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National Champs! A year unlike any other.
Athletics Update / Features / Spring 2012 / This article has video

National Champs! A year unlike any other.

Each of Pittsburg State University’s football championship seasons was special in its own way. That’s a given. But ask just about anyone involved in the program or any fan who attended a game in 2011 and they’ll wear out superlatives ...

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Chief justice remains a part of KC
Features / Spring 2012

Chief justice remains a part of KC

When Chief Judge Fernando J. Gaitan, Jr., looks out his office window on the seventh floor of the Charles Evans Whittaker Courthouse, he sees places he knows well. “You can almost look out the window to where I lived in the northeast part of KCK,” Gaitan said, “gesturing to the northwest...

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Dream is one step closer to reality
Features / Spring 2012 / This article has video

Dream is one step closer to reality

Some dreams do come true and PSU’s dream of a new fine and performing arts center is tantalizingly close to becoming a reality. ...

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Extreme Experience
Features / Spring 2012 / This article has video

Extreme Experience

Last October, Pittsburg State students and faculty got the experience of a lifetime when they were tapped to help build seven homes in seven days through the ABC hit Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Armed with unbeatable preparation - and a lot of caffeine - our students stepped up to the...

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The long road back
Features / Spring 2012 / This article has video

The long road back

The easy smile that lights up C.J. Huff’s face belies the stress, long hours and even tears of the past 10 months. Huff, superintendent since 2008, is leading the Joplin (Mo.) School District back from a tragedy matched only by the courage and hard work of the community that has rallied around it.
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Success rewarded
Arts & Sciences / College Close-up / Spring 2012 / This article has video

Success rewarded

What do tacos and public relations have in common? Usually not much, but this past fall a Big Truck Tacos unit sold food at GorillaFest because of the great work of several PSU public relations students. Earlier in the year, PSU students competed in the Oklahoma Speech Theater Communication Association (OSTCA) conference in Oklahoma City...
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Residence halls fill up as more choose PSU
From the Oval / Spring 2012 / This article has video

Residence halls fill up as more choose PSU

The campus continued to grow in 2011, with fall headcount up 2 percent to 7,275 students. At the same time, the number of students living in the nine residence halls on campus soared past the record set in 2010, thanks to the opening of Crimson Commons. In the fall, new freshman on campus increased by...
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Grudge Match at Gorilla Ridge
College Close-up / Spring 2012 / Technology

Grudge Match at Gorilla Ridge

PSU technology and workforce learning students show off their CO2 speedsters before a big race against 8th graders from East Middle School in Joplin, Mo. “Grudge Match at Gorilla Ridge” gave the PSU students a fun experience while learning to “teach specific concepts and organize and manage educational events,” said their professor Mike Neden.
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Cadets help dedicate new rappel tower
Arts & Sciences / College Close-up / Spring 2012 / This article has video

Cadets help dedicate new rappel tower

Two ROTC cadets pushed off and skillfully rappelled down the side of a new rappel tower, officially dedicating the new structure this past fall. The 40-foot tower was built just outside the Student Recreation Center/National Guard Armory and serves as an important training tool for cadets in the ROTC program. The tower was a gift...
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Sagehorn to lead Department of Teaching and Leadership
College Close-up / Education / Spring 2012

Sagehorn to lead Department of Teaching and Leadership

In the fall, the College of Education made organizational changes designed to bring its teacher licensure programs under one umbrella. The college combined the departments of Curriculum and Instruction and Special Services and Leadership Studies into one new Department of Teaching and Leadership. “I appointed a study committee (on organization) last year,” said Howard Smith,...
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International magazine features PSU alumnus
Business / College Close-up / Spring 2012

International magazine features PSU alumnus

A new online international magazine featured one of PSU’s outstanding recent graduates in its debut edition. The magazine, International Student Voice, launched in the late fall and includes stories from all over the world about international travel and study. Cathy Lee Arcuino, PSU’s associate director of International Programs and Services, said when announcements for the...
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College Close-up / Education / Spring 2012

Kansas Teacher of the Year leads students in rediscovery

Tiffany Richard helps students find something they’ve lost. Children are born with a natural curiosity about the physical world around them, Richard said. “They want to know why the sky is blue or what makes a rainbow,” Richard said. “But something happens by the time they get to high school and for many, biology and...
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Dean named editor of The American Economist
Business / College Close-up / Spring 2012

Dean named editor of The American Economist

As the dean of the College of Business, Dr. Paul Grimes knew he’d have a lot on his plate as he stepped into his new role last fall. But he also knew he couldn’t pass up the opportunity to head up one of the most well-known economics journals in the nation when he was asked...
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Exercising on the Oval
From the Oval / Spring 2012 / This article has video

Exercising on the Oval

Faculty, staff and students exercise on the Oval as part of a program intended to highlight the benefits of exercise as part of an overall wellness program. The weekly activity is led by graduate students in the Department of Health, Human Performance and Recreation.
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Alumni News / Spring 2012

Gorilla Legislative Network Update

The Gorilla Legislative Network (GLN) is celebrating its second anniversary … or would be if its members could find the time. An active state legislative session in Kansas has kept the group busy as they attempt to keep up with the latest news coming out of Topeka. “It’s been one of the most active sessions...
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Regent McKechnie gives Apple Day address
From the Oval / Spring 2012 / This article has video

Regent McKechnie gives Apple Day address

“Much of who I am is because of this special place.” With those words, Ed McKechnie, chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents and a 1986 graduate of Pittsburg State University, summed up the influence of many faculty, administrators and staff on his life and career. McKechnie delivered the keynote address at PSU’s 105th Apple...
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