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Volume 23, Issue 24

Friday, May 8, 2009

The Student Voice of William Jewell College

Tennis wraps up season

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Pryor hosts Hunger in America

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New complex to honor Shumaker

Seniors feature art

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Trista Turley

Staff Writer

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The ne w sorority complex at Wil-

liam Jewell College now has an of-

ficial name. The complex has been

designated Shumaker Hall in honor

of William Jewell alumna Dianne

Shumaker. Shumaker graduated

from the College in 1966 and was

a member of Beta Sigma Omicron

sorority, the predecessor to Zeta Tau

Alpha.

According to Dr. David Sallee,

president of the College, the decision

to call the sorority complex Shumak-

er Hall was reached several weeks

ago after a series of meetings with

Shumaker, as well as others involved

with the project. The name officially

was announced two weeks ago dur-

ing the Sorority Shopping Night at

Nell Hill’s.

“[Shumaker] is an active alumna

and she made a significant gift to the

project. We really wanted to name

the project in her honor, and she

agreed to let us do that," Sallee said.

Sallee added that a number of dif-

ferent names were considered before

Shumaker Hall was chosen.

“Naming buildings and honoring

donors is much more of an art than a

science," he stated.

In addition to her contribution to

the sorority complex, Shumaker has

made significant donations to the

William Jewell community. In 2004

she founded the Shumaker Chal-

lenge, which provides matching gifts

to the Jewell Fund. Shumaker has

also supplied gifts to the Center for

Justice and Sustainability.

Some current William Jewell stu-

dents have raised concern about the

The Class of 2009 will take its final Walk

Around the Quad as part of the ceremonies for

commencement May 16.

This year’s graduation celebration will incorpo-

rate a few ne w features. First, a brunch will be held

from 10 a.m. - noon in the Yates Dining room,

where faculty will dine with graduates and their

families. Secondly, roses will be on sale by the

newly inducted Mortar Board class from 11:30

a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Mabee Center. Half dozen

bouquets will be sold for $20 each and full dozen

bouquets will be sold for $40 each.

“ Purchasing roses at graduation will be a con-

venient way for parents and friends to congratu-

late their graduates while supporting charities. The

proceeds will go to William Jewell’s Mortar Board

Chapter service projects," Julie Boshae, junior

Mortar Board member, said.

Immediately after the ceremony, graduates,

friends and families are invited to gather at the

south end of the Mabee Center for a New Jew-

ell Alumni Photo Party. Backdrops of Jewell Hall

and of the Jewell seal will be available for photo

The day will begin with Baccalaureate service at

9 a.m. in Gano. The featured speaker is the Re v.

Connie Stinson, ’78 and senior pastor at Luther

Rice Memorial Baptist Church in Silver Springs,

Md.

“I like to have our Baccalaureate speakers rep-

resent some diversity, so to have a woman pastor of

a Baptist church is a great thing," Dr. Andy Pratt,

vice president of religious ministries, said. “Also,

she’s a graduate of William Jewell and she’s from

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Kyle Rivas / Campus Photographer

Construction is well under way for the sorority complex, which is scheduled to open in August. The William Jewell

College administration announced last week that the complex will bear the name “Shumaker" in honor of a

generous William Jewell alumna.

Hats off to W

illiam

Jewell’s Class of 2009

Trisha Stan

Chief Copy Editor

Kyle Rivas / Campus Photographer

Students from the Class of 2009 celebrate their successes at William Jewell College in

front of Jewell Hall. The seniors will take their final Walk Around the Quad May 16. This

year’s Baccalaureate speaker is the Rev. Connie Stinson, ‘78, and Mary Eisenhower,

president and CEO of People to People International, will give the Graduation Convoca-

tion address.

Economic deflation

threatens enrollment

In a year where it seems like

nearly every family, business and

college is experiencing financial dif-

ficulties, William Jewell College is

no exception. The College’s endow-

ment has dropped significantly and

its administrators have been forced

to make several cuts and employ

money-saving practices. However,

one bright spot for the College is

its future enrollment outlook.

“In a year where everything I’m

hearing is down," Bridget Gram-

ling, dean of Admission, said, “we’re

10 percent above in deposits over

where we were last year." As of last

Friday, the College had received 245

deposits for a spot in William Jew-

ell’s first-year class of 2009. Despite

the encouraging news at this point,

Gramling remains “cautiously opti-

mistic" about the outlook for next

year’s entering class because of the

precarious economic situation.

According to Dr. David Sallee,

president of the College, William

Jewell still has a goal to have a first-

year class of 300 by the end of the

summer. Of course he acknowl-

edged that no one knows what the

economy will look like over the

next few months. “All situations

are so fluid. For us a 20-30 student

fluctuation in enrollment is signifi-

cant," Sallee said.

“While we have a deadline of

May 1, a lot of families are not pay-

ing attention to it," Gramling said. If

the College’s enrollment continues

to be 10 percent above the numbers

from this year’s first-year class, the

College should be very close to its

goal of 300 new students. This year

the College welcomed 270 new stu-

dents in August. Gramling expects

more athletes to decide to enroll as

coaches continue to recruit over the

summer and also anticipates that

more local seniors will decide to

stay close to home and choose to

enroll at William Jewell.

The College has not sacrificed

quality for quantity in the incom-

ing class. Next year’s incoming stu-

dents look to raise William Jewell’s

average ACT score. While this

year’s incoming class had an aver-

age ACT score of 25.44, the score

for next year’s class currently stands

above a 26, according to Gramling.

The economy certainly has taken

a toll on the number of students

who have chosen to come to Wil-

liam Jewell. As reported in the

Monitor on March 6, the number of

admitted students was once up 35

percent over last year, and deposits

at that time were nearly double the

last year’s numbers. Some of these

inflated early numbers were due to

the fact that William Jewell offered

a refundable deposit until May 1

of this year, unlike in other recent

years, but the weak economy is

probably taking a toll on the num-

ber of students who believe they

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Corey Husak

Staff Wr iter

It started with a pomegranate.

Well, technically, it started with

a shortage of office supplies and a

lack of a car. It was October 2005,

and Lea Hogsett and I needed to

go to Wal-Mart for notebooks.

Lacking a car, we asked “friends"

we barely knew if they wanted

to chauffeur us on our Wal-Mart

adventure. Clay Ingram was busy,

so he gave us his keys. “But it’s a

manual with no power steering, so

get someone strong to drive it," he

warned.

Luckily on our way to the

Sahara, we ran into Trent McCord,

who we didn’t really know, but he

looked strong, so we brought him

along. At Wal-Mart we discovered

that pomegranates were on

sale, and they came with handy

instruction booklets. None of us

had tried a pomegranate, and since

college is all about experimenting

with new things, we decided to

buy one and take it to the Ely

Triangle. After we deciphered the

instructions, we invited everyone

who passed by to our suddenly

popular pomegranate party. That

perfect Jewell afternoon, I shared

a pomegranate with people I had

barely met. Little did I know how

much more of my life I would

share with them in the subsequent

four years.

In the last few days (since the

end of comps!), I’ve suffered from

a serious case of nostalgia-itis. I

can’t believe it has been nearly

four years since I first walked

around the Quad, and it’s even

harder to comprehend the fact

that I’ll be walking around it for

the last time in just one week.

There are so many memories, so

many experiences—I’ve done so

much, but I feel like I’ve left so

much left undone.

But this is it. One more week.

I only have one final this year, but

this finals week will be my hardest

yet because it is so final—my

final finals week. The only thing

getting me through this is the

cliché that every ending is a new

beginning. I’m trying not to focus

on the finality of these four years,

but instead look forward to the

future.

And I am excited about the

coming years, both in my own life

and at Jewell. The William Jewell

College experience has prepared

me well to take on my next

endeavors—to think critically—

to act responsibly. And although

it’s hard to leave the College

feeling as though there is so much

I want to see accomplished, I am

confident that I am leaving it in

able hands—read Kelsey Rogers’

guest column, left, for evidence.

In my short years at Jewell,

I’ve seen the College begin a slow

movement in a direction of which

I heartily approve. I’ve seen an

increase in all kinds of diversity,

much more open-minded thinking,

more academic rigor, a greater

breadth of service opportunities

and increasingly higher qualities

of incoming students (at least on

paper!). I hope to see the College

grow as it improves still further in

all of these aspects.

The Class of 2009 is, admittedly,

highly impressive, and I hope we’ll

be missed. We have achieved in

every conceivable area, and we’ve

struggled to improve the state

of our beloved institution, never

settling for the status quo.

I want to challenge you,

the future classes, to outdo us.

Continue the initiatives we and

those before us have started and

find new ways to make your

alumni (soon to be me!) proud.

We’ve left plenty for you to do—

solve the communication issues,

make Student Senate the powerful

student advocate it can be, strive

for increasing openness, academic

excellence and community

outreach, advocate for causes I

cannot yet imagine, never settle

for less than exceptional. You’re

up to the challenge. But just in

case, I’m sending my sister here to

keep an eye on the place.

