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The law designed to combat sexual assault leaves college students in compromising positions when drugs or alcohol enter the mix.

Title IX law leaves grey area DARCIE BRADFORD Chief Reporter | @darcie_jeanne_7

Under current Title IX law, there must be affirmative, verbal consent given before two individuals engage in sexual activity. Title IX law clarifies that if someone is under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol, they are not able to recognize or give consent.

However, the law also states that if two individuals are drunk and engage in sexual activity, someone is still responsible for making sure there was given consent.

This is becoming a large ‘grey area’ within the law. Vice President of Student Affairs and Title IX Coordinator Matt Baker describes the issue.

“Right now, if both parties were drunk, whoever comes forward and says they’re a victim is the victim.

Both people can be under the influence of alcohol, but one of them has responsibility, the other doesn’t,” Baker said.

A prime example of this complicating aspect of Title IX lies in the case of King vs. DePauw University.

According to the court documents, JB, a female student of DePauw University, reported on Dec. 8 that she had been a victim of sexual misconduct. JB had attended a party, consumed alcohol and woke up the next morning in Ben King’s bed. She then went to the emergency room and after she had a sexual assault ex-

amination, it was determined that she had slight vaginal tearing.

JB later texted King to ask what had happened and he responded saying that they “had tried to have sex, but nothing actually ever happened.”

Ten days later, JB pressed charges against King on the grounds that she did not give affirmative consent.

However, in King’s statement, he said that “she asked him to try [having sex] multiple times.” Since both parties were intoxicated, the verdict of the case rested on who had more to drink and who had consumed less. A panel was consulted to determine who had consumed more alcohol.

The Board found King “responsible for non-consensual sexual contact and sexual harassment.” King was expelled and filed an appeal three days later to the court claiming that he experienced gender-based discrimination during the trail. After the appeal King was allowed to return to campus.

Dr. Baker says that while there is a panel to decide just how clear-minded an individual was, the amount of alcohol consumed is a difficult factor to include.

“The thing that scares me a lot is if a person is under the influence, they can’t give consent. Does that mean one drink? Four drinks? Eight drinks?” Baker said.

In a survey of 100 Northwest students, 78 percent of responses did not

agree with Title IX’s policy on where responsibility falls when both parties are under the influence.

Forty-two percent believed that if both individuals were under the influence, then they should both be held responsible for what happened. This percentage of responses believed that if a sexual assault was reported and it was stated that both parties were under the influence that there should not automatically be a victim.

Freshman Tessa Schwartzkopf said she believes both individuals should be held responsible.

“Both individuals should be held responsible, for the simple fact that they are both in the same state of mind. If neither of them give consent but proceed to have sexual intercourse, they cannot blame one another,” Schwartzkopf said.

Junior Kalyn Brown is also among the 42 percent and said she believes that the way the Title IX is written right now gives a lot of power to women.

“I feel like this gives women the ability to be evil. I could go to the police station tomorrow and claim that someone raped me, and with a good story someone would get prosecuted,” Brown said. “I feel this is very corrupt and does not help to make women responsible for their actions.”

SHANE STEELEY Chief Reporter | @shane_steeley

Unresolved contract disputes between Viacom and Suddenlink caused the television service provider to drop all Viacom channels from its lineup last Wednesday.

After almost five months of negotiation, Suddenlink apparently grew tired of Viacom’s suggestions and decided to discuss with other possible channel clients, without informing Viacom. The decision to pull Viacom channels was due to a lack of interest from customers to continue to pay for the channels, according to Suddenlink Senior Director of Corporate Communications Gene Regan.

“Through phone and email surveys, social media polls, and calls to our care centers, our customers have consistently told us they do not value

the Viacom channels as much as they value others,” Regan said. “They do not want to pay significantly more to keep the Viacom channels, and they would like other channels added.”

The networks that are replacing the previous Viacom channels will be good replacements for those that were dropped, according to Regan.

“Suddenlink has had considerable success in reaching new agreements with the likes of AMC, Fox, Turner, Disney, Discovery, and many other channel owners. We had been negotiating with Viacom for a few months,” Regan said. “The truth is, Viacom has rejected all our offers, including one we made Tuesday, Sept.

30, the day our contract expired.”

Yet Viacom feels that these assumptions are short sided and the numbers are skewed, especially when it comes to more specific channels like Comedy Central and Nickelodeon which are typically very popular for most Americans especially college students. Viacom Spokesman Mark

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Jafar stated that Suddenlink’s actions backed Viacom into a corner by going into deals with other networks behind their back.

After five months of negotiation, Suddenlink submitted an offer to Viacom on Sept. 23. When Viacom asked for more information, Suddenlink cut off ties and quit talking to Viacom for nearly a week, according to Jafar.

“We tried for the next week in vain to get them back to the negotiation table to try to hammer some additional issues, ultimately so we could reach a fair deal for both of our businesses, but also so we could keep our shows on air for the benefit of our consumers,” Jafar said. “We have no desire for our customers and our markets to lose their programming so we accepted the terms of their proposal. What we heard back from them was they already had deals with a number of other programmers to take the positions our channels formerly occupied.”

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Homecoming committee reveals supremacy changes JAMES HENDERSON III Chief Reporter | @jendersoniii

Ninety years after Northwest held its first homecoming celebration, some students celebrate a new level of equality in competition for supremacy.

The Northwest Homecoming Committee decided it should replace the traditional supremacy rules. In previous years, the competition was split into two categories: competitive and highly competitive. Inside of those categories, it was split between sorority or fraternity. This process worked for many years; however, Homecoming Committee President Mackenzie Magwire saw it as a way to

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exclude non-Greek organizations.

“Last year, I was president of the (homecoming) committee and I saw a lot of gray area,” Magwire said.

“What if a non-Greek organization deserved to win? Would they be allowed to compete with the Greek organizations?”

The new scoring system will consist of major changes, while some things remain the same. Instead of being split between fraternity and sorority, as well as competitive and highly competitive, it will be split only between the two levels of competition. This will allow all organizations (fraternity, sorority and non-greek) to compete against each other.

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Senator Claire McCaskill talks to falculty and students Tuesday afternoon about sexual assaults on campus during a Missouri-wide college tour.

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Senator talks combating sexual assault on campus SHANE STEELEY Chief Reporter | @shane_steeley

The room fell silent as Senator Claire McCaskill took her chair to address a room of Northwest faculty and student leaders Tuesday about one of the most pressing issues of our time: sexual assault on college campuses.

The event was structured as a town hall meeting, where students and staff could ask McCaskill questions regarding the new Campus Accountability and Safety Act and what the University can do to combat sexual assault. She spoke very candidly and frankly about this threat.

“I want to acknowledge a sobering fact ... In the United States it is more likely that you will be a victim of sexual assault if you go to college than if you don’t,” McCaskill said. “ All of us raise our children wanting them to go to college and make sure they get a higher education. And so we obviously have got a problem if the likelihood of them being assaulted is greater in that environment.”

Several points the senator wanted to hammer in during the event were that colleges must follow Title IX regulations, victims should be able to report a crime and see results when it has been committed and students have the right to feel safe

on their campus.

“What we found out was that 40 percent of colleges and universities in America had not conducted a Title IX sexual assault complaint investigation in five years,” McCaskill said.

“This is startling because you are required to do an investigation if there is a complaint. It is not discretionary. Which means that in 40 percent of schools, either no one is coming forward and complaining, or they’re coming forward and they are not being taken for whatever reason. ” McCaskill wants to expand the knowledge of the current laws so these issues can be dealt with more at the hands of students than lawmakers or the university administration.

“If we don’t get information in the hands of students, then it doesn’t do them any good. The most important thing that has to happen is at that moment, when there is a victim, they have to have information,” McCaskill said. “And it has to be good information that tells them the difference between Title IX and the criminal justice system.”

