.com Volume 7, Number 20 Student Newspaper of March 4, 2014 Housing Butler triumphs, seven registration Page 2 advance to nationals 2014 Oscar Brett Morrison Staff Reporter coverage Page 5 This past weekend, Lindenwood’s Mens wrestling team traveled to Edmond, Okla. for the 2014 NCAA Division II Basketball Super Regionals. The Lions had earned a berth senior night in the regionals Feb. 16 when Page 7 they finished second in the MIAA tournament. The Lions went into the tournament being the No. 8 ranked team in the country and had some False bomb tough competition including No. 2 Nebraska-Kearney, No. 3 St. Cloud State, No. 4 Central threat case Oklahoma, No. 6 Upper Iowa, No. 15 Fort Hays, and No. 17 reaches Ouachita Baptist. This was the Lions’ first ever appearance in the Super sentence Regionals, coming in second Aeriel Niccum place with a team score of 99.5 Staff Reporter points, placing only seven points behind winner Nebraska-Kearney. A former LU student was Along with the second overall sentenced last week to five years team score, LU has qualified seven of supervised probation after she wrestlers into the NCAA Division Image from lindenwoodlions.com pleaded guilty to calling in a false II Wrestling Championships, Heavyweight Steven Butler won Super Regional over the weekend. He will go on to wrestle at the bomb threat last year. which is set to take place March Division II Championships. In addition to the supervised 14-15 from the Public Hall in probation, Circuit Judge Rick Cleveland, Ohio. his opponents on the first day, Hopp of Upper Iowa University. John McArdle and Kenny Breaux Zerr handed down a three-year Another first took place including two pins in his first two Butler then went on to take in Cleveland as they each compete suspended sentence to Lori in Edmond, as 6’2, 285lbs matches. The first one coming just the trophy with a score of 6-2 for a national title. Knight, 39. senior Steven Butler captured 30 seconds into the match and the against Lorezo Serna of Newman The Lions will be lead by head Saint Charles Prosecuting Lindenwood’s first ever second one at 5:21. University. coach Chad Smith, who earned Attorney Tim Lohmar said the regional trophy by winning the He advanced to the semi- Butler will join teammates MIAA Coach of the Year honors sentence means that Knight heavyweight class. final match, where he scored 3-1 Kyle Webb, Marco Tamayo, as they look to continue their will serve the three-year prison Butler made quick work of against the No.3 wrestler Logan Terrel Wilbourn, Derrick Weller, successful season. term only if she violates any of the conditions of her probation. However, the felony conviction will stay on Knight’s record. According to Lindenwood in- ‘Greatest free show on Earth’ house counsel Eric Stuhler, the conditions of Knight’s probation are as follows: • No consumption of alcohol Students visit Soulard for cultural celebration • $2,500 in restitution to LU Constanza Flores • No contact with LU staff or Staff Reporter be a good time. about many New Soulard, the second for the first time. to this big party too. faculty Today the Orleans’ Mardi Gras biggest Mardi Gras “I think that Mardi Espitia did not • No entry on any LU properties Mardi Gras season reputation of Mardi traditions such as the party in the U.S. Gras is really a day know the actual • Psychiatric and substance started on Jan. 6, Gras is being “throws,” the official On Saturday, and excuse to drink meaning of Mardi otherwise known as seriously tarnished by colors, and Mardi March 1, a few LU for hours and to try to Gras, even though he abuse evaluations Three King’s Day the “party-goers.” Gras being declared a students went to make drunk girls do has been there two Officials had accused Knight or Epiphany Night. People have long holiday (Mardi Gras celebrate this party in ‘anything’ for a lame times. of calling in a false bomb threat Even though Mardi forgotten the history New Orleans). Soulard. bead necklace. “People always tell at 10:33 a.m. on May 1, 2013. Gras can be traced all of Mardi Gras that St. Louis hosts Anna Francesca “This was my first me that in the morning Knight apparently called in the the way back to pagan makes it what it is a grand Carnival Bruno, a LU junior, Mardi Gras experience there is a ‘cultural threat to avoid going to her 6 p.m. times in Rome, it has today. celebration, the center went to Soulard to downtown. It carnival’ then, it’s class after not having completed always been known to The 1870s brought of Mardi Gras, in celebrate Mardi Gras was really a cool all alcohol and party homework and wishing to go environment with so everywhere,” Espitia drinking that night instead of many people