Week of November 1, 1999



DR. CHARLES STEWART TO PRESENT WEIS LECTURE RESEARCH ROOM CREATES LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR DOCTORAL STUDENTS
DONATION OF COTTONSEED TO BOOST UNIVERSITY'S BEEF HERD RICHARD W. FLENTGE MEMORIAL ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWED THROUGH FOUNDATION
HAMBLIN SERVES AS GUEST LECTURER AT WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY SOUTHEAST CELEBRATES INTERNATIONAL NIGHT OF THE MILLENNIUM NOV. 13
KOESTNER TO SHARE HER MESSAGE WITH SOUTHEAST STUDENTS SOUTHEAST PREPARES FOR LIFTOFF OF NASA EDUCATOR RESOURCE CENTER
OUTREACH INITIATIVE BRINGS MISSOURI COURT OF APPEALS FOR EASTERN DISTRICT TO SOUTHEAST SOUTHEAST ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE MAJORS PARTICIPATE IN ST. LOUIS INTERVIEW DAY
UNIVERSITY HOSTING WEB COURSE OPEN HOUSE

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DR. CHARLES STEWART TO PRESENT WEIS LECTURE

Dr. Charles Stewart will present a lecture on conspiracy theories at the Weis Lecture Nov. 11 at Southeast Missouri State University.

Stewart, a professor of communication at Purdue University, will present a lecture called "Selling Conspiracy Theories." The theme of Stewart's lecture is that a conspiracy theory is an "argument created in relation to another argument that most people accept as legitimate and crucial," Stewart said.

Stewart is the author, co-author or editor of nine books on interviewing, rhetorical criticism and persuasion in social movements. His research centers on protest rhetoric and the rhetoric of social movements, including the early labor movement, protest music, the ego function of protest rhetoric, Stokely Carmichael and the rhetoric of black power, and conspiracy rhetoric. The Weis Lecture, which focuses on public speaking and related communication topics, will be held at 7 p.m. in Crisp Hall Room 125.

Dr. Adelia Weis endowed the Weis Lecture in honor of her brother Emil C. Weis who had a distinguished record as a debate and forensics coach, a record, which included state and national championships. Weis graduated in 1918 from Southeast, which, at the time was known as the Normal School.

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RESEARCH ROOM CREATES LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR DOCTORAL STUDENTS

Earning a doctoral degree is challenging for most students. The College of Education at Southeast Missouri State University is doing all it can to provide support for those students pursuing this milestone.

The College has opened a specially designed research room for doctoral students in educational leadership.

The room, which is located on the third floor of the Scully Building, serves as a general meeting room for the students, said Dr. I. Sue Shepard, coordinator of cooperative doctoral programs. "We've developed a seminar room that's used for all of our classes, both for study and research," she said. "It provides students a location where they can meet together, work on their comprehensive and conduct research for preparation of individual or group projects."

The room was opened at the beginning of the fall semester and is currently being enjoyed by 21 doctoral students. It contains seven computers and various other reference materials. This is the first room on campus specifically designated for doctoral students.

The doctoral cooperative program in education leadership is an advanced study in educational leadership for administrators, program leaders, and teachers for a variety of leadership positions in public and private education, government, and industry. The program is designed to meet the needs of educational leaders from across the state. Southeast Missouri State University is one of several regional universities participating in the program. Central Missouri State University, Northwest Missouri State University, Southwest Missouri State University, University of Missouri-Columbia and University of Missouri-Rolla also are participating. Students progress through the program as "cohorts." A student from each regional institution will be a site cohort, with students from all institutions forming the state cohort.

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DONATION OF COTTONSEED TO BOOST UNIVERSITY'S BEEF HERD

Gaylon Lawrence of Sikeston, Mo., has donated five ton of whole cottonseed to the Southeast Missouri State University Demonstration Farm to enhance the rebreeding performance of the University's beef herd.

The cottonseed, due to their oil content, are 90 percent total digestible nutrients and will be fed to the cattle this fall.

"This high level of energy will be just what the herd needs for an outstanding fall rebreeding program," said Dr. William Ellis, Southeast professor of agriculture.

"We would like to thank Mr. Lawrence for the generous donation of the whole cottonseed," he said. "The donation will continue the undergraduate education and reproductive research of the University's beef herd."

The Department of Agriculture also thanks Theresa Jones, a sophomore agriculture major, for hauling the donated cottonseed to the University farm.

Ellis says the donation comes at a time when he was very concerned about the upcoming fall breeding due to the lack of grass to supply nutrients.

"Mr. Lawrence has come to the rescue of the University Demonstration Farm," Ellis said.

The drought of 1999 has taken its toll on the University's Demonstration Farm. Fall is normally a season of abundant cool season grass growth. But the lack of rainfall in 1999 has reduced the grass availability to essentially nothing, he said.

