Flogging Molly scheduled to headline Muskiepalooza

Flogging Molly, and Irish rock band, has officially been announced as the headliner for the 2010 Muskiepalooza event.

The concert will be held on April 24 with doors opening at 7 p.m. with the opening act at 8 p.m. and Flogging Molly will hit the stage at 9:15 p.m.

The opening act has yet to be solidified.

All Muskingum students will receive one free ticket with one, possibly two, half priced tickets under their name as well. General admission is $20.00. All faculty and staff will also receive a half priced ticket.

In other senate news, GLASS is expecting to have an exciting weekend as well. They came to senate requesting $1,800 for all of their events this semester and were approved.

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On April 16, the club has organized a dance party entitled “Just Dance”. This party is all about Lady Gaga, and they will be hosting a Lady Gaga best-dressed contest.

All participants are expected to dress in their best Lady Gaga get up and will be entered to win prizes.

On April 17, the infamous Drag Show is back. The members of GLASS have spiced this event up by bringing in 2 Drag Kings and 3 Drag Queens.

The show allows Muskingum students to enter their own Drag Show contest where a group of judges will determine a Drag King and Drag Queen.

Other events GLASS is planning on holding will be another tye-dyeing event, a panel of speakers to discuss “coming out” and a philanthropy project, “Coins for a Cause”.

Coins for a Cause will raise money for the AMFAR organization that sponsors research for AIDS.

The club also hopes to engage the education department in a “Safe Zone Training” session. This training will help specifically teachers, and anyone else interested in coming, with the skills to talk to children about their issues on “coming out” and dealing with their homosexual feelings.

This training is headed by Zane State, but other schools like Ohio University of Zanesville and Akron, and Capital University are involved as well.

“This is really a great way for anyone to learn how to help students who might be dealing with mixed emotions on homosexuality, and learning that it’s ok to be who you are,” said sophomore Rachel Hentz.

Senate’s curriculum committee also discussed a few issues.

They English department has decided to move some classes that are based around the 20th century to more modern and contemporary studies.

The Language Arts department has also proposed to add a Spanish and German 3XX study abroad class to its list so students can gain more in-depth cultural knowledge of their country.

The current Speech Communication and Theatre Department, pending a faculty vote, has proposed to change their major to Communications and add minors in Media Studies and Organizational Communication.

The committee also brought up the question of what the members of senate thought about the development of shorter and separate LAE credit list for transfer students.

Ryan Worb, a senior on the committee, described this idea as a way for transfer students to have less struggles when transferring credits over to our LAE lists.

This sparked a debate between a few senate members. Some agreed that Muskingum shouldn’t expect all transfers to conform to their studies if they have already taken a similar course at another school.

Another reason for agreeing with the suggestion was that many transfers will spend more money at Muskingum because they have to stay longer than anticipated just to fulfill LAE’s.

Evan Daniel, a junior, was against this suggestion. “You should have to meet the same requirements as everyone else. The matter of money should not com into play. Academics are academics and money shouldn’t be involved in this decision.”

Senior Caitlin Schltz agreed with Daniel stating that if they want to be a Muskingum student, they shouldn’t be treated differently.

Senate also allocated $3,000 for the Habitat for Humanity spring break trip to build a home. As well as $3,000 for Relay for Life that will be taken out of weekend funding.

From last weeks tabled discussion of online voting, staff advisor, Rebecca Delo, had discussed that if senate wishes to use the Eballot system again for surveys then Student Life will pay half of the cost. So $1,000 was allocated to this expense.

“This is a great compromise to help us afford this system,” said senate treasurer Lindey Lorenz. “Ir also keeps us in the 22-nd century.”