The Stylus- Volume 126, Issue 6

s u l y t S e h T

2021-22

A student publication of Park University since 1895

Plaster Center celebrated and dedicated Park University hosts grand opening for its newest building

Volume 126

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Visit stylusonline.org for online news and student blogs FB: ParkUniversityStylus stylus@park.edu October 22, 2021

Dorm life changes as COVID-19 restrictions lessen Dayana Jules Reporter

PHOTO/Skyler Jensen At the end of the dedication ceremony, a ribbon cutting event took place led by Interim President Shane Smeed and retired Lt. Gen. Richard Keller, vice chair of the Park University Board of Trustees.

Skyler Jensen Editor-in-Chief On Friday, Oct. 1, Park University hosted the grand opening of the $10.4 million Robert W. Plaster Free Enterprise Center.

During the dedication ceremony, there were several speakers who expressed their excitement for the new

building and gratitude to those who helped Park achieve this goal. Speakers included Interim President Shane Smeed; Nathan Marticke, chief advancement officer; and Kirby Brown, dean of the School of Business. Afterward, there was a ribbon cutting ceremony to symbolize the opening.

Many spectators also came for the grand opening. These spectators included

donors, trustee members, alumni, faculty, current students and other members of the Park community.

The building officially opened on Aug. 16 when the Fall 2021 semester began. The building is used for classes by students and faculty. There are also several collaboration areas that allow students to work together on projects or study together outside of class.

The dorms at Park University are back to operating at full capacity.

During the last school year, there was only one resident per room, as a rule.

This year, it is back to two residents per room in most cases.

While the guidelines may seem more relaxed, there are still protocols and rules students and residents must follow. In some ways, things feel more normal but there are still questions and concerns about the current situation as well as future changes that may come.

One precaution for fall residents was that before moving on campus all students, whether fully vaccinated or not, were required to take a COVID-19 test free of charge at the McCoy Meetin’ House. This semester, as opposed to the 2020-21 school

See Dorm Life on page 4

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CAMPUS LIFE

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Park library hosts de-stress event with pet therapy

Yi Li Reporter

When the midterm exam week approached, Park University planned various relaxation activities. The Pet Therapy Event was jointly organized by the Park University library. They cooperated with Human Animal Bond Therapy Pets from Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, to host this event. The purpose was to help reduce the stress on students. It was held on Oct. 5 from 6-7 p.m. at Norrington Center.

Camille Abdel-Jawad, assistant professor of library instruction and outreach, said, “(It) gave the opportunity to students to not only come to the library and study, but also get some stress release.”

The Human Animal Bond organization brought four teams of owners and their therapy dogs for students to pet.

These dogs are therapy certified and have undergone special training. Students had a wonderful time with the different breeds and sizes of dogs.

The library also provided card games, art activities and snacks at the event. The tagline was, “Grab a cookie, pet a puppy.”

Abdel-Jawad said she was surprised that the arrival of so many students

made the relatively quiet library become crowed. She also said that they will communicate with the university counseling center and may offer the pet therapy event during finals week in December.

PHOTO/Yi Li Student Rebecca Newsome pets a therapy dog named Lani, a female Shelti, in Norrington Center.

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Park alumni honored at annual awards ceremony

Yi Li Reporter

In the celebration of Park University Homecoming week, there is one thing alumni don’t want to miss, and that is the Alumni Association awards ceremony.

The 2021 Alumni Annual Awards Recognition Ceremony was held on Sept. 30 at the Jenkin and Barbara David Theater in Alumni Hall.

Chief Strategic Communications Officer Erik Bergrud hosted the ceremony.

After he expressed a warm welcome to all the guests and alumni, Interim President

Shane Smeed gave a speech.

Four annual awards were given.

Kenthedo Robinson was the recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award for outstanding performance in career service or community achievement.

Edna Martinson, recipient of the Park Promising Young Professional Award, was recognized for early professional achievements, outstanding leadership skills and a positive impact on the community. This award highlights alumni who are expected to continue to succeed.

The recipient of Marlowe Sherwood Memorial Service Award was Carneysha

Mendoza. This award recognizes alumni who have contributed a lot of volunteer services to the community and civic organizations Finally, the recipient of the Torchlighter Award, Rich Linden, was honored for his significant, long-term contributions and commitments to Park University.

