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Protesters gather near the Ferguson Police Department, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Missouri’s governor ordered hundreds more state militia into Ferguson on Tuesday, after a night of protests and rioting over a grand jury’s decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, a case that has inflamed racial tensions in the U.S.

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ar zone. This term has been used to describe farreaching places that are going through devastating and violent wars. America has been devoid of war fought on the homeland for the majority of its history. However, the term war zone has been used to describe the sights, sounds and feelings one experiences when setting foot on the streets of Ferguson.

“It felt like I had stepped back into the times of the Civil War,” said senior

Corey Tabb Jr. when describing the scene of his hometown.

This feeling of a war-torn battleground was what many Bearcats returned home to for their Thanksgiving break.

Freshman Robert Barnes said the media coverage did not cover half of what was seen in the area and the feeling of the damage is prevalent everywhere. He said no matter where you turn, you can see the effects of the destruction.

“The brunt of the damage was on West Florissant Avenue, but there was damage all over Ferguson,”

Barnes said. “For instance, a coffee shop by where I live was destroyed.

You would think that some things would be left alone. I mean, why destroy a coffee shop? But, apparently no one was safe.”

Junior Courtney Powell watched the entire scene unfold the night of the decision and was overcome with emotion at what she saw.

“The whole situation was sad,” Powell said. “When I saw the decision and what happened, I called my mom and cried.”

Powell said seeing the events caused enough fear that she pushed

back her trip home a day.

“We wanted to give the city a day to calm down,” Powell said. “My friend and I drove home, and we said that we would rather go anywhere but home for the holidays.”

With all of this in mind, she said she was still not prepared for what she actually saw.

“It was still very shocking coming home,” Powell said. “West Florissant was a way I had commonly took home, but now, it was destroyed and closed down.”

These three all described the same thing: Destruction. Sophomore

Myles McIntyre encountered a similar scene and worried this entire situation will deter business.

“Some of those businesses won’t even return,” McIntyre said. “Because the entire area has become a high risk area.”

Barnes compares the town to something one would see in the Middle East.

“We’ve had Palestinian men and women come to our churches and explain how to make homemade gas masks,” Barnes said.

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Student details realities of living with disability CHRIS ROUSH News Editor | @ChrisRoush30

For Devin Williams, life at Northwest is a little different than it is for other students. He enjoys spending time with his family, friends and loves to watch mixed martial arts. The only difference for Williams is that he is legally blind.

Williams, blind since birth, was diagnosed with Coloboma, an eye abnormality that occurs before birth, with retinal disease when he was two years old. Colobomas are missing pieces of tissue in the structures that form the eye.

The disease is related to Williams’ kidneys, and his enlarged left kidney does not work and his right kidney works at 90 to 95 percent function.

“I wasn’t born with an optic nerve in my left eye,” Williams said. “It was removed when I was six. In my right eye, I have Coats’ disease, and is caused from retinal detachment.”

Coats’ disease is a very rare congenital, non-hereditary eye disorder that causes full or partial blindness.

Besides eye related issues, Williams has to watch the amount of soda he drinks because of the kidney failure that accompanies the disease.

However, from a vision standpoint, he is still able to see objects and people up close.

“Being legally blind would be, maybe like, having astigmatism, you have to wear glasses. My version of it is having to walk around with my cane and feel for things in front of me,” Williams said. “I can see, but my range isn’t that far. I can see big things, but I can’t tell people from that far away.”

Eventually Williams’ vision will disappear completely, but for now he can still see shapes, colors, shadows and people up close.

However, Williams is not letting this disease hold him back. He loves to follow mixed martial arts which allows him to escape from the daily grind of classes and homework.

“I like to look at some of the stuff

they do,” Williams said. “I am a big Randy Couture fan. I like Anderson Silva and there’s a good 40 or so people that I watch.”

When Williams was deciding on a future profession, he had to think of something that would not limit him because of his disease. His answer: radio.

“Mainly because when I listened to it, it was like a job that no one can deny me for,” Williams said. “You don’t have to look at the radio to see what is going on. It is strictly listening and behind the microphone, unless I said something about it, no one would know my eye condition, and I would be viewed as normal.”

At Northwest, the radio practicum falls under first-year teacher Phil Beskid. He said the department will help Williams and make the needed adjustments to make sure Williams is able to continue to his education.

While William can’t see completely, Beskid said this will not hinder his dreams of working for the radio.

“It gives you a platform to send out your message, whatever that might be, you want to be creative by producing radio drops and that’s one aspect that you can really express yourself,” Beskid said. “The other is turning on the microphone, and being able to express your opinion or improve the knowledge base of your listeners.

“I think it’s also beneficial for a student with a disability; no one knows there is any type of vision issue.

It’s really just a place where you won’t be judged and he can still get out his message, however he wants to.”

While Williams is an underclassman and still has a while before graduation, he is already thinking of ways he can spread his message through a career in radio. He believes people should fully understand someone’s abilities before making assumptions.

“I want people to make sure they know someone’s condition, and how much they see before you start generalizing and placing them into a category,” Williams said. “People are different, people with different eye

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Despite being able to see shapes and colors, Williams still requires a walking stick to assist him on campus.

diseases that are worse than mine are constantly helped and they may not want all the help.”

Williams said that there are schools and classes that help individuals who can’t see be able to wash clothes and do dishes.

The only thing that Williams can’t do is drive, but he is able to read messages on his phone, and if he can’t read something he enlarges the print or turns on the voice command.

A graduate of Lee Summit North High School, Williams had a tough decision when it came to finding a

college. He says the small-town atmosphere at Northwest helps him feel comfortable.

In his first semester at Northwest, Williams joined the fraternity Phi Delta Theta. Williams says family is an important part of his life and joining a fraternity made him feel at home.

“I really wanted something to do that I can rely on a group of people and I went to an event that they (Phi Delta Theta) were hosting and all of the guys treated me like I was normal.”

While being in a fraternity and working toward a degree, Williams

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always remembers a special individual that was always there for him.

“I’m very close to my mom. My mom has raised me on her own since she was 16,” Williams said. “She has adapted and raised me.”

Williams knew people would treat him differently because he couldn’t complete see, but he says that people shouldn’t be treated any differently just because they have a disability.

“I’ve always wanted people to treat me the same way that they would treat other people,” he said.

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New fitness center appeals to students JAMES HENDERSON III Chief Reporter | @jendersoniii

Students noticing the fences going up along the Flag Plaza are witnessing the beginning construction on a $4 million recreation center, which is set to be finished fall 2015.

This new center was planned and approved last year. Vice President of Student Affairs Matt Baker said that this facility was built in response to needs that have been expressed by the Student Senate and other students.

“We are building this to meet student needs,” Baker said. “We have a fitness center that has been overcrowded for many years now and we know that students expect this kind of facility coming into college. It also capitalizes on space that we have not been using.”

Baker said that this facility will consist of two classrooms, exercise equipment and weight training equipment. Baker said that a lot went into the planning of this facility.

“We used input from the manager of the current fitness center,” Baker said. “We had faculty input as well as student input from members of the Student Senate. We had other input from

the architecture company we worked with. We also went to other campuses and looked at their facilities, and got some ideas from them.”

Another aspect of this fitness center that will be different than the current weight training facilities is the fact that the cost to use this center will be built into tuition. Students will not be required to pay separately to get into this facility. Sophomore Jon Strickland said that he is excited about the new rec center as a whole.

“I think it’s great that it will be bigger,” Strickland said. “This means more equipment and less having to wait for a machine or bench to open up.”

He also said that the cost being built into tuition with the current recreation fee is another positive for him.

“I love the fact that it’s now included in tuition,” Strickland said. “It’s much less of a hassle than having to pay for a separate annual pass.”

Dean of Enrollment Management Beverley Schenkel said this will be a good recruitment tool.

