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Students surf for online loveStudents use Internet not only for research but for love and marriage as well

Alicia CollinsAssistant Features Editor

True love might be just a click away.

For some University students, dat-ing is no longer limited to individuals within the same city or even the same country.

Senior Casey Copeland said she met her husband, Nick Warwick, who was living in Bristol, England at the time, through an online chat room in 2004.

“It was really just something that happened by chance,” she said. “It wasn’t something that either of us had done before.”

The two continued their conversa-tions online for about five months be-fore deciding to become an exclusive couple, Copeland said.

When the two decided to meet in person her family initially was con-cerned but now it is fine with the rela-tionship, she said.

“There was just kind of a concern, like the first time we met,” she said.

“They just wanted to make sure we were safe about it. We had never met in person, and my parents had never met him, so they wanted to make sure he was who he said he was.”

They dated for about two and a half years be-fore getting married, but the distance between them did not allow them to see each other as often as they would have liked, Cope-land said.

“We probably spent about two months in the same place, and then he came over here about two or three weeks before the wedding,” she said.

Although they did not spend a lot of time togeth-er, Copeland said there was not really anything she had to get used to about Warwick after getting married.

“We got pretty used to each others’ habits because when we were together, we were 24/7 together,” she said.

The majority of the time they were dating, the two were an ocean apart, but Copeland said she thinks this helped their relationship.

“Every day we would spend time together it was talking, so you know in traditional dating, you may go to a movie and spend a couple of hours to-

gether, but you’re not talk-ing, you’re not getting to know each other better,” she said.

Copeland said she de-cided to marry Warwick for simple facts.

“We would never have any awkward pauses or run out of things to talk about, and it was just one of those things that happened, and we were really compat-ible,” she said. “Just hav-ing someone I could talk to like I think is what made me make up my mind to marry him.”

Warwick said the two had talked about marriage several times when he proposed to her in 2004.

“It was New Year’s Eve at the Ei-ffel Tower at the stroke of midnight,” he said.

The six-hour time difference made sleep deprivation inevitable, he said.

Warwick said he would end up going to bed at 7 a.m. because he was talking to

her until 1 a.m. Central Standard Time.After his roommate had put her

screen name, along with others, on his computer, he lost contact with every-one except her, Warwick said.

“I couldn’t really do anything with-out her because she was in my head the whole time,” he said.

Junior Kate Lawrence has a similar story, minus the ocean.

She said she met her boyfriend of more than three years, freshman Jim-my Moore, at www.eastendbottle.com when they were both 15 years old.

Lawrence said she had not intended to search for a relationship via the In-ternet.

“I was expecting to poke around for three hours and forget I had ever gotten on,” she said.

Lawrence is from Lake St. Louis, and Moore is from Bowling Green, Mo., but the distance did not separate them for long, she said.

The two met in St. Charles at the Festival of the Little Hills after they had been talking for about two months, Lawrence said.

“We both brought our parents with us when we met,” she said. “We actu-ally met on Independence Day, so that’s the day we claim as our anniversary.”

The Internet provides an alternative way to meet people, Lawrence said.

“I think you get to know people bet-ter on the Internet, people who might be shy or who you would have other-wise not paid attention to, so I think it helps,” she said.

Moore said he was using the Web site solely for entertainment and was not seeking a relationship.

“We just got along so well that we decided it was worth a shot [to meet], and it turns out we were both bored and single,” he said.

Although they met online, Moore said the relationship has important as-pects, such as humor, that have helped it last.

Meeting online allows people to get to know each other better in some ways than traditional dating, Moore said.

“You get past the superficialities,” he said. “If people have trouble dating or meeting people, then I suggest on-line dating.”

Although online dating can be ben-eficial, individuals should be cautious, Moore said.

“The best thing is to take some-one with you to make sure you have someone there in case something goes wrong,” he said.

“You get past the

superfi cialities. If people have

trouble dating or meeting people, then I suggest online dating.”

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Freshman Baillie Cloyd said she always has been a punctual person.

However, Cloyd said when she came to Truman, she had problems with the library’s clock tower, which often runs several minutes ahead or behind.

“I don’t like that the clock isn’t set right because it’s very deceptive because I think I’m late for class when really I have a couple of minutes,” Cloyd said.