Most people would say that re-

lationships are some of the most

important things in life. I have seen

relationships grow, be put on hold,

fall apart and I’ve even been given up

on a time or two.

One of the most recent “relation-

ship building experiences" ended

with me being shunned by family

members whose wedding I was at-

tending.

While not pleasant at the time,

this experience served to solidify

my theory on life. I’ve decided that

no matter what someone has or has

not done, no matter how they have

hurt me or mistreated me, I can be

responsible only for my actions. In

the end, I want to be able to say that

I have treated that person with re-

spect, with dignity

and as best I could.

I like to hope that

while I am doing

this, one day, that

person will see that

this is how you

are supposed to

treat someone and

hopefully recip-

rocate that treat-

ment.

I try to apply

this theory to my

everyday life and

though sometimes

it is a struggle and

often I fail, I still

get up every morn-

ing and try again.

I have realized lately that this ap-

proach, while appropriate for peo-

ple, it isn’t the best for getting things

done. I’ve learned that this passive

way of approaching my problems is

one that leads to consequences down

the road, especially when it comes to

the College.

Jewell, as we all know, has made

some decisions this past semester

that have made a lot of people ver y

angry. While the decisions make

sense when looking at them from a

business perspective, they aren’t ones

that will benefit the relationship be-

tween the College and the students.

My theory on life cannot be applied

here. Normally I would take these

problems in stride and accept them.

However, this passive approach isn’t

going to get us anywhere. The lesson

to be learned is that despite what

Jewell has or hasn’t done, how it has

hurt you or mistreated you, you can-

not passively sit back and hope the

administration will realiz e the mis-

takes they have made and make all

things right. Instead you must be ac-

tively involved in the decisions that

are being made.

Each individual voice and opin-

ion matters and must be heard. As

a newly elected member of the Stu-

dent Senate Cabinet, I can say that

we are ready to listen. Student Sen-

ate is ready to be the middleman be-

tween students and administration.

In a perfect world, we would

hope that the administration would

take each individual voice into ac-

count, but as we have seen, this

hasn’t happened. However, Student

Senate, composed of 24 members

from all over campus, is set up to

be that strong voice, that persistent

thorn in the foot of the administra-

tion, reminding them that students’

needs should be their top priority.

The voice of Student Senate,

which is the voice of students, will

be heard. So find out who your

senator is, come to meetings, bring

new ideas to the table, fight for the

change that we all deserve. Jewell can

be changed, decisions can be undone

and new policies can be passed that

benefit students. It merely requires

you to speak up. If you aren’t voicing

your opinion, who is there to blame

but yourself.

May 8, 2009

Let us know

what you think

Letters to the Editor

monitor@william.

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The Hilltop Monitor

:not a fleeting image

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Subscriptions are available for $30.00 per year. Entered as

First Class matter Sept. 27, 1911, in the post office of Lib-

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Alison Ward

Editor-in-Chief

Guest Columnist of the Week

Each week a member from the William Jewell College

community will be featured as a visiting writer for

the Hilltop Monitor.

Editorial staff:

Alison Ward, Editor-in-Chief • Caitlin Tejeda, Assistant Editor

Trisha Stan, Co-Chief Copy Editor

Anna Thoma, Co-Chief Copy Editor

Ajanta Raman, Sports Editor • Andy Kirk, Entertainment Editor

Maura Metcalf-Kelly, Assignment Editor

Whitney Riney, Layout and Design

Selina Rios, Cartoonist

Staff writers, photographers and copy editors:

J.P. Bartmess, Ashton Botts, Kristina Brase, Nikki Chambers,

Brian Davidson, Jonathan Entzminger, Taylor Hartford, Corey Husak,

Taylor Johnson, Therese Lindell, Jesus Lopez, Lindsey Meyers,

Paul Moore, Jessie Newman, Rachel Reis, Melissa Slagle,

Jared Speckman, Trista Turley, Sara Valladares

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Copyright © 2009. All Rights Reserved

Kelsey Rogers

Student Senate Vice President

Trisha Stan

Chief Copy Editor

I am a One Tree Hill fanatic. I am

obsessed. I was hooked from the first

commercial that told me that Chad

Michael Murray would be starring

in his own tele vision show.

The fact that I am 21 years old

and still addicted to One Tree Hill

during its sixth season does not faze

me at all. But it is not the storyline

that I am purely infatuated with. I

am in love with the presentation of

the show – the incorporation of mu-

sic from artists like The Cure, The

Get Up Kids and Led Zeppelin and

the monologue voice-overs.

As I re-watched an episode from

the third season on DVD this week,

one particular Murray monologue

caught my attention: “Most of our

life is a series of images. They pass

us by like towns on the highway. But

sometimes a moment stuns us as it

happens and we know that this in-

stant is more than a fleeting image.

We know that this moment, ever y

part of it, will live on forever."

I have been reflecting upon this

particular quote during these last

days of the semester. I have realized

that I have spent the majority of this

year working and worrying. I have

worked on class projects and pre-

sentations, term papers and ne wspa-

pers. I have worried about maintain-

ing my sterling grade point average

and producing quality student news

publications. During most of my ac-

ademic year, I have neglected to find

the moments that stun me. Rather, I

fill these moments with thoughts of

what task lies ahead.

Last week I was reminded of how

much I have neglected the oppor-

tunity to live in the moment and

enjoy college life. Believe it or not,

this epiphany came last week dur-

ing Phi Gamma Delta’s fundraiser

event, Battle of the Air Bands, more

commonly known as BOTAB. The

event was basically a grown-up tal-

ent show complete with ridiculous

sorority dance routines and an elo-

quent performance of the Flight

of the Conchords song “ The Most

Beautiful Girl." I can think of noth-

ing else I would have rather done

that night.

As I sat in Gano that evening,

it did not matter that I had term

papers to write or presentations

to prepare. For those measly two

hours, it only mattered that I was a

college student having a good time.

I felt a calmness rush over me as I

realized that while all the hard work

and stress I put myself through is

not done in vain, it is also not some

hurdle to overcome.

I think about this year’s senior

class and how many of my good

f riends are about to leave the college

life. I am sure that many of them

have realized by now that their dedi-

cation to conquering the William

Jewell College curriculum has taught

them more about life than about fac-

tual or theoretical knowledge. I hope

they recognize that their college

careers have simply been threads of

moments tied together, threads that

have shaped the impressive men and

women I know in this year’s senior

class.

And now I will turn to my own

class, the class of 2010, and think

about how I am going to make it

through yet another year of struggle

and worry. But then I stop worrying

and realize that these things do not

make up a memorable college expe-

rience. Friends, professors, newspa-

per staffers and Frisbees, to name a

few, comprise my memorable col-

lege experience. These are not fleet-

ing images-they are parts of me that

I would be without were it not for

William Jewell College.

In seven days I will be a college

senior. I am not sure that this fact

has registered fully with me. Never-

theless, I am prepared to battle this

last year of my higher education for

what it is worth. I would not trade

my memorable moments for any-

thing. After all, it is those moments

that make the struggles worth living

through.

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J e s u s L o p e z , O v e r s e a s C o l u m n i s t

Jesus Lopez is studying at IES Buenos

Aires in Buenos Aires, Argentina,

this semester and can be reached at

lopezj@william.jewell.edu

The view from abroad: Argentina

Photos courtesy of Jesus Lopez

This photo was “taken in San Telmo on the way to the neighborhood antique fair. This particular artist has pieces featuring this character all over the city. The graffiti

shown here appears on the side of a very nice restaurant. It’s a very interesting example of how street art is hybridized with other building aesthetics, a common practice

on BsAs," according to Lopez.

Fall on the Southern Hemisphere

falls in time to meet the tales of your

concurrent spring. I play a similar

opposite game to your eager recep-

tion of summer and graduation ac-

companied with blossoming flowers,

taking mid-terms and going to class

hidden in a scarf, hugging my phi-

losophy articles close.

Today was too weird. I woke up

today in genuine confusion trying to

remember what I was doing in a bed

when moments before I was playing

guitar with Bob Dylan showing him

a song I know, in the backseat of an

old station wagon no one was driving.

Earlier that night, I was watching a

blue scarecrow singing “Paperback

Rider" to me down the street from

my house. I occupy a separate, per-

sonal reality for too much time before

returning to my unenchanted life just

in time to be late for it.

It was weird to see a dead man

today. I was taking the train to my

evening philosophy course and saw

a barefoot man, who looked like he

hadn’t showered in a while, lying on

the landing. Another man was sit-

ting on a bench very close to him and

trying hard not to notice him not

breathing. I kept staring and I guess

I must not have tried hard enough

because an elderly lady told me not to

worr y, that they were going to come

down and get him out of here. I was

late for class, so I tried to get on the

train without thinking about the man

on the other side of the glass who

came down to the platform and had

the same reaction I did to the other

man on the ground.

