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Top left, the Illusionz dance team performs in front of the Student Union Building at the Purple Friday Kickoff on Friday, Aug. 26. Bottom left, junior Sheri He has a purple
paw print painted on her face by junior Carolyn McManus. Above right, cheerleaders junior Shannon Colligan and sophomore Noel Belle make snow cones for students.
Faculty question online Kirksvillain
contact with students Productions
like, ‘Now this doesn’t go on Facebook,’” Goyette said. “We actually
have those kinds of conversations
“This doesn’t go on Facebook” because we know that communimight seem like an unexpected cates a certain message to adminisremark to overhear at a gathering trations, to students.”
of college professors, but for TruRather than feeling threatened by
man State faculty members whose the possibility of unseemly posting
Facebook friends include many of Goyette uses Facebook as a means
their students, social media discre- of checking on his students, whose
tion is a must.
personal lives might be affecting
On August 19th the Missouri their work in his classes.
State Teacher’s Association sought
“It’s a way of me understanding
an injunction to the Amy Hestir them as a professor, or if I see someStudent Protection Act, a new one’s partying a lot, I now understand
Missouri
why they’re
law forbidh a v i n g
I think sometimes
troubles in
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class,” Goyelectronic
Facebook
gives
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ette said.
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cause they
drop their
more cautious.
worry TruAlanna Preussner
“friended”
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students
ministration
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might deem
act, many
it inappropriate, because thinks comfaculty members and students at munications between students and
Truman question the boundaries faculty might become too intimate.
between educators and students
English professor Alanna Preussand develop their own rules for ner said that before students gradunavigating social networking sites. ate, this type of communication beTheater professor David Goy- tween herself and a current student
ette operates Twitter and Facebook not only would be violating profesaccounts that include about 100 of sional boundaries, but witnessing a
his current and former students as student’s personal life on her news
followers and friends. He said that feed would seem inappropriate. Dewhile his own posts aren’t contro- spite the fact that current students
versial, he and his colleagues have have contacted her with friend rediscussed the technologies’ poten- quests, she’s always clicked the “not
tially negative impact on their pro- now” button without regret.
fessional lives.
“I do it straight across the board,”
“I will be having drinks with my she said. “I feel that I don’t have a
fellow faculty ... and we’re toast- right to people’s private lives. I think
ing and there’s a photo that we’re sometimes Facebook gives us that
BY SCOTT HENSON
Staff Reporter
“
”
illusion that we are carrying forth
a conversation with just one or two
people, when, in fact, everybody’s
looking in on it, and that’s why I’m a
little more cautious.”
Preussner said that after students
graduate she views them as colleagues, and is more comfortable
settling into Facebook friendships
with them. She said she enjoys
catching up on their lives several
years after they graduate, and has received requests for letters of recommendation from them via Facebook.
She said the alumni who friend
Preussner wouldn’t find online exchanges between professors to be
much different from their own conversations with non—faculty friends.
“I love talking [about] home
decorating and gardening with my
professional colleagues [on Facebook] as much as I love talking
about American literature and writing,” she said.
Senior Alex Seubert, who follows history professor Kathryn
Brammal on Twitter, said he has
observed few differences in online activity of his professors and
peers. He has followed other professors through the Twitter account of KTRM, where he is one
of the station’s music managers.
He said he and Brammall respond to one another’s posts the
way he and any other peer would,
recently having exchanged backto-school tweets. Steubert said he
feels comfortable interacting with
Brammall using Twitter because
aside from being one of Brammall’s former students, he has a
relationship with her as one of her
student workers.
“I think if you have a relationship that’s not confined to just
classes, then it’s not as much of an
issue because you see them more as
a different sort of authority figure,
but I don’t know that it’s a great
idea just to go adding every professor if you see that you’ve signed up
for their classes,” he said.
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As people spread out among
the Adair Courthouse yard for
the 30th annual Summer on the
Square, Royce Kallerud, an English professor at Truman State,
laughed with friends, and enjoyed the music like he has for
nearly eight years as head of
Kirksvillain Productions.
Also known as Kirksville
Rocks, Kirksvillain Productions,
an organization dedicated to
booking and supporting bands
from around the world, decided
to shut its doors. Due to an increasingly active family life and
a newfound goal to build a paved
trail from the city of Kirksville
to Thousand Hills State Park,
Kallerud, an English professor
at Truman State, has decided to
pull the organization’s plug.
Kallerud said he was committed to bringing bands to Kirksville that the city otherwise
would have had trouble booking.
Kirksvillain Productions enabled
international bands that might
have overlooked the rural community to share their music.
“We brought bands from ultimately as far as Norway,” Kallerud said. “Kirksville became a
great spot for bands.”
Kallerud began Kirksvillain
Productions in November 2003
when he and a friend found a band
they really liked and persuaded its
members to come to Kirksville.
“We set it up, and we didn’t
really know what we were doing
in the sense that we had never
put on a show.”
Kallerud said he eventually
became better at booking bands,
and his organization soon had
less trouble finding groups to
play in Kirksville.
“The 50 to 60 bands I have had
here have wanted to come back,”
he said. “They have a great response here, and I think that’s a
really good thing for Kirksville.”
Kallerud said the true current condition of Kirksville
nightlife lies within the citizens
of the community.
“Anything could happen here
as long as it was interesting.
People were really excited about
it,” he said. “The best part of it is
that people that are enthusiastic can make things happen and
form that scene. I remember
Charlie Parr, a blues guitarist,
brought in 150 plus people. People were dancing and stomping
and sweat was pouring from the
ceiling. People were on their
phones saying, ‘You have got to
come out here!’”
With bands such as Sissy Wish,
The Ike Reilly Assassination and
Grant Hart, DuKum Inn Manager
Stephanie Bisse said the organization managed to diversify the
music scene within Kirksville.
“They did such a great job
and so much for the community,” she said. “The website
brought in a lot of people.”
“They did a great job of bringing in more interesting bands,”
DuKum Inn co-manager, Carrie
Eisenbeisz said. “Not just your
own Joe Blow off the street. It did a
lot with bringing people in. There
was always a good crowd. If Kirksville Rocks was doing anything
you got a quality production.”