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ASG increases student fee, loses current adviser
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Emporia State’s Associated Student Government approved a $3,635.22 in fundsfor the Sociology Club, Chinese Student Association and MBA Association during0 their fourth meeting of the year on Oct. 7.

Emporia State’s Associated Student Government approved a $3,635.22 in fundsfor the Sociology Club, Chinese Student Association and MBA Association during0 their fourth meeting of the year on Oct. 7.

Emporia State’s Associated Student Government approved a $3,635.22 in fundsfor the Sociology Club, Chinese Student Association and MBA Association during0 their fourth meeting of the year on Oct. 7.

“We were really looking forward to it. It’s the first thing our organization has really done like this. I think it would be a good learning experience for our group,” said Andrea Schmidt,president of MBA Association.

Schmidt said the funding from ASG is really important to help pay for the MBA Association’s trips, especially the one they planned to St. Louis over fall break.

“We were trying to keep it inexpensive and that’s why we got so many people to go. With that it could really make this a pretty inexpensive trip for all they were doing,” Schmidt said.

In the revised Senate Finance Policy, the student activity fee increased from $474 to $511. The $137 increase was mainly caused by a $123.75 increase in Student Union Improvements fees, which were $9.25 before the change.

The Policy also adds new rules and procedures concerning the Recognized Student Organization (RSO) fund allocations, including that no RSO may use the funds for national dues, refreshments for meetings or any food purchases, office supplies (exempting ASG), food on trips, taxes, sports organizations, prizes and clothing.

“Actually these policies, we’ve been doing it, but we haven’t actually put them into our policies,” said Ashley Vogts, fiscal affairs chair for ASG. “Because its state funded… so it’s not really our doing, it’s more like the state or budget and what we are allowed to give money for.”

Jonathan Rivers, president of ASG, reported from the open forum last week and the plan for next month. He also gave the updated information about the Kansas Commitment, a new approved $50 million investment plan for Kansas higher education.

Aaron Koch, senior health promotions major, was elected the new senator to represent the Teacher’s College.

“I am here to represent what’s said in the Teacher’s College, the elementary teachers, high school teachers, whatever they would like to see happen,” Koch said. “I could be the person to bring it here. We can make that change.”

Lynn Hobson, the assistant vice president for student life, formally announced that Whitney McGinnis, who was the graduate advisor for ASG and RSOs, resigned from her position because she has other things to take care of before graduating this December. No new adviser has been announced.

Han Yan

 
Annual Huge Activities Fair next week
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Thursday, 26 August 2010 15:24
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The Huge Activities Fair is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. next Wednesday in the Union Square and Pedestrian Mall between Plumb Hall and Morse Complex.

“Basically, it is an opportunity for all the organizations on campus to promote themselves to students,” said Whitney McGinnis, graduate adviser for ASG and RSOs.

The Huge Activities Fair is an annual tradition held at the beginning of the fall semester and is designed to welcome all Emporia State students. It provides opportunities for students to know and participate in various student organizations.

“This year we’ve added another component in it in that we have some community service organizations from the community who will actually be here to promote themselves as well, and to talk to students about how they can help and can do community services for those groups,” McGinnis said.

There are about 14 different community service groups and non-profit organizations from towncoming to campus on both Wednesday and Thursday.

“Community service is being talked about a lot more, so we’re going to do what we can to give students more information, so instead of the students go to the groups, we can bring the groups to students,” McGinnis said.

Ellie Rivera, junior Elementary Education major, just transferred to ESU this semester.

“We don’t have that Activities Fair in my previous school. I am trying to join in UAC. So I can meet new people,” Rivera said.

To date, there are 45 student organizations that have already submitted the registration form for the Fair.

“Totally we have 130 student organizations on campus,” McGinnis said. “We are hoping we can get 75 or 80 organizations who will be there at the Fair.”

Luke Chiddix, President of Sigma Alpha Lambda-Society of Leadership and Honors, went to the Activities Fair last year and the year before.

“I will be hosting a table for Sigma Alpha Lambda-Society of Leadership and Honors,” Chiddix said. “My team is actually going meet tonight and we are going to discuss plans for that on our first meeting. We should have a pretty good time.”

Chiddix believes that the Activities Fair is a good opportunity for students to involve in the campus life.

