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Student body and diversity

In Fall 2006, the University had over 10,000 students for the first time. 93.1% of students attended full-time, while 6.9% attended part-time. In Fall 2002, 645 male students and 921 female students enrolled as first-time students (freshmen, typically). Female students made up 58.8% of the student body. Minority enrollment included (1%) saudies, African-American (6%), Hispanic (1%), and Asian (1%).

History

Southeast Missouri State University was founded in 1873 when a group of prominent businessmen and politicians successfully lobbied the State of Missouri to designate Cape Girardeau as the home of the Third District Normal School. Classes were originally taught at the nearby Lorimier School until April of 1875 when the first normal school building was completed. Southeast Missouri State College had an enrollment of approximately 1600 students in the 1950s and steadily increased to more than 7,000 students in the 1970s due to low tuition costs, aggressive recruiting, and the construction of Interstate 55 between St. Louis and Cape Girardeau. The College also moved away from its focus on only training teachers and began to offer courses of study in business, nursing, and the liberal arts. Due to this expansion of curriculum and student body population, the college officially became Southeast Missouri State University in 1972. The physical size of the campus also grew in this same period. In 1956, the institution had ten buildings on campus. In 1975, the number had increased to twenty-two buildings. In 1998, the university acquired the former St. Vincent's Seminary on the Mississippi river. This property is being redeveloped as a center for the visual and performing arts, to open in Fall 2007. A normal school is an institution for training teachers. ... Interstate 55 (abbreviated I-55) is an interstate highway in the central United States. ...

Academics

Harrison College of Business

College of Education

College of Health and Human Services

College of Liberal Arts

College of Science and Mathematics

Academic Information Services/Kent Library

Extended Learning

School of Graduate Studies

School of Polytechnic Studies

School of University Studies

School of Visual and Performing Arts

Residence Halls

Cheney
Dearmont
Myers
Vandiver Hall
Towers East
Towers North
Towers South
Towers West
Greek Housing

Athletic team names and mascot

Southeast has been a member of NCAA Division I (Division I-AA for football) since moving up from Division II in 1991. As a result of the promotion in classifications, Southeast Missouri State left the Division II Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association and joined the Division I Ohio Valley Conference. Though having struggled in the two major college sports (football and mens' basketball) since moving up, they have had a few successes over the 15 year run in Division I. The mens' basketball team won a share of the regular season OVC title in 2000, and won the conference's tournament as well that year to earn an automatic bid to the 2000 NCAA Tournament. In the team's only appearance in "The Big Dance" to date, the Indians were seeded #13 in the West Region and set to face off against Louisiana State University in the opening round of the tournament. In an exciting game, 4th Seeded LSU narrowly escaped the upset as they held off the Indians 64-61. The football team has also had its struggles since moving up to Division I-AA, having only 2 winning seasons (1994 and 2002) since moving up in 1991. The football program finally had some redemption during the 2002 season as the team made it into the I-AA polls for the first time, finishing the season ranked #23 in the ESPN/USA Today I-AA poll and #24 in the Sports Network I-AA poll. That season also produced the school's only win over a I-A opponent since moving to I-AA, as the Indians topped Middle Tennessee State 24-14 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often said NC-Double-A) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... Division I (or DI) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. ... Division II (or DII) is an intermediate-level division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Division II (or DII) is an intermediate-level division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. ... The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) is a college athletic conference which operates in the midwestern United States (in the states of Kansas and Missouri). ... Division I (or DI) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. ... The Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) is a college athletic conference which operates in the midwestern and southeastern United States. ... Division I (or DI) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. ... The Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) is a college athletic conference which operates in the midwestern and southeastern United States. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... // Final four redirects here. ... For other uses, see LSU. Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, generally known as Louisiana State University or LSU, is a public, coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the main campus of the Louisiana State University System. ... For other uses, see LSU. Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, generally known as Louisiana State University or LSU, is a public, coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the main campus of the Louisiana State University System. ... Division I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Middle Tennessee State University (founded September 11, 1911, and commonly abbreviated as MTSU) is an American university located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. ... Nickname: Motto: Location in Rutherford County and the state of Tennessee. ...

