Listen up!Alarms ring in MTSU’s new
fire-safety awareness effortsee page 5
CELEBRATE THEIR SERVICE!Two more of MTSU’s “founda-
tions,” Martha Turner of the Careerand Employment Center (almost 43years) and John L. High of WMOTJazz89 (30 years), are retiring! Join
their retirement celebrations:Turner’s is Thursday, June 21, at2:30 p.m. in the Business andAerospace Building’s SunTrustRoom, while High’s is 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday, June 22, in LRC 200.Call 615-898-5342 about Turner’sevent and 615-898-2800 for High’s.
TEE OFF FOR SCHOLARSHIPSJoin the Blue Raider Athletic
Association Monday, June 11, forthe Greater Nashville Blue RaiderGolf Scramble. Proceeds benefitstudent-athlete scholarships. Visitwww.goblueraiders.com/braa/ fortimes, fees and other details.
M TSU has beenselected as win-ner of the 2007
Governor’s EnvironmentalStewardship Award in theGreen Schools Higher
Education Category.The award announce-
ment came from Jim Fyke,commissioner for theTennessee Department ofEnvironment and Conser-vation. It will be presentedFriday, June 8, during the
Governor’s EnvironmentalStewardship Awards cere-mony at the EllingtonAgricultural Center inNashville.
“This was our mostcompetitive awards pro-gram ever,” Fyke said.
“Both the number andquality of nominations cre-ated a challenging evalua-tion and selection processfor the judges.”
Paula Lawson, used-oilprogram coordinator for
F or the fourth time in sevenyears since joining the SunBelt Conference, Middle
Tennessee’s athletic department haswon the Vic Bubas Cup, given eachyear to the university that comes infirst in the Sun Belt’s all-sportsstandings.
The Blue Raiders, who scored aconference record 141 total points,received their fourth trophy May 22during the league meetings inDestin, Fla.
Middle Tennessee won or sharedsix conference championships dur-ing the 2006-07 campaign to secureits first all-sports title since 2005. TheBlue Raiders also won the presti-gious title in 2001, which was theirfirst year in the SBC, and again in2004 and 2005. Middle Tennessee isonly the fourth school in Sun Belthistory to win the award four times.
“This honor speaks highly to thestudent-athletes, coaches, adminis-tration and support staff within ourathletics department,” said ChrisMassaro, director of athletics.
“Winning the award for thefourth time in seven years as a SunBelt member speaks volumes regard-ing the total athletic department atMiddle Tennessee. Everyone in ourathletic department, the universityand community should take greatpride in this, because this was a totalteam effort and that’s the great thingabout an All-Sports Championship.”
Middle Tennessee defeatedWestern Kentucky for the award,while South Alabama was third. TheBlue Raiders’ All-Sports champi-onship was bolstered by regular sea-son titles in football, volleyball andwomen’s basketball, and conferencepost-season championships in vol-leyball, men’s outdoor track andwomen’s basketball. Four MiddleTennessee coaches also earned SunBelt Conference Coach of the Yearhonors—Rick Stockstill (football),Rick Insell (women’s basketball),Johnny Moore (men’s golf) and Dean
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Inside this edition:SUNO survivor speaks of struggle, page 2MT Writing Project zooms into year 3, page 3NYSP canceled again for summer ‘07, page 7
See ‘Trophy’ page 5
WaterWorks! earns state enviro acclaim
from MT Media Relations
Raiders win 4thAll-Sports Trophy,score SBC record
from Staff Reports
See ‘Acclaim’ page 6
Special effects , page 5
THANK-YOU GIFT—Sixth-grade Campus School students Kelsey Webb, left, andAshton Merryman sit in the spotty sunshine clearing weeds from the wooded area out-side the MTSU greenhouse. The students volunteered to help on campus as a thank-youto the university for all its help; for the full story, see page 8.
photo by Andy Heidt
A djunct professor ByronMotley, a veteran Murfrees-boro police captain, was a
hero every time he went to work. Hewas an off-duty hero when he saveda drowning child in July 2006.
Now he can be a hero to the stu-dents who’ll be able to attend MTSUon the scholarship being establishedin his memory.
Joseph Peebles Jr., Motley’s step-son and head of the JPJ Foundation,is launching the annual “Byron M.Motley Hero Golf Tournament” onSaturday, July 21—almost a year tothe day of the cap-tain’s death—tofund an endowedscholarship in theCollege of Educa-tion and BehavioralScience.
Capt. Motleyearned his bache-lor’s and master’sdegrees in criminaljustice from MTSU.He served as an adjunct professor inthe university’s Department ofCriminal Justice Administration aswell as a supervisor in the Murfrees-boro Police Department’s trainingdivision and was the first African-American member of the MPD’sSpecial Operations Unit.
“Byron had three loves: God,family and golf,” Peebles said of hislate stepfather. “The Hero GolfTournament will be our way toremember and honor him for his
See ‘Hero’ page 5
by Gina E. Fann
Golf tournamentfor hero adjunctto help scholars
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C ampus life continues inconcert with the hum ofconstruction equipment,
the skillful negotiating of nar-rowed street lanes and maneuver-ing around barrels, sawhorsesand fences.
Phase 2 of the parking/trans-portation project began lastmonth, which includes a newentrance from RutherfordBoulevard by Greek Row pastWomack Lane Apartments.
Renovations at Womackbuildings ABC and JKL are doneand include sprinkler systems,fire alarms, electrical replacement,new ceilings and painting. Phase1 of the kitchen renovation forthose buildings—replacing appli-ances and installing new cabi-nets—should be finished by theend of July. The same work forbuildings DEF and GHI will becompleted by this November.
The Student Health, Wellness &Recreation facility is slated for com-pletion by the summer of 2008.Nearly all work is completed on thestorm drain, and a permanent watertie-in is finished.
Sod was laid on the SportsFields in May and should be com-pleted this month.
Life Safety compliance workbegan in May in the James UnionBuilding, and a new HVAC air-handler unit and sprinkler systemare being installed in Wiser-PattenScience Hall.
Bids went out in May to convertBragg Mass Communication Room101 from a classroom to a mix room.