In class today, I was mentally

wandering and when I came back,

my philosophy professor was talking

20th centur y Argentine philosophy’s

biggest criticism of modernism: ev-

erything looks the same. The aim of

efficiency has homogenized all the

characteristics of our reality and re-

moved our sense of beauty, she said in

Spanish before shaking another ciga-

rette out of her crumpled and abused

pack of Viceroys. Most of my favorite

characters in the stor y of my life seem

to smoke. My fifth favorite character,

Jesus Lopez, smokes on and off.

We talked about where human be-

ings have an inherent sense of beauty

over dinner. The Psychologist (men-

tioned in last week’s column) thinks

that there is an inherent sense in-

formed by the biological make-up of

the human species. Our guest at din-

ner, her brother Julio, a well-read man

who was beating what sounded like

Brahms out of the house piano when

I met him, disagrees completely be-

cause we all have our own ideas about

what constitutes beauty. Jimena,

the Pyschologist’s daughter who is

home for a few days from the United

States, is indifferent drinking her tea

but listens politely when I try to ex-

plain why I think computers have an

awareness of their reality. I am doing

a very bad job of it.

But, if I could have another chance

at that conversation, I’d say that I

think the only truly beautiful things

are like concepts or dreams. Every-

thing else will be gone at some time

but even that’s a sort of beauty. The

best day of your life with laughter in

the dining room or the worst where

you had to remove a body from the

subway both share expiration dates

just like the bodies we occupy. Ev-

ery last thing, opposing one another,

separated by imaginary lines and pre-

tend partitions, occupies the same

garbled, confused space. All of them

are causes and consequences of one

another in a meaning that escapes as

easily as heat escapes yearly, as simply

as this season’s leaves piling silently

in the backyard concealing the secret

of a spring that will erase all the de-

struction.

Last Friday William Jewell Col-

lege’s Emergency Response Team

met to decide what action, if any, the

College should take to protect stu-

dents, faculty and staff from the out-

break of H1N1 influenza A.

The H1N1 virus, popularly known

as swine flu, first was detected in an

outbreak in Mexico mid-March. It

subsequently has been shown to be

able to be transmitted from person

to person, and evidence of the virus

around the globe prompted the Cen-

ters for Disease Control to upgrade

the alert level to Phase 5 last week,

indicating that a pandemic is immi-

nent.

Dr. Rick Winslow, vice president

for enrollment and student affairs,

issued a memorandum to students,

faculty and staff last week, announc-

ing that the administrative cabinet

had decided to call a meeting of the

Emergency Response Team and ad-

vising members of the College to

take basic health precautions to pre-

vent the spread of diseases.

The Emergency Response Team

discussed whether or not to declare

the H1N1 outbreak a potential emer-

gency.

“ The group did decide to raise the

level of threat concern to a higher

level, which puts us in an emergency

response mode," Winslow said. “At

the same time, the committee an-

nounced some proactive steps for

students, faculty and staff to take to

avoid getting anything that could re-

semble H1N1."

“ We’re well prepared," Dr. David

Sallee, president of the College, said.

“Cabinet has met a couple of times

on the topic, and we’re keeping a very

close eye on the situation and read-

ing all of the media reports. . . .We’re

ready to react if we need to."

For the time being, no policy

changes will be made on campus.

“None of the health organizations

in the area thought that it was neces-

sary to take extraordinary steps at this

point," Winslow said. “Most of the

organizations are reporting flu strains

that resemble normal annual flu."

“Right now it seems to be set-

tling, and there's not as much worry

about it now as there was a week ago,"

Sallee said.

However, faculty and staff who

are travelling to Mexico will be re-

quired to ensure that they are free

of flu symptoms before returning to

campus.

“Anybody who has plans to travel

to Mexico must notify the College

before they leave, and if they chose

to travel to Mexico, they must sit

out away from work," Winslow said.

“They're not allowed to return to

campus until seven days after their

return, and they have to have a doc-

tor’s note saying that they are safe to

return to work."

The current Pandemic Plan is a

two-year effort that was written with

the aid of the Clay County Health

Department, referencing the plans to

control flu outbreak in place at other

colleges and universities. While the

current plan focuses on the possibility

of an outbreak of Avian flu, H5N1,

Winslow said that the measures it

details will help control any sort of

pathogen-based disease. The admin-

istration plans to incorporate new in-

formation into the Pandemic Plan.

“Another thing we’ ll do this sum-

mer is go back to our plan and review

our general emergency response plan

and see what we learned this spring

and what adjustments we need to

make and that sort of thing," Sallee

said.

Dr. Scott Falke, associate professor

of biology who teaches the Emerging

and Re-Emerging Diseases Critical

Thought and Inquiry course, believes

that the administration has handled

the H1N1 outbreak well.

“When the news first comes out,

people start to get a little crazy be-

cause people don’t understand what’s

going on, so the College has to do

something to say, ‘Yes, we know

what’s going on and we have a plan.’

Had they cancelled classes and such,

that would be way overboard . . . In

reality they’re just trying to let people

know that they’re on top of the situa-

tion, which is a good idea," Falke said.

“Personally, I don’t see this as a big

threat this year. We’re nearing the

end of the season. Next year might

be a different story."

Falke said that worry is that

the flu may pick up genes that make

it more deadly or more easily spread.

According to Falke, the flu genome

has eight segments. If two different

versions of the virus, say a swine flu

and a human flu, infect the same host,

one virus might switch a segment of

its own genome for the other virus’

version. This could cause the strain

to evolve to be more virulent or more

transmissible.

“ We're concerned that the same

areas that have had H5N1 [a deadly

bird flu with low transmissibility]

now has H1H1," Falke said. “The

big concern is that H1N1 will pick

up genes from H5N1 or vice versa.

Anyway, they mix, and we’ll get ei-

ther a new, deadlier form of H1N5

or a more easily transferrable form of

H5N1. And that's likely to happen in

some country in Africa or Southeast

Asia. The big concern is that H1N1

is being found there."

Falke said the College needs to be

prepared for the possibility of future

flu pandemics. “Next fall is going

to be very important for this," Falke

said.

Trisha Stan can be reached

at stant@william.jewell.edu

Trisha Stan

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Pryor Legacy ‘09 welcomes Central Kitchen’s Robert Egger

With graduation a little more

than a week away, the class of 2009

has been looking for ways to leave its

legacy. The seniors involved in Pryor

Leadership are doing just that with

the annual legacy project.

This year the Pryor Legacy class is

partnering with Har vesters to imple-

ment a program aimed at eliminat-

ing hunger in the United States. The

appropriately-named Food Rescue

Program uses the volunteer efforts of

William Jewell’s students to repack-

age unserved food from the cafeteria

to donate to Harvesters, an orga-

nization that then will redistribute

the food to those in need within the

Kansas City area.

According to Elizabeth Bonney,

senior, the idea for this year’s project

can be attributed to Brittany Tal-

ley, senior. Talley was introduced to

the D.C. Central Kitchen last spring

while studying in the nation’s Capital.

D.C. Central Kitchen is an organiza-

tion started by Robert Egger that col-

lects food from restaurants to repack-

age and redistribute to the hungry.

The organization also trains homeless

people in food service.

Currently, William Jewell is not

affiliated with D.C. Central Kitchen,

and therefore, the project must be

called a Food Rescue Program rather

than a Campus Kitchen. Howe ver, ac-

cording to Bonney, the Pryor Legacy

class hopes to affiliate with the D.C.

organization soon. They simply need

to secure the funds to do so.

The class introduced its “Hunger

in America" movement to the College

with two events on Monday, the first

of which was a four-person panel dis-

cussion. Robert Egger, president and

founder of the D.C. Central Kitchen,

participated in the panel alongside

Karen Haren, president and CEO

of Harvesters, Dan Doty, executive

director of City Union Mission, and

Dr. Andrew Pratt, executive director

of the College’s Center for Justice

and Sustainability.

“It was a great discussion about

hunger relief and hunger relief initia-

tives," Bonney said.

According to her, the panel top-

ics ranged “f rom Har vesters as a food

bank to Robert Egger talking about

how he got started to Dr. Pratt and

his role on campus, especially in re-

gards to the Center for Justice and

Sustainability."

Later Monday night, Egger pre-

sented a lecture in Gano.

“He was one of the best speakers

I’ve ever been to," Bonney said. “He

spoke with no notes, and he simply

told us his story, which I find abso-

lutely fascinating."

According to Bonney, Egger’s mis-

sion began with his vision of opening

a night club, a place that, in Egger’s

mind, would unify people despite

any racial discrimination that might

occur in the outside world. One day

at a volunteer project, Egger had “an

epiphany," Bonney said. Egger quick-

ly began creating a business plan that

would benefit multiple groups within

the community. In addition to help-

ing the homeless and hungry, Egger’s

program also could benefit com-

panies, for they became eligible for

tax incentives upon participating in

the program. Since Egger’s program

launched, “it has grown to include vo-

cational training for those who might

have trouble finding jobs, such as for-

mer inmates," Bonney said. “It really

is a place for true rehabilitation."

“He was very inspiring and en-

couraging of us, not only to imple-

ment our project, but also to find

what we’re passionate about," Bonney

said. “He encouraged us to take our

talents and our education and turn it

into something good for this world."

