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Bearcats hoops feasts eyes on Mankato in NCAA round one. jacob bland Chief Sports Reporter | @JBland93

Northwest men’s basketball head coach Ben McCollum embodies the saying “Once a Bearcat, always a Bearcat,” and has found success living out the motto.

During McCollum’s 10 years as a player, assistant coach and head coach of the Northwest men’s basketball team, it has won five conference titles and made two Elite Eight appearances.

This year, after already accomplishing that fifth Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association regular season title, McCollum leads Northwest to its 15th appearance in the NCAA Division II Men’s Bas-

ketball Championship Tournament.

Along with its 15 appearances, Northwest has an overall tournament record of 13-17, including a 2-2 record with McCollum as the head coach. In 2014, Northwest reached the Sweet 16, but lost to Central Missouri, 60-59 in overtime. To Northwest’s credit, Central Missouri went on to win the national championship and their head coach was Kim Anderson at the time, who is now the head coach at the University of Missouri. McCollum says last year’s deep postseason run will not benefit this team as much as one would think, though.

“With every tournament it’s different, McCollum said. “The first game’s always the most difficult, just getting past that first game. Once

you get past that, it’s really who is the better team because you don’t have time to scout as much. Right now, both teams are going to be scouted pretty heavily.”

The Bearcats received the No. 4 seed in the Central Region during the Division II Men’s basketball selection show March 8 and they will face-off against No. 5 seed Minnesota State Mankato in the first round.

This is McCollum’s third time as head coach in the Big Dance and the second year in a row that he has guided the Bearcats to the NCAA tournament. Obviously, he’s excited to get back, but he is just eager to play someone outside the conference.

“I’m glad that we get to play a NSIC (North-

ern Sun Intercollegiate Conference) team,” McCollum said. “It’s nice not having to face anyone in the MIAA, so having those outside opponents is good. Everybody is good, so it doesn’t matter who you play.”

This year, the Central Region is predominantly made up of teams from the MIAA and the NSIC. Pittsburg State and Central Missouri join Northwest as representatives of the MIAA. Central Missouri is the No. 3 seed and Pittsburg State is the No. 7 seed in the region. Pittsburg State was able to slip into the field by winning the MIAA Tournament last weekend in Kansas City.

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Rape allegations reignite Title IX talks

Northwest has seen an increase in sexual assault reports in recent years.

JAMES HENDERSON Chief Reporter | @jendersoniii

According to Clery Act Reports, Northwest’s amount of reported sexual assaults per person ranks the highest among MIAA schools over the last three years, but many do not necessarily see that as a negative.

University Police Chief Clarence Green, Health Educator B.K. Taylor and Vice President of Student Affairs Matt Baker all agree that this statistic means one thing: Northwest provides the best atmosphere to report sexual assaults out of any of these schools.

They each said this does not mean there are more sexual assaults committed in the area, but simply that through the University’s Title IX training and other programs, Northwest has taken greater steps to make students feel comfortable coming forward with theses types of cases.

“We may be the highest, but if the national statistic has us believe that one in four women are going to be sexual assaulted in college, then we are closer to lining up with the national best practice statistic than any other campus,” Baker said. “So, could you make the leap that we are doing more to address it than any other campus?”

U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill stated in a press conference that understanding Title IX is an important step to taking care of the problem of sexual assault and making people feel free to report it when it happens.

“There continues to be an obligation that all students know their rights under Title IX,” McCaskill said. “I think Maryville does a good job of that. I know there is a requirement of training and education that you can not move on past your freshman year at Maryville without having the training that is required by the campus. I’m hoping that all campuses in Missouri begin to emulate that.”

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University police detail the process behind Clery Act notifications.

Darcie Bradford Chief Reporter | @darcie_jeanne_7

With the recent sexual assault cases occurring near the Northwest campus, the emailed notifications coming from the University have raised a few questions.

Police Chief Clarence Green said according to the Jeanne Clery Act, the University has to have notification systems alert students when there is a risk to the campus community.

“We have two different systems,” Green said. “We have a timely warning and an emergency notification.

A timely warning is sent out when you have events such as a sexual assault or some sort of Clery crime that the campus community needs to be aware of for their safety. If they are in jeopardy of being unsafe then we need to send out a timely warning.

“With an emergency notification, those are for events such as an armed intruder, a gas leak or a

building explosion where you need to send an immediate notification for an event that is happening within your campus or jurisdiction.”

The Jeanne Clery Act states, “Each institution shall make timely reports to the campus community on crimes considered to be a threat to other students and employees that are reported to campus security or local law police agencies.”

Green said a timely warning was sent out after the reported sexual assault Feb. 28 because the case presented a direct threat to the campus community.

“Due to the suspect not being apprehended and the sufficient amount of time as well as the facts from the case, we believed we needed to get information out to our campus community to insure that they were safe,” Green said.

However, the rape reported on Jan. 25, did not receive the same attention. Green explained the difference.

“What would have occurred in that situation was that we located the suspect immediately,” he said.

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Faculty, students address gender roles in education MANDI MORIN Chief Reporter | @MandiMorin1

The differences between men and women has always been a source of disagreements. In the last 10 years, the voice for equality has grown and is finally being heard. However, does this equality transfer to the students’ reaction and opinion of a female professor versus a male professor?

Because of the natural differences between males and females, students

are bound to react differently to certain situations in the classroom. In terms of anger, female and male professors react differently.

“I think sometimes, women are very careful about getting into confrontations because they know what it makes them look like,” Mass Media assistant professor Jody Strauch pondered. “So, maybe we don’t confront people as much as a male colleague would do. Woman may not speak out …

Just because the way we are raised, and

men are raised a little more aggressive, so I think we see that sometime.”

Students are also likely to react to the gender differences when it comes to anger. While a male professor getting angry may be attention-grabbing, a female professor’s anger over the same thing may be more surprising.

“Personally, I’m definitely more intimidated when a male professor gets angry,” Northwest student Alison Faulkner says. “It probably has to do with the fact that they are generally

larger and more intimidating in general.

When a female teacher gets angry, I’m surprised and kind of appreciate that they are fierce about things, depending on how radical their reaction is.”

There also seems to be a different respect when addressing female professors. While male professors are more likely to be called doctor and not have a Ph.D. female professors continue to referred to as “Mrs” even if they have earned a Ph.D. Students are also more likely to confront female

teachers and question their authority according to Department of English and Modern Languages assistant professor Ashley Davis.

Students seem to think male professors are the final authority and are less likely to question them according to Department of Professional Education adjunct professor Dennis Akins.

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Northwest freshmen Jordan Reece (left) and Cailey Barnhill (right) continue to smoke on campus despite preventative policies.

University policy fails to deter smoking

DARCIE BRADFORD Chief Reporter | @darcie_jeanne_7

While there is policy in place prohibiting smoking at Northwest, it does not seem to prevent students from smoking on campus.

