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RELEASE SSU Board of
Trustees Executive Committee
The Shawnee State University Board of Trustees
Executive Committee Meeting scheduled for January 14, 2002, has been
cancelled due to a light agenda. The
next meeting will be a full Board meeting on February 8 at 1:15 p.m.
in the Selby Board Room in the Clark Memorial Library on the SSU
campus. ### FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE (Article by John Shelton, communications specialist, Office of Communications) SSU Becomes Cisco Academy
The fall 2001 quarter marked the first time Shawnee State University
has offered training and courses toward Cisco certification.
“We are one of the few
local adult Cisco academies,” Cristy D. Boggs, manager of Computer
Enrichment Training, said.
Training and classes
prepare students to take the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
exam, Boggs said.
“The credentials of this
certification are highly recognized in the networking industry,”
Boggs said. “It is
highly sought after by businesses, schools, manufacturers, and
anyone who is on an Internet network.”
Training for the
certification started in August and classes began Oct. 4.
The program continues over a period of four semesters.
“Students who take the
classes learn how to install, configure and trouble shoot Cisco
routers and to operate simple routed LAN, WAN, and switched LAN
networks, incorporating Cisco products,” Boggs said.
More information about the courses and training is available from Boggs at SSU’s Office of University Outreach Services by calling (740) 351-3178. ### FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE SSU Offers Continuing Education for Hobby Seekers PORTSMOUTH, Ohio—Shawnee State University (SSU) is reaching
out to the community in a way most people would expect—by offering
classes; however the kinds of classes the institution is offering
are not your typical university courses.
Beginning in March, community education courses that range
from silk flower arranging to carpentry will be offered to anyone
interested.
As part of SSU’s Office of University Outreach Services,
the Community Education program offers the community interesting and
unique classes to satisfy the tastes of all those looking to expand
their hobbies or interests. The
classes are offered based on either an individual who would like to
teach a course or a group who would like to take a class in a
specific area. The
program is designed to match instructors with students. Megan Horne, coordinator for the
Community Education program, explained, “If one person has an
interest, then most likely there are others who will enjoy it,
too.” That may explain the potpourri of
classes offered, some just for one night and others that last over
the course of weeks, with start dates ranging from March to July.
For instance, there are courses offered in arts and crafts;
finance; fine arts and humanities; health, activity, and training;
home and family; and test preparation. Specific examples of the classes that are being offered
include “One Stroke Painting,” “Quilted Purses,” “Wealth
Accumulation and Asset Management Seminar,” “Conversational
Japanese,” “Piano in a Flash: Blues and Boogie Woogie,”
“Swing and Jitterbug Dancing,” “CPR Training,” “Home
Maintenance Series,” and “ACT Practice Test.” Those interested in taking courses,
which range in cost from absolutely free to $129 (for a SCUBA
class), need not be SSU students because the courses are non-credit.
For a complete listing of courses or to sign up contact
University Outreach Services at (740) 351-3535 or toll-free at (866)
672-8778. Horne hopes that this will be a
great way for people to share their interests and participate in
some unique experiences. Japanese
Kendo Fencing anyone? # # # FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE (Article by Erica Fulton, communications specialist, Office of Communications) SSU
Theatre Presents Extremities
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio – Shawnee State
University’s (SSU) theater department delves into the
controversial and disturbing subject of rape for their upcoming
performance of the hard-hitting drama, Extremities,
which is set to open on January 31 and run until February 2 at
SSU’s Kahl Theater located in the Vern Riffe Center for the Arts
on the SSU campus in Portsmouth.
The drama, written by William
Mastrosimone and directed by Leo Schlosser, attempts to explore the
issue of rape in an honest and compelling way.
Schlosser explained, “ There are
a lot of myths about rape and this play attempts to shatter those
myths.”
As a result, the adult drama
contains violence, rape, and strong language, which may not be
suitable for audience members under 17; however, Schlosser
maintained that these elements are not gratuitous, but called for
given the subject matter and actions of the play.
Lead actress Brandy Ann Chandler,
who plays Marjorie, echoed the sentiment that Extremities is
a challenge, both to the cast and the audience.
“The audience is going to be
uncomfortable at times, but they’re going to leave with a better
sense of how rape affects the victims and the people around them,”
Chandler said.
The all-student cast of four went
on a mental journey preparing for the difficult roles that they
play. Chandler
confessed that preparation has been demanding, both physically and
mentally, especially for her because she takes part in the rape
scene.
Chandler, who shares the stage with
fellow students Josh Holt, Jessica Snyder, and Rebecca Martin, hopes
that the audience will value the honesty of the play.
“It’s something that needs to be talked about. We’ve
all worked really hard and I hope the audience will appreciate
it,” she said. When
it was performed off-Broadway and then adapted for film, Extremities
sparked a controversy concerning rape and a victim’s need for
revenge. The
inspiration for the play came when playwright Mastrosimone
met a 55-year-old rape victim. She shared with him her terrible ordeal of being raped, going
to trial, and watching her attacker set free because he “looked
like the son of a minister.”
Tickets for the play can be purchased at the McKinley Box Office, (740) 351-3600, for $5 for SSU students, staff and faculty; seniors, and military personnel; $7 general admission; and $15 for a special dinner and a show on Friday evening. Dinner will begin at 5:30 and the show will follow at 7:00 p.m. ### FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE (Article by Shannon Hess, communications specialist, Office of Communications) SSU
Homecoming Saturday To all past and present Shawnee State University (SSU)
students: Homecoming is here! Homecoming
is an opportunity for the alumni and current students of SSU to
merge and "celebrate the past and present," says Tiffany
Weaver from SSU’s Office of Student Activities.
Weaver invites all students and alumni to come out and enjoy
the activities planned this week, through January 26. Shawnee State University's Student Programming Board
has planned an array of events for the week, leading up to the
crowning of king and queen and the dance scheduled for Saturday. Tuesday, in the University Center (UC), students had the
opportunity to meet the candidates for Homecoming King and Queen.
Those who were not able to attend can meet them at the pep rally
scheduled for Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Rhodes Athletic Center.
The candidates are judged on their academic achievements
(including GPA), school involvement, community service, and
popularity. Students can vote on the candidates of their choice
today through Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the University
Center. Saturday's activities will begin with the SSU Women's
Basketball Team playing Ohio Dominican at 2 p.m. The men's game
begins at 4 p.m. and the crowning of Homecoming King and Queen will
take place between the games. The dance will be held at the American
legion at 9 p.m. The theme is "A Moment In Time" and the
venue will be decorated as a winter wonderland, Weaver said. The
cost is $3 per person or $5 per couple with a Shawnee State
University student ID. "All current SSU students and alumni are invited
to attend the game and the dance," Weaver said. For more information, contact Weaver at (740)
351-3483. #
# # FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE Fall 2001 quarter
marked start of Honors Program In her first year at Shawnee State University (SSU),
Tracy Leo of Pemberville, Ohio, has already declared her major:
business administration. Leo
says when she graduates from SSU she plans to attend law school. Leo has
something in common with 40 other SSU students. She is a first-time participant in SSU’s new Honors
Program. Dr. Clifford
“Chip” Poirot, Honors Program director, said the Program is a
way of singling out students who have demonstrated they are high
achievers and giving them an incentive to come to SSU. About 200
invitation letters were sent to graduating high school seniors
informing them of the program and 60 of those students responded,
Poirot said. In June, the
program sponsored an honors orientation, and offered two honors
sections of English 111—Discourse and Composition—during the
fall quarter, Poirot said. The
program will offer honors sections of English 112—Composition and
Research—in the spring, he said.
Shannon L.
Lawson, a faculty member in the Department of English and Humanities
at SSU, and Dr. Darren Harris-Fain, associate professor of English,
taught the sections during fall quarter. According to
the Office of the Registrar, a total of 41 students enrolled in the
two sections in the fall. “The
Honors Program is an effort to provide a more challenging curriculum
to a group of select students,” Poirot said.
Honors students are expected to do more independent work,
critical thinking, reading, and writing. Benefits
students get from the Honors Program are smaller class sizes, more
interaction with their teachers, and the opportunity to register for
classes first, Poirot said. Leo said
Harris-Fain’s section of English 111 was “challenging,” and
“set up well.” The
class of about 20 students arranged their desks in a horseshoe
fashion, she said. “It was
good because we were facing our peers and there was a lot of room
for open discussion, as opposed to other classes where you just
listen to the professor drone on,” Leo said. “In (English 111)
there was a lot more discussion; I got to know my peers in the class
a lot better.” English 111
was more of a writing class, Leo said.
“We did reading but it was related to the writing we were
going to do.” The
Honors Program also gave students opportunities to do and see things
that they might not have been able to do on a college student’s
budget, Leo said. The
class went to the Toledo Museum of Art, the Golden Panda restaurant,
and saw a production of “My Fair Lady,” she said. In the
future, Poirot said, there is a possibility the Honors Program might
offer, “something like a special honors dorm.” Leo said, in
the future the program should offer more classes, keep students
updated on upcoming events, and “branch off and have honors
classes or seminars that go along with the students’ major.” Current or prospective students who are interested in the Honors Program at SSU should contact Poirot at (740) 351-3396, or via e-mail at cpoirot@shawnee.edu. #
# # FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE Marshall
University Offering Two Two
Marshall University master’s degree programs will continue at
Shawnee State University this month.
