Vol. 19 No. 29 - April 20, 2015

More than 1,100 Truman students volunteered their time to show their appreciation for the Kirksville community at the 14th annual Big Event.

Through the help of the SERVE Center, these students were matched with more than 250 job sites around town. Job sites ranged from helping individuals in the community with home maintenance, such as trimming bushes and raking leaves, to large-scale community projects, including building a playground for Faith Lutheran. Students also lent a hand to community partners such as the LIFE Ability Center and the Judevine Center for Autism.

The Big Event is one of the largest one-day, student-run service projects hosted nationwide. It allows students to display their gratitude to the Kirksville community for their continued support and contribution to the University.

For more information about the Big Event, or to learn about more service opportunities, visit serve.truman.edu or contact the SERVE Center at 660.785.7222.

An Arbor Day celebration will kick-off at 10 a.m. April 24 at the Outdoor Learning Garden Site behind Kirksville High School.

The kick-off will feature speakers and tree-planting. This year’s speaker is Yvette Amerman, a resource forester for the Missouri Department of Conservation, who will speak on the importance of conservation. There will also be a ceremonial tree planting, followed by a day of tree planting in the nearby area.

This event is the combined effort of Truman health science students, the City of Kirksville, the Missouri Department of Conservation, Green Thumb and the Bear Creek Group.

Schedule of events:
10 a.m.-Welcome
10:05 a.m.-Presentation by Yvette Amerman
10:15 a.m.-Student Representative Will Speak
10:20 a.m.-Summary of Event
10:30 a.m.-Tree Planting

The Truman Index was named Best in Division at the Missouri College Media Association’s April 11 conference.

The Index beat out all other Missouri college newspapers at medium-sized, four-year colleges and universities, and was honored for its writing, photography, design and more. The newspaper submitted students’ work published during the 2014 calendar year, and competed for awards against college newspapers at Northwest Missouri State University, Missouri Western State University, Missouri Southern State University, Drury University, Webster University and Maryville University.

Many of its individual members also were recognized for their achievements with statewide awards, including:

Megan Archer
First Place, Nonpolitical/Entertainment Cartoon
First Place, Political/Editorial Cartoon
Third Place, Op-Ed page

John Brooks, Austin Hornbostel and Dan Mika
Third Place, Page One Design

Grace Bueckendorf and Anna Grace
First Place, Feature Page

Editorial Staff
Second Place, Special Section

Editorial Board
Third Place, Editorial Writing

Elle Fitzgibbons
Second Place, Feature Photography

Anna Grace
Second Place, Sports Column

Austin Hornbostel
Second Place, News Writing

Dan Mika
Second Place, In-depth News Reporting

Erica Nolan
Honorable Mention, Feature Writing

Jonathan Rembold and Hannah Kacerovskis
Honorable Mention, Sports Page
Honorable Mention, Photo Page

Trevor Stark
Second Place, Sports Photography

Katey Stoetzel
Second Place, Entertainment Review

Bill Townsend
Honorable Mention, Column

MCMA judges said the Index had a “solid, clean layout,” and complimented the newspaper for featuring both an editorial and an opinions page. Judges also praised the newspaper’s use of information graphics and photography, calendar/crime/news briefs section and the overall presentation and production.

Members of Truman’s Phi Beta Lambda received recognition at the 56th State Leadership Conference in Springfield, Mo. April 11.

The conference features competitive events for individuals and teams, leadership training and election of officers for the next year.  

The following students and teams from Truman were recognized at the awards program:

Kelsey Beasley
First Place, Macroeconomics

Alexis Caraker
Fifth Place, Accounting Principles
Third Place, Business Ethics (Team)
Second Place, Word Processing

Joanne Chong
Third Place, Marketing Analysis & Decision Making

Julian Fung
Fourth Place, Macroeconomics

Joshua Gregg
Second Place, Project Management
Fourth Place, Sports Management & Marketing

Hailey Ketchum
First Place, Human Resource Management (Team)
Fourth Place, Retail Management

Kana Kotani
Third Place, Statistical Analysis

Taylor Libbert
First Place, Business Communications
Third Place, Business Ethics (Team)
Fourth Place, Organizational Behavior & Leadership

Quan Luong
Second Place, International Business
Third Place, Organizational Behavior & Leadership

Tommy Ng
First Place, Statistical Analysis

Thang Nguyen
First Place, Management Concepts
Fifth Place, Personal Finance
Third Place, Project Management

Mai Pham
Fourth Place, Business Communications

Alicia Priyatmo
First Place, Impromptu Speaking

Becca Stearns
First Place, Human Resource Management

Ashton Wolter
First Place, Financial Concepts
First Place, Macroeconomics
First Place, Microeconomics

Many of the students recognized are eligible to represent Truman at the National Leadership Conference this June in Chicago.

