Vol. 16 No. 26 March 27, 2012

Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss to Serve as Inaugural Holman Family Distinguished Speaker April 14

ichael Beschloss, the award-winning “Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders provide leadership lessons for all of us. Mhistorian and author, will speak at and How They Changed America, 1789- This will be the first installment of the 8 p.m. April 14 in Baldwin Auditorium as 1989.” He describes crucial times when Holman Family Distinguished Speaker part of the Holman Family courageous presidents took Series, named in honor of Squire Paul and Distinguished Speaker Series. risks and overcame obstacles Meeda (Daniel) Holman by their children Beschloss serves as the to dramatically change the to honor their parents’ long association NBC News Presidential future of the United States. with Truman. It is funded through an historian and he appears A natural storyteller, endowment with the Truman State regularly on “Meet The Beschloss details the University Foundation. Press,” the “Today” program outstanding traits of Free tickets may be picked up at the and “PBS NewsHour.” The past presidents and then Student Union Building Information Desk award-winning historian and compares them to the or the Public Relations Office in McClain author of nine books has current crop of presidential Hall 202. been described by Newsweek candidates for an insightful Tickets may also be picked up at Edna as “the nation’s leading glance into America’s Campbells gift shop in downtown Kirksville Presidential historian.” political future. He also or the Kirksville High School. For more Beschloss will speak uses what he has discovered information on how to obtain tickets, email about his best-selling book Michael Beschloss about presidential courage to [email protected] or call 785.4016.

Student Programs Merge to Form the New Center for Academic Excellence

n an effort to better serve Truman is currently the interim director of the Istudents and to better coordinate Student Success Center. Previously, student success initiatives and first-year Holcomb was an academic advisor in New advising, effective July 1, New Student Student Programs. Programs and the Student Success Center The creation of the Center for will be merged into a new entity: the Academic Excellence required no new Center for Academic Excellence. budget dollars. While the director of Taking on the current missions of the Center for Academic Excellence is a New Student Programs and the Student new position, the director of the Student Success Center, the Center for Academic Success Center was eliminated. Excellence is charged with offering All of the advisors in New Student programs and services that allow all Programs have been transferred to the Truman students to reach their academic Center for Academic Excellence. There potentials. The newly formed Center has been no net increase in the number of will be led by Jack Holcomb. Holcomb employees. Alumnus and Student Connect at Facebook hile Facebook continues to be a forerunner in give another Truman student the same shot that I Wshaping how people communicate, an alumnus had.” and current student from Truman are working to After consulting with some former professors, Paging All Doctors leave their mark on the social networking giant. student Christian Johns came highly recommended to The Career Center Corey Owens (’06) has been working at Facebook Owens. Johns, who was studying abroad in Australia is hosting Paging All for the past two years. Currently he operates out of at the time, immediately applied and even interviewed Doctors now until the company’s Washington, D.C., office managing at 4 a.m. to compensate for the time difference. March 28. Events Facebook’s federal political action committee, state Johns, a political science major who has already include learning about legislative affairs and a number of other policy issues been accepted to a number of law schools, has spent the graduate school such as data center infrastructure. As guidelines are this semester working on state and local legislative admissions process, a constantly being reshaped in the digital era, Owens is issues as well as assisting Owens with some of the day- networking reception with health care professionals, in a unique position to influence Facebook and social to-day operations of the political action committee. medicine demonstrations, media for years to come. “Thankfully, Corey and a few other people in our MCAT test preparation “We’re involved in dozens of policy areas and office have given me the opportunity to work on and more. For more there’s always more work to be done than you can some projects that interest me, and they value my information and to handle at any one moment,” Owens said. “Having contribution every day,” Johns said. “The goal of most register for events, go to that kind of license to explore and try new things is internships is to gain valuable work experience in a career.truman.edu. very different than other jobs I’ve had.” field, and also get the opportunity to network and Owens credits the education he received at make good impressions. I can’t think of a place where Mock Interview Day Truman with some of the success he has experienced I could have a better chance to do those things than Mock Interview Day will take place April at Facebook. working at Facebook’s D.C. office.” 