In order to do that, the Pryor Leg-

acy class needs volunteers. Bonney

encourages on-campus organizations

and small groups of friends to volun-

teer, for the job will not require much

time. The class will need a group of

five volunteers to work at each shift,

which will take place in the cafeteria

on Monday and Thursday evenings

from 7 to 9:30 p.m, although the

actual time needed to repackage the

food may be much shorter.

Those willing to volunteer for the

program will sign up for shifts that

are convenient for them, possibly

once a month or once a semester. At

that time, the students will transfer

unserved food “from William Jewell’s

pans to Harvesters’ pans," Bonney

said. Harvesters then will take care of

the rest by transporting the food to

the organization’s headquarters and

distributing the food around the city.

Anyone who is interested in volun-

teering for the Food Rescue Program

may contact any student involved in

the Pryor Leadership class. Bonney

suggested contacting Anna Dickson,

the program’s volunteer coordinator,

at

dicksona@william.jewell.edu

.

Caitlin Tejeda can be reached

at tejedac@william.jewell.edu

Caitlin Tejeda

Assistant Editor

Kyle Rivas / Campus Photographer

Karen Haren, president and CEO of Harvesters, Robert Egger, president and founder of the D.C. Central Kitchen,

and Dan Doty, executive director of City Union Mission, discuss hunger relief initiatives during Monday afternoon’s

panel discussion regarding the annual Pryor legacy project.

“ The Trustees should remember

the students and why they are here,"

senior Alyssa Emery said. “The stu-

dents are why Jewell is what it is

and [what it] will become, and if the

Trustees remember that they work

for us, I have complete confidence

that Jewell will succeed in its strategic

plan and [in] any other endeavor."

Emer y’s statement is in response

to the question broached to seniors

preparing to bring their years at Wil-

liam Jewell College to a close: “ What

changes should the Trustees make in

the future."

A recurring theme in senior re-

sponses was a demand for com-

munication between the Trustees

and William Jewell students. Senior

Anna Perko stressed that the Trust-

ees should interact directly with more

students, in addition to the Trustees’

interaction with the administration.

“[They need to be] involving a

wider variety of students in discus-

sions about changes that the Trustees

are going to make, [including] things

like planning for the ne w library,"

Perko said.

The lack of active discussion also

can lead students to feel ambivalent

toward campus issues that they know

little about.

“If they want to actually include

student opinion in the direction the

College takes, then they need to in-

clude larger student panels when

considering policy change," senior

Jack Kynion said.

Senior Carina Collins agreed that

the Trustees could improve relation-

ships with students by “ being more

present, and letting us know who

they are and what they do… I think

a lot of the students don’t even know

who the Trustees are."

“It would be great if the Trustees

were willing to meet with students

when they’re up on campus," senior

Elizabeth Bonny stated. “[It would be

great] if they could block off maybe

an hour of their time to have a stu-

dent forum and really hear the con-

cerns of the student body… It’s a lot

easier for the administration to be-

come separated from the students, let

alone the Trustees, who are here [on

campus] a lot less."

Collins also expressed concerns

about the weight of student feedback

on Board decisions.

“I’ve been in Trustee meetings,

and I feel that they don’t take any-

thing we say seriously… I wish they

would take student opinions more

seriously," Collins said.

“I think that institutions can eas-

ily become caught up in the idea of

improving and expanding and some-

times forget their origins. In the case

of a college, its origin is its students,"

Emer y said.

Seniors like Bonny have more

specific suggestions; Bonny pushes

for the emancipation of the Student

P.E.A.C.E. Allies, a lesbian, gay, bi-

sexual and trans-gendered organi-

zation at William Jewell, from the

constraints of the Trustees. Bonny

pointed out that the organization re-

mains the only one on campus that

is not a “free" student organization.

The organization’s ambiguous name

and mission statement both were

constructed by Trustees instead of

students, and all of the organization’s

publications and events must meet

with the approval of the Trustees.

“I think the implications [here] are

tremendous," Bonny said. “ We cannot

call ourselves a community commit-

ted to diversity and open-mindedness

when student organizations are con-

stricted simply because of the contro-

versial nature of the groups."

Senior Trisha Stan voiced for a

more deliberate and straightforward

approach to diversity at William Jew-

ell.

“I would like to see an increase in

religious and non-religious diversity

[on campus], because I think that

exposure to a variety of worldviews,

well-represented and appreciated, is

vital for any spiritual journey, which

Jewell is supposed to encourage… I

want to see this increase in religious

diversity not only in the student body,

but also in the faculty and even in the

Board of Trustees. I want to see more

conversations on campus about dif-

ferent beliefs."

Although the areas suggested

for improvement may vary, the class

of 2009 seems to be in agreement

about one thing: there is a necessity

for more productive communication

between the student body and the

Board of Trustees.

Maura Metcalf-Kelly can be reached

at metcalf-kellym@william.jewell.edu

Seniors suggest Trustees interact with students

Maura Metcalf-Kelly

Assignment Editor

William Jewell College’s search for a new

athletic director and chair of the department

of physical education comes at a very crucial

time for the College. William Jewell is look-

ing to change its affiliation from the NAIA

to the NCAA Division II over the next few

years, and the replacement for Dr. Jim Redd,

the retiring athletic director and chairman of

the department of physical education, will

have to guide the College through that pro-

cess.

According to Dr. David Sallee, president of

the College, there were several central char-

acteristics that helped him and the advisory

committee narrow down the list of candidates

from the original 45 applicants to the current

three finalists.

The committee looked for someone with

a doctorate degree to fill this position and

also wanted someone with experience as an

athletic administrator. Sallee was interested

in finding someone whom he thought could

help the school with the transfer from NAIA

to the NCAA, and experience at an NCAA-

affiliated institution was also important. Sallee

called the three finalists a “great group," and

said that his final decision on who to award

the position to will be a very difficult one.

One candidate per week has come to cam-

pus to meet with physical education majors,

athletes and the general college community.

The first candidate, Kathy Turpin, came to

William Jewell last week. Turpin played bas-

ketball as an undergraduate and was a four

year starter at the University of Missouri-Co-

lumbia. She then held several coaching posi-

tions at NCAA and NAIA-affiliated institu-

tions, including Culver-Stockton College, a

fellow member of the HAAC. She then went

on to work at several NCAA institutions as

their associate directors of athletics. She now

works for the National Center for Drug Free

Sports and is about to finish her doctorate.

The second candidate, Dick Kaiser, came

Wednesday. Kaiser said he has helped to

take two institutions from the NAIA to the

NCAA, though his experience is in NCAA

Division III, not Division II. He has served as

the athletic director and chairman of the de-

partment of physical education at several dif-

ferent institutions and is currently the athletic

director at Defiance College, Ohio.

The third and last candidate will visit cam-

pus Tuesday. All are invited to an open session

with him or her at 4:30 p.m. in the Union.

Corey Husak can be reached

at husakc@william.jewell.edu

Candidates interviewed

for new athletic director

Corey Husak

Staff Wr iter

William Jewell College has seen an increase

in the number of retirements and transitions

during the 2008-2009 academic school year.

At the beginning of the year, Dr. David

Sallee, president of the college, announced that

there would be faculty and staff cuts, because

of financial issues. And with cuts came early

retirement offers.

“It’s common for schools and businesses to

achieve some voluntary downsizing through

some retirement incentive programs." Dr.

Timothy Fulop, vice president of academic af-

fairs and dean of the college, said. “There have

been some staff and faculty who have taken ad-

vantage of this."

According to Fulop, many colleges are tak-

ing different measures to absorb the economic

strains of a recession. He also said that some

schools have “let people go," and put together

retirement incentives. Fulop stated that “it var-

ies from one school to another on exactly what

they do." Some schools have pulled back on the

institution’s contribution to its retirement pro-

gram. “There’s a variety of things that they do,"

Fulop said.

“ There ’s a salary freeze for next year," Fulop

said. “Salaries will be flat—no increases,"

Fulop said that the college’s 10:1 student to

faculty ratio was very low and proportional to

college’s enrollment. Some may view this as a

complimentary piece to the College’s promise

of a quality education, but small classroom siz-

es result in various financial actions, including

tuition increases, campus housing changes and

new incentives like senior housing, which aim

to keep students at the college for four years.

“Even with these transitions that have oc-

curred, we’re now 11 to one. It ’s still a very fa-

vorable ratio, but it’s also an expensive ratio."

We have capacity here for 1400 students. [En-

rollment] has gone down, but we’ve also had

ACT scores go up over the last couple of years.

So, it’s not all gloom. It ’s always a complicated

picture," Fulop said.

