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Volume 22, Issue 19
Friday, February 29, 2008
The Student Voice of William Jewell College
PERSPECTIVES:
Voices of KC reflections, p. 3
CAMPUS:
Seniors pick Pryor legacy project, p. 4
TALK TO THE AND(Y):
Andy is a big deal, p. 7
“It may be 10 years before we
make the move.”
—Dr. David Sallee
President of the College
A wide range of passions and
expertise will be represented when
William Je well College honors
four alumni during the 64th annual
Achievement Day next week.
Chosen to receive the Citation for
Achievement are astrophysicist Dr.
William Sharp III, ’74; Walt Disney
costume designer Douglas Enderle,
’78; bank executive James Rucker, ’77;
and nurse practitioner Dr. Carolyn
Edison, ’74.
Presidential historian and author
Michael Beschloss will be the
featured speaker at the Achievement
Day dinner Thursday night and
will also speak on campus Thursday
afternoon.
Se veral events are planned as
part of the College’s celebration of
achievement. According to Dr. Chad
Jolly, vice president for Advancement,
Achievement Day has three purposes:
to honor alumni who have achieved
distinction, to provide an opportunity
for current students to receive
inspiration and advice from achievers
and to showcase the excellence of
William Jewell College to the K ansas
City community. “Different events
do different parts of this,” he said.
The first event scheduled as part
of the Achievement Day festivities
is a dinner and forum Wednesday
night, where student leaders will have
the opportunity to meet with the
honorees.
Thursday night, the festivities will
move to the Westin Crown Center
Hotel downtown, where Beschloss
will be the featured speaker at the
Achievement Day dinner at 7:30
p.m. Beschloss is the author of nine
books (including current best-seller
Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders
and How they Changed America,
1789-1989) and currently serves as
the presidential historian for NBC
News. “In an election year, it made
One desired “outcome” named in
William Jewell College’s Strategic
Plan is to move the school’s athletic
affiliation to the National Collegiate
Athletic Association from its
current place in the National
Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics. There is a great deal
of discussion in the highest
levels of the College about the
form the move will take, but it
is anything but a “done deal.” In
fact, Dr. David Sallee, president
of the College said that “it
may be 10 years before we make the
move.”
There are two divisional choices in
the NCAA the College is considering
at this moment, and a possible third
choice may be further down the
road for William Jewell. NCAA
Division II is a division in which
schools are able to give out a limited
number of athletic scholarships to
their student athletes. The division is
comprised of a mixture of mid-size
state-funded public institutions and
a slightly smaller number of private
colleges. NCAA Division III consists
largely of private institutions and
a significant proportion of public
universities in the mix as well. Schools
in Division III are not allowed to
dispense athletic scholarships to their
prospective athletic recruits, but some
Division III conferences do allow
certain “leadership” scholarships to be
given to athletes.
According to Sallee, “there doesn’t
seem to be a D-II conference we can
affiliate with… and D-III
currently has a moratorium
on new membership.” The
nearest D-II conference is the
Mid-America Intercollegiate
Athletic Association, a
conference which is made up
of schools like the University
of Central Missouri,
Northwest Missouri State
University and Truman State, which
all have much greater enrollments and
lower tuition than William Jewell.
College
sees
numerous
opportunities during
Multicultural Week
All in the fam
ily
In an effort to increase diversity awareness,
several William Jewell College student organizations
arranged campus-wide programs this week as a part
of Multicultural Week. On Tuesday night CUA and
UNITY brought Matt Glowacki (above), to speak to
the College about ableism, a form of discrimination
not often discussed. Glowacki, who was born without
legs, used clips f rom the popular television shows
South Park and Family Guy to explain to students the
importance of diversity.
Glowacki isn’t the only one taking the stage
during Multicultural Week as tonight The Vagina
Monologues returns for the second consecutive year.
Katherine Myers (right), rehearses for The Vagina
Monologues. Multicultural Week will wrap up with
the performances of The Vagina Monologues tonight
and tomorrow night at 7:30, as well as A Memory, A
Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer tomorrow at 2 p.m. All
performances will be held in Yates-Gill 221. Tickets
are $5 each, or $8 for a ticket to both The Vagina
Monologues and A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and
A Prayer. T-shirts are also for sale for $10, with all
the proceeds from ticket and t-shirt sales going to
MOCSA, the Metropolitan Organization to Counter
Sexual Assault. The money will remain in the Kansas
City area to help victims of sexual violence through
intervention, treatment, advocacy and community
educational programming.
Kyle Rivas/Hilltop Monitor
Most families dream of having one professional athlete. For
the Nekuda family, this dream has come true twice over. On
page eight, learn how these two former Cardinal soccer play-
ers have taken their game to the next level.
Kyle Rivas / Hilltop Monitor