All these outstanding alumni and individuals are good role models for all Park University students. The power of role models is the motivation for students to move forward. Students can learn from them, inspire them and provide guidance on the way forward.

Editor-in-chief Skyler Jensen

Editors

MacKenzie Coder Natalya Nalivaiko Victoria Olaleye Savanna Wyatt

Reporters

Yi Li Dayana Jules

Adviser

Kristin Shaw

CAMPUS LIFE

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Park offers vaccination incentives that incite opposing opinions Natalya Nalivaiko Editor It’s been almost two years since COVID-19 appeared in the United States.

The pandemic has been waged through lockdowns, masking, social distancing and now vaccines.

Vaccinations began in December 2020. Different companies manufacture a COVID vaccine, such as Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Moderna. These slowly started to become available to more and more people, and now most doctors’ offices or clinics offer the vaccine for free.

Despite encouragement from the medical community and elected officials to get the vaccine, many people are still concerned. Those concerns range from what’s in the vaccine itself, to complications from the shots, to a lack of confidence in the vaccine’s effectiveness. According to the state of Missouri, at covidvaccine. mo.gov, 48.8 percent of residents are fully vaccinated. Only 36.6 percent of Platte County residents are fully vaccinated.

To increase vaccination rates, some private employers have started offering vaccine clinics to their employees. Park University is doing something similar. So far this academic year, there have been two dedicated COVID vaccination clinics at Park, with North Kansas City Hospital nurses providing free vaccines to students, faculty and staff who want it. Additionally, the university has offered the vaccine during three other COVID testing opportunities through NKCH. For the first vaccine clinic of this semester in August, the school decided to offer incentives to students who signed up to get a vaccine. An email that was sent to students from Associate Vice President and Dean of Students Jayme Uden, Ed.D., said, “We continue to encourage students to sign up for the vaccination clinic tomorrow. We have decided to do a drawing for every 15 students that sign up for the clinic. That is a 1 in 15 chance to win!!”

The prizes listed in the message were an iPad Mini, Apple AirPods Pro and a Goo-

gle Chromebook.

As this may encourage students to sign up to get the vaccine, some questions about the ethics of this incentive-based vaccine clinic were raised.

Sophomore nursing major Lauren Zenti categorizes this incentive as a bribe to get students vaccinated.

“It’s literally bribing you to get a vaccine because, like they’re bribing you they’re saying hey, if you get the vaccine, you will be put in a drawing for an iPad,” Zenti said.

S h e also said that in s o m e counties in Iowa, where she grew up, people can enter into a lottery and win money if they get vaccinated.

Zenti is not opposed to getting the COVID vaccine, however, she says she is scared of her previous health conditions and the lack of studies on how the vaccine interacts with those health conditions.

“I have Type 1 diabetes. And I am celiac and lactose intolerant. So, there’s a lot of things already wrong. And there hasn’t been a lot of studies on what it could do to like previously sick individuals like COVID could make chronically ill people a lot worse off,” said Zenti. “But with the vaccine, I know that there are side effects so I’m nervous that the side effects are going to be heightened because of the diabetes, the celiac and the lactose intolerance.”

The staff and faculty at Park also have been offered incentives to get vaccinated.

Chief Human Resources Officer Roger Dusing explained the incentive that staff and faculty are able to receive by being

vaccinated.

“If they are vaccinated, and they come down with COVID and are forced to quarantine because they’re sick, then they don’t have to use their paid time off. We’ll provide them administrative time off, so they can keep their sick time to use later for regular sickness,” said Dusing. “If you’re not vaccinated, then you’ve got to burn your own personal time.”

Dusing stated that if mandated vaccinations were put in place due to gove r n ment orders, he would be in favor of that mandate as long as there are reasonable outs available for individuals who are unable to get the vaccine due to medical or religious reasons.

“From that fairness perspective if someone is unable to get the vaccine contracts and needs to take time off, we probably cover that. If it’s pure those who choose not to, it’s different than those who can’t,” said Dusing.

He says the number of Americans who can’t receive the vaccine because of medical reasons is very low and would be even smaller at Park.

“But if that should happen, you know, all rules are made to be bent a little bit and that’s a perfectly valid exception,” Dusing said.

Sophomore multimedia journalism and public relations and communications double major Skyler Jensen believes that incentives for Park employees to get vaccinated are questionable.

