Advanced payments given to military students

Military students utilizing the Post 9/11 GI Bill can receive an advanced payment toward education expenses to compensate for late federal funding.

Students actively serving, along with veterans, qualify to receive education funding from the Post 9/11 GI Bill, or Chapter 33.

They can request an advanced payment for up to $3,000 from their nearest Veterans Administration regional office if their education funds for this semester had not been received.

Día de los Muertos se celebró

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Graphic design students and the Spanish program at IU Southeast held an exhibition in Knobview Hall in front of the Barr Gallery.

Their exhibit commemorated Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, from Nov. 2 to Nov. 4.

An altar was created by a group of IUS graphic design students as a project. The altar was dedicated on Nov. 2 in remembrance of military service members’ lives lost in Iraq and Afghanistan. The dedication ceremony for the altar on Monday, Nov. 2, offered students food and music.

Francisco Martin, graphic design junior, helped create the altar.

He said Day of the Dead, which is a celebration of life, began 3,000 years ago.

SGA president gives speech

James Bonsall, Student Government Association president, held the State of the Student Body address in The Commons on Nov. 5.

The SGA president is required to give an address twice a year. During the address, Bonsall spoke about current campus issues including the smoking ban, the new recycling program on campus and the Food Court renovation project beginning in the summer of 2010.

Bonsall said the SGA has been trying to accommodate smokers on campus.

“If smokers had a place where they could smoke at least 30 feet away from buildings and walking paths, then nonsmokers would never have to walk through smokers’ smoke,” Bonsall said.

The SGA has been working with the All University Student Association, which is comprised of the student body presidents from every IU campus. Bonsall said they have been working to petition IU President Michael McRobbie to allow campuses to set their own smoking policies.

Police Blotter for the week of Nov. 9, 2009

Oct. 31 at 2:04 a.m.

IUS Police received a noise complaint with a possible alcohol violation from a resident of Meadow Lodge. Officers were unable to locate the subjects in question

Nov. 1 at 2:28 a.m.

An IUS Police officer assisted a driver by showing him how to get to Grove Lodge from the IUS Tennis Courts.

SGA buys new printer

The Student Government Association approved $300 for a new SGA office printer at their meeting on Nov. 6.

James Bonsall, SGA president, said the new printer will pay for itself.

“The printer we have in our office right now is three years old and completely on the fritz,” Bonsall said. “Cartridges for that thing run about $40 to $50 and we’re always having to replace them. We’re buying a printer that’s more efficient with ink.”

Grenadiers move past Panthers 3-0

The IUS volleyball team blocked any chance of a win for Kentucky Wesleyan College on Tuesday, Oct. 27, winning their match 3-0 in the Activities Building.

The Grenadiers defeated the Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers, 25-15, 25-20 and 25-15.

“We came ready to play,” Lesley Drury-Prather, head coach of the Grenadiers, said. “We came with intensity.”

IU Southeast stayed strong on defense with Lauren McCartin, sophomore libero, getting 10 digs, and Vanessa Stauble, senior middle blocker, leading the team with three total blocks.

Stauble and Kara Draper, senior outside hitter, both had a match-high two service aces.

Stacey Flatt, senior setter, led the team with 34 of the team’s 40 assists.

Junior stays busy with school, work, basketball

Tia Wineinger, accounting junior, has a lot on her plate this year.

Not only is she a full-time student, but she is also on the women’s basketball team and has a part-time job.

Wineinger, who is a forward on the women’s basketball team, said even with her busy schedule, she is managing to balance it all out.

Thanks, but then again, no thanks

Darienne Arcuri

The vast majority of students, faculty and administrators at IU Southeast are motivated and enthusiastic about what they do.

The negative exceptions discussed below stand in stark contrast.

STUDENTS

I’m sick and tired of students who don’t have the courage to graduate from college.

I’m not talking about students with full-blown adult responsibilities who have to fit school in between everything else in their lives.

I’m talking about students who still live with their parents or who only have themselves to support, yet postpone graduation for years or even decades.

Strike out in 10 easy steps

Amy Faulhaber

No one ever said love is easy.

Like everything else in life, nothing that is worth having comes without risk, and nothing demonstrates that tenet more than the fortitude it takes to lay the cards on the table to a potential love connection.

For those who haven’t given up on the chance at finding happiness with another person, the brutal reality is the cruel and savage nature of the dating scene, where all face the perpetual dilemma of how to effectively convey their interest or feelings to another person.

In many cultures, the bulk of this burden is placed upon the shoulders of men, who are expected to make the first move. To their credit, they generally do so valiantly.

Fantasy football overload

Eric McGuffin

Every year I get together with some of my closest friends, and a few guys I won’t see again until this time next year, and we draft our fantasy football teams.

Draft Day used to be a special day for everyone. That was until technology made it so easy to join so many fantasy football leagues.

Back in the days before high-speed Internet, a poor sap — at times me — had to run a fantasy football league on paper.

Basically what happened was everyone in the league would call a lineup in and then the person in charge of the league would total up everyone’s points, using either the newspaper or a dial-up Internet connection.

Though by the end of the season I was fed up with people calling me to pick up a backup for their backup quarterback, I had gained a sense of camaraderie with these guys.