Building Trades Supervisor Bob Kelsey said it’s not decep-tive, and things such as weather conditions and the tower’s two separate systems are the main reason why the clock becomes inconsistent.

“There are two systems, the carillon system that rings the bells and a clock system that tells the time,” Kelsey said. “That’s why it’s sometimes difficult to keep them together. The carillon

control is in the basement of the library, and the clock control is in the tower.”

Kelsey also said the clock is open-faced, meaning wind, snow, rain and ice could affect the movement of the hands.

Besides frightening some students into wrongly thinking they are late for class, some pro-fessors said the early chiming of the bells has affected the mood of a classroom.

Reference librarian Lisa Glaubitz said her use of infor-mation resources class was af-fected by the bells’ early chim-ing.

“My class last semester was in the library classroom, so you could hear the bells pretty well,” Glaubitz said. “I think when it would ring for a quarter-after, it would really be 12 minutes after, and students would start thinking there were only five minutes left for class when re-ally there’d be eight.”

She said that even though students would start to get antsy

when they thought it was time to leave, in actuality they knew they had a few more minutes.

“I don’t recall any students ever coming up to me and com-plaining about being in class too long because the clock was off,” Glaubitz said.

Kelsey said there is a good chance that for the immediate future the clock might be accu-rate because during winter break the clock and carillon were re-set, and at the present moment the time displayed is lagging the chiming of the bells by only 30 seconds. Kelsey said, however, he and his crew might have to reset the clock and carillon in the future.

“It’s a very visible timepiece, and I think it should be kept fairly accurate,” Kelsey said. “If someone is using it for class, two or three minutes aren’t re-ally going to make a difference. If we see that it is really starting to lag by two or three minutes, we’re going to go ahead and try to reset it.”

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The sun shines on the belltower outside Pickler Memorial Library on Monday afternoon.

Most people might wait to get married, but some are tying the knot in college

Sara JamesStaff Reporter

Imagine falling in love, getting mar-ried and then going to college.

Marrying young was a part of life during the baby boomer era.

However, in 2003, the median age for a fi rst marriage was 27.1 years old for males and 25.3 years old for females, ac-cording to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Although the current trend is get-ting married after college at an older age, some students are attempting to balance college and married life.

Senior Rebecca Easterwood knows the struggles of being married and at-tending college at the same time.

“It’s much easier to be engaged at col-lege than be married,” she said. “When you’re engaged, you still can experience the college life. When you’re married, the responsibility is different and suddenly your priorities have to change.”

Rebecca Easterwood and her hus-band Jon have been married for a year and a half. Jon Easterwood is a third-year medical student at the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine com-pleting his rotations, so time spent together is hard to come by, Rebecca

Easterwood said. “Jon usually has really long hours

and I have to study a lot, so the entire time he’s gone I spend it studying,” Rebecca Easterwood said. “We usually have to schedule in time together, so every Thursday we have a date night, and I don’t do as much homework, and we go to dinner or a movie.”

Planning a date night might sound like a simple solu-tion to some, but most married college couples have other hurdles as well.

“We had issues in the beginning because I wasn’t ready to let go of all the college lifestyle,” Rebecca Easterwood said. “It’s more than just two people who love each other living together. You have to think about the future, and it’s a lot of work.”

Rebecca Easterwood said one of the biggest issues is finance. She said it is difficult to keep bills and payments straight because of ATM cards.

“We’ve gone over [our] budget at least twice, and it’s always frustrating, and you feel like a failure because you can’t do your finances right, and it’s a

huge challenge to overcome,” she said. “We just separated accounts, so I man-age half the bills, and Jon manages the other half of the bills.”

Abbagail Whiteley also is a married student attending Truman and said fi-nances are a huge obstacle.

“Sure, I had my own bills I paid, but then once you’re married, you no longer have help from the par-ents,” Abbagail Whiteley said. “I was just sur-prised at certain bills like utility bills.”

The Whiteleys also faced anoth-er obstacle when Michael White-ley was deployed to Germany for six months just after they got married.

“We got married on a Friday, and he left on Sunday,” she said. “We didn’t have much of a marriage for six months with-out talking on the phone every day.”