The
new programs in environmental science and safety and health, offered
through the SSU Graduate Center, just completed the first course and
will be starting a second set of courses next month.
The programs have been approved by the Ohio Board of Regents
to be offered at SSU. This
is the first out-of-state approval for graduate programs hosted by
Shawnee State. The
first class for these degrees dealt with environmental law and was
team-taught by two environmental legal experts. Lynn
Wilber, a student in the first course, said it was a positive
experience for her and having the MU program at SSU is an
opportunity to get a top-notch master’s degree close to home. “My
experience in the environmental law class this past quarter was
super! Our professors
were lawyers from the Charleston area and were full of useful
information and were excellent teachers and very well prepared, even
bringing in guest speakers from Charleston a couple of times,” she
said. Wilber
said the Graduate Center at SSU is always read to get whatever
information students need and are very friendly and eager to help. “I
would highly recommend this program, and even if you are just
needing some coursework in environmental or safety and health area,
these courses will most likely be useful to your program of
study,” she said. David
Todt, Ph.D., director of the SSU Graduate Center, said Marshall
University is bringing the two high quality master’s degree
programs to southern Ohio to serve the needs of industry and
government in this part of the state. “The
Ohio Board of Regents recognized the need for such programs when
they approved these programs to be offered at Shawnee State
University,” Todt said. Marshall
University is the fifth institution that Shawnee State University
has hosted for offering master’s degree programs in southern Ohio.
There
will be an informational meeting for interested students on Tuesday,
January 8, 2002. Classes
will begin on January 24 and 25.
Anyone interested in additional information should call
Marshall University at (304) 696-5455, or the SSU Graduate Center at
(740) 351-3177. Todt
said the first cohort to finish one of the SSU Graduate Center's
programs walked across the stage at commencement exercises at the
University of Akron on Saturday, December 15.
“Eleven
students completed the master's degree in educational
administration, including Debbie Weber, coordinator of clinical and
field experiences in SSU’s Department of Teacher Education,” he
said. ### FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE (Article by John Shelton, communications specialist, Office of Communications) Presentation to
honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Actor,
director, writer, historian—Barry Scott is a man of many talents.
Among these is the presentation of the message of civil
rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Scott will perform his
“Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.” Wednesday, Jan. 16 at 7
p.m. in the Flohr Lecture Hall in the Clark Memorial Library on
Shawnee State University’s campus.
The presentation is free of charge and open to the community.
Scott will incorporate
pieces of King’s speeches in the context of his ideas on diversity
and equality, E. P. “Matt” Matthews, coordinator for
Multicultural Student Affairs, said.
“It
is really awesome,” Matthews said about Scott’s performance.
“All of a sudden, he moves into the role of Dr. King, and you’re
wondering, ‘what happened to Barry?’
You’re listening to Dr. King and you’re seeing Dr.
King.”
Jacob Hickman, Student
Programming Board President said, “The way I understand it,
listening to Barry Scott is just like listening to Martin Luther
King, Jr. If you close your eyes, it’s just like listening to
him.”
Multicultural Student
Affairs and the Student Programming Board are sponsoring the
presentation and made it available on SSU’s campus through a joint
effort.
“We received information
from an agent, a video and some written information, and we liked
what we saw and wanted to pursue it,” Hickman said. “We are
trying to bring something diverse to campus.”
Matthews said the
presentation was something everyone could enjoy. “I would like to
see this entire community come and see and hear him. It’s a special occasion that we can have Barry here.” A
victim of racial hatred during his teenage years, Scott began
reciting King’s speeches in churches and schools in his hometown
of Nashville at an early age. He
has performed at venues across the United States including the 1994
Humanitarian Awards Ceremony honoring President Jimmy Carter.
“Yes, we know Dr. King
was assassinated, but his dream wasn’t,” Matthews says. “We
also know people still hate out there and people still ride the bad
side of the rail.”
The presentation would be
of particular interest to those involved in theatre, English, and
social science, Matthews said.
“We at SSU prepare
students for the world of tomorrow and they will have a chance to
meet a lot of people there,” he said.
More information about the
presentation is available from Multicultural Student Affairs in the
Student Success Center at (740) 351-3553, or from the Student
Programming Board at (740) 351-3467.
### FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE OSU Director of
Biomedical Engineering The
Shawnee State University (SSU) Department of Natural Sciences,
though a grant from the SSU Development Foundation, is sponsoring a
science seminar featuring Dr. Mauro Ferrari, director of biomedical
engineering at The Ohio State University, Thursday, January 24 at
noon, in the Flohr Lecture Hall located in the Clark Memorial
Library on the SSU campus.
