1 4.0: The Space Issue Spring 2017 CONTENTS Top Tips for Engaged Students by Gabriel Madison 2 Student Support at CSU by Kimberly Schveder 3

Spacing Out in Class? by Lauren Golick 4

Godspeed, John Glenn by George Cain 5 Poplar Science by Zachary Maria 6 Annie Easley: A Hidden Figure by Kimberly Schveder 7 Great American Solar Eclipse by George Cain 8 Expanding the Honors Line-up by Erik Miller 9 May the Forks Be With You: Dining Hall Debate by Payton Lewis 9 Are Intramurals in a Space Jam? by Joshua Silvaroli 10

Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Honors College Dr. Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt, Dean

4.0 Newsletter Staff and Contributors George Cain Eric McDonald Lauren Golick Erik Miller Payton Lewis Kimberly Schveder Gabriel Madison Joshua Silvaroli Zachary Maria

Photo: "Cleveland" by David Grant © copyright 2006 Faculty Advisor: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0) license 1 Michael Sepesy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ New to Cleveland State? Have you been at CSU for a while, but are looking for some quick advice? No matter what your standing with CSU is, these tips are for you. TOPFor Engaged TIPS Students by Gabriel Madison

Free Stuff & Free Schooling Good Food & Big Discounts Through Good Places for Students Scholarships to Study

There’s plenty of free stuff and Avoid having to pay back large You need to feed your stomach discounts available online and student loans by applying for before you feed your brain. in-stores just because you’re a scholarships. college student. • Gather some books and • Research the scholarships offered hunker down for a couple • You can get sizable discounts from at CSU. Many of them don’t require hours in Viking Marketplace major business like Microsoft, Apple, a perfect GPA to be considered for for a wide variety of delicious foods. and Best Buy. Just search a brand plus them. student discount to see what they • Grab a filling burrito from Pedro’s offer. • Don’t always aim for the large Mexican Grill for $5 then hit the nationwide scholarships. Look out for quiet Law Library right across the • Students get five licenses of smaller scholarships from law firms street to study. Microsoft Office through CSU. Just and other local businesses; they’re search “Office 365 ProPlus” on CSU’s likely to have a smaller number of • Get a healthy salad or sand- main website (csuohio.edu). applicants, so you can stand out wich from Café Ah-Roma, then head better. to the Michael Schwartz library to • Use OnTheHub.com and search for get some peace and quiet to hit those “Cleveland State University” to find • Apply to scholarships during the books. all the free software you can get for summer when you may have more attending CSU. time than in the heat of the semester! While these tips are by no means comprehensive, we hope • Check out websites like FastWeb. they will provide some motivation com, Cappex.com, and MyScholly. to seek out even more tips to help com to find a wide variety of you engage at CSU! n scholarships to apply for.

2 STUDENT SUPPORT at CSU by Kimberly Schveder Have you noticed how many student support resources are available on Cleveland State’s Photo: FreeImages.com/Tory Byrne campus? Here are eight of them:

