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'SUPER TUESDAY', GLOBAL WARMING TO BE TOPICS ON 'GOING PUBLIC' PROGRAMS
"Super Tuesday" and global warming will be the topics of two "Going Public" programs scheduled to air March 5 on 90.9FM KRCU.
At 3 p.m., Dr. Rick Althaus and Dr. Michael Levy, both of the Department of Political Science at Southeast Missouri State University, will discuss the upcoming "Super Tuesday" primaries on March 7 and what Missouri's role will be in the primary. Election 2000 coverage also can be found at www.krcu.org.
At 3:30 p.m., KRCU will air an encore broadcast of "Going Public." The guest will be Australian geologist Dr. Patrick Quilty, who will discuss global warming, the state of the ozone layer and his studies on the continent of Antarctica.
"Going Public" is hosted by three faculty members of Southeast Missouri State University. They are: Dr. Tom Harte, Department of Speech Communication and Theatre; Dr. Peter Bergerson, Department of Political Science; and Dr. Chris Schnell, Department of History.
"Going Public" airs every Sunday at 3 p.m. on 90.9 FM. Encore broadcasts of "Going Public" can be heard at 3:30 p.m.
FRIEND-BOLLINGER REGIONAL HISTORY LECTURE TO BE PRESENTED MARCH 9
The first annual Friend-Bollinger Regional History Lecture will be delivered at 8 p.m. March 9 in the Dempster Auditorium of Crisp Hall. The speaker will be Dr. Stephen Williams, Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Emeritus, at Harvard University.
The title of Professor William's presentation will be "Some Ruminations on the Archaeology of Southeast Missouri." The presentation is free and open to the public. Professor Williams was at Harvard for nearly 40 years from 1954-1993, holding a number of key academic posts. For much of that time he was the Curator of North American Archaeology at Harvard's Peabody Museum.
Williams received his academic training at Yale and the University of Michigan. He completed his doctoral dissertation at Yale on his field work on the Mississippian Indian mounds in Southeast Missouri, which he did between 1948 and 1956. This research is the basis of the Friend-Bollinger lecture on the Southeast campus on Thursday evening.
In his lecture Williams will discuss the history and work of archaeologists who did field work in southeast Missouri, including his own, from the beginning of the 19th century to the present time. His talk will be supplemented by photographs which illustrate and help explain changes in the landscape of Southeast Missouri over the past 150 years
The Friend-Bollinger Regional History Lecture is funded from an endowment established at Southeast's Center for Regional History, by Nan and Neil Adams of Godfrey, Ill., and her father, Lynn Bollinger, of St. Louis. Lynn Bollinger was born in Cape Girardeau and married Virginia Friend of Oran, a descendent of John Friend, one of the first settlers of Scott County, Mo. A purpose of the endowment is to promote the study of history of Southeast Missouri. It will be an annual event on the campus.
CANDLELIGHT VIGIL TO MARK WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
The Junior Panhellenic Council at Southeast Missouri State University will sponsor a Women's History Candlelight Vigil March 8 at Southeast Missouri State University.
The candlelight vigil is in celebration of Women's History Month and the accomplishments of extraordinary women such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Krista McCullough, Betsy Ross and Florence Nightingale.
The vigil will begin at 9 p.m. at the Kala M. Stroup Fountain on the Plaza in front of Kent Library. From there, participants will visit six other campus locations. At each site, a reader will present a biography of an outstanding woman and discuss her significance in history.
The vigil will conclude at Dempster Hall.
For more information, call Teresa Priggel at (573) 332-5205.
VISIONS OF NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN TO BE SHARED THROUGH LECTURES, EXHIBIT
A lecture series and an art exhibit will highlight a program titled "Dreamweaving the World: Visions of Native American Women" to be presented this month and next at Southeast Missouri State University.
The work of Native American fiber artist Margaret Roach Wheeler is on display in the University Museum through March 24. Her work consists of sculpture, wearable shawls and wall hangings. She presented a lecture on her work March 2 in the University Museum. The museum exhibit opened today.
On April 9 at 2 p.m., Dr. Theda Perdue, who has an extensive background researching Native peoples of the southeastern United States and Native American women, will present a lecture titled "Writing the History of Cherokee Women." The lecture will be given in the University Center. She is the author of the book "Cherokee Women: Genger and Culture Change, 1700-1835." She currently is editing a collection of biographical essays on Native American women and is writing a general history of southeastern Indians. She teaches courses on Native people at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Nora Naranjo Morse, a Tewa Pueblo Indian, sculptor, writer and video producer of films that focus on the social changes within the Pueblo culture, will present a lecture April 26 on the Southeast campus. Morse's lecture is titled "Gia's Song: How Government Funding Affects a Village's Attitude of Self." The lecture will be presented at 4 p.m. in Glenn Auditorium of Robert A. Dempster Hall. "Gia's Song" will be installed in the Smithsonian Institute in March 2000.
The lectures are free and open to the public. They are sponsored by Funding for Results, Journey Magazine, the Sociology/Anthropology Department, English Department, Women Studies Program and the Art Department.
GREEKS ATTEND MGCA CONFERENCE
Several Greek students from Southeast Missouri State University attended the Mid American Greek Council Association's annual Greek Leadership Conference in Chicago Feb. 17-20. The conference is designed to build student leadership skills and to foster a sharing of ideas on Greek life. Members of the University's Panhellenic Council and the Interfraternity Council attended along with more than 1,800 students representing 180 schools from 16 states.
"MGCA is a wonderful opportunity for Greek students to gain leadership experience, interact with students throughout the Midwest and gain knowledge and ideas to shape the future vision for Greek life at Southeast," said Kristen Heine, the coordinator for student involvement at the University.
The Southeast Panhellenic Council was awarded seven awards for outstanding accomplishments in the areas of academic achievement, leadership/educational development, self-governance and judicial affairs, membership recruitment, public relations, community service and council management.
"It is very rewarding to know that all of the hard work we put into our jobs was recognized as outstanding," said Katie Malz, past Panhellenic president. "We are very proud of the Greek system at Southeast and the positive impacts we have on the students as well as the community."
LYNN NAMED DIRECTOR OF RECREATIONAL SPORTS
Lori Lynn, a Southeast Missouri State University alumna, recently was named director of Recreational Sports at Southeast.
Lynn, who began her new duties Feb. 14, replaces L.G. Lauxman, who retired in December. "I am so pleased that Lori has joined the Southeast family," said Loren Rullman, director of Student Auxiliary Services at Southeast. "She brings to us a wealth of experience in every facet of collegiate recreation from her experience at Wichita State, the University of Illinois and Purdue University. She comes highly recommended from national leaders in the collegiate recreation field, and the fact that she is also a graduate of Southeast speaks volumes about the quality of our academic programs. It's great to have her back at Southeast."
Lynn is a key member of the Student Auxiliary Services management team. She is responsible for the direction and development of a comprehensive recreational sports program, which includes informal recreation, intramural sports, club sports, outdoor equipment rental, aquatics, a climbing wall, and facility management, as well as an auxiliary budget of $1 million.
Lynn is responsible for the management of the newly renovated 90,000-square-foot Student Recreation Center, a 25-yard/six-lane pool, and the newly renovated outdoor intramural complex at Bertling and Sprigg. The complex features one varsity softball field, two combination softball/soccer fields and one additional soccer field.
"The opportunity to return to Southeast and build upon a firm foundation by balancing tradition with new and creative programming ideas was very attractive to me," Lynn said. "This position allows me to bring together a variety of experiences that will assist Recreational Sports in forging a new vision for the future."
She added, "I am also very excited about the direction in which the University is moving. The commitment to students is very strong at Southeast, and that's an integral part of providing quality recreation programs." Lynn earned a bachelor of science degree, majoring in recreation, from Southeast Missouri State in 1985. She earned a master of science in education degree with an emphasis in recreation administration in 1989 from Southern Illinois University.
Lynn most recently has served as an associate director within the Division of Recreational Sports at Purdue University. She was responsible for the overall administration of the programs and services offered, which included the programmatic efforts within intramural, club, and informal sports, as well as fitness, instructional programs and summer camps.
As assistant director of Facility Management within the Division of Campus Recreation at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Lynn was directly responsible for the management and supervision of a 200,000-square-foot Intramural-Physical Education Building. Also at the University of Illinois, Lynn served as assistant director of sport clubs and special events and assistant director of intramural sports.
At Wichita State, she held the position of special program coordinator in the Department of Campus Recreation. She developed and administered a sport club program, advised clubs and scheduled games, meets and matches.
JOURNEY SPONSORING POETRY READING
Journey, the undergraduate student literary magazine at Southeast Missouri State University, will present a poetry reading by Dr. Bill Trowbridge March 23. Trowbridge will present the poetry reading at 7 p.m. in Crisp Hall.
Trowbridge is a professor at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville Missouri. He has published The Book of Kong, Dark Stranger and O Paradise.
He is one of the most accomplished comic poets and is able to wield a sardonic, mythic humor that is the poetic equivalent to the great paintings of Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton.
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