13. Mock interviewers “Working in public policy requires being Like many companies, Facebook offers several from all majors will conversant in a lot of subject areas,” he said. “Truman different areas where potential interns can get be in attendance. To has always aimed to produce well-rounded graduates involved, including programming, communications register, bring a resume with exposure to many fields, and that training has and policy, to name a few. to the Career Center. To certainly helped me in this job.” Not surprisingly, Johns credits good grades learn more about Mock Owens’ Truman education is one of the reasons he and extracurricular activities with helping get his Interview Day and who is working in Washington, D.C., today. As a student, internship, but he also credits his association with will be attending, go to he completed an internship in the capital for the Truman. career.truman.edu. American Civil Liberties Union and after graduation “I keep finding that the reputation of Truman got his first job with the organization. students precedes us,” he said. “In some ways, just A Conversation on the A few years later, a former colleague recruited him being a Truman undergrad can put you in some Liberal Arts to Facebook for his experience with digital privacy conversations that other students don’t get to St u d e n t Vo i c e s o n t h e issues. experience.” Li b e r a l Ar t s Once Owens was in a position to select members Johns’ internship will end in May, and as of now, of his own team at Facebook, he reached out to his he plans on attending law school in the fall. While 7-8 p.m. • April 2 alma mater. he may be the first Truman student to intern with Georgian Room B “I was eager to give a Truman student the Facebook, he probably will not be the last. Why a public liberal same kind of positive experience I had during my “Christian’s done really well here, so I’m sure arts and sciences internship in Washington,” he said. “My internship we’ll be keeping Truman students in mind for future university in the 21st gave me an amazing opportunity, and I wanted to internships,” Owens said. century? Cagle and Gillette Earn Points of Excellence Awards The Points of Excellence Award was recently presented to two staff members. Wanda Cagle from Pickler Memorial Library and Nathan Gillette from Information Technology Services were selected by the Staff Recognition Committee to receive this award. Cagle was recognized for the support she provided to the Provost Search Committee and Gillette was recognized for his IT support. Cagle, left, and Gillette, right, accepted their awards from President Troy D. Paino. Annual Cookout for Kids to Raise Funds SIFE Pr o g r a m for Hole in the Wall Gang Camps He lps Pr e g n a n t Mo t h e r s in Af r i c a hi Kappa Tau will be conducting the 17th For more information, email gar2775@ PAnnual Cookout for Kids April 17 to benefit truman.edu. ruman Students in Free the Hole in the Wall Gang Camps for children Hole in the Wall Gang Camps were founded TEnterprise (SIFE) has with chronic or terminal illnesses. by Paul Newman, a Phi Tau alumnus. They established a partnership with The cookout menu includes barbecued half provide multiple one-week camping experiences Because Every Mother Matters chicken or pork steak, baked beans, coleslaw, for children who suffer from chronic and terminal (BEMM) with the goal of bread and a soda or bottled water for $8. Food illnesses that require around-the-clock care and helping them improve their is delivered or can be picked up between 10:30 frequent hospitalizations. The camps provide these business practices. a.m.-2 p.m. at 215 N. High Street. Orders will experiences free of charge to children’s families BEMM works across Eastern be taken in the Student Union Building April and it is only through contributions that the Africa to promote health and 2-5 and McClain and Centennial halls April 2-6. camps are able to continue. self-sufficiency, especially for Students will be able to place orders until April In the last three years, the Delta Omega pregnant women. They created 12. chapter has contributed more than $5,000. a mother sponsorship that “adopts” mothers, established maternal health centers and Student Receives Critical Language Scholarship educated women with health hawn Bodden, an English, Russian and The CLS Program is part of a U.S. government training. Slinguistics triple major from Florissant, Mo., effort to