Math Learning Center free or low-cost medicines, 142) is for anyone interested in Located in MC 230, the Math shots, and immunizations, free women’s issues, and for anyone Learning Center offers walk- health-counseling, and more! who wants to hang out, meet in tutoring to all students The CSU Health & Wellness new people, or study. The center enrolled in MTH courses from Services is located in the Center extends social support and their experienced peers. Math for Innovations in Medical encouragement to students, students receive support and Professions, across from the such as for those starting school, encouragement from tutors to Student Center on Euclid returning to school, and for learn and pass required math Avenue in room 2112. student-parents. The Women’s classes. The center contains Center also has many referrals to several PC computers along Counseling and on- and off-campus resources. with many more resources. Academic Success Clinic Lift Up Vikes TASC Ever feel stressed and anxious, Lift Up Vikes, in the Recreation The Tutoring & Academic as if you just need to talk to Center, room 168, is sponsored Success Center (TASC), located someone? CSU has assistance for by the Cleveland Food Bank, in MC 233, offers free services students, for free! The Counseling donations, and grants. All CSU such as tutoring, supplemental & Academic Success Clinic students qualify to get fresh Spacing Out instruction for a variety of gives confidential, supportive produce, non-perishable food, courses, structured learning counseling and coaching to and personal care items every In Class? assistance, and success coaching. students of Cleveland State week. This facility used to be in These services provide peer tutors University. Student interns will the Women’s Center’s facility in who teach students to become help you cope with stress from the Main Classroom, but they independent and more effective school, home life, or anything switched in February 2016 to a learners. else bothering you. pantry in the Recreation Center that has storage space and a Health and Wellness The Mareyjoyce Green refrigerator to hold fresh produce, Services Women’s Center eggs, and dairy products. CSU students can see a doctor The Mareyjoyce Green Women’s on campus for free check-ups, Center (Main Classroom, room 3 The Trio McNair students) who show potential in with the Trio McNair Scholars Scholars Program science, technology, engineering and Program, Trio (located in MC110) Dr. Ronald E. McNair was a mathematics (STEM), and helping aims to support students in all areas physicist, one of the first first to prepare them for graduate of study (not just STEM) by African American NASA school. McNair Scholars complete encouraging growth in academics. astronauts, and was a crew a summer research project, receive Trio’s aim is to help first-generation, member in the Challenger material to prepare for the GRE, low-income students who need mission in the 1980s. In the get opportunities to give talks on assistance with college coursework Science and Research Building their research projects at conferences and to aid them by providing Room 155, the McNair Scholars around the country, and much more. tutoring, academic advising, and Program carries on McNair’s support and motivation to earn a n legacy. recruiting students from Trio college degree. disadvantaged backgrounds (low- CSU is one out of eight schools to income, first generation students get this federally funded student and/or racial or ethnic minority support service. Not to be confused

Show up for a free exercise Make cute gifts for the 1 class at the Cleveland State 7 awesome people in the Rec Center. Honors office for dealing with my constant pestering. Go see a play at Playhouse 2 Square. CSU often offers If you need help in any of discount tickets! Check with the 8 your classes, check out the Department of Student Life or the tutoring schedule for that subject Honors College to see if they have area. CSU offers free math tutoring any deals. in the Math Learning Center, free English help in the library, and much Take a trip down to the more. 3 Mitchell’s Ice Cream on W25th Street. Take a trip to the Natural 9 History Museum or the Art Check out the House of Museum. 4 Blues schedule and go to Spacing Out an event. Check out the CSU 10 Campus Activities Board In Class? 5 Visit the Heinen’s down- schedule and attend an event. They by Lauren Golick town to go grocery shopping. usually always have free giveaways and prizes for students! When you find it hard to concentrate in class and your 6 Check out upcoming events mind starts to wander, have at the , The Q, Join a club at CSU. A no fear! There are tons of and Severance Hall. 11 complete list can be found things in Cleveland you can on the CSU website. n do to bring back your focus to academia (or not - your

choice!): Photo: FreeImages.com/Cristina Chirtes 4 l Decorated U.S. Marine Corps aviator; previously served briefly in the U.S. Navy

l Had two children;n John and Carolyn, and later two grandchildren

l 1959: Chosen by NASA as a member of the Mercury Seven;n the first 7 American astronauts

l Feb. 20, 1962: First American to orbit Earth; completed 3 orbits in the Friendship 7 Capsule

l Glenn didn't hear fellow astronaut Scott Carpenter tell him, "Godspeed, John Glenn" live

l 1975 - 1999: U.S. Senator from ; won and Photo: NASA served four terms

l 1976: Considered as an option for Vice President at the Democratic National Convention

l 1978: Received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor

Godspeed, l 1978: Chiefly authored the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Act

