Spring is in the air

Melding new, old attractions At 4 p.m. Thursday, April 25, Gibson Dining Hall shut its doors and moved operations outside for an evening of food, games and fun: Spring Fling. Sponsored by the Student Activities Council (SAC) and co-sponsored by Residence Hall Assembly (RHA), Black Student Association (BSA) and Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), Spring Fling is held annually. This year, organizers worked hard to bring several new attractions as well as old-time favorites to the event. “The caricature (artist) had a line of at least 10 people for over three hours,” said Kassandra Turner, SAC committee chair and junior in commercial graphics. As it is such a large scale and popular event, the work…

Weekend entertainment

Pittsburg ‘Rocks’ out Audrey Dighans | reporter This Saturday, April 20, will start the weekend off with a BANG. The fourth annual Big Bang Rockfest is set to start at 4 p.m. in four locations across Pittsburg: JST Bobby G’s, 5th Street Bar and Grill, Danny Bell’s Wild West and Club 505. “In the past, 505 was the only bar to participate,” said Larry Fleury. “This year is amazing, with four local bars taking part in the action.” Each bar will be hosting several bands and solo acts, with sets lasting for an hour apiece. The action is set to continue until 10 p.m., but several of the last bands plan to continue playing at…

It’s All Greek To Me

Audrey Dighans | reporter Alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu… it’s Greek Week at PSU. Greek Week kicked off the festivities at Carnie Smith stadium in the evening of Sunday, April 7. An all-Greek audience was treated to a showing of Space Jam on the jJungletron. The Order of Omega awards ceremony in the Crimson and Gold Ballroom in the evening of Monday, April 8, highlighted the university’s nine fraternities and sororities work in seven categories with the Chapter Excellence awards. Individuals from several houses were also honored with Emerging Leader, Outstanding Executive Board Member (Fraternity & Sorority) Outstanding Officer/Chair (Fraternity & Sorority) and Outstanding Greek Man and Woman…

T.A.G. You’re it!

Students spread ‘thank-you’ notes throughout campus Audrey Dighans | reporter T.A.G., you’re it! In walking around campus this week, some students may have noticed special “tags” on many of the campus buildings and on participating students. The tags represent a “thank you” from students to those who have made donations to PSU, and were placed across campus by Pittsburg State’s Advancement Ambassadors. “Virtually everything on campus has been funded by donations,” said Alex Rausch, Advancement Ambassadors president and senior in childhood education. T.A.G. is an acronym for “Thank a Gorilla.” Members of Advancement Ambassadors rose early in the morning on Tuesday, April 2, to begin tagging everything from the gold gorilla statue to the Kansas…

Race around campus

Eight teams compete in PSU’s Amazing Race Audrey Dighans | reporter On your mark, get set … wait, what? As the air horn blew, eight teams set off on a race in the wrong direction. After reading the first clue, the teams jetted off for the Kelce Planetarium eager for their first challenge, only to bypass the actual station located in the Oval. “I didn’t read the whole clue,” said Nathan Laskowski, sophomore in chemistry. “I led the way, and we quickly realized we were in the wrong spot.” His partner Megan Pavlu, sophomore in graphic design, also commented on the mistake: “It was tricky,” Pavlu said. “We had to rethink what the clue meant…

Fashion for Defense

Audrey Dighans | reporter Lights, camera, self-defense! Sigma Phi Epsilon (Sig Ep) and Sigma Sigma Sigma (Tri Sigs) held the fifth annual Ali Kemp fashion show and women’s self-defense seminar last Sunday, March 5. The event raised $1,400 for the Ali Kemp Education foundation (T.A.K.E.) “That’s about a thousand dollars more than what we raised last year,” said Katie George, junior in graphic communications and member of Sigma Sigma Sigma. “It was a huge improvement.” The event is Sig Ep’s national philanthropy, started by Roger Kemp (Sig Ep alumn of the University of Central Missouri), Ali’s father, in 2005. Ali Kemp was beaten to death by a stranger in the pump room of a community…

Pitt State Live

Audrey Dighans | reporter ‘TSM’, Niki Minaj and some not-so-super superheroes all made appearances at Pitt State’s first “Pitt State Live!” on Monday, Feb. 18, in the Crimson and Gold Ballroom. Pi Kappa Alpha and Sigma Sigma Sigma (Tri-Sigs) held the event to raise money for Wesley House, a Pittsburg-area food pantry. Four campus fraternities and sororities participated, performing sketches based on or styled in the fashion of TV’s “Saturday Night Live!” Enrique “Henry” Larroucau, graduate student in business and accounting, Jason Jones, junior in electronics engineering, and Mark Flood, junior in mechanical engineering, and all members of Pike ran the event along with Katie George of Sigma Sigma Sigma, junior in graphic communications. “We…