Month: August 2014

Vol. 93, Iss. 1 Editors Kimberly Bennett Editor-in-Chief Mindy Allen Assistant Editor Emily Lucia Assistant Editor / Web Manager Editing Team Mindy Allen Kimberly Bennett Emily Lucia In This Issue Kaleigh Admire Mindy Allen Kimberly Bennett Logan Ghast Emily Lucia McKendree University Athletics Prof. Amy MacLennan Pamela Manning, Ph.D. The McKendree Review is a student-run organization of McKendree University. The mission of The McKendree Review is to give students the opportunity to learn the news process and publish articles pertaining to their opinions and ideas. The staff does not agree with all statements and opinions, which rightfully belong to their writers. The McKendree Review Office can be found in Eisenmayer 208 on the McKendree Campus, at 701 College Rd., Lebanon, IL, 62254. S...

Welcome back everyone! The McKendree Review is excited to return for a full semester of action. As you probably have guessed, we are still using the WordPress site as our main domain so some of the functions may seem familiar to you. If you are not familiar with WordPress, I implore you to explore our website. If you are still having questions regarding the domain’s layout, please email mckreview@mckendree.edu for assistance. What’s new? The Review is going to start a monthly project called: Department 101. Each issue will showcase a different department as a way to gear students towards learning about departments that may be different from their own. This project will also serve a purpose for prospective students. Granted, not all of McKendree’s departments can be showcased within te...

BY MINDY ALLEN & KIMBERLY BENNETT Have you ever considered writing articles for a newspaper or even joining the staff? Do you like writing in general? Do you have a lot to say but have no idea how to share your opinions? When an article gets written for the Review, it goes through the process of editing and then sometimes gets sent back to the author for revision. Whether you are on the editing side of the process or on the receiving side, it can improve your writing. Proficient writing is an underrated skill for any major from education to business. For example, what if you were not hired for your dream job because your writing did not meet the employer’s standards? The benefits from joining the McKendree Review are endless: Editing other people’s writing Communication Collabora...

BY PAMELA MANNING, Ph.D. Pamela Manning, McKendree’s Assistant Professor of Education, was invited to speak at the National Medical Association Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii on Aug. 3, 2014.  In response to her book, My Child Would Never Do That!, which highlights her philosophy on several school experiences, the National Medical Association asked her to speak for the Grace James, M.D. Memorial Lecture.  Dr. James was a pediatrician who believed in helping youth both medically and educationally. Dr. Manning has 39 years of experience in education across the United States and abroad. She has been a teacher, speech pathologist, principal and superintendent.  She spoke of her first medical emergency as a first year teacher.  A high school student in Hurtsboro, Alabama had a seizure in mid-a...

English and Writing Brings More to the Professional World than You May Think… BY KIMBERLY BENNETT The McKendree Review is proud to present the first segment of an ongoing project featuring different departments of McKendree University. Whether students are new, transfers or thinking about changing majors, there are always students who are searching for career paths. Because the McKendree Review reaches out to staff, faculty, alumni, current students, prospective students and parents of current, prospective or graduated students, we hope to provide a helpful outlook on the different majors McKendree offers with our new project: Department 101. As the first segment of the project, the McKendree Review would like to introduce our audience to two areas of the Humanities Department: English and...

BY MCKENDREE UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS (LEBANON, Ill., Aug. 15) - McKendree University softball coach, Evelyn Bean, recently completed her 2015 recruiting class. Lucienda Adams of Dahlgren, Ill., Rebecca Franke of Trenton, Ill., Emma Lewis of Bethalto, Ill., Abbi Liske of Ashley, Ill., Adrianna Pantano of Bolingbrook, Ill., and Chole Thies of Willisville, Ill. join early signee's Brooke Gajewski of Kronenwetter, Wis. and Kyla Haukap of Dawson, Ill. as members of the 2015 recruiting class. SIGNEES- Lucienda Adams Infielder, Hamilton County High School, Dahlgren, Ill. Three-year starter at Hamilton County High School...hit .294 with eight doubles, two triples, 19 runs scored and 12 RBI...was a two-time All-Conference honoree...named school's top senior female athlete. Rebecca Franke Catcher,...

BY MCKENDREE UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS (LEBANON, Ill., Aug. 27) - The McKendree University men's soccer team has been picked to finish 12th out of 16 schools in the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) in 2014. The league's annual pre-season poll was released Wednesday by the GLVC office in Indianapolis. The poll was voted on by the 16 head men's soccer coaches in the GLVC, and the Bearcats were one point shy of tying for 11th place with University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Four teams received first place votes, led by University of Indianapolis on top with eight. Quincy University was in second with four votes, while Rockhurst University and Lewis University earned three and one vote, respectively. McKendree is coming off a 2013 season that ended with an overall record of 4-12-1 and a 2-12-1 ma...

BY MCKENDREE UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS (LEBANON, Ill., Aug. 28)- The McKendree University women's soccer team has been picked to finish 11th out of 16 schools in the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) in 2014. The league's annual pre-season poll was released Thursday by the GLVC office in Indianapolis. The poll was voted on by the 16 head women's soccer coaches in the GLVC, and the Bearcats received 97 votes, trailing 10th place Lewis University by 14 points for a spot in the top 10. Three teams received first place votes, led by preseason favorite and No. 13 Quincy University with 14, followed by second place Truman State University and third place Rockhurst University both earning one first place vote. McKendree earned a GLVC postseason berth for the first time in program history last s...

BY PROFESSOR AMY MACLENNAN The McKendree University Gallery of Art hosted a “plein air” painting event on Aug. 2-3 in Lebanon, Ill. Twenty-five artists traveled to Lebanon from around the greater St. Louis metropolitan region and from as far away as Indianapolis, Ind. Fifty-three paintings, which were created during the event, are on exhibit in the gallery from Aug. 14-Sept. 27. Gallery visitors were encouraged to vote for their favorite paintings in the show. Peoples’ Choice awards for first, second and third place were announced at the reception last Thursday, Aug. 21. “En plein air,” a term meaning “in the open air,” was popularized by painters of the French Barbizon and Impressionist schools in the mid to late 19thcentury. These artists found it increasingly important to work in a nat...

BY KIMBERLY BENNETT “Oh Captain! My Captain!” –Dead Poets Society Millions experienced a tragic loss on Aug. 11, 2014 when the media informed the world of Robin Williams’s shocking demise. According to The New York Times, Mara Buxbaum, Williams’s publicist, found him unconscious inside his home and alerted the 911 dispatcher that he was not breathing. An emergency response team arrived at the scene and declared Williams dead at 12:02 PM that afternoon. He was 63 years old when he died. Once the investigation of Williams’s death was completed, the media was notified that Williams had committed suicide by hanging himself with his belt. Buxbaum disclosed that Williams, for the longest time, had been “battling severe depression.” Susan Schneider, Williams’s widow, recently released informa...