“The students coming out of high school, the traditional age freshmen, are very used to being active and having things to do,” Schenkel said. “They want

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The Robert and Virginia Foster Center for Health and Fitness will feature classrooms and equipment at no cost to students.

to continue that activity in college. So, I think this facility will be important to them being able to do this.”

Baker said he sees this facility generating a lot of popularity with students.

“I think this will be very popular

with students,” Baker said. “We took it to the Student Senate and they approved it unanimously. So I think we will have a lot of student support.”

Overall, Baker said that this will become an important part of campus.

“We’ve had a center for years, but it’s small and costs money,” Baker said.

“This new facility will allow for students to gather and focus on their wellness. I think this will also be good for academics.”

Bar owner purchases food truck

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Ever since Erik Schreiber bought The Palms, the establishment has seen major changes, such as a new sign, new decor,live music, but Schreiber is looking into changing the dining experience of his customers as well.

The kitchen of the Palms will be no more as of Jan. 2; instead, a food truck will be stationed outside the palms for customers. According to Schreiber, the elimination of the kitchen should make the bar more inviting.

“The truck was an aesthetic choice as well, because when you walk in, it’s a big wall, It didn’t look friendly. We are going to tear that out and turn it into a raised upstage area,” Schreiber said. “This is a good option, because now we can have all new stuff; it can be mobile, too, and put it outside.”

Schreiber also considers the addition of the food truck a public service as it could curtail drunk driving for late night munchies, and could serve as a good downtown food answer.

“This can be a light food option for people who don’t think about eating until they leave the bar, and with it being mobile we could do some local stuff and some catering type stuff,” Schreiber said. “The students are a huge part of the town. I am here to give people options and I want to make people safe, rather than having them drive across town.”

The truck will be a self-proclaimed “Wiener Wagon” that will sell hot dogs, brats, Italian sausages and other similar foods, along with the still popular items from the original menu. Schreiber stated the menu is not set in stone, and will change based on popularity and season.

“The good thing about this is the menu will revolve and evolve over time. We are going to flip and flop it,” Schreiber said. “Depending on what is working, and if people love some-

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Some students have a wait-andsee philosophy about the new food truck. A regular patron of The Palms, Junior Chris Hiatt thinks the idea could be harmful for business.

“I think it would be a deep regression. I like the way they have it,” Hiatt said. “ I’ll try it. I just hope they stay true to most of the food they have.”

Schreiber wants this endeavor to succeed, not just for his business but for The Palms to be a staple of Maryville.

“I want us to be able to get a call from a party, pull up, everybody gets food, everybody is safe,” Schreiber said. “That is my angle with it.”

The “Wiener Wagon” is looking to launch in 2015 after students come back from break. Removal of the kitchen will begin Jan. 2, in order to give the kitchen a last hurrah and begin a new chapter of The Palms Bar and Grill.

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Criminals found guilty in misdemeanor and felony cases in Nodaway County will now pay a little extra for their crime.

The Nodaway County Commission enacted an ordinance that raises offender-paid cost by four dollars. Before the ordinance was enacted, criminals found guilty in misdemeanor will now pay $120.50. The extra dollars serve as an additional stream of revenue for the local abuse shelter, Children and Family Center of Northwest Missouri.

Muriel Zimmerman, Executive Director of the Children and Family Center, shares her plans for the extra income.

“This money will go toward all of our operating expenses, so to any of the services we offer,” Zimmerman said.

“We do not know how many court cases there are a year and how much this will impact us financially, but we do know that every little bit helps us. We are completely dependent on federal and state grants, donations from individuals, service clubs, organizations and churches who support us.”

Nodaway County Prosecutor Bob Rice, who proposed the surcharge, is very passionate about the added charges and who it will serve.

“Funds are drying up, and we needed to be able to find additional revenue streams for them,” Rice said “They are all operating that shelter on a shoestring budget. They run a tight ship, and what we are trying to do is keep this very necessary, and important, program open in Northwest Missouri.”

Rice said he also sees this extra

four dollars as crime prevention; he hopes in some cases it will break the cycle of violence.

“I believe this is the best way of crime prevention. To give victims a place to go, a reason to get out of the abusive relationship,” Rice said. “I see the horrors of crime regenerates through teaching young children ... If we can stop domestic abuse now so those children aren’t exposed to it, then there is a chance of stopping it from happening in the future.”

Zimmerman said last year the shelter served 717 victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, and last month alone they served 59. The shelter offers services such as a 24-hour hotline, support groups, crisis management, case management, shelter and advocacy. The shelter serves the counties of Nodaway, Atchison, Holt, Gentry and Worth.

Zimmerman said the extra money holds offenders accountable for their crime.

“These dollars from the criminal cases are holding that person accountable for the crime they committed,” Zimmerman said. “It does not cost taxpayers anything. It is completely dependent on the court fees of the people who have committed crimes. It makes a statement that crime victims pay for their crime.”

Rice said last year, on a county basis, nearly 400 criminal cases were disposed of. If those numbers hold true again this year he expects to generate close to $1,550 for the shelter.

But Rice said he isn’t stopping here.

“This is only part one of my goal and my project; my next step is to try to persuade the city of Maryville to impose the same four dollars on all municipal court cases,” Rice said.

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Course evaluations provide unreliable data H ow do you know your class is winding down for the semester? Often it’s your disheveled, increasingly disinterested classmates struggling to find the motivation to study for the final. Maybe that due date for all your projects and papers you’ve pushed off is creeping up faster than ever.

However, the dreaded course evaluations students are forced to fill this time of year is a good measuring stick for student apathy.

It’s a shame to see students fill out “strongly agree” on every bubble, even after complaining about a professor all semester.

Most students and professors likely don’t think too much about this monotonous routine at the end of every semester. One can’t deny how easy it is to shrug off these assessments after years of periodic exposure to them. It’s disheartening to know that the students most likely to approach the evaluations earnestly are freshman.

We’ve taken them for granted, but it’s easy to see how unnecessary they are once one thinks about it for more than a few minutes. If no one is being truthful or thorough in these evaluations, how can students expect professors to improve? From a policy standpoint, do administrators take the information they receive from these evaluations seriously?

We tried to get a hold of the Provost’s office to find out what other methods are used to evaluate professors and courses, but were unsuccessful. However, we’d be shocked if there wasn’t some other system in place to evaluate professors. It’s

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One can’t deny how easy it is to shrug off these assessments after years of periodic exposure to them.

hard to imagine any information that would be less useful than that received from the course evaluations.

Surely, the administrators must know that students fill out the documents haphazardly at the very least.

If they aren’t aware, the University administration is clearly disconnected from the classroom. If they are aware of students’ indifference to their evaluation system, why are they wasting time and effort instituting it?

For the sake of the argument, let’s say that students are filling out the assessments sincerely. The data would still be skewed, supporting entertaining and easy professors rather than effective ones.

In a piece in the New York Times in 2012, former professor Stuart Rojstaczer argues that “students often conflate good instruction with pleasant ambience and low expectations.”

In a Washington Post column in 2013, Erik Voeten even points to a few studies that show the evaluations are biased against women professors.

It’s clear that the evaluations don’t work, but what is the alterna-

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tive? Perhaps the University could change to the online system of evaluation that many other colleges have.

Since it’s usually the end of class when the paper bubble sheets are passed out, students are in a rush to fill them out. An online system may allow students to put more thought

into their answers.

Still, much of the blame can be placed on apathetic students who don’t realize the importance of the bubbles they’re filling in every semester. Yes, the evaluations are tedious, but there’s no sense in complaining about a professor if you don’t have

any legitimate, constructive criticism for him or her.

One thing is certain: the evaluation system currently in place must be revamped or eliminated altogether.

Students, professors and administrators deserve a fair, informative evaluation of their courses.

Quitting smoking is easier than many students think JUDY FRUEH University Wellness Center

Nov. 20, was the “Great American Smokeout ” sponsored by the American Cancer Society. The idea was to get people to stop using nicotine of any kind (cigarettes, pipes, cigars, chew, e-cigarettes) at least for a day in the hopes people will stop using nicotine for good.

