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Sorority helps fight domestic violenceBRITTANY TEDDER ARROW STAFF WRITER

One in four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and Alpha Chi Omega, a sorority at Southeast Missouri State University, will organize events and raise funds to combat domestic violence.

Southeast senior Abby Henschel, a member of Alpha Chi Omega, said stopping domestic violence is the sorority’s philanthropy, and it holds an event in the spring.

“All the fraternities participate in our Frisbee sling, which is like ultimate Frisbee where they compete with each other,” Henschel said. “We have T-shirts made, and it’s a way for the community to come and participate as well.”

Henschel said members of Alpha Chi have an item drive at least two times a semester to support the Safe House for Women. The Safe House for Women’s office is located at N. Spring Street in Cape Girardeau.

“We bring at least two to three items to our chapter,” Henschel said. “All the donations are usually hygiene products, paper products and laundry detergent.”

For Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Alpha Chi organizes an event called “Brewing Awareness,” where it runs a coffee house, and a couple of bands play throughout the night.

“It’s like a relaxing night for the outside community to help give money,” Henschel said. “This year, it will probably be at Cup ‘N’ Cork.”

Last year Alpha Chi sold wristbands that read, “Don’t Touch This.” The wristbands were $1 each, and all the proceeds went to the Safe House for

Women.“We will probably do that again this

year because it was such a good turnout,” Henschel said.

Henschel said she interned at the Safe House for Women last spring. She wanted to take the internship because of Alpha Chi’s connection with the shelter, but she never imagined what the women at the shelter had gone through.

“It just opened my eyes up to what some people had to witness in their lives,” Henschel said. “I realized how strong these women are, and when they come to the shelter they literally have nothing. They just grow within that house each day.”

The Safe House for Women was founded in 1991 and is a not-for-profit domestic violence shelter. Kyle Riddle, an educator at the Safe House, said it began as a domestic violence shelter for women and their children to give them a safe place to stay. The Safe House expanded to include its outreach office and counseling services.

“We provide court advocacies [for] people who need legal help, education and counseling,” Riddle said. “We also have our thrift store, which consists of clothing donations and some applian-ces, where the women at the Safe House can shop at their convenience.”

According to Riddle, domestic violence begins at a young age. Abusers can become emotionally or verbally abusive as early as fifth and sixth grade.

Physical abuse is the most obvious form of domestic violence, Riddle said. However, emotional abuse is also a form of domestic violence that people may not be aware of.

“Any kind of pattern of behavior that’s designed to break down someone’s self-esteem to try and keep someone trapped in a relationship or

emotionally dependent on another person is considered abuse,” Riddle said.

Riddle said domestic violence is a societal issue and that communities need to get together to stop the abuse and reinforce ideas from a young age that abusive behavior is not tolerated and is not normal.

“We’re here for help as far as prevention,” Riddle said. “The behavior begins early as sixth grade, so my job is to go to the high schools and junior highs around here and talk to students about healthy relationships.”

Riddle said gender stereotypes play a role in domestic violence. Men are supposed to be masculine, and women are supposed to be submissive and quiet.

“One in nine men experience domestic violence, and people don’t often think of men as victims,” Riddle said. “Men don’t like to report that they’re being abused because they think they’re supposed to be macho or they’re afraid people will think they’re weak.”

The Safe House holds some events at the shelter. One event is a balloon release where the staff and clients gather around the shelter and release purple balloons.

“We also have a big banquet at the shelter where all of our clients, staff and volunteers cook something and bring it,” Riddle said.

According to Henschel, domestic violence is more common than anybody could imagine, and it is a topic that nobody wants to talk about.

“I think Alpha Chi does a good job with bringing awareness on the subject instead of just hiding it underneath the mat,” Henschel said. “Even girls I would never imagine were telling their stories. I think it’s important to start becoming more aware of it.”

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BRIEFSLecture

Crader Lecture features Dr. Daniel DreisbachA crowd of more than 500 people attended the Rhodes Scholar lecture “Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separa-tion,” Tuesday at Rose Theater.

Dr. Daniel Dreisbach, professor at American University in Washington, D.C., and author of “The Bible’s Influence Upon the Founding Fathers,” discussed what Thomas Jefferson meant about keeping church and state separate.

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Election

Voter registration deadline for November election coming upSoutheast Missouri State University students still have options if they are interested in voting in the November 2012 election. The deadline for registering to vote is 5 p.m. on Oct. 10.

Olivia Plumlee, event coordinator for Southeast’s College Republicans, said students can register at the public library on Clark Street or any federal building in Cape Girardeau. If a student is not a Cape Girardeau resident, they need to register in their hometowns and apply for an absentee ballot. All of this can be done through the mail.


Accident

No serious injuries in scooter accident near campusA scooter collided with a vehicle at the intersection of Bellevue Street and Sprigg Street in Cape Girardeau at approximately 3 p.m. Sept. 25.

A Honda Pilot was eastbound on Bellevue Street. The scooter was northbound on Sprigg Street. The driver of the scooter did not suffer any life-threatening injuries and was transported by private vehicle to St. Francis Hospital, according to traffic officer David Valentine of the Cape Girardeau Police Department.


PRSSA

PRSSA students will attend conference in San FranciscoSoutheast Missouri State University’s chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America will send 17 members to the PRSSA National Conference 2012. The conference will be from Oct. 11-16 in San Francisco.

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Junior libero Berkley Idel serves the ball during Southeast’s game Sept. 25 against UT Martin. The Redhawks won 3-1. Photo by Ashley Reed

Multiple players contribute as Southeast volleyball remains unbeaten in conferenceSPENCER MICHELSON ARROW STAFF WRITER

The Southeast Missouri State University volle-yball team is off to a fast start this season and is on a six-game win streak. The Redhawks are 4-0 in the Ohio Valley Conference and lead the OVC West Division.

At 12-6 overall, the Redhawks are on pace to finish better than last season. The team finished 14-19 and qualified as the fourth seed in the OVC tournament , winning its first OVC tournament match since 2006.

“If we can pass, everybody is available and everybody can contribute, and that’s why we’re winning,” second-year coach Julie Folliard said. “You can’t just win with one or two people playing effectively. You need to have more people than that, and that’s why we’re successful.”

Junior outside hitter Colleen Yarber had a career-high 22 kills in a win against SIU Edwardsville earlier in the season. Senior out-side hitter Brittney Kalinoski had a career-high 18 kills and 24 digs against Eastern Illi-nois University.

Yarber has had a strong offensive season so far and leads the team with 208 kills. Last sea-son she had 192 kills.

“Colleen’s played amazing,” Folliard said. “She’s just playing relaxed and having fun, and that’s when she does well.”

The team played its first 16 games on the

road and compiled a record of 10-6. Last year the Redhawks struggled away from Houck Field House and finished with an away record of 7-16.

“Last year, it was obvious that we played way better at home,” junior setter Julie Shives said. “So, now that we’ve showed that we can play on the road, then we really have a good chance of doing very well this year.”

Junior middle blocker Emily Coon thinks that the momentum from last season has hel-ped propel the Redhawks to a good start.

“Yes, [we’re] definitely carrying that momentum over,” Coon said. “Of course we are always striving to be No. 1 in this confe-rence. I think our start has definitely proved that we’re ready to take that spot.”

The Redhawks were 11-9 in conference play last year. That was the first time the team finished above .500 in conference play since the 2008 season when the team went 11-8.

“Last year we ended great. We ended on a very high note,” Coon said. “We’ve been away for so long that coming back into season and being closer to home really gives us that extra push that we need. And we have three awesome coaches, a great set of girls and it’s just like a family, and it really helps push you on the court.”

Southeast has played only one game at home this season, which it beat UT Martin 3-1. Southeast next plays against Austin Peay at 6:30 p.m. Friday in Houck Field House.

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Parkour and free-running organization works toward becoming an official clubBAILEY MCCORMICK ARROW REPORTER

Parkour involves movement from point A to point B in the fastest, most efficient way possible, some-times by jumping or climbing over obstacles.

Kyle Thies, a Southeast Missouri State University sophomore and founder of the Parkour and Free-Running Club on campus, sees it a little differently.

“I think of parkour in the same way that I would think of a martial art,” Thies said. “It’s human nature that in any state of stress, we will resort to our basic instinct of fight or flight. A martial arts’ goal is to teach you the art of fight. I believe that the purpose of parkour is to teach you the art of flight.”

The group is including free-run-ning because of its similarities to parkour. Thies, who has been par-ticipating in parkour for two and a half years, believes that both should be included because they are both an art of movement. Free-running is less about immediacy and more about tricks and acrobatics.

“In other words,” Thies said, “parkour is for practicality and effi-ciency, and free-running is for fun.”

The Parkour and Free-Running

Club adviser is Zachary Singleton, the Towers West hall director. Sin-gleton explained that a group such as this will take a while to officially get started.

According to Singleton, to be considered an official club on cam-pus, the group needs at least five students to participate, a constitu-tion that must be approved by the student government and, because of the risks involved with this type of activity, the group will need someone who is CPR certified.