The School of Health Sciences and Education will host its seventh annual Language and Literacy Conference April 24 in the Student Union Building.

Truman is expecting to welcome approximately 100 students, area primary and secondary teachers, speech-language pathologists and reading specialists who are interested in improving reading and writing achievement.

Speaking at the conference will be Dr. C. Melanie Schuele, associate professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She is an author of the “Intensive Phonological Awareness Program,” a small group intervention program. Schuele’s topic will be “Phonological Awareness: Making a Difference in Children’s Reading and Writing.”

For more information, contact Mona Davis at monad@truman.edu or 660.785.4383.

The English and Linguistics Department will welcome Akela Cooper, Hollywood screenwriter and Truman alumna, as the keynote speaker for its senior seminar April 23-24.

Cooper is an active screenwriter who has scripted episodes for television shows such as "Grimm" and "The 100." She got her start in Hollywood by attending the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, one of the oldest and most reputable film schools, after graduating from Truman in 2004. Visit the Truman Review archives to learn more about Cooper and her Hollywood career.

While at Truman she will give two presentations. The first, titled “When Nobody Knows Your Name: How Grad School Helped Me Start My Screenwriting,” will be at 12 p.m. April 23 in Student Union Building Georgian Room B. Her second, titled “Folklore as Persuasion in Grimm and the 100,” is scheduled at 12:30 p.m. April 24 in the Student Union Building Activities Room.
 
In addition to Cooper’s talks, there will be 75 capstone presentations with a wide range of topics from masterpieces, such as "The Great Gatsby," to new media, including video games like "Kingdom Hearts," as well as original compositions.

A full schedule of presentations is as follows.


April 23

9-10:20 a.m.
Student Capstone Presentations

Student Union Building 2016             
Moderator: Rebecca Dierking
Emily Schwent: “Associations, Aspirations, and Outcasts in the 1920s: An Analysis of 'Passing' in Nella Larsen’s Works and Life”
Jessica Chiodini: “Larsen, Toomer, and the Tragic Mulatto”
Ryan Webb: “'The Great Gatsby': Film Adaptation and Hutcheon’s Four Cliches”
Jessica Wilke: “'Mockingjay' and Media Styles: The Relationship between Adaptation and Critical Media”
Elizabeth Wolk: “Asexual Novella Adapation of Disney’s 'Beauty and the Beast'”


Student Union Building 2017
Moderator: Stephen Shapiro
Amy Allemang: “Specific Language Impairment as a Predictor of Early Narrative Skill”
Eric Wickert: “'Kalevala': Thematic Generalizations from Russian Epics”
Amber Wienhaus: “Lost in Translation: The Oneida Creation Myth”
Titus Fansler: “Narrative in Kiowa Storytelling”
Binh Tran: “Conversational Narrative of Vietnamese Speakers”

10:30-11:50 a.m.
Student Capstone Presentations

Student Union Building 2016
Moderator: Taylor Latham
Jordan Fort: “From Swords to Six-Shooters: 'Seven Samurai' and 'The Magnificent Seven'”
Cassandra Roeslein: “The Patriarchy in 'The Great Gatsby': Social Class in America”
Alexandra Timmer: “The Profile of Dorian Gray”
Samantha McCain: “African American Women in the 1920s: Nella Larsen’s Protagonist Tragic Mulatta”
Kaitlyn Fowle: “Naomi Wolf & Thomas Pynchon: A Critique of Esther’s Nose Job”

Student Union Building 2017
Moderator: Heather Cianciola
Amy Soto: “Code-switching: An Analysis in Children’s Literature”
Garrett Kelsey: “Choice in Video Game Narrative”
Claire Drone-Silvers: “Passive-Aggressive: An Analyis of Passive Forms in Caesar’s 'De Bello Gallico'”
Michelle Hooper: “Rape and Representation”
Heaven Desmond: “Use of Adjectives in the Horror Genre”

12 p.m.        
Student Union Building 2107   
Keynote Speaker
Akela Cooper: “When Nobody Knows Your Name: How Grad School Helped Me Start My Screenwriting Career”

