Spring Break
Three students ate a breakfast last week that has since turned their lives around. Eunice Stone of Cartersville, Ga. called the authorities when she allegedly heard the three making references to Sept. 11 and laughing at Shoney's in Gainesville, Fla.
To kick off the fall 2002 semester, Communiversity held its first Sign-up Party in recent years. Musical performances by Gerald Trimble, international musician of multiple cultures, instruments, centuries and languages, and a free chair massage from chiropractor Sarabnam Khalsa brought many students to the University Center's cafeteria.
A panel discussion marked the start of a series of campus-wide events to commemorate Sept. 11 last Tuesday, where various faculty members held a sober and detailed public policy discussion. The roundtable discussion, hosted by the Department of Political Science, was entitled "September 11, 2002: One Year into America's War on Terrorism.
On behalf of all the pedestrians, bicyclists, and moped drivers on campus, the University would like to warn everyone that there are somewhat new stop signs at the four-way stop at 52nd and Oak Street. Students are used to plow through there with reckless abandon, but in the future motorist are encouraged to take a moment and totally pause there.
Fourteen med students receive Dean's Scholarships Though being a physician is usually a surefire way of becoming wealthy, paying for medical school is an even better way to become poor. Luckily, a few exemplary students at the School of Medicine just received a bit of help.
As students settle into the semester and focus their attention from the rapidly decreasing days left until summer's end back to the routine of school and classwork, student ambassadors are already preparing for and focusing on ways to get more incoming freshmen and transfer students to choose UMKC as the university they want to attend for next year.
The Muslim Student Association (MSA) is looking for a permanent prayer space on campus. The space would give them a place in which to follow their religious obligation of praying five times a day without having to leave the campus between classes to do so.
After a moment of silence was taken last Wednesday, Sept. 11, the Student Government Association's (SGA) Senate held their third meeting this semester in the University Center, Room 117. The privatized housing, credit card soliciting and Alumni Association's additional graduation fees were among the major topics discussed and assessed by the elected officials during the meeting.
Just behind UMKC's Cockefair Hall, where the sounds and sights of higher education are conducted everyday, there is a different type of education taking place. It is the formation and the development of a young child's mind in its most impressionable years.
Any films associated with Sept.11 may evoke the distasteful depictions of death akin to such films as those in the "Faces of Death" series. Many found that Sept.11 films can also evoke thought-provoking and emotional reactions as well, as numerous students attended screenings of "WTC: Uncut" and "Underground Zero last Wednesday, as well as a lecture by "WTC: Uncut" co-director Steven Mudrick.
The International Student Council sponsored the planting of a tree in honor of America at last week's Sept.11 memorial. The tree is accompanied with the above plaque so as to avoid confusion of this tree with other, undedicated trees on campus. The official memorial service, titled "A Community of Learners Remember with Chancellor Gilliland," took place on the UMKC breezeway and was attended by a large number of administrators, faculty, passing students, and various community members.