The club’s first unofficial meeting was Sept. 25 at the Student Recrea-tion Center-North. Its goal for the meetings as of now are organizing and building a name for themselves as an established group on campus.

“I do not do parkour, but I do like

what parkour is all about,” Single-ton said. “Parkour does not stand for showing off or being reckless,

but instead being respectful of the space and people that are around you. It also is a great way of getting people out and exercising and buil-ding stamina. … We would like to invite all out to try it, whether you have heard of it until now or not, it will be lots of fun.”

Thies and Singleton said that no experience is required to join the club. For more information on the developing club, contact Thies at [email protected].

“When you start doing parkour,

there’s a lot of progression, there’s a lot of failure, and there’s a lot of suc-cess,” Thies said. “You may start completely incapable of doing anything, but when you actually try and when you actually practice, you will gain confidence and will begin to lose any sense of fear that you started off with. When you become more advanced, you always feel like you’re in control, you no lon-ger have any fear and you gain an unbreakable sense of confidence.”

Sophomore Kyle Thies, president and founder of the Parkour and Free-Running Club, shows off his skills by doing a back flip off the fountain in front of Dempster Hall. Photo by Ashley Reed

“I believe that the purpose of parkour is to teach you the art of flight.” Kyle Thies

BRIEFSSoutheast Soccer

Redhawks went 1-1 over the weekendThe Southeast soccer team won 6-0 Friday against Murray State. The Redhawks scored all six goals in the first half of the game. Hayley Abbott, Ali Bauer, Amy Harrington and Jacey Boyko each scored one goal. Torey Byrd scored two goals. The team played Austin Peay Sun-day and lost 1-0. Senior goalkeeper Renee Kertz had eight saves in the game. The Redhawks have a record of 2-7-3 and are 1-1-1 in the Ohio Valley Conference.

Southeast Cross Country

Redhawks run in ChicagoThe men’s cross country team tied for seventh out of 47 teams and the women’s team finished 19th out of 51 teams at the Sean Earl Lakefront Invitational in Chicago. There were 456 runners who competed in the men’s race. The Redhawks were led by senior Nate Shipley, who finis-hed 19th. 514 runners competed in the women’s race. Sophomore Rebekah Lawson finished 53rd.Southeast’s next race is the Pre-National meet on Oct. 13 in Louis-ville, Ky.

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Fifth Annual Ghost Storytelling Festival moves to River CampusHANNAH PARENT ARROW STAFF WRITER

The Fifth Annual Ghost Storytelling Festival will be held indoors for the first time at the Donald C. Bedell Perfor-mance Hall.The City of Cape Girardeau and Old Town Cape, who coordinate the festival, decided weather played too much of a role in attendance at the past festivals.

Director of Public Relations for the City of Cape Girar-deau, Stacy Dohogne Lane, said moving the festival inside hopefully will improve the Ghost Storytelling Festival’s attendance.

“It’s at the Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall Audito-rium, which is gorgeous,” Lane said, “The weather has impacted our attendance in the past, but when we tried doing the humorous version of our storytelling festival, it was very well received.”

Dr. Joel Rhodes, a history professor at Southeast Missouri State University, is in charge of picking the storytellers for all the storytelling festivals. He said people should really enjoy the people he picked this year. The festival will feature the popular storytellers Megan Hicks and Brian Fox Ellis. Brian Fox Ellis is an award-winning author and storyteller who is known for his renditions of Grimm Brothers’ stories, which he has performed for more than 20 years. Megan Hicks is a nationally acclaimed writer and storyteller who was featu-red as a “new voice” at the National Storytelling Festival in 2011.

Rhodes encourages those who have not attended the past storytelling events to give the Ghost Storytelling Festi-val a try.

“When people think of storytelling, they think that sounds like something you attend at the library,” Rhodes said. “That perception is way off base. These people are per-formance artists. It’s a way to get engaged in a very fun-damental and human art form. Unlike any other perfor-mance art, they transmit ideas through interaction with the audience. You start to personalize and internalize it. Unlike a movie, your mind interacts by painting a picture.”

Lane said the new venue will be equipped with smoke and lights for a spooky atmosphere, and attendees should have a good time.

“It’s the oldest art form,” Lane said. “In our hyper-con-nected world with Twitter, cell phones and television, the festival offers a wonderful opportunity to disconnect for two hours and listen to heartfelt stories and just relax.”

The festival will have showings at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Oct. 13.

“Its the oldest art form. In our hyper-connected world with Twitter, cell phones and television, the festival offers a wonderful opportunity to disconnect for two hours and listen to heartfelt stories and just relax.” Stacy Dohogne Lane

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Concert pianist Jack Gibbons will perform at the Gala Season Opener at 7 p.m. on Oct. 9. Submitted photo

Acclaimed pianist to join Southeast orchestra

WHITNEY LAW ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

The Gala Season Opener will start off the Southeast Missouri Symphony Orchestra season with an acclaimed pianist who has performed in some of the most prestigious performance halls in the country and throughout the world.

Jack Gibbons is a well-known con-cert pianist and composer from England who has performed in Car-negie Hall, London’s Queen Elizabeth and Royal Albert Halls and in coun-tries such as the Netherlands, Italy, Aus-tralia and Zimbabwe, where he has held seminars to teach young children about music.

Gibbons often performs with major orchestras in the U.S. and Great Bri-tain, such as the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic.

Director of the Southeast Missouri Symphony Orchestra Dr. Sara Edgerton chose to include Gibbons in the sea-son opener because he has performed at Southeast Missouri State University many times for various events and was well received by both the audiences and the students who worked with him.

“He, every summer, has a residency at Oxford University where he does a

series of concerts that are always basi-cally sold out,” Edgerton said. “He has performed in Carnegie Hall on many occasions, and in fact, just the week before he comes here to play with us he is playing at the Kennedy Center.”

Gibbons’ repertoire usually includes music from composers like Gershwin, Chopin, J.S. Bach and his own com-positions, but for this concert he will perform a piece by Russian composer Rachmaninoff.

“Jack is playing with us, he’s perfor-ming a piano concerto by the Russian composer Rachmaninoff; his Concerto No. 2, which is one of the most famous piano concertos ever written,” Edger-ton said. “Because he’s playing this con-certo, which is by a Russian composer, I thought it would be kind of interes-ting to have all Russian music on the program.”

The concert will begin with the

orchestra playing “Overture on Rus-sian Themes” by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsa-kov and then a piece by the more recent Russian composer Khachaturian called “Masquerade Suite.”

“So we open with two very color-ful pieces by these Russian composers, and then Jack joins us for the Rachma-ninoff,” Edgerton said. “Russian sym-phonic music is also really noted for its colorful orchestration, for its lively rhythms and beautiful melodies.”

The orchestra has rehearsed for the opening of its 2012-2013 season since the start of the semester and will put the final touches on the program when Gibbons comes for two rehear-sals on Oct. 7. Edgerton said that is when the orchestra will line up its inter-pretation of the piece with Gibbons’ interpretation.

Edgerton will explain the music that will be performed in more depth the evening of the concert. Anyone who has purchased a ticket can attend the pre-concert talk.

The concert will be at 7 p.m. Oct. 9 at the Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall, and the pre-concert talk will begin at 6:45 p.m. Tickets cost $19 or $16 depen-ding on seat location and can be pur-chased at the River Campus box office or online at rivercampusevents.com. Tickets cost $3 for students with a Southeast ID.

“Russian symphonic music is also really noted for its colorful orchestration, for its lively rhythms and beautiful melodies.” Dr. Sara Edgerton


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Oak Ridge Boys choose River Campus venueSAVANNA MAUE ONLINE EDITOR

The Oak Ridge Boys are a country-gospel sin-ging group that has performed for nearly 70 years. The group has undergone many chan-ges in both its style of music and its band members, evolving from gospel to country and changing members over 30 times.

The Oak Ridge Boys started as a gospel group and began playing regularly for the Grand Ole Opry in 1945. Over the years the Oak Ridge Boys have been named one of the top crowd-drawing gospel groups in the nation.

The group has 12 gold, three platinum and one double platinum album as well as one double platinum single.

They have had more than a dozen No. 1 singles and over 30 top 10 hits.

They have won nine GMA Doves, four Country Music Association Awards, four Aca-demy of Country Music Awards, a Grammy Award and have played for five different presidents.

Today’s band members William Lee Gol-den, Richard Sterban, Duane Allen and Joe Bonsall joined together in 1973.

They will perform at 8 p.m. Oct. 12 at Southeast Missouri State University’s Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall.

Box Office Manager Ellen Farrow said the Oak Ridge Boys’ management team approached the university because they were

interested in including the smaller and more intimate setting that the River Campus offers in their U.S. tour.

Although the concert takes place over fall break, Farrow said ticket sales are not suffering.

“[We are expecting] more of a middle-aged crowd. There hasn’t been that many student tickets sold, but we have sold over 500 tickets with ongoing sales, which is more than half the house,” Farrow said.