Compounding the problem is that fall is the busy calving season for the University's beef herd. Eighty-six calves have been born at the Demonstration Farm this fall. Fall also is the time for rebreeding the cattle herd.

Thus, cattle need the lush cool season grass pasture for the nutrients needed to grow, produce milk for the calf and to cycle for rebreeding.

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RICHARD W. FLENTGE MEMORIAL ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWED THROUGH FOUNDATION

The Richard Flentge Memorial Athletic Scholarship has been endowed through the Southeast Missouri University Foundation.

The Richard Flentge Family made a gift of $10,000 to the Foundation to endow the scholarship.

Cedric Webb, a Southeast Missouri State freshman from East Prairie, Mo., was awarded the scholarship during pre-game ceremonies on Oct. 9 as part of Southeast Homecoming weekend. He received a $500 award for the 1999-2000 academic year.

Flentge was a Central High School graduate who received his bachelor of science degree from Southeast Missouri State in 1954. He majored in mathematics, played football at Southeast for four years and was named All MIAA. He was assistant football coach in 1953, was a member of SEMO Boosters since its inception and had served as president of the organization. Flentge was the owner of the Flentge's Home Appliances Sales and Service in Cape Girardeau.

The recipient of the Richard Flentge Memorial Athletic Scholarship must be a football player and a Missouri resident. The athletic director, athletic department and the head football coach select the recipient.

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HAMBLIN SERVES AS GUEST LECTURER AT WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY

Dr. Robert Hamblin, director of the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University, was the 1999 guest lecturer Oct. 20-21 at the Senior Humanities Program at Willamette University.

Hamblin, who is co-editor of the forthcoming William Faulkner Encyclopedia, taught a Faulkner seminar, held formal conferences with individual students, and delivered a public lecture entitled "The Artistic Design of The Sound and the Fury."

Willamette University, the oldest university in the Pacific Northwest, was founded in 1842. Today it is a highly selective liberal arts school enrolling 3,500 students.

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SOUTHEAST CELEBRATES INTERNATIONAL NIGHT OF THE MILLENNIUM NOV. 13

Southeast Missouri State University will celebrate an International Night of the Millennium Nov. 13 on the University campus.

The event is planned for 4 to 7 p.m. in the University Center lobby.

The festivities will include free food, a variety of entertainment and displays of international artifacts. The evening also will provide the opportunity for participants to interact with students from various cultural backgrounds and to engage in interactive discussions.

International Night of the Millennium is sponsored by the International Awareness Council. The event is open to the public and is free.

For more information, call (573) 332-8264 or e-mail international_ac@hotmail.com.

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KOESTNER TO SHARE HER MESSAGE WITH SOUTHEAST STUDENTS

After Katie Koestner survived date rape, she wanted to help others survive and prevent the crime as well. On Thursday, Nov. 4, the sexual assault prevention advocate will share her message with Southeast Missouri State University students in Academic Auditorium at 8 p.m. The presentation, "He Said - She Said," centers on Koestner's experience with date rape. The program will be co-facilitated by Brett A. Sokolow, J.D., a specialist on sexual assault policy and law. After Koester tells her story, Sokolow will provide the audience with interactive scenarios on sexual assault. Finally, the audience will be split into single-sex breakout groups for facilitated workshops with Koestner and Sokolow.

As founders of Campus Outreach Services, Inc., Koestner and Sokolow have presented programs to hundreds of thousands of students at 600 colleges, high schools, and military institutions in 47 states over the last four years.

Koestner is a Virginia State-trained peer educator and sexual assault counselor. After going public with her story in 1990, she has appeared in over 40 television programs including "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and "Larry King Live." She also has given interviews for a TIME magazine cover story, and stories in the New York Times, Los Angeles Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, the Journal of Higher Education, and countless regional publications. As an advocate, her activities extend to working for passage of federal sexual assault legislation. She has addressed numerous national conferences and served as a consultant to schools on the revision of their policies with regard to sexual assault on college campuses.

Sokolow serves as the President and Director of Risk Management Programs for Campus Outreach Services, Inc. He founded Men Acting for Change at the College of William and Mary, and continues to advise men's peer education groups throughout the country on formation, programming, and campus involvement.

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SOUTHEAST PREPARES FOR LIFTOFF OF NASA EDUCATOR RESOURCE CENTER

Southeast Missouri State University will become the site of a National Aeronautics And Space Administration (NASA) Educator Resource Center (ERC) next month that will provide expertise and educational materials in science, math and technology for teachers and students throughout Missouri.

The ERC will operate under the auspices of the Linda M. Godwin Center for Science and Mathematics Education and will share space with the University's Math Resource Center at 222 N. Pacific.

A grand opening of the facility is planned for 4 p.m. Nov. 16, and the general public is invited to attend. NASA officials, area students and educators, and University personnel are expected to be on hand for the opening as well as local, state, and national lawmakers.