“If a student really goes out and looks for organizations to join in and he is proactive, I think it’s a great time to find things to get involved with,” Chiddix said.

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Professional Leadership Speaker to present
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Thursday, 26 August 2010 15:21
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Nationally known professional leadership speaker Dave Kelly is going to pay his first visit to Emporia State at 6 p.m. tonight in the Memorial Union Kanza Room.

“I am actually going to be making several presentations when I am on campus,” Kelly said. “Thursday night is an open workshop for campus leaders and really any student who wants to improve their leadership skills.”

Kelly’s first section will teach campus leaders about recruitment and retaining members in organizations, as well as making meetings more fun.

“I think it is a great opportunity for students to get different perspectives about how to better the organizations,” said Jonathan Rivers, president of ASG and senior secondary social sciences education major. “It enables students to talk with each other and expand their networking.”

His second session will deal with personal leadership topics like affirming your abilities and time management.

“These specific sessions will encourage more students to be involved on campus and I found my collegiate involvements to be the most important in shaping who I have been since I graduated,” Kelly said.

Besides his professional speech, Kelly will also be working with organization advisers to show them how they can help to increase involvement on campus on Friday morning. The Associated Student Government, Leadership Education and Development and the Special Events Board are hosting him.

“I think students can absolutely learn something about how to work within a group with each other, and moreover, how to better themselves as a leader,” said Whitney McGinnis, graduate student and graduate adviser of Associated Student Government and Recognized Student Organizations.

Kelly has presented programs for more than 100 different college and universities and is a two-time finalist for Campus Speaker of the Year (APCA). He also blogs on leadership at CampusTalkBlog.com.

Alison Li

 
ASG prepares student leaders and advisers for new year
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Wednesday, 02 September 2009 15:32
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On Tuesday and Wednesday, Associated Student Government hosted the Jump Start workshop for Recognized Student Organization student leaders and the Adviser Retreat in the Flint Hills Room in the upper level of the Memorial Union.

“Jump Start is typically a kick-off workshop for organizations at the start of each fall,” said Jonathan Krueger, senior political science major and ASG president. “These workshops allow the members and advisers of the organizations to become familiar with ASG policy and discover how they can become more effective as a group.”

The workshops cover a variety of topics that students and advisers alike can find useful for their respective organizations.

“Each workshop is slightly different, and it varies as to what we do during the retreat,” said Whitney McGinnis, graduate adviser for ASG and RSOs. “Mainly we’re here to open dialogue between ASG, RSOs and advisers.”

Krueger and McGinnis distributed handbooks at the retreat that outlined information what is expected of advisers and some ideas on different advising styles. The handbooks also give information on what advisers should expect of the students within their group.

“As a new adviser, I am happy to know that there is an organization available to provide support and assistance to the advisers of these groups when we have questions,” said Concha Dikin, adviser for the Hispanic American Leadership Organization.

Student organization leaders receive a similar handbook that provides information on being a team leader and planning out the academic year. Both handbooks also have a calendar for the 2009-10 school year.

“Last week we held the Jump Start Retreat for the student leaders, and we really tried to focus on goal setting and officer preparation for their organization,” Krueger said. “It is important that the students, leaders, and advisers communicate with each other.”

McGinnis and Krueger had also planned to demonstrate the new ORGSYNC program to the advisers, but the site was down for maintenance.

“The ORGSYNC program will eventually become the main method for submitting forms to ASG, but it will still be up to the officers to relay information to the other members of their organization,” Krueger said. “The website will allow for groups to more easily communicate to their members, as well as providing a portal where members can access documents or send texts to all of the members at once.”

More opportunities to attend workshops could bring different speakers and topics, McGinnis said.

“Hopefully in the future we will be able to have other speakers or facilitators come in for these Jump Start workshops,” McGinnis said. “For now, we are looking at potentially holding workshops that are more focused on allocations around the first part of November.”

Both Krueger and McGinnis look forward to talking with student leaders and advisers at these workshops, and both emphasized that these workshops are highly beneficial for all of the RSOs.

“I would definitely recommend this program to others who did not attend,” Dikin said. “Emporia State is all about teamwork, and this is a great way to promote that team effort as a benefit to campus and the community. Jump Start is a great way to get different groups to share ideas through a network.”