Tickets are available at the River Campus box office and range from $49 to $55.

Students with a Southeast ID receive 50

percent off those prices.“We did sell orchestra seats for $75, which

are currently all sold, and those ticket holders will have the opportunity to meet with the band after the performance,” Farrow said.

Sophomore accounting major Sarah Stove-rink is planning to attend the show with her family.

“I heard about the concert through the por-tal,” Stoverink said. “I saw them when I was younger, but I’m really excited to go again for the bonding opportunity with my family and to see why my mom likes them so much.”

“I saw them when I was younger, but I’m really excited to go again for the bonding opportunity with my family and to see why my mom likes them so much.” Sarah Stoverink

The Oak Ridge Boys will perform at 8 p.m. on Oct. 12 at the Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall. Submitted photo

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Cindi Herndon stood behind the podium and smiled while she told the crowd in Houck Field House about how passionate and stubborn her daughter Meg was about her plan to play soccer and attend nursing school at Southeast Missouri State University.

Cindi is a nurse and was skeptical that her daughter would be able to manage both nursing school and soccer, even after the Herndons were told by a representative from the nursing pro-gram that it could be done.

“So, on her own, she kept calling coach Heather who proba-bly was thinking ‘Who is this child from Fenton that keeps calling me?’ She persisted. She did it on her own,” Cindi said.

“Then I remember the day, her dad and I were either coming home from a game or practice, and Meg just comes be-bopping in, and she says ‘Yeah, I just talked to coach Nelson. I’m going to SEMO to play soccer.’

“‘We’re both like ‘Oh, great, what’d you get?’ She’s like, ‘Nothing,’ and I’m like ‘What do you mean nothing? We want some money here. That’s what you want, right?” Cindi said before laughing. “And she goes, ‘No, mom, I just get to play soccer.’

“That’s all she wanted to do was to play soccer, and I didn’t tell coach Nelson this, but if you would’ve told Meg ‘Hey, you need to pay us,’ she would’ve.”

A memorial event was held in Houck Field House Thurs-day night for Meg, a senior soccer player and nursing major at Southeast, who died Sept. 20 from injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident on Sept. 9.

Meg earned some playing time her freshman and sopho-more seasons before starting every game her junior year when the Redhawks won the Ohio Valley Conference regular-season title. She had also started all seven games this season before the accident.

At the memorial event, senior soccer player Sarah Uptmor said the she and her teammates had repeatedly been asked, “Were you close?”

“Yes” doesn’t quite suffice in describing our team’s relations-hip,” Uptmor said. “You can only run so many gassers and 120s alongside someone else before you’re inextricably bound by your dread of hearing the words, ‘Just a couple exercises after this, girls.’”

The defending OVC regular-season champion Southeast soc-cer team knew that Meg would have wanted it to continue to play, and it opened its OVC season Tuesday against defending OVC tournament champion UT Martin.

“She wouldn’t want them to quit, and we told them that from the very beginning,” Cindi said. “Meg’s not a quitter. No matter how hurt she was, she wanted to play. She wouldn’t have wanted anybody to stop.”

“She would’ve been right behind them just telling them ‘Go. Play, play, play. Win, win, win,’” Ian Herndon, Meg’s dad, said.

The game was played just one day after Meg’s funeral, which the entire team attended. The game ended in a 1-1 tie after two 10-minute overtimes.

“Personally, I know how I feel, so I couldn’t be prouder of them,” Nelson said after the game. “The last two weeks have been devastating. There’s no other way to talk about what we’ve gone through, and I was confident that they’d already come together as a team. But we still needed to perform as a team on the field, and tonight I felt like we did that for the first time.”

Nelson said that the players and coaches are working toward a new normal and that being on the field will help them get there.

“It definitely helps. For at least 90 minutes, or 110 minu-tes today, we didn’t think about it,” senior defender and captain Hayley Abbott said after the game. “I don’t think there is any pla-yer on the team that doesn’t think about it all day, every day. Soc-cer is really helping us just try to get back to normality.”

The Southeast starters held hands during a moment of silence in honor of Meg before the game. The entire team wore warm-up T-shirts with Meg’s No. 2 on them and her favorite phrase “Impossible is Nothing.” The team will continue to wear these all season in remembrance of Meg.

“That’s something that she believed in her heart and whene-ver she went into every tackle, that’s what she believed and she thought that she could win every ball,” Taylor Byrd, a sophomore defender and Meg’s roommate, said about the phrase. “She was just strong with everything that she did. She worked hard at prac-tice and school, and she was a great girl.”

Nelson was thrilled with her team’s performance against UT Martin. Her husband and associate coach, Paul Nelson, has hel-ped focus the team on game tactics and how they need to play, which Heather Nelson said is the team’s “safe place”.

Before the game Heather Nelson talked about three things with the team to prepare them for the game. The first was pla-ying with strength, determination and courage. Second was to play smart and stay organized. The final thing was to play for the team.

“Our girls were told they needed to do anything and everything they had to to make sure they didn’t let their team-mates down tonight,” Nelson said. “I’d picked those three things earlier today for them and then the more I thought about it, I thought it was a real brilliant reflection of Meg because she was one of our very most courageous players, honors student, 3.83 [grade point average] and she loved her team, so it was fitting.”

“It was very emotional, but I don’t think it’s going to be any different from every other game for this season,” Abbott said. “It’s such an unfortunate event that happened. There’s nothing we can do about it, but we’ve got to play for her now. We’ve got to play as hard as she usually played.”

REMEMBER

Southeast soccer team returns to the field after death of teammate

Ellie Hight, a sophomore defender on Southeast’s soccer team, wrote this

poem in honor of Meg Herndon.

ERIN NEIER SPORTS ediTOR

Top: A banner hanging at Houck Stadium in memory of Meg Herndon.Left Center: Southeast’s Renee Kertz kicks the ball across the field.Right Center: A poster promoting “Pray 4 Meg” bracelets, which were sold for $2. Bottom Left: Southeast’s Erin Shulman, left, and Ellie Hight, right, wear T-shirts with teammate Meg Herdon’s number on them.Bottom Right: Southeast’s forward Amy Ward performs a flip throw in.

Photos by Nathan Hamilton


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Southeast alumnus is new Show Me Center directorCALLIE LEITTERMAN ARROW REPORTER

Wil Gorman is the new director for the Show Me Center at Southeast Missouri State University. Gorman is originally from Rals-ton, Neb., a small town near Omaha, Neb. He began to work in facilities management when he was 11 years old by working as a batboy at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha every summer until he turned 20. Rosenblatt Stadium used to host the NCAA Division I College World Series, was the home of the Omaha Royals and now is the home of the Omaha Storm Chasers.

Gorman attended Southeast and earned a Bachelor of Science in recreation. While a student at Southeast, he worked at the Show Me Center ushering and ticket taking. He also worked in the administrative office and was responsible for the handling of staff, event coordination and marketing sales.

As director of the Show Me Center, Gor-man is responsible for overseeing programs, daily operations and overall management.

Q: What is your back-ground in facili-ties management?

A: After college, I started out working for Arizona fall league that the Major League Baseball owns and operates. I was the gene-ral manager for the Tempe Rafters, which has a 16-team winter baseball league. I then wor-ked for the California Angels as a ticket mana-ger for spring training in 1995.

I decided that it was time to find a job with benefits, so I went to work at Sports Service in the old Busch Stadium as retail manager. There I handled all the merchandise inside the stadium and handled the first four St. Louis Rams games that were there. In March of 1997, I went to Tempe, Ariz., and managed the Tempe Diablo Stadium Complex.

I got a job with the Milwaukee Brewers in 2006 as senior director at Brewers Enterprises, which was a new position that they created. I was responsible for the non-game events, and we did everything from private events like weddings to cancer awareness events. I got the opportunity to move back home to

Omaha, Neb., in the summer of 2008 to help with designing and building TD Ameritrade Park. It was a $143 million project with 24,000 seats in the stadium. This was a great oppor-tunity that I got to be involved with. Once the project came to an end, my job came to an end.

I started working as a consultant for Delaware North Companies in Sports Ser-vice. They handle Busch Stadium, but also handle nine other stadiums around the country. From late March this year up until Labor Day I was at Arlington Park handling the operations of the retail for the Texas Rangers, which everyone around here loves to hear. Now, I had the opportunity to come back to Southeast, which I am very excited about.

Q: What do you enjoy about working in this particular field?

A: I enjoy the always-changing environ-ment and how nothing is ever the same. You meet a wide variety of people from the har-dcore basketball fan to the little kid who wants to go to the rodeo for the first time. Working at a venue like this you get to meet people of all walks of life, and also the energy you feel here with the entertainment, when a team wins at the last-second shot or there is a wedding proposal during a concert.

Q: What are your goals as the new director of the Show Me Center?