dramatically expand the number of So far, SIFE has created was selected for the 2012 Critical Language Americans studying and mastering critical foreign sponsorship packets for African Scholarship (CLS) Program intensive summer languages. CLS institutes provide fully funded mothers so they may find a institute in mid-March for his studies in Russian. group-based intensive language instruction and sponsor as well as arrange Bodden will be spending eight weeks in Kazan, structured cultural enrichment experiences for agreements to sell BEMM Russia this summer as part of his scholarship. seven to 10 weeks for U.S. undergraduate and headbands. SIFE’s outlook is to While there, he will spend five days a week in graduate students. expand BEMM’s product line the classroom, live with a host family, have a The Program caters to all majors and areas of beyond headbands to T-shirts peer tutor and participate in cultural excursions. study. Students may apply for one language and and canvas bags with the Bodden plans to use this experience in pursuing will be placed at institute sites based on language BEMM logo. They also hope a career in diplomacy with a focus on Eastern evaluations after selection. to reach out to more subjected Europe. women. “I have been privileged to Notables work with the organization Twelve Truman students traveled to Columbia, Huping Ling, professor of history, has been founder, Steffany Boster, to Mo., March 16-18 for the annual convention selected by the University of Saskatchewan as a have a direct impact on the of Eta Sigma Phi, the collegiate national classics Role Model Speaker at the College of Art and organization and their future honor society. Lauren Milburn represented Science in 2012. She will deliver a public lecture undertakings,” said Anna Truman as national secretary (megale grammateus) on the “Rise of China and Chinese in North Elzein, the student leading throughout the meeting. David Giovagnoli was America” on May 15. On March 29 and March SIFE’s efforts. “I am excited chosen to present his paper “Echoes of Sapphic 30, Ling will give a series of invited public lectures to continue this partnership Voices: Masculine Construction in the Catullan in Chicago on her newly published book “Chinese and carry out our plans to help Corpus” at the 2013 annual meeting of the Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration, and expand BEMM’s impact and American Philological Association. Giovagnoli Community Since 1870.” She has been invited encourage their mission.” also took third place in the national Latin prose by DePaul University for its “Women’s History SIFE intends to continue composition contest. Hannah Lantz was elected Month Lecture” to deliver a public lecture on their work with BEMM for the as national treasurer (megale chrysophylax) and “Celestial Women in the Windy City” on March coming years to positively affect Jordan Dillon as national vice president (megas 29. Ling also was invited by the Asian American the mothers of Africa. hyparchos) for 2012-2013. Bridget Thomas, Studies Program at the University of Illinois in professor of classics and advisor to Truman’s Eta Chicago to give a public lecture on March 30, Al p h a Ph i Om e g a Sigma Phi chapter, accompanied the students. and by the Chinese American Service League to Bl oo d Dr i v e give a public lecture on “Chinese Community in Jerrold Hirsch, professor of history, gave a talk Chicago.” on “Folklore for the Public: Ballad Scholarship, 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Revivals, and the Botkin/Dorson Wars” to the Daniel Mandell, professor of history, had two April 3-4 Indiana University Folklore Department, March 7 articles, “Massachusetts” and “Rhode Island,” Student Union Building in Bloomington, Ind. published in Native America: A State-By-State Georgian Rooms Historical Encyclopedia. Notes What Does it Mean to be Re t i r e m e n t Re c e p t i o n Truman’s campus liaison for Women’s Resource Center will a Bulldog Video Contest The Truman community is invited the Washington Center will be having Women’s History The Office of Citizenship and to share in a retirement reception give an informal presentation Trivia from 7-9 p.m. March 28 Community Standards (OCCS) in honor of: at 2 p.m. March 27 in the in Baldwin Hall 303. is now accepting entries for Student Union Building Alumni its Bulldog Video Contest. Ray Barrow, professor of Room. Students interested in T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize winning Winning entries will be creative sociology, retiring after 30 years of participating in a Washington, authors will conduct a panel videos that capture the essence service to Truman D.C., internship are encouraged at 1:30 p.m. March 29 in the of the Truman experience. to attend and bring questions. Student Union Building Alumni Specifically: What does it mean Jonathan Smith, associate Room and a poetry reading at 7 to be a Truman student? How do professor of geography, retiring after 18 years of service to Truman’s Tunnel of p.m. March 29 in the Student you define the Truman college experience? The OCCS will Truman Oppression will take place Union Building Down Under. accept individual or group from 7-9 p.m. March 27 on Their visit is in celebration of entries and will award Truman 2:30-4:30 p.m. • April 11 the fifth floor of Centennial the University Press’ 25 years of Bookstore gift certificates for the Student Union Building Hall. The tour sheds light on publishing. top contestants: first place, $150; Conference Room oppression and injustice. second place, $100; third place, Beta Alpha Psi will provide $50. Entries will be accepted One Day Without Shoes The Faculty Lunch-n-Learn free income tax assistance to through March 30. Visit conduct.truman.edu for more series continues from 11:30 students and the community The National Communication information and contest rules. a.m.-12:30 p.m. March 28 from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. March Association Student Club is hosting in Pickler Memorial Library 31 in Violette Hall 1424. For the event “TSU One Day Without 103. This session will focus complete details visit bap. Pickler Memorial Library Shoes” in conjunction with the on two GoogleApps used here truman.edu or email lmd6224@ worldwide TOMS event April 10. at Truman: Google Docs and truman.edu. Time to write a bibliography? Google Sites. On this day, the club will spread There are several online resources awareness of the impact a pair of shoes “Love Deferred: The Problem that can help. EndNote allows users can have on a child’s life by asking the No More Ramen: The of Unity in Theocritus’Idyll to download citations and then Truman community to take off their 20-Something’s Real World 22,” a presentation by alumna formats them in the selected citation own. Millions of children live without Survival Guide, presented by Lisa Feldkamp, Ph.D., will style. Zotero is a similar product, proper footwear, exposing them to speaker Nicholas Aretakis, will take place at 4 p.m. April 2 in but it only works on FireFox injury and disease everyday. take place at 7 p.m. March 28 Ophelia Parrish 2210. There browsers. For examples of how to in the Student Union Building will be a reception and informal format bibliographic citations in the “Shoeless” t-shirts will be available Activities Room. Aretakis will discussion about graduate three major styles—MLA, APA and to purchase for $6. For more offer advice on jobs, money, school immediately following. Turabian—visit library.truman.edu/ information, contact weblinks/citing-sources.asp. [email protected] or visit the balance, life and more. His This event is sponsored by the Facebook Event TSU ONE DAY presentation is sponsored by Department of Classical and WITHOUT SHOES. Delta Sigma Pi and SIFE. Modern Languages. Gl o b a l Is s u e s Co l l o q u i u m

SUB Room Reservation Lottery “Unworking Asia: The Demise “Savages and Throwbacks: Reservation requests for the fall semester will be of Hand Painted Political Racism and Heterosexism in accepted from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. April 2-5 in the Student Graphics in the Digital Age” 20th Century America” Union Building Reservation Office, Suite 2000. All requests 7 p.m. • April 5 must be submitted in writing on a reservation form. Forms A lecture by professor and author Student Union Building will be available at studentunion.truman.edu/lottery. Ladelle McWhorter. Confirmations will be mailed out by April 27. Activities Room Aaron Fine, professor of art and Address all questions to the SUB Reservation Office, 4:30 p.m. • March 30 gallery director 785-4186, or [email protected]. Student Union Building Activities Room The 2012-2013 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is now available FAFSA at fafsa.gov. It is important to apply before April 1 to be considered for all available McWhorter, a professor of Applications funding. The government allows filing with estimates in order to meet early state or philosophy at the University of Richmond, is also the author of Due April 1 institutional deadlines. The FAFSA is also required for Parent (PLUS) Loans. Contact the Financial Aid Office in McClain Hall 103, or call 785.4130 with any questions. “Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America: A Genealogy.” This event is sponsored by the The Students Supporting the Exceptional Community is looking for volunteers to be Jonny and Dave Eisenberg Special Olympics buddies for the athletes at the Special Olympics, 12-5 p.m. April 21. Buddies will remain with Speaker’s Fund, the Department Buddies Needed an assigned athlete all day; cheering them on and helping them enter their events. Volunteers of English and Linguistics and the can sign up to be a buddy anytime by contacting Kristen Little at [email protected]. Office of Interdisciplinary Studies.