Flashes!  News From The Department of Communication
(2007-2008)

Truman Debaters Find Success In Florida  ...more (page one)

Truman Debaters Capture Two State Titles  ...more (page one)

TSU Forensics Takes Third Place At Colorado Debate Tournament  ...more (page two)

Board of Governors Approves New TV Facilities  ...more

TSU Forensics Dominate Two Divisions of Webster Tournament  ...more

Truman Radio Stations Begin Digital Broadcasting  ...more 

Prospective Students Meet Truman Students And Communication Faculty On Visit Day  ...more

Detours Magazine Wins National Pacemaker Award  ...more

Truman Forensics Students Criss-Cross Nation, Capture Honors  ...more (page three)

Truman Debaters Win Central States Tourney  ...more (page two)

Truman Debaters Capture Second Place At Nebraska Event  ...more (page one)

Truman Captures Multiple Honors at William Jewell Tournament
Debaters from Truman State University’s Forensic Union captured five separate honors the weekend of Sept. 21-23, 2007, including a third place finish in debate sweepstakes at the Georgia B. Bowman Invitational Debate Tournament at William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo. Washburn University in Topeka, Kan., and Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Ky., finished first and second, respectively. 

Mark Buchheit, a sophomore history major from Carthage, Mo., lead the Truman contingent with a quarterfinal finish in Lincoln-Douglas debate. Teammates reaching the octafinal (“sweet sixteen”) round of the Lincoln-Douglas included Sarah Backhaus, a freshman political science major from Liberty, Mo., and Dylan Clark, a freshman political science major from Maryland Heights, Mo.

Christopher Girouard, a junior communication major from Chesterfield, Mo., and Sara Archer, senior accounting major from Riverside, Mo., completed their weekend with an octafinal finish in open parliamentary debate. They also participated in William Jewell’s Cardinal Classic Round Robin, an invitation-only tournament taking place before the commencement of the Bowman Invitational. The Cardinal Classic involves 10 of the nation’s top debate teams, issued invitations after a bid process. This is the fourth consecutive year Truman has been represented at the event. 

Forensics: TSU Student Captures National Championship/
New Squadroom Opens Fall 2007  ...more

More Flashes!  (2006-2007)










Right: Dr. Leslie Hahner, assistant professor of Communication, fourth from right, meets with Business and Professional students following a fundraiser for victims of Hurricane Katrina.











Index and Detours
win national awards
  The Index newspaper and Detours,
  a travel magazine, won best in show
  awards at the College Media Advisers
  annual spring convention in New York
  City. This is the fourth time in five years
  the Index has received this honor, beating
  out newspapers from across the country.
  Judges looked at various criteria when
  determining the winner including news
  judgment, journalistic quality, quality of
  writing, variety and diversity of news,
  photography and layout and design. This
  is the second consecutive year that
  Detours, Truman’s regional travel
  magazine, has won the Apple Award in
  the general interest category. The
  competition pitted the publication against
  more than 30 student publications from
  across the United States, including
  colleges of every size.
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 Four students receive summer research Grants
  Allison Schlobohm, senior with a double
  major in Communication and English, was
  one of four students from the Division of
  Language and Literature to earn a
  Summer Research Grant. Alongside Gina
  Cook and Emily Murdock in English,
  and Jessica Gasch (news editor for the
  Index) in Linguistics, Ms. Schlobohm will
  receive two-thousand dollars to begin
  original, archival research. Ms.
  Schlobohm's innovative project will
  engage educational resources designed
  by international health agencies to combat
  the spread of HIV/AIDS in African nations.
  Ms. Schlobohm plans to use the summer
  for archival research at
  John Hopkins University. Under the
  tutelage of Assistant Professor Leslie A.
  Hahner, Ms. Schlobohm will culminate her
  research with a scholarly essay and a
  presentation at the 2008 Student
  Research Conference.

   Becker and Reininger named
   Top Editing Prospects
  Junior Nathan Becker from Pacific, Mo.,  
  and senior Alan Reininger from 
  Wentzville, Mo., competed in the annual
  copy-editing internship sponsored by the
  Dow Jones Newspaper fund. The fund
  named them as top editing prospects for
  internships during the summer of 2007.

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