A: The most important goal is to carry on the traditions of the venue that have been here for the past 24 years. We have had perfor-mances like Tina Turner, Seven Dust and pre-sidents have been here, so we want to keep bringing in quality entertainment. We need to keep the building running well, and it already has been taken care of very well. I would like to bring in events and activities and possibly expand our offerings in the venue and loo-king into updating the venue. All of this will take time, though.

Q: Will you make any drastic changes?

A: No, change is the only thing constant. We will look into making adjustments possi-bly for an expanded venue or consolidated venue. My big thing is customer service, but with my experience working here in the past it always has been. I am not worried about that component, but that’s always first and foremost.

Q: Since this year marks 25 years of operation of the Show Me Center, will there be any type

of celebration for that?A: That is something we are looking into.

The biggest thing to understand is that for entertainers the business has changed — where they used to book eight to 10 weeks out, now they are six to eight months out. They are planned so far in advance it makes it a challenge to plan for it. We are looking to possibly do something in the near future, this school year or next school year. It would be something that would be well received and looking at a wide variety of things we could offer.

Q: Coming back to Southeast, what do you think about it now compared to when you were a student here?

A: I was a tour guide when I first started school here, but I love Southeast. There is a lot of different changes, like Pig Lot used to be gravel, there now is a parking garage and the Rec Center didn’t have a pool. I had classes in Academic [Hall], which now I know students cannot attend class there. I roomed in Myers. It was a pretty campus then, but now it rea-lly is with all the fountains they have now and improvements. It has really expanded in so many different great ways.

Wil Gorman, right, the new director at the Show Me Center, speaks with assistant director Jim Barbatti, left. Photo by Nathan Hamilton

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Insight into work ordersMARISSA FAWCETT ARROW REPORTER

Not every student living on campus is handy with a set of tools, so when a sink leaks or a desk drawer breaks students rely on placing work orders with Facilities Management to fix the problem.

However, fulfilling work orders is only a part of Facilities Management’s work load, which can cause inconveniences for students needing a quick fix. Students place work orders in order to notify Facilities Manage-ment of something that needs to be fixed by visiting Facilities Management’s iServiceDesk, or submitting one online at facilities.semo.edu and following the onscreen instructions.

“You can go through there and post the description of the work you are wanting to have done,” director of Facilities Manage-ment Angela Meyer said. “It routes through our department, and it gets assigned to the appropriate supervisor and they turn it over to whatever crew is available to take care of it.”

Facilities Management consists of nine departments that have about 170 employees in charge of maintaining the work orders of approximately 3,000 students living on cam-pus and 3 million square feet of campus facili-ties, Meyer said.

Many students like sophomore Michael Wittich, a Dearmont resident assistant, have experienced long waits for Facilities Manage-ment to fulfill their work order. Wittich wai-ted three to four weeks to have the light in his dorm fixed after a worker was not able to figure out the problem.

“He [the worker] said he would be back a week later and then changed the status to finished,” Wittich said. “He never came back, so I submitted another work order and a week and a half later they showed up and did the exact same thing as the first guy. I told him I wanted my light, and I wanted it soon.”

Wittich said the light was replaced the next morning.

For the 2012 fiscal year, Facilities Manage-ment fulfilled 13,000 work orders along with maintaining building and outdoor cleanli-ness, grooming the athletic fields, and dis-tributing steam in the boiler plant for hea-ting and hot water across campus, as well as numerous other responsibilities.

“I think one of the things that I would like to hope that students would appreciate is that we can’t always be there,” Meyer said. “With an understanding of the amount of workload we have to maintain, and the number of peo-ple that I have, I can’t always be there, my staff can’t always be there.”

Meyer said re-submitting a work order through the iServiceDesk will not speed up the process of Facilities Management fulfi-lling a job.

“Duplication does not speed up the pro-cess so once you submit it, feel free to call our department and verify,” Meyer said. “You can also go online and see if the work order is processed.”

Facilities Management can be contacted Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. by calling 573-651-2214.

Although freshman Kacie McGauley, a Dearmont resident, had her work order ful-filled in a day, Facilities Management came to fix her leaky sink when she was not in her

room. The worker came in anyway, she said.“When I found out, it was weird to know

someone was in my room without leaving a trace,” McGauley said.

Facilities Management has keys to every room, so workers can get into the rooms any time in case of an emergency, whether the student has submitted a work order or not. Facilities Management works closely with Residence Life so they are aware if an emer-gency situation occurs, Meyer said.

“We try to leave a door tag that lets you know that we’ve been in and it gives you the maintenance information, and it also gives a number that they [students] can call back if they have any questions,” Meyer said. “It should be a standard practice.”

McGauley said she did not receive any type of door tag or note.

For students who are uncomfortable with having a worker in their room while they are gone, Meyer said students should list a time when they will be in their room in the des-cription of the work request when they sub-mit the work order online.

“That just gives us an opportunity for bet-ter communication that way you actually feel like we’ve been on the job,” Meyer said.

Facilities Management is a 24/7 opera-tion with little downtime and a maintenance repair or construction project going on at all times, which makes it difficult to keep up with students’ needs, Meyer said.

“When we are trying to do preventative maintenance and they [students] are wanting us to respond to their particular need, those two don’t always go accordingly,” Meyer said. “They can conflict sometimes.”

Facilities Management employees pack up their truck after doing maintenance at the Alumni Center. Photo by Paul Stokes

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KATHIE MILLER SOCIAL WORK PROFESSOR

I believe that one-on-one advising is critical to the education of social work students for several reasons.

First of all, this profession is based on the creation of relationships, and individual con-tact with students through advising rea-lly helps both the students and the advisers to assess and discuss professional relations-hip skills.

Second, the Council on Social Work Educa-tion requires that students exhibit competency

in multiple areas of practice. Because of this requirement, our department has developed several standardized assignments across the curriculum in order for students and faculty to monitor student progress.

The advising sessions are a perfect time to review these assignments and discuss indivi-dually with the students their progress toward competency.

Third, social work is a profession of diver-sity and social skills. The individual advi-sing sessions give the adviser a chance to dis-cuss these issues personally with the student as the student considers her/his “fit” with the profession and the area of practice she/he might pursue.

Fourth, individual advising sessions seem to give the student a chance to build rap-port with a faculty member. That seems to be beneficial if the student has questions or concerns that he/she would like to pur-sue, whether those questions/concerns are directly related to advising or not.

Finally, having on going individual advi-sing sessions with the students facilitates being able to write letters of reference for the students as they pursue employment or graduate school after graduation from Southeast. Thus, while student advising is a time-consuming task, I believe it is very bene-ficial to the students in the Social Work Pro-gram and I appreciate the opportunity to be involved in this process. Kathie Miller is a professor in the social work department. Submitted photo

“The individual advising sessions give the advisor a chance to discuss these issues personally with the student as the student considers her/his “fit” with the profession and the area of practice she/he might pursue.” Kathie Miller

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First director of Military and Veteran Services to be named this week

AMITY DOWNING ARROW STAFF WRITER

Southeast Missouri State University made an offer last week to one candidate hoping to fill the new director of Military and Veterans Ser-vices position.

Debbie Below, associate vice president for Enrollment Management and Director of Admissions, said Southeast began advertising the position late in the summer.

After conducting phone interviews and having three candidates visit Southeast’s campus two weeks ago, Below said they are hoping to announce the name of the first director of Military and Veterans Services later this week.

“It’s just time for us to do it,” Below said. “We are interested in reaching out and pro-moting the university to veterans.”

All three of the candidates that visited Southeast’s campus had previous military experience.

Below said military experience was a prefe-rred but not a completely necessary qualifica-tion of candidates for the position.

“We felt like to talk to veterans we had to have a veteran on staff,” Below said.

The director of Military and Veterans Ser-vices will provide service to veterans and military personnel enrolled at Southeast, including individuals serving on active duty, those serving in the National Guard and reservists.

“Service meaning that when those students have questions about the use of benefits, the procedures to apply for financial aid, the transferability of coursework, where to find certain counseling services or tutorial servi-ces,” Below said. “This is considered a one-stop shop for those individuals.”

Below added that the new director will manage the recruitment of more veterans and military personnel to Southeast’s campus, as well as represent the university off campus while recruiting.

It became more apparent the position was

needed as the enrollment of veterans and military personnel at Southeast increased.

Below said that due to the decreasing num-ber of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, the number of veterans on college campuses will continue to increase.

“For a certain period of time we do expect that we will see more veterans enrolling on college campuses,” Below said. “And some of these individuals have been deployed mul-tiple times. They’ve provided a great service to their country, and we have a responsibility and an obligation to do the very best we can to help them earn their degree. And that’s one of many reasons we recruited this position.”

Because veterans and military personnel on campus are mostly non-traditional stu-dents, Below said the university hopes the new director also will serve as an advisory role and help veterans organize a more active stu-dent veteran organization on campus.

Russ Whitworth is a nursing major at Southeast and an Army veteran. Whitworth said he will demand respect from the new

director of Military and Veterans Services.“I just want somebody to be reachable and

give respect where it’s due,” Whitworth said.Whitworth attended a veterans’ luncheon

on Sept. 26. The luncheon was held to inform and discuss the needs of veterans and mili-tary personnel at Southeast, as well as the res-ponsibilities of the future director.