When it comes to hiring personnel to fill the

positions of faculty members leaving the insti-

tution, Fulop believes that the College must be

“strategic" in filling openings, especially in ma-

jors like Spanish, where Dr. Ruth Kauffmann,

professor of languages, is leaving. Other teach-

ing and non-teaching faculty leaving the insti-

tution include Dr. James Redd, physical educa-

tion professor, chairman and athletic director;

Dr. Ian H. Munro, professor of English and

department chairman; Linda Chappell, spirit

team coach and physical education instructor;

Donette Alonzo, director of Multicultural Stu-

dent Development; Dr. Arnold Epley, profes-

sor of music; Hugh Stocks, former director of

the Charles F. Curry Library; Suzanne Barrett,

coordinator of the Curry Library’s Learning

Resource Center; and Kenette Harder, Curry

Librar y’s Reference and Government Docu-

ments Librarian.

Jonathan Entzminger can be reached

at entzmingere@william.jewell.edu

Faculty, staff transitions announced

Jonathan Entzminger

Staff Writer

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Sohail Jouya

Staff Writer

Whitney Riney / Hilltop Monitor

Left: Several art displays are featured at the Stocksdale Gallery Senior Art Exhibit. Senior art majors featured in the gallery include Elizabeth Fryklund, Erin Gerkovich, Allison Landram,

Lindsey Meyers and Amanda Renner.

Right: This mask by senior Erin Gerkovich is a high-fired stoneware with acrylic, mirror and epoxy. While most items in the gallery are for sale, this piece is not.

William Jewell College’s senior

art majors had much to celebrate

with the Stocksdale Galler y Senior

Art Exhibits opening. The exhibit

gave five hardworking art seniors an

opportunity to showcase their talents

and works of the past year.

Similar to many professional ex-

hibits, seniors Elizabeth Fryklund,

Erin Gerkovich, Allison Landram,

Lindsey Meyers and Amanda Renner

presented their works for open sale

ranging from $50 to $215. Ten per-

cent of the proceeds go to a charity

of the student’s choice, and this year

they decided on benefiting the Susan

G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

They have also collected $66 total in

donations and their sale proceeds will

be determined after their pieces are

sold once the exhibit ends May 16.

The seniors noted that the process

was “nerve-racking" and “stressful" yet

“fun and exciting".

“It was exciting. It was our first

real show. It’s tough to meet the

deadlines and get yourself ready by

putting yourself on display," Lindsey

Meyers said.

Gerkovich echoed the sentiment:

“Our art is very personal to us, and

when you’re putting something that

personal out there for everyone to

judge, you want people to like it."’

All participants seemed pleased

with the production.

“We got a lot of support and posi-

tive feedback," Fr yklund said.

Each artist had his or her own

themed collection ranging from 10-

12 pieces focused on their motif.

Fr yklund focused on her interpreta-

tions of the photographic snapshots

using oils on canvas.

“I’ve noticed over the years that

my art has followed the same process.

There’s been a similar thread of my

personal life experiences, much of the

subject has been my family. My art

kind of unified itself together without

me really knowing it," Fr yklund said.

Gerkovich worked with emotions

and psychological states utilizing di-

verse medias of ceramics, metalwork,

oil on canvas, and prints.

“[I’ve] always been interested in

psychology-it used to be one of my

majors, and I like faces," Gerkovich

said.

Meyers focused on Far Eastern

Asian imagery with oil on canvas and

various prints.

“I worked on a Buddha painting

earlier in my sophomore year and I

really liked it a lot. I thought it would

be fun, and I wanted to build on that

my senior year," she said.

Renner based most of her pieces

around nature and used advanced

photographic techniques and prints

to create a series of earthy produc-

tions. Additionally, Landram used oil

on canvas to build on a circus-themed

display incorporating several humor-

ous clown noses upon her portraits.

All seniors emphasized the sup-

port they received from the William

Jewell College department of art pro-

fessors Rob Quinn, Nano Nore and

Phil Jones.

“Nano and Rob were great. They’re

always there to help and organize

things and put our works up, and

even assist with framing," Gerkovich

said.

“Phil really helped. He’d always be

commenting on what to fix and help

us work on things," Fr yklund said.

As for post-undergraduate en-

deavors, many of these seniors are

taking differing paths. Gerkovich is

plans on going to La Sorbonne in

Paris to further her study in art his-

tory and archeology. Meyers plans on

becoming a secondar y education art

teacher. Fryklund and Renner are in

the process of decision-making while

Landram intends to study interior

design.

Sohail Jouya can be reached

at jouyas@william.jewell.edu

There is a huge difference between looking

at color photos in a textbook and viewing the

real paintings and architecture of ancient Italy

in person. This distinction is something that five

William Jewell College students will experience

when they travel to historic sites around Italy

from May 21-29.

Sara Lichti, Michelle McDonald, sopho-

mores, Ashley Trammel, senior, Marcie White,

sophomore and Brooke Williams, senior, will

be traveling through Italy and visiting cities like

Milan, Florence, Rome and Bologna on their

eight-day journey through the heart of Italian

Renaissance art and architecture. Trammel’s

grandmother, another adult sponsor, and Profes-

sor Nano Nore, who teaches Italian Renaissance

and art history survey classes, will be accompa-

nying the students. Nore, who has spent quite a

bit of time in Italy in previous years studying the

Italian Renaissance, will be leading the trip and

guiding the tours of the various cities.

“I’ve been to almost all of those places," Nore

said. “I will be directing the tours some of the

days. I will give a teach-in ever y day before we

embark on our daily schedule, and lead two days

of the tour in Florence."

The first stop on their tour is in Milan, where

they will be visiting the Brera Art Museum,

where collections of art from all over Italy have

been housed since the time of Napoleon. The

group also will tour the Milan Cathedral, also

known as the Duomo. The Cathedral is known

for its extraordinar y roof, which has 135 spires

and innumerable statues and gargoyles. The

group will then travel to a hotel near Bologna.

The next day the group will walk down the

most architecturally elegant street in Bologna,

Via Strada Maggiore, which is lived with man-

sions and colonnades. Then the group will begin

a two-day exploration of Florence which will in-

clude a visit to San Marco and the Fra’ Angelico

Gallery, housing 16th and 17th century paint-

ings.

On the second night in Florence, the group

will take a train to Siena, where they will be stay-

ing the night. Tuesday morning the group will

visit Siena’s Duomo, and then spend the next

two days in Rome, focusing on Michelangelo,

Rafael, Bernini and Caravaggio.

“ In Rome, we will visit the Vatican and the

Sistine Chapel, the Borghese Gallery, the Pan-

theon and other churches still containing their

masterpieces," Nore said.

Nore said that in the art history sur vey class

she teaches, the class spent the first seven weeks

studying at the Early/High Renaissance. She

said that some of the students going on the trip

first fell in love with Italian Renaissance because

of their involvement in the course. All but one of

the students going on the trip to Italy have been

art history students in the past.

“ This is a specialty tour geared for the art his-

tory student, centering on key cities of the Ital-

ian Renaissance," Nore said. “We will be visit-

ing major churches and cathedrals, architectural

sites and famous art museums. We have a very

enthusiastic group of women."

Nore said she is excited for the group to expe-

rience first-hand the beauty and the glory of the

Italian Renaissance while on their trip. Since the

primary purpose of the trip is academic, Nore

hopes that the small group will return with a

true sense of what the Italian Renaissance was

all about.

“ There is nothing like seeing the original

work of art," Nore said. “You can see it in a color

textbook, but you have no sense of scale until you

see it in person. The incredible thing about art is

it has a power to really move you. It ’s just going

to be a lot of fun."

Melissa Slagle can be reached

at slaglem@william.jewell.edu

Students to experience

Italian Renaissance

Melissa Slagle

Staff Writer

This year William Je well College will

begin preparations for the 2010 North

Central accreditation process. The College

will host a group of North Central consul-

tant evaluators Nov. 8-10, 2010.

Dr. Timothy Fulop, vice president of

academic affairs and dean of the College, is

steering a committee that will be preparing

for the accreditation process. Other mem-

bers of the committee include Dr. Anne

Dema, vice president for institutional ef-

fectiveness and chief of staff; Dr. Ian Cole-

man, department chairman of music; Dr.

Kelly Schutte, department chairwoman of

business and leadership; Dr. Milton Horne,

professor of religion and executive director

of the Partee Center; Dr. Ron Witzke, as-

sociate dean for core curriculum; and Rob

Quinn, department chairman of art.

“ We have a very good record with

[North Central]," Fulop said. “Since 1971

we’ve had clean accreditation [and] we

want to maintain that."

The maximum time between accredita-

tion visits is 10 years, according to Fulop

and Dema. An institution may be put into

various sanctions, however, that requires

shorter periods in between reviews. Wil-

liam Jewell has maintained a “clean" record

with North Central for nearly 40 years. For

information about other sanctions, see the

Handbook of Accreditation at

www.nca-

higherlearningcommission.org

.

“ We can’t function without [having ac-

creditation]," Dema said. “[It shows] vali-

dation of our education experience for our

students. Also, it impacts access to federal

and state dollars. It ’s extremely important

to the ongoing life of the institution and

the ability to keep doing what we do."

