wood College Fishing Challenge Oct. 31 to Nov. 1 in Murray, Ky. They placed sixth out of 20 teams.
Student Senate in Brief
•Student Senate passed a resolution Endorsing Freshman Seminar within Future Curricular Models.
•Student Senate passed a resolution endorsing an experiential learning component in future curricular models.
Crime Reports
11/4 A bicycle was reported stolen from Missouri Hall.
11/5 A theft was reported at McClain hall for less than $500
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