Students from all kinds of university organizations came out to listen and make their voices heard on this important issue. Senior Dakota Sullivan, who will begin law school after graduation and plans to specialize in sexual assault law, feels the University is going the right way, but there are more things that can be done and it starts with involving students.

“I think peer messages are a lot stronger than when it comes from administration, campus security or public safety,” Sullivan said. “There are a lot of things Northwest talks about that they have done but I think if you ask a lot of the student body, especially males, they really wouldn’t know how to get in contact with safety resources aside from public safety.”

Sex crimes are typically viewed by the public as a male attacker and a female victim, but this is not the only kind of sex crime. Residential Assistant Ashleigh Easton feels it is important to bring up male sexual assault victims. “ … we need to have a conversation about that it’s not just women who are being sexually assaulted,” Easton said. “It’s not just men who need to talk about this. Human beings alike need to have this conversation and teach people not to do this to other people.”

According to Director of Personal Development and Counseling Rhonda Leslie, counseling for male sexual assault victims is going to be a new exciting endeavor for their department and the University.

“We are very much in the initial stages, and we started speaking last summer about this very thing. About how we can develop a program to help male victims,” Leslie said. “We also want to change the culture involving men.”

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a question regarding underage drinking and sexual assault was brought up by a student who said she was afraid of getting in trouble for drinking.

This required Vice President of Student Affairs Matt Baker to stand up and state that no one will be given a citation if they are sexually assaulted while drunk and underage.

“On our campus we have an amnesty policy that is stated in our program,” Baker said.

This knowledge was a surprise for most of the students in the room.

Almost all of the students did not know that minors were not prosecuted for underage drinking if they were assaulted.

Crimes like sexual assault can be prevented but only if students take a vested interest in working toward stopping it. The level of technology that this generation possesses is what McCaskill feels can be another gadget on the tool belt to fight the crime of sexual assault on college campuses.

“You all take more pictures than anyone ever has in the history of the planet. You all are taking pictures constantly. There is an opportunity where you can be in the moment and say it’s on us,” McCaskill said. “Even if you take a picture and you are not sure anything is wrong, that picture could be a piece of crucial evidence for the police chief.”

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The city government of Maryville decided on a new budget Sept. 29, in a special meeting.

The budget includes allocating money for downtown renovation, continuing the Fourth Street Improvement Project and repaving roads in and around the city. According to City Manager Greg McDanel, the upcoming budget funds current projects with new ideas nestled in.

“One of the major projects in this year’s budget is a continuation of our Fourth Street renovation project … a couple of other projects in this years budget is a $26,000 improvement at the signal of South Avenue and South Main Street,” Mcdanel said. “We are looking toward upgrading to a radar detection system. Our current system is very inefficient for the traffic demand at that intersection. It will significantly improve travel times and decrease waits from 160 seconds to about 42 seconds, which will be a dramatic improvement.”

The New Nodaway County Humane Society was one of the organizations to which the city council did not extend extra funds. The main reason was a report given by the Society that stated the shelter had a surplus of revenue, according to McDanel.

“The city currently has a contractual agreement with the Nodaway County Humane Society to the tune of $82,800,” Mcdanel said. “They do have a balance in their reserve fund they can utilize if they need to.”

According to Maryville’s Finance Director Denise Town, the budget had to be accepted as late as Sept.

29, due to some minor bureaucratic hiccups. In order for the budget to be enacted, it has to be approved before Oct. 1, which is the day the 2014 fiscal year begins.

“We had some delays this year that pushed the meeting back, we had our big workshop with the city council, on Monday, Sept. 22. That was when Greg did the presentation of all the major projects,” Town said.

“So in order to adopt it, we had that special meeting.”

Due to the recent flooding, more expenditures will go toward bettering the inflow and filtration system as well as a new sewage system. These expensis will hopefully prevent future flooding and sewage back up.

“We want to remove any storm water from the sanitary sewer system to prevent backups,” McDanel said.

The Maryville Downtown Improvement Organization was one of the other groups that requested funds.

It was granted $11,500 that will be used by the organization to make Main Street and downtown more appealing.

“They submitted an application for a grant for training services, and this will provide 40 percent of that cost. The additional training services cost will be provided by the main street connection and will help them get started as a group,” McDanel said.

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U.S. history curriculum must be saved from nationalists THOMAS DRESSLAR Opinion Editor

In the classic dystopian novel “1984,” George Orwell warns the reader that “the most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” The latest conservative push to whitewash the teaching of U.S. history into a cheerful, patriotic exercise aims to do just that.

For those who’ve been too worried about Ebola to read other news the past few weeks, students and teachers in Colorado are currently engaging in massive protests against their local school boards. The crux of the issue is the Jefferson County School Board’s insistence upon reviewing the new curriculum handed down by The College Board; the organization that oversees Advanced Placement standards.

The school board, and conservative groups across America, are concerned that the new curriculum “encourages or condones civil strife.” School board member Julie Williams, channeling the flag-waving, nationalist crowd, argued that any U.S. history curriculum should “present positive aspects of the United States and its heritage” and should “promote citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free enterprise system.”

This is not a new phenomenon.

Conservatives have been protesting how U.S. history is taught in public school for decades. Recently, the Texas State Board of Education stood in defiance of textbook publishers and countless college professors when they adopted new social studies standards four years ago. After reading them, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

One particularly amusing passage was the section on the intellectual influences the Framers felt when drafting the Constitution. Students in

Texas are now taught that theologians Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin and most laughably, Moses, were direct influences on Republican thought in the new nation. These standards were so absurd, that even the traditionallyconservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute felt compelled to write that teaching them amounted to “political and cultural indoctrination.”

Before getting into the harmful effects of teaching blind patriotism to impressionable students, it’s important to understand why The College Board is changing its standards in the first place.

Quite simply, it is switching it’s emphasis to historical thinking, rather than memorization of names and dates. Those concerned that the new standards “omit” figures like James Madison are missing that point. Due to the discretion AP gives teachers, any discussion of the framing of the Constitution would have to include its principal author. However, the framework The College Board has adopted simply gives guidance to teachers re-

garding how the curriculum should be presented overall.

The fact that people are even complaining that an accurate account of our country’s history is “anti-American” is sickening to say the least. Learning U.S. history is not supposed to be comfortable.

It’s about equipping students with skills like historical literary and critical thinking. We want to create engaged, intelligent and independent citizens in our history classes. As James Grossman, chief executive of the American Historical Association, puts it, “Is it better to tell children just the comfortable things, or should they learn the rest?”

The most comical concern from members of the Colorado School Board in question is its insistence that “materials should not encourage or condone civil disorder [or] social strife.” Even looking past the irony that the school board’s actions have actually whipped up civil disorder, this type of thinking should scare anyone who is counting on our youth

to affect change in this country.

The fact is that America as we know it would not exist without civil disorder. Black and white students would not be learning in the same classrooms without social strife. In fact, board member Julie Williams probably couldn’t have gotten elected to the school board without the civil disorder instigated by women’s rights movements.

Unfortunately, the debate in Colorado is underpinned by disagreements over the role of teacher’s unions in these protests. I won’t claim to know the extent of their role, but I think it’s a red herring in the overall struggle to prevent unfettered patriotism from seeping into high school history lessons.

My beliefs were constantly challenged when learning U.S. history over the years and it’s made me a more informed, measured citizen as a result. It will be a shame if the next generation isn’t afforded the same chance to discover the full scope of America’s storied history.

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United States could learn lessons from European college tuition policies Last week, Germany halted a controversial practice allowed by courts in 2006 that launched massive protests throughout the country. It was in that year that colleges could begin charging tuition to its students who up until that time, enjoyed a free education.

While free tuition might shock students in America, this decision puts Germany in line with how most European nations handle higher education, albeit in different ways.

Education is seen not as a consumer good, but a universal public good. A good that needs to be in reach of every citizen of that nation.