The old chill water line on the southside of the Bragg Mass Commbuilding is nearly finished, and anew line will be run into SaundersFine Arts.
The reroofing of Judd, Gracyand Smith Halls started in May, aswell as the replacement of the lowerroof over the Keathley UniversityCenter cafeteria.
Site work has begun on the 800-square-foot observatory. Phase oneis the building, due for completionin September; phase two is thedome, to be completed in January.
Work in Peck Hall includes relo-cating the dean’s suite to Todd Hall,an HVAC upgrade and bathroomupgrades to comply with the
Americans with Disabilities Act,which include remodeling existingbathrooms and constructing newunisex bathrooms.
The baseball stadium improve-ments project is out for bid.
Projects in design include LyonHall, KUC and Campus School ren-ovations, installation of under-ground electrical on the west side ofcampus; the new Science Buildingand Student Union, several buildingelevator upgrades, fire alarmupgrades in Peck, Saunders andKUC, a new educational building(in the area of the current intramu-ral fields), the widening of MiddleTennessee Boulevard and generalADA adaptations.
T he devastation of HurricaneKatrina has greatly impactedSouthern University at New
Orleans. Classes and activities are heldin modular trailers, and many stu-dents reside in trailer homes providedby the Federal Emergency Manage-ment Agency. Most people often ask ifthe rebuilding process seems discour-aging, but when I reply, I reply withpride and dignity, emphasizing thepassion that I have for my universi-ty—my home.
As the struggle continues, it seemsas if the rebuilding process of our uni-versity is taking forever. Drivingaround the city recognizing that other
colleges and univer-sities are almostback to normal, andthen driving pastSUNO to see thatour campus is still inneed of help, is dis-couraging. If some-one were to ask mewhat I want to seehappen with the
university, I wouldsay that I want to see steady progressand actions that are being taken toreconstruct and improve our SouthCampus. I want to return home, justlike everyone does. Many of thosewho have not walked in our shoes orsat in our classroom seats cannotempathize with the pain we suffer.
I am a firm believer of putting stu-dents first, because I know that with-out students there is no university.Now is the time for many students tolet their voices be heard, advocatingstrongly for what they believe or wantto see happen. It is time for changeand change starts now, but it has tostart with someone, particularly stu-dent leaders who are able to articulateand demand the needs of the universi-ty. As I make future provisions, Iinclude SUNO. As a 2007 graduate, Iwant to be a part of the rebuildingprocess. I want to listen to the con-cerns of the students and implementplans in addition to many long-termgoals. I want to advocate for the mate-rials and resources that will accountfor a better university. I will continueto empower students, stressing repeat-edly the importance of a valued edu-cation in the black community. I willact as a mentor to those who seekhelp. Together we will work towardthe betterment of a powerful tradition.
Along with other universities,Southern University at New Orleanswithout a doubt deserves immediatetransformation and attention that willenable its students to once again bemade whole. Together we fight,together we pray, together we advo-cate, together we are determined,together we are successful. We are aFAMILY!
Tamika Ann Boyer received her bache-lor’s degree in social work at SUNO’sMay 12 commencement; she now plans toobtain her master’s in social work. Formore on the SUNO pact, visit the Recordarchives at www.mtsunews.com.
Campus construction continuesby Tom Tozer
FFOORR TTHHEE RREECCOORRDD
SUNO survivorspeaks of pride,struggle, goals
TAKING SHAPE—Odell Hollis of Odell Hollis Masonry works on the west wall of thenew observatory, which will house MTSU’s telescope when it’s completed this fall andits dome installed in January. This is contractor Bruce Adams Construction’s sixth cam-pus project and includes an 18-by-18 main building and a smaller storage building.
photo by News and Public Affairs
by Tamika Ann Boyer
Boyer
T he report card forthe spring 2007semester at Middle
Tennessee is out and itindicates Blue Raider stu-dent-athletes are taking fulladvantage of the opportu-nity for a quality educationas the group collectivelypassed with high marksduring a banner year in theclassroom.
As impressive a year asit has been for MiddleTennessee athletics acrossthe board, the performancein the classroom during thespring semester has beeneven more sparkling, as163 of 294 Blue Raiderstudent-athletes (55 per-cent) had a grade-pointaverage of 3.0 or higher.
Of those 294, 80 wereon the Dean’s List for earn-ing a GPA of 3.5 or higherduring the spring semester;18 had a perfect 4.0 GPA.
“I want to commendour student-athletes fortheir performance in theclassroom,” Director ofAthletics Chris Massarosaid. “So many of oursports were in season at
one time or another for alarge portion of the springsemester, so there areadded pressures. Thisreport indicates a tremen-dous discipline on the partof our student-athletes. Iam very pleased with theirefforts and they are to becommended, but we knowwe can still continue toimprove, and we will.
“I also want to thank(Academic EnhancementDirector) Jim Rost and hisstaff for their hard workand diligence. Thesegrades are a university-wide effort from the coach-es to the student-athletes tothe office of Student Affairsand beyond.”
Blue Raider junior soc-cer player Ingrid Christen-sen, a two-time All-SunBelt selection, said excel-ling in the classroomshould be expected, but inan age when so much ismade of poor grades, it isnice to be able to boast of agleaming report.
“There are so manygreat academic opportuni-ties at Middle Tennessee,and you can see the largemajority of the student-
athletes here take advan-tage of that,” said Chris-tensen, one of 18 student-athletes who earned a per-fect 4.0 GPA in the spring.
“Those numbers arereal impressive becausethere are a lot of demandson the time of student-ath-
letes, andthisshowswe aredoing agood jobof bal-ancingour timebetweenacadem-
ics andathletics and hopefullydoing well in both areas.”
The overall GPA for allstudent-athletes for thespring semester was 3.01,and their cumulative GPAfor the 2006-07 school yearwas 2.90. All nine women’ssports had a semester GPAof 3.0 or higher for the aca-demic year, and 13 of the17 sports teams had anoverall GPA of 3.0 or high-er for the semester. All buttwo teams improved theirsemester GPA from last
spring. “I congratulate the
effort demonstrated by ourstudent-athletes at MiddleTennessee,” universityPresident Sidney A.McPhee said. “Not onlyhave these young peoplegiven the effort, but theyhave gained positiveresults from those efforts....These young people aredemonstrating disciplineand managing their time,and this balance is notoften realized easily, so Ido applaud their efforts, aswell as the support staff,coaches, the athleticdepartment and our aca-demic advisers.”