1:30-2:50 p.m.
Student Capstone Presentations
      
Student Union Building 2016
Moderator: Jocelyn Cullity
Neva Sheaffer: “'Nasty Pretty Girls' or the Femme Fatale Role Mode in Film & V”
Blair Hill: “The Princesses of Heart: Feminism in 'Kingdom Hearts'”
Andrew Cogswell: “Pitching Y: 'The Last Man' for Television”
Nick Gibson: “Deceptions of the Self and Others”
Kayla Compton: “Sebastian”

Student Union Building 2017    
Moderator: Royce Kallerud
Lauren Baker: “Timing in Comedic Narratives”
Nic Evans: “Pragmatics of Humorous Narratives”
Calley Sivils: “Facebook as a Medium for our Lives”
Jeffrey Leafblad: “Anaphora Resolution in Narratives”
Amy Jones: “Narrative Storytelling & Autism Spectrum Disorders”

3-4:20 p.m.
Student Capstone Presentations

Student Union Building 2016
Moderator: Priscilla Riggle
Henry Janssen: “Assimilation of High- and Low-Culture in Pynchon’s 'Gravity’s Rainbow'”
Zoe Maffitt: “Sic: A Multimedia: Multi-genre Project”
Maria Taboada: “5th Portal: A Fantasy Roadtrip Novel”
Carl Kirk: “A Historical Context and Analysis in 'V'”
Zach Venturella: “Surreal on Screen: How Poetry Can Impact Screenwriting”

3-3:50 p.m.
Student Capstone Presentations

Student Union Building 2017
Moderator: Jamie Miller
Junia Weatherbie & Jordan Davis: “Songs We Tell: Applying Linguistic Theory to
Musical Theater and Ballads”
Rachel Cain: “Computational Narratives”


April 24

9:30-10:20 a.m.
Student Capstone Presentations

Student Union Building 3200
Moderator: Rebecca Dierking
Chris Sheffer: “The Greater Gatsby: The Immortal, Incorruptible Ideal of Love and the
American Dream”
Elise Brummett: “The Utopia in Their Eyes: An Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s and Willa
Cather’s Portrayal of the Middle-Class in 'The Great Gatsby' and 'The Professor’s House'”
Olivia Muegge: “Unique Characters in a Family”

    
Student Union Building 3000
Moderator: Amy Sallwasser
Natalie Williams: “Title Themes in Pynchon’s 'Entropy' and Joyce’s 'The Dead'”
Jake Hurst: “For the Sake of the Song: Songs in the Works of Pynchon ('Crying of
Lot 49' and 'Inherent Vice')”
Allison Tray: “From Underage Side-kick to Best Friend: The Adapted Story of James
‘Bucky’ Barnes”

10:30-11:20 a.m.
Student Capstone Presentations

Student Union Building 3200
Moderator: Priscilla Riggle
Lincoln Brown: “Of Coyotes and My Father (Memoir)”
Rachel Davis: “Weaving Fictional Magic: Creating My First Novel”
Dan Owen: “Nihilism in 'Gravity’s Rainbow'”

Student Union Building 3000
Moderator: Hayden Wilsey
Hannah Brockhaus: “Genre Conventions in 'Call the Midwife,' Book and Television Adaptation: A Case Study”
Keri Shine: “In the Height of Consumerism: Fitzgerald and Larsen and the American Dream”
Caroline Maurer: “A Marxist Perspective on the Dissolution of the American Dream in 'Cane' and 'The Great Gatsby'”

11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
Student Capstone Presentation

Student Union Building 3200
Moderator: Linda Seidel
Michelle Adams: “The Making of the Mulatta: Psychological Realism in Nella Larsen’s 'Passing'”
Amelia Adams: “Liberation, Feminization, and Emasculation: Male Enervation and the Power Struggles that arise in 1920’s Masculine Communities”
Nick Kilgore: “Reprobate”

Student Union Building 3000
Moderator:  Adam Davis
Megan Folken: “Comparative Analysis of Magical Realism in Thomas Pynchon’s 'Gravity’s Rainbow' and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s '100 Years of Solitude'”
Doug Taul: “European Paranoia during WWII in Thomas Pynchon’s 'Gravity’s Rainbow'”
Natasha Honigfort: “DEATH NOTE: An Evaluation of Differences between Manga: Anime, and Live Action Movies”

12:30 p.m.
Student Union Building 3200
Keynote Speaker
Akela Cooper: “Folklore as Persuasion in 'Grimm' and 'The 100': A Scriptwriter’s Perspective on SciFi Horror.”