Until January of 2005, the athletic team nicknames were the "Indians" (men's teams) and "Otahkians" (women's teams). After a movement by Student Government, the Booster Club and the National Alumni Council, those names were officially retired in a ceremony on October 22, 2004 and replaced with "Redhawks."^[2] The current mascot is a stylized hawk known as Rowdy Redhawk. The University's original mascot was known as Chief Sagamore and was represented by a student dressed in Native American regalia. Chief Sagamore was retired as mascot in the mid 1980s due to a growing cultural sensitivity to Native American mascots though the team names lasted for nearly twenty more years. The school's athletic teams compete in the Ohio Valley Conference. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) is a college athletic conference which operates in the midwestern and southeastern United States. ...

Capaha Arrow

The Capaha Arrow is the University's student newspaper. Established in 1911, it is currently one of the oldest college newspapers still in publication. Notably, the second editor of the Capaha Arrow was Rush Limbaugh, Sr. who became a nationally recognized Missouri attorney and practiced law in Cape Girardeau until just before his passing at the age of 104 in 1996. Rush Limbaugh, Sr. is the grandfather of the media personality Rush Limbaugh. After the university changed its mascot from Indians/Otahkians to Redhawks, the newspaper dropped "Capaha" and is now known as simply The Arrow. It is still run by students in the Department of Mass Communications and publishes a weekly newspaper distributed throughout campus. Sherrie Farabee, instructor of journalism, serves as adviser. The current Editor-in-Chief is Ben Marxer. Co-Managing Editors are Erin Mustain and Cody Snider. Some stories are also put on The Arrow website. Front page view of student newspaper The Daily Toreador. ... Rush Hudson Limbaugh, Sr. ... Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (born January 12, 1951) is an American radio talk show host and political commentator. ...

Notable alumni

• 1960 Dick Hantak, NFL referee
• 1960 Ken Iman, center with NFL's Green Bay Packers and Los Angeles Rams
  
• 1969 James T. Conway, Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
• 1974 Linda Godwin, NASA astronaut
  
• 1976 Peter Kinder, politician
• 1987 Cedric Kyles, aka Cedric the Entertainer
  
• x1985 Andrew Glover, noted musician and publishing executive
• 1991 Jarryd Van Oostrom Automobile Dealer and Mayor of the Good Time
• 2000 Jason Witczak, kicker with the AFL's Nashville Kats
• 2003 Willie Ponder, wide receiver with NFL's St. Louis Rams
• 2004 Eugene Amano, center with the NFL's Tennessee Titans<
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Trivia

• One of the most widely recognized figures associated with the institution is probably radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, who is a Cape Girardeau native and attended the university for a year before dropping out.^[3]
• The University's fifth president, Willard Duncan Vandiver, was later elected to the Fifty-fifth United States Congress from the State of Missouri. He is credited with originating Missouri's state slogan by saying in a speech, "I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me."^[4]

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See also

• Student Association of Missouri

Student Association of Missouri logo The Student Association of Missouri (S.A.M. or SAM) is a non-profit student association formed in 2001 by a convention of delegates from 12 Missouri college student governments in Jefferson City, Missouri. ...

External links

• Southeast Missouri State University
• The Capaha Arrow
• Show Me Center

References

v • d • e Sports teams based in Missouri
Baseball	MLB: Kansas City Royals · St. Louis Cardinals • TL: Springfield Cardinals • AA: St. Joe Blacksnakes • FL: Mid-Missouri Mavericks · River City Rascals
Basketball	ABA: St. Louis Stunners • UBL: Missouri Thrill · So. Missouri Splash
Football	NFL: Kansas City Chiefs · St. Louis Rams • AFL: Kansas City Brigade • APFL: Missouri Minutemen · Springfield Wolfpack • UIF: River City Rage
Hockey	NHL: St. Louis Blues • NAHL: St. Louis Bandits
Soccer	MLS: Kansas City Wizards • PDL: Kansas City Brass · Springfield Demize · St. Louis Lions
Rugby	RSL: Kansas City Blues · St. Louis Bombers
Tennis	WTT: Kansas City Explorers · St. Louis Aces · Springfield Lasers
College athletics (NCAA Div. I)	Missouri • Missouri State • Saint Louis • Southeast Missouri • UMKC