The men’s tennis teamhad the highest overallteam GPA with a 3.47, andthe softball team had thehighest women’s teamGPA with a 3.45. The num-ber of student-athletes whoincreased their GPAs fromspring 2006 to spring 2007rose by 77; only 18 of the294 student-athletes had aGPA below 2.0 in spring2007, compared to 63 whowere below that mark inspring 2006.
Student-athletes excel in classroomfrom MT Media Relations
Christensen
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T wo MTSU departments and a universityexecutive have been recognized by theTennessee College Public Relations
Association for their creative efforts in publicizingand serving MTSU.
At the TCPRA’s spring meeting held May 17-18 at Vanderbilt University, mem-bers of Publicationsand Graphics andNews and PublicAffairs earned a totalof five awards in theannual statewidecompetition betweenuniversities and com-munity colleges.
The Record, NPA’sbiweekly newspaper forthe university communi-ty, and “Middle Tennes-see Record,” the NPA-produced monthly videomagazine, received silver2007 TCPRA Communi-cations Awards in thePrinted Newsletter andElectronic Newsletter cate-gories, respectively.
Gina Fann of NPA is editor of TheRecord with the assistance of the entireNPA office, and John Lynch and gradu-ate student Seth Alder create “MiddleTennessee Record.”
“This kind of recognition is a big hur-rah for all of us because producing greatwork requires the support and expertise ofone another,” said NPA Director Tom Tozer.“When we talk about a ‘team effort,’ it’s thehigh standards and professionalism of eachplayer that elevate the team, the division and theuniversity. We owe our successes to the excellencethat we expect of ourselves and our colleagues.Lisa, Gina, John and Seth, as well as the other NPAofficers, love what they do, and it shows.”
The Academic Master Plan 2004: On Target—President’s Biennial Report for 2004-06, a joint effortfrom P&G received the silver 2007 TCPRACommunications Award in the Reports category.
P&G’s Martha Millsaps designed thePresident’s Biennial Report.
“The Report is a complex piece and involved anumber of people, including Jack Ross and others
in Photographic Services,Faye Johnson in theOffice of the ExecutiveVice President andProvost, Alan Thomas inthe Business Office, KimEdgar and Dr. SidneyMcPhee in the Presi-dent's Office and MitziBrandon and myself inPublications andGraphics,” said P&GDirector Suma Clark.“It is gratifying toreceive recognitionfor the extensivework on this impor-tant and attractivepiece.”
Millsaps also received a sil-ver TCPRA CommunicationsAward for her work on a posteradvertising photographer KendaNorth’s spring 2007 exhibit,“Urban Pools,” in the BaldwinPhotographic Gallery of theLearning Resources Center. JudithShook, P&G assistant director, andClark also were involved in the poster production."Martha did a great job on the design of the poster,and Franklin Graphics captured the important sub-tleties in the printing,” Clark said.
NPA’s Lisa Rollins received a bronze TCPRACommunications Award in the Media Success Story
category for her efforts in publicizing MTSU geog-rapher Thomas Nolan’s quest to lead
an interdisciplinaryteam of researchers toFrance, where they dis-covered the precise loca-tion of the one-man bat-tlefield of World War Ihero Alvin C. York.
Doug Williams,MTSU’s executive directorof marketing and communi-cations and a past presidentof TCPRA, was honored withthe group’s Charles HolmesAward for his work inupholding the values and pro-moting the interests of theorganization. Holmes, a direc-tor of university and communi-
ty relations for the University of Memphis, was afounding member of the TCPRA.
“Our friends in News and Public Affairs andPublications and Graphics, as well as our col-leagues all over campus who contribute to theirprojects, have been honored once again by theirpeers statewide for superior work,” Joe Bales, vicepresident for development and university relations,said of his division’s awards. “And MarketingDirector Doug Williams’s award for his dedicatedservice to the TCPRA is truly well-deserved. We’realways pleased to have these excellent efforts rec-ognized, because our division’s ultimate goal is toserve our students, faculty and staff and to show-case what’s great about MTSU.”
University departmentsgain state PR accoladesfrom Staff Reports
T hanks to generous matching grants totaling$90,000, MTSU soon will embark upon itsthird annual Middle Tennessee Writing
Project, an on-campus writing institute for selectteachers of kindergarten through college students.
The grants also will fund three Youth Writer’sCamp sessions, all of which are two-week intensivewriting camps held Mondays through Thursdaysfor students from Rutherford, Cannon and Wilsoncounties.
Although MTSU has previously been the site ofMTWP-sponsored Youth Writer’s Camps, this yearthere will be three separate camps—an 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. June 11-21 session for fourth through 12thgrades in the Cason-Kennedy Nursing Building; an8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. June 4-14 camp for grades fivethrough nine at Castle Heights Upper Elementaryin Lebanon; and a 7:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. June 4-14camp for fourth- to eighth-grade writers atWoodbury Grammar School in Cannon County.
Author Michael Shoulders, who penned V is forVolunteer, a book about Tennessee, will be the guestauthor at all three youth camps.
Dr. Bobbie Solley, professor of elementary andspecial education, said the June 4-29 teacher-focused MTWP project targets educators whoalready are doing good work when it comes towriting instruction in the classroom.
“We have 18 teacher participants fromWilliamson, Rutherford, Bedford, Cannon andWilson counties, along with several from (the)Lebanon and Murfreesboro city systems,” she said.“These teachers will be sharing their expertise andlearning from one another the most effective strate-gies for teaching writing.
“Once the summer institute is complete, these18 participants will join the almost 40 other teach-ers who have gone through the institute to becometeacher consultants,” she continued. “Their job thenis to conduct in-service, present at conferences oranything else that would provide professionaldevelopment for other teachers in the area of writ-ing.”
MTSU is the second Tennessee college to offersuch a writing project and is one of 185 sites of theThe National Writing Project, a federally fundedprogram launched in 1974.