The policy states, “Smoking is prohibited on all University owned or leased property and in all University vehicles. This applies to all students, employees, volunteers and visitors on University-controlled property.”

However, according to senior John Cerrone, smoking continues anyway, and he speaks from firsthand experience.

“People normally find a spot hidden away on campus to smoke, somewhere convenient,” Cerrone said.

Northwest Health Educator BK Taylor said the non-smoking policy

was wanted and formed by students.

“Really, the idea was to give students the tools to create this culture themselves. The data has been reflecting and it has been for several years that this is something students wanted,” Taylor said. “So the idea was to give it some substance so that we could create our own campus and really enforce it ourselves, compared to leaving it to law enforcement.”

The policy, however, is not enforced by any particular group.

As the policy states, “all faculty, staff, and students will have a collective responsibility to promote the safety and health of the campus community and therefore share in the responsibility of enforcement.”

Police Chief Clarence Green explains what enforcing the policy would look like.

“The policy for smoking on campus is a peer enforced policy; it’s enforced by all of us,” Green said. “It’s not enforced by a law violation because it’s a university policy and that was crafted so that it is peer enforced.

It’s not done just by University police.

If you saw it, you’d have an obligation to say ‘Hey, can you put that out?’”

While the policy may seem lax, there is still a disciplinary structure in place, according to Taylor.

“There is a threshold in which it would be campus violation and we do have a judicial process that is internalized in the campus,” Taylor said. “So in the sense of not getting in trouble, legally you won’t get a ticket or anything like that because it doesn’t violate a law, however you could in theory reach a violation of a policy and have to go through our judicial system.”

Cerrone said there is a loophole he has found to still be able to smoke on campus, but that the hope of having designated smoking areas in the future doesn’t seem very realistic.

“The main loophole we go through is smoking in our cars because we are allowed to do that,” Cerrone said.

“Smoking areas would be nice but I doubt every building would have one and, frankly, the school isn’t going to go out of their way to endorse a bad habit.”

The non-smoking policy also states, ”Northwest Missouri State University reserves the right to initiate disciplinary procedures against any individual found to be in continuous violation of this policy.”

Student Development and Conduct Coordinator Kori Hoffmann explains what disciplinary procedures would be carried out if a student were

in violation of this policy.

“First time violations could result in a variety of sanctions, including: warning, fine, and/or volunteer service hours,” Hoffman said. “Obviously, each situation is different so a variety of factors are taken into consideration any time sanctions are decided in any conduct situation. Also, there are no set sanctions for a smoking violation, so different conduct administrators may issue different sanctions for the same violation.”

Despite set policies and possible sanctions, students such as Cerrone will likely continue smoking on campus. According to him, the policy just does not phase him.

“I think the rule is kind of dumb.

Especially because if you get caught it’s a fifty dollar fine, but I rarely see people getting caught,” Cerrone said.

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Outreach centers attract different enrollment group ANDY CAMPBELL

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The empty rooms of Phillips Hall are misleading to the university’s current enrollment numbers, which have continued to grow.

During faculty briefings held by University Provost Dr. Tim Mottet, an enrollment strategy has been indicated as Northwest’s number one strategy for the future. Dean of Enrollment at Northwest Beverly Schenkel, said this “strategy,” as mentioned

by Mottet, is part of an ongoing effort.

“Our goal for this coming fall semester is to have growth at the Kansas City center primarily,” Schenkel said. “We’ve been working on initiatives focused on growth there, so that’s really (the strategy) Dr. Mottet is referring to.”

While enrolling students in that center has become a priority, Outreach Director Terry Barmann emphasized it would not deter from enrollment at the university.

“One of the things I think we need to realize is, we’re talking about a couple of major differences in student characteristics,” Barmann explained. “Currently, the students that want a great education and the entire, holistic four-year campus experience, they’re coming to Northwest.

“The market that we’re tapping into is a brand new market for Northwest. These are students that are somewhat bound in Kansas City for various reasons. Some of them have families, they have jobs, they have jobs and some have financial limitations, so the population that will be doing the completion programs in Kansas City, in all likelihood, will not affect campus enrollment at all.”

These efforts to, at minimum, sustain enrollment numbers begins with Recruitment and Admissions.

Assistant Director of Admissions Bryce Davis is also a recruiter for Northwest. According to Davis, recruiters work hard to secure enrollment numbers.

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Northwest student ambassadors Courtney Baumberger (left) and Jessica Feltner (right) give a tour to a high school student and her mother Feb. 28.

“The higher the enrollment, the more I don’t want that number to be lower the next year,” Davis said. “We just want to continue building on what we already have.”

Davis is stationed in Kansas City for recruitment. Though he makes over 100 high school visits each year, he said making the students feel at home is important.

“Our number one priority in admissions is personalization when we’re recruiting,” Davis said. “We actually keep track of how many students we’re touching base with, and not only that but if I get information from a student, I write them a per-

sonal handwritten letter, or give them a phone call. That’s our number one priority, to make sure students feel like a person rather than a number.”

Recruiters have the added responsibility with the completion programs to be offered in Kansas City, but according to Barmann, the impact seen on campus will be minimal.

“When we go to MCC (Metropolitan Community College) and market our programs, we’re also mentioning that they would be more than welcome, if they want a full, on campus four-year experience, to come to our campus,” Barmann said. “We would never want to do anything off campus

to have a negative impact on campus.”

At the beginning of the fall trimester, more than 6,400 students were enrolled at Northwest, which, according to Schenkel, was almost a four percent increase from the previous year.

Mottet’s reference to an “enrollment strategy” was made toward a range of different opportunities offered from Northwest.

“It’s not only these completion programs that will serve the community college transfer student, but also some dual credit opportunities for students that are involved with the Northland Caps program,” Schenkel said.

Enrollment and Admissions workers for Northwest continue to work together to continue the enrollment strategy that has achieved continuous growth over the last three years.

In Schenkel’s opinion, the opportunities being offered in Kansas City are an addition to these achievements and goals.

“We will continue serving our traditional high schools that we have served, recruiting for the four-year, on campus experience,” Schenkel explained. “This is just expanding the additional outreach that we do.”

Northwest Online system provides students opportunity to review prior semester courses MIRANDA PATTON

Chief Reporter | @MirPatt92

Feedback on final exams and projects helps a student understand what they need to continue to work on outside of class. It is difficult to determine what a student needs to learn when all they see is a letter grade at the end of a semester.

The Center for Information Technology in Education (CITE) manages the Northwest Online system. After the end of each semester, a student’s courses close and do not appear on the homepage for access.

“Those trimesters on CatPaws have a start and end date so we follow those,” said Director of CITE Darla Runyon. “The course sites actually stay open two weeks after the course ends.”