According to the Centers for Disease Control smoking is responsible for 1 in 3 cancer-related deaths, and 1 in 5 deaths from any cause. Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 5 million deaths per year. Nicotine is addictive, so it can be difficult at first to fight the cravings but many people are successful quitters.

If you are ready to quit the nicotine habit, here are some ideas to assist you.

Set a quit date. Preparing mentally for this date and thinking about the changes that will come with quitting are important. Talk to any quitter: they will tell you the key to success is being ready mentally to quit.

Tell your support group (family, friends, co-workers) your plan to quit. These people can help encourage and support you. If you can find someone who wants to quit with you,

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Ferguson decision, protests are bigger than just Michael Brown CARLTON WILCOXSON Contributing Columnist

Let’s face it, people on this campus are probably tired of hearing about Ferguson. My goal in this piece is not to make anyone choose a side, but to make my fellow peers think.

Students on this campus may not have been born and raised in St. Louis, nor are involved in multicultural organizations on campus. I can understand how relating to people and causes that don’t directly connect with you can be difficult, especially when the media shoves it down everyone’s throat through news, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Seriously, you can’t go anywhere without Ferguson being brought up in one form or another. So why should you care?

On the surface level it can look like “a bunch of black people being mad at a white guy.” There is a bigger issue here. In the past two years, two unarmed civilians, who happened to be black, were killed because of fear.

In the Trayvon Martin case, George

Zimmerman claimed that he feared for his life in a scuffle with a teenage boy and ultimately killed him.

Darren Wilson also claimed that he feared for his life and ultimately felt the need to kill an unarmed teenager after an altercation. Surely Mike Brown is the only person in the United States who has resisted an arrest or had an altercation with an officer, right? Even in those cases, do officers have the authority to kill a person for those actions?

It begs the question, who exactly was Darren Wilson protecting and serving that day? A boy died. A boy died over a scuffle. A scuffle that was over a stolen product that cost less than $2.

I understand that officers’ jobs are dangerous and that cops put their lives on the line every day. Honestly, how would you feel if an officer shot a fellow Bearcat for being belligerent, back-talking and scuffling with Maryville’s finest after leaving the bars? Under the recent court ruling that said officer would have grounds to shoot because they felt threatened, I, for one, don’t feel protected.

I write this piece so that those

reading it can actually gain some perspective, which is something that CNN, FOX, or MSNBC doesn’t display. What is the value of a civilian life in America? Under what grounds can a trained and experienced authority shoot an unarmed, untrained citizen?

And whose words will ultimately hold more value under the law?

What is done, is done. No one will ever truly know what happened that day in Ferguson. I suspect that a lot of peers at Northwest will carry on with life Yik-Yaking, tweeting, and watching the Walking Dead … until an issue like this (most likely) happens again.

Related Content: Students from ferguson reflect on protests A1: Chief Reporter James Henderson III speaks with Northwest students from Ferguson about the grand jury decision and the subsequent protests.

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Anticipate challenges and plan for these challenges. What will you do when you have cravings? Do you have another activity to replace the nicotine? Gum, sucking on straws, stress balls, exercise and journaling have all been found to be beneficial to someone breaking a habit.

Remove all the nicotine, lighters, matches and ashtrays from your home, car and work. No emergency pack. Have faith in yourself. You can do this.

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The rubbles of a burned down beauty salon litter the ground as Randy White walks by the damage from last night’s protests, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Overnight protests following a grand jury’s decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the killing of Michael Brown were far more destructive than any of those that followed Brown’s Aug. 9 death, with more than a dozen businesses badly damaged or destroyed.

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“You never realize how bad it is until it happens to you. Then you realize it can happen to anyone, anywhere.”

They describe the relationship between the police and the civilians as one that is deteriorating.

“They think that every police officer is doing something wrong,” Tabb said. “They believe that they are constantly being watched by the police on every corner.”

McIntyre said that this is not a new phenomenon. According to him, distrust of the police is common.

“This just made it worse,” he said.

Barnes said that the police influence feels nothing like it did before.

“I used to walk down the street and maybe see officers lounging around and talking outside of businesses,” Barnes said. “Now you can’t go to a stop light without seeing a big Humvee with the spinning blue light on top. It felt like we were being occupied. They’re always there.”

Barnes argues that citizens should not cast judgment over officers entirely.

“The thinking that all cops are the same and lumping them into that group is arguably the same mindset that got Michael killed, just in reverse,” Barnes said. “Not all of them assisted in pulling that trigger.”

He said that there is a fear that has developed on each side of the issue, and while the argument to be fearful of each other is valid, people should give careful consideration to their attitudes.

“You can’t gas just one person,” he said. “If you’re an activist, protester, rioter or anarchist, if you’re in the group, you’re going to get gassed.

But, on the other side, there are cops out there just trying to do their jobs, protect businesses and return to their families. They’re in danger too.”

Each student describes a divide that has been built between the police, civilians and the different racial groups. However, they are all hopeful that this will not last long.

“I have a feeling that they all will come together,” Tabb said. “I

think that maybe by Christmas and definitely by New Year’s, the city will come together and try and fix itself, together.”

However, for Thanksgiving at least, the division is there. For Powell, this did not affect the festivities inside her home. She said the situation at home was the same as it had always been. The focus for her was being around family. The same goes for McIntyre. He said the prospect of seeing family who he did not get to see all the time overshadowed any problem happening outside of his home.

Tabb said his Thanksgiving was normal, other than the constant drone of the news stations in the background. He also noticed that his parents were more hesitant to allow him to leave.

As he had previously predicted, Barnes’ home was filled with a higher level of tension.

“Things that were commonplace before were things I could not get away with after,” Barnes said. “I used to go running, but that can’t be allowed anymore. My dad didn’t want me to go out at night and neither did my mom. But, I did when I participated in the protests and we had a big argument about that.”

Barnes described what it was like to be in the middle of one of the peaceful protests.

“We were banded together on the sidewalk (in front of the Ferguson police station),” Barnes said. “Between us and the station was the National Guard and police officers with their guns trained on us. They began arresting people, even though the law saying you can’t stand somewhere for more than five seconds was abolished. They arrested specific people in the group and the crowd dispersed.”

Each of these students say they agree the destruction caused by the riots was devastating. Powell said the sights of buildings being destroyed she once visited regularly was too much to handle. She agrees with McIntyre in the fact that a majority of these buildings will not return.

However, there is a discrepancy among the group as to whether or not the riots were warranted. McIntyre represented the majority of the group by saying these riots were not needed.

“Why would you purposefully destroy your own community?”

McIntyre said.

He said that he could understand the need for the peaceful protests and said he supported them. He sympathised with the anger that the rioters felt, but believed that violence was not the answer.

The day after the decision was passed down, President Obama delivered a speech about immigration in Chicago. However, he began his speech by addressing the events in Ferguson and had a message for the rioters.

“I have never heard of a civil rights bill being passed because a car was burned,” Obama said.

McIntyre said he agrees with this statement and believes it is a message that the rioters need to receive. However, Barnes disagrees with both McIntyre and the president.

Before the decision was passed down, Barnes described the rioters as opportunists and said they were detrimental to the cause. Following the decision, however, Barnes sympathised with the rioters and said he agreed with their stance. He said he felt the time for peaceful protests were over.

“We marched; and we held hands;

and we sang; and we prayed, and we did whatever we could, only to receive the same decision we would have had we not at all,” Barnes said. “What we are seeing is the physical manifestation of how people feel.”

Barnes said his main problem with the decision was that the injustice happened legally; due process was upheld and Wilson was not convicted. Barnes said this is what is driving the destruction, even if it is of their own community.

“On one hand, you see all of this destruction that is illegal in nature, and you condemn it because it is our own community,” Barnes said. “But, on the other hand, they feel the legal system failed us. So, they have to work outside of it to get a response.”

While Barnes said he has both positive and negative feelings toward the riots, he said it is important that the people of the area are not silenced; that they do not allow this situation to lose its relevance.

Right or wrong, there is a general consensus the events that went down in Ferguson will be remembered in

history. Tabb, Powell, Barnes and McIntyre all declared this is something that will not soon be forgotten.

They believe that these events will go down in infamy with the LA and Watch riots. The question that remains with each of them is whether or not this will lead to change. They all believe it will, but, Barnes is worried about what it will mean if there is no change.

“If there is legal change, this will be a hallmark and remembered fondly,” Barnes said. “If not, this will haunt Ferguson and be kind of a grim reminder of how this was all for naught .”

The students agree that it is too soon to tell whether the nation will take anything away from this event in history, other than the rioting.

All that can be known now is there is a lot to rebuild in both the city and in the relationships of the people. The students say all of this will be weighing on their minds as they prepare to end this semester at Northwest and prepare for a month back home. A home that has been described as, a war zone.

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ou can find him at football games, basketball games and parades, and he’s always got a high-five ready for the little ones.

Northwest’s mascot, Bobby the Bearcat, came to fruition in the 1970’s and over the decades has transformed into the mascot we all know and love.

Bobby is known for accompanying the cheerleaders while cheering on teams, but being Bobby is more than simply putting on a suit. Chris Andrews, a Northwest alum and former cheerleading coach, worked in the Northwest Athletic Department from 1999 to 2004 and oversaw the mascot as part of the spirit program.

“We had so many events, it was hard to get him everywhere he needed to go,” Andrews said. “One of the things I loved about it was the level of excitement that people got when they saw him. Kids immediately ran to him with open arms. It was all about the families, all about the kids ... people were proud when you saw him.

“I’d like to think the guys I knew who were in Bobby represented him very well and represented the University very well.”

During Andrews’ time with the University, two of the students he oversaw were Brandon Stanley and Shawn Emerson. Although the pair characterized Northwest values and school spirit, Stanley admitted to having more than a little fun with it.

“I think we probably got ourselves into some trouble because we were like, ‘let’s go cause mischief,” Stanley said, laughing. “It was, literally, just put this thing on and go have fun.

A 2001 Northwest graduate, Stanley spent several seasons in the suit.

“I had met Sean my freshman year and the interaction and stuff he had with people, the kids, made me want to do it,” he said. “We had become good friends and it was something I decided I wanted to do.”

Interaction with families and children was a huge factor for Stanley during his time as Bobby.

“I think that was the biggest part for us,” he explained. “I think we just really enjoyed the little ones – seeing them, and waving. It was probably my favorite part, going out and high-fiving the kids. We had a good amount of interaction with our students but for the most part, the kids was what we enjoyed out of it.”

Emerson seconded the emotion, explaining that, while Bobby is key for the college setting, “it’s about the kids and the old people.”

“The kids love you; the chance to go to Horace Mann and visit with them, the chance to do parades and for me, I walked the parade, I didn’t ride in a firetruck ... to see the kids and get pictures with them back then,

it was something I take from Northwest as one of my favorite memories,” Emerson said.

Andrews made a point of community interaction during his time with Bobby, mostly due to the mascot’s impact on the University’s appearance.

“I think the mascot, obviously, exudes school spirit,” he said. “It just portrays school spirit and ... it’s kind of nice to be able to (see Bobby) when you’re looking at a game or a parade.

“It was good marketing for the University. When you think of Nodaway County and how Nodaway County looks at Northwest, we thought it was important to have Bobby in those schools and those communities so our University would be highly looked upon.”

Stanley and Emerson, at times, had a different view of representing Northwest.

“I think I remember the first time ever being Bobby was, like, at a volleyball game, and there were like 12 people at the game, and I’m sitting there thinking, ‘what am I getting myself into?’” Emerson said. “But I did it for four more years, and my first two years, we went back to back national championships.”

On the other hand, one of Stanley’s most memorable moments includes a more painful event – breaking an arm while in character.

“It was during basketball, and it was a playoff game here against Central Missouri,” Stanley said. “We had this stuffed mule – we had these props we’d use, silly stuff we’d try and come up with. We just came out on fire and it was, like, 31-8, everyone was kind of bored but it was awesome because we were winning.”

During halftime, Stanley decided to hype the fans back up with a leap from the score tables onto the stuffed mule. He also admitted to being “a bit of a hotshot” because his then-girlfriend, now wife’s, father was seated directly behind the tables.

“We’d just gotten new score tables, and I told Chris, ‘I bet I could jump off that onto this thing.’ He said, ‘you’re an idiot, don’t do that,’ and I said I was totally going to,” Stanley said.

After successfully climbing on the table, Stanley tossed the mule onto the floor. It landed nearby, and Stanley thought the deed manageable – until an assistant basketball coach kicked the mule out farther. Already that far in, Stanley had to commit.

“So I jump out really far, I get up, apparently it looked pretty awesome, and I just went, bam,” he said. “I knew right away I’d broken my arm, so I pinned the thing up, threw it because I was mad and just walked off But I completely sold it.”

Telling the story with laughter now, Stanley said the funniest part was after breaking it, he was required to go to the athletic trainer to rehabilitate his arm.

“I had to go to the training room

... there are tables set up, it’d be a football lineman, football lineman, basketball guy, me, football lineman,” Stanley said. “And they’re looking at me like, ‘who the hell are you?’ and I was like, ‘don’t worry about it.’”

Though Stanley was able to simply fill in for someone who graduated, Andrews began a rather rigid process for the opportunity to be Bobby. The few who wanted that opportunity were given tryouts where Andrews looked for specific assets.

“What we were looking for in those tryouts, and what we wanted Bobby to be was – again, you have to think of it as seeing it through a kid’s eyes,” Andrews said. “(You) have your Bobbys be fairly similar in height ... and we had what we used to call the Bobby Walk. The idea was whoever’s in the costume, Bobby’s Bobby.”

Andrew explained it was ideal to have the mascot sporting the same mannerisms despite the person running it, especially for their younger audience.

“Back before they streamed the games, I remember . . . they’d put it on a VHS tape and put it on in the Union, and I’d see myself and say, ‘oh hey, that’s a good Bobby Walk,’” Stanley recalled with a smile.

Besides the signature strut, a significant amount of preparation came before the guys could take the field as Bobby. This included exercise and drinking Gatorade for two days before a game to compensate for the coming dehydration.

“As soon as you get in the thing, you become a sweaty mess,” Stanley said. “At first, we would get sick, you know, doing the pushups and stuff. It was pretty taxing on your body.”

While Stanley and Andrews both left behind their Bobby days, Emerson still participates as the Kansas City Chiefs’ mascot, KC Wolf, one of his inspirations during his collegiate mascot days.

“When I was Bobby, I learned from a guy, Jacob DePetrie, and he kind of has a different personality than I think Bobby has now,” Emerson said. “Just kind of the fun-loving jokester, the fun personality; I always watched KC Wolf – as a mascot, you watch others – and it’s kind of the same personality and temperament, and I tried to do the same thing.”

Despite a lackluster beginning to his Bobby career, his four years as Northwest’s endearing mascot were more fulfilling.

“Getting to follow a very successful basketball team, there was a lot of pride and a lot of alumni that support Northwest,” he said. “Being Bobby, you get to meet a lot of those people ... I still go back, and I know exactly where they’ll be sitting 12, 13 years later.”

The individual behind the mask may change at each event and the fans may grow up, but something that won’t be changing anytime soon is what Bobby the Bearcat embodies: Once a Bearcat, Always a Bearcat.

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It is safe to say parents, siblings or friends have coerced us into watching the iconic “Jurassic Park,” and some of us probably even liked it. Excitement should be coursing through the hearts of fans when the trailer for “Jurassic World” released Nov. 25.