“This is a very good thing for MTSU,” said
Solley, who—along with Dr. Trixie Smith, assistantprofessor of English—wrote the initial grant requestthat made MTWP possible.
Twenty-five students already are registered toattend the MTSU writing camp, which costs $200per student. Both the Woodbury- and Lebanon-based writing camps will cost $100 per student.
Past MTWP teacher-participant Marcy Pfluegerof Eagleville School will serve as coordinator for allthree writing camps, Solley said.
“In 2005, Marcy Pflueger, one of the partici-pants from the first summer institute, attended anational conference and began hearing and learningabout youth writers’ camps as a way to involvekids in effective writing as well as provide profes-sional development for teachers,” Solley said. “Shecame to the directors and co-directors of the MTWPwith a plan. … (And) after last summer’s institute,more teacher participants wanted to be involved inthe youth writers’ camp, so Marcy became thedirector, overseeing three camps for this summer.”
For more information about the MTWP, pleasevisit www.mtsu.edu/~mtwp. For youth camp registra-tion information, please contact Pflueger via e-mailat [emailprotected] or by calling 615-274-6320.
MT Writing Project zooms into 3rd year, 3 countiesby Lisa L. Rollins
A MAJOR DISCOVERY—MTSU’s Tom Nolan, left, and Châtel-Chéhéry Mayor RolandDestaney listen as regional forester Damien Georges describes the French battlefield areawhere Nolan’s team was preparing to map World War I artifacts in March 2006. Pleasevisit the Record archives at www.mtsunews.com for the complete Jan. 15, 2007, story.
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Student Photography Exhibit8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, noon-4 p.m. SaturdayBaldwin Photo Gallery, LRCFor information, contact: 615-898-2085.
June 4-7Rick Stockstill Football Campfor first- to eighth-grade boysFor information, visit www.goblueraiders.comor contact: 615-898-2926.
June 4-10MTSU Beef Campfor fourth- to 12th-gradersTennessee Livestock CenterFor information, contact: 615-898-2419.
Monday, June 4Summer Sessions II, III begin
June 5-6CUSTOMS OrientationLiberal Arts, Education andBehavioral Science, Businessand undeclared majorsFor information, visitwww.mtsu.edu/~customsor contact: 615-898-5533.
Tuesday, June 5Blue Raider AthleticAssociation AppreciationDinner6 p.m., Alumni Memorial GymFor information, contact: 615-898-2210.
June 6-20Blue Raider Strength andConditioning Speed School for athletes ages 12 to 186 p.m. Wednesdays For information, visit www.goblueraiders.comor contact: 615-904-8196.
June 8-9CUSTOMS OrientationBasic & Applied Science, MassComm and undeclared majors7:30 a.m., campuswideFor information, visitwww.mtsu.edu/~customsor contact: 615-898-5533.
June 8-10Tennessee Nat’l. Barrel RaceAssociation StateChampionships9 a.m. daily, Miller ColiseumFor information, visitwww.tnnbha.com.
June 10-12Blue Raider Baseball Pitcher/Catcher Camp (Session I)for boys ages 13 to 12th gradeFor information, visit www.goblueraiders.comor contact: 615-898-2961.
June 10-July 13Governor’s School for the ArtsCampuswideFor information, visitwww.mtsu.edu/~gschoolor contact: 615-898-2223.
Sunday, June 10Blue Raider Football “Mini Camp”for ninth- to 12th-grade boysFor information, visit www.goblueraiders.comor contact: 615-898-2926.
Sunday, June 10“MTSU On the Record—Making the Grade?“Guest: Alfie Kohn7 a.m., WMOT 89.5-FMPodcast available atwww.mtsunews.comor free subscription at iTunes.
June 11-13Rick Insell “Li’l Raider”Women’s Basketball Campfor girls age 5 to eighth grade For information, visit www.goblueraiders.comor contact: 615-898-5356.
June 11-15Blue Raider Youth TennisCamp Ifor athletes ages 5 to 18 For information, visit www.goblueraiders.comor contact: 615-898-2957.
June 11-15“First Touch” Soccer Campfor athletes ages 5 to 10 For information, visitwww.mtsusoccercamps.comor contact: 615-898-5316.
Monday, June 11Greater Nashville Blue RaiderGolf Scramble11 a.m. check-in, 11:30 lunch,1 p.m. shotgun startTemple Hills Golf Course,FranklinFor information, visitwww.goblueraiders.com/braa/.
June 12-13CUSTOMS OrientationLiberal Arts, Education andBehavioral Science, Businessand undeclared majors7:30 a.m., campuswideFor information, visitwww.mtsu.edu/~customsor contact: 615-898-5533.
June 12-14Blue Raider Baseball HittingCamp (Session II)for boys ages 13 to 12th gradeFor information, visit www.goblueraiders.comor contact: 615-898-2961.
June 14-16Kermit Davis Men’sBasketball Team Camp Ifor high-school boys’ teams For information, visit www.goblueraiders.comor contact: 615-898-5228.
June 17-19Rick Insell Women’sBasketball Team Camp Ifor high-school girls’ teams For information, visit www.goblueraiders.comor contact: 615-898-5356.
Sunday, June 17“MTSU On the Record—Sanity and Safety“Guest: Kenneth Sanney7 a.m., WMOT 89.5-FMPodcast available atwww.mtsunews.comor free subscription at iTunes.
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WE-HAUL—Benefits Staff employees pausehalfway through filling and stacking 160-plusboxes of personnel files for their move fromthe Cope Administration Building into thenewly christened Sam H. Ingram Building atthe corner of Middle Tennessee Boulevard andEast Lytle Street. Clockwise from left areCindy Camp, Lisa Batey, Wendy Brown, KarenMilstead, student worker Carolyn Collins andBecky Young. (Not pictured is Kim Taylor.)Benefits staffers are joining the rest of theirHuman Resource Services colleagues—theEmployment Office, Payroll Office and theassistant vice president of human resources—in the Ingram Building. Other offices relocatedto the Ingram Building, named for MTSU'ssixth president (1979-1989), include the Officeof Research and Sponsored Programs, theOffice of Compliance and the College ofGraduate Studies.