from all said. attending class. around the world,” In other countries Knight was accused of making Bruno said. there are festivals the false threat from a blocked Bruno missed the similar to Mardi Gras. phone number while on break at parade but said she It is more her Division of Family Services would like to see what about culture than workplace. Knight called that is all about next drunkenness. anonymously and said her brother year. “In Colombia, there planned to bomb Lindenwood “My advice for is a couple of carnivals. that night. Two hours later, Knight going downtown for Barranquilla carnival called the Westport extension Mardi Gras is don’t is the famous one; it campus asking if classes had been go alone,” she said. is a combination of cancelled. Knight claimed her “Have a group of Colombian culture niece had heard rumors of a bomb people you can trust with party. threat. with you, have your “I think that Charter Communications and cell phone on you, Barranquilla carnival the Information Technology don’t tear necklaces has more culture Department of Lindenwood off of random people than Mardi Gras. linked the blocked number to a and don’t leave The celebration it is number in Knight’s student file. anyone behind,” about miscegenation Following the triangulation of Bruno added. and about typical Knight’s number, Stuhler said, Julian Espitia, a cultural things from Knight was apprehended at her Legacy Photo by Jaime Fernandez sophomore LU student Colombia,” Espitia Division of Family Services The Soulard Mardi Gras celebration is the second largest in the nation. from Colombia, went said. workplace and expelled from LU. Page 2 NEWS March 4, 2014 Online classes Lindenwood Honors “Names that built LU” profiles 28 campus benefit some buildings named after College benefits high Lindenwood personnel. but not all Each week, we will uncover the stories Lisbeth Sandoe performing students Staff Reporter behind these people, and Connor Johnson Mueller, a sophomore at how they shaped LU. Online classes will Staff Reporter Lindenwood University. Legacy Graphic by Cameron Poindexter begin on March 10, and While the Honors while the format may have While the end of the College has benefited its advantages, it may not spring semester of 2014 students at Lindenwood, benefit all students. may seem far away professors have also been Sarah O’Daniel has a for some students at benefited by being allowed tight schedule this spring Lindenwood University, the pleasure to take their semester, and she has registration for the fall students to a deep level therefore decided to take semester of 2014 is academically. the online class Music in already upon them and The program America. for students enrolled in accomplishes this deeper “With an online course the Honors College that level of academic rigor it would be much easier to means as early as March by two ways, the first is stay caught up with class 3. by taking an honors level work, considering I can sit The Honors College, course with a maximum down and learn whenever which was formed in of twenty students, the I have time, and not at a the early 1990s, is an second is assigning specific hour every other opportunity for high special honors projects to Photo from Mary Ambler Archives day,” O’Daniel said. performing students honors students who have Jim Shoemake, President James Evans and Jerry Scheidegger attend naming ceremony of She does not think, to be engaged on a successfully completed the J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts. however, that the online more sophisticated the course with the letter class is the best choice for level intellectually and grade of an A. everyone. academically. Rachel Douchant, co- Scheidegger Center signals new era “I think that the fact that Though support for chair of the Honors College Michael Sprague the college, designing the Corporate Group Inc. there is no exact scheduled the college was initially and Associate Professor Style Editor Scheidegger Center as Scheidegger has also time in which students have skeptical, support for of Philosophy, expressed The J. Scheidegger well. served as the chairman of to sit down and actually the school has grown that she wanted qualified Center for the Arts houses Jerry Scheidegger the board for the company. learn, for people who are over time, and today students to take advantage some of Lindenwood’s ultimately put forth $2 Corporate Group, procrastinators, it may be there are over 400 of the experiences that are most modern programs million for the naming according to its website, much harder to get your people registered for the offered to students within and equipment. Both the rights to the building.