Besides fi nances, time commitment and the normal relationship issues, be-ing in love also is something to constant-ly work on, Rebecca Easterwood said.

“The euphoria of being in love

Facts that ring true

The bell tower, known as the Towne Bells, was built in 1991 and donated by Ruth Towne, professor of history, in memory of

her parents.

The bells were cast in Annecy, France.

Each of the four bells has a different inscription: “The greatest truths are faith, hope, love, the greatest

of which is love.” “A liberal mind equals an educated person.”

“To know the truth is to be free.” “A person does not live by bread alone.”

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“The euphoria of being in love fades away, and the

true love really starts, and it’s a lot harder. It’s not

easy to look at the person, blush and see butterfl ies.”

Rebecca EasterwoodSenior Married Student

fades away, and the true love really starts, and it’s a lot harder,” Rebecca Easterwood said. “It’s not easy to look at the person, blush and see butterflies. Those things are gone.”

Last August seniors Sarah and Peter Watt got married only to return to col-lege for the fall 2005 semester. They both plan on graduating next year.

Being married and attending college is comparable to having two important jobs at the same time, Sarah Watt said.

“It’s hard, but it’s been really re-warding,” Sarah Watt said. “I don’t think you can go into a marriage being prepared because it’s such a different

experience.”Rebecca Easterwood said being

married in college is not the easiest road to go down, and it’s not for every-one, no matter how much the couple loves each other.

A couple should make sure they are mature enough to be committed to one another, she said.

“Once the excitement of being in love goes away, you have to choose to stay with that person, you have to choose to still like them even on days when you want to wring their neck,” Rebecca Easterwood said. “When the butterfl ies go away, are you ready for that?”

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I will never forget the day I decided to hate Valentine’s Day.

It was fourth grade, and I was madly in love with a boy named Nick Chivers, who sat next to me. He had scruffy brown hair and glasses that would slip down his nose. On a fi eld trip to the Missouri Department of Conservation, his mother, who always wore a Pocahontas jean jacket, told us about their Native American ancestry. Then one day Nick helped me with a math problem, and I was suddenly sure we were meant to be.

I won’t lie – I get that idea in my head a lot. But in fourth grade, I was not yet competent enough with matters of the heart to know that bonding during long division does not equal soul mates.

In elementary school, Valentine’s Day meant bright shoeboxes and mandatory valentines for everyone in your class. Even though boys had cooties (except Nick, of course), I went out and bought Lady and the Tramp valentines and duti-fully wrote out every boy’s and girl’s name. It was a tedious process, but I didn’t care. I was too excited to see what Nick would write on my valentine.

Would he ask to hold my hand?Would he write, “Love, Nick,” instead

of, “From Nick?”Would he proclaim his undying love

for me?Would he ask me if I remember how to

divide nine into 757?He did none of these things.I did not receive a valentine from Nick

Chivers. However, every other girl in the class did. They were good valentines too, with Pocahontas on the front.

I was crushed.

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And yes, I sympathize with the guy on this ... because as a girl, I realize we can over think way too many signals. Turning simple gestures into something they’re not is our forte.

Or in my case, turning a lack of a gesture into something it’s not.

I thought Nick Chivers’ lack of a Poca-hontas valentine was a secret code for, “I hate you.”

I was wrong. Several months later he became my boyfriend for four whole days. I ended it on the swing set at school, but he recovered nicely, “dating” Claire fewer than three days later. That one didn’t last either, though. They broke up under the jungle gym after a mere fi ve days.

Nick didn’t make me feel special.

Although I understand the importance of boundaries, asking each time to hold someone’s hand gets old. Somewhere along the line, I came to understand that relationships need to be a little bit routine and a little bit random. The routine gives some safety while the random gives that feeling of unknown – that feeling of a bit scared but a bit excited. Those butterfl ies need to be there to make it all worth it.

My little fourth-grade heart learned an important lesson that Valentine’s Day. It is too fragile to handle such inconsiderate care. And maybe the lack of a Pocahontas valentine isn’t that big of a deal now, but at the time it taught me that I should be allowed to feel special all the time in a re-lationship and not just on some Hallmark holiday.