After the luncheon, Whitworth said it soun-ded to him like the purpose behind hiring a director of the new position was to bring more veterans to Southeast, rather than taking care of the ones already here.

Below is confident the position will bene-fit Southeast.

“I’m pleased that we are planning to reach out to veterans,” Below said. “I think that’s important because once you’ve left the mili-tary and you have these benefits available to you, if you have the desire and the abi-lity to earn a college degree, we want to let you know what’s available. For me, it’s an important service that we provide as a public university.”

Army Corps of Engineers, city update Cape flood wallDESARI ROBINETTE ARROW REPORTER

The Cape Girardeau levee and floodwall sys-tem, which was built in the 1960s, has worn down with age. Like any constantly functio-ning water system, the wall was in need of repair.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers noticed several maintenance projects that needed to be performed on the wall and other parts of the flood-control system and chose to step in and make those updates in 2008.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers repor-ted that the Cape Girardeau levee system had unwanted vegetation, erosion and pump sta-tion and floodwall deficiencies when tested.

Cape Girardeau’s storm water coordina-tor, Stan Polivick specified that Cape Girar-deau was not experiencing anything that should spark major concern among the citi-zens. The updates that need to be done on the wall were all a part of making things more efficient.

“When a system like this has been active for over 50 years maintenance is requi-red,” Polivick said. “The major updating the Army Corps provided were the new controls and digital systems it put in place, making everything more high-tech.”

Along with providing new controls and electrical systems throughout all of the tech-nology used down on the riverfront, which help with making things more timely and effi-cient, the Corps also updated the two pump stations.

The purpose of the two pump stations is to control the water when the river is at or above flood stage. When that happens, the city clo-ses a gate to prevent the river water from flowing back into town and the rainwater from flowing back into the river.

The total cost of all of the repairs that the

Corps provided was roughly $10 million.Polivick said keeping the floodwall in good

condition allows the city of Cape Girardeau

to remain updated, which ultimately allows businesses to purchase cheaper flood insurance.

“Keeping things updated ensures or pre-serves the standing of the properties behind the wall regarding their flood insurance,” Poli-vick said.

Based on Federal Emergency Maintenance Agency standards, the dam system must meet certain requirements in order for surroun-ding businesses to benefit from less expensive flood insurance policies.

Some of those standards include structu-ral integrity of the levee system, the height of the levee, the proper functioning of the pump stations, the proper closure structures where openings in the levee exist and proper

maintenance of the levee.“Once the standards were met, or re-met,

the city was able to maintain its current flood protection plan,” Polivick said.

From business owners to consumers, all will reap the financial and eco-friendly bene-fits of having a more updated and better functioning levee system. On top of the Army Corps updates, the city of Cape Girardeau is also looking to add some improvements.

“The repairs the city are undertaking are to address the need for larger steel reinforcing in the foundation of the Themis Pedestrian Gate in order to meet current design criteria,” Poli-vick said.

The city has approved these plans and will begin construction soon.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers will do maintenance on the flood walls. The City of Cape Girardeau has approved the requested updates and will begin soon. Photo by Nathan Hamilton

“Keeping things updated ensures or preserves the standing of the properties behind the wall regarding their flood insurance.” Stan Polivick



Sorority helps fight domestic violenceBRITTANY TEDDER ARROW STAFF WRITER

One in four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and Alpha Chi Omega, a sorority at Southeast Missouri State University, will organize events and raise funds to combat domestic violence.

Southeast senior Abby Henschel, a member of Alpha Chi Omega, said stopping domestic violence is the sorority’s philanthropy, and it holds an event in the spring.

“All the fraternities participate in our Frisbee sling, which is like ultimate Frisbee where they compete with each other,” Henschel said. “We have T-shirts made, and it’s a way for the community to come and participate as well.”

Henschel said members of Alpha Chi have an item drive at least two times a semester to support the Safe House for Women. The Safe House for Women’s office is located at N. Spring Street in Cape Girardeau.

“We bring at least two to three items to our chapter,” Henschel said. “All the donations are usually hygiene products, paper products and laundry detergent.”

For Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Alpha Chi organizes an event called “Brewing Awareness,” where it runs a coffee house, and a couple of bands play throughout the night.

“It’s like a relaxing night for the outside community to help give money,” Henschel said. “This year, it will probably be at Cup ‘N’ Cork.”

Last year Alpha Chi sold wristbands that read, “Don’t Touch This.” The wristbands were $1 each, and all the proceeds went to the Safe House for

Women.“We will probably do that again this

year because it was such a good turnout,” Henschel said.

Henschel said she interned at the Safe House for Women last spring. She wanted to take the internship because of Alpha Chi’s connection with the shelter, but she never imagined what the women at the shelter had gone through.

“It just opened my eyes up to what some people had to witness in their lives,” Henschel said. “I realized how strong these women are, and when they come to the shelter they literally have nothing. They just grow within that house each day.”

The Safe House for Women was founded in 1991 and is a not-for-profit domestic violence shelter. Kyle Riddle, an educator at the Safe House, said it began as a domestic violence shelter for women and their children to give them a safe place to stay. The Safe House expanded to include its outreach office and counseling services.

“We provide court advocacies [for] people who need legal help, education and counseling,” Riddle said. “We also have our thrift store, which consists of clothing donations and some applian-ces, where the women at the Safe House can shop at their convenience.”

According to Riddle, domestic violence begins at a young age. Abusers can become emotionally or verbally abusive as early as fifth and sixth grade.

Physical abuse is the most obvious form of domestic violence, Riddle said. However, emotional abuse is also a form of domestic violence that people may not be aware of.

“Any kind of pattern of behavior that’s designed to break down someone’s self-esteem to try and keep someone trapped in a relationship or

emotionally dependent on another person is considered abuse,” Riddle said.

Riddle said domestic violence is a societal issue and that communities need to get together to stop the abuse and reinforce ideas from a young age that abusive behavior is not tolerated and is not normal.

“We’re here for help as far as prevention,” Riddle said. “The behavior begins early as sixth grade, so my job is to go to the high schools and junior highs around here and talk to students about healthy relationships.”

Riddle said gender stereotypes play a role in domestic violence. Men are supposed to be masculine, and women are supposed to be submissive and quiet.

“One in nine men experience domestic violence, and people don’t often think of men as victims,” Riddle said. “Men don’t like to report that they’re being abused because they think they’re supposed to be macho or they’re afraid people will think they’re weak.”

The Safe House holds some events at the shelter. One event is a balloon release where the staff and clients gather around the shelter and release purple balloons.

“We also have a big banquet at the shelter where all of our clients, staff and volunteers cook something and bring it,” Riddle said.

According to Henschel, domestic violence is more common than anybody could imagine, and it is a topic that nobody wants to talk about.

“I think Alpha Chi does a good job with bringing awareness on the subject instead of just hiding it underneath the mat,” Henschel said. “Even girls I would never imagine were telling their stories. I think it’s important to start becoming more aware of it.”

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Crader Lecture features Dr. Daniel DreisbachA crowd of more than 500 people attended the Rhodes Scholar lecture “Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separa-tion,” Tuesday at Rose Theater.

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Election

Voter registration deadline for November election coming upSoutheast Missouri State University students still have options if they are interested in voting in the November 2012 election. The deadline for registering to vote is 5 p.m. on Oct. 10.

Olivia Plumlee, event coordinator for Southeast’s College Republicans, said students can register at the public library on Clark Street or any federal building in Cape Girardeau. If a student is not a Cape Girardeau resident, they need to register in their hometowns and apply for an absentee ballot. All of this can be done through the mail.


Accident

No serious injuries in scooter accident near campusA scooter collided with a vehicle at the intersection of Bellevue Street and Sprigg Street in Cape Girardeau at approximately 3 p.m. Sept. 25.

A Honda Pilot was eastbound on Bellevue Street. The scooter was northbound on Sprigg Street. The driver of the scooter did not suffer any life-threatening injuries and was transported by private vehicle to St. Francis Hospital, according to traffic officer David Valentine of the Cape Girardeau Police Department.


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PRSSA students will attend conference in San FranciscoSoutheast Missouri State University’s chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America will send 17 members to the PRSSA National Conference 2012. The conference will be from Oct. 11-16 in San Francisco.

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Junior libero Berkley Idel serves the ball during Southeast’s game Sept. 25 against UT Martin. The Redhawks won 3-1. Photo by Ashley Reed

Multiple players contribute as Southeast volleyball remains unbeaten in conferenceSPENCER MICHELSON ARROW STAFF WRITER

The Southeast Missouri State University volle-yball team is off to a fast start this season and is on a six-game win streak. The Redhawks are 4-0 in the Ohio Valley Conference and lead the OVC West Division.

At 12-6 overall, the Redhawks are on pace to finish better than last season. The team finished 14-19 and qualified as the fourth seed in the OVC tournament , winning its first OVC tournament match since 2006.

“If we can pass, everybody is available and everybody can contribute, and that’s why we’re winning,” second-year coach Julie Folliard said. “You can’t just win with one or two people playing effectively. You need to have more people than that, and that’s why we’re successful.”

Junior outside hitter Colleen Yarber had a career-high 22 kills in a win against SIU Edwardsville earlier in the season. Senior out-side hitter Brittney Kalinoski had a career-high 18 kills and 24 digs against Eastern Illi-nois University.

Yarber has had a strong offensive season so far and leads the team with 208 kills. Last sea-son she had 192 kills.

“Colleen’s played amazing,” Folliard said. “She’s just playing relaxed and having fun, and that’s when she does well.”

The team played its first 16 games on the

road and compiled a record of 10-6. Last year the Redhawks struggled away from Houck Field House and finished with an away record of 7-16.

“Last year, it was obvious that we played way better at home,” junior setter Julie Shives said. “So, now that we’ve showed that we can play on the road, then we really have a good chance of doing very well this year.”

Junior middle blocker Emily Coon thinks that the momentum from last season has hel-ped propel the Redhawks to a good start.

“Yes, [we’re] definitely carrying that momentum over,” Coon said. “Of course we are always striving to be No. 1 in this confe-rence. I think our start has definitely proved that we’re ready to take that spot.”

The Redhawks were 11-9 in conference play last year. That was the first time the team finished above .500 in conference play since the 2008 season when the team went 11-8.

“Last year we ended great. We ended on a very high note,” Coon said. “We’ve been away for so long that coming back into season and being closer to home really gives us that extra push that we need. And we have three awesome coaches, a great set of girls and it’s just like a family, and it really helps push you on the court.”

Southeast has played only one game at home this season, which it beat UT Martin 3-1. Southeast next plays against Austin Peay at 6:30 p.m. Friday in Houck Field House.

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Parkour and free-running organization works toward becoming an official clubBAILEY MCCORMICK ARROW REPORTER

Parkour involves movement from point A to point B in the fastest, most efficient way possible, some-times by jumping or climbing over obstacles.

Kyle Thies, a Southeast Missouri State University sophomore and founder of the Parkour and Free-Running Club on campus, sees it a little differently.

“I think of parkour in the same way that I would think of a martial art,” Thies said. “It’s human nature that in any state of stress, we will resort to our basic instinct of fight or flight. A martial arts’ goal is to teach you the art of fight. I believe that the purpose of parkour is to teach you the art of flight.”

The group is including free-run-ning because of its similarities to parkour. Thies, who has been par-ticipating in parkour for two and a half years, believes that both should be included because they are both an art of movement. Free-running is less about immediacy and more about tricks and acrobatics.

“In other words,” Thies said, “parkour is for practicality and effi-ciency, and free-running is for fun.”

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Club adviser is Zachary Singleton, the Towers West hall director. Sin-gleton explained that a group such as this will take a while to officially get started.

According to Singleton, to be considered an official club on cam-pus, the group needs at least five students to participate, a constitu-tion that must be approved by the student government and, because of the risks involved with this type of activity, the group will need someone who is CPR certified.

The club’s first unofficial meeting was Sept. 25 at the Student Recrea-tion Center-North. Its goal for the meetings as of now are organizing and building a name for themselves as an established group on campus.

“I do not do parkour, but I do like

what parkour is all about,” Single-ton said. “Parkour does not stand for showing off or being reckless,

but instead being respectful of the space and people that are around you. It also is a great way of getting people out and exercising and buil-ding stamina. … We would like to invite all out to try it, whether you have heard of it until now or not, it will be lots of fun.”

Thies and Singleton said that no experience is required to join the club. For more information on the developing club, contact Thies at [email protected].

“When you start doing parkour,

there’s a lot of progression, there’s a lot of failure, and there’s a lot of suc-cess,” Thies said. “You may start completely incapable of doing anything, but when you actually try and when you actually practice, you will gain confidence and will begin to lose any sense of fear that you started off with. When you become more advanced, you always feel like you’re in control, you no lon-ger have any fear and you gain an unbreakable sense of confidence.”

Sophomore Kyle Thies, president and founder of the Parkour and Free-Running Club, shows off his skills by doing a back flip off the fountain in front of Dempster Hall. Photo by Ashley Reed

“I believe that the purpose of parkour is to teach you the art of flight.” Kyle Thies

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Redhawks went 1-1 over the weekendThe Southeast soccer team won 6-0 Friday against Murray State. The Redhawks scored all six goals in the first half of the game. Hayley Abbott, Ali Bauer, Amy Harrington and Jacey Boyko each scored one goal. Torey Byrd scored two goals. The team played Austin Peay Sun-day and lost 1-0. Senior goalkeeper Renee Kertz had eight saves in the game. The Redhawks have a record of 2-7-3 and are 1-1-1 in the Ohio Valley Conference.

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Redhawks run in ChicagoThe men’s cross country team tied for seventh out of 47 teams and the women’s team finished 19th out of 51 teams at the Sean Earl Lakefront Invitational in Chicago. There were 456 runners who competed in the men’s race. The Redhawks were led by senior Nate Shipley, who finis-hed 19th. 514 runners competed in the women’s race. Sophomore Rebekah Lawson finished 53rd.Southeast’s next race is the Pre-National meet on Oct. 13 in Louis-ville, Ky.

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Fifth Annual Ghost Storytelling Festival moves to River CampusHANNAH PARENT ARROW STAFF WRITER

The Fifth Annual Ghost Storytelling Festival will be held indoors for the first time at the Donald C. Bedell Perfor-mance Hall.The City of Cape Girardeau and Old Town Cape, who coordinate the festival, decided weather played too much of a role in attendance at the past festivals.

Director of Public Relations for the City of Cape Girar-deau, Stacy Dohogne Lane, said moving the festival inside hopefully will improve the Ghost Storytelling Festival’s attendance.

“It’s at the Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall Audito-rium, which is gorgeous,” Lane said, “The weather has impacted our attendance in the past, but when we tried doing the humorous version of our storytelling festival, it was very well received.”

Dr. Joel Rhodes, a history professor at Southeast Missouri State University, is in charge of picking the storytellers for all the storytelling festivals. He said people should really enjoy the people he picked this year. The festival will feature the popular storytellers Megan Hicks and Brian Fox Ellis. Brian Fox Ellis is an award-winning author and storyteller who is known for his renditions of Grimm Brothers’ stories, which he has performed for more than 20 years. Megan Hicks is a nationally acclaimed writer and storyteller who was featu-red as a “new voice” at the National Storytelling Festival in 2011.

Rhodes encourages those who have not attended the past storytelling events to give the Ghost Storytelling Festi-val a try.

“When people think of storytelling, they think that sounds like something you attend at the library,” Rhodes said. “That perception is way off base. These people are per-formance artists. It’s a way to get engaged in a very fun-damental and human art form. Unlike any other perfor-mance art, they transmit ideas through interaction with the audience. You start to personalize and internalize it. Unlike a movie, your mind interacts by painting a picture.”

Lane said the new venue will be equipped with smoke and lights for a spooky atmosphere, and attendees should have a good time.

“It’s the oldest art form,” Lane said. “In our hyper-con-nected world with Twitter, cell phones and television, the festival offers a wonderful opportunity to disconnect for two hours and listen to heartfelt stories and just relax.”

The festival will have showings at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Oct. 13.

“Its the oldest art form. In our hyper-connected world with Twitter, cell phones and television, the festival offers a wonderful opportunity to disconnect for two hours and listen to heartfelt stories and just relax.” Stacy Dohogne Lane

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Concert pianist Jack Gibbons will perform at the Gala Season Opener at 7 p.m. on Oct. 9. Submitted photo

Acclaimed pianist to join Southeast orchestra

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The Gala Season Opener will start off the Southeast Missouri Symphony Orchestra season with an acclaimed pianist who has performed in some of the most prestigious performance halls in the country and throughout the world.

Jack Gibbons is a well-known con-cert pianist and composer from England who has performed in Car-negie Hall, London’s Queen Elizabeth and Royal Albert Halls and in coun-tries such as the Netherlands, Italy, Aus-tralia and Zimbabwe, where he has held seminars to teach young children about music.

Gibbons often performs with major orchestras in the U.S. and Great Bri-tain, such as the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic.

Director of the Southeast Missouri Symphony Orchestra Dr. Sara Edgerton chose to include Gibbons in the sea-son opener because he has performed at Southeast Missouri State University many times for various events and was well received by both the audiences and the students who worked with him.

“He, every summer, has a residency at Oxford University where he does a

series of concerts that are always basi-cally sold out,” Edgerton said. “He has performed in Carnegie Hall on many occasions, and in fact, just the week before he comes here to play with us he is playing at the Kennedy Center.”

Gibbons’ repertoire usually includes music from composers like Gershwin, Chopin, J.S. Bach and his own com-positions, but for this concert he will perform a piece by Russian composer Rachmaninoff.