In order for institutions in the North

Central regions to maintain accreditation,

they must meet five criteria. Each faculty

member on the Steering Committee will

be in charge of focusing on one criterion

for the accreditation report. Coleman will

be in charge of Mission and Integrity;

Schutte will be in charge of Preparing

for the Future; Horne will be in charge of

Student Learning and Effective Teaching;

Witzke will be in charge of Acquisition,

Discovery, and Application of Knowledge;

and Quinn will be in charge of Engage-

ment and Service

“I feel confident in the people who are

leading the process-I feel confident in their

approach," Dema said. “I also think that

they are good thinkers, so they will give

an honest assessment of where we are, and

an honest reaction of strengths and chal-

lenges."

The accreditation preparation process

already has begun with meetings for the

steering committee. According to Fulop,

each faculty member on the steering com-

mittee will select a subcommittee to work

on his or her particular criteria. Next, each

subcommittee will conduct a self-study of

their criterion area and examine evidence

f rom the College. Then each committee

chairperson will draft a chapter about his

or her designated criterion.

“[North Central] really wants hon-

est self-studies," Fulop said. “ We’re being

evaluated by peers. The goal is really to im-

prove ourselves."

Once it is compiled, the self-study from

William Jewell will be sent to North Cen-

tral for examination six to eight weeks pri-

or to the organization’s visit in November

2010.

“Students, I think, should care about the

level at which the institution holds itself,"

Dema said. “ We have a high expectation of

our ability to maintain and retain our ac-

creditation. This is something we want to

do well and take the process system seri-

ously."

Alison Ward can be reached

at warda@william.jewell.edu

Alison Ward

Editor-In-Chief

Accreditation review

set for November 2010

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Missouri . . . Connie is also very involved in mission work in India

and she will be going on a trip with Jewell students to India in 2010.

All of these factors together make her, I think, a good candidate for

baccalaureate this year."

Stinson is an active member of the International Advisory Board

for Leena Lavanya’s Serve Trust Ministries in India, which takes her

abroad every three or four years.

Stinson’s connection to William Jewell continued when Matt

Schanuel and Charles Tolbert interned at her church last summer.

Tolbert plans to return this summer.

Stinson’s address is titled “Grabbed by God." It will discuss why

we do what we do with our lives.

Members of the Class of 2009 will be represented in Chapel by

Trent McCord, who will deliver his senior reflection, Tim Jones and

Sarah Branson, who will read scripture, and Lauren Perren, who will

sing Malotte’s The Lord ’s Prayer.

The invocation will be delivered by Linda Roos, ‘68, trustee of the

College and mother of Celeste Roos, ’09. The benediction will be

ready by Cindy Lakin, ‘79, mother of Chris Lakin, ‘09.

The Convocation, held at 1 p.m. in the Mabee Center, will feature

Mary Eisenhower, granddaughter of the former president Dwight D.

Eisenhower and president and CEO of People to People Interna-

tional, an organization whose purpose is “to enhance international

understanding and friendship through educational, cultural and hu-

manitarian activities involving the exchange of ideas and experiences

directly among peoples of different countries and diverse cultures."

“I felt like what she does with People to People International is

reflective of the values that the College has, and I thought she might

bring an interesting talk based on her experiences," Dr. David Sallee,

president of the College, said. “She’s traveling around the world all

the time, and I felt like she might bring some very interesting insights

to us f rom all the work she’s doing around the world."

Sallee met Mary Eisenhower at a lunch last summer arranged by

Anthony Shop, ‘05.

Sallee said that Eisenhower’s presentation would “reflect values of

building community, reaching out to other people, creating a more

just world."

The Class of 2009 has elected Andy Kirk as the class speaker. Kirk

said that he was honored to represent the class.

“I have decided to share several basic themes with my graduating

classes: the hopelessness of the human condition, the absurdity of the

American dream and the harsh reality of stumbling into a hostile,

jobless with a useless degree and thousands of dollars of debt," Kirk

said. “I will also talk about dreaming big and reaching for the stars."

Trisha Stan can be reached

at stant@william.jewell.edu

can afford an education at William Jewell.

“It seems to me that there are more going to community colleges this

year, but there always are students where its all about the money," Gram-

ling said.

The number of students filing for financial aid at the College is also sig-

nificantly higher than last year. As of March 26, the number of prospective

incoming students filing a FAFSA for financial aid with the College was

up 23 percent over last years’ numbers, and the total number of FAFSAs

filed with the College was also up 18 percent.

Sallee sees an upside to the increased number of FAFSA filings, because

he believes this signifies that there “are more people in the pool seriously

considering Jewell." According to Sallee, William Jewell probably will give

out more aid overall in the coming year than it did last year.

The College plans to do this despite its own difficult fiscal situation.

Sallee confirmed that William Jewell will have a deficit in the 2008-2009

year, which will put it in the same company as many other institutions.

The College budgets for 16 percent of its yearly revenue, about six mil-

lion dollars, to be generated by the endowment. However, since the en-

dowment dropped several million dollars this school year, the College has

had to pursue different options than it originally planned. These included

the staff and faculty cuts earlier in the year, and a change in the way the

College structures its healthcare plan. To make up for the lack of revenue

from the endowment, the College also will have to take the painful step of

removing money from the principle of its endowment, said Sallee.

Its always a balancing act to give out enough aid to convince peo-

ple to enroll at William Jewell, while at the same time not giving out too

much so that the College is hurt, according to Sallee. This year is especially

difficult “ because of everyone’s financial situation," said Sallee.

Corey Husak can be reached

at husakc@william.jewell.edu

name of the new complex.

“ We have had a couple of current students who thought there should be more of a reference to sorority [in the

name of the complex]," Sallee said.

Sallee noted that while the word “sorority" is not mentioned in the official name of the complex, there will be

several references to the Greek nature of the complex. The columns on the houses will feature the Greek letters

representing each sorority. Furthermore, the complex will feature signs both beside the front door and inside the

main lobby that read, “Shumaker Hall Sorority Houses and Greek Common." The words “Shumaker Hall" will

appear at the front of the complex above the columns.

The sorority complex is currently scheduled to open sometime in mid-July. Sallee said that the project is cur-

rently on schedule and on budget.

“It will definitely be ready before school starts," he said.

The project will include houses for each of the four campus sororities complete with suite-style rooms, as well

study rooms, a fitness center, a multipurpose room and laundry facilities. A Greek Common Building will join the

four houses and provide space for various events.

The College currently plans on holding a dedication of Shumaker Hall as a part of the 2009 Homecoming

events. Sallee emphasized that no official William Jewell ceremony will take place during the beginning of the

academic year due to the volume of students that will be settling into the dormitories during that time. However,

he did not rule out the possibility of smaller-scale events at the sorority level.

“The sororities may want to do something themselves [to celebrate the opening of the complex]," he said.

Trista Turley can be reached

at turleyt@william.jewell.edu

Kyle Rivas / Campus Photographer

Left to right from back: seniors David Keeler, Andy Kirk, Jordan Wiarda, Jamin Quilla, Katie Brooks, Alyssa Emery,

Nikki Pollman, Trisha Stan and Jessica Williams anticipate Graduation Convocation May 16.

NOTICE OF ACCREDITATION

William Jewell College’s Department of Nursing is seek-

ing comments from individuals of our community of inter-

est about the Department of Nursing’s bachelor of science

in nursing program (BSN) in preparation for its periodic

evaluation by a nursing accrediting agency, the Commis-

sion on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).

The Department of Nursing’s BSN program will under-

go a comprehensive evaluation visit September 28-30,

2009, by a team representing CCNE.

William Jewell’s BSN program received initial CCNE ac-

creditation in 1999. The team will review the institution’s

ongoing ability to meet the commission’s criteria for ac-

creditation.

The public is invited to submit written signed comments

addressing substantive matters related to the Department

of Nursing’s BSN program to:

Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education

ATTN: LiAnn Shepard, Accreditation Assistant

One Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 530

Washington, DC 20036-1120

All comments must be received by August 28, 2009

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by Andy Kirk

IS IT W

ORTH IT.

We review, you decide...

I love the X-Men, but I was never a big Wolverine fan. Unlike all of the other boys in my

neighborhood who admired Wolverine’s seething rage, his burly, snarling persona and his

merciless, animalistic fur y when dispatching Sentinels, I was too busy tying blankets around

my arms and pretending to summon lightning bolts like my favorite X-Woman, Storm (and

I will still insist that my love of comic book lore is the single thread connecting me to the

world of masculinity). Honestly, I didn’t like Wolverine then because I thought he was boring,

one-dimensional, and his powers weren’t even that great. I never understood all the fuss, but

then again, I think that my eight-year-old self, weather goddess costume and all, could have

written a better script than X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

The problem with fan favorite spin-off projects is that the one-dimensional character

somehow loses his appeal when molded into a real person. As much as I disliked Wolverine’s

shallow, bloodthirsty characterization in the cartoon and comic books, he’s bad when he has

to show restraint, and even worse when he’s in love. Wolvie’s great as a ruthless killing ma-

chine traveling the world with a band of badass mutant assassins—a sort of mutant branch

of the Navy Seals, led by shady military general William Stryker—but when he develops a conscience and leaves the

group to move to Canada where he falls in love with a hot schoolteacher . . . well, let ’s just say it’s uncomfortable to see

his muttonchops nuzzling against his girlfriend’s soft skin. Thankfully, she dies soon enough (complete with the clas-

sic holding-her-bloodied-body-while-looking-up-into-the-sky-screaming-“NOOOOOOOOO!" scene) and, to exact

revenge, Wolverine decides to get an adamantium upgrade f rom Stryker. Of course, it can’t be happily e ver after—

something has to go horribly, horribly wrong!