“I think it’s completely wrong for dif-

ferent types of sick leave for COVID, depending on whether or not staff and faculty are vaccinated because they could have really personal, and valid reasons for not getting vaccinated,’’ said Jensen. “I feel like that sets a standard of discrimination and that Park now has a precedent of.”

Jensen stated that she is vaccinated but also believes the popular ‘my body, my choice’ message applies to the COVID vaccine, too.

Dusing said, “I think we’ve seen the efficacy of the vaccines; they work, they’re safe. We would all be safer if everyone were vaccinated.”

However, one student has concerns about negative effects from the COVID vaccine, based on experiences she’s heard of from friends. Allie Burkhalter, a freshman education major, said she had a friend experience a seizure after a COVID vaccine dose. She also has an acquaintance who is unable to receive any vaccine after a flu shot led to a coma.

There have also been some well-reported potential side effects. For example, in an article from Yale Medicine, it stated that for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, “the government recommended pausing the company’s vaccine after six women who received it developed rare blood clots—and one woman died.” The vaccine is being used again but with warnings about this side effect, especially for women under 50.

“I think it’s very unfair to push this agenda on them,” Burkhalter said of people who have concerns about side effects or previous adverse effects from vaccines.

“I feel that if people want to get the vaccine, they should go out on their own and get it,” said Burkhalter.

She also believes that if people don’t want the vaccine, it should not be pushed on them to get it.

As of now, Park University is encouraging all students, staff and faculty to get vaccinated, but is not mandating it nor requiring proof of vaccination. COVID has changed everyday life, especially at Park, and it is still changing.

CAMPUS LIFE

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Dorm life is back to normal but with some precautions Continued from page 1 year, COVID testing is done once every semester. Residents can request additional testing if they have health concerns or believe they have COVID. “If they do have health concerns that they express, they can go through student life… based on the protocol of potential exposure, they would be tested,” said Tonya Wessel, director of residence life. “So much of that is situational depending on if they have symptoms or if they (are) vaccinated. Student life would work through the details to figure out the testing times.”

At the beginning of each semester, testing is made possible through a partnership with North Kansas City Hospital.

A rapid nose swab is conducted, and it takes about 20 minutes to get results. If it’s an individual student on campus who needs to be tested for COVID, Park University has designated professors, such as nursing professors, that are certified to conduct COVID testing.

In cases of possible exposure or a positive COVID test, Park University has put in place a quarantine protocol. Park University follows the CDC guidelines for quarantine and isolation. If a resident, student or employee is exposed and are not vaccinated, they do have to go into quarantine for seven days or until they get a negative test result. If they have been exposed and are vaccinated, they do not have to go into quarantine; their only requirement is to wear a mask until they test negative.

If a resident has tested positive for COVID, they will have to self-isolate. If the resident is an out-of-state student, international student or is unable to isolate at home, Park has 12 rooms at Chesnut Hall designated for quarantine.

Park University is a private institution, meaning it could require a vaccine mandate for students to live in the dorms.

Currently, vaccination status does not af-

fect on-campus student housing.

“I don’t think it is desired to have a vaccine mandate,” said Jayme Uden, Ed.D., associate vice president and dean of students. “Under the current situation,

I don’t think we’ll have one. I can’t say we won’t.”

University President Shane Smeed has significant authority over whether a vaccine mandate is put in place. But there are

PHOTO/Dayana Jules Camila Martinho, freshman chemistry major, receives a COVID-19 vaccination from North Kansas City Hospital nurse Tina Wilson at McCoy Meetin’ House.

Dorm residents are encouraged to get vaccinated, but not required to.

other factors, such as external mandates from agencies or the government. The Biden administration proposed a new federal safety regulation that will soon require any federal agency and businesses with more than 100 employees to have a vaccine mandate.

“If the vaccine mandate is something that comes down and we have to abide by it, then the University would respond and do that,” Uden said. “I don’t know if that would ever happen.”

Although vaccinations are not a requirement to be on campus or live on campus, Park has partnered with North Kansas City Hospital to provide the Pfizer vaccine to students, faculty and staff on its Parkville campus. Throughout this semester Park University has conducted vaccination clinics at the McCoy Meetin’ House. Students are encouraged to sign up for the clinics, and the university offered prize drawings for every 15 students that signed up for the clinic. Prizes included iPad minis, Google Chromebooks and Apple AirPods Pro. The university has tried to provide normalcy on campus by organizing more student activities. It has also worked to provide a safe environment by sanitizing, cleaning and misting high traffic areas, as well as implementing social distancing and mask practices indoors.