To find the courses, there is an

option to expand past semesters on the homepage of Northwest Online.

This is how to access a course’s materials after the end date has passed.

However, this feature can be difficult to notice.

Students also have the option to access courses taken several semesters back. This starts with contacting the course instructor.

“We will grant extended access for a student,” Runyon said. “Maybe you are a student that needs to go back and grab something from the drop box, or something you wanted to look at, they (professors) can get a hold of us and we can extend that and let you back in.”

Ashley Rhoads, psychology and vocal music performance major, shares her thoughts on this system.

“Just because the class is over,

doesn’t mean that I don’t want to keep learning ways to get better and learn more,” Ashley Rhoads, psychology and vocal music performance major, said.

When looking for more detailed feedback on final exams and projects, professors have ways of providing their students with this using Northwest Online.

“In the grade book itself, most of the assignments that they are grading have a comments box, so that if they want, they can type those in there,” Runyon said. “They can give feedback through the drop box, there is a place for comments or they can download the assignment and re-upload it with their comments.”

However, not all faculty members make use of this online application even when all of the faculty is knowledgeable on how the program works.

“We train all new faculty on Northwest Online. I don’t think its necessarily a requirement that they have to use it but we do train them,” Runyon said.

Beyond the online form, professors can offer a variety of different types of feedback after students turn in their final projects and exams.

“The whole idea of giving a grade without some kind of feedback, that doesn’t really help you understand how you improve, to give you some insiders to what was really going on,” English professor Brenda Ryan said.

Ryan teaches several writing and literature courses at Northwest.

She emphasizes the importance of making viable feedback for her students to use and build upon.

“With my writing courses I do a lot of comments, I still take up a hard

copy and put a lot of marginal comments and a narrative paragraph with that,” Ryan said. “I try to really keep the door open if a student wants to come in and talk about their grade and have that one-on-one conferencing.”

Rhoads stresses the importance that the learning experience extends beyond the end of the semester.

“It is very important to me to get good feedback and find out what I did well, or poorly. The end of the semester doesn’t mean the end of learning. If that’s not the case, then why have a final exam, project, or paper at all?,” Rhoads said. “Knowing what I did wrong on a final shows me that I didn’t quite understand that particular concept. I don’t want to leave a class without understanding the purpose of what I learned.”

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States must protect education budgets College tuition rates are out of control in the United States. Students know it and parents especially know it. The culprit behind exponential tuition increases cannot be attributed to any single factor, but decreasing government support for colleges is the leading suspect. Inexplicably, the governors of several states have proposed even further cuts to higher education. An invaluable college education may soon be out of reach for many Americans.

Severe budget cuts to higher education have been in the news lately largely due to the actions of Republican governors Sam Brownback of Kansas, Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. Brownback wants to cut $45 million, Walker is aiming for $300 million and Jindal has floated $200 to $300 million in cuts.

The governors, facing heavy criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike, claim that these cuts are needed to address serious budget shortfalls. However, many of these budget shortfalls were created because of ill-advised policies like tax cuts.

In any event, funding for higher education should be a top priority for every state government and any possible measure to retain funding should be taken. In fact, considering recent massive tuition hikes, higher education funding should be increased wherever and whenever feasible.

The blame for reduced public higher education funding cannot be placed on just Republicans. Democratic Governor of Missouri Jay Nixon proposed $43 million in cuts to higher education last year (although he promised to restore funding if the legislature approved his tax cut veto.) Additionally, 48 states are spending less per student than they did before the recession, according to a report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Even the most liberal states’ governments were forced to make cuts from higher education in the midst of the financial collapse in 2007-2008.

However, even though states have largely recovered from the worst of the recession, most are still funding public universities at the same level. According to the report referenced earlier, the state of Missouri has spent 27.4 percent less per student since 2008.

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The news is not all bad for Missourians, though. A Missouri House budget committee approved the restoration of $12 million in funding for higher education Tuesday. Furthermore, public universities in Missouri have only increased tuition 5.2 percent since 2008, which is much lower than most states (Arizona public colleges have increased tuition 80.6 percent).

Still, the political status quo is always changing and any recent res-

toration of funding belies the overall trend of state higher education funding decreases in all states over the past few decades.

Most implications of education budget cuts are clear and devastating.

Faculty and staff jobs are cut, classes and programs are eliminated and tuition inevitably increases. Besides the obvious outcomes, the effect of such cuts on education as a whole could be disastorous.

Higher education is increasingly seen as a prerequisite for career success. If states continue to financially strangle public colleges into raising tuition, this prerequisite will become unattainable for the Americans who need such an education more than anyone. Also, as colleges continue to cut programs and trim staff, American universities depending on funding sources to plan for the future will left with even fewer resources. It’s a

shame to see good ideas on improving programs at colleges increasingly stalled by budget concerns.

Education is often seen as the backbone of a functioning, engaged citizenry. In times of budget shortfalls, state governments must recognize this ideal and protect higher education budgets with a pervasive vigor. American colleges are in a crisis and removing their ability to grow and prosper in the future should never be the answer.

Victim blaming an outrageous reaction to sex crimes Typically, after a sexual assault is reported, many questions are asked.

As reporters, the who, what, when, where, why and how are always the most important.

However, the public begins to ask another question: why did the survivor let themselves get raped? They ask this sickening question instead of the more

Survivors need to have support in their corner. A sad reality is that people want to claim sexual assault accusations as false. Of course, this is disgusting to believe, but it also makes no sense statistically. The Department of Justice has stated that only one percent of sexual claims were proven false.

This nation, and the students of this university, must begin to change how it looks at survivors of sexual assault. We have to hold organizations like TKE accountable for their actions if they are not doing their best to prevent assault. Rather than seeing sur-

Area nursing home condition shocking

Nursing assistant shares experiences working in a long-term care facility MEGAN WHITE

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Several area nursing homes recently received low ratings from The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a federal agency that rates every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home in the country. I’d like to share some of my experiences working in one of these homes.

I wanted to get a head start on my nursing career, so I went into the vocation tech program offered by my high school. I started with hands on experience in nursing homes and hospitals during the second semester of my junior year, and started witnessing things that made me change my mind about my potential career in the nursing field. During my first week of clinicals, a woman’s skin was torn from her hip to the middle of her thigh as she was being rolled on her side for a bed change.

I received my CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant) license in May of 2013 and was working at a long term care facility near Bethany, MO,

by June. I made it my goal to treat every resident the way I would want my grandparent treated. Residents always

talked of suicide; I couldn’t imagine what could have been so horrible about this place they were living in. I was told by the nurse in charge this was common among the elderly, and they told me “not to worry about it.”