Similar personality traits of student advisers sometimes can create relationships

Lauren MillerStaff Reporter

It is like in high school when athletes dated athletes, nerds dated nerds and drama kids dated drama kids.

A whole new breed of types dating types includes student advisers dating each other.

“Proximity can breed feelings,” said sophomore Chris Seals, an SA in Mis-souri Hall.

Seals said he has been dating sopho-more Heather Henke, a Centennial Hall SA, since freshman year, before either one was an SA.

The situation was a bit weird at func-

tions such as training, and it took some adjustment, he said. However, it all worked out for the better in the end.

“When I am in [Missouri Hall] work-ing on something SA-related, I am usu-ally by myself,” Seals said. “Although we might do a program later in the year, such as a cross-campus connection soc-cer game or something.”

A possible theory as to why SAs date each other could be as simple as the fact that they understand what the job entails, Seals said. At the end of the semester, a signifi cant other who also is an SA is less likely to get mad that the couple can’t spend time together because they tend to be just as busy with checkouts and such, Seals said.

“I think maybe if just one person is an SA it can add extra stress – but if any-thing it makes sure you have some vari-ety, and you aren’t just spending all your

time with each other,” Seals said.With Valentine’s Day just around

the corner, SAs are getting excited to do things with their own significant others and their residents. Some SAs in Centennial Hall will put on a program called “Learn Your Love Language,” Henke said.

“You have to respect the day just as the day itself, as a personal day, not on an SA level,” Henke said. “As an SA, you have to be respectful towards resi-dents and others who are in relationships and those who aren’t.”

Henke said SA dating is more promi-nent in Ryle Hall than any other build-ing, and when there is intra-staff dating, the couple needs permission from a resi-dent adviser.

Ryle SA junior Malita Winge, who is dating another Ryle SA, senior Charlie Miu, said Ryle Hall director Mike Lued-

er was the fi rst person the couple went to when they decided to start dating.

“In the beginning it was kind of frowned upon, but Mike just told us to be professional about it because if you break up, you still have to work togeth-er,” Winge said.

Keeping the personal side of things low-key is important, Winge said. She said she and Miu broke up for about three weeks, and for that time they just acted normal and professional, and everything was fi ne with residents and other SAs.

The reason SAs date each other is more than just being together all the time, she said.

“I think that SAs have a lot of the same character traits,” Winge said. “They are compatible in many ways just because they are usually pretty friendly, outgoing and caring.”

Ryle SA senior Jake Kilgore, who is

not dating an SA, said he agrees with Winge.

“Not only is it personality, but there is that common ground there already,” Kilgore said.

Kilgore said it does not bother him that his co-workers date each other.

“I don’t feel like it’s really any of my business,” Kilgore said. “As long as they don’t bring it into the offi ce, which they generally don’t, I am fi ne with it.”

As for Valentine’s Day, most SA cou-ples are keeping it low-key, Seals said.

Winge said, like most of the staff, she has no major plans, especially because she does not really like Valentine’s Day. However, she said she thinks that Miu has something in the works.

“It is just such a commercialized holiday,” Winge said. “People should take every chance they get to say, ‘I love you,’ and not just on a designated day.”

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My heart was broken for the fi rst time in the fourth grade, and I am not sure if it has really ever recovered. And my inher-ent hate for Valentine’s Day remains.

My friends joke around about Val-entine’s Day really being Single Aware-ness Day. However, I have celebrated Valentine’s Day a couple of times with a signifi cant other, and I still hate it.

Just like the day back in fourth grade, it is usually a huge letdown. Maybe it is my fault for putting my standards too high, for I am crushed when I get only a dozen roses instead of two dozen or when I get the dreaded teddy bear instead of the Tiffany’s diamond bracelet. No proposals under the Eiffel Tower. But really now, all I originally had wanted was a single Pocahontas valentine.

Well, wait. It wasn’t just about a valen-tine card. I had wanted to feel special.

That is what Valentine’s Day is all about – feeling special.

But why should we have to wait for Feb. 14?

It is falling headfi rst into the great unknown that makes relationships special. That feeling of butterfl ies that simultane-ously makes you want to throw up and jump for joy. Making Valentine’s Day a requirement only leads to tedious analyza-tion of the relationship. What do you get the girlfriend of six months? Is chocolate too little? Will she think I am trying to tell her she is fat?