Set 22 years after the original 1993 movie, Jurassic Park has been functioning without a hitch for the last decade. However, science is bound to intervene when the attendance declines. As all fans know, that’s where the problems begin.

These people never learn to leave well enough alone. Genetic mutations can go a couple of different ways, but they always seem like bad ideas in this franchise. Who doesn’t want a 30-foot killer reptile running around an amusement park full of puny, de-

fenseless humans to munch on?

The plot to the movie is introduced after the initial set-up in the two and a half minutes. Kids enjoy the park’s many futurist amenities in a prehistoric setting and families bond over the commercialization of genetic testing and mutations. What in the world could possible go wrong? Maybe, meddling with animals higher up on the food chain, which to point out were extinct for a reason, will solve all of the park’s problems. Right?

As far as the trailer reveals, the attractive genetic scientist flubs up and makes a highly intelligent dinosaur mutant that wrecks havoc on the park. In her defense, she had decent intentions; just terrible execution. I’m sure she didn’t see any problems in making a dinosaur smarter than the humans that made it, but that’s just the way the cookie crumbles in this upcoming sequel.

Naturally, every plot needs a hero. Star Lord, I mean, Chris Pratt comes in with his gunslinger gorgeousness to save the day. He may not have the brains of a genetic

scientist, but he obviously has the common sense to see the possible outcomes of this new species.

Besides the hero aspect, there’s something very sexy about riding a motorcycle amidst velociraptors.

Obviously, there are some plot holes the full-length movie can fill.

That being said, the special effects should showcase just how far two decades of progress can take cinema.

Having a giant dinosaur jump for his food, which is a shark by the way, makes the “Free Willy” movies look like baby stuff.

While I’m not a die-hard fan, I’m sure I’ll be talked into seeing “Jurassic World” when it debuts June 12, 2015. That gives me a few months to train my nerves into submission for the well-known anxiety the franchise toys with.

If you’re still on the fence about another franchise running their resources dry with sequels, just watch the trailer for “Jurassic World.” It definitely has potential to be the best film out of the “Jurassic Park” series just for the star power and special effects.

“The Smashing Pumpkins” leaks songs from romantic, familiar album

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Although The Smashing Pumpkins is struggling to remain the alternative rock staple it has been for nearly 30 years, frontman Billy Corgan is out to prove the band is not dead yet.

Corgan and guitarist Jeff Schroder are the only permanent members, but the band is determined to push forward by releasing two albums in two years. One of those albums,

“Monuments to an Elegy,” is slated to be released Dec. 9, but four songs have already been posted on YouTube.

The album opens up strong with “Tiberius,” a complete throwback to the band’s original, gritty ‘90s sound with a heavy twist.

The dreamy piano intro is a stark, yet beautiful, contrast to the heavily distorted guitars that rule the majority of the song. Corgan’s memorable, nasally voice has the potential to be annoying and off-putting, but some-

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how it works with the band’s sound.

“Tiberius” is everything a Smashing Pumpkins fan could hope for.

“Tiberius” is followed by “Being Beige,” a generic emo love song complete with acoustic guitars, abrupt, heavier intervals and obscure lyrics. Fans of bands like Yellowcard and Dashboard Confessional will appreciate this one. Personally, it fell a little short.

“Drum + Fife” is a spectacular blend of dream pop, alternative rock

and indie rock.

While “Tiberius” was a nod to the Pumpkins’ early sound, “Drum + Fife” meshes that distorted, alternative sound with a newfound haunting, indie one.

Tommy Lee, drummer of ‘80s metal band Mötley Crüe, filled in on drums for the album. His versatility was exactly what the Smashing Pumpkins needed to create an album that appears to be a perfect example of old sound mixed with new ele-

ments.

“Monuments of an Elegy” sounds like it will be very guitar-heavy, and much the same as previous albums.

Lyrically and instrumentally, Corgan goes in a more romantic direction.

Don’t worry, there’s still plenty of the ‘90s teenage angst you grew up loving. The Pumpkins’ sound hasn’t changed much with “Monuments,” but the album should prove to be more of an expansion on the familiar.

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“The Imitation Game” explores the life of the famed English mathematician, Alan Turing - played by Benedict Cumberbatch - the man best known for breaking the Nazi Enigma Code, which helped bring an end to World War II. The story is interesting, albeit a bit dry at times. There isn’t a whole lot of driving force behind a story of a man who breaks a code, but with what it has, the film makes the best of.

The film unspools as a rather driving spy-mystery drama at times, and these passages, while exciting, feel hyped up. It’s as if the filmmakers didn’t think there was enough commercial appeal to be found in the story of a quiet genius. That may be true, but there’s a tendency in the movie to overdramatize, something emphasized by Alexandre Desplat’s lush, grandiose score. This is one very English, classily-mounted production. A less glossy approach may have better served the material.

The rest of the cast keeps up with Cumberbatch in a supportive nature that is generally strong, but no one else is given the individual dramatic goods to stand at his level. Kiera Knightley has a few strong scenes, but this feels so similar to her previous period drama work that I don’t expect to see too many accolades being thrown her way when all is said and done.

It’s a good film, but a long way from a great one. The story remains emotionally distant and the savagery of what was done to Turing is downplayed to a few lines.

Cumberbatch is good, but never really lets us understand what is either in his heart or his head. Possibly it’s an impossible task, but this movie does not illuminate Alan Turing’s incredible achievements.

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Part of the problem is the structure of the film, which has a backstory of a detective investigating Turing because he believes he is a Soviet double agent, but discovers something else. None of this is made very compelling, it all gets dropped in here and there, which only takes us out of the story. The Imitation Machine does not go into enough depth - narratively or emotionally - to add much to the story.

Overall, “The Imitation Game”

is a good film if you want a dramatic, dialogue heavy story. It is certainly different from many other World War II films, as it focuses on the actions going on behind the scenes. While it’s not a horribly boring movie, it is one you have to be very invested in.

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Welcome to finals week, where finals are nothing like high school end-of-course exams, but more like a week where you don’t know what sleep, food or hygiene really is.

It’s the time when teachers want to “test” you to see if you could really remember what has been crammed in your head over the last few weeks.

So, here are some tips for finals week: 1. Study. Study the insides of bottles, the squirrels that are frolicking on campus, the ceiling. Study the inside of your nose in a mirror because how often do you really get to do that?

Just study. Trust me, it’ll be worth it.

2. Do not go out every night and drink. In fact, don’t wait for night.

Start as early as 9 a.m. The only rea-

son 8 a.m. is out of the picture is because who the hell is up that early?

3. Try to get plenty of rest. Everyone is always harping about this, but seriously - naps are kind of fantastic.

Nap anywhere and everywhere. That couch really is calling your name, I promise, no matter how much studying you have to do. Also, if you forgot about studying, see point one.

4. Study (or go out) with a group.

It’s way more fun to be a procrastinator if you have other people doing it with you. That way, you don’t feel like such a failure when later you can laugh about it with your friends.

The only problem is when you’re still laughing about it with your friends . . . after nine semesters.

Finals shouldn’t be stressful, but

everyone makes it a stressful week for themselves. Everyone just makes it worse than it needs to be. Remember to breath; everything will be fine.

A few beers help ... but really, just because you got an D, or even a C, doesn’t mean you won’t pass college.

Take it from a person who currently has one F, and one D. You WILL pass ... it is just a matter of how you set your mind to it.

Now go out there and take those finals to the grave. Go get em’ tiger … or more like Bearcat.

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and second-teamer Cole Chevalier helped lead the Bearcats rushing attack to average 229 yards per game.

The future looks bright for the running back position, but they will be losing this season’s leading rusher, Robert Burton III. The California product led the team with nine rushing touchdowns and 695 yards in 2014.

After putting up nearly 200 yards receiving in the first two games of the season, Bryce Young went down with an ankle injury against Missouri Southern Sept. 11, and he never really returned to full strength. Between returning punts and making Wes Welker-like plays, the Bearcats will miss his high-energy leadership and skills.