I was quickly pushed into working the night shift but would often work the morning shift as well; If someone on the next shift didn’t show up, I had to stay. Most of the time, I would work the Alzheimer’s wing of the nursing home by myself, and was responsible for 18 residents. If I got lucky and didn’t have to work a wing by myself, every two hours I would go check the opposite hall to help with bed checks. Plenty of times I would walk into the Alzheimer’s wing and there would be call lights blinking, when the residents really needed help, and the CNA would be sleeping in the living room area. This led to the residents falling and having accidents due to neglect.

Before the end of every shift, the last things I had to do was make sure all of the residents had clean washcloths and towels in their rooms and empty all the trash cans. I would walk into a resident’s room and find washcloths soiled with blood, urine and feces.

This seemed appalling to me at first, but quickly became the norm.

One morning a man I was helping to breakfast didn’t want to walk, I reported this to my charge nurse and was told to set him in a wheel chair. I did as I was told, taking off his shoes

and socks to see if I could figure out why he didn’t want to walk.. (He had suffered a stroke many years before and couldn’t talk.) His foot was so swollen, the sock was cutting off the circulation. I quickly called my charge nurse in the room to examine his black and blue toes.

There was no documentation of injury to him from the previous days, and he was taken to get X-rays later in the week. He ended up having three broken toes because he was stepped on by an overweight CNA who failed to report the incident. He has been wheelchair bound ever since.

These are some of the examples of the abuse and neglect I witnessed in the short time working in a long term care facility. Families take their loved ones to a nursing home to be taken care of and unfortunately, just the opposite happens. There are several ways this pattern can be broken. Cameras should be installed in hallways and living room areas and watched by the director of nursing often. I also think more CNA’s should be hired statewide, in hopes that overworking will not be the cause of anger that leads to abuse. I believe that in order to reduce the chance of abuse and neglect in a nursing home overall, CNA’s should be closely watched, with extreme consequences imposed for any mistakes.

vivors as some sort of opportunists to be judged for what they wear or for how much they drink, let us begin to look at them as actual survivors. Survivors of a crime that will change their life and how they look at the world. It is in society’s best interest to begin looking at why people rape and what can be done to help educate people on the issue, instead of feigning crocodile tears that a social club could lose its charter membership.

Sadly, this sort of crime will always be around. However, that is how we need to think about it. Not as a lapse in judgment, not as an accident that could

have been prevented by the survivor, but rather, it needs to be recognized as the brutal reality it truly is. Then, we can begin to cast off this fog that seems to permeate college culture.

As history continues to repeat itself, I am reminded of a quote uttered over 40 years ago by Professor Freda Adler. “Perhaps it (rape) is the only crime in which the survivor becomes the accused and, in reality, it is she who must prove her good reputation, her mental soundness, and her impeccable propriety.”

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important question: how does someone commit such a heinous crime? As sexual assault becomes more prevalent in the social consciousness, we can no longer stand by allowing survivors to be shamed or blamed for the actions of their attackers. Their peers can no longer stand by and say “ she shouldn’t have drank so much,” or “ they should know how to prevent these things from happening to them.”

Instead of this, we must begin to work together to say those who are willing taking advantage of those in a compromised position are not people who should ever be commended or defended.

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CONTINUED FROM A1 Baker recalled a conversation that he had with campus leadership before the University began its required Title IX training. He told them as this training is implemented, the campus will see a rise in reported sexual assaults.

With training beginning back in 2011 and mandatory freshman training beginning fall 2014, Baker’s prediction holds true as the Clery reports show a small rise in reported sexual assaults.

Green said that can also be attributed to the relationship students have with the University Police. Green said, according to a quality assessment of their officers, Northwest University Police is in the 99th percentile of satisfaction with victims and perpetrators.

“The people that we arrest and take to jail say they are satisfied with the service they receive from the officers,” Green said. “So, what I glean from that is there is a special relationship that we create that makes students feel like they can come in here and tell us things that are intimate, because they know they will be treated respectfully, fairly and we are going to align them the resources they need.”

Along with informing students of their rights and ensuring they are comfortable with the police, Student Senate President Cody Uhing said it is important to inform students that it is everyone’s job to stop sexual as-

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CONTINUED FROM A1 “So, with the person of interest being apprehended at that time, there was no threat to the campus community.”

Vice President of Student Affairs Matt Baker explains why sending out timely warnings occurs on a caseby-case basis.

“Each situation is different, it depends on all of the factors surrounding it like who reports it, when it’s reported, if we know where the accused is, what is the risk to campus,” Baker said. “If we don’t know who the accused is and can’t contact them then we usually notify the campus.”

Baker also said that timely warnings reach beyond crimes like sexual assault.

“It’s not just sexual assault, it can be anything that can be a risk to campus,” Baker said. “It can be anything where we don’t know what’s going and there could be a risk.”

However, Green showed his concern about the notification system being on a case-by-case basis.

“I wish it was cleaner,” Green said.

“It’s a little bit vague, but there are some hard lines in there too. In some cases, the survivor knows who the suspect is and we can identify them and make contact them. And there are tons of factors in between, especially when you’re dealing with personal violence and personal crime.”

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sault before it happens.

To do this, Uhing pushed for Northwest to be one of the first 200 campuses in America to join the White House’s “It’s On Us” campaign against sexual violence. Last fall, students, administrators and police all over campus took the pledge to not be a bystander and to intervene when situations regarding sexual assault occur. Uhing urges students to go to the website and refresh themselves on the 13 steps to intervene and said the pledge is just as important now as it was then.

“I think it’s very important to remember when your at a party or out at the bar that if you see something, you should step in, you should say something,” Uhing said. “In light of what recently happened, I think the push to be more involved and to be more watchful is even greater.”

However, even with all of these things in place to create an atmosphere to protect students from sexual assault, it still happens. Uhing said that the most important step to stopping sexual assault is reporting it when it happens. He also said there are things that stop people from wanting to do that.

“There is a fear and a stigma associated with coming forward,” Uhing said. “Which is unfortunate, because it needs to happen.”

He said whether it be the fear of having to tell your story to multiple different police and multiple different with campus leadership before the University began its required Title IX training. He told them as this training is implemented, the campus will see a rise in reported sexual assaults.

With training beginning back in 2011 and mandatory freshman training beginning fall 2014, Baker’s prediction holds true as the Clery reports show a small rise in reported sexual assaults.

Green attributes this to the relationship students have with the University Police. Green said, according to a quality assessment of their officers, Northwest University Police is in the 99th percentile of satisfaction with victims and perpetrators.

“The people that we arrest and take to jail say they are satisfied with the service they receive from the officers,” Green said. “So, what I glean from that is there is a special relationship that we create that makes students feel like they can come in here and tell us things that are intimate, because they know they will be treated respectfully, fairly and we are going to align them the resources they need.”

Along with informing students of their rights and ensuring they are comfortable with the police, Student Senate President Cody Uhing said it is important to inform students that it is everyone’s job to stop sexual assault before it happens.

To do this, Uhing pushed for Northwest to be one of the first 200 campuses in America to join the White House’s “It’s On Us” campaign against sexual violence. Uhing urges

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departments or the fear of ridicule and disbelief from your peers, there are a lot of issues with coming forward.

Taylor said all these things are

addressed by the University’s continued push for a changed atmosphere.

“It’s all about that visibility,” Taylor said. “I think we have taken our-

selves, all across the nation, to a higher calling, a higher expectation of not only identifying the problem but getting people the resources they need.”

students to go to the website and refresh themselves on the steps to intervene and said the pledge is just as important now as it was then.

“I think it’s very important to remember when your at a party or out at the bar that if you see something, you should step in, you should say something,” Uhing said. “In light of what recently happened, I think the push to be more involved and to be more watchful is even greater.”

However, even with all of these things in place to create an atmosphere to protect students from sexual assault, it still happens. Uhing said the most important step to stopping sexual assault is reporting it when it happens. He also said there are things that stop people from wanting to do that.

“There is a fear and a stigma associated with coming forward,” Uhing said. “Which is unfortunate, because it needs to happen.”

He said whether it be the fear of having to tell your story to multiple different police and multiple different departments or the fear of ridicule and disbelief from your peers, there are a lot of issues with coming forward.

Taylor said these are all addressed by the University’s continued push for a changed atmosphere.

“It’s all about that visibility,” Taylor said. “I think we have taken ourselves, all across the nation, to a higher calling, a higher expectation of not only identifying the problem but getting people the resources they need.”

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as the quality of the instruction.

“My personal preference would be toward female professors because females can relate to females better and males relate better to males,” junior Alaina Freeman explained. “Ultimately, gender preferences don’t matter because as long as students get the class done, that is all they care about.”

Student reaction depends on how the professor handles the classroom and issues presented by the students. Teachers take a student’s gender into consideration when approaching issues or the methods used in classrooms.

“Male students want to be right up front and be told exactly,” Akins reflected. “If you’re going to tell a female something that she doesn’t like, you need to ease into it a little differently. Females typically think and feel things a lot more than males.”

In administration, a male or female in power receives respect differently depending on gender. It does not happen in all institutions or departments, but the reception is still dependent on the gender.

“Personally, I’ve rarely had trouble with gender problems as a professor but on an administrative side,” Strauch said. “I was department chair for a few years, and it’s not at all like the current administration. I think they do fine, but some past administrators, when I was chair, I would ask a male colleague to get an issue voiced because I knew that person wasn’t listening to me.

There’s just those old boys’ clubs that still exist in any business.”

CONTINUED FROM A1 “I’ve had several experiences with students challenging me and their grades, accusing me of being unfair to them or asking me to make allowances for them that I don’t think they would do with other male instructors,” David explained. “I’ve had male students be more aggressive with me in terms of their language or physical presence in my office or the classroom.”

A teacher’s gender may not dictate student course evaluations, but it does seems to set the tone for a student’s comfort.

Female students may be more comfortable with a female professor, but students base their evaluations on performance, use of class time, and knowledge.

“I have had great professors of both genders. I will say that seeing a female professor is a little more comforting, at least on the first impression. I don’t really mind the gender of my professors, as long as they’re producing quality information and supporting a good atmosphere for learning,” said Faulkner.

Generally, students are more exposed to female teachers in elementary, middle and high school. Female teachers make up almost 76 percent of public school teachers, while there is only 40 percent of female professors. That change can cause a little discomfort, but students tend to not see the gender of the teacher as much

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There was a smoke investigation at the 600 block of East Seventh Street.

Feb. 24 An accident occurred between an unkown driver and Jun C. Kim at the 1100 block of North College Drive.

Philip Harmoney, 19, was charged with minor in possession at the 600 block of North Buchanan.

There is an ongoing investigation of harassment at the 900 block of North Buchanan.

Jordan A. Whiters, 20, was charged with wanted on a warrant for failure to appear at the 400 block of North Buchanan.

An accident occurred between Teri L. Roberts, 38 and Armand V. Perez, 18, at the 600 block West South Avenue.

Feb.26 There were vehicle accessories were recovered at the 100 block of Park Avenue.

Feb. 28 August Sandquist, 19, was charged

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bearkittens TO beercats From freshman to senior year, the attitude toward drinking evolves.

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If it’s a day that ends in “Y,” freshmen are probably going out.

We’ve all been there, the first taste of freedom usually comes with a sip of some cheap beer that you pretend to like.

But by the time senior year hits, you’re more likely to be found with some Jimmy Johns and your Netflix account than in those high heels at Molly’s – or God forbid, a frat party.

Before college students learn the joy of a night at home, nothing seems more exciting than going out. Freshman Hannah Kludy has seen her peers take advantage of their newfound freedom. This is the first time Kludy has encountered rampant alcohol consumption.

“I feel like freshmen almost glorify drinking. It’s something that is considered exciting, like a right of passage into the adult world,” Kludy explained.

Sophomore Haley Riffle describes the pressures freshmen experience during their first year away from home,, it’s hard for freshmen coming in. Relationships with upperclassmen and their organizations affect if freshmen drink.

If you’re friends with a lot of people who drink, it’s easy to fall into that.”

Junior Alexis Daley described the excitement of that freshman freedom.

“As a freshman, everything is new,” she said. “That was the thing freshman year, to experience all the crazy stories and adventures.”

However, Daley is glad to have her wild freshman days behind her, “I prefer to go to the Pub because it’s 21 and up.

I don’t have to deal with any under-age, crazy children.”

Daley mentioned that she avoids frat parties at all costs now.

“It isn’t really my scene anymore. I went to a frat party at the beginning of the year and I felt really old and out of place. Staying out til 3 a.m. just doesn’t seem appealing anymore,” Daley added.

Sticky shoes, disgusting bathrooms and terrible music are just some of the annoyances of going out.

Senior Jessica Coppock expressed a preference for avoiding bars and frats.

“I’d rather be at a house party because it’s just my friends. I don’t want to deal with other people,” she said.

Inexperienced drinkers can find themselves in dangerous situations as they attempt to assimilate into college drinking culture.

Pressure from peers can be one factor that encourages freshmen to drink when they come to college. Riffle describes how the drinking culture influences students beginning college.

“Our culture and media portray underage drinking as okay, you go to college and you party and that’s what school is about. It affects what freshmen might think is expected of them,” Riffle said.

However, going out can have more harmful consequences than lower grades or a damaged reputation.

“I just think that it can be dangerous, especially for female freshmen who are maybe not so experienced with it,” Kludy explained. “Also, getting an MIP does not appeal to me. I can’t afford tickets or anything, and my private scholarships could drop me if they found out. It isn’t worth it to me at this point.”

The threat of violence is another consideration for those students experimenting with alcohol for the first time.

Kludy describes the strategies most girls use to avoid dangerous situations.

“I feel like most girls go with other girlfriends just for safety,” she said. “One usually stays sober as the babysitter and I think that’s wise. Sometimes they’ll choose to go out with a particular guy and that’s okay too, as long as they are a trusted friend.”

Underage college students take on more risk than their legal peers.

“You have to be careful where they’re going out,” Riffle advised. “If you’re going out, I would say going somewhere like an actual bar makes the danger not as high. At parties, who knows what’s in the drinks?”

Whether you are at the bar Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays taking shots, or staying in watching cat videos with your besties (I recommend Cat vs Flip-Flop starring Buddy) enjoy these nights while they last. And, please, be safe out there, Bearcats.

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Escaping from a cult seems more tragic than comic, but “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” turns the sad into silly. The show is about Kimmy Schmidt (Ellie Kemper), who has moved to New York following her escape from a doomsday cult run by Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne.

This is Tina Fey’s first major television project since “30 Rock,” the clever and absurd NBC comedy that ended January 2013. There is a very similar feel between “30 Rock” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt;” the jokes fly so fast it would take a second or third viewing to catch them all.

Imprisoned in an underground bunker for fifteen years, Kimmy is stuck in the past. Her first major purchase after her escape is a pair of light-up Skechers. The subject is dark but the show deftly handles the tragic content with laughter.

Kimmy gets a job as a nanny for the rich Vorhees family and begins to adjust to her life above-ground. She moves in with an aspiring Broadway actor, Titus Andromedon (Tituss Burgess). Titus tries to help Kimmy adjust to life in the modern world, correcting her dated references to Moesha and Gameboys by having her document “Things people don’t say anymore.”

Jane Krakowski will be familiar to “30 Rock” fans, appearing here as Jacqueline Vorhees, the Upper East Side mother. Deliciously vain and delusional, Krakowski delivers some of the best lines of the show, “Do you have any idea how much I have on my plate? Not literally, of course.” Jacqueline has heart, though, and forms an unlikely friendship with Kimmy, telling her that the past doesn’t matter.

Jacqueline Vorhees’ stepdaughter is played with acidic nastiness

by Dylan Gulula, the perfect foil for Ellie Kemper’s cheerful pep. She threatens to get Kimmy fired saying “I chew you up and I spit you out, just like all my food.”

Warm and silly on the surface, the show’s deeper message is opti-

mism in the face of adversity. Kimmy advises the Vorhees family that you can survive anything for ten seconds, a reminder of her tragic past and her strength to survive.

While being light and fun, the show examines how we perceive victims. As Titus says, “People love hearing terrible details of news tragedies. It’s titillating like a horror movie, it makes them feel like a good person because they care about a stranger and it makes people feel safe that it did not happen to them.”

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The Canadian band from Edmonton, Alberta, known as Purity Ring released their second studio album “Another Eternity” March 3. The unearthly vocals and recognizable sound that accompany the group has evolved in their new album.

Three years after their first album “Shrines,” fans eagerly awaited the release of “Another Eternity” when Megan James (vocals) and Corin Roddick (composer) shared two singles “Push and Pull” and “Begin Again” back in January.

Those who preordered the album came home to a surprise Monday, March 2. Inside the bland cardboard package sits the vinyl with striking artwork designs; a large glowing orb hovers over a woman suspended in the air. The record inside is clear, continuing the interesting color design from their previous album, which was sky-blue - both look amazing spinning on the record player, by the way. With shaky hands, the needle is placed on the pristine surface and slowly the first song rings out from the speakers.

James spends no time introducing the album with “Heartsigh,” starting off with strong vocals over a crescendoing drum line, but her iconic

sound isn’t the same as three years ago. Fans have become accustomed to the distant, haunting vocals of “Ungirthed” and “Fineshrine” which are not present in their new album.

Now, James is clear and present; Roddick has backed off of the heavy sublines to provide a catchy backdrop to her unique lyrics.

“Bodyache,” the second song on the record, has skyrocketed in popularity with close to 200,000 listens on Spotify. The song is catchy but sadly, that is about the only thing the song has to offer. Its princess production leading into a quick bass line support James’ vocals well, creating a song so catchy you’ll know the lyrics in about three listens.

As we get to the end of the album the old Purity Ring starts to creep back in. With their song “Dust Hymn” listeners are brought back to the old, mystical composition and interweaving vocals. It bleeds smoothly into the next track “Sea Castles,” creating a soft escalation of rhythmic drum sets behind James’ beautifully disturbing lyrics. All this leads to the final stage in “Another Eternity.” The beginning of the album presents the new sound of Purity Ring while the latter half brings back what we loved so much originally.

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Personally, I enjoy the songs on their new album; however, I know a few fans that are not so pleased with the change. What made them unique and popular back in 2011 is no longer

present in 2015.

With the albums release Tuesday and the first track already at 140,900 plays on spotify, Purity Ring’s move away from “witch house” doesn’t seem to be hindering their popularity. In fact, with their new sound, they may even gather a slightly new audience in the electronic-pop genre.

Rating: 5/5 Artist: Purity Ring Album: Another Eternity Label: 4AD Release Date: March 3, 2015

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There are several aspects of college life in Maryville that I enjoy. A couple of weeks ago, I detailed just a few of the items that I’ll miss after graduation, but one thing I will not miss is the lack of variety in town.

Campus was divided Monday upon hearing the news of a Pizza Ranch franchise coming to Maryville.

From the tweets and yaks about the new establishment, it seems like you either love it or hate it.

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Not including on-campus options or Hyvee, there are 4 restaurants that offer Asian Cuisine in Maryville: Happy Garden, Simply Siam, Joy Wok and The Mandarin.

Fast Food options include Burger King, McDonalds, Taco Bell, Taco Johns and KFC. Here’s my favorite: there are four pizza joints in Maryville, five if you count Casey’s (if you don’t like Casey’s Pizza, you’re not a Bearcat).

I understand how bringing more businesses to Maryville is beneficial for the overall economy but I have to

ask this question; In a town of under 12 thousand people, why do we need another pizza place? I’m not a business major, but I just cannot see how they expect to be successful. There simply is no demand.

I want a breakfast place that is open late. Or any food place located near the heart of town that will remain open until 2 A.M. Senor Burrito just doesn’t cut it.

I miss getting a cup of coffee and ice cream at My Favorite Muffin.

While Ali’s Bakery will always have my heart, having the option to change

it up a bit was nice.

While I’m on the topic of variety in town, let’s address nighttime entertainment options. Your man thought the Outback was legendary back in the day. When Molly’s took over the party scene, I went there.

Today, most of the bars in Maryville bore me.

The Palms’ new owner offered a glimmer of hope for something different and he has began to fill a void by providing what the Pub promised, but never fulfilled, live music. It would be nice to see someone different and not

the same couple people.

For the non-drinking crowd, the options are even slimmer. SAC tries to fill that void, unfortunately, not all of the events are really effective.

I’m a firm believer in the will of the people having the ability to cause a change. If you want Maryville to have more options, prove there is a demand for it.

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No. 8 Arkansas tech 18-13 Great American

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CONTINUED FROM A1 The Bearcats first round matchup against the Mavericks will be interesting as this will be the second consecutive year the teams are pitted against on another. Last season, Northwest was able to hold on for a 71-66 victory against Mankato in the second round of the NCAA tournament. With last year’s game being so close, McCollum realizes that this game could prove to be just as competitive.

“They’ve got better shooting, less rebounding than they had last year,” McCollum said. “They’re good, they’re good as any team in the NSIC. I think their margin of defeat of the seven games that they have lost was probably less than two points if you added them all up and averaged them. They didn’t get beat by much in those games, so it’s going to be a tough contest.”

If Northwest can get past Mankato, they will face the winner of the Augustana-Arkansas Tech matchup. Augustana, an NSIC team is the host of the regional tournament, which takes place March 14-17 at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

“The NSIC is totally different,” McCollum said. “They’re usually bigger and physical, but in a different way. Our league (the MIAA) is more handsy, quick, and they’re going to pressure you. They’re going to sag and sit in the paint. The NSIC teams are not going to guard you like we do in this league, but they can score a lot better than the teams in this league.”

With Northwest going up against bigger teams from the NSIC,

they are going to have to rely on athletes like senior Grant Cozad and sophomore Zach Schneider to play physical. However, Northwest can also use the size mismatch as an advantage. Guards, such as freshman Justin Pitts and sophomore Anthony Woods, have to use their speed if they hope to expose the bigger lineups the NSIC presents. To minimize the scoring threat of teams from the NSIC, Northwest has the luxury of relying on senior Matt Wallace to set the tone. Wallace was selected as the MIAA-Defensive Player of the Year and was Northwest’s best defender all year long.

“I’m pretty excited for the matchup. I think it’ll be against (Mankato senior Zach) Monaghan, who’s a pretty good point guard,” Wallace said. “I’ll see what I can do against him, but it’ll be a pretty good matchup I think.”

Monaghan is averaging 15.5 points per game to go with 8.1 assists.

Beginning with their first round game against Minnesota State and each game after that, Northwest will be facing elimination. At the conclusion of the tournament, Northwest will say goodbye to seniors Cozad and Wallace. Both seniors committed to Northwest while McCollum was trying to rebuild the Northwest basketball program and formed a foundation that helped build Northwest basketball into what it is today.

“Every game now can potentially be mine and Matt’s (Wallace) last,” Cozad said. “We’re going to go into every practice and every game that we have and cherish it and go as hard as we can and try to make every moment last.”

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17 Emporia St.....................12-4 20 Central Oklahoma...........13-5 Central Missouri.....................8-5 Pittsburg St..........................7-3 Washburn...........................11-4 Missouri Western..................9-9 Fort Hays St........................7-8 NORTHWEST........................4-6 Lindenwood........................3-13 Nebraska-Kearney................1-12 Southwest Baptist.................6-9 Missouri Southern.................1-9 Northeastern St...................8-12 Lincoln...............................0-11

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With change comes better competition, at least for the 2015 Maryville baseball team. The Spoofhounds baseball team is moving up to Class 4 this season.

With the winter months behind it, the Spoofhounds baseball team is itching to get back in the swing of things.

Maryville head coach Matt Houchin says the team kept loose during the offseason by the athletes attending what Houchin called open gyms.

“We’ve had some open gyms where the kids can come work out,” Houchin said. “They can still come to the gym and work on mechanics.

We have two batting cages that we take them up to now, and we normally break them up into four groups at a time, so they can get some swings in.”

The Spoofhounds went 5-13 last season in the Midland Empire Conference before falling in the district championship game to Bishop LeBlond, 2-0. The MEC conference is loaded with teams like Savannah, Benton and Lafayette, all of which are in Maryville’s district this season.

Houchin says his team will benefit from playing these teams in the regular season.

“It’s the MEC Conference. It’s district is our conference,” Houchin said. “We usually play these teams twice a year. We usually have a home and away with a lot of these guys. The difference this season is having our pitching ready to go at the end of the

year. In Class 3 we were able to be district champs, obviously this year we’ll have to jump right into it.”

Spoofhounds senior Jacob Cacek says the Spoofhounds should be much improved this season, and expect to make a run at the district title.

“We are expecting bigger, and better teams in district,” Cacek said.

“They are great teams that we’ll play in the regular season. We’re going to have to work a little bit harder to make a better run through districts.”

Cacek also says in order to have a successful season the Spoofhounds need to have consistence starting pitching and quality team defense around the horn.

“We are going to have to focus on team pitching because these teams can hit,” Cacek said. “We will have to learn how to hit a plus curveball, and a great fastball; if we can do that then we will be fine.”

Among the key returners for the Spoofhounds is senior pitcher Mitch Worthington. Houchin says Worthington is a valuable piece to this years team, and the Spoofhounds will be counting on his leadership.

“Mitch has started a lot of games for us in centerfield, as well as pitching last season,” Houchin said. “He comes in big situations and drives the ball in those situations. The one that he needs to work on his mental toughness. He has to work on getting through the tough situations, and if he does, he will do great things this season.”

Cacek says the goals for the Spoofhounds are competing for a

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conference and district title.

“We would try to get around .500,” Cacek said. “We’ve had good seasons with football and basketball this year.

So, it would be nice to get back to what we were two years ago.”

The Spoofhounds will start the season unofficially in a jamboree

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A year after qualifying for the Class 2 State Golf Tournament, Maryville junior Hunter Hayes hopes to get back in the swing as soon as he can.

Hayes grew up playing the game he loves with his father and older sister who played golf at Northwest.

Hayes says he never took the game of golf seriously growing up.

“I got into golf around the age of five or six,” Hayes said. “I would go with my dad and sister because they always went, so I always tagged along with them.”

Hayes love for the game began to change as Hayes got into middle school.

He started playing in America Golf Association and Missouri Golf Association events around the state of Missouri.

“I got serious about golf when I started golfing in those events in the seventh and eighth grade,” Hayes

Alexis Boyd

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said. “I am a very competitive person who likes to win. And, I won my first golf tournament every, in the seventh grade in Platte City.”

Maryville head coach Brenda Ricks says she has been watching Hayes play golf since he was young. She says playing in the MGA and AGA events have really helped Hayes understand what he needs to do to get better.

“That is a huge advantage,” Ricks said. “Anybody can go out and play golf. When you start competing, and keep score for a team, you start to understand the mental side of the game. That is what Hunter has done.

He doesn’t play all summer long, he competes all summer long.”