"We are delighted that the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center has selected Southeast Missouri State as its Missouri site for an Educator Resource Center," said Dr. Kenneth Dobbins, president of Southeast Missouri State University. "This Center will go a long way towards advancing science and mathematics education in the state. We look forward to operating a dynamic Educator Resource Center at Southeast and look forward to a long and successful collaboration with NASA in our common effort to enhance both the teaching and learning of science and mathematics.

The NASA Marshall Space Flight Center awarded the ERC to Southeast through a competitive application process. The new NASA facility will be the only ERC in Missouri. Southeast's successful effort to bring the NASA ERC to Cape Girardeau was headed by Dr. Ernest Kern, director of the Linda M. Godwin Center for Science and Mathematics Education, and Dr. Sharon Coleman, assistant director.

"They (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center) saw Southeast as being a leader in teacher in-service education, exemplified by the fact that Southeast is a two-time winner of the Christa McAuliffe Showcase for Excellence Award," said Kern. "They like the idea that the NASA Educator Resource Center at Southeast will work directly with teachers and students, that we will develop training programs and other educational activities for them, and that we will go out into area schools."

Kern said the Godwin Center at Southeast is already extremely active, especially in terms of K-12 teacher inservice programs and K-12 student activities.

"Our philosophy that active, dynamic efforts have a far greater and longer-lasting impact than passive endeavors will carry over to the operation of the NASA ERC," he said. "The ERC at Southeast will be much more than just a repository of materials."

In addition to that function, the ERC will offer a variety of instructional and interactive teacher and student programs and activities, both at the ERC itself and on-site in the schools.

"We also plan the wide-scale use of web-based technology to make the ERC and its offerings available to the maximum number of people possible," Kern said. The ERC is designed to serve K-12 teachers throughout Missouri who will be able to access NASA educational resources and teacher training workshops. Materials available at the ERC will help K-12 educators teach their students about aerospace sciences and other sciences. Use of the ERC is not restricted to just K-12 teachers however. "While the primary users of the ERC will likely be K-12 educators in public, private, parochial, and home schools, it is important for people to know that our ERC will be open to everyone, including students at all levels, university personnel, and the general public," Kern said. "Indeed, we anticipate that many of the visitors to our ERC and its web site will be noneducators consisting of people who are simply curious about planet Earth, about the universe through which Earth speeds on its incredible voyage, and about man's efforts to explore that universe and the worlds within it."

Barbara Long, education programs specialist with the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, said, in a letter to University officials, "We applaud your achievements and recognize the common goals of your university and NASA in providing the expertise and facilities to help educators access and utilize science, mathematics, and technology in the classrooms across your state. We look forward to working with you in establishing and maintaining your ERC."

Kern said teachers and other ERC users may access items such as videotapes, CDs, audiocassette programs, computer software, NASA educational publications, lithographs, postcards, bookmarks, posters, slides, curriculum supplemental materials, reference books, telelecture programs, lesson plans and activities, and lists of publications from government and nongovernment sources.

"And our inventory will expand as NASA continues to supply the ERC with new materials," Kern added.

The ERC also plans to create a web site, so that many of the materials available at the facility can be viewed or listed on-line.

"Our ERC is to serve the entire state, and this type of access is especially critical for people outside the southeast Missouri region," Kern said. "Due to distance, those people cannot simply stop by the ERC and review the materials in person." Kern also indicated that a toll-free 800-number will soon be established for the ERC as another means of better serving Missouri educators and the general public. "That number will be made public as soon as it is set up," Kern said.

Kern says that most of the materials available at the ERC will be free of charge. However, in the case of media such as audiocassettes, videotapes and computer programs, teachers and other users must supply their own blank cassettes or disks. Those who place orders for materials by mail will be asked to cover handling costs. The ERC will be open to the public with hours conducive to teachers' schedules, such as late afternoons and weekends, he said. Operating hours will be announced at a later date.

Southeast Missouri State University had ties with NASA even before it was awarded the Educator Resource Center. Dr. Linda Godwin, a NASA astronaut and veteran of three space flights, is a graduate of Southeast. It was in her honor that the Godwin Center for Science and Mathematics Education was so named.

"We are thrilled that the NASA Educator Resource Center for Missouri will be located at Dr. Godwin's alma mater and that it will be administered by the center that bears her name," Kern said. "It is very fitting and appropriate."

NASA's ERC network has been established to disseminate information generated by NASA programs, technologies, and discoveries. NASA educational materials available at the ERCs are related to art, mathematics, energy, physics, space flight, aeronautics, technology utilization, physical science and social science careers. These materials supplement regular instructional resources. A primary goal of NASA is to establish at least one Regional Educator Resource Center (RERC) in each of the 50 states.