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EWWWWW, COOOL!—Lori Gann-Smith, inapron, assistant professor of speech and the-atre, applies gruesome theatrical makeup toAnna Fitzgerald, program director of theYouth Culture and Arts Center, as SpecialEffects Makeup Workshop attendees RachelBarnes of Shelbyville Central High School,home-schooler Ben Arnold of Murfreesboroand Alex Morgan of Brentwood Academywatch. Gann-Smith taught youngsters how tocast and mold body parts and how to create“bruises” and other injuries for the most real-istic possible look. Proceeds from the work-shop benefited the YCAC, a program of YouthEmpowerment through Arts and Humanities,or YEAH. For more information about YCACevents, visit www.youthculturecenter.org. Formore on the workshop fun, watch the Juneedition of “Middle Tennessee Record” onyour local cable station (see times and sta-tions, page 4) or online at www.mtsunews.com.
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Specially effective
I f you’ve cried out, “Aaargh! Whatis that racket and why is it inter-rupting my class?” and then
ignored the fire alarm screamingdown the hallway, MTSU has a newfire safety program for you.
The university is launching a newcampuswide safety awareness cam-paign, “Do the Drill,” to make stu-dents, faculty and staff more mindfulof fire drills and fire safety.
“I'm proud to be part of this safe-ty awareness program on campus,”said Tom Tozer, director of the Officeof News and Public Affairs and one ofthe campaign’s organizers.
“So often it seems that it takes atragedy for people to realize theimportance of planning and prepara-tion. We should respond as thougheach drill is the real thing. If all of us
take fire alarms seriously and evacu-ate our buildings in a calm and order-ly fashion, we should never have tobe a jolting headline.”
Organizers say that making thecampus community aware of theimportance of fire drills will helpensure familiarity with exit routesand help people respond promptlyand safely if an actual fire occurs.Drills also familiarize building occu-
pants with the sound of the firealarm, serve as training opportunitiesfor emergency response units andprovide important tests of alarm sys-tems and fire-reporting procedures.
“They save lives, pure and sim-ple,” Tozer said. “A fire drill is a briefinterruption in your life. We had onejust the other day in the Cope(Administration) Building, whichturned out to be a false alarm, but an
interruption is always better briefthan permanent.”
The safety campaign, which isbeing promoted via colorful signsaround campus and on the universi-ty’s Web site at www.mtsu.edu/alert4u,offers common-sense reminders andtips for the campus community—remain calm, move quickly, don’t goback inside the building, prepare foryour escape ahead of time.
“Planning can be the differencebetween good outcomes and very badones in the event of an emergency,”university President Sidney A.McPhee said. “That’s why MTSUsafety plans include periodic firedrills in all campus buildings. Know-ing what to do and where to go incase of fire can save your life, and thebest way to learn what to do isthrough practice.“
Listen up! Building fire drills can save your lifefrom Staff Reports
Trophy from page 1Hayes (men’s outdoortrack and field.)
The Blue Raidersalso aided their causewith a significantupgrade in men’s golf,where they gained10 points from theprevious season.Middle Tennesseealso gained fivepoints in baseball,women’s tennisand volleyball,while earning fourmore points inwomen’s basket-ball from 2006. The foot-ball team added 3.5points, and softball andwomen’s indoor trackprovided three morepoints.
Another impressivenumber for the BlueRaiders in 2006-07 wastheir record on the roadin conference play. In
football, men’s basket-ball, women’s basketballand baseball (totalsinclude results of entireweekend series) theBlue Raiders went an
impressive 28-4.Football was 6-0, men’sbasketball 7-4, women’sbasketball 10-0 andbaseball 5-0.
Demonstratingtremendous balance,Middle Tennesseeearned six points ormore in 16 of the 17sports it sponsors.
Points are awardedbased on the number ofschools sponsoring thesport. Institutions notsponsoring a sport donot receive points in
that sport, andinstitutions tyingfor positions splitthe combinedpoints of theirpositions.
MiddleTennessee is theonly football-playing member towin the Bubas Cup
since football became aleague-sponsored sportin 2001. The BlueRaiders do not fieldteams in men’s andwomen’s swimmingand diving.
Hero from page 1dedication to our family and ourcommunity. Additionally, to estab-lish a scholarship in his name willadd to his legacy of teaching andhelping others become better people.We miss him tremendously.”
Criteria for the scholarshiprequire the recipient to be a minoritystudent from a Murfreesboro highschool with a minimum 3.0 GPA anda letter of acceptance from MTSU.
The tournament, set to beginwith registration at 11 a.m. and ashotgun start at 1 p.m. at IndianHills Golf Course in Murfreesboro,will carry a fee of $100 per player or$380 per foursome. The cost includesgreens fees, cart, range balls, a sleeveof golf balls and dinner. All proceedswill go toward the scholarship fund.
Capt. Motley, 58 and a U.S.Army veteran, died July 22, 2006,while attending a family barbecue inBrentwood. He leaped into a swim-ming pool to save a young relativebut lost his own life in the process.
And that wasn’t the first timethe captain had risked his life to
save another: in 1965, Capt. Motleyattempted to save a man fromdrowning at Walter Hill Dam, and in1989, he attempted to save pro foot-baller Jerry Anderson from drown-ing in Stones River in Murfreesboro.Anderson rescued two boys but sac-rificed his own life. In January, theMurfreesboro Branch of the NAACPhonored Capt. Motley posthumouslywith its annual Jerry Anderson HeroAward.
“We are very pleased to workwith Mr. Peebles to honor ByronMotley, a man who was a true heroto our community,” said LucieMurphy, coordinator of annual giv-ing. “Through this scholarship in hisname, his passion for helping otherswill last forever. We hope everyonecomes out to show their support andrespect for the honorable life helived.”
Registration deadline for thetournament is Friday, June 15. Formore information, visit www.jpjfoundation.com or contactPeebles at 1-800-800-7150, pin 9178.
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D r. James E. Taylor never set out to become an expert in family care-giving, but life has provided him with the experiences and motiva-tion to do just that.