Not only is Hayes a golfer for the Spoofhounds, he is a starter for the Maryville varsity football team. Ricks says head football coach Matt Webb has really helped Hayes mature as a player, and a young man.

“He doesn’t play much golf (during football season). His football coach helps with his mental game,” Ricks said. “Because, he is becoming a bet-

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Hayes says his favorite memory came in last year’s Class 2 District 8 tournament at Hidden Valley Golf Course in Lawson when he shot an even par, 72.

He reflected on one shot in particular.

“I was standing in the middle of the fairway on a par 4,” Hayes recalled. “I was 135 yards out, and I hit the ball as well as I could. I ended up making it for eagle.”

With the season just a few weeks away, Ricks and Hayes are both anxious to see what this year’s team is capable of.

“I expect this years team will make it to state as team,” Hayes said.

“We have a lot of younger players on this who have competed in some big time events and they are ready to go.”

Ricks added that she would not be shocked if this years team qualified for state as well, saying Hayes will lead the way.

“Every year that is our goal is to get to state,” Ricks said. “This year I think that it is more attainable. We know what we have to do to get that done.”

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During senior Alexis Boyd’s decorated Northwest track career, she has been nothing but a proven model of consistency for the Bearcats.

“Even from the time she (Boyd) was a freshman, she came in and she bought into the program,” assistant coach Emily Peterson said. “She knew, ‘hey this is what I want to do, I’m going to do what you guys tell me to do, and I’m going to do it to the best of my abilities.’”

In what has been her final season in indoor track, Boyd has found a way to finalize her Bearcat career in an impressive fashion. Earlier this year, during the Nebraska Tune-Up, Boyd ran the 400-meter dash and finished with the time of 56.08, good for best all-time in school history. Just a week after setting the school record for the 400-meter dash, Boyd ran the 200-meter dash in 25.21, which stands as the second all-time.

After a year of conquering unprecedented achievements and a strong showing at the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association Championships, Boyd will now turn her attention to the Indoor Track National Championships. Boyd will be racing in the 400-meter dash at the competition. To get an invitation to the Championships, Boyd had to meet certain qualifications and she met those by running a time of 56.81 seconds at conference. With Boyd earning a spot, she will have the chance to go head-to-head with some

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Senior Alexis Boyd qualified for the Indoor Track National Championships after finishing in fourth place, posting a time of 56.81 at the MIAA Championships March 1. Boyd will begin competition at nationals in Birmingham, Alabama March 13.

of the best runners in the country.

“She’s still got some things to learn about racing in certain circumstances, but those things you only get through experience,” head coach

Scott Lorek said. “She’s gaining that experience because she is now able to compete at that higher level with a different level of athletes.”

At nationals, Boyd will be rac-

ing against stiffer competition but the thought of that should not phase her. Boyd has proven that with her hard work and dedication that she is among the nation’s elite and should

Senior Taylor Gard practices her driving skills during practice at Mozingo Lake Golf Course Mar. 6 in preparation for the 2015 season.

be considered as such.

“Her fall training leading up into the season was one of the best falls that she had ever had,” Peterson said.

“It was one of the toughest falls that we’ve had training-wise just because of the talent we have in our 400-group, especially.”

With the field of the Indoor National Championship set, Boyd will be the only representative from the Northwest women’s track team that will compete at the event. Boyd will start the race at the 17th position; the position of the runners are based off of their times at their conference championships. If Boyd finishes the 400-meter dash with a time in the top-8, she will then advance to the finals.

This is not the first time Boyd has made an appearance in the NCAA Championships. Last year, Boyd and the 4x4 team competed in the event. With this year being Boyd’s second go-around in the National Championship, she will have experience on her side, experience that could give her the upper-hand against other runners.

“Nationals is in Alabama and the Bearcats have done really well in Alabama, so I’m really looking forward to it,” Boyd said. “It’s awesome, I am really excited to be able to represent Northwest.”

Boyd races in the 400-meter dash preliminary round March 13, at 5 p.m.

If Boyd qualifies for the finals, she will race March 14, at 4:45 p.m.

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Springtime is almost here, which means it is time for the Northwest golf team to wipe the dust off the clubs and hit the golf course.

For the Bearcats, spring means competition is right around the corner. The problem is, Maryville weather seems to have forgotten it is spring.

Due to weather conditions, the Northwest golf team has not been able to practice outside. Head coach Andy Peterson says this could cause some problems in its

season opener March 9.

“It is going to take us a while to get going. Golf is repetitive, and the girls have been swinging, but they have been inside so they have not been able to see their ball travel,” Peterson said.

“Obviously, this weekend probably will not be great. If it is good, we will be very pleased. When it is your first tournament outside you have to have realistic expectations.”

Distance could be a problem for some of the golfers because of the problems Peterson just stated. The spring season differs from the fall season because in the fall, the golfers have had all summer to practice outside and work on their game.

“At the end of the spring season you are playing pretty well, but the beginning of the season is different,” Peterson said. “You do not have that experience outside, the comfortabili-

ty with your game, where you are able to fine tune things.”

Spring is also the championship season for the Northwest golf team.

What the team works for all year is the MIAA tournament at the end of the season.

In golf, it is easy to lose composure after a couple of bad shots.

Peterson says the main thing he has been focusing on with his team during the offseason is the mental aspect of the game.

“You are not going to hit great shots all the time. You are going to have a bad shot somewhere,” Peterson said. “Accept it, take it as a challenge, and get yourself out of trouble.”

Peterson is still in his first year as head coach for the Northwest golf team after being hired for the position in July. The learning curve is starting to straighten itself out as Peterson re-

alizes what works and what does not.

One area Peterson said he has improved in is scheduling tournaments for the spring season. He said during the fall he did not quite understand when to schedule tournaments and how much time he should leave in between tournaments. This semester, Peterson said the schedule should be more favorable for his team.

“Talking with the girls during one-on-one meetings, a lot of them said that they needed a little more time for practice between tournaments,” Peterson said. “Ashley Powers had two or three weeks in a row where she was playing really well, but if we would have been able to work on a couple of things, how much better could it have been?”

Senior golfer Ashley Powers said she has been working on certain as-

pects of her game in the offseason, and the extra time between tournaments will benefit her tremendously.

“I have really been working on my short game, just trying to keep it steady and to keep it where it was when I left off in the fall season,” Powers said. “Having the time between tournaments to practice what we did not do as well in the last tournament will help us going into our next tournament a lot.”

The Northwest golf team opened up the spring season March 9 in Edmond, Oklahoma, at the Diffee Ford Lincoln Invitational.

The Bearcats finished 11th out of 14 teams participating. Senior Taylor Gard shot back-to-back rounds of 80, good for 29th overall.

Senior Ashley Powers was the next highest finisher for the Bearcats, placing 55 in Oklahoma.

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