1:30-2:20 p.m.
Student Capstone Presentations

Student Union Building 3200
Moderator: Amy Sallwasser
Seth Emery: “Compulsory Masculinity and War Wounds: Exploring Injury and Manhood 'The Sun Also Rises' and 'Hearts in Atlantis'”
Christian Orlet: “The New Woman: Defying Gender Stereotypes”
Ellen Burken: “Pig Bodine: American Sailors and the Crude Masculine Identity”

Student Union Building 3000
Moderator: Jocelyn Cullity
Devan Codi Caton: “'Eleanor & Park,' An Adaptation for the Screen”
Samantha Nassar: “Memoir Writing and Film Adapting – Through the Lens of 'Eat, Pray, Love'”
Emily Wildhaber: “The Wake: Losing the Parish Rectory”

2:30-3:20 p.m.
Student Capstone Presentations

Student Union Building 3200    
Moderator: Betsy Delmonico
Drew Roberson: “The Limits of Interpretation of Pynchon’s Postmodernism”
Justin Duello: “Sherlock Holmes in Modern Days: An Investigation in Adaptation”
Connor Maguire: “Adapting the Brothers Grimm: Anne Sexton’s 'Transformations'”

Student Union Building 3000
Moderator: Hena Ahmad
Kira Gresoski: “If Only Daughter Could Say: Reaching Towards the Unvoiced Feminine in Faulkner’s 'The Sound and the Fury'”
Lydia Whitacre: “A Decade for Beginnings in Shifts of Perspective: Distinct Binary Categories of Gender and Race and 'Passing' in Larsen, Toomer, and Hemingway”
Kelsey Ruoff: “InTents: a Short Story of Short Stories”

3:30-4:20 p.m.
Student Capstone Presentations

Student Union Building 3200
Moderator:  Kevin Manley
Carly Rae Winchell: “'Crash Course' in Screenwriting”
Kaylee Kohne: “Vs.: A Graphic Novel”
Deanna Susek: “Demeter and the Pastoral”

Student Union Building 3000
Moderator: Bob Mielke
Hector Funtes: “A Referential Criticism Reading of 'Gravity’s Rainbow': A Meta-Critical Approach”
Bianca Kliethermes: “A Freudian Reading of the Animate/Inanimate Tensions in 'V'”
Sarah Moutray: “Valiant or Venomous: the 1920s “New Woman” as Portrayed by Hemingway’s Lady Brett Ashley”

4:30-5 p.m.
Student Capstone Presentations

Student Union Building 3000
Moderator: Adam Davis
Jamie McBurnett: “Nine Lives”
Katie Lavery: "Love Notes: A Collection of Narrative Poems”

Truman Steel, Truman’s steel drum ensemble, will host a special performance of steel pan music from Trinidad and Tobago at 8 p.m. April 20 in Baldwin Auditorium.

Guest artist Liam Teague, an internationally renowned Trinidadian steel pan virtuoso, will join the band as they perform his musical compositions in addition to the many traditional calypsos, socas and songos from the Caribbean.

A native Trinidadian and known as the “Paganini of the Steel Pan,” Teague is considered the world’s premiere steel pan performer. He has received many awards in his homeland of Trinidad and Tobago, including winning the Trinidad and Tobago national steel band festival’s solo championship. His commitment to demonstrating the art of steel drumming has taken him to Europe, Asia, Australia and throughout North and Central America over his two decade career.

The concert is free and open to the public.

The Center for Multicultural Affairs, School of Arts and Letters, Student Senate Grants program and the University Percussion Society are sponsoring the event.

Shanghai University
Shanghai, China
Students can study abroad at the largest municipal university in the city of Shanghai. This diverse university has more than 10,000 international students from 76 countries. SHU has more than 55 undergraduate programs and 85 graduate programs, including liberal arts, international business, fine arts, computer science and many more. Courses in English are offered and include marketing strategy, finance, communication skill, Asian economics, Chinese language classes and several others. The program offers active out-of-classroom learning experiences and trips include visiting the Museum of Chinese Martial Arts, Oriental Pearl and even enjoying a Huangpu River Cruise. For more information about the program, click here.

Hosei University 
Hosei, Japan
The Global Human Resource Development program at Hosei University offers various classes including courses taught in English about Japanese society, the Japanese language, marketing in Japan, and even culture tourism. For those interested in learning more about the Japanese language, Japanese classes are divided into six levels from basic communication to the advanced level. Students with high proficiency have the option of taking regular Japanese faculty classes. Extracurricular learning opportunities include joining the Japanese old instrument club, instruction on the Japanese food culture, attending tea ceremonies and many more. For more information, click here.