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popular college basketball book of all time, takes the reader behind the scenes of each team throughout the confer-ence.

Woven throughout the book are profi les on each of the coaches – ranging from the coach with the most wins, North Carolina’s Dean Smith, to fi rst-year North Caro-lina State University coach Herb Sendek – as well as an all – ac-cess look at practices, the locker room, college life and school that encapsulates a college bas-ketball season.

To some, the book’s length which is more than 500 pages might seem like a lot, but Feinstein writes in a light prose that everyone – from the most knowledgeable to the aver-age sports fan – can read and understand.

The book begins at the end as Feinstein talks to each of the

coaches at the end of the season, as each one watches the national champion-ship game Monday night. Then, he goes back to the beginning and traces each team’s goals for the season. Five of the nine teams – North Caro-lina, Duke, Maryland, Clemson

and Wake Forest – believe they can be one of the two teams in the entire country playing Monday Night at the end of the season.

The one problem with books of this length is they can take on a game-story feel and bore the reader after about 100 pages.

It could have read like an Associated Press wire story – interesting at the beginning, but by the end the atten-

tion is diverted. Feinstein avoids this trap by

using keen observation skills and interesting anecdotes that can’t be found in the main-stream media. He also doesn’t bog down the reader with tons of statistics or pages of game stories. The game stories are light and usually focus on the fi nal few minutes of key games, while the statistics usu-ally only come at the beginning of every chapter.

The chapters are jam-packed with emotional scenes, includ-ing Duke coach Mike Krzyze-wski challenging his team one day after practice. Coach K, as he commonly is known, draws a blue line on a white board after and tells his team losing is no longer an option. They respond-ed by going on a winning streak and winning the ACC regular season title.

Feinstein also chronicles Maryland coach Gary Williams, frustrated by his talented team – a team that after reaching the top fi ve in the national rankings during winter break plummets back to earth once the team returns to school.

Feinstein writes about the panic that grips the North Carolina community when the team begins the year 0-3 in ACC play – a panic that seem-

ingly everyone who reads the book feels. The panic subdues throughout the remainder of the year as North Carolina enjoys a long winning streak and cap-tures a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

Feinstein then discusses how every night in the ACC is wild – with nearly every team at equal strength, the games are often decided on the fi nal play on national television. To the Truman basketball fan, the book will ring true to this season’s MIAA men’s basketball season, a season that could yield fi ve NCAA tournament teams and where nearly every game is decided at the wire.

Finally, at the end of the sea-son, Feinstein chronicles how each team falls short of reaching Monday Night as the six teams that make the NCAA Tourna-ment lose in their fi nal games of the season.

All nine coaches are exhaust-ed after coaching in 30-plus games and experiencing the highs and lows of the season. Most take a quick vacation or relax after the season.

So should the reader – Fein-stein’s writing of the drama in the ACC and the many teams’ goals of reaching Monday Night is some of best sports writing around.

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Vagina MonologuesThe Women’s Resource Center is sponsoring the Vagina Monologues to raise awareness to stop violence against women and raise funds for Victim Support Services. The program will be at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday nights in Baldwin Auditorium. Cost is $2, $3 at the door.

Free MovieThe Student Activities Board will show “Rent” at 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. Friday and 3:30 p.m. Saturday in Violette Hall 1000.

Valentine’s DanceThe Association of Black Collegians is sponsoring a Valentine’s Day dance from 7 to 11 p.m. Tues-day in the Student Union Building Down Under. Cost is $2 per person or $3 for couples.

LocalSweetheart DanceA Valentine dinner and dance will be from 6:30 to 11:30 p.m. Saturday at the El Kadir Shrine Club.

ConcertsFree PerformanceA recital will be at 7 p.m. Friday in Baldwin Auditorium sponsored by the University Division of Fine Arts. Musicians Martin Storey and Mela-nie Hadley will be play-ing the cello and piano, respectively.

Basketball book wins big Conor Nicholl Sports Editor

Monday Night.It’s what every college

basketball coach dreams of – coaching the fi rst Monday in April, the night of the men’s national championship game.

For the nine coaches in the ultra-competitive Atlantic Coast Conference, though, Monday Night isn’t a dream – it’s a goal.