l 1979: Opposed the SALT II treaty, expressing doubts about U.S. ability to monitor the Soviet John Glenn Union and ensure compliance by George Cain l 1984: Ran for President but lost to Walter Mondale in the Democratic primaries Who was John H. Glenn, Jr.? l 1990: Inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall Who was John H. Glenn, Jr.? of Fame A man of many accomplishments, to say A man of many accomplishments, to say l 1998: Became the oldest person in space as he the least. In light of his recent passing, joined the Discovery space shuttle mission andthe keeping least. inIn linelight with of his the recent outer passing,space and keeping in line with the outer space l March 1, 1999: NASA Lewis Research Center in theme of this publication, it is fitting to Cleveland, Ohio renamed after him includetheme a listof thisof the publication, highlights itand is fitting little- to knowninclude facts a aboutlist of the lifehighlights of fellow and little- l Held a Presbyterian eldership known facts about the life of fellow Buckeye, John Glenn: l 2012: Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama

l July 18, 1921: Born in Cambridge, Ohio l June 2014: Underwent heart valve replacement surgery l Had an adopted sister named Jean l December 8, 2016: Died in Columbus, Ohio l His father John Glenn, Sr. owned the Glenn Publishing Company l April 6, 2017: Buried at Arlington National Cemetery on what would have been his 74th l His mother Clara Teresa was a teacher anniversary with his now-widowed wife Anna. l December 1941: Quit college to enlist in the U.S. Army Air Corps following Pearl Harbor l April 6, 1943: Married Anna Castor, his high school Glenn will be thus remembered for many sweetheart things, and will go down in history as l October 1952: Drafted to South Korea as an one of the most prominent figures from operations officer of a Marine fighter squadron the great state of Ohio. 5 by Zachary Maria

CSU’s campus is diverse in many ways. One that few people may consider is our diversity of foliage. For being in the middle of a city, CSU has a surprising variety of floral life, especially trees. If you are like the normal student, you walk by these trees every day and know nothing about them whatsoever. Well no longer! This article will give you some basic knowledge* about some of the trees on campus so you can impress your Identifying Trees at CSYew friends and peers alike.

Northern Red Ginkgo Tree Paper Birch Rough Tree Oak (Ginkgo biloba): (Betula papyrifera): Fern (Quercus rubra): This tree is the only living Named for the thin white (Dicksonia squarrosa): The leaves of this tree species in the division bark which often peels in This tree was originally paper like layers from the have seven to eleven Ginkgophyta, all others from Mars and was trunk. It is extremely afraid being extinct. They bear lobes with bristly edges of the dark, so at night it brought to the earth and turn red in the fall. a fruit that produces a is often heard wailing and by the aliens. They The trunk and branches foul odor. Despite the crying into its branches. It reproduce by miniature have rough, ridged smell, the fruit is edible can only be comforted if it is cells called spores. bark, and the tree grows and it is eaten in China given a large pineapple and This is how the aliens acorns. Fun fact: Often and Japan. The leaves cheese pizza from [INSERT take control; the spores used as Christmas trees are easy to identify, being PAID ADVERTISEMENT infiltrate our brains and in warmer climates. fan-shaped with veins HERE]. Its wood is take over the world. radiating out into the leaf frequently used as the wood Fun fact: NEVER can in popsicle sticks. Fun fact: blade. WARNING: Leaf be potted. Can only be You can save money by blade is sharp. Fun fact: peeling the bark off of the grown in the wild, as they The smell is intoxicating tree and using it instead cannot be controlled. to certain reptiles, causing of buying paper. Will save them to fall in love with you on average $80 per the tree for a short time. semester.

*Note: This article is satirical. Some facts are completely made up. The other facts were taken from http://www.softschools. com, https://www.reference.com, and Wikipedia. I have absolutely no clue if the trees I took pictures of match the trees I identified. In fact, I’m almost positive they don’t. For real tree facts, use CSU’s online Tree Tour! https://lcuacsu.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapTour/index.html?appid=9b8f6a7f8f5b40cf8f7205f20141316f n 6 Annie Easley: A Cleveland Hidden Figure by Kimberly Schveder

