University Chronicle

After hours of discussion Student Government voted to submit a revised version of the Fee Allocation budget to President Potter which includes the addition of a $5 million Atwood renovation project.

Spirited debate dominated discussions on the renovation for nearly two hours Thursday night in the Cascade Room of Atwood Memorial Center during the last Student Government meeting of the semester.

Prior to pushing the new budget through, Student Government twice voted down the very budget which was approved last week. Jarrod Wiggins, MSUSA coordinator and president-elect of Student Government, made a motion to submit a new budget to Potter based on the original version of the budget with the inclusion of the $5 million Atwood renovation project.

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Samantha Ivey heard the chanting voices of angry students in her sleep for months.

The voices, chanting, “Hell no, we won’t go. We want Mahmoud back,” echoed through the halls of Atwood until the Cascade room rang with students who wanted little more than to be heard.

On Oct. 6, 2011, a group of students and faculty protesting the dismissal of Mahmoud Saffari entered the Student Government meeting to make their voices heard.

While Ivey, president of Student Government, did not want this event to define her presidency, she said it was a learning experience for everyone in the room and the experience was invaluable, adding it was the toughest part of her year.

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When Chris Norton volunteered for his first and second deployment in Iraq he never envisioned he would be sitting behind the vice president’s desk in the Student Government office.

When Norton first attended SCSU in 2005 he was not very involved, he said. He enrolled as a post-secondary student during his senior year of high school.

“It never struck me to get involved at that point,” Norton said.

He started a band and played some shows at the Java Joint, as well as some other places around St. Cloud, the whole time being enrolled in the National Guard, which he joined when he was 17 years old.

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The local chapter of the College Republicans was at the center of controversy this week.

The event they hosted on the SCSU campus was cause for a counter-demonstration, sanctions by the state’s Republican party and silence from the university itself.

“We are a public institution,” said Judith Siminoe, special adviser to the university president, “and because we are committed to the ideals of free speech and particularly students having the opportunity to hear and respond to different ideas, we try to foster free speech. You have to protect speech, even if it is hateful, wrong and if it makes people uncomfortable, that’s not a reason you can use to suppress speech.”

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Earthbound Media Group, a California-based marketing firm, has been chosen to help rebuild SCSU’s image and refocus the university’s messages.

According to their website, Earthbound Media Group, or EMG, is an adaptive marketing and communications agency that was founded in 1999.

“Originally it started off in more of the marketing production end and then it just slowly evolved into having a multi-tasked adaptive marketing agency over the years,” said Damien Navarro, co-founder, chief visionary officer and managing partner at EMG.

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Dean is the founder and executive director of You Can Run But You Can’t Hide ministry. He also hosts the radio program Sons of Liberty. Dean is the drummer for the band Junkyard Prophet.

The show was sponsored by the SCSU College Republicans and consisted of Dean’s band and a speech by Dean. The College Republicans received threats from the Minnesota GOP, who are officially opposed to the College Republicans’ decision to bring Dean to campus. The event was paid for through the College Republican’s private account and cost $2,000.

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University policy on student dismissal by behavioral violation is complex and often involves several members of the faculty.

“We receive alleged violations of the student code of conduct from various areas,” said Gerald Bulisco, assistant dean of students for Student Life and Development. “It could be a write-up by a CA, for example, or it could be from the St. Cloud Police Department.”

The way Student Life and Development handles each procedure is dependent upon the severity of the action.

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In the United States, seven dogs and cats are born for every person. Most are unable to find homes, or current owners are no longer able to keep their pets for various reasons. Where do they go? Most owners bring their animals to the Tri-County Humane Society.

The Tri-County Humane Society has been a part of Central Minnesota since Dec.11, 1974. Located off of Highway 10 on the northeast side of St. Cloud, the TCHS is a member of the community as the number of animals who need care has increased over the years. Only about 15 percent of the animals surrendered are strays, the others are animals who are surrendered for other reasons.

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The campus of SCSU is undergoing a major overhaul, with the construction of ISELF and the multimillion dollar renovations to the current hockey center.

Morris Kurtz, the director of Athletics at SCSU, at the National Hockey and Event Center groundbreaking on March 2, 2012 said, “It’s been an economic engine; The National Hockey Center for the last 25 years, not only for the school of St. Cloud State University, but indeed for all of Central Minnesota. These enhancements will make it even that much more of an economic engine.”

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Students looking to learn to fly are out of luck if they’re also looking to attend SCSU.

The controversial closing of the long-standing program has rippled waves of debate by students and faculty members alike. One thing is clear: As of May 2014, the last students of SCSU’s Aviation Department will be graduating.

The reasons why, however, are not as clear.

History

Aviation has been a part of SCSU since the 1930s, when it began participating in the Federal Civilian Pilot Training program. The United States government sponsored this program and its primary purpose was to increase the number of civilian pilots, having a clear impact on military preparedness.

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