One plus about Wolver ine is the cast of other mutants who pop up in one way or another. It must be horribly con-

fusing for someone who walked into the theater with no X-Men experience, but as a fanboy, I delighted in random

characters f rom another universe at ever y turn. Look, there’s Deadpool! And Cyclops! And The Blob! And Emma

Frost! Of course, the fact that Wolverine has to fight nearly all of them for absolutely no reason sort of killed my joy. I’m

all for awesome mutant battles, but in this film it seemed like the writers put every mutant’s name in a hat and drew

one ever y five minutes to see who Wolverine would nonsensically spar with next. Why would Gambit interrupt a fight

between Wolverine and Sabretooth that’s already in progress. I don’t think the screenwriters even know, because they

don’t attempt to tie it all together.

And yet, the worst moments of the movie all happen when Wolverine is speaking. Hugh Jackman does what he can

with a limited character, but when he has to look at the camera and say something like “ There’s no redemption for me

now," there is nothing but fail. Epic, epic fail. Twice, I wished that I had Wolverine’s claws so that I could slash my own

wrists, but with my luck, I would also have inherited his super healing powers that would make me indestructible and

thus unable to kill myself during this hot mess of a motion picture.

I’ll see Wolverine a few more times, just to make sure I wasn’t too hasty in my condemnation, but I think time will

prove me correct. I’m still surprised that second-grader Andy was able to see this disaster coming 14 years ago . . . I’ve

always wanted mutant powers, but sadly, you don’t have to be a telepath to intuit that this movie fails.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Andy Kirk

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I have been a fan of Beyoncé since she was a member of singing sensation trio,

Destiny’s Child. Nowadays, besides being Jay-Z’s number one girl, she is trying to

make a name for herself in Hollywood. Unfortunately, some roles that she has been

cast for have made me realize that she is better in front of a microphone than on the

big screen.

When I watched the trailer for Obsessed, the first thought that came to my mind was

that Beyoncé was again trying to prove her acting diversity, only this time trying to pull

off a fight sequence despite wearing four-inch heels. I must admit I was impressed by

her performance. She brought her A-game to the role and I definitely saw an improve-

ment in her performance f rom such movies as The Pink Panther or Dreamgirls.

In Obsessed, Sharon (Beyoncé Knowles) and Derek Charles (Idris Elba, TV ’s The

Wire) are happily married with a baby boy. The happy couple just bought a fancy house

(and an entire Pier One showroom to go with it, it seems) somewhere in the hills of

suburbia. Sharon stays at home with their infant son and yearns to finish her college

degree, while Derek works as a successful assets manager at a financial firm at a Los

Angeles financial firm.

When his regular assistant is home sick with the flu, a temporary replacement comes to the rescue. Ali Larter (TV ’s

“Heroes") plays a blonde office vixen, Lisa, who has her eyes on the big prize: top executive Derek Charles, Lisa might

be a temp (better yet temptress), but she’s eyeing a more permanent relationship with him

A couple of days have gone by and the office is buzzing about the upcoming company Christmas party, where there

is a “no spouses allowed" clause on the invitation so that employees can “really let loose." What results is a booze-filled,

sexy atmosphere. In the world of two-inch-thick HR manuals, you would think such an office party would be extinct

by now. This is where Lisa first strikes. She corners Derek in the men’s room and starts to seduce him, though he ada-

mantly refuses her advances.

Despite his obvious rejection, Lisa ingratiates herself with the psychotic efficien-

cy of an experienced administrative assistant, knowing exactly what her boss will

do and when he’ll do it, what he wants and what he fears, and even how he likes his coffee.

It is only when Lisa shows up to the company’s “men only" retreat that Derek begins to feel threatened. Why he hasn’t

contacted HR by now is a mystery.

Obsessed is predictable. Obsessed is nothing entirely new. It seemed to be a half-witted attempt for a remake of 1987’s

“Fatal Attraction". And yet, Obsessed is entertaining, captivating and even thrilling at times. I tell you the truth that I

threw small punches in the air and said “ You go, girl!" during the epic Sharon - Lisa cat fight. A word to the wise; don’t

mess with Beyoncé’s man. If you’re looking for a guilty pleasure flick, then Obsessed has got enough fierce women and

good lucking men to satisfy you for at least an hour and a half.

Obsessed

Sara Valladares

It’s hard to believe that in the last three and a half years, I have

sat behind a computer and typed a newspaper column 87 times.

That number seems both incomprehensibly high and startlingly

low when I think about the hours upon hours upon hours of typing,

just like the estimated 104,400 words that constitute the sum of ev-

ery edition of Talk to the And(y), Talk to the And(y): World Tour,

or Kirkish Delight. Just over 100,000 words for years of pointless

rambling and incoherent filler. Really. Is my math right. I mean,

I’m an English major who thinks that all numbers greater than 250

sort of blur together, but it seems like it should be more, and simul-

taneously, substantially less. I’ll revisit that theme in a moment, but

for now, I cannot process that I will never do this again.

My first ever column in 2006 was a two-parter in which I in-

filtrated the Church of Scientology. I did a lot of infiltrating in

those days because I didn’t have a job or many friends and Face-

book hadn’t been invented yet (yes, I am that old). I infiltrated the

Mormon Visitors’ Center in Liberty; I infiltrated Wal-Mart and

stayed there for 12 hours; I infiltrated the secret world of bachelor-

ette-party strippers. In those days, I had no concept of how to write

about anything that wasn’t ridiculous or insane.

I got both busier and lazier in the next year and a half, and thus,

I started writing more about the Jewell community and my experi-

ences in it. I exposed secret societies, rejected Sigma Nu and took

a lesson from the Tyra Banks School of Journalism when I went

undercover as a blind person and a redhead. (Separately, of course,

because who wants to deal with multiple disabilities at once.) I also

got sloppier, less focused and wrote my worst column ever: about

what reality shows I would have to get on before I would be invited

back for Achievement Day. Christiane Amanpour, I wasn’t.

After writing about my mishaps in Europe with Parisian pros-

titutes, Mediterranean jellyfish and the Athenian police for a se-

mester, I began my senior year trying to talk about issues in the

Jewell community in a humorous way. At least Lois Anne said I did

this. By this point, I was 21 and usually too trashed to recall what I

drunkenly typed and submitted. Hey, if it worked for Hemingway

and Faulkner, why not me. I do apologize for currently blabbing on

and on about the last three and a half years in a way that is neither

funny nor insightful, but you must realize that, to me, quitting the

column is like losing an adorable family pet. Granted, it’s a profane,

vulgar, angry, cynical family pet that peed on the carpet of my free

time every Thursday evening and I will dispatch of it Old Yeller-

style by taking it behind the barn and shooting it in the head, but

it’s still a loss nevertheless. (It’s also a zombie pet that will rise from

the dead and wreak havoc on the Jewell community in a five minute

blaze of glory on May 16 at 1 p.m. because my peers have foolishly

elected me as the Senior Speaker at our Commencement Ceremo-

ny. What, did you really think I would write something serious for

my last hurrah.)

I always hated the idea of people who weren’t famous having

fans—you know, delusional recording “artists" who always emphati-

cally thank their fans for all of the love and support. Unless you’re

Beyoncé, those people who put up with you are called your mother

and a few friends who don’t have the heart to tell you that you

sound like a cat forced into a wood chipper when you hit the glory

notes. Thus, when my father referred to me as a “celebrity" in front

of other Jewell people—he also once asked me if people stopped me

on the Quad and asked for my autograph—my emotion is like the

kind of shame that causes entire Asian families to commit suicide

when their ancestors have been dishonored. And yet, I couldn’t have

done any of this without you—all of you. Sometimes, people I don’t

even know tell me that they enjoyed what I wrote last week, or my

friends pass along supportive messages from their parents who read

their college kid’s newspaper and think I’m hilarious. Creativity and

insecurity go hand-in-hand, and I’m being completely honest when

I say that I wouldn’t have done it for so long without all of the love

I’ve experienced.

Okay, now I’m getting indulgent, but it still amazes me that I’ve

had an opportunity to rant and rave about whatever I want for a

thousand words every week. A lot of people at bigger schools would

kill to get that chance, and I don’t want to take any of it for granted.