During the few years that public universities in Germany could level tuition fees, the average rate amount-

ed to only about $1,200 a year. Those kinds of rates could make any American student looking at their yearly tuition bill consider moving to Germany for school.

According to The College Board, yearly tuition for a moderate, in-state public college costs about $22,826 in the United States, without including room, board and other costs. Compare that to countries like Sweden, France, Denmark and Norway, where yearly education costs rarely eclipse $1,000 a year.

Looking at education outcomes, it’s clear that rigorous support for higher education ultimately pays off for other countries. Take Finland as an example.

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Higher Education, Finland had serious difficulties with graduating its high school students in the 1960s.

Forty years later, after re-examining how they handle education policy, Finland can now boast about having one of the highest percentages of high school graduates in the world.

Pasi Sahlberg’s book, “Finnish Lessons,” partly attributes Finland’s success to the decision to make all education public and free. Yes, it would be unfair to characterize the situations of Finland and the United States as if they were on equal footing in all respects. However, the idea of free college tuition in the United States is not as far-fetched as many may think.

In January, The Atlantic analyzed data from the Department of

Education to make the case that the United States could afford to make tuition at public universities free.

Citing the New American Foundation, the article pointed out that the federal government spent $69 billion in 2012 on various financial aid programs; such as Pell Grants and work-study funding. To put this number in perspective, it would have cost the government an estimated $62 billion in that same year to make public school tuition free.

Now, it’s important to understand that a solution to America’s college tuition issues are not as simple as moving some money around.

Estimates of how much free tuition would end up costing will vary from researcher to researcher. Additional-

ly, it’s not true that European students graduate without any debt. They often have costs incurred from living expenses and other factors.

However, the overall cost of obtaining a public college education in European countries is miniscule compared to the gargantuan costs leveled at American students. While all European educational policies may not work in the United States, their success in providing college education to its citizens is commendable and should be studied.

Free tuition may not be the cure for America’s education woes, but a radical shift in education policy is needed if the United States hopes to keep up with European nations.

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Students must understand potential consequences before consuming alcohol underage in Maryville ANDREW BENSON Contributing Columnist

There are consequences for every action regardless of whether we believe they are fair. Bryson Scott’s column in last week’s Northwest Missourian ignored this idea and reflected a very immature attitude.

When I was 18, I thought I ran the world. I was in college, I owned a car with a pretty sick sound system, and I had a whopping $150 a month to spend on whatever I pleased. The best part? I was 100 miles away from my parents, which meant I could do whatever I wanted.

The new freedom was great. I felt untouchable, and my friends, who felt the same way, made it even better.

We did whatever we wanted and, to be honest, we felt like we were above all consequences. We subconsciously believed that bad things happened to other people; it could never be us, because we were too smart.

My mindset back in those days is common among 18 through 20 year-old students around the country, whether they realize it or not. I believe Northwest does a good job of making

sure students stay on the right track when they first arrive on campus, but there will never be a cure for ignorance.

Bryson’s column that ran in last week’s Northwest Missourian almost perfectly illustrates why the Maryville City Council attempted to implement a misguided “Comprehensive Alcohol Strategy” last spring. The attitude displayed in the column showed the arrogance and self-entitlement common amongst those under 21 when dealing with alcohol.

Before writing this column, I reached out to Bryson offering the opportunity to defend his stance or clarify the points he outlined. I wanted to believe that his words were being misinterpreted. When he never responded and allowed others to attempt to fight his battles for him, I knew my initial reaction was correct.

Bryson, you need to grow up.

I agree there is a problem that needs to be addressed with underage drinking in Maryville. I also see the disparity of enforcement between an average weekend, and Family Weekend or Homecoming. There are more people in town those weekends, so of course public safety increases patrols.

There will be more tickets issued.

It’s a fact of life that extends beyond Maryville. Example: New Year’s Day. Everyone is entitled to his or her

own opinion and I respect you for sharing yours, but your column failed to put the 33 MIPs in perspective.

With just under 6,000 undergraduate students at Northwest, we can use the conservative estimation that half are under 21. Using the percentage outlined in your column, two-thirds of these 3,000 minors consume alcohol illegally. If 33 of the 2,000 minors were caught, only 1.7 percent were issued tickets.

The notion that law enforcement officials shouldn’t write tickets because they place a financial burden on the students and their records is quite frankly laughable. Minors know the potential consequences of drinking underage and when they pick up the bottle, they accept the risk. If students have the money to drink underage, they need be prepared to deal with whatever may happen, without complaint.

When I was 18, I wouldn’t have agreed with my own column. I would have used the classic teenage saying “You just don’t get it” to dismiss every point. Well, I’m 22 now and I’ve realized a few things.

Opinions change over time when you have a wider range of experiences to draw from. Bryson, let go of your juvenile beliefs and see this issue from a logical perspective.

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Sophomore Kylie Murcek works with her sorority sisters on their homecoming

Senior Bailey Cook has been a member of Greek Life for two years and does not fully support this change.

“I personally liked the fact that there was a fraternity and a sorority winner,” Cook said. “Now that there will only be one winner, it makes it a little harder to work with another organization on a project for homecoming, knowing you are competing against each other.”

Traditionally, all organizations that competed were allowed to do so in the competitive and highly competitive groups. However, with supremacy split between fraternities and sororities, there was a lot of gray area as to where the other organizations would rank.

This is designed to fix that.

“We wanted to make it more competitive and an even playing ground,” Magwire said. “Instead of it being divided between Greeks and non-Greeks, we all should compete against each other as one school.”

It also was designed to keep some organizations on their toes.

“If you look at the breakdown of scoring from last year, some fraternities and sororities wouldn’t place,” she said.

The rule change will require all organizations to be more mindful of every aspect of the competition in order to earn supremacy. From banner to variety show, every point will count now, as the playing field for competition has grown significantly.

This change is another example of how students can change the way things work on campus.

“Last year, this was a conversation between a few exec girls and I,” Magwire said. “We brought it to our advisor and it was approved so we brought it to the full committee for a vote.”

Judging for homecoming points begins Monday, Oct. 18. It will begin with judges making their decisions on canned art and banner competitions.

This new process will bring competition to more organizations on campus and the change will be noticed when the awards ceremony commences.

Blotters for the week of Oct. 2 Nodaway County Sheriff’s Office

Sept. 25 A Burlington Junction subject reported property damage to his vehicle.

Mariah N Guthrie, 23, St. Joseph, was arrested on a Nodaway County warrant for property damage and theft/stealing.

Sept. 26 Seth A Holmes, 18, DeSoto, was arrested for possession of 35 grams or less of marijuana.

Gary L. Williams, 53, Maryville, was arrested on a Nodaway County warrant for child abuse/ neglect.

Christie A. Caudill, 36, Burlington

Maryville Department of Public Safety Sept. 28 A summons was issued to Kailey R. Findley, 18, at the 500 block of East Fifth Street for minor in possession.

Junction, was arrested for endangering the welfare of a child and possession of controlled substance.

Sept. 29 Ashley D. Rhynes, 25, Sheridan, was arrested for possession of controlled substance – methamphetamine.

Oct. 1 A Maryville subject reported property damage in Conception Junction.

Kale R. Briner, 29, Grant City, was arrested on a Nodaway County warrant for failure to appear for non-support.

Oct. 2 Chance M. Cardwell, 19, St. Joseph, was arrested on a Nodaway County warrant for probation violation.

Oct. 4 Five summonses were issue for liquor law violations at Hudson Hall.

Oct. 5 Four summonses were issued for liquor law violations at Lot 25.

Oct. 6 A summons was issued for child molestation at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Samantha L. Tiller, 45, Clearmont, was arrested on a Nodaway County Warrant for failure to appear.

Oct. 5 A summons was issued to Lucas J. Smith, 25, at the 300 block of North Market for disorderly conduct.

A summons was issued to Samantha L. Tiller, 45, St. Joseph, at the 1100 block of South Main for driving while intoxicated.

Eight summonses were issue for liquor law violations at Perrin Hall.

Robert E. Quimby, 49 Clearmont, was arrested for unlawful use of drug paraphernalia.

Oct. 2 A bicycle was recovered at the 1100 block of North Walnut.

Sept. 30 There is an ongoing investigation of burglary at the 300 block of East Edwards.

Oct. 3 A summons was issued for stealing at Wells Hall.

Oct. 4 Zackery B. Thomas, 19, Maryville, was arrested on a Nodaway County warrant for possession with intent to distribute/deliver/ sell more than 5 grams of marijuana.

A summons was issued to Angel Tarin, 30, Kansas City, at the 1100 block of South Main for driving while intoxicated.

Oct. 4 A summons was issued to Chase N. Nuzum, 19, at the 600 block of North Buchanan for minor in possession.

Sept. 29 Two summonses were issued for drug law violations at Perrin Hall.

Oct. 3 Tonya M. Wilson, 25, Stanberry, was arrested on a Nodaway County warrant for possession of a controlled substance except 35 grams or less of marijuana.

Oct. 1 There is an ongoing investigation of larceny at the 1200 block of South Main.

A summons was issued to Blake D. Wyatt, 20, at the 500 Block of North Mulberry for minor in possession and resisting arrest.

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A summons was issued to Joshua R. Johns, 29, Theodosia, at the 300 block of North Market for disorderly conduct.

A summons was issued to Brian A. Roberts, 24, Maitland, at the 300 block of North Market for failure to comply.

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CONTINUED FROM A1 Thirty-six percent believed that neither of the individuals should be held responsible for their actions if neither were of a sound state of mind, including freshman Tyler Richardson.

“If you chose to fall under the influence whatever happens between you two just is what it is,” Richardson said. “One or the other should not be held accountable,” Twenty-two percent agree with the way the Title IX law is written now and believes that only one person needs to be held responsible.

Sophomore Dylan King said he believes someone must be held responsible regardless of whether they were under the influence or not.

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CONTINUED FROM A1 Some students have been less than pleased with the recent changes to the cable, specifically those who live on campus whose only cable provider is Suddenlink. Freshman Matthew Bartlett found the news to be a shock, especially after having a small group of friends over to watch the season premiere of the Comedy Central show “Key and Peele”.

“Mostly Comedy Central is what I watch; the comedians on there, and The Colbert Report. It’s upsetting,” Bartlett said. “I guess you don’t really notice it until it’s gone. When I couldn’t find Comedy Central, I thought I just couldn’t find it. I did not know it was removed.”

Ever since the drop of these channels, Suddenlink has been flooded with calls. And due to this negotiation situation crumbling, Viacom no longer allows online streaming from Suddenlink customers. Actions from both parties have led to a backlash from customers that will require tact and a quick response in order for both companies to look good to the public.

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“It all makes sense to me, I don’t see anything wrong with it,” King said, “Someone has to be held responsible.”

Baker says one of the hardest things to take into account is the emotional state of the victim and the accused. If both have strong feelings about what happened, like in the case of King vs. University of DePauw, it is hard to say who is right and who is wrong; especially if both parties were under the influence.

“I don’t know how you write a law that takes that into account,” Baker said. “I don’t think you can. We’re now trying to legislate interpersonal and emotional, and intimate behavior.

“I don’t know if it’s ever going to work well, but if we can help people make good, healthy decisions, cool.”

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Although cricket is not seen much in the United States, it is the second most popular sport in the world, and there is a growing demand for it at Northwest.

The University installed the first cricket pitch in the region Sept.

26, near the intersection of Fourth Street and Icon Road. It was decided that the pitch should be put in after the University saw a large increase in international student enrollment and, along with that, a demand for cricket.

Graduate student Kranthi Nirmala from Nigama, India, reveals a glimpse of what cricket is like where he is from.

“Everyone invests their time and energy into cricket. When a game is, on everyone is sticking to their TVs. We treat cricket like a religion, and the players are the gods,” Nirmala said.

President of International Affairs Jeffrey Foot is more than happy to see international students have a ground for themselves.

“It was a matter of saying ‘look at all these kids that wanna play.

Let’s give them a field.’ And now we have this temporary solution that may be there for a few years, but we are planning to find another place that may have more opportunities for growth,” Foot said.

It is not a full pitch just yet, but according to Foot, this pitch is like a practice facility, at least for the time being. A full pitch would need a piece of land the size of a soccer field for the outfield alone. Administrators are currently working to find a large enough piece of land to meet the measurements of an actual cricket pitch.

Graduate student and sports organizer for the Indian Student Association Srujan Yaparthi is happy there is now a designated place for cricket and he hopes to grab the attention of locals, not just international students.

“We want to try to get the attention of the local people and try to make it popular here. We actually had some of the baseball players come and ask us to teach them a little bit of how to play,” Yaparthi said.

Foot said he believes the pitch will help break any cultural barriers existant at Northwest.

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hope,” Foot said.

Cricket is often compared to baseball. There are batsmen, runners and fielders, and the goal of the game is for the batsmen to score as many runs as they can while protecting the three wickets behind them.

However, cricket is very different from baseball. Instead of having a pitcher, there is a bowler. When the bowler throws the ball it bounces off the ground and is actually aimed to hit the wickets behind the batsman.

If the bowler hits the wicket, then the batsman and runner are out, but if the batsman hits the ball, he and the runner run as many times as they can back and forth between the two stumps holding the wickets.

Cricket is also different from baseball when it comes to the way the outs work. In cricket, the batting team and the fielding team do not switch after three outs. The fielding team gets a chance to beat the score of the batting team once all of their batsmen are out. Typically, each team will only bat once in a cricket match.

Graduate student Achyuth Chaitanya says that cricket here is different than in India, where he is from. “(In Maryville) we can only play in summer and fall. The climate does not support us to play in the spring or winter. But we have practice matches every weekend and tournaments every fall semester,” Chaitanya said.

For students who play cricket, there has never been an opportunity like this before for several reasons/ The growth of enrollment this year. There are approximately 720 international students, 120 which play cricket at Northwest. There are six teams and they all participate in tournaments that take place from September to November.

According to Foot, another reason the University has not had a pitch available to international students was because it was difficult to find a piece of land. Foot said it was hard to find a space that could supply just half of the room the students needed to play.

“Finding a field that we could use was a long term process. But the President finally said we need to find some space. He worked all the back channels to make it happen, and we were finally able to identify a proper piece of land to serve as a temporary solution,” Foot said.

Even though it is not a full pitch, Nirmala is relieved to just have a designated place to play cricket.

“It might have been a problem for people when we played in the parking lot, but we are now glad that we have a cricket ground for ourselves, and we would like to thank Dr. Jeffrey Foot for this,” Nirmala said.

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‘Gone Girl’ sparks with shock, suspense VINCENT CONA Missourian Reporter | @UnfollowGhost

“Gone Girl” breathes new life into the long, stale mystery thriller genre.

With plenty of surprises hidden behind the veil, it shocks and astounds in the best way.

Based on the 2012 novel by Gillian Flynn, “Gone Girl” is the best mystery thriller film since 2006’s “The Prestige”, mainly because they are unique in the way they rock both genres. Directed by David Fincher, it follows the story of Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck), whose wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), goes missing on the day of their fifth wedding anniversary. As media frenzy sets in, he is depicted as the reason behind her disappearance. As the film unravels , flashbacks show a happy marriage falling apart, and the introduction of certain characters adds to the mystery.

Not much can be said about the

story without spoiling parts of the film, but that works to the film’s advantage. The story is airtight. It differs from past movies where someone goes missing by focusing on background more than the actual search. Interestingly enough, it was adapted for the screen by the original author of the book, which helps keeps the story going. It doesn’t get bogged down by useless details or elements not relevant to the story.

Ben Affleck really nails the role of a desperate man trying to fight for his innocence. Lots of raw emotion coming from him, as well as some quirks and awkwardness that offset his character, contribute the growing media frenzy throughout the movie.

Rosamund Pike, though, is definitely the star of this movie. Her performance as Amy is wonderful. The amount of emotion she conveys in each scene she is amazing, but it is in the latter half of the movie is when she

tion scene with the smoothest transition possible. The atmosphere is played up to the best possible effect, making the audience feel the suspense and getting them emotionally invested in the story.

“Gone Girl” is a perfect mystery thriller. Suspense, drama, with a few cards hidden up its sleeve, it does not disappoint at all. Earlier, I compared it to “The Prestige” in the way it uniquely tells the story. Also like “The Prestige,” this movie will not be forgotten soon.

A perfect movie when in the mood for a thrilling story, with more than a few head-scratchers thrown in.

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really shines. Of course, nothing less can be expected of a movie directed

by David Fincher, who is becoming a jack-of-all-trades type of director, and

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“Gone Girl” really reflects that.

Scenes can go from chaotic swarms of reporters hounding the main character, to a quiet interroga-

THE STROLLER:

Your Man does not think you should give up on love While stumbling around, trying to find out where I was and how I had gotten there, I noticed something different at this house party over the weekend. Something beautiful.

Let me backtrack a second. The night started out like any other night I go out. I dressed up, ready to catch some tail and pound a few (more like 30) back.

I ventured to Molly’s Party Club last Friday and mingled with the crowd. That’s when I saw her. She was dancing on stage, but it was not the typical dancing everyone else was doing. No, she was majestic, beautiful, spectacular. Her golden hair shining, even without sunlight.

Her eyes sparkled brighter than the Milky Way, her smile could mend

hearts, stop tears. We locked eyes, out of all of the bodies in the club she graced her heavenly eyes on mine.

Our eyes locked with one another.

She was a dime.

Suddenly, she vanished; it was like she was never even there. I searched for her through the thick crowd, in an uneasy desperation I looked back at the stage but she was gone. I thought my chance was over so I rounded up the guys and we headed for the house on Seventh Street. Maybe it was Fourth Street.

Hell, I don’t remember.

“Swish” was the only sound coming from my beer pong partner as I kept sinking pong balls into the red solo cups. I turn my head to the right, gazing around the room and

who did I see, but that beautiful blonde from Molly’s. Of course, you know Your Man loves the ladies, and, honestly, I am not the one who’s “into” relationships. But man, I think at that moment, I knew what love was.

Her name was Megan, or Abby, or Christina; I don’t know, but she was perfect in every way. After talking for a bit she wrote her number in Sharpie on my hand.

“Cops are here!,” someone yelled from the window of the room. Then MAC darted out the kitchen and, just like before, she was gone.

My hopes - let’s just say they were about as shattered as my new iPhone. My plans for the night equally gone. All I had left was the

rest of my beers and the lonely walk back to my apartment - which was … somewhere.

I remember waking the next morning, head throbbing, eyes squinted to avoid the light. As I made breakfast and tried remembering who and where I was, I pieced together the previous night’s puzzle.

I remembered seeing her face, prettier than any celebrity and more beautiful than the universe’s stars.

I tried to recall if she came home with me or not, did I get the most beautiful girl? I focused on the breakfast laid out before me hoping that if I looked long enough I’d remember. That’s when I saw it, my stomach flipped, I looked down at my hand only to find three clear

numbers, the rest smeared from what smelled like beer. I needed the bathroom, fast.

Moral of the story: don’t let one night of striking out and being unlucky deter you from your goal of love. Though Your Man’s heart may sound blackened by the lessons of college, he still recalls the first time he fell in love. Now go out there and find your MAC … or “white buffalo”, or whatever you call them.

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THE PATH TO HIGH-QUALITY K-12 EDUCATION

As Marc Tucker points out in

Fixing Our National Accountability System, (judging) teachers based on standardized tests given their students… has infuriated and shamed teachers, and is … causing even many of the best teachers to (leave).

‘There is no evidence that it is contributing anything to improve student performance… (while) doing untold damage to the profession of teaching.’

Tucker founded the National Center on Education and the Economy because in order to meet the demands of a global economy, our educational system needs to be re-engineered for much higher performance.

(From) a close look at (other) countries came…two insights.

First… most of the countries with the best educational results used the same set of techniques to get there. And, second, the American methods were used nowhere else in the world.

Tucker would not abolish tests, but he would have fewer of them. And they would have a different purpose: in the high-performing countries, the tests exist to hold the students accountable, rather than the teachers.

When a school falls short, instead of looking to fire teachers, the high-performing countries ‘use the data to decide which schools will receive (guidance) from teams of … highly regarded educators. (By such reforms) ‘Management would get their prerogatives back and would be held accountable for results, but the professionals, granted far more autonomy, would be also holding each other accountable for the quality of their work, as professionals everywhere do.”

(We need to) finally get over our fixation with test-based accountability, and finally re-engineer our education system the way every successful county has.

--from Joe Nocera, “Imagining Successful Schools,” The New York Times, August 30, 2014

Agreement on the Need for Reform

As current House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan writes in The Way Forward, all Americans can agree on the importance of highquality K-12 education. And all Americans can agree that our education system has serious problems. Outcomes do not match the level of spending. But even worse, “(w)e have fewer economically disadvantaged students whose academic performance exceeds what the experts would predict based on their socioeconomic class.” But here the agreement ends.

The Republican Proposals

As more fully described by Ryan in that recent book, his party’s plan for education reform is “school choice.” That plan is based on the argument made by free-market economist Milton Friedman that introducing competition into the K-12 school system would improve student outcomes while reducing per student costs.

The “Indiana program” Ryan recommends is similar to Constitutional Amendment 3 on Missouri’s November ballot. That proposed amendment would require schools to use a test-based evaluation system to determine teacher pay and promotions. It would limit teacher contracts to three years, thereby abolishing tenure, and prevent teachers’ representatives from negotiating any aspect of the evaluation system.

The proposed amendment is modeled on legislation bring pushed in multiple states by conservative groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Republican lawmakers have tried to pass a version of that legislation without success in the General Assembly for several years. Now its proponents have turned to the ballot box.

Amendment 3 is part of the “Schools Choice” agenda. But other Republicans recognize the limitations of that agenda. In Room To Grow, Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, writes that “school choice” is a “boon for low-income families trapped in lousy schools” but of no benefit to “two-thirds of families (who) already ‘choose’ their schools when they buy their (homes or) select private schools.” More importantly, he acknowledges that “school choice” is “threatening and unhelpful to residents in rural areas and small communities.”

Defenders of the status quo

Ryan castigates “Democrats (as seeking) to protect established, incumbent institutions from essential reforms and want(ing) to address problems by just dumping more money into the very systems that are failing.” But that is a more apt description of defenders of the status quo, like the Missouri State Teachers Association (MSTA). MSTA opposes: any proposal to weaken the teacher tenure law; school vouchers or education tax credits; merit pay, and the use of standardized test scores “or other subjective criteria as a measurement of teacher performance.”

MSTA also opposes the transfer of students from unaccredited school districts and the use of letter grades to evaluate the performance of individual schools.

These ideas are all elements found in Republican proposals for school reform, yet MSTA predominately endorses Republican legislative candidates (as it has in District 1). Eight years ago after I criticized its partisanship, an MSTA representative provided me a statistical analysis that purported to show some 28 of its 89 legislative race endorsements had been of Democrats. Yet the data underlying that analysis showed that all those “endorsements” but one were of incumbent Democrats in uncontested races (the single Democrat with an opponent was likewise an incumbent).

MSTA differs from the National Education Association (NEA), which only represents teachers, in that its membership includes school administrators. The organization has become a derelict in the stream of educational reform. It’s time to sound the closing bell on both “school choice” and the status quo.

A Greater Vision for Reform

As Joe Nocera further writes in the column quoted at left, “the main thing that works” to improve student performance “is treating teaching as a profession, and teachers as professionals. This means that teachers become as well paid as other professionals, that they have a career ladder, that they go to elite schools where they learn their craft, and that they are among the top quartile of college graduates.” Three recent books share this conclusion.

Fifth Generation Missouri Farmer

Near Oxford, Worth In The Smartest Kids in theCounty World, Amanda Ripley writes that “setting a high bar at the beginning of the profession sends a signal to everyone Fifth Generation Missouri else that you are serious about education andFarmer teaching is hard. When you do that, it makes it easier to make the case for paying teachers more Near Oxford, Worth County (and) for giving them more autonomy in the classroom.”

In Building a Better Teacher, Elizabeth Green shows that good teaching is largely, “the result of extraordinary skill, not inborn talent.” Good teaching is a skill, it can be learned, and it can be taught.

And in The Teacher Wars, Dana Goldstien concludes, as does Ripley, that to improve our schools, we have to help teachers do their job the way higher-achieving nations do: by providing better preservice instruction, offering newcomers more support from well-trained mentors and opening up the classroom so teachers can observe one another without fear and share ideas.

What also works is “year round school.” Studies all show a marked improvement in student performance, most dramatically for those students from more disadvantaged backgrounds. The reason is that after the summer hiatus, it takes on average eight weeks of the new school year for students to regain the language arts skills they had at the end of the last , and ten weeks to regain their math skills. All citizens should be angered by such a waste of resources.

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EXTRA POINT MIAA

CONTINUED FROM A12 Emporia has a lot of firepower on offense, but the Hornets have issues on the defensive side of the ball. The Hornets were the talk of the league last year. However, they ultimately fell short, and this year looks like another disappointing season in Emporia.

The Mules have been competitive for several years. The Mules have beat a lot of the MIAA’s top teams over the last few seasons. However, they haven’t been able to make it past the second round of the playoffs.

The debate has always been about which MIAA teams will get into the Division II Playoffs. The way I see it, the MIAA will only get two teams in the playoffs.

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nwmissourinews.com We all know that the Bearcats are the favorites to make it But, who will be the second team to represent the MIAA this year? If Pitt. State loses to Northwest, it will already have two losses and can’t afford to lose another game if that’s the case. If Pitt State wins out, it will be the second team to represent the MIAA in the playoffs this season.

All I am trying to say is that the MIAA is not what it was cracked up to be this season. The league isn’t as good as it has been in recent years.

My reasoning for that is, after the last season, the league decided to go to a round robin format this season.

I think that the league should adopt some non-conference games next year. If they can do that, then the conference won’t beat up on each other and disappoint fans.

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Northwest seniors Eric Reimer and Zach Williams tackle a Northeastern player during the second quarter Saturday.

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CONTINUED FROM A12 This is just his second semester on Northwest’s campus. Rosewell speaks on Boissinot’s quick transition.

“He’s been one of our silent leaders,” Rosewell said. “He leads by example on the court and he just came in last January, he’s a great young player, he adjusted nicely and very quickly here. Mostly because that’s the kind of person that he is.”

There will be seven other ath-

letes competing against Boissinot in nationals, who says he is ready for the challenge after not receiving a top-four seed.

“I hope to do well. I’m nervous but also excited,” Boissinot said. “I want to use this trip to get better and use this experience to develop as a better player.”

Boissinot will begin competition at USTA/ITA National Small College Championships today at 10:30 a.m. against fourth seeded Manuel Righi from Concordia.

back to bite on it twice.”

The biggest challenge offensively comes from Lindenwood’s middle linebacker. Sophomore Connor Harris accumulated 23 tackles against Emporia State last Saturday and has 70 tackles through five games.

“You definitely got to know where he is at,” Visk said. “We just got to counter it with just being physical.

We’re a physical football team and I feel like we can bring it to him just like we do to every other team.”

One transition that Northwest will have to make is playing Lindenwood for the first time. The Lions joined the MIAA before the 2013 season and were not on the Northwest’s schedule last season.

“It’s exciting anytime you’re playing a new opponent,” Dorrel said.

“You factor in a lot of other stuff like recruiting and things of that nature, just kind of adds the excitement. We got a lot of kids from the St. Louis area and it’s a big game for them to get a chance to go home and play in front of their home fans.”

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Sophomore Romain Boissinot returns the ball during practice to prepare himself for USTA/ITA Nationals Oct. 9 - Oct. 11.

“Some of that stuff is going to happen when you are as aggressive as we are … Trying to finish some of our pass rush. I know the D-Line was talking about that a little bit. They’re right in the kid’s face but in their mind, they wanna get the sack.”

From a defensive standpoint, the Bearcats face a unique challenge against Lindenwood with the way the Lions use their depth chart and offensive schemes.

“They’re playing three different quarterbacks and they’re all different,” Dorrel said. “One’s a better runner than the other one, one’s a better passer and the other one is in-between.

“They’re unique in how they protect the passer. They cut block a lot at the line of scrimmage and they’re very good at it. It’s totally legal but you don’t see it often.”

Dorrel talked about how the three weeks leading into the Pittsburg State homecoming game were weeks

that they needed to take mid-season strides to improve.

“When you have a guy like Matt Longacre, Kevi n Arnold, Zach Williams, guys that are seniors, that are playing well, that show up Tuesday at practice, with the mentality that ‘I can get better’ and it’s genuine, that just sets the stage for the entire day,” Dorrel said.

Senior quarterback Brady Bolles ended up throwing 246 yards last Saturday, completed only 19 of 35 passes.

Dorrel was quick to point out that it was not all Brady’s fault but he believes the Bearcats missed out on at least three touchdowns.

“We ran what we call double moves early in the game where receivers are running out and ups or hitch and go’s,” Dorrel said. “And we flat missed them. “ … We’re just trying to learn from that. When you’re playing a really good football team, you can’t miss those opportunities because in college football, you can’t run the same double move play. You’re not going to get a defensive

Overall

NORTHWEST.......................5-0 Central Oklahoma................4-1 Pittsburg St.........................4-1 Central Missouri...................3-2 Emporia St..........................3-2 Ft. Hays St..........................3-2 Missouri Western..................3-2 Missouri Southern.................2-3 Washburn............................2-3 Lindenwood.........................1-4 Nebraska-Kearney.................0-5 Northeastern St....................0-5

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5-0 4-1 4-1 3-2 3-2 3-2 3-2 2-3 2-3 1-4 0-5 0-5

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MIAA STANDINGS

Overall

MIAA

Washburn...........................15-1 Missouri Western.................13-3 Central Missouri...................14-2 Central Oklahoma................14-2 Nebraska-Kearney................14-2 NORTHWEST.........................8-8 Emporia St...........................6-7 Ft. Hays St...........................7-9 Lindenwood.........................5-11 Pittsburg St..........................5-11 Southwest Baptist.................6-10 Missouri Southern.................4-12

7-1 7-1 6-2 6-2 6-2 5-3 2-6 2-6 2-6 2-6 1-7 1-7

Oct. 10 NORTHWEST at Nebraska-Kearney Oct. 11 NORTHWEST at Ft. Hays St.

NORTHWEST at Lindenwood Emporia St. at Pittsburg St. Missouri Western at Ft. Hays St. Washburn at Central Missouri

MHS FOOTBALL MEC STANDINGS

Overall

MARYVILLE...........................7-0 Smithville.............................5-2 Lafayette..............................5-2 Savannah.............................5-2 Bishop LeBlond......................4-3 Chillicothe.............................3-4 Benton.................................2-5 Cameron...............................0-7

Oct 10:

MARYVILLE at Savannah Lafayette at Bishop LeBlond Cameron at Benton Smithville at Chillicothe

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5-0 4-1 4-1 3-2 2-3 1-4 1-4 0-5

MEC STANDINGS

Overall

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Savannah.........................24-0 Bishop LeBlond..................22-3 Smithville.........................8-14 MARYVILLE.......................14-7 Benton............................10-18 Lafayette..........................5-14 Chillicothe.........................9-14 Cameron..........................15-12

9-0 8-1 5-1 5-4 2-8 2-10 1-9 0-4

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MARYVILLE at Chillicothe Smithville at Savannah

Oct. 14:

MARYVILLE at Smithville

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Senior running back Brody McMahon rushes up the field Friday against Smithville.

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The Spoofhounds boys soccer team has rounded into form after they were as low as four games below .500. The Hounds picked up three key victories in MEC matches in 10 days.

All three matches presented a difficult test for the Spoofhounds.

Maryville head coach Stuart Collins knew his team would have to be ready for both matches if they wanted to beat Benton and Cameron.

“We knew going in that this would be a tough match,” Collins said. “We had to play our best in order to beat both teams and I feel like we did that.”

Junior forward Zach Brod stole the show for the Spoofhounds last week, scoring four goals and adding two assists.

Against Benton, Brod scored Maryville’s lone goal in the 49th minute as junior goalkeeper Michael Holly was able to preserve the shutout for the Hounds, saving 10 shots.

“It feels great to score the goals,” Brod said. “But it is even better when we score as a team and end the day with a win.”

Against Cameron, Brod played his way into a hat trick, scoring in the sixth, 57th, and 75th minutes. Freshman goalkeeper Lucas Jasinski saved all eight shots that he faced.

“We’re getting back to playing Spoofhounds soccer. We had a few games where we didn’t play well,” Collins said. “But we’ve worked on some of the things that have been holding us back.”

The Hounds beat Savannah on Tuesday 3-1. Junior midfielder Dimi-

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The Hounds won 2-0 both on the road against Benton and at home against Plattsburg last week. Maryville will travel to Chillicothe tonight.

Brady Bolles

Junior quarterback Brady Bolles of the Bearcats football team set a season high and tied his career high as he threw four touchdowns against Northeastern last Saturday.

tri Filopoulos scored in the fifth minute. The Savages tied the game 1-1 in the 32nd minute. In the second half of the game, the Hounds got goals from senior midfielder Mitch Worthington and junior midfielder Kennon Baker.

“We played well tonight. I was pleased with the way the boys communicated with each other,” Collins said. “We need to keep the momentum going.”

The Spoofhounds host East High School out of Kansas City, with the varsity starting at 4 p.m. tonight.

“I haven’t seen them play this season,” Collins said. “I know that they are very athletic and very good.

They will present a tough test for us.”

The Hounds will go into today’s game with a winning record of 8-7-2.

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Junior Mollie Holtman and Freshman Shelby Wolters move onto State Qualifiers after making the 103 stroke cut in Sectionals last week. State Finals are on Monday and Tuesday.

Miranda Foster

As a sophomore outside hitter on the volleyball team Miranda Foster racked up a total of 29 kills in the Bearcats’ victories over Pittsburg State and Southwest Baptist last weekend.

After two straight home games, Maryville (7-0) will go on a road trip to Savannah (5-2) to add a new chapter to the rivalry.

Separated by 30 miles, the Hounds have looked forward to this game for a while. Head coach Matt Webb expects to have another great following.

“This rivalry is fun and the teams and fans enjoy it,” Webb said. “It going be a great game in a great stadium.”

Savannah had a rough start in conference play, losing their first two games. Since then, the Savages have turned things around winning three straight, and scoring at least 47 points or more each game.

“We played two very tough teams to start conference play,” head coach Chad Smith said.

Savannah’s defense has played the biggest role in turning its season around. The Savages have allowed 26 points per game on the season, but have allowed an average of 13 points per game in the last three games.

“They have a very good front seven,” Webb said. “Their secondary is great at making tackles in space, and their linebackers are good at reading plays.”

Spoofhounds running backs are excited to go against this defense.

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Spoofhounds took second place as a team in districts.

They were unable to play Chillicothe for their final game due to lack of players. The team finished its season 7-7.

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With junior Brody McMahon and junior Dakota Beemer, the Hounds are anxious to go against a team that has been red-hot lately.

“They’re playing well right now,” McMahon said. “They’ll be ready for us but we’ll be ready for them.”

Junior Dakota Beemer, who rushed for 116 yards last game against Smithville, is also looking forward to another great opportunity.

“We’ll be watching lots of film on them this week,” Beemer said.

“It’s a rivalry game so it’s going to be a great opportunity to have another statement game.”

Savannah’s balanced attack on offense will keep a tough Maryville defense guessing and create opportunities.

“It’s just our identity,” Smith said.

“If we can’t run the ball, we’ll pass the ball, and if we can’t pass the ball, we’ll run the ball.”

With the final two games of the regular season on the road and against some of Class 4’s best teams, Webb realizes that finishing strong in these two games are vital; The key is keeping the “one game at a time” mentality.

“We’re going to be tested in these last couple games,” Webb said. “First, we have Savannah and they’re a good team that’s very well coached.”

Kickoff is at 7 p.m. at Savannah High School.

The Hounds concluded their regular season, by losing all four of their games at the Benton tournament on Saturday, dropping their record to 3-18 overall.

Districts start Wednesday.

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Maryville boy’s placed fifth out of 13 teams at the Savannah Invitational. The girls team placed two athletes.

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Junior forward Zach Brod of the Spoofhounds soccer team, tallied up four goals and two assists over his past three games as he came up with a hat trick against Cameron last Friday.

Senior Dominique Wiedmaier of the Maryville cross Country team placed ninth and was a medalist at the Savannah Invitational last Saturday, setting a personal record running a 22:50.

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Senior Wick Cunningham pushes through the last mile during the Fall Classic Sept. 8.

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With a full week until their next meet, the Bearcats cross country team will be training hard to prepare for a postseason run.

While the season started just over a month ago, the Bearcats only have one meet remaining before the MIAA championships.

“It’s a great week to train real hard,” head coach Scott Lorek said.

“Now that our frequent racing is over we are going to see some good quality races.”

The team will hopes to finish the regular season strong after accomplishing a great deal for such a young team. After the week off, the team will head to Hays, Kansas, for the Tiger Open.

Junior Brooklyn Ellis is excited to have a week off after she placed fourth highest for the Bearcats at the Chili Pepper Festival. Ellis rain a 19:12 in the five-kilometer race.

“The last three weekends we have had a meet,” Ellis said. “Mileage in training will go up a little but we are ready for a week off.”

This past weekend the Bearcats traveled to Arkansas to compete in the Chili Pepper Festival. The field was packed with teams ranging from Division I to Division III. With the field being so crowded the Bearcats did not place high as a team, but several runners set personal records.

Sophomore Wick Cunningham

led the men’s team with a time of 25:41 in the eight-kilometer and finished 86th out of 429 runners. Ryan Cox finished in a time of 26:30 placing 163rd with Tim Grundmayer right on his heels, finishing with a time of 26:32 and placing 169th. Johnny Harley ran a time of 26:36 finishing 176th and Joe Anger rounded out the Bearcats top five runners with a time of 26:56 and placing 206th.

“The men were a little banged up,” Lorek said. “Even with that, our men’s team beat three Division I teams which really shows how competitive our conference and Division II is.”

The women’s team saw Senior Anne Herbert finish 42nd out of 375 runners with a time of 17:35 in the five-kilometer. Samantha Laurenzo placed 153rd with a time of 18:49 followed closely by Jessica Johnson who ran a time of 18:57 and placing 164th. Brooklyn Ellis ran a time of 19:12 which netted her 185th, and Katie Bush was the number five runner for the Bearcats, earning 199th with a time of 19:23.

“It was a lot of fun,” Ellis said. “It was really cool to see almost all of our girls running personal records.”

The junior ran a personal best but says she could have ran it faster.

“I had a lot of energy left at the end,” Ellis said. “I think the goals for most of next week is to start faster so we won’t have as much energy left at the end.”

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day and Missouri Southern Saturday, weather forced the Bearcats into a Sunday-Monday trip to southeastern Missouri.

In Sunday’s match against Missouri Southern, Cole scored two goals in the first 18 minutes to lead the Bearcats to a 2-1 victory. The following day, Northwest allowed two goals in the first five minutes and were unable to fight back against Southwest Baptists, losing 3-0. Northwest was outshot 29-3 in the match.

“You just have to deal with that,” Northwest head coach Tracy Hoza said. “We had a decent recovery time … could that have happened had we had two days off? We don’t know.

That was the first five minutes and we kinda gave up things.”

With the goal of advancing to the first MIAA postseason tournament since 2011 in their minds, Cole said this year’s squad has the right mindset to get the job done during the last four weeks of the regular season.

“Everyone definitely wants it more,” Cole said. “We play as a team, we play together and we play for each other. We all want the same outcome so it doesn’t matter who gets what goals, who defends what, we all do it as a team and it’s helped a lot.”

Northwest hosts Emporia State at 3:30 p.m. Friday at Bearcat Pitch.

The Bearcats will close out the weekend homestand against Washburn at noon Sunday.

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Northwest finished 11th at the Central Oklahoma Classic last weekend.

Senior Taylor Gard led the Bearcats finishing in 31st place, shooting rounds of 76 and 80. Sophomore Taylor Gardner finished 47th overall, shooting rounds of 79 and 81.

The Bearcats beat Pittsburg State and Southwest Baptist last weekend as they now ride a three match winning streak.

Sophomore Miranda Foster racked up 29 kills between the two victories. Northwest will face Nebraska Kearney and Fort Hays on the road this weekend.

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Sophomore midfielder Ashley Cole defends the ball against two Bemidji State players Sept. 14, losing 2-0.

With four weeks left in the regular season, the Bearcats women’s soccer team is in a tie for the final spot in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association Women’s Soccer Championship. After coming away with one win and one tie from a weekend road trip, Northwest (5-41, 2-3-1 MIAA) has the possibility of climbing up the conference rankings against two teams in the bottom half of the MIAA this weekend.

Northwest hosts Emporia State (4-2-4, 1-1-4 MIAA) Friday in a matchup that was dominated by the Bearcats in 2013, defeating the Hornets 4-1. The Hornets are winless since 2005 in road trips to Maryville and head coach Bryan Sailer said it has always been a tough road trip.

“I’m not sure we are looking to go there (Maryville). We never play well there,” Sailer said. “I don’t know that we look forward to going places when you’ve never done very well. Obviously, you’re just trying to do better than you did last time.”

Emporia State is led by freshman forward Grace Linton, who has scored four goals while starting every game for the Hornets, placing her

fourth among conference goal scorers. Sophomore goalkeeper Yadira Rivera ranks second in the MIAA in saves, allowing 1.01 goals per game and has allowed only one goal in the first half of all games in 2014.

“She (Grace) has got good speed and good skill and is the total package for a forward. She’s tough to handle,” Sailer said. “Yadira, obviously, I think she’s the best goalie in our league. A lot of coaches feel the same way …

Both, at the back end and the front end, are very important pieces.”

Northwest and Emporia State have three common opponents in 2014, both losing to No. 13 Central Missouri and defeating Northeastern State. Emporia State tied Central Oklahoma 0-0, while Northwest lost its lone matchup 1-0.

The Bearcats end the weekend homestand when they host Washburn (0-9-1, 0-5-1 MIAA) for the second annual “Kick for the Cure” breast cancer awareness game Sunday. Northwest will wear custom pink jerseys for the match and honor the Bearcats’ friends and family who are survivors of the disease during halftime of the match.

“It’s definitely cool … it’s just a good cause,” sophomore midfielder Ashley Cole said. “We do donations, people can buy our jerseys or we can.

It’s just good to have a lot of support and support a good cause.”

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t was a historic fall season for the Bearcats men’s tennis team. After finishing as the 18th ranked team in the nation last spring and winning the conference title, it made history at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Central Regionals when the championship featured two Bearcats.

The match was between fellow Bearcats junior Alvaro Riveros and sophomore Romain Boissinot. It was the first time ever in the program’s history that two Bearcats were competing in the same match for the Nationals spot. Either way head coach Mark Rosewell was going to be a happy man.

“It was remarkable to have my own players playing each other in the finals,” head coach Mark Rosewell said. “Going against three different conferences and get Romain and Alvaro there is great.”

It wasn’t an easy road for Boissinot, as he went against two seeded op-

ponents. Boissinot defeated the tenthseeded Mohab El Zanaty who, before facing Boissinot, defeated the second seeded athlete, Marko Boskovic. The Bearcat ended the tournament by playing his teammate Riveros, who was seeded fifth. Now, Boissinot is preparing for a trip to Sumter, South Carolina, for the national individual tournament.

“It’s great and I’m surprised to be going,” said Boissinot. “I was seeded number seven in the bracket and I feel great to have this chance.”

One might consider playing against a teammate a bitter match, but Boissinot explains how he felt as he played against Riveros for that nationals spot.

“We talked to each other before our semi-finals matches and wanted to play each other,” Boissinot said.

“It was a bit difficult at first but we knew that after that match our school was going to have someone go to nationals.”

Since Boissinot is from Le Pellenn, France it has been a challenge to get acclimated with the American culture, let alone having nationally recognized success.

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After starting slow last week, Northwest (5-0) has plans to rain on Lindenwood’s (1-4) homecoming parade early in the game Saturday.

While the Bearcats ended up beating a winless Northeastern team by 42 last weekend, they only carried a seven-point lead into halftime. As the No. 1 team in the nation, they have yet to put a team away in the first half.

“Our number one goal this week is to go into St. Louis and to play a complete game,” head coach Adam Dorrel said. “Offense, defense, special teams for 60 minutes.”

Senior tight end Alex Visk, who caught the first touchdown pass of his career last Saturday, said the offense came out lethargic in the first half of last week’s game. He believes the team needs to come out of the gates clicking offensively, in order to keep the Lions from believing they can pull off the upset.

“Their record doesn’t reflect the type of team they are,” Visk said. “They play hard and they’re a good team.

With it being homecoming, and they have a chip on their shoulder towards our program, I think it makes an even bigger emphasis this week that we need to be ready to go and we need to get that in our mind early. And, hopefully, ruin their homecoming pretty quickly.”

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half. Senior safety Dylan Chadwick said the defense has not lost confidence in the Northwest offense.

“Defensively, we played well the entire game,” Chadwick said. “But the whole time we’re behind our offense’s back. We have no doubt that however they start the game, they’re going to

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With the defense allowing six total rushing yards over the span of the last three weeks and averaging just over eleven points against them through five games, it is hard to point out direct

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flaws in the unit. However, Dorrel says the players on the defensive side of the ball are eager to improve.

“Couple missed opportunities for interceptions, maybe trying to clean up some of the penalties,” Dorrel said.

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The MIAA is known for football.

This year, the top teams in the conference had a lot of expectations heading into the season.

Teams like Northwest, Pittsburg State, Missouri Western State, Emporia State, and the University of Central Missouri all had national title aspirations and only a few of those teams really had a chance to win the title.

However, outsider expectations for this conference are going to fall short.

Missouri Western, Central Missouri, and Emporia are all 3-2 on the season, and all three are each losing games in reality they should be winning.

For example, Missouri Western struggled in its first game of the season, beating Central Missouri 10-9 at home. In week two, the Griffons lost to Central Oklahoma 1726. Missouri Western was eliminated from postseason play by losing to Pitt State last weekend. Three losses all but eliminates a team from playoff contention.

Pittsburg State is also struggling with teams they should beat. The Gorillas lost to one of the bottom feeders of the MIAA. Fort Hays State went into Pittsburg and pulled, arguably, the biggest upset of the season.

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