Though the Jump Start Retreats for student leaders and advisers have passed, McGinnis recommends keeping an eye out for other workshops or training sessions in the future.

“It is very important that students and advisers alike be ‘in the know,’” McGinnis said.

If student leaders or advisers have questions about their organizations or the informational handbooks, they can contact ASG through the Center for Student Involvement at 620-341-5481.

LAST NIGHT; A bad day at Bangkok for rookie Excise man.(Features)

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) January 29, 1999 | Fulton, Rick THE KNOCK (ITV) POOR old Alex Murray, the Customs & Excise rookie, had a bad night last night.

First he thought he was going on a slap and tickle junket to Bangkok, only to find the drugs courier he was following was gay.

So rather than being surrounded by lovely young Thai ladies, it was young men in thongs winking at him.

Then he lost the drug courier who could lead him to Mr Big and got a massive dressing down from his boss Ancrom (Mark Lewis Jones).

Returning exhausted and ear bitten to his girlfriend, he hoped for some cosy comfort, only for her to produce a condom and accuse him of sleeping with prostitutes.

All the way through, Scots actor Daniel Brown looked like a big Andrex puppy. His great hound dog face kept registering disbelief that it was all going wrong.

Daniel added some light relief to this gritty thriller, which just gets better and better.

Cherie Lunghi was the guest actress in the first of a new three-parter.

She played Toni Maxwell (yes, I know she’s the face of Kenco coffee but even The Knock has an ounce – or should that be a teaspoonful – of humour) who had taken over her jailed husband’s business.

Wearing leather trousers or silky undies, she oversaw her minions – two dogs, a girlfriend and some heavies.

Toni gets Thai women to smuggle heroin concealed in breast implants.

Alex was trying to pin the smuggling on her, but by the end of the first part had botched the job, arrested the courier and lost any leads to her.

Meanwhile, Barry Christie (Steve Toussaint) was made to go undercover cleaning buses.

Someone is smuggling drugs through Customs and Excise in the buses and he gets a job as a cleaner.

He’s not happy, thinking that it is because he’s black, but uses a racist attack to get in with the smugglers.

After a shaky start this series has found its form. But it will have to keep up to the standards of last night’s show to match the sheer power of The Vice. this web site brier creek movies

SOAPWATCH BROOKSIDE (Channel 4, 8.30pm) THE friendship between Sinbad (Michael Starke, left) and Mick could be at an end as the rape continues to rip Brookside Close apart. The truth could soon be revealed after victim Nikki sees a familiar face in a flashback which could be the rapist. Ron has to decide between Bev and Anthea PICK OF THE BOX COMEDY: Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (BBC2, 9.00pm) STARS Kathy Burke and James Dreyfus manage to steer this sometimes- wayward comedy into funny waters. web site brier creek movies

Kathy just looks and acts brilliantly as Linda La Hughes. Dreyfus’ character Tom is slightly boring and one-dimensional, but he still has some withering lines.

Tonight, Linda’s long-lost sister comes to stay and Tom is suddenly inundated with offers of television work. Dale Winton makes a guest appearance.

DOCU-SOAP: Vets In Practice (BBC1, 8.00pm) VETS Trude Mostue, Hannah Pollard and Sam Robinson all reflect on their social lives this week.

Trude thinks her new boyfriend Patrick could be Mr Right, then has to worry about a dog’s possible pregnancy.

Hannah has a new look after losing three stones and takes it out on an overweight rabbit that she puts on a diet.

And Sam, who has little time to socialise, has to castrate a young stallion.

SITCOM: Frasier (Channel 4, 10.00pm) THE pompous brothers Niles (David Hyde Pierce) and Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) are red faced when they can’t get tickets for the hottest new theatrical show in town.

Could they be losing their status within Seattle society?

Meanwhile, the wonderful Daphne Moon (Jane Leeves) becomes a minor celebrity when the local newspaper shows a whole new side to her.

CHAT: Parkinson (BBC 1, 9.30pm) PARKY is joined by Mo Mowlam, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, in what promises to be a great show.

The MP has battled against a brain tumour and lost her hair. But she refuses to be vain and simply ties a bandana around her head.

They are also joined by Alan Davies, the stand-up comedian and star of the quirky comedy drama Jonathan Creek.

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