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Archive | February, 2008
‘Deepher dudes’ put it all on for a good cause
Each year, the Alpha Epsilon chapter of Delta Phi Epsilon holds a beauty pageant to raise money for a charity. This year the sorority raised over $1600 to be donated to the Anorexia Nervosa and Associate Disorders.
First-year programs has official chair
After sitting in the position as interim for the past seven months,
Dr. Keisha Hoerrner will serve as the official chair of the Department
of First-Year Programs, starting the first of March.
Nursing students get a lesson in ethics
KSU made history Friday when it brought undergraduate nursing students,
faculty and health care professionals together to discuss ethical
issues in the workplace.
Campus hosts 16 teams in national wheelchair basketball tournament
Blaze Sports hosted the National Prep Wheelchair Basketball Tournament in the Convocation Center over the weekend.
What’s happening inside SG
With Student Government elections approaching, the SG announced
several changes to how the election process will be handled.
Planting seeds in public speaking
Gene Swindell led a short seminar on Wed., Feb. 20 with the
intent of counseling attendees about applying public speaking
principles to their individual lives. With more than two decades of
working experience in communication with several prominent companies,
Swindell shared public speaking techniques, invaluable wisdom and a
personal testimony with KSU students and faculty.
Police Beat
On Friday the 15th, a car was pulled over for turning right onto Busbee Drive against two No Turn on Red signs. The driver and the passenger both had suspended licenses. The driver was placed under arrest. In the automobile, officers found a bag containing one gram of suspected marijuana.
The Chevron on Busbee Drive reported a suspicious substance found on its premises. There was a bag filled with white powder wrapped in black electrical tape found on the floor outside of the drink machine. Two suspicious persons entered the store and asked for a bag with $700 to $800 inside. The clerk stated that it had not been found. After offering a $100 reward for the bag, the two left. Officers found that the bag tested positive for heroin.
On Saturday the 16th, a police officer was dispatched to the Wendy’s Parking Lot on Chastain Road. A woman was allegedly beating a child in an inappropriate manner. The child was found to be upset but okay and the Department of Family and Children services was contacted after the incident.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics
A wiser soul than me once commented that there are “lies, damned
lies, and statistics.” Reading over Casey Childers’s article
“Professors to take petition to legislature over low funding” in the
February 12, 2008 Sentinel I was reminded of that quote.
Read more.
Student athletes subjected to unfair monitoring
Last week, Sentinel reporter Kelly Blaine filed another stellar
piece of collegiate journalism about a policy in KSU’s Athletic
Department.
Read more.
The invisible chains of modern day slavery
“In the face of pure evil would you do nothing to stop it, or would
you do everything?” As we all know here at KSU our history reveals
moments of horrific events that have always followed with courageous
leaders that refused to allow injustice to persevere.
Read more.
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