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St. Patrick’s Day

Humans vs. Zombie

Heart Health ChallengeNorthwest Fitness Center

Operation Breakthrough!J.W. Jones Student UnionBearcat Track and Field at Emporia

State Spring TwilightEmporia, Kan.

Northwest Missouri Home and Better Living Show10 a.m.-4 p.m. at Maryville Community Center

Pancake Breakfast 5:30 p.m. at Campus Christian House

Mass7 p.m. at Newman Catholic Center

Sunday, March 17

Saturday, March 16Heart Health ChallengeNorthwest Fitness Center

Operation Breakthrough!J.W. Jones Student Union

Humans vs. Zombies

Northwest wrestling club at NCWA National Championships9 a.m. at Allen, Tex.

Kansas City Alumni and Friends Chapter Snake Saturday BBQ9:30 a.m. at Williams Spurgeon Kuhl and Freshnock Architects

Kickin’ it with ADPi11 a.m. at Donaldson Park Baseball Diamond

Jambalaya Luncheon11 a.m. at Nodaway County Historical Museum

Up ‘til Dawn 3 vs. 3 Basketball Tournament12 p.m. at Student Rec Center

Softball vs. Central Missouri2 p.m. at Bearcat Softball Field

Ladies Night Out6 p.m. at Guys & Dolls Hair Studio

Heart Health ChallengeNorthwest Fitness Center

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Operation Breakthrough!J.W. Jones Student Union

Bearcat Track and Field at Emporia State Spring TwilightEmporia, Kan.

Kashmir Crossover IIOlive DeLuce Fine Arts Building

Missouri Academy Application deadline for class of 2015

Humans vs. Zombies

6-12 English Language Arts Common Core Network

8:30 a.m. at SJSD Maintenance Building

Men’s Tennis vs. East Central Oklahoma10 a.m. at Frank Grube Tennis Courts

Women’s Tennis vs. East Central Oklahoma10 a.m. at Frank Grube Tennis Courts

CPR/AED Training for Northwest Employees1 p.m. at Martindale Hall and Gymnasium

Softball vs. Southwest Baptist1 p.m. at Bearcat Softball Field

St. Joseph Alumni and Friends Chapter St. Patrick’s Day Dinner6:30 p.m. at St. Joseph Beverage

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Rock band coming to campus in April for spring concert

TORI BAIGIChief Reporter| @ToriBaigi

A student from the Missouri Academy of Science, Mathemat-ics and Computing battles a ste-reotype that has existed in the computing field for years.

The National Center for Women and Information Tech-nology recognized second-year student Dominieke Neasham as one of the top-15 female high school students in Missouri and Kansas interested in the field of computing.

Neasham won the 2012-2013 NCWIT Aspirations in Com-puting Award for Missouri and Kansas. Neasham said she sus-pects her internship with Cerner Corporation in Kansas City this summer put her at the top as a qualifying candidate.

In addition to Neasham, sec-

ond-year Academy student Ash-ley Huskey was one of the 15 run-ner-ups for the NCWIT Award.

NCWIT works to reduce the gender bias in the computing field.

Many colleges have much lower female enrollment rates than male in computer science programs, including Massachu-setts Institute of Technology.

“There’s definitely way more men,” Neasham said. “Most men I’ve talked to are shocked that I’m in the computer science field.”

Carol Spradling, associate professor in computer science, said Neasham exhibits charac-teristics that would cause her success in the field of computing.

“She’s very motivated,” Spra-dling said. “The fact that you have to learn to have a lot of confidence in yourself is very important if you are a minority in a group.

She already seems to have a lot of confidence, and she knows what she wants.”

Neasham said what she en-joys most about computing is problem solving.

“I like figuring out code, or reading code to try to test it,” Neasham said. “It’s like solving some sort of puzzle, a number puzzle.”

Neasham plans to remain at Northwest and study computer science.

After graduation, Neasham wants to work in the field while obtaining her master’s degree, giving her the credentials to teach in the future.

“I’m definitely over the top when it comes to working in math, and just taking the hardest classes I can to prepare me for the future because I’m very future-oriented,” Neasham said.

HANNAH JURGENSEN | NW MISSOURIAN

Academy student Dominieke Neasham talks about being one of the only females in computing.

Kim HoMissourian Reporter | @KimHo6

The Student Activities Council announced Monday that Chevelle will headline the spring concert rather than a country artist.

Chevelle is an American rock band from Grayslake, Ill. formed in 1995. The band is best known for its 2002 hit “The Red.”

Earlier this year, SAC had an information booth at the J.W. Jones Student Union asking students to vote for bands they like to perform at the spring concert.

The organization also posted a survey online requesting feedback. Because of this push to include student response, some Bearcats expected a country band or artist for the concert this year.

“We have tried to look for and contacted various country bands, but the reason is they’ve already been booked somewhere else,” said junior Michael Eppley, SAC con-

cert programming director. “We’re, hopefully, going back

to featuring country bands next spring. It’s not about any other rea-sons except money and the bands’ availability.”

Some Northwest students ex-

pressed disappointment after re-ceiving the news that SAC would forego the country genre for this year’s act.

“SAC had an info booth at the Union asking students to vote for a country artist or band to play the

spring concert,” senior Thomas Throm said. “There were several big name bands that I would love to hear play.”

Student tickets went on sale Wednesday and can be purchased for $10.

Students may buy tickets with their Bearcat cards at the Student Services desk in the Administra-tion Building.

The concert is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. April 13 in Bearcat Arena.

“I’m excited to go to the con-cert,” Georgina Ruano-Arriaga said. “I’ve never attended their concert before but I love concerts. This is going to be the first concert I’m going to at Northwest.”`

BRANDON ZENNERMissourian Reporter | @ZEN_ister

When students approach 60 credit hours, Northwest requires them to take the General Education Assessment.

This assessment covers general education questions from four ar-eas of study, including humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and mathematics.

Some students question the rel-evance of the assessment and its ef-fectiveness.

“It is similar to the ACT,” junior Alex Witthar said. “I think that tak-ing the assessment is kind of redun-dant.”

The Assessment Office coordi-nates the GEA scheduling and has many uses for the exam results.

These results are used to calcu-late program effectiveness, find ar-eas for curriculum improvement and to engage students in their academic discipline.

According to the Assessment Office, the results help the Universi-ty determine course redesign, as well as the incorporation of new technol-ogy.

The information is shared with multiple accrediting agencies and education boards throughout the area, state and country. The results are given to the Missouri Coordinat-ing Board of Higher Education and the Department of Secondary and Elementary Education.

Witthar does not think the test is the most effective way of gathering results.

“I can understand because it measures how much the students are learning from the general educa-tion classes,” Witthar said. “I think they could get the same results using a test that takes half the time.”

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