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'1 I !,- INSIDE ONE AND DONE: GOVERNOR MATT BLUNT PULLS OUT OF RE-ELEaION RACE WELLNESS CENTER South Campus dining hall opens Makeover South Campus expanded 'I will not seek'a second term' its dining hours and added for Mark a new eatery lor students, By JUSTI MONTAC UE Quick Read faculty and staff. Copy&liJor Matt Blunt was elected Missouri's 54th Twain in See NEWS, page 3 governor on Nov. 2, 2004. During Matt Blunt announced Tuesday, his term, Blunt signed 58389 into Jan. 22 that he will nol be seeking a law, giving funds to Benton-Stadler second lenn as Missouri's governor. renovations and increased availabiity the works Before running for governor of of Bright Flight scholarships to Missouri, Blunt served as Missouri's Missouri students. 37th Secretary of State, represented B y JEREM Y TR tCE the 139th legislative district Greene SlaffWriler County in the Missouri House of Rep­ making education the state's top bud­ resentativ~ and served in the Navy ge! priority; strengthening Missouri's Talks are in motion to possibly economy and entreprencurial climate in Operation Enduring Freedom, the develop a new fitness and well­ United States' response to the Sept. II and creating family supporting jobs, ness facility in the Mark Twain attacks. expanding access to high quality, af­ building. Today, Blunt serves as lieutenant fordable health care; and ' helping Athletics Director 101m Gar­ commander in the United States Na­ families, fanTIs , and small businesses villa says he wants "a facility thai val Reserve. by holding the line on job-killing tax wilJ meet the current needs of the Matt Blunt was elected Missouri's increases. students, faculty, stafT and exter­ 'Cloverlield': Not your GOY. Matt Blunt announced Tuesday that he woukt not seek a sec­ 54th governor on Nov. 2, 2004 with ond term of office. Blunt has served as governor of Missouri since nal members until a separate fit­ the support of 101 out of I 14 counties. November 2004. ness building can be buill:' typical monster flick He on a platfonn which iovolved: ran See MAn BLUNT, page 3 The Mark Twain building was Michael Stahl-David stars built in the 1970s and according as Rob Hawkins, the hero to Garvilla, "has created change in director Matt Reeves' in use of space." 'Cloverfietd ,' Garvilla's plan for the facility would be to potentially combine THE MUSE OF MEXICO PRESENTS . • • See A&E, page 6 the weight room and two of the racquetball areas for a 5,100- square-foOl facility. ';Others have been -receptive Lay the smackdown to this idea." Garvilla said. "It is Check out The Currenrs a much-needed fac il ity," review of the new video "It 'd be great." said Matt Sil­ game, 'VIfINE Smackdown ver, freshman, accounting, con­ vs. RAW 2008.' cerning the idea of a new facility. Garvilla said the idea of a See A&E, page 7 health and wellness fa cil ity is "fi­ nancially feasible as compared to actually building a new facility," but he does "envision one day for the in­ _Hlu rr 10 actu­ ally build onc." A , ' cording to G a n !il"la, ri ght . now .. the proj­ ect isin the conceptual John Garvilla Tritons split games stages of AJbIetia Dim/or develop­ during homestand ing such a Quick Read facility." On Thursday, both Triton The Ath!etia. Departmenl basketball teams beat N. bel ieve is considering Kentucky, but both fell to that such Bellarmine on Saturd ay. a faci l­ creating a wellness and fitness center ilY would Members of Dance St. Louis perform in Tania Perez-Salsas Compania De Danza, which opened at the Touhill in the Anheuse .... Busch inside the walls of See SPORTS, pa ge 8 playa role theater on Fr;iday, The perfonnance, inspired by Alessandro Baricco's Oceano Mare, is about the nature of femininity, the Mark Twain in enroll­ complex. ment mall- agemcnt, ON THE WEB community relations and enhance athletic success," Garvilla said. Garvilla's current issues with Registration numbers low for 3N alert system the lower floor of the facility III present need are a lack of mem­ ditional advantage in states of emer­ gram is voltmtary, and the infonna­ bership appeal and marketability, Web poll results: By SARAH O ' BRIEN Quick Read gency on campus. tion will be used only in the most se­ inefficient use