Despite that, some students believe that more could be done to relieve the anxiety that comes with living on campus amid the pandemic.

“Last year I felt like things were better. We had separate rooms. Fewer people. And testing available. This year more people and more people are interacting,” said Taylor Shelby, a senior exercise science major and Copley-Quad resident.

“This year I feel like it’s not a priority.

Things I wish Park would do is have testing weekly for students in the dorms. It would make me feel more at ease living here.”

FEATURES

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Crimson Dancers encourages sisterhood and school spirit Victoria Olaleye Editor Crimson Dancers is more than just Park University’s dance group. It is an organization that thrives on sisterhood.

In an email, Kierra Taylor, Crimson Dancers captain said, “The Crimson Dancers stand on the principle of sisterhood to not only provide our members support, comfort and encouragement but to also make our organization a place where a student can find a home and a family.”

Sophomore member and early childhood education major Jazmine Minor said the group members are like a family.

They can share their struggles with and feel supported.

“It’s more like a group you can depend on,” said member Maria Amisi, a sophomore and nursing major. “If you have a problem or if you’re in need of something, you can always count on them for help.”

This organization is one that promotes physical fitness as well as school spirit.

The team performs at basketball games, Get on Board day and the Homecoming pep rally. A big accomplishment for the dancers was being able to perform at a KC Comets match during halftime in 2019.

“That was the first time we performed at a big-league sport team outside of Park University,” Taylor said.

Several members reflected on how their social lives at Park changed after joining the group, especially how they became more involved and made friends.

Minor heard about Crimson Dancers via Instagram during her freshman year when she was actively looking for organizations to be a part of.

“I was already new on campus, and I wanted to get involved,” Minor said Amisi has noticed that she’s made more friends and has developed her dancing skills since she joined the group.

Taylor said she was having a hard time bonding with people as a freshman com-

muter student when she started at Park, but she met the previous captain at the school’s activities fair and was invited to join the team.

“I joined the team, and I loved it, stayed, and now it’s my third year on the team, and I became the captain and get to prolong the legacy,” Taylor said.

Prior to joining Crimson Dancers, she had danced on the Pantherettes drill team for all three years she attended Eastern Hills Middle School in Texas.

“I loved it and was determined to become a better dancer so I stayed all three years,” Taylor said Joining Crimson Dancers has been a part of Taylor’s identity at Park, as students who initially meet her are able to recognize her as a member.

Minor said even though she had been dancing since high school and attended studio classes, she was drawn to the group to learn different styles.

“I was only doing hip hop, and I wanted to maybe experience the other dances that I haven’t done before,” Minor said.

Minor enjoys practice but loves the performing even more. She enjoys dressing up to perform and showcasing what the team has rehearsed to people.

“I’m used to the performance part,” Minor said. Amisi enjoys both and said, “We can’t perform well if we do not practice well.”

This semester, the group has only performed at the Homecoming pep rally but have more performances scheduled as the basketball season approaches. They are holding a fundraiser for their majorette costumes from Oct. 18 to Oct. 29 in front of Thompson Commons Student Center.

Lollipops in Halloween themed wrappers are sold for $1, and this money goes into their costume budget.

The group also hosts an annual spring showcase. For this event, they perform all the dances performed during halftimes and any new routines. There is no set date for the next showcase yet.

The Crimson Dancers hold tryouts for undergraduate students interested in joining. This consists of three clinical days where two routines are taught: jazz and hip hop. They also conduct interview questions to see if students are a good fit for the team. That includes asking questions about sisterhood, fitness and school spirit. This is necessary to promote their goals of physical fitness and supporting Park athletics.

They also have walk-in tryouts and practices in Labor Hall during the week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Students who are interested can reach out to the captain or attend the practices, as there are no requirements.

Crimson Dancers is looking for students who are willing to join them and be a part of a team that promotes school spirit at Park.

PHOTOS/Victoria Olaleye Above: Jazmine Minor, sophomore early childhood education major, Maria Amisi, sophomore nursing major, and Sarah Fataki, freshman undecided major, pose for a picture after dance practice.