In “A March to Madness: A View from the Floor in the Atlantic Coast Conference,” award-winning author John Feinstein paints the picture of the emotions, frustrations and highs and lows associated with each coach trying to get his team through the elite ACC sea-son and reach Monday Night, the culmination of six months of college basketball and the three-week NCAA Tournament, also known as March Madness.

Feinstein, the author of other bestsellers including “A Season On the Brink,” “A Good Walk Spoiled” and “A Civil War,” fi rst wrote the book after the 1995-96 season, but it has been re-released this year as the popularity of college basket-ball increases throughout the country.

This book, possibly the most

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Loretta PalmerStaff Reporter

Group projects often summon exasper-ated sighs from students.

The prospect of collaborating schedules and meshing personality types for an im-portant presentation might make students’ stomachs do fl ip-fl ops.

However, senior accounting major Julie Kubiak said she has gained valuable skills from group projects.

“We do a lot of group work, and I think that’s going to be really helpful no matter what I go into because you’re always work-ing with people,” Kubiak said.

Kubiak said the accounting major also has provided her with other necessary skills.

“I feel like I have the presentation skills and the team working skills that are really important,” she said.

This extensive interaction with people might come as a surprise to many. Account-ing is not the boring job that people think consists of sitting around crunching num-bers, Kubiak said.

“You can look at the numbers, compare them and use them to make decisions about a company,” Kubiak said. “It’s not just fi gur-ing out the numbers, but using the numbers to make a decision.”

Kubiak said she thinks that relative to the price, the University provides an excellent accountancy education.

“If you come by their offi ce, [faculty] are really friendly and willing to help out,” she said. “They’re understanding that there are things that are diffi cult, and they’re willing to work with students when you’re stuck.”

The University’s past success with the Certifi ed Public Accountant exam swayed her decision to come to Kirksville, she said.

Truman’s CPA pass rates are second in the nation, which indicates the accountan-cy students are learning what they need to learn, said Debi Cartwright, interim dean of business and accountancy.

“Our external measurements are saying that our students our coming out of here knowing what they need to know, and they are very competitive in terms of jobs and graduate schools,” Cartwright said.

The liberal arts education the Uni-versity provides also gives the student a broad background in different areas and helps the student become more market-able, she said.

“A lot of people perhaps downplay that aspect of it, but in business it’s so important to be able to talk about other things and to be able to do business in other areas, so I think that’s a critical component that’s important for our graduates,” she said.

Students wanting to major in business and accountancy have to go through an application process. Certain courses and a certain grade point average are required to be accepted, Cartwright said.

“You enter pre-business administra-tion or pre-accounting, and that allows you to take certain introductory classes,” she said.

The four areas of concentration under the business administration major include fi nance, management, management/infor-mation systems and marketing.

Business administration and accoun-tancy students learn teamwork, business-writing and presentation skills. Courses also present students with ethical dilem-mas, Cartwright said.

“In general we try to get them to evaluate ideas, be able to evaluate per-formance of others and to be able to think critical on higher levels,” she said. “Those are our goals.”

The emphasis on critical thinking helps business administration students land jobs with companies such as Boeing, Sherwin-Williams, Sprint and Wells Far-go Financial. On the accounting side, the “Big Four” accounting fi rms – Deloitte, KPMG, Pricewaterhouse Coopers and Ernst & Young – often receive graduates’ attention, Cartwright said.

“[The major] provides skills that are crit-ical to most businesses, and most jobs are in businesses,” Cartwright said.

Employers often hire business majors specifi cally because they are looking for a certain way of thinking, writing and com-municating, she said.

“Other majors would not necessar-ily have prepared them for that, and they would then have to be trained to do that later,” she said.

Wherever students end up, the sky is the limit for business and accountancy students, Cartwright said.

“My recommendation is always to fi nd something you’re passionate about, and then you can fi nd a business opportunity that goes along with that category,” she said.

Alumna Amanda Romine participated in the professional business fraternity Delta Sigma Pi for three and half years at the University. She said she took this college activity to another level. While Romine was planning to graduate with a bachelor of arts in business administra-tion with a marketing concentration, she also landed a job.