“Jack is playing with us, he’s perfor-ming a piano concerto by the Russian composer Rachmaninoff; his Concerto No. 2, which is one of the most famous piano concertos ever written,” Edger-ton said. “Because he’s playing this con-certo, which is by a Russian composer, I thought it would be kind of interes-ting to have all Russian music on the program.”

The concert will begin with the

orchestra playing “Overture on Rus-sian Themes” by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsa-kov and then a piece by the more recent Russian composer Khachaturian called “Masquerade Suite.”

“So we open with two very color-ful pieces by these Russian composers, and then Jack joins us for the Rachma-ninoff,” Edgerton said. “Russian sym-phonic music is also really noted for its colorful orchestration, for its lively rhythms and beautiful melodies.”

The orchestra has rehearsed for the opening of its 2012-2013 season since the start of the semester and will put the final touches on the program when Gibbons comes for two rehear-sals on Oct. 7. Edgerton said that is when the orchestra will line up its inter-pretation of the piece with Gibbons’ interpretation.

Edgerton will explain the music that will be performed in more depth the evening of the concert. Anyone who has purchased a ticket can attend the pre-concert talk.

The concert will be at 7 p.m. Oct. 9 at the Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall, and the pre-concert talk will begin at 6:45 p.m. Tickets cost $19 or $16 depen-ding on seat location and can be pur-chased at the River Campus box office or online at rivercampusevents.com. Tickets cost $3 for students with a Southeast ID.

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Oak Ridge Boys choose River Campus venueSAVANNA MAUE ONLINE EDITOR

The Oak Ridge Boys are a country-gospel sin-ging group that has performed for nearly 70 years. The group has undergone many chan-ges in both its style of music and its band members, evolving from gospel to country and changing members over 30 times.

The Oak Ridge Boys started as a gospel group and began playing regularly for the Grand Ole Opry in 1945. Over the years the Oak Ridge Boys have been named one of the top crowd-drawing gospel groups in the nation.

The group has 12 gold, three platinum and one double platinum album as well as one double platinum single.

They have had more than a dozen No. 1 singles and over 30 top 10 hits.

They have won nine GMA Doves, four Country Music Association Awards, four Aca-demy of Country Music Awards, a Grammy Award and have played for five different presidents.

Today’s band members William Lee Gol-den, Richard Sterban, Duane Allen and Joe Bonsall joined together in 1973.

They will perform at 8 p.m. Oct. 12 at Southeast Missouri State University’s Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall.

Box Office Manager Ellen Farrow said the Oak Ridge Boys’ management team approached the university because they were

interested in including the smaller and more intimate setting that the River Campus offers in their U.S. tour.

Although the concert takes place over fall break, Farrow said ticket sales are not suffering.

“[We are expecting] more of a middle-aged crowd. There hasn’t been that many student tickets sold, but we have sold over 500 tickets with ongoing sales, which is more than half the house,” Farrow said.

Tickets are available at the River Campus box office and range from $49 to $55.

Students with a Southeast ID receive 50

percent off those prices.“We did sell orchestra seats for $75, which

are currently all sold, and those ticket holders will have the opportunity to meet with the band after the performance,” Farrow said.

Sophomore accounting major Sarah Stove-rink is planning to attend the show with her family.

“I heard about the concert through the por-tal,” Stoverink said. “I saw them when I was younger, but I’m really excited to go again for the bonding opportunity with my family and to see why my mom likes them so much.”

“I saw them when I was younger, but I’m really excited to go again for the bonding opportunity with my family and to see why my mom likes them so much.” Sarah Stoverink

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Southeast alumnus is new Show Me Center directorCALLIE LEITTERMAN ARROW REPORTER

Wil Gorman is the new director for the Show Me Center at Southeast Missouri State University. Gorman is originally from Rals-ton, Neb., a small town near Omaha, Neb. He began to work in facilities management when he was 11 years old by working as a batboy at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha every summer until he turned 20. Rosenblatt Stadium used to host the NCAA Division I College World Series, was the home of the Omaha Royals and now is the home of the Omaha Storm Chasers.

Gorman attended Southeast and earned a Bachelor of Science in recreation. While a student at Southeast, he worked at the Show Me Center ushering and ticket taking. He also worked in the administrative office and was responsible for the handling of staff, event coordination and marketing sales.

As director of the Show Me Center, Gor-man is responsible for overseeing programs, daily operations and overall management.

Q: What is your back-ground in facili-ties management?

A: After college, I started out working for Arizona fall league that the Major League Baseball owns and operates. I was the gene-ral manager for the Tempe Rafters, which has a 16-team winter baseball league. I then wor-ked for the California Angels as a ticket mana-ger for spring training in 1995.

I decided that it was time to find a job with benefits, so I went to work at Sports Service in the old Busch Stadium as retail manager. There I handled all the merchandise inside the stadium and handled the first four St. Louis Rams games that were there. In March of 1997, I went to Tempe, Ariz., and managed the Tempe Diablo Stadium Complex.

I got a job with the Milwaukee Brewers in 2006 as senior director at Brewers Enterprises, which was a new position that they created. I was responsible for the non-game events, and we did everything from private events like weddings to cancer awareness events. I got the opportunity to move back home to

Omaha, Neb., in the summer of 2008 to help with designing and building TD Ameritrade Park. It was a $143 million project with 24,000 seats in the stadium. This was a great oppor-tunity that I got to be involved with. Once the project came to an end, my job came to an end.

I started working as a consultant for Delaware North Companies in Sports Ser-vice. They handle Busch Stadium, but also handle nine other stadiums around the country. From late March this year up until Labor Day I was at Arlington Park handling the operations of the retail for the Texas Rangers, which everyone around here loves to hear. Now, I had the opportunity to come back to Southeast, which I am very excited about.

Q: What do you enjoy about working in this particular field?

A: I enjoy the always-changing environ-ment and how nothing is ever the same. You meet a wide variety of people from the har-dcore basketball fan to the little kid who wants to go to the rodeo for the first time. Working at a venue like this you get to meet people of all walks of life, and also the energy you feel here with the entertainment, when a team wins at the last-second shot or there is a wedding proposal during a concert.

Q: What are your goals as the new director of the Show Me Center?

A: The most important goal is to carry on the traditions of the venue that have been here for the past 24 years. We have had perfor-mances like Tina Turner, Seven Dust and pre-sidents have been here, so we want to keep bringing in quality entertainment. We need to keep the building running well, and it already has been taken care of very well. I would like to bring in events and activities and possibly expand our offerings in the venue and loo-king into updating the venue. All of this will take time, though.

Q: Will you make any drastic changes?

A: No, change is the only thing constant. We will look into making adjustments possi-bly for an expanded venue or consolidated venue. My big thing is customer service, but with my experience working here in the past it always has been. I am not worried about that component, but that’s always first and foremost.

Q: Since this year marks 25 years of operation of the Show Me Center, will there be any type

of celebration for that?A: That is something we are looking into.

The biggest thing to understand is that for entertainers the business has changed — where they used to book eight to 10 weeks out, now they are six to eight months out. They are planned so far in advance it makes it a challenge to plan for it. We are looking to possibly do something in the near future, this school year or next school year. It would be something that would be well received and looking at a wide variety of things we could offer.

Q: Coming back to Southeast, what do you think about it now compared to when you were a student here?

A: I was a tour guide when I first started school here, but I love Southeast. There is a lot of different changes, like Pig Lot used to be gravel, there now is a parking garage and the Rec Center didn’t have a pool. I had classes in Academic [Hall], which now I know students cannot attend class there. I roomed in Myers. It was a pretty campus then, but now it rea-lly is with all the fountains they have now and improvements. It has really expanded in so many different great ways.

Wil Gorman, right, the new director at the Show Me Center, speaks with assistant director Jim Barbatti, left. Photo by Nathan Hamilton

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Insight into work ordersMARISSA FAWCETT ARROW REPORTER

Not every student living on campus is handy with a set of tools, so when a sink leaks or a desk drawer breaks students rely on placing work orders with Facilities Management to fix the problem.

However, fulfilling work orders is only a part of Facilities Management’s work load, which can cause inconveniences for students needing a quick fix. Students place work orders in order to notify Facilities Manage-ment of something that needs to be fixed by visiting Facilities Management’s iServiceDesk, or submitting one online at facilities.semo.edu and following the onscreen instructions.

“You can go through there and post the description of the work you are wanting to have done,” director of Facilities Manage-ment Angela Meyer said. “It routes through our department, and it gets assigned to the appropriate supervisor and they turn it over to whatever crew is available to take care of it.”

Facilities Management consists of nine departments that have about 170 employees in charge of maintaining the work orders of approximately 3,000 students living on cam-pus and 3 million square feet of campus facili-ties, Meyer said.

Many students like sophomore Michael Wittich, a Dearmont resident assistant, have experienced long waits for Facilities Manage-ment to fulfill their work order. Wittich wai-ted three to four weeks to have the light in his dorm fixed after a worker was not able to figure out the problem.