Students are invited to help celebrate Earth Week by participating in various events throughout the week of April 20.

Earth Week kicked off with an environmental health class cleaning Bear Creek. Other events this week include:

April 21
10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Student Union Building Georgian Room A
Second Life Project Display
Second life projects, projects that demonstrate how to recycle or reuse materials, will be on display. Students can also vote for the most creative, biggest transformation and most practical projects.

3:30 p.m.
Magruder Hall 1090
Renting Smart, Saving Money and Living Healthy
This presentation will teach students what to look for when renting a house or apartment, and how some of these things can affect health.

7-9 p.m.
Violette Hall 1010
There will be another presentation about individual impact on the environment.

April 22
The Quad
DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Tables
Students can learn how to create their own second life projects at the DIY tables. The best second-life projects will also be on display.

April 24
The Quad
Environmental tables on the Quad

Free body composition assessments will be available from 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. April 21 in the Student Recreation Center.  

Tests include measuring body fat percentage, blood pressure, waist circumference and body mass index. Students are able to sign up at the weight room desk. For more information, visit truman.edu/recreation/fitness-wellness-program.

Phi Sigma Pi, Delta Sigma Pi and Phi Delta are working together to bring two “Be the Match” bone marrow donor registration drives to campus April 23. The first will take place from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. in the Student Union Building Down Under and the second will be later that evening from 5:30-8:30 p.m. in Centennial Hall.

The “Be the Match” registry connects potential donors with thousands of patients suffering from blood cancers, for whom a bone marrow transplant can mean life or death. Learn more about “Be the Match” and what it means to join the registry here.

Through the “Be the Match” registry Truman students are making a real difference. Tori Holt, a junior nursing major, registered on campus in January 2014. By the fall, she found out that she was a match for a baby boy with a severe combined immunodeficiency syndrome. Holt completed her donation one year after she registered.

Truman French students will preform Feydeau’s comedy, “Dormez, je le veux!” at 8 p.m. April 22-23 in the Student Union Building Activities Room. English subtitles will be projected to accompany the performance.

Meet the Firms – Accounting Recruiting Event
April 24
10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Violette Hall Upstairs Commons
 
Retirement Reception for Keith Harrison
April 30
3-5 p.m.
Violette Hall Upstairs Commons
 
Master of Accountancy Hooding Ceremony
May 9
10 a.m. Reception immediately follows
Ophelia Parrish Performance Hall

Alpha Kappa Psi will host a campus-wide dodgeball tournament at 2:30 p.m. April 26 in the Pershing Small Gym.
 
Teams must have eight players. There will be a registration fee of $24 per team and 50 percent of the proceeds will be donated to the philanthropy of the winning team’s choice. To register, email akpsi.tauup@gmail.com for a form. All registration forms are due to the Alpha Kappa Psi mailbox located in the Center for Student Involvement.

The Peace Corps is accepting applications for a campus ambassador position. The campus ambassador works with Peace Corps recruiter to raise awareness on campus and introduce students to the organization. To apply, email ambassadors@peacecorps.gov for an application. All applications are due April 30.

Brad Boyer, the “Voice of the Bulldogs,” will be inducted into the MBCA Hall of Fame April 25. Boyer recently completed his 20th season of calling Truman football and basketball games for KRES-FM. He also serves as the operations manager for KRES, KWIX, KIRK and KTCM. The induction will take place at the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mo.

Daniel Mandell, professor of history, presented a draft chapter from his book in progress, at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.

Marc Rice, professor of music, has been awarded a grant to attend the Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents, to take place in Lincoln, Neb., in June. This four-day workshop is sponsored by the Society for Textural Scholarship that focuses on developing document-editing skills. Rice will use this experience in the work towards his book, which will be an anthology of documents pertaining to the history of jazz in the Midwest.

The Truman Noyce Scholars Program for Secondary Mathematics and Physics Teaching is now accepting applications for the 2015-2016 academic year. The Noyce Scholarship Program is funded by the National Science Foundation and provides generous scholarships to future educators who will teach high school mathematics and physics. For more information about the scholarships and how to apply, visit the Truman Noyce Scholars Office in Magruder Hall 3164 or noyce.truman.edu. The deadline to apply is May 1.