Northwest will also lose two other All-MIAA wide receivers in Jason Jozaites and Korey Jackson. The duo combined for 77 receptions and 939 yards combined. The combination placed one and two in virtually all receiving statistics.

Call myself or head coach Adam Dorrel crazy, but you can’t brag enough about punter Kyle Goodburn.

He consistently pinned offenses inside the 20, with 69 career punts doing so. He’s another former AllAmerican that will be sorely missed.

I’ve mentioned 12 athletes and I barely scratched the surface. I hope to see a few of them playing Sundays because I can’t get enough of them.

In the words of Dorrel, “If you look from start to finish, the legacy this senior class has left, they’ve left a very strong legacy at Northwest Missouri State and we’re very proud of them.”

CONTINUED FROM A12 These guys were the heart and soul of a defense that allowed only 70 yards rushing per game.

They are headlined by the twotime MIAA Defensive Player of the Year, defensive end Matt Longacre.

What they are losing in Longacre is 30.5 career sacks and four years of contribution, not to mention the 2013 National Defensive Player of the Year.

Then comes the young men that roam the second level of the defense, Eric Reimer and DJ Gnader. They both fly around like killer bees and it seems like either of them are in on every tackle. Gnader led the team in tackles as a freshman and never looked back.

Reimer will leave the Bearcats with 29 career tackles for a loss. The two were both 2013 First Team All-Americans.

The defensive backfield departures are highlighted by Travis Manning and Jared Fox. Manning had a memorable moment against Lindenwood Oct. 11, when he returned a pick-six near his hometown in the St. Louis area. He exits his career racking up eight interceptions, 187 tackles, four years of starting and all-conference honors.

While the Bearcats did not get the results they wanted Oct. 18, against Pitt State, Fox will be remembered for his three picks that game, as well as his weekly hammer hits.

It’s hard finding statistics on offensive linemen, but unanimous first team All-MIAA selection CJ Keeney

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CONTINUED FROM A12 “If we start out slow like that, it’s not going to be a dead even score,” Wallace said. “We’re going to be down by 15 instead of even with them. I think that’s got to be in our head when we’re getting warmed up and everything. We can’t keep taking (them) for granted for their level or record or anything like that.”

McCollum said his team looked asleep throughout the Graceland and credited that to coming off the big time Drury win.

“Regardless of why, you can’t

have those slip ups,” McCollum said.

“You got to be ready for practice, you got to be ready for games, you got to be ready every single day so that when it comes postseason, you have confidence in the fact that you’re going to be ready. Because if you have one slip up in postseason, you’re done. That’s what you’re preparing for, for postseason. “ … I think you probably get more out of that game not playing well than you did if you won by 50. You can say OK ‘you’re not that good.’ If you play well, you play with energy, you are good. You can beat the No. 4 team. If you play with a lack of energy, you can lose to an NAIA team.”

Coming into the Emporia State

game, Northwest had won its last five games, scoring more than 80 points per game and shooting a combined 49 percent from the field. Wallace recognized the team’s early success but wanted to send a message to the underclassmen that MIAA play is a different animal.

“Some of the first games we played were against NAIA teams,” Wallace said. “I don’t want to say they were easy, some of them were bigger wins than others and they could be nervous. It’s like going into postseason games. It’s a lot faster. It’s a lot more physical and stuff like that so that could be different for them. But I think after the first five, ten minutes we’ll be fine.”

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Lorek expects Wick Cunningham to be one of the best runners on the track team coming into the season. He said that Wick Cunningham is really a student of the sport – one who he can even discuss training ideas with.

“He is so dedicated and committed to the sport,” Lorek said. “He’s smart about training and he knows his body. That’s a trait you usually only see in older runners.”

Wick Cunningham has enjoyed his time at Northwest so far because of the amount of support he gets from everyone in town and on campus. He also enjoys how his team has become a family and is looking forward to taking more than just one runner to nationals in the future.

When asked about some of his fondest memories, Wick Cunningham smiled and started to reminisce of his first meet.

“I don’t know how I remember what time I got,” Wick Cunningham said. “At that age I had no idea what the time meant but for some reason I remember it really well.”

Wick Cunningham won his first meet at the age of nine. He ran the 3K course in just 12:36.

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No. 6 Central Missouri..........7-0 NORTHWEST........................5-1 Central Oklahoma.................7-2 Emporia State......................4-2 Fort Hays St........................4-2 Lindenwood.........................4-2 Nebraska-Keareny.................2-1 Missouri Southern................5-3 Missouri Western.................3-3 Pittsburg St.........................3-4 Southwest Baptist................3-4 Washburn...........................3-5 Lincoln...............................3-6 Northeastern St...................1-5

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Through his short college career, Wick Cunningham says his favorite memory was the conference meet and the great team effort that everyone put forth.

With his relaxed demeanor outside of races, it is ironic that the game plan for nationals for Wick Cunningham is to “get after it.”

“Wick has established himself as a gutsy runner,” Lorek said. “He’s going to go out there and put it on the line. He won’t be afraid or timid, because thats not who he is.”

Lorek emphasized that they will not have a plan in place that involves Wick Cunningham holding anything back. Lorek made it clear that he will be getting after it and hopefully will reach a top 40 spot, which will result in All-American status.

“It’s going to be cool to go to a new course,” Wick Cunningham said.

“I don’t want to race for anything less than 40th. I’m going to put myself in position to be an All-American.”

Wick Cunningham will race Saturday, Dec. 6, in Louisville, Kentucky.

If history and family ties tells us anything, Wick Cunningham has it in him to perform like an All-American this weekend.

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No. 7 Washburn...................6-0 Missouri Southern.................6-0 No. 1 Emporia St..................5-0 Lindenwood.........................5-0 No. 8 Pittsburg St.................8-1 Fort Hays St.........................5-1 Missouri Western..................5-1 No. 21Central Missouri..........5-1 Lincoln................................4-1 Central Oklahoma.................6-2 Southwest Baptist.................3-2 Nebraska-Kearney..................3-3 NORTHWEST.........................3-4 Northeastern St.....................2-3 NORTHWEST at Pittsburg St.

Iowa Wesleyan at NORTHWEST

NORTHWEST at Quincy

Missouri Valley at NORTHWEST

Fort Hays St. at NORTHWEST

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Lafayette............................1-0 Smithville...........................1-0 Benton...............................1-1 Chillicothe...........................1-1 Cameron.............................0-0 Bishop LeBlond....................0-1 Savannah............................0-1 MARYVILLE..........................0-1

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Clarinda at MARYVILLE

Dec. 12

MARYVILLE at Benton

Dec. 15

MARYVILE at East Buchanan

Dec. 16

MARYVILLE at South Harrison

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Chillicothe...........................1-0 Benton...............................1-0 Bishop LeBlond....................1-0 Cameron.............................1-0 Smithville............................1-1 Savannah............................0-0 Lafayette.............................0-1 MARYVILLE..........................0-1

Dec. 9

MARYVILLE at Clarinda

Dec. 15

East Buchanan at MARYVILLE

Dec. 16

MARYVILLE at South Harrison

Dec. 18

Jefferson at MARYVILLE

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SPOOFHOUNDS SPORTS

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Girls basketball drops opener JACOB BLAND Missourian Reporter | @NWMSports

The Spoofhounds girls basketball team are left searching for answers as they were soundly defeated by the Chillicothe Hornets last Tuesday in the Savannah Tournament.

The Spoofhounds (0-1) will look to bounce back against the Central Indians (0-1) in their second game of the tournament tonight.

The matchup between Maryville and Central is unique because the two teams are not used to playing each other.

If Maryville hopes to avoid an 0-2 start, it will have to execute more effectively on both offense and defense, but particularly on offense.

“We’re just not there yet in terms of knowing the offensive goals that we have,” head coach Candace Boeh said.