“He [the worker] said he would be back a week later and then changed the status to finished,” Wittich said. “He never came back, so I submitted another work order and a week and a half later they showed up and did the exact same thing as the first guy. I told him I wanted my light, and I wanted it soon.”

Wittich said the light was replaced the next morning.

For the 2012 fiscal year, Facilities Manage-ment fulfilled 13,000 work orders along with maintaining building and outdoor cleanli-ness, grooming the athletic fields, and dis-tributing steam in the boiler plant for hea-ting and hot water across campus, as well as numerous other responsibilities.

“I think one of the things that I would like to hope that students would appreciate is that we can’t always be there,” Meyer said. “With an understanding of the amount of workload we have to maintain, and the number of peo-ple that I have, I can’t always be there, my staff can’t always be there.”

Meyer said re-submitting a work order through the iServiceDesk will not speed up the process of Facilities Management fulfi-lling a job.

“Duplication does not speed up the pro-cess so once you submit it, feel free to call our department and verify,” Meyer said. “You can also go online and see if the work order is processed.”

Facilities Management can be contacted Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. by calling 573-651-2214.

Although freshman Kacie McGauley, a Dearmont resident, had her work order ful-filled in a day, Facilities Management came to fix her leaky sink when she was not in her

room. The worker came in anyway, she said.“When I found out, it was weird to know

someone was in my room without leaving a trace,” McGauley said.

Facilities Management has keys to every room, so workers can get into the rooms any time in case of an emergency, whether the student has submitted a work order or not. Facilities Management works closely with Residence Life so they are aware if an emer-gency situation occurs, Meyer said.

“We try to leave a door tag that lets you know that we’ve been in and it gives you the maintenance information, and it also gives a number that they [students] can call back if they have any questions,” Meyer said. “It should be a standard practice.”

McGauley said she did not receive any type of door tag or note.

For students who are uncomfortable with having a worker in their room while they are gone, Meyer said students should list a time when they will be in their room in the des-cription of the work request when they sub-mit the work order online.

“That just gives us an opportunity for bet-ter communication that way you actually feel like we’ve been on the job,” Meyer said.

Facilities Management is a 24/7 opera-tion with little downtime and a maintenance repair or construction project going on at all times, which makes it difficult to keep up with students’ needs, Meyer said.

“When we are trying to do preventative maintenance and they [students] are wanting us to respond to their particular need, those two don’t always go accordingly,” Meyer said. “They can conflict sometimes.”

Facilities Management employees pack up their truck after doing maintenance at the Alumni Center. Photo by Paul Stokes

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I believe that one-on-one advising is critical to the education of social work students for several reasons.

First of all, this profession is based on the creation of relationships, and individual con-tact with students through advising rea-lly helps both the students and the advisers to assess and discuss professional relations-hip skills.

Second, the Council on Social Work Educa-tion requires that students exhibit competency

in multiple areas of practice. Because of this requirement, our department has developed several standardized assignments across the curriculum in order for students and faculty to monitor student progress.

The advising sessions are a perfect time to review these assignments and discuss indivi-dually with the students their progress toward competency.

Third, social work is a profession of diver-sity and social skills. The individual advi-sing sessions give the adviser a chance to dis-cuss these issues personally with the student as the student considers her/his “fit” with the profession and the area of practice she/he might pursue.

Fourth, individual advising sessions seem to give the student a chance to build rap-port with a faculty member. That seems to be beneficial if the student has questions or concerns that he/she would like to pur-sue, whether those questions/concerns are directly related to advising or not.

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First director of Military and Veteran Services to be named this week

AMITY DOWNING ARROW STAFF WRITER

Southeast Missouri State University made an offer last week to one candidate hoping to fill the new director of Military and Veterans Ser-vices position.

Debbie Below, associate vice president for Enrollment Management and Director of Admissions, said Southeast began advertising the position late in the summer.

After conducting phone interviews and having three candidates visit Southeast’s campus two weeks ago, Below said they are hoping to announce the name of the first director of Military and Veterans Services later this week.

“It’s just time for us to do it,” Below said. “We are interested in reaching out and pro-moting the university to veterans.”

All three of the candidates that visited Southeast’s campus had previous military experience.

Below said military experience was a prefe-rred but not a completely necessary qualifica-tion of candidates for the position.

“We felt like to talk to veterans we had to have a veteran on staff,” Below said.

The director of Military and Veterans Ser-vices will provide service to veterans and military personnel enrolled at Southeast, including individuals serving on active duty, those serving in the National Guard and reservists.

“Service meaning that when those students have questions about the use of benefits, the procedures to apply for financial aid, the transferability of coursework, where to find certain counseling services or tutorial servi-ces,” Below said. “This is considered a one-stop shop for those individuals.”

Below added that the new director will manage the recruitment of more veterans and military personnel to Southeast’s campus, as well as represent the university off campus while recruiting.

It became more apparent the position was

needed as the enrollment of veterans and military personnel at Southeast increased.

Below said that due to the decreasing num-ber of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, the number of veterans on college campuses will continue to increase.

“For a certain period of time we do expect that we will see more veterans enrolling on college campuses,” Below said. “And some of these individuals have been deployed mul-tiple times. They’ve provided a great service to their country, and we have a responsibility and an obligation to do the very best we can to help them earn their degree. And that’s one of many reasons we recruited this position.”

Because veterans and military personnel on campus are mostly non-traditional stu-dents, Below said the university hopes the new director also will serve as an advisory role and help veterans organize a more active stu-dent veteran organization on campus.

Russ Whitworth is a nursing major at Southeast and an Army veteran. Whitworth said he will demand respect from the new

director of Military and Veterans Services.“I just want somebody to be reachable and

give respect where it’s due,” Whitworth said.Whitworth attended a veterans’ luncheon

on Sept. 26. The luncheon was held to inform and discuss the needs of veterans and mili-tary personnel at Southeast, as well as the res-ponsibilities of the future director.

After the luncheon, Whitworth said it soun-ded to him like the purpose behind hiring a director of the new position was to bring more veterans to Southeast, rather than taking care of the ones already here.

Below is confident the position will bene-fit Southeast.

“I’m pleased that we are planning to reach out to veterans,” Below said. “I think that’s important because once you’ve left the mili-tary and you have these benefits available to you, if you have the desire and the abi-lity to earn a college degree, we want to let you know what’s available. For me, it’s an important service that we provide as a public university.”

Army Corps of Engineers, city update Cape flood wallDESARI ROBINETTE ARROW REPORTER

The Cape Girardeau levee and floodwall sys-tem, which was built in the 1960s, has worn down with age. Like any constantly functio-ning water system, the wall was in need of repair.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers noticed several maintenance projects that needed to be performed on the wall and other parts of the flood-control system and chose to step in and make those updates in 2008.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers repor-ted that the Cape Girardeau levee system had unwanted vegetation, erosion and pump sta-tion and floodwall deficiencies when tested.

Cape Girardeau’s storm water coordina-tor, Stan Polivick specified that Cape Girar-deau was not experiencing anything that should spark major concern among the citi-zens. The updates that need to be done on the wall were all a part of making things more efficient.

“When a system like this has been active for over 50 years maintenance is requi-red,” Polivick said. “The major updating the Army Corps provided were the new controls and digital systems it put in place, making everything more high-tech.”

Along with providing new controls and electrical systems throughout all of the tech-nology used down on the riverfront, which help with making things more timely and effi-cient, the Corps also updated the two pump stations.

The purpose of the two pump stations is to control the water when the river is at or above flood stage. When that happens, the city clo-ses a gate to prevent the river water from flowing back into town and the rainwater from flowing back into the river.

The total cost of all of the repairs that the

Corps provided was roughly $10 million.Polivick said keeping the floodwall in good

condition allows the city of Cape Girardeau

to remain updated, which ultimately allows businesses to purchase cheaper flood insurance.

“Keeping things updated ensures or pre-serves the standing of the properties behind the wall regarding their flood insurance,” Poli-vick said.

Based on Federal Emergency Maintenance Agency standards, the dam system must meet certain requirements in order for surroun-ding businesses to benefit from less expensive flood insurance policies.

Some of those standards include structu-ral integrity of the levee system, the height of the levee, the proper functioning of the pump stations, the proper closure structures where openings in the levee exist and proper

maintenance of the levee.“Once the standards were met, or re-met,

the city was able to maintain its current flood protection plan,” Polivick said.

From business owners to consumers, all will reap the financial and eco-friendly bene-fits of having a more updated and better functioning levee system. On top of the Army Corps updates, the city of Cape Girardeau is also looking to add some improvements.

“The repairs the city are undertaking are to address the need for larger steel reinforcing in the foundation of the Themis Pedestrian Gate in order to meet current design criteria,” Poli-vick said.

The city has approved these plans and will begin construction soon.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers will do maintenance on the flood walls. The City of Cape Girardeau has approved the requested updates and will begin soon. Photo by Nathan Hamilton

“Keeping things updated ensures or preserves the standing of the properties behind the wall regarding their flood insurance.” Stan Polivick

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