An assistant professor of social work at MTSU since 1998, Taylor is on a12-month sabbatical from full-time teaching to help create what he hopeswill become a network of family caregiving resource points within the mem-bership of Nashville’s 14 African Methodist Episcopal Churches.
Taylor, who found himself in the role of caregiver for his mother 12 yearsago, said that when most find themselves in such a role, it’s easy to becomeoverwhelmed and not know where to turn for support.
“Family caregiving is a job we volunteer for and what we do in order totake care of our loved ones,” Taylor said. “I didn’t know that is what I wascalled, but I was just that.”
The “family caregiver” term, he explained, refers to anyone who pro-vides assistance to someone who is ill, incapacitated or disabled and needssuch care to maintain an optimal level of independence. Because familiesprovide the majority of care, they arecalled “family caregivers,” Taylor said.
Moreover, caregivers may be “infor-mal” care providers, meaning they are nothired and are non-professionals, or “for-mal” care providers, meaning profession-als. Informal caregivers usually are nottrained and may be a friend or relative ofthe person needing care, Taylor said.Formal caregivers are trained to providecare and often have no family ties to theperson receiving the care they provide in private homes, hospices, medicalcenters or nursing homes.
An only child, Taylor said that when he first began overseeing his moth-er’s care—including locating and arranging needed services for her in spiteof their multi-state distance—he didn’t realize that a family caregiver is pre-cisely what he had become.
It was this firsthand experience, though, that ultimately opened a newcareer for Taylor, who previously worked and lived in Maryland, where heserved as a program manager for the U.S. Department of Education until hisretirement. Once out of the full-time workforce, it didn’t take long for Taylorto grow “tired of being retired,” he said, so he turned his long background inresearch grant management and social welfare policy organization into afull-time teaching role within MTSU’s Department of Social Work.
“When I came here and started hanging around some of the other pro-fessors, and when they found out what I was doing in regard to family care-giving … I ended up parlaying that into a family caregiving class for socialworkers,” said Taylor, 73, who continues to care for his now-Murfreesboro-based mom, age 94.
Initially offered in spring 2002, the Family Caregiving elective courseTaylor developed wasn’t met with the student response he had hoped. “Butas soon as the Regents Online Degree Program opened up, I modified thatcourse to fit into that instructional format, and it’s proved to be very popu-lar,” he said, smiling.
The Family Caregiving elective, which grew in popularity via word ofmouth and now boasts full student enrollments, became the impetus forTaylor’s current pilot program. It’s dubbed the MTSU Faith-Based CaregiverProject and focuses on family caregiving and the need to serve a traditionallyunderserved community—namely, the black community.
By the end of December, Taylor said he hopes to help select members ofthe Women’s Ministry Societies within greater Nashville’s AME churchesbecome educated about the numerous resources and agencies available tothose who are engaged in family caregiving. By partnering with a multitudeof such agencies, Taylor’s goal is to provide caregiving workshops to make
the chosen AME representatives aware of the services available to familycaregivers and, in turn, point congregation members to the proper resourceswhen they find themselves in the role of caregiver.
Usually, Taylor said, “You’re unprepared for (serving as a caregiver) …and don’t know where to turn or find resources. My contention is thatAfrican-Americans who attend my churches don’t know where to turn orwhere to go, so I’m setting up an information source in the church.”
The project’s emphasis on the black community came about, Taylor said,because “historically, African-Americans face greater health problems, andwhen they are blessed to have a long life, they may not have the financialresources to pay for needed health care.
“Instead of living in a nursing home or an assisted-living residence,they often rely on family members or loved one to care for them in theirhomes. … Often these caregivers are not well-informed about availableresources and how to locate services to help their ill family members.”
Although his non-instructional assignment began only this year, alreadyTaylor has contacted and received a positive response from social agenciessuch as the Area Agency on Aging and Disability, the Alzheimer’s
Association, the Tennessee Departmentof Health, the local Arthritis Foundation,Tennessee Center for Child Welfare,Tennessee Respite Coalition and theTennessee Centers for IndependentLiving.
“Usually when we think about fami-ly caregiving, we think about old people,but there are many other situationswhere family caregiving is at work,”Taylor noted. “We have children who areborn with spina bifida and lots of other
things, and when you have to go through life with that kind of experience,family caregiving is involved.”
In spite of the fact many family caregivers may feel isolated, “There area lot of us,” Taylor said, adding that current estimates put the number ofU.S. family caregivers around 50 million.
“The dollar value that we attach to the services that (family caregivers)provide is said to be in the neighborhood of $400 billion,” he continued.“Given the amount of that dollar value and the number of us that do it,there’s not an industry in the world that comes close to that.”
With his awareness and expertise on family caregiving firmly in place,Taylor said his current project is a win-win for all involved, thanks to thepublic service it promises to provide and the partnerships it has begun tocreate.
Additionally, he said he hopes other university faculty and graduate stu-dents interested in contributing to his current effort in some way will contacthim about possible collaborations or added partnerships related to the care-giver project.
“I am excited about this; I can hardly wait!” Taylor said. “I am goingfull-speed ahead … and working in the coming year to organize an advisorygroup, but I need support to help me do clerical work, work with churchesand set up workshops.
“I would like to capture the essence of what’s going to take place in thismodel that I am building so I can create how-to manuals on family caregiv-ing to distribute to the communities. … I think what we are providing is apublic service, and that is how I am pursuing this, but I always welcomehelp and support.”
For more information about Taylor’s current project, please contact himvia e-mail at [emailprotected] or by calling 615-898-5049.
Professor turns caregiving into outreach projectby Lisa L. Rollins
‘There’s not an industry inthe world that comes close.’
Dr. James E. Taylor, on the contributions of family caregivers
Acclaim from page 1TDEC, nominated MTSU and theCenter for Environmental Educationfor its WaterWorks! Program.
“This honor is a direct result ofthe outstanding work and high visi-bility of WaterWorks!” said Dr. CindiSmith-Walters,biology professorand co-director ofthe Center forEnvironmentalEducation.
According tothe center’s Web site, WaterWorks! isa statewide public education and out-reach program to promote clean waterin Tennessee. Funded in part by thestate Department of AgricultureNonpoint Source Program and byTDEC’s used oil program,WaterWorks! promotes individual
responsibility through “easy-to-learnand do” habits.