Photo: NASA

The stories of some of the major NASA, she originally started out may be a solution for some people, pioneers and innovators, engineers and as a pharmacy major, but came to but it’s not mine.’” Her confidence, mathematicians at NASA have finally Cleveland after a couple of years of ambition, and passion helped her been told, and many stereotypes of college. After getting married, and to get through the boundaries and these professions have been broken. because there was no local pharmacy become a pioneer in her field. Three African American women who school in Cleveland, OH at the were trailblazers at NASA in the Jim time, she searched for new jobs and She moved on to be a groundbreaking Crow South during the 1940s had eventually got hired at NACA (later computer scientist when human their stories told on the big-screen named NASA) as a human computer. computers got replaced with the in the recent movie Hidden Figures, This career switch affected Easley’s first machine computers at NASA. which came out at the beginning of life greatly: “That kind of changed my As Mills states, “She developed and 2017. life’s goals, because as I continued as implemented code used in researching a computer, the kind of work that we energy-conversion systems, analyzing According to Julie Collazo, author of did, we were called computers until alternative power technology— “NASA’s Hidden Figures: Women we started to get the machines, and including the battery technology that You Need to Know,” the three brilliant then we were changed over to either was used for early hybrid vehicles, as women who worked for NASA in this math technicians or mathematicians” well as for the Centaur upper-stage film were , Dorothy ( Johnson). rocket.” Her code was later used in Vaughan, and Mary Jackson. They satellites for the military, weather helped to do the mathematics and Throughout her new career path, reports, and basic communication physics to get John Glenn into space she faced discrimination at work. (Collazo). to orbit the Earth for the first time. With the happening at the time, being an After several years in her new career, Although there were many other African American woman in any field Easley decided to go back to school to great Hidden Figures, such as Miriam in STEM was a challenge. When she pursue a degree in mathematics. She Daniel Mann, Kathryn Peddrew, faced discrimination, Easley brushed started to take classes at a community Christine Darden, and Mary Jackson, it off with confidence. According to college, then transferred to Cleveland Annie Easley is Cleveland State Anne Mills, author of “Annie Easley, State University ( Johnson). She had University’s own notable Hidden Computer Scientist,” Easley said, “‘My to pay for her own education in order Figure and alumnus (Collazo). head is not in the sand. But my thing to gain more qualifications and to be is, if I can’t work with you, I will work taken seriously as a professional at According to Sandra Johnson, around you. I was not about to be [so] work. Mills notes that, Easley worked, who interviewed Annie Easley at discouraged that I’d walk away. That

7 went to school full-time, tutored, Great American told other students about working at NASA, and inspired other minorities to go into STEM fields. Additionally, later in her career at NASA, she became the Solar Eclipse equal employment opportunity (EEO) counselor (Mills). Thus, by George Cain after she earned her degree, Easley continued to be a leader and pioneer in her field and profession at the NASA Glenn Mark your calendars for Monday, August 21, 2017, Research Center at Lewis Field because a total solar eclipse will pass over the continental in Cleveland, Ohio. n for the first time in 99 years! The path of eclipse totality will run from Oregon at 1:15 p.m. EDT to Works Cited: South Carolina at 2:49 p.m., passing also over the states of ID, MT, WY, NE, KS, IA, MO, IL, KY, TN, NC and GA. Collazo, Julie. “NASA’s Hidden Figures: Women You Need to Know.” Totality will not be visible from Ohio, but the greatest eclipse Biography.com. A&E Television seen from Cleveland will occur around 2:26 p.m. EDT. Networks, 4 Jan. 2017. Web. 26 Feb. 2017. A word of precaution: never look at a solar eclipse without Johnson, Sandra. “NASA Headquarters wearing special eclipse glasses; otherwise it could cause Oral History Project Edited Oral History Transcript: Annie J. Easley permanent eye damage. So place your orders and make Interviewed by Sandra Johnson sure you’re free that afternoon! And if you miss this eclipse, Cleveland, Ohio – 21 August 2001.” NASA. NASA, 16 July 2010. Web. 19 there will be another one passing almost directly over Feb. 2017. Cleveland, Ohio on Monday, April 8, 2024. n Mills, Anne. “Annie Easley, Computer Scientist.” NASA. NASA, 21 Sept 2015. Web. 28 Feb 2017.

