Extreme Home Makeover comes to Joplin

Jen Rainey | Collegio Reporter Some PSU students will be helping rebuild Joplin and gain national exposure Oct. 19-26. That’s when Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, a show on the ABC television network, will be filming students and other area residents in Joplin, Mo. They will be building houses that were torn down after the May 22 tornado. “Helping Joplin is something I’m very adamant about,” said Michael Halsey, senior in construction management. “I went to Joplin the night of the tornado and assisted in the search and rescue for the next 10 days. I had friends and relatives affected directly by the tornado, so there was no other option for me other than helping in…

Students ‘occupy’ Pittsburg

Carl Bachus | Collegio Reporter About 15 students and Pittsburg residents met at Russ Hall on Wednesday afternoon to begin their first march in sympathy with the Occupy Wall Street movement spreading throughout the country. Occupy (Wall Street), a social movement protesting corruption and financial inequality, has inspired similar protests in over 70 cities and is making its way to Pittsburg. The group ended its march at the Bank of America building on Broadway. Their first meeting on Monday night was held to plan ways to protest. The meeting was also streamed live on the Internet through Facebook, a popular tactic that the Occupy movement uses to spread its message. “We created a Facebook group,”…

Second generation speaks

Caitlin Taylor | Collegio Reporter Joyce Hess is the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and shared her mother’s story at the 14th annual Gene DeGruson Memorial Lecture in the Axe Library Monday, Oct. 10. Hess is also a representative for the second generation of the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Hess began by describing how her mother was a young girl of 12, living in Poland when Germany invaded in 1939. “They marched into town and ordered all the Jews to wear a yellow star on the front and back of their clothing,” Hess said. “Then they were all kept in their houses, with the little food they had, which lasted about two weeks.” Hess says…

38-35

Gorillas overcome in Fall Classic Garett McCullough | Sports Editor Two sets of arms pointed straight up along with the definitive words, “It’s good.” That sign signaled the end of what had become the greatest winning streak in MIAA history. The Northwest Missouri State Bearcats were going for their 50 conference win in a row, before Chase McCoy booted the 26-yard game winner for Pitt State last Saturday in the annual Fall Classic as the Gorillas walked away with a 38-35 victory. This also ended the Bearcats’ stranglehold of the conference and of Pitt State, which had lost seven straight games to Northwest, while catapulting the Gorillas to a new level as a team. The…

Candlelight against cancer

Caitlin Taylor | Collegio Reporter As the sun set, Pittsburg residents and students alike began to crowd near the gazebo in the Gorilla Village to witness the Breast Cancer Awareness Month candle vigil Tuesday, Oct. 5. Stephanie M. Thompson, is the SE Kansas Regional nurse for the”‘Early Detection Works” program. The program helps run the Breast Cancer Awareness Month events. “We do this vigil to help raise awareness to why it is so important for women to be screened at any cost,” Thompson said. “Women should have no reason to not get screened, and our program helps pay for screening and the cost of treatment if diagnosed with cancer.” Abbey Vogts began the vigil with…

PSU partners with global colleges

Ali Clark | Collegio Reporter Emily Hauser was an exchange student in France this past summer where she studied French in Reims with her PSU roommate. Hauser says she took part in the Pitt Sate international partner school program after her French teacher told her of the program and encouraged her to go. “I think my favorite part was being able to communicate with a lot of people from different language backgrounds in the same language, which was French,” said Hauser, senior in psychology and French. Exchange road Pittsburg State University partners with more than 100 schools in about 20 countries every year. In these partnerships, schools exchange students from each school so no extra…

A home of his own

Todd Miller | Collegio Writer Three years of planning came to fruition last week when construction on the new president’s house began. The original home, constructed in 1954, was showing the wear and tear of 50 years of use. One common problem with the old house was the pipes that burst occasionally. Ron Womble, director of media relations, says the cost of renovating the old house was close to that of building a new house, and this led to the decision to build. “In 2009, a contractor from Howard and Helmer Architecture determined that the cost of renovating the old house would be nearly the same as deconstructing and building a new house,” Womble said. According…

Obama remembers Steve Jobs

WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama is remembering Apple co-founder Steve Jobs as one of America’s greatest innovators and says the world has lost a visionary. The man behind the iPod and iPhone as well as the personal computer and the iPad, Jobs died of cancer Wednesday at age 56. Obama said in a statement Wednesday night that Jobs was brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it. The president also said Jobs exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity. In a tweet sent separately from his statement, Obama said, in his words, “There may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact…