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Senior defensive end Mike Ehlke retrieves a fumble Nov. 2 at Bearcat Stadium against Northeastern State and scores an 18-yard touchdown, the first of his collegiate career. The Bearcat’s 79-0 win was good for the widest margin of victory in program history.

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Jock’s Nitch store to close

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pecial notice signage replaces Northwest T-shirts and Spoofhound hoodies in the glass storefront windows of Jock’s Nitch Sporting Goods in Maryville.

The former Bearcat and Spoofhound gear hub Jock’s Nitch announced Nov. 4 that it will be quitting business in Maryville and will hold a liquidation sale for overstocked sporting goods as the business prepares to leave town. The official date of closure is set for Nov. 11.

The sale will come along with special hours Nov. 7-10 where the entire inventory will be marked at 25% to 80% off retail value.

Phil Minton, president and CEO of Jock’s Nitch said the company made the decision to terminate the Maryville store in October. He said the store has not been making money for the company in a little more than five years.

“While our expenses in property tax, insurance and building cost was going up, our sales remained steady, and even staggered and weren’t rising to meet the needs of the company,” Minton said.

Jock’s Nitch opened as a company in 1979 in Pittsburg, Kansas and has five locations in that state. The company specializes in outfitting local universities in the towns they reside with apparel and merchandise.

Jock’s Nitch came to Maryville in 2006

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After being a part of the Maryville community for 13 years, Jock’s Nitch Sporting Goods announced Nov. 4 that it is set to close Nov. 11 due to lack of business.

when Northwest football was proving itself as a force to be dealt with in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association. Minton said 2009, a year the Bearcats won the national championship, was the best year for sales.

“When they (Northwest football) won another championship in 2013, we only got one eighth of

the sales we made in 2009,” Minton said.

In relation to the closure announcement, Jock’s Nitch has reached out to Northwest Director of Athletics Andy Peterson with an interest to keep a small team store in Maryville.

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In a red “Make America Great Again” baseball cap sat 69 names scribbled onto small blue pieces of paper. At the end of the of the College Republicans meeting, one of those names would be the new owner of an AR-15 80% lower receiver.

In an effort to heighten publicity, Northwest College Republicans began selling raffle tickets for an AR-15 80% lower receiver Sept.

30. Tickets sold for $10 apiece, or at a discounted price of $5 if purchased while attending a College Republicans meeting. The organization raised $500 from the efforts.

“Sup up my fellow Republicans, let’s get rid of this gun,” someone at the College Republicans meeting Nov. 4 in Valk 50 said minutes before the meeting began.

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College Republican members applaud the AR-15 80% lower receiver raffle winner sophomore Peyton Jones at the Nov. 4 meeting in Valk Center.

junior Jasper Logan led the raffle efforts. He’s the one who reached out to Facebook friends looking for an AR-15 donation. He’s the one who dug through campus pol-

icy, finding no restrictions against raffling off an AR-15 80% lower receiver, and he’s the one who drew the raffle winner.

“When I ran to be the presi-

dent last year, I said I wanted to make our organization known on campus,” Logan said. “Make it known that we’re active and doing stuff. I think this really accomplished that.”

Peyton Jones, a transfer student from Missouri Western, is in his first semester at Northwest and immediately joined College Republicans. He normally attends the regularly scheduled College Republicans meetings but missed for the first time Nov. 4, when his name was drawn as the new owner of an AR-15 80% lower receiver.

Jones had purchased two of the 69 raffle tickets sold.

“I was getting ready to start a flag football game,” Jones said.

“I looked at my phone, and Jasper sent me a text and said that I won.”

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After the release of his fourth album, “Anonymous,” rapper Blackbear will be coming to campus Nov. 9.

The doors to Bearcat Arena will open at 7 p.m. The concert is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. The concert will last until about 11 p.m.

Tickets that students purchase in advance are $10 or $15 the day of the concert and public tickets are $20 when purchased in advance and $25 on the day of the concert.

Matthew Musto is a singer and producer who goes by the stage name Blackbear. According to the Northwest calendar description, he is best known for co-writing Justin Bieber’s “Boyfriend,” which was No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2012.

Blackbear also has credits that include working with Pharrell Williams, Nick Jonas, Childish Gambino and Linkin Park.

Blackbear went from a songwriter to a rapper and R&B singer. He has five studio albums, one of which is half of the electronic hip-hop and R&B influenced duo Mansionz with singer-songwriter Mike Posner.

His latest hit, “Hot Girl Bummer” which reached No. 91 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, was released on his latest studio album, “Anonymous,” in April. The album reached No. 36 on the Billboard 200.

OBB will open for Blackbear.

OBB is a pop trio of three brothers from Atlanta, Georgia. The brothers, Zach Oswald, Jacob Oswald and Nich Oswald had their 2017 single, “Mona Lisa,” appear in a national Google Chrome campaign ad and in an episode of “Dude Perfect.” OBB recently released their third single, “Foolish.”