of space. supen'i­ How is the Highway 40 Only 10-15 percent of faculty and staff Nerl'SEdilor "Currently we've sent outan email rious of emergency silllations. sion concern S, antiquatct.l equip­ shutdown affecting your at each UM campus has signed up to to faculty and staff where they can go ''Not a severe emergency is a wa­ ment and bealth and safety con­ commute? receive emergency alerts from 3N. While the number of students, on to a UM system Web site and put ter main break that closed down a cerns. faculty and staff in the University of up their cell phone or text message building." Samples said. "Tornadoes Health and safety concerns are Missouri system initially registering number," Samples said. touching down close to campus may what Garvilla said is "a lack of for the new emergency alert system The initial emll:il was sent out be­ be a situation in which notification is supervision in the Mark Twain was low, UM-St. Louis is slowly try­ fore w-inter break. Samples said an­ sent.'· weight room and occasional ing to get caught up. other email would follow after fae­ "We will be sending out more student worker supervision." "We started late asking faculty, ulty and staff had settled into the new emails which ha\'e a direct link to Gan'illa wishes to "elimi­ but we are pretty much caught up to semester. sign up for the program. People can nale liability by hiring a ftlll­ the other campuses," Bob Samples, The program has had low registra­ volunteer to participate or not partici­ time supervisor to this new fac il­ director of University communica- tion numbers systemwide. Samples pate," he said. ity." tions, said. ' said faculty and staff registration at "This is just one tool," Samples Inefficient use of space relates The UM system recently em­ each campus is at about 10 to 15 per­ said. o;This is not the only thing that to what Garvilla said is, "the de ~ Not at all ployed a vendor fo r a eampuswide cent. we do, and it will only be used as cline in the use of th e racquetball • notification system as one way to "We bave not reached out to thc examples during a tornado or where areas." A few minor detours notify faculty, staff and students of students yet because 3N is setting up . there is imminent danger, not for Concerning the equipment, • emergency situations occurring on a Web site where the students can go operational things. Vic want Garvilla says that "slightly 50 Horrible! It's the end of the world' their campus. and directly put it into the 3N data­ to stress that we will not percem of the equipmem in the • 3N was employed by the UM­ base," Samples said. He added that overuse that list because weight room is over 15 years old" My commute takes system lasl semester to encourage the Web site would be up sometime sometimes people are and that he "want s a facility with twice as long quicker notificatioD in tbe event of a this semester. leery to give out state of the art equipment." "serious" emergency o'n campus. UM-S\. Louis is the only campus personal infor­ Comparing the workout Highway 40 shut "We can reach people by email, where srudents do not have access !o mation," equipment that other universities down? office phones and we have sound the Peoplesoft program, which makes have, Mizzou's Yecke! Training systems on police vehicles," Samples it difficult for UM-S!. Louis students Cemer in their Atllietic Training This week's question: '. said, as means of Ilotifying the cam­ to register, thus requiring 3N to create Complex has 15,000 square feet The UM system Do you plan to vote on pus of dangerous situations. "That the separate site. hired 3N as the of space for athletes to train in, 'Super Tuesday'? has tended to be what we've done to "Other campuses already have im­ company to help provide along with a 4,OOO-SqI.lHc-fool date:' plemented that." Samples said. The emergency alerts through turf-covered balcony. Samples said the 3N emergency prografn ''will not be implemented text messages to students, INDEX notification ability to reach the cell until later this spring, once this hap­ I faculty and staff who sign up pbones of enrolled students, faculty pens students can access a UM sys­ to receive the messages. What's Current 2 and staff through an automatic mes­ tem website for 3N," he said.