Through it all, I’ve grown as a person because I’ve had that out-

let. You’ve let me sound off about serious things—my grandfather’s

death, my brother’s deployment in Iraq, my frustration with LGBT

issues, etc.—that I needed to get out of my system. Even during

normal weeks, the fact that people actually expected something

halfway funny from me caused me to pursue many opportunities

that I never would have dreamed of undertaking otherwise. I highly

doubt I would have gone to Kenya without the promise of getting

three columns worth of hilarity from it. Every week I was pushed

out of my comfort zone to find something to write about, some-

where, and I greatly appreciate the fact that you made me make

myself uncomfortable a lot. Regardless of the subject matter, writ-

ing is a kind of catharsis, and although I rarely ever read my column

in print (usually dreading how PG-13 Lois Anne would make my

most inappropriate jokes), the satisfaction of attaching my work to

an email and hitting the ‘Send’ button that will send my musings

out into the universe produced an exhilarating feeling.

Wow. I despise sentimentality and I fear I’m tiptoeing into tool

bag territory, so I’m going to stop here. There is nothing else to say,

apart from thank you. As I always say before throwing the deuces,

it’s been real, it’s been fun. . . . and it’s actually been really fun. I’m

going to miss all of you so much. Stay classy, William Jewell.

Webster presents Senior Theatre Performance

Kyle Rivas / Campus Photographer

Damen Webster, senior, will premiere his Senior Theatre Performance ton ight at 7 in Peters Theater. The play,

entitled “Journey to the American Dream," is a compilation of “The American Dream" by Edward Albee and

“Panther Juice" by Webster. Webster said, “Both are absurdist plays centering on the degradation of the Ameri-

can family." Featured in the photo above are Aaron Gotzon, sophomore, Jack Kynion, senior, and Kat Myers,

sophomore.

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Jewell baseball continues on to regionals

This past week the William Je well College

baseball team finished the Heart of America

Athletic Conference tournament with a 3-2

record, which qualified the Cardinals for the

regional tournament. The Cardinals lost the

opening game to Avila University but went

on to win three straight games against Evan-

gel, Culver Stockton and Avila.

“ The keys have been the same in the play-

offs as they have been all year," Jon Ubbenga,

senior shortstop, said. “It’s about working to-

gether and having a great intensity. Finally it

all comes down to executing on the field. Be-

ing able to execute the things that we practice

ever yday ultimately leads to our success."

The three-game winning streak set up

a final bout between the Cardinals and ri-

val Lindenwood University. The Cardinals

e ventually would drop a heartbreaker to Lin-

denwood, giving up two runs in the bottom

of the ninth inning to lose 9-8. Howe ver, the

3-2 record was good enough to keep the Car-

dinals’ national title hopes alive.

“ We definitely expected to go this far and

are expecting to continue to win," Ubbenga

said. “Our goal is to go to the World Series,

and we have put ourselves in a position where

we could make that happen."

Along with Ubbenga, there are six Car-

dinal seniors that see this season as their last

opportunity for national success. Seniors

Blake Burks, Colt Ferguson, Jake Jorn, Luke

K alb, Darren O’Brien and Stu Schlemeyer all

hope that their last season as Cardinals will

be a special one. The Cardinals will look to

these seven seniors for guidance and inten-

sity as they head to the Regional tournament

and possibly the NAIA World Series.

“I have greatly enjoyed my last four years

playing baseball," Ubbenga said. “It is really

special to be with such a great group of guys

and work so hard together to achieve success.

I take a great deal of pride in being a William

Jewell baseball player, and I will always have

fond memories of being a part of this team."

By 6 p.m. today the team will find out

who their opponents will be for Regionals

and where they will play them. The team

must win four games to advance to Nation-

als. With five teams in each region and nine

host sites, there are 45 teams competing for a

shot at Nationals.

Paul Moore can be reached

at moorep@william.jewell.edu

Paul Moore

Staff Writer

The William Jewell track and field squads competed

in the Heart of America Athletic Conference Champi-

onships last weekend. Success was abundant, especially

on the women’s side.

The women took fourth place overall and were led

by several freshmen. Jasmine Bernard took fourth in the

100-meter dash. Sarah Shippy and Courtney Wilms-

meyer took third and seventh respectively in the 100-

meter hurdles. Shippy also took seventh in the triple and

long jumps. Alecia Valencia took fifth in the 300-meter

steeplechase. The 4x100-meter relay team of Bernard,

Shippy, Wilmsmeyer and Jennifer Houston took fourth.

Lauren Hodges took eighth in the high jump. Rachel

Merrill took second in the Pole Vault. Teresa Gaggens

and Brittany Riley placed seventh and eighth respective-

ly in the shot put. Riley also took ninth in the hammer

throw and fourth in the javelin throw. Gaggens won this

discus and broke the school record in the process with a

throw of 43.72 meters. Quincy Cotton took fifth in the

hammer throw.

“I was very happy with the women’s side. Ever yone

performed well and I was impressed with a lot of the

freshmen, especially Teresa Gaggens in winning the dis-

cus," Tom Eisenhauer, assistant track and field coach,

said.

On the men’s side, Mark Stevenson took second in the

110-meter hurdles. Blane Brown finished second in the

400-meter hurdles. Jesse Funk took seventh in the 300-

meter steeplechase. Colby Lehman took seventh in the

discus and second in the hammer throw. The men took

ninth overall.

“ The men didn’t all perform as well as we had hoped.

We had a couple go down with injuries before which was

a little unfortunate," Eisenhauer said.

The track and field teams now head to Emporia State

which is a tune-up for those who have already qualified

for the national meet and a last chance for those who

have not qualified yet.

“ We are hoping to have some more success this week-

end and to hopefully get some more athletes qualified for

the national tournament in two weeks," Eisenhauer said.

Jared Speckman can be reached

at speckmanj@william.jewell.edu

Kyle Rivas / Campus Photographer

Mark Stevenson, senior, leaps over the hurdles at the 2009 HAAC Outdoor Track

& Field Championships, held at Central Methodist University in Fayette, Mo.

Stevenson took second in the 110-meter hurdles that day. The men finished

ninth overall while the women finished overall fourth. The teams will travel to

Emporia, Kan. May 9 to participate in the Emporia State Last Chance Meet be-

fore the NAIA Nationals May 22-24 in Edwardsville, Ill.

WJC Track and Field race to nationals

Jared Speckman

Staff Writer

Losses to Graceland and MO Valley cut tennis seasons short

Kyle Rivas / Campus Photographer

Returning the volley, Cody Pflugradt, junior, strikes back against the

Bethany College Swedes in a home match earlier in the season. The

men’s tennis team finished the season with a 8-10 overall record, and

2-5 in the HAAC Conference.

After being defeated by the Graceland University Yellowjackets in

the semi-finals 5-0, William Jewell College’s men’s tennis team fell

short in its run to win a Heart of America Conference tournament

championship.

“Graceland is just a very tough opponent. They came into that match

ranked #10 in the nation and they are a very solid team," Paul Worstell,

head coach of men’s and women’s tennis teams, said.

Subsequently losing seven of their last eight matches to end the

regular season, the Cardinals responded in their quarterfinal match in

the first round of the HAAC Tournament by defeating Missouri Valley

College 5-0, who hosted the two day conference tournament Apr. 24-25

in Marshall, MO.

“The guys really wanted to make a good showing in the HAAC

Tournament. We barely beat MO. Valley in the regular season [5-4]

but lost some close matches and one of our players [Kyle Lehenbauer,

sophomore] was very sick the night before that match so we knew going

into the tournament that we were healthy and ver y focused on winning

that match. It was probably the best match our guys played all year,"

Worstell said.

This tournament capped one of the better showings the men’s tennis

team has produced in the last couple of years, and moving among the

elite in the HAAC.

“The men’s season was in my mind a turning point season for our

program. We accomplished some things this year on our men’s team that

have not been done in a long time. We were ranked in the top 30

for

the first time in almost 15 years. We beat a ranked opponent (Mar. 13

against #24 Bethany) and we made it to the HAAC Tournament Semi-

Finals for the first time in a long time," Worstell said.

The Lady Cardinals tennis team came up one match short of advancing

to the National tournament, as they were defeated by Missouri Valley

5-1 in the HAAC Tournament Championship.

“That loss to MO Valley really hurt, and quite honestly still does. I

think it will hurt for a long time. I don’t want to take away from MO.

Valley’s play or what our girls accomplished this year. But sometimes in

matches, teams will get into a zone that there is just not a lot you can

do about. MO Valley played very well and I give them a lot of credit for

winning that match. We lost a crucial match at number two singles that

we had won when we beat them earlier in the year. Doubles also hurt

us that day. We dug ourselves a hole by going down 2-1 and we always

make it our goal to come out of doubles each match up 2-1 or 3-0,"

Worstell said.

The team will look to rebound next season. They lose two seniors, Ann

Lewis and Sydnee Mela, to graduation, while bringing back their number

one and two singles players this year in Nikki Chambers, sophomore,

and Tanya Ratana, first-year.

“I told the girls I was proud of all they accomplished this season. We

were regular season HAAC Champs, and 5-0 in HAAC play. I want the

returning players to remember this feeling and use it as motivation in the

off-season and as we get back started in August," Worstell said.

JP Bartmess can be reached

at bartmessj@william.jewell.edu

JP Bartmess

Staff Writer