Ferrari will present "Better Medicine Through BioMEMS
and Biomedical “Dr. Ferrari will discuss advances in nanotechnology and microfabrication science which have established their potential for creating new modes for health care and treatment,” said Professor Gary Gemmer, chair of the Department of Natural Sciences at SSU. Biochips
have been developed that can deliver drugs to targeted regions of
the body, can detect environmental changes within the body, and can
be activated remotely by the attending physician. “Dr.
Ferrari was among the very first to recognize that advances in
microelectronics processing and nanotechnology could have an
extraordinary beneficial impact on health care. As a result he holds
several patents in the field and is one of two researchers
nationally to receive the first Wallace H. Coulter Award for
Innovation and Entrepreneurs for his pioneering work in the
field,” Gemmer said. Gemmer said interested faculty
and other members of the public and university communities are
invited to attend the presentation.
For more information, call (740) 351-3456. #
# # FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE (Article by Erica Fulton communications specialist, Office of Communications) SSU’s
Student Government Works to Establish Foundation
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio – Year after year Shawnee State University
students enter into student government with hopes of improving the
University for the student body, all doing so with new approaches.
This year Student Government Association (SGA) President Ray
Musser is approaching the task by building a foundation for
leadership from the inside out, starting with SGA itself.
Beginning with the fall quarter, the SGA has begun a series
of retreats designed to build morale of SGA members, open
communication lines between students and SGA, and establish goals
for the group.
“I plan to do one each quarter so we can stay focused and
not lose our momentum,” Musser explained.
The four-hour long retreats, which Musser pays for out of his
own stipend, are all about improving the structure and effectiveness
of SGA.
Musser said that he feels if his staff is motivated and
knowledgeable about their positions, it will prompt them to be more
active on campus.
“My goal is to get SGA and SGA members aware of what
they’re supposed to be doing,” he said.
Student government serves an important role in a university. It gives students a voice and an outlet to communicate their
concerns or goals to the university community.
Elected leaders work to promote good working relations
between the students and university community and also head up all
student clubs and organizations.
However, over the years understanding of the role of SSU’s
SGA has become more obscure to students.
Thus, according to Musser, it is important to re-establish
SGA both internally and on campus.
In addition to the retreats, Musser has initiated bonding
activities in meetings, passed out motivational bags, created a
congressperson of the month program whose recipient wins a
certificate and gift certificate to Rockwell’s and ordered
business cards for congresspersons—all to make SGA more visible on
campus and more cohesive.
Many of the current SGA members are freshmen and will
hopefully come back in future years, so the work that is being done
now will benefit future student governments.
Though some senior members have been hesitant about spending
so much energy on SGA and not other projects, Musser is confident
that by working from the inside out, the efforts to improve SGA will
spread to the student body.
Musser explained that already the efforts to make SGA more
visible on campus have attracted faculty and staff members to
approach the SGA about problems that affect students.
“I’ve never seen this kind of interaction with faculty
and if I can get this kind of interaction with students, that’s my
ultimate goal by the end of the year,” Musser said.
Musser credits much of the improvements in SGA this year to
the skills he and three other staff members learned at the National
Association of Campus Activities (NACA) this past June.
“That’s been a big help,” he said.
During the four-day convention held in Boston, he and other
SSU SGA members learned about holding meetings, working with others,
marketing activities and SGA, and other educational topics.
He explained that the NACA convention helped to set the tone
for the current academic year, which so far has been a success.
Of course, Musser, who has been involved with SGA for two
years now, pointed out the SSU is fortunate in that there aren’t a
lot of problems on campus.
“People are pretty happy,” he noted.
That hasn’t stopped the SGA from surveying the campus for
student feedback through suggestion boxes and a new town hall
meeting forum, in which SGA officers and SSU Interim President
Michael Field, Ph.D. approach students for feedback.
The hope is to keep communication lines open between
students, administration, and SGA.
Musser and his staff anticipate that their efforts will
establish SGA now and in years to come.
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FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE Last
day to register for winter quarter classes at SSU is Jan. 8
Tuesday,
Jan. 8, is the last day current or prospective students can register
for winter quarter classes at Shawnee State University, Bob Trusz,
director of admissions, said.
Students who have never taken classes at SSU should contact
the Office of Admissions, located in the Commons Building, at (740)
351-4778, Trusz said. Those
who are already enrolled in the university should contact the
Student Success Center, located in Massie Hall, at (740) 351-3594,
he said. The
Student Success Center, will direct previously enrolled students to
the department of their major for advising. Classes
offered at SSU set students on a path toward attaining one or more
of the more than 80 bachelor’s and associate degrees offered by
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