Kyna Iman has been a lobbyist for Missouri Southern for more than six years now. She said when she first started lobbying for Southern her main focus was on the budget and making sure the school received the funding it needed. But then she got more involved and actually helped the college change it's name to University.
Chris Rock got it wrong; there are clear heels in college. Even with her job working 72 hours a week with the mentally handicapped, it doesn't bring in quite enough for Missouri Southern student Melissa Kahris (not her real name), an exotic dancer at a partial-nudity dance club.
It's one of the most popular searches on the Internet, it's highly lucrative and it will get you kicked out of Missouri Southern's library. Internet pornography accounts for 20 percent of the $12.9 million pie of the adult entertainment industry. Interested viewers purchase memberships to Web sites catering to their particular niche and these sites are managed by webmasters like Sheldon Kennedy, freshman computer forensics major.
Despite what popular opinion is, not all lobbyists are corrupt. During my day with Kyna Iman, I discovered that lobbyists are a very important part of the political process. They help politicians get the information they need to know about why they should or shouldn't pass a bill.
Q: How did lobbyists get their names? A: Lobbyists are not allowed in the chamber, so all of the business has to be done outside in the hall, or lobby. Originally in Washington D.C., business would be done in the hotel lobby of the Willard Hotel, so that's how we got our title.
Missouri Southern's distance learning program in nursing gets one step closer to fruition. Kyna Iman, lobbyist for Southern, spent a lot of time talking to representatives about the school's distance nursing program and the money it needed. Originally the program asked for $921,404 for its first year, but the governor only approved one third of that.
Iman also helped another bill through legislature that would affect nurses statewide. The bill would allow nurse practitioners to prescribe controlled substances. Currently, Missouri is one of only three states that do not allow nurse practitioners to do this.