For more information about the NASA Educator Resource Center at Southeast Missouri State University or its November 16th grand opening, people may call the Godwin Center at (573) 651-2516.

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OUTREACH INITIATIVE BRINGS MISSOURI COURT OF APPEALS FOR EASTERN DISTRICT TO SOUTHEAST

As part of its ongoing educational outreach efforts, the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Eastern District will hear cases on its regular docket Nov. 2 on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University.

Cases are scheduled to be heard at 9 and 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in Glenn Auditorium of Robert A. Dempster Hall. Three cases will be heard during both the 9 and 10:30 a.m. session. Nine cases are expected to be heard during the 1:30 p.m. session. Cases to be heard during the 9 a.m. session include a civil suit concerning a property dispute in Ste. Genevieve County, a custody case, and a civil case involving a non-compete clause. Cases to be heard during the 10:30 a.m. session include a child support dispute, a child visitation argument, and a legal malpractice dispute. Cases to be heard on the 1 p.m. docket include a child custody dispute and several challenges involving DWI .

Eight appellate court judges, including Chief Judge Mary Rhodes Russell, are expected to be on hand. The hearings are open to the public.

As a part of its outreach efforts, the court travels a circuit, occasionally conducting its business on college and university campuses in the Eastern District, to give students exposure to the judicial system and how the legal system operates. The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Eastern District is based in St. Louis.

The Department of Political Science in conjunction with Dr. Brian Smentkowski, assistant professor of political science who serves as the pre-law advisor at Southeast, is responsible for bringing the hearings to campus.

Those attending will have the opportunity to see attorneys arguing their points of view based on briefs filed with the court prior to their appearance here Nov. 2.

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SOUTHEAST ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE MAJORS PARTICIPATE IN ST. LOUIS INTERVIEW DAY

Twenty-nine Southeast Missouri State University students participated in the fourth annual St. Louis Interview Day for accounting and finance majors on Oct. 15.

The event is cosponsored each year by the Department of Accounting, Finance and Business Law, the Accounting and Finance Club/IMA Student Chapter and Career Services. This year’s event was held at the Holiday Inn at I-55 and Lindbergh.

Students had the opportunity to network and to interview for internships and full-time employment with representatives from the following organizations: American Express Financial Advisors; Arthur Anderson, LLP; Enterprise Leasing; First Banks; Ernst and Young; Boeing; Internal Revenue Service; John Hancock Financial Services; Kellwood Company; Kiefer, Bonfanti &Company, LLP; KPMG Peat Marwick; Laclede Gas; Mass Financial Group; Norwest Financial; PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP; Rubin, Brown, and Gornstein & Company; Temporary Accounting Personnel; and Accountants Executive Search.

Janet Hayes of Schmersahl, Treloar & Company, president of the St. Louis Chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants was joined by Rick Kessler of Robert Half/Accountemps and Ken Chaplin of Anders, Minkler & Diehl in staffing an IMA booth for the event.

A reception for students, interviewers, faculty, and Southeast alumni was held Oct. 14. Alumni participating in the event included Mike Dambach, Kim Glastetter, Don Clayton, Mike Lewis, Kara McLain, Michelle Gruber, Michelle Landewee Dorman and Larry Huber.

“Each year we have attracted more interviewers to this important event. We are pleased that our alumni and St. Louis friends are helping provide this opportunity for our accounting and finance majors,” said Dr. Debbie Beard, chair of the Department of Accounting, Finance, and Business Law. “Our accounting and finance majors are great ambassadors for our programs and for Southeast Missouri State University. We hope not only to provide career opportunities for them but to attract additional firms to campus for interviews

“I appreciate the hard work of our secretary Wanda Lang in making arrangements and in scheduling nearly 170 interviews during the day and Career Services Assistant Director Jodie Hestand, who served as a valuable resource to our students in preparing for the interviews,” Beard said.

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UNIVERSITY HOSTING WEB COURSE OPEN HOUSE

Web based courses are the wave of the future in college education. Southeast Missouri State is riding this wave by offering 12 courses over the internet during the spring 2000 semester. Curious faculty, students and media are invited to attend an open house on Wednesday, Nov. 10, from noon to 2 p.m. in Kent Library Room 305 to learn more about these Spring courses.

“Web courses provide students the opportunity to take courses anytime and anywhere,” said Dr. Pat Lipetzky, dean of extended learning. “The open house will allow interested individuals to see a few different kinds of courses, meet faculty who designed the courses and find out about the actual process of taking a web based course.”

Four undergraduate classes will be offered in the upcoming semester. These include classes in industrial technology, biology, economics and University Studies. Eight classes also are being offered at the graduate level. These include: history, nursing, physical education, administrative services, educational administration and counseling, and elementary, early, and special education. Currently, 10 web based courses are being offered this fall.

For more information on web based courses, check the following website: http://online.semo.edu.

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