Romine is an educational and leadership consultant at Delta Sigma Pi’s central offi ce in Oxford, Ohio.

“I travel to universities and have meet-ings with administrators like the dean of

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business and the dean of student activities and chapter advisers and with students,” Romine said. “[I help] them identify prob-lems in the chapter and policies in the chapter, and I give them ideas on how to improve.”

Because Romine travels to many differ-ent universities across the country, she said she has been able to compare her education to the education offered at other schools.

“I feel like the education that I got at Tru-man is better or at least on par with some of the stronger schools I go to,” Romine said.

“The liberal arts background gives me a more rounded basis.”

Romine said her management and mar-keting classes helped her to teach the lead-ers of the fraternities at each school how to market events, recruit students, manage their duties and work with people.

“More than that is what I learned in the hands-on projects that we did in classes and in the student organizations [I was involved in] because that gave me leadership experi-ence,” she said.

The latter is what Romine said she sug-

gests students focus on more than GPA. “You have to think of your education not

just in the classroom,” she said. “You have to get involved in something. Get involved with committees – you can’t just join some-thing, you have to be active.”

Seven months after graduating, Romine said moving away from Kirksville was hard but worth it.

“It was kind of hard to move away, but I think the only way you can grow as a person is to put yourself in uncomfortable situa-tions,” she said.

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For Rent: Biston-Karlton-Jefferson Apartments. Now renting for January 2006. Studios for $300/month with all utilities paid. Heat, water, trash, electric, cable TV, wireless Internet. One-bedrooms for $325 per month. On-site laundry. Call 627-1400 or www.kirksvilleapartments.com for more information.

For Rent: Studio. $300/month all utilities paid. Heat, water, trash, electric, wireless Internet. Three blocks from Truman campus, close to downtown. On-site laundry. Call 627-1400 or www.kirksvilleapart-ments.com for more information.

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For Rent: Small Rentals. Now Renting. Available June 1. Houses for 2006-2007 school year. All houses close to campus. House No. 1: Large four-bedroom/two-bath, $800/month. House No. 2: Three- to four-bedroom/two-bath, $760/month. House No. 3: Two-bedroom/one-bath, $500/month. Call now. 660-626-3278.

For Rent: Off campus housing with Benson Properties. Rentals of all shapes and sizes, offer-ing well-maintained homes and apartments with maintenance personnel, laundry, and yard care. Vicki Benson, owner/agent. Call 660-626-4500 or vbenson@cableone.net. Visit www.vickibenson.net for more information.

For Rent: Two-bedroom house available near campus. $350 per month plus utilities. $450 depos-it. Call 660-665-7186 for more information. Leave a message.

For Rent: Newer two- and three-bedroom duplexes available May or August. These units are not within walking distance of Tru-man, but are located just north of downtown. All electric units

include central air, garbage disposal, range, refrigerator, dishwasher, washer and dryer. Rent $450-$550 per month, one month deposit. View online at rentkirksville.com ID num-ber 107 and 108, or call 660-626-5088 for an appointment.

For Rent: New three-bedroom, three-bath duplex available in August. Six blocks from campus. All electric unit includes central air, garbage disposal, range, refrigerator, dish-washer, washer and dryer. This unit features a unique design with plenty of space. Rent $750 per month with one – month deposit. View online at rentkirksville.com ID number 191 or call 660-626-5088 for an appoint-ment.

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For Rent: Studio apartments. 315 S. High Street. Available May. Newly re-modeled. Two blocks from campus. Pets allowed with additional deposit. All utilities paid. $300 per month. Call 660-665-0660 or 660-216-9932 before 10 p.m.

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For Rent: Available June 1, 2006, is an extremely nice and modern two-bedroom apartment located in a beautiful all-brick complex at 1302 Queens Ct., a short five-minute drive from campus. Amenities include an all electric facility with central air and heat, fully carpeted with linoleum accompaniments, in apart-ment laundry room with washer and dryer included, electric range, refrig-erator, built-in dishwasher, privacy blinds, full size kitchen, etc. Located on a private residential/rental street, this complex is geared towards the professional student who places a high emphasis on a quiet, safe en-vironment with attractive surround-ings. Call 660-626-7695 or 660-665-7770 for more information.

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