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University of Missouri, St. Louis IRL @ UMSL Current (2000s) Student Newspapers 7-11-2005 Current, July 11, 2005 University of Missouri-St. Louis Follow this and additional works at: http://irl.umsl.edu/current2000s Recommended Citation University of Missouri-St. Louis, "Current, July 11, 2005" (2005). Current (2000s). 260. http://irl.umsl.edu/current2000s/260 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at IRL @ UMSL. It has been accepted for inclusion in Current (2000s) by an authorized administrator of IRL @ UMSL. For more information, please contact [email protected]. New SGA officers See page 4 Make your own begin term -- student org. See page 9 VOLUME 38 July 11 , Special 2005 Orientation ISSUE 1155 Edition His/or)' and Traditions Pierre Laclede ·Honors College bids farewell to one of its founders John Onuska Jr. died of cancer in May BY PAUL HACKBARTH honors college. Touhill desclibed News Editor Onuska as "very focused on the liber al arts and the importance of liberal arts to a person's education." Retired UM-St. Louis professor Touhill said Onuska was instl1l John Onuska Jr., who was one of the mental in changing the two-year hon founders. of the Pierre Laclede Honors ors program to a four-year college College, died of cancer of the esopha that is open to any student with any gus at a hospice in San Diego on May major. 23. Onuska came to the University in Onuska, 67, worked at UM-St. 1969 and became director of the hon Louis in the theater and English ors program in 1985, where he served departments for 30 years. He taught until 1991. He and other professors methodology, Shakespeare and StaI1ed the college to increase stu English literature classes. Onuska dents' experiences in different educa was also involved in student theater tional fields. prcxiuctions and worked with English Bohnenkamp said his involvement faculty as an associate chair of the led to determining the direction of the English department. He was also a future college. "He was velY com graduate coordinator for the English mitted to it," he said. master's degree program. Nancy Gleeson, assistant dean and Onuska, however, is most remem director of writing for the Honors bered for his work in the beginnings College, said, "Onuska had a strong of the Honors College. He and other personal vision of what the college colleagues helped transform the hon would become." ors program at ·UM-St Louis into the Gleeson knew Onuska as a col Honors College. league in the Engli h department. She Associate Dean Dennis described him as "pleasant, a perfec Bohnenkamp was introduced to ti onist and a private person:' She aid Onuska after Bohnenkamp became he et high academic standards for his involved in the Honors College. students. "He really valued high "Onuska was the director of the hon achieving students:' she said. ors program before there even was a "He was outgoing and an enthusi college," Bohnenkamp ex.plained. Mike Sherwinl tbe CUTTe1U astic professor," Bohnenkamp said. "I ''He was very instrunlental in setting really appreciate the opportunity he The Mmennium Student Center is the hub for student activities and services at UM-St. Louis. it up." gave me to work with him in the Onuska worked with former chan Honors College." cellor Blanche Touhill in setting up Onuskaretired from UM-St. Louis UM.. St. Louis at a the college. The two professors in 1999 and moved to San Diego ill . Get to know your campus with shared the same vision for the future 200 t glance The Current's Orientation Issue Campus founded: 1963 Recent UMKC plagiarism BY MIKE SHERWIN wood tables on the first floor of the 2004 Enrollment: Editoi-in-Chie! Mercantile). Approximately 15,550 scandal highlights issue With the opening of the Blanche M. Touhill Welcome to UM-St. Louis! Performing Arts Cen~er, UM-St. Louis now The youngest of the four University of . holds bragging rights among the cultural per Students: . Missouri campuses, UM-St. Louis neverthe formance spaoes throughout the region . 61.9% female, 38.1% male of ac,ldemic dishonesty less has the second largest enrollment, behind Numerous free or discounted shows throughout only MizzOll- In the St Louis area, UM-St. the year allow students to take in a music, BY BEN SWOFFORD give you a view of the world in which Average Student Age: Louis is the largest educational institution and dance or theater perfOlmance within the aes News Associate no culture and no civilization and no the only public research institution. thetic.ally beautiful architecture of the PAC's 27.3 years of age society has ever had a monopoly on Despite its reputation as a commuter cam two theaters. UM-Kansas City Dean of Arts and wisdom and virtue. It will allow you pus, you will find that UM-St. Louis is really . However, cultural niceties aside, UM-St Sciences Bryan LeBeau was suspend to see ambiguous legacies j n the past. what you make of it. The University offers a Louis offers what you are looking for most: an School Colors: ed for allegedly plagiarizing portions to accent hybrid cultures, because vast array of opportunities for academic, per affordable, high-quality university education. Red and Gold of a commencement speech he gave in every culture that we know - including sonal, athletic and social growth. It's up to you The reason you will see UM-St. Louis parking December 2003. our own - is base in prut On fragments whether you want to make use of the opportu stickers and alwnni passes all over the bi-state leBeau was accused of copying of antecedent cultures." leBeau said. nities and resources at hand. region is because the University does just that: Athletics: certain portions of his speech from according to the spe ch as it was pulr With students from a wide mix of back it provides students from all backgrounds the . NCAA Division II one that Cornell West, professor at lished in the De·an's e\\ slelter No.7 grounds, you will likely attend courses with . means to get ahead through education. Princeton and leading African of UM-Kansas City. students who run the gamut from freshmen just We publish our ann~al orientation edition to American academic, gave at a Different portions of the speech out of high school to middle-aged profession acquaint new students with the canlpus com Mascot: Rivennan Wesleyan University commencement were similar, and at one point. LeBeau als, to retirees. With students from close to 100 munity, its history, traditions, and character. We in 1993. uses the san1e quotes from the same countries, you'll be sure to hear different lan hope that as you continue at the University, you LeBeau's speech had large por authors in the same order as West. guages and learn about different cultures. will continue to rely:on The Current to keep tions copied from West's speech The incident of plagiarism would The University offers students access to all you apprised of campus news and events (and almost word for word. have gone WIDoticed except for Sally of the academic libraries of the major research we'll even permit an ocoasional chuckle if we "A tragic sense of history will give Greene, professor at North Carolina universities of Missouri through the MOBIUS let a few typos slip through). Whether it is our you a view of the world in which no Chapel Hill, who Googled a Hegel system, allowing students to check out books of sports scores, our crossword puzzle, the week culture and no civilization and no quote that both West and LeBeau interest from specialized collections across the ly crime log, our news covetage, or our colum society has a monopoly on wisdom used. She found the comparisons state. nists, · we hope you will find something that and virtue. It would allow you to see between both speeches. For lovers of the arts, UM-St. Louis houses will keep you picking up the paper each . ambiguous legacies in the past, to Raleigh Muns. l JM-St. Louis ref four art galleries, including the spectacular col Monday. accent hybrid culture, because every erence librarian and author of an lections of Western Art at the Mercantile On behalf of the staff at The CUrrent, 1'd like culture that we know is based in part Internet page exrunining plagiarim Library (if you're looking for a taste of the Ivy to extend a warm welcome to the newest mem on fragments of antecedent cultures," said the Internet ha~ become a great League, take a seat at one of the expansive bers of the UM-St. Louis community. West said in 1993, according to a trdll tool in detecting plagiarized material. script of the speech. 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