"The success of the WaterWorks!program is due to excellent teamworkfrom Environmental Education Centeradministration and staff, the creative
efforts of the BillHudson Agency,strong supportand funding fromMTSU, theTennesseeDepartment of
Agriculture and Department ofEnvironment and Conservation, andthe many stormwater programs andwatershed groups who have part-nered with WaterWorks!” said KarenHargrove, natural resources coordina-tor. “We are grateful to them all!"
T ennessee Iron Furnace Trail,” an informa-tional video in DVD format produced in acollaborative effort between MTSU’s Center
for Historic Preservation and the university’sAudio/Visual Services, garnered a Bronze Award atthe 28th Annual Telly Awards.
According to its Web site (www.tellyawards.com),“The Telly Awards seek to honor the very bestlocal, regional and cable television commercials andprograms, as well as the finest video and film pro-ductions.”
The winning video, which was entered in thecontest’s TV Programs, Segment or PromotionalPieces—Education category, was produced byCaneta Hankins, assistant director of the CHP;Patrick Jackson, assistant director for programmingfor A/V Services; and Connie Schmidt, director ofMTSU’s Instructional Technology Support Center.The video was directed and edited by Jackson, with
additional editing by Ty Whitaker, video produc-tion assistant.
Hankins and Jackson scripted the video, withconsultation from Michael T. Gavin, preservationspecialist with the Tennessee Civil War HeritageArea, and Carroll Van West, CHP director. FrankForgette, A/V Services director, and Jeffrey Nokes,assistant director of engineering, provided engi-neering support for the DVD, which is one compo-nent of the multi-county Tennessee Iron FurnaceTrail project.
According to a release issued by the TellyAwards staff, the 2007 contest attracted a record-breaking pool of more than 13,000 entries.
“This is the second Telly that our departmenthas won, and this time—just like before—it was athrill and truly a team effort,” Jackson said.
“Many people’s creative energies went into thisproject, and it’s rewarding to be recognized on sucha distinguished level in a competition that drawsthousands of quality entries.”
A/V Services won a 2006 Bronze Telly Awardfor producing “Fostering Positive Behavior,” athree-DVD training video for the TennesseeDepartment of Children’s Services in collaborationwith the Tennessee Center for Child Welfare.
Founded in 1978, the Telly Awards’ mission isto strengthen the visual arts community by inspir-ing, promoting and supporting creativity.
Silver and bronze Telly statuettes honor out-standing local, regional and cable television com-mercials and programs, as well as the finest videoand film productions. Past winners include theChildren’s Miracle Network, Court TV, CoxCommunications, E! Networks, Harpo Studios, J.Walter Thompson, Spike TV, Targetcom andUniversal Studios Hollywood.
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DAY AT THE HILL—MTSU history graduate student and statemuseum curator Jeff Sellers gives a tour of the state Capitol to stu-dents attending the Tennessee Intercollegiate Student LegislatureDay in Nashville in March. Included in the group from MTSU areTim Chrysler (facing camera in suit), Mitchell Holcomb (in frontof Chrysler with MT shirt), Brittany Cates and Kathi Liller.Twenty-five MTSU students and Dr. Jim Williams (history) andPatrick Chinnery (political science) attended the event as part ofthe campus American Democracy Project. Students met with leg-islators and legislative interns, observed legislative committeemeetings, and learned about other aspects of state government inthe first year of this event sponsored by TISL.
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Watching the wheels go round
MTSU staffers garner bronze in 2007 Telly Awardsfrom Staff Reports
‘Iron Furnace Trail’ DVD is a winner
F or the second consecutive year,the National Youth SportsProgram, a monthlong summer
camp for at-risk youth, will not beheld at MTSU, confirmed NationalProgram Director Gale Wiedow.
In 2005, federal funding for thenational program was eliminated,Wiedow said. “These programs areunable to continue without increasedinstitutional and local communitysupport,” he said.
Locally, MTSU’s Department ofHealth and Human Performance hasoverseen the grant-funded camp,which combines sports instructionand recreation with educational pro-grams, for about 300 at-risk youthfrom qualifying low-income families.
However, because no federalmoney for NYSP was provided in the2005 fiscal year Health and HumanServices Appropriations Bill, alsoknown as H.R. 3010, support for theNYSP program at MTSU—as well as201 other NYSP programs nation-wide—will not be available this year,NYSP organizers confirmed.
From 2002 to 2005, MTSU’s NYSPstaff and volunteers provided nearly1,000 Rutherford County youths withfree medical and dental health screen-ings as well as four weeks of summerfun with educational, health-focusedactivities that included life lessonsand skills. Freetransportationto and from theweekday campwas includedin the free pro-gram, as weretwo USDA-approvedmeals each day.
Dr. DianneBartley, chair-woman of health and human per-formance and past NYSP coordinatorfor MTSU, said prior NYSP campersparticipated in activities such as self-defense, soccer, swimming, basket-ball, tennis, volleyball, golf, racquet-ball, weight training, and social andaerobic dance.
“This program has been so veryvaluable for the young people whoattended,” she said. “These campersalso took part in educational classes
instructed by MTSU educators andcommunity leaders on topics such asalcohol/drug abuse and violence pre-vention, proper nutrition, personalhealth and disease prevention, careeropportunities and job responsibilities,and higher education.”
Wiedowsaid MTSU isnot alone in itsinability toattract moneyto support theprogram, butsome NYSPprograms—includingTennessee StateUniversity in
Nashville, which is currently thestate’s only program operating in2007—have been able to secure alter-native funding to conduct programson their campuses.
“Fifty other programs will runthis year,” he said, “(but each of themhas been) funded locally by grantmoney as well as the institution itselfhelping.”
Bartley and Wiedow agreed thatif MTSU is to continue sponsoring the
summer camp for at-risk youth, thelocal community must exercise its col-lective voice to help restore fundingfor NYSP so it can return in 2008.Wiedow suggested that residents uti-lize the Web to contact their local sen-ators at www.senate.gov and their rep-resentatives at www.house.gov.