Below: Minor, Yuki Igarashi, junior social psychology major, and Kierra Taylor, sophomore early education major, at the Crimson Dancers fundraiser table.

FEATURES

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Transfer student discovers passion for higher education and communications through Park Nathan Dunn Contributor “I didn’t know what I was doing, and I didn’t know what I wanted to study,” said MacKenzie Coder.

Coder is a senior multimedia journalism and public relations major at Park University who hasn’t had a smooth route in college.

After graduating from Smithville High School in May 2017, she headed to the University of Missouri. However, after three semesters she found her love for education disappearing.

“School always just came easily to me, which changed quite a bit when I went to college,” Coder explained. “I struggled quite a bit just because I just didn’t really know what I wanted to do.”

She knew something needed to change.

Putting her education on pause in December 2018, Coder remained in her Columbia, Missouri, apartment and worked at a bar. After her lease ended in the summer of 2019, she returned home to live with her parents in Smithville to save on expenses and plan her next steps.

Returning home made sense for Coder because she has strong ties with her family and lots of familiar faces in her hometown of Smithville.

“We’ve always been really close,” said Coder of her family. “We were just always around each other a lot. Hanging out on the weekends.”

Many of those weekends were spent on baseball diamonds and traveling around the Midwest. Her older brother played baseball, and her family would travel to many tournaments in places like St. Louis and Omaha. That created a greater familial bond.

“I always looked up to my parents and my older brother,” Coder said. “I wouldn’t really call him a role model at the time. I just kind of looked up to him to learn what to do and what not to do.

Learning from his mistakes since he was just like a couple years older than me.”

It also led her to become a team manager for the Smithville High School baseball team for four years. With the baseball team, which her older brother played on, her favorite memory came her sophomore year when they had a third-place finish at State. It was her brother’s senior year and it was the first year they made it to the state tournament since the 1970s.

Coder was also a cheerleader in high school and generally enjoys sports. One of her favorite hobbies is watching the PHOTO COURTESY/ NFL with her father.

While back home with her parents, MacKenzie Coder

Coder started exploring her career interests.

“I started talking to some people that I knew and my mom worked with to kind of get an idea of what they do and what I would be good at doing,” Coder said.

Pretty quickly, she decided to continue her education. In August 2019 she enrolled at Park University and began studying communication. This was a significant change from her first college experience studying early childhood education and child life.

Once again, education became an important aspect of Coder’s life. She rediscovered her love for it with a more detailed educational plan at Park.

As she inches closer to graduation, Coder is now ambitious about her career goals.

“I’ve always said my dream job would be to do communications or public relations for the Chiefs,” Coder said. “I don’t want to say that that’s unattainable, but it might be. It’s a dream job for sure.”

Coder said she would like to work in professional sports, but would be open to other entertainment opportunities as well.

“I like kind of everything about communications, and there’s a lot of different fields that I can go into with that. So anything where I can be around people,” she said.

Park’s speech and debate team competes and co-hosts tournament

The Speech and Debate team hosted the River Fest Swing Speech and Debate tournament on Oct. 8 and 9 with Ottawa University. It was the first tournament hosted on campus in decades. Visit stylusonline.org to check out a video of the event.

Correction: In the Oct. 1 issue of the Stylus the date of the COVID-19 vaccination clinic was incorrectly reported. The second clinic of the semester was held on Sept. 9.

FEATURES

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Through Faith and soccer Student athlete finds his purpose and passions in life MacKenzie Coder Editor It took a terrifying car accident to bring Nathan Dunn back to his faith.

In November 2016, a car that was fleeing police exited the highway at an excessive speed. The fleeing car then t-boned the vehicle of the Dunn family. Luckily, no one was seriously injured, but it changed the way Dunn values faith, family and his ability to play soccer.

Straight-A student, athlete and Catholic, Dunn has played soccer for the Pirates the last three years while studying multimedia journalism and public relations.

Much of his youth was spent playing soccer and going to church in Kansas City.

Athletics, especially soccer, has always been a defining part of Dunn’s life. He has it in his blood. His grandfather played quarterback for the University of Nebraska and his uncle played professional indoor soccer for multiple teams. Dunn dreamed that one day he would play for the Wizards, now Sporting KC, or the

I grew up in a cul-de-sac and every house was filled with kids, so we’d be outside playing every day. Soccer, football, basketball, baseball, just about any sport we could.