“What it’s going to take is us going back to the court tomorrow at practice and solidifying those sets and breaking down those fundamentals.”

The Spoofhounds play Central today at 5 p.m.

The Spoofhounds had a difficult time keeping pace with a much bigger, stronger, and faster Chillicothe team opening night. They had limited scoring opportunities because they were not able to get a lot of offensive or defensive rebounds.

“The offensive rebounds kind of hurts us as well as stopping transition early,” Boeh said.

The Hounds kept the score close throughout the first period and part of the second. They even tied things up

at 15-15 with a steal and a basket to end the first quarter.

The second quarter is when the game started to fall apart for the Spoofhounds. The Hornets broke out their full-court pressure defense, and after a few turnovers, the Spoofhounds began to lose composure.

“We lost our intensity there at the end of the second quarter, we got into foul trouble and had players playing positions that we weren’t used to,” senior Ashton Reuter said. “We were not prepared for that.”

Because the full-court pressure was effectively carried out by the Hornets, the Spoofhounds began to feel the pressure, which led to poor shot selections and costly turnovers.

Over the duration of the game, Chillicothe’s size and depth began to wear down the Spoofhounds and it began to show both on the court and on the scoreboard as the game progressed.

Chillicothe started the second half with a 37-22 advantage over Maryville and continued to build on its lead, almost doubling their halftime score at the conclusion of the game.

Boeh’s debut did not go the way she planned, but there are some positives that she is taking away from this game.

“There are definitely things to work on, but if we can implement our first quarter into a full game, that game would have looked totally different,” Boeh said. “What we’re trying to do here is a marathon, not a sprint.”

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Senior guard Ashton Reuter dribbles up the court Dec. 1 against Chillicothe.

Athletes transition from football field to basketball court AUSTIN HEINEN Chief Sports Reporter | @HEINOHeinen

The Spoofhounds boys basketball team has lots of changes this year, but one thing that has not changed is the transition for players that take their mind set from the grass to the hardwood.

With football winning seven straight district championships, the Hounds are used to having some players join later than others. Despite this being the first year for head coach Matt Stoecklein, this is something the Hounds have become accustomed to.

“We’ve had the whole team together for maybe five practices,” Stoecklein said. “Football went late and we’re still working them in.”

Perhaps that would partially ex-

plain their rough first game Monday against Lafayette, where Maryville fell 74-30. Those who did not play football practiced for nearly a month before their season debut against the Irish.

One of those players making the transition, sophomore point guard Trey Oglesby, explains the immediate transition from sport to sport.

“The biggest part, I’d say, is the conditioning,” Oglesby said.

“Football you kind of get a rest in between plays. In basketball, it’s upand-down, back-and-forth, but for the most part I would say we have adapted well.”

Another player making the transition is senior center Jacob Cacek, who has already played the senior leadership role once and is about to

Justin Pitts

Freshman point guard for the men’s basketball team tallied 33 points, seven assists, three steals and five rebounds in the Bearcats’ two wins against Drury and Graceland.

serve the role again.

“It’s the same thing for me,” Cacek said. “We have a lot of the same guys, everyone knows that we are just going to work together and nobody is the one guy we’re looking for, we are just making sure everyone is on the same page and ready to go for the next game.”

Like football, basketball athletes need a good work ethic and leadership. After taking the reigns of the offense at quarterback for Spoofhounds football, Oglesby is ready to help lead the basketball team at point guard.

“You cheer everybody on,” Oglesby said. “You tell them what they need to fix, but you do it in a good way. You don’t get on them too hard, you encourage them.”

Players such as senior shoot-

Tember Schechinger

Junior guard for the women’s basketball team accumulated 27 points, 12 rebounds and four blocked shots in Northwest’s two victories against Saint Mary’s and Rogers State.

ing guard Hayden Snow, who did not get much playing time for football, stopped practicing for football and played basketball full time.

“It’s a big year for us and we want to start and finish things right,” Snow said. “ We just want to come out, play hard and get some wins this year.”

Snow, Cacek and Oglesby were all in the starting five against Lafayette Monday night. With lots of returning athletes for Stoecklein, expectations are higher this year knowing the experience and athletes there.

“Lots of guys have been working hard since the summer,” Stoecklein said. “They’ve all been working well with each other. The Seniors really been working hard and I feel that goes with everyone else as well. We are very excited to get the season going.”

A new era has begun for the Spoofhounds wrestling program.

After a storied career that landed him in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, Joe Drake handed the reigns of the team over to his former assistant coach Connor Kellerstrass.

“I’ve grown up with the sport my whole life,” Kellerstrass said. “In my opinion, it’s the toughest sport there is and I love everything about it.”

Kellerstrass was an assistant coach at Maryville for two years before he was offered the head coaching gig following Drake’s retirement.

Kellerstrass began wrestling at 8 years old when his dad talked him and his brother into giving the sport a try.

“He wanted us to try it for a year,” Kellerstrass said. “We haven’t looked back since.”

Kellerstrass graduated from fellow MEC conference foe Cameron High School, where he wrestled from 2005-2008. During his years at Cameron, Kellerstrass placed in the state tournament twice.

“Kellerstrass brings more energy to practices,” senior Brandon Weybrew said. “He can get in there with us and wrestle with us to show us what he wants us to do … He’s younger, he’s enthusiastic and he pushes us harder everyday.”

Weybrew took second at state last year and is one of three seniors on the roster.

“Being head coach has allowed me to try some new things with the boys this year,” Kellerstrass said.

“My assistants have been fantastic and they also have great ideas in order to keep implementing new things into our practice routine.”

Austin Bruner and Kellerstrass’ brother, Kemper Kellerstrass, are his assistants.

Connor Kellerstrass is getting back to basics with his young team working mostly on fundamentals.

He has a firm belief that matches are won and lost most often by who scores the most takedowns.

“When our boys prepare, the goal is to have them physically ready when they step out on the mat,” Conner Kellerstrass said. “The mentality we talk about and work on everyday with the boys, they all have a gameplan that plays to their individual strengths.”

With a rich history of winners and competitive teams, the new coach has all the tools to continue developing a great program. The Hounds begin a new regime Dec. 13 at the Bedford/Lenox Tournament.

Jacob Cacek

Ashton Reuter

Senior forward for the boys basketball team was tied for the team-high in scoring with five points in the Spoofhounds 74-30 season-opener loss against the Lafayette Irish last Monday.

Senior for the girls basketball team led the Hounds in scoring last Tuesday night when she put up six points in the Maryville 67-32 season-opener loss against the Chillicothe Hornets.

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Freshman Tanya Meyer forces herself around William Jewell opponents Nov. 21.

For freshmen forward Tanya Meyer, basketball is a way of life.

Meyer is from Sioux City, Iowa, where she attended and starred at Sioux City West High School before coming to Northwest.

As a junior in high school, Meyer averaged 20 points and eight rebounds per game. Meyer was named to first team all-conference, as well as third team all-state.

Meyer has had to adjust to the college game faster than she anticipated, which is always hard for an incoming freshmen, because the players are bigger and the game is faster.

Meyer credits her teammates, specifically the play of the guards.

“They definitely know when to pass me the ball and I try to tell them when to swing it,” Meyer said following Northwest’s Nov. 21 game against William Jewell. “They also give me good opportunities to score. Once I get the ball I try and convert the best way that I can.”

Meyer came off the bench the first four games of the season for the Bearcats, but was quickly casted into the starting lineup against Minne-

sota-Duluth Nov. 22. As a freshman, Meyer is second on the team in scoring, averaging nine points per game while shooting 81 percent from the free throw stripe in just 16 minutes of play per game.

“We had to tweak some things on the offensive end early on,” head coach Michael Smith said. “One of those tweaks was inserting Tanya into the starting lineup. She brings a lot energy to the lineup and that is what we are looking for.”