Currently headquartered inIndianapolis, NYSP was created whenrepresentatives from the NationalCollegiate Athletic Association andthe President’s Council on PhysicalFitness and Sports launched its con-cept in the summer of 1968 at twouniversity athletic facilities. In March1969, the White House announced thefederal government would commit$3 million to establish a sports pro-gram for economically disadvantagedyouth, and NYSP was born.
Today, the NYSP Fund, whichoperates under the National YouthSports Corporation moniker, is a non-profit organization established toadminister NYSP projects nationwide.
For more information on NYSP,visit www.nyscorp.org/nysp/home.html.
Samantha Buttrey is a senior major-ing in mass communication.
Funding cuts again cancel summer sports program by Lisa L. Rollinsand Samantha Buttrey
Dr. Diane J. Sawyer (Chair ofExcellence in Dyslexic Studies) was apanelist for a presentation on “Col-laboration Between Special and Read-ing Educators in Preservice ReadingPrograms” at the RISE (ReadingInstruction Successfully Enhanced)conference of the Tennessee Branch ofthe International Dyslexia Associationin Brentwood April 14. Sawyer alsowas the keynote speaker for theAcademy of Orton-GillinghamPractitioners and Educators NationalConference in Huntsville, Ala., May5; her topic was “Meeting the Chal-lenge of Dyslexia in Tennessee: AMultifaceted Approach.”
Dr. Martha Jo Edwards (AdamsChair of Excellence in HealthCareServices and interim director of theTennessee Institute of Public Health)was named among “10 Women toWatch” in the May issue of NashvilleMedical News. This is the secondannual feature in NMN celebrating 10dedicated women who have made asignificant impact on health care inMiddle Tennessee and beyond.
Janet Camp (Center forDyslexia) presented “Phonics
Instruction: When Is It Effective?”Oct. 19 at the Tennessee EducationalLeadership Conference held at theNashville Convention Center. Campalso presented two sessions on thesame topic for the Tennessee Title IAnnual Conference in GatlinburgDec. 6 and presented “Dyslexia andCritical Preschool Skills” to pre-K lit-eracy coordinators for the MetroNashville United Way on April 20.
Dr. M. Tara Joyce (Center forDyslexia) presented “TeachingTechniques for Tutors” for the Readto Succeed Adult Literacy ProgramTutor Training March 29 and May 5.With Dyslexia Center colleagueKaren Jones and the MTSU Instruc-tional Technology Support Center,Joyce also presented a one-hoursatellite videoconference, “Dyslexia:The Inside Story,” March 1.
Dr. Jason Johnson (mathematicalsciences) was a co-presenter at aroundtable discussion, “MathElementary Education,” at theTennessee Mathematical Associationof Two-Year Colleges Conference heldApril 20-21 in Jackson.
Tom Nolan (geosciences) present-ed “In Search of Sgt. York: Digging inthe Argonne” April 27-28 at theTennessee Kentucky Western FrontAssociation Meeting, held at Tennes-see Tech in Cookeville.
Dr. Suzanne Prevost (NationalHealthCare Chair in Nursing) gavethree presentations in Hong Kong,China, in April. She provided thekeynote address, “Evidence-BasedPractice and the Future of Nursing,”for the International Conference onEvidence-Based Nursing and present-ed a breakout session, “Paradigms,Knowledge Development, & Prac-tice.” Finally, she presented “Honor,Responsibility, and Opportunity” forthe annual meeting and inductionceremony of the Hong Kong chapterof the nursing honor society, SigmaTheta Tau International.
A short story by Dr. JohnMinichillo (English), “Blind Man inthe Halls of Justice,” recently wasselected for inclusion in an anthology,Next Stop Hollywood, just publishedby St. Martin’s Press. Minichillo’swork was selected from more than600 submissions from around theworld for publication as one of 15previously unpublished short storiesthat have potential as movies.
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Faculty/Staff Update
People Around Campus
S tudents in two sixth-grade classes at theHomer Pittard Campus School recentlydecided to give back to MTSU by help-
ing perform needed groundskeeping on theuniversity’s campus.
The participating sixth-graders reportedfor duty to Grady “Larry” Sizemore, green-house manager for grounds services on cam-pus, May 21 and 22. A 32-year member ofMTSU’s staff, Sizemore is in charge of all uni-versity landscaping.
Dr. Tracey Ring, professor of elementaryand special education, said she was contactedby Campus School teachers LeAnn Hays andShields Templeton when they learned thattheir graduating sixth-grade classes wanted toperform community service for MTSU.
Ring, in turn, said she immediatelythought of Sizemore as someone willing tohelp the 50 children with their self-initiatedcommunity project, since he previouslyworked closely with several teachers at school.
“We (had) the students doing differentthings on different days, and all went well,”Sizemore said of the community service.
The first class of sixth-graders reported forduty May 21 and spent most of their schoolday performing tasks that needed to takeplace so that the second group of childrencould complete their planned work May 22,Ring said.
“The first helped get a lot of leaves that fellduring the recent frost,” Sizemore explained. “Sowe (worked) on getting the nursery cleaned up inthat area the best we could so the next group ofkids could plant some native grasses, some switchgrasses such as North Wind and Heavy Metal,around the rain garden.”
Hays said that although some of her previousclasses also had conducted community service proj-
ects, this particular group of students had devel-oped an especially close tie with the university andconceived the on-campus service idea as a way tosay “thank you” for all the help MTSU had provid-ed for them during the past several years.
“This is a part of their graduation celebration,to give back to the university,” said Hays, whonoted that the children performed the service dur-ing their graduation week.
For more information about the K-6 school,
which is a public elementary jointly operated byMTSU and the Rutherford County School Systemas well as the laboratory school for students in theteacher education programs of the Department ofElementary and Special Education, please visit itsWeb site at www.hpc.rcs.k12.tn.us/index.htm.
Ashley Pinkerton is a senior majoring in mass com-munication.
Campus 6th-graders ‘give back’ at ground level
CLEARING A PATH—Campus School sixth graders C.J. Hinch, left, and Samuel Short work with their classmates to pullweeds and clear plant debris in a wooded area near the MTSU greenhouse.
photo by Andy Heidt
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