Nathan Dunn Junior multimedia journalism and public relations major

United States National Team.

“That’s kind of how I fell into liking soccer so much,” says Dunn. “It’s always just been a family thing.”

Dunn began playing soccer at a young age. He played for his father until moving to his first club team, KC Milan, at the age of eight. Dunn changed club teams a few times before he found Legacy SC his sophomore year of high school.

Coach Abdulhamid Zlitni was the head of the team, someone who Dunn had been wanting to play for since he really started taking soccer seriously.

Zlitni is now an assistant coach at Park and maintains a close relationship with Dunn.

“He’s a good family friend of ours; my parents know him, he’s a good guy,” Dunn said.

Before college, keeping a school-andsoccer balance was not always easy for Dunn. He struggled to get decent grades while attending St Pius X High School, noting that it was difficult for him to manage seven classes and soccer at the same time. He even recalls that there were a few times his player eligibility was in question because of his low grades.

“I’ve learned time management skills, so college has been a lot easier than high school,” said Dunn. “I’m able to keep my grades up, and now I’m one of the scholars on the soccer team. That would have never happened in high school.”

Dunn had also fallen out of his faith in high school. Although he was baptized as a Catholic, grew up spending every Sunday at church, and went to Catholic grade school and high school, Dunn and his family had just become too busy with their lives. As a result, the family fell out of practicing their religion.

The car accident in 2016 had shaken up Dunn’s older brother, Stewart, who was in college at Missouri State at the

PHOTO COURTESY/Park Athletics Junior midfielder Nathan Dunn poses on Hemingway Field for his headshot for the 2021-22 season. time. Dunn recalls the shift in his brother’s mindset.

“It really made him return to faith.

When he went back to school, he joined the Catholic Campus Ministry,” he said.

Dunn has always been heavily influenced by his older brother. They were best friends growing up.

“I kind of always followed him and the things he did,” says Dunn. “He was a Cardinals fan, so I was a Cardinals fan. He was a Raiders fan, so I became a Raiders fan.”

So, when his older brother began his journey back to Catholicism, Dunn eagerly followed.

Around this time, Dunn’s grandfather passed away. So, to keep his grandmother going to church, Dunn’s father began regularly going to church again too.

“I kind of tagged along every once in a while,” recalls Dunn. “Around 2017-2018 is when I started going every Sunday to 6 p.m. mass. I’ve been going every Sunday ever since.”

As a Celtic FC fan, religion and soccer have merged into one for Dunn. The foundation of the Glasgow football club is built on the Catholic religion.

Not only that, a few years ago, Dunn discovered that he is of Scottish descent.

When asked if these connections are coincidence or intentional, Dunn said, “I started playing before I knew about all of that stuff, but my love for Celtic just continued to grow and grow. It pushed me to get better and keep playing to make it big.

All of it has transformed my love for the sport.”

FEATURES

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Parkfest wraps up homecoming week celebrations Victoria Olaleye Editor On Saturday, Oct. 2, the Park University Student Activities Board held a grand finale homecoming event at the Park Avenue in the underground. Parkfest, which started at 6 p.m., was initially scheduled to be held outside – running from Milsap Foyer down to the chapel lawn – but was moved inside due to weather conditions. The event was carnival-themed featuring four different food trucks, carnival games, a 360-degree photo booth, gift raffles and more. This event also introduced PSAB’s new collection of merchandise. This is something the organization does every academic year. New PSAB logos are designed by the organization’s VP of marketing to be put on all merchandise. This year’s merchandise includes shirts and mugs. Students who show up to PSAB events get these items for free.

PHOTO/Victoria Olaleye Above: Students gathering and waiting in anticipation for the names of raffle winners to be called. Prizes included a smart TV, an Apple watch, Apple AirPods, a Samsung watch, and Powerbeats pro.

Below: Parkfest, also known as Harvest Fest, is an annual Homecoming cele-

PHOTO COURTESY/Marina Lima

PHOTO COURTESY/Marina Lima

Above: Senior business administration major Emma Von Wiese got a snack from the Cookies and Creamery cart. This Kansas City ice cream shop provided popcorn, cotton candy and cookies at Parkfest.

Top right: DJ Josh from KC Ice. PHOTO/Victoria Olaleye

Bottom right: PSAB’s new shirts were given out at the event.

PHOTO/Victoria Olaleye