88 Expanding the Honors Line-up by Erik Miller In addition to the usual selection of general courses, the Honors College is adding new honors courses for the Fall 2017 semester. The normally offered classes to include more courses in the Courses for the 2017-2018 are tailored to meet the needs humanities. Honors students academic year. These courses of most students. These include looking to take relevant courses are provided to expand the common classes like calculus in music will enjoy the ability experience of honors students, I and II, physics I and II, to take an honors exclusive while offering no credits toward Chemistry, Intro to Psychology, course, rather than taking honors graduation. and Writing. contract courses. Honors courses can provide a more focused Some of the offerings for next More specific courses to meet honors experience. year include Exploring the City, graduation requirements are also Professional Development, offered--such classes as Debates The new course looks at the Engaged Citizens Forum, and in African American History, development of western music, Mentoring. These are offered Intro to Early Western Art, and both modern and historical. It as HON 200 courses, with Dirt, Disease, Public Health, has students look at musical Engaged Citizens Forum being that target students looking to culture and relate that to available in both the Fall and meet specific requirements. popular music. The course also Spring. These courses help satisfies an Arts and Humanities increase the variety of choices In Fall 2017, the department general education requirement, honors students have; but rest is offering a new honors class. encouraging students from assured, newsletter writing is still MUS 261H, Evolution of other colleges to take it. The an option for next year.n Western Pop Music. This class department is also increasing its helps broaden the honors lineup offerings of Honors Experience May the Forks Be With You: CSU’s Dining Hall Debate by Payton Lewis A recent change in Cleveland State’s food selection has left students with mixed feelings. This year, the Viking Dining each time they grab some lunch live on campus and have classes Hall has altered their food or dinner. Café eaters are in all day. It also meets the needs options; is this for the better or agreement that the quality of of students who live on campus the worse? food has been much improved; but are unable to cook meals for however, the variety among the themselves. Now a larger portion of the choices given has been reduced. entrees remain the same every A poll of sixty students who go day in a week period, with only The purpose of café dining is to to the dining hall on a regular some meals changing on a day- give hearty and heathy options basis reveals a consensus that the to-day basis. to students who are not in the old café reigns superior over the position to cook for themselves. new café in selection, but the Students are beginning to tire The dining hall is targeted quality of the food in this year’s 9 of having the same food options towards students who do not dining hall supersedes last year’s. Expanding the Honors Line-up Are Intramurals in a Space Jam? by Josh Silvaroli

some fun doing something they information gets passed from person love or trying something new. to person. Sadly, Cleveland State University’s intermural leagues are not as popular A bigger problem is that Cleveland as most other colleges. Cleveland State students have less time than State still has the same intermural other schools’ students. Many sports as most schools; the number Cleveland State students commute, of people playing in the sports is a work, or both. Being able to work lot fewer though. This stems from a around busy schedules and also couple of reasons, the most prevalent drive to Cleveland is tough for many being lack of awareness and time commuters, and doing intermural constraints of the student body. sports for them is just not an option. This affects people who live at Intramural sports at Cleveland Cleveland State too, because many of State are advertised a lot less than their friends who they would make most colleges; the rec center has a team with are commuters who Intramural sports are a longstanding many advertisements for them, but cannot play. tradition at most colleges. Intramural other than a flyer up in the Main sports are recreational sports Classroom building you will not Hopefully, with more apartments organized within a college. They find them promoted anywhere else. being constructed for campus living give students a way to take a break Cleveland State also suffers from the popularity of Cleveland States from the stress of college and have terrible word of mouth, so a lot less intramural sports will also increase.n

After an analysis of the poll, it can quality of food is better this year. All this being said, the dining hall May the Forks Be With You: be seen in the charts below that The conclusion is that the quality is provides nutritious options for only 33% of people think that the better, but the variety is suffering. students looking for a quick meal. variety of food is better this year, We are thankful for the hard work CSU’s Dining Hall Debate while 67% of people believe that In discussions with these students, that the dining hall employees the variety of food was better in the many expressed similar thoughts. provide! n prior year, showing that the variety One student says, “This year, the has diminished. On the other hand, food has definitely improved from A recent change in Cleveland State’s food selection has left 87% are in agreement that the last, but still more could be done.” students with mixed feelings.

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