Smith says that he believes that Meyer is committed to the program and that she has held her own so far this season. Smith also said that Tanya is continuing to grow as a player.

“Tanya came into the season working hard in practice,” Smith said.

“What I like about Tanya is that she isn’t afraid to her job. And, for a freshman to come in here and earn a starting spot really speaks volumes about her work ethic. She’s a very confident player right now, and we will continue to start her for the foreseeable future.”

As the Bearcats begin conference play, Meyer is expected to play at a higher level than she has in non-conference games early in the season. Smith believes that

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Meyer has the ability to deal with the speed and physicality once conference play begins.

“Tanya has a certain mentality; that she isn’t going to be intimidated by girls who are bigger than her,” Smith said. “She goes up against girls who are taller than her every day in Shelby Mustain and Maggie Marnin during practice.”

Since being added to the starting lineup, Meyer has averaged 10.6 points per game, while adding 4.1 rebounds. Her best game of her young college career came against Rogers State last Saturday. Meyer scored 16 points on 5-7 shooting from the field, while going 6-7 from the charity stripe.

Indoor track aims to climb MIAA rankings TYLER MARTIN Missourian Reporter |@nwmsports

Cracking the top half of the rankings in the MIAA conference is not an easy task when it comes to indoor track and field.

Last season, the MIAA qualified 78 athletes for the National Indoor Track and Field Meet. The only Bearcat to qualify was Lekiesha McKnight, who placed seventh in shot put and was placed on the AllAmerican list.

The Bearcat men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams came into this season ranked eighth in the MIAA, but head coach Scott Lorek is striving for more.

“We’re always trying to finish in the top teams in our conference,” Lorek said. “The MIAA is, without question, the toughest track and field Division II league in the country. Last year we finished in the bottom half, but we

were a good team.”

Even though the MIAA is a tough conference, Lorek feels that when it comes to the national level, the playing field is much more even.

Another goal that Lorek says his team is trying to accomplish is to have 10 people per gender on the national list.

One way the team will try to accomplish this goal is by developing its younger athletes into leaders. Lorek says the Bearcats have a great recruiting class that he is excited to see perform at the collegiate level.

Although fifth year senior Logann Halloran does not have eligibility for the indoor season, he says he will use the time to help the new athletes.

“I want to help along the young athletes that we have, and just help them start getting used to the training that we do,” Halloran says. “I also want to help the young multis along

with their training because it is all new to them.”

Even though the Bearcats have a lot of younger talent to develop, they also have many athletes returning, such as seniors Fiona Maloney and Alexis Boyd.

The Bearcats are also redshirting several people, including their top thrower junior Zac Bendrick. Lorek says developing the talent that they have is key to being successful at a conference and a national level.

“We have a lot of key people with some great experience,” Lorek says.

“We are kind of bottom heavy with freshman and sophomores on the team but we have some very good upperclassmen that we are very much counting on.”

The Bearcats open the indoor track and field season with the PreHoliday Invitational Dec. 12, in Kearney, Nebraska.

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It runs in the family

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quote by American author Jim Rohn embodies a certain Northwest cross country runner who started running as a young boy.

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

Wick Cunningham began running track when he was just five years old. In fourth grade, he began running cross country, a sport he excels at still midway through his sophomore year.

Fifteen years later, Cunningham has an opportunity to perform on the national stage at the 2014 NCAA Division II Men’s Cross Country Championships in Louisville, Kentucky.

Cunningham began competing in Hershey’s Track and Field Games – a national youth track and field program – at a young age, but he says his biggest motivation to run was watching his parents do it.

“Both my parents ran in college,” Cunningham said. “My mom would take me out to the track so she could run and I always remember just wanting to run.”

Wick Cunningham’s mother, Christina Cunningham, was an AllAmerican at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa. His father, Joe Cunningham, was a national qualifier in track with Christina Cunningham.

“There’s always a chance to do something great in cross country,” Wick Cunningham said. “You always have to push the limits of your body.”

Wick Cunningham said it helped him stick with it because he was competitive from the beginning.

In an earlier interview with his coach Scott Lorek, he made it clear that the sophomore standout is an outstanding runner.

“I have no idea what his potential is,” Lorek said. “We are nowhere near meeting his potential.”

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Northwest sophomore Wick Cunningham (264) edges out Nebraska Kearney’s sophomore Jahn Landrigan (229) at the Central Regional Championships Nov. 22.

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Long live the 2014 senior class

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The Northwest men’s basketball team was forced to put last season’s conference championship title and 16-3 conference record in its rearview mirror after losing five seniors from last season’s team.

The Bearcats (5-1) started conference play last night against Emporia State (4-2) and travel to Pittsburg State (2-4) Saturday to face a struggling Gorillas team.

This year’s Bearcats consists of two seniors and two freshmen playing prominent roles. Seniors Grant Cozad and Matt Wallace say freshmen Brett Dougherty and Justin Pitts, and the rest of the team, will be fine heading into the grueling competition the MIAA conference brings.

“I feel we want to keep the young guys obviously level headed,” Cozad said. “We don’t want to get too high, get too low after losses, obviously.

With a young team, that can kind of happen. You get too high, and you get too big of confidence and everything goes downhill.

“With our two roles, we want to keep a not-satisfied attitude. We did just beat Drury, but we got a whole season ahead of us and all of conference play. Anything can happen on the road in the MIAA.” The Bearcats are fresh off an impressive early-season statement win against a top-five team in Drury Nov. 25. Pitts and Dougherty were the leading scorers that night with 17 and 13 points, respectively. With Northwest receiving consistent play from its seniors, and even its freshmen, they are confident going into conference play.

“As of last year, we had our doubts on how we were going to reload and replace the five seniors that took up a lot of the minutes,” Cozad said. “Then again, the strategy we use – we redshirt, we’ve been redshirting a lot of guys, and those guys have gotten into the system, and know what we’re about and what the culture is … From an experience point, that redshirting

2014 All - MEC Football Selections First Team OL - Jacob Cacek OL - Brendan Weybrew FB - Brody McMahon RB - Dakota Beemer DL - Jacob Cacek DL - Dustin Piper LB - Trever Zimmerman DB- Brody McMahon

Second Team OL - Nate Colwell LB - Tyler Coleman DB - Payden Dawson

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Senior guard Mathew Wallace shoots a fade-away jumper against Rockhurst Nov. 22. Northwest went on to defeat Rockhurst 82-58.

helps us. It helps us reload and take up those seniors that left.”

After the big win against Drury, the Bearcats defeated Graceland 9165 last Saturday. Despite winning by 26 points, head coach Ben McCollum was disappointed in his team’s performance. The Bearcats were tied up

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with the NAIA team with just more than five minutes to go in the first half. Wallace says Northwest can not afford to not show up like that in a conference game.

Honorable Mention QB - Trey Oglesby RB - Payden Dawson OS - Dakota Beemer DL - Hayden Taylor

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Northwest’s football season, where it sought out a back-to-back national championship, came to an abrupt end days before Thanksgiving break when Minnesota-Duluth erased a 15-point Bearcat lead.

The Bulldogs scored 19 unanswered fourth-quarter points, capped off with a touchdown with 26 seconds remaining in the game.

The heartbreaking ending now leaves Northwest fans wondering what is in store for their team next season. The future is questionable because there is one thing do know. The Bearcats are losing one of their best senior classes in school history.

They are graduating 21 seniors; to put that into perspective, the junior class carried 13 athletes on its home roster this season.

Fourteen of those very seniors earned All-MIAA honors in 2014.

There are more all-conference seniors than there are juniors on the team. The Bearcats are losing quantity, along with quality.

As much as I would love to dive into all the impact seniors, it’s simply impossible. It would take up the entire publication.

Since one could talk all day about each individual player on the Bearcats’ defense, focus on the defensive front 7 for starters. Of those seven, six are seniors and five are allconference players. Between those six seniors, Northwest will have to replace 251 tackles and 17.5 sacks.

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