The student feedback they have received indicates many students are excited to see someone like Blackbear on campus.

The selection process for the entertainment was based off of student surveys conducted by SAC. Many students wanted to see popular and expensive artists, several of which were out of SAC’s budget. After some consideration, Blackbear was chosen because of his growing prominence on college campuses and because he was in the price range that SAC could afford.

OBB was selected to set the mood for Blackbear’s performance.

Apodaca said that SAC spoke with OBB’s team and was able to get them to open for Blackbear.

“We are both really excited,”Apodaca said.

Student Activities Council Co-Directors of Concert Programming junior Aleka Apodaca and junior Bri Bales said SAC gathers the funds to put on a concert such as this one through a fee within Northwest students’ tuition that helps SAC pay for activities.

According to the Bursar Office on campus, this is known as the Designated Fee. This fee is split into different sections to cover various expenses across campus.

Apodaca said ticket sales help put back some of the money used for the concert. Bales said that these sales give SAC some money in case they decide to host other activities in the future.

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UPD aims to reduce liquor law violations, sexual assaults Reported On-Campus Crime Statistics

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In reviewing campus crime statistics for the annual Security and Fire Safety Report, University Police aims to decrease liquor law violations, theft and sexual assaults related to social media and dating apps through preventative patrolling and programming.

Disciplinary referrals for liquor law violations have increased to 411 from 384 in 2017, and UPD Chief Clarence Green said many have come from student tailgating just off of University property, then coming to athletic events or to residence halls.

Green said since tailgating rules changed in 2017 to allow designated drinking lots, UPD has increased its presence around the stadium before games, but the empty lot across the street from campus has proved problematic for crime prevention.

“We’re not really having any issues, very minimal issues within our lots of minors consuming alcohol,” Green said. “Our biggest problem is in the unregulated area across the way from us.”

Green said UPD has worked with Maryville Public Safety to police that area in an attempt to keep underage students from drinking, but its status as private property has hindered the process.

The second-highest reported crime in the report is disciplinary referrals for drug abuse violations.

Violations dropped from 42 to 18 from 2016 to 2017, but rose again in 2018 to 39.

Green said many of those were from students possessing small quantities of marijuana.

“About four years ago with some help from Dr. (Kori) Hoffmann out of student conduct to where we implemented some processes around disorderly conduct if you just smelled like marijuana and entered our campus,” Green said.

“What we found was; we pushed

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a lot of our marijuana cases … out of the hall. We’ve not prevented the crime, but we’ve just kind of pushed it to a different location.”

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with UPD during the summer. Green said they are an essential part of prevention of liquor and drug violations. For the last two years, Jacob Wood has acted as a law enforce-

ment liaison in the residence halls.

Green said statistics for liquor and drug violations ebb and flow, but he said the general trend remains consistent.

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TTI emerges during a national shortage of trade school attendees, as more high school students are immediately looking to two-year and fouryear colleges for higher education.

According to an NPR report, many higher-paying jobs are left unfilled as more people are pushed to go to college and get a degree.

The report explains how college is not for everyone, especially fouryear institutions that tend to rack up more debt for individuals.

According to The Atlantic, there is $1.5 trillion in outstanding student debt as of 2018. College graduates generally make more money, but trade and technical schools are known for providing accelerated learning where students graduate in less than four years.

However, as trade school increases in demand nationally, the addition of TTI in northwest Missouri is one way that gap is shortened locally.

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In 2018, 11 incidents of rape, 11 incidents of fondling, 11 cases of dating violence and two cases of stalking were reported to UPD. Although these incidents were reported directly to UPD or through the Title IX office, Green said many students chose to report only for documentation and not to press charges. In those cases, he said there is not much UPD can do on those students’ behalf to keep them safe.

“We try to refer them to different services, but sometimes it’s very difficult,” Green said. “What we do try to work with them on is connecting with an advocate, connecting them with a counselor and trying to empower them to eventually go forward.”

In recent years, Green said many reported sexual assaults have involved students meeting on dating apps or social media. He said in the past, the majority of sexual assault or stalking cases were perpetrated by someone the victim knew and trusted. “(Dating apps and social media) have made predatory behavior difficult to understand from a law enforcement perspective,” Green said.

Green said preventative programming teaches students some strategies for being safe when they are alone on campus or at night, but he said the heart of crime prevention is through the perpetrators and not the victims.

“We have to get that messaging across, and that’s something we’re working on daily,” Green said. “We don’t have a good strategy of how we’re going to do that, but we’re really trying to work hard to figure that out.”

Although theft, burglary and property damage are not included on the report, Green said those are the highest statistics and the ones UPD looks at the most. He said UPD also analyzes well-being checks and medical calls.

Tarkio College revived as local technology institute

In 1883, a northwest Missouri college began providing higher education to students and building up a legacy of achievement in academics and sports, coming to an unexpected halt a century later.

The college lost funding, and in an attempt to keep on its feet, the institution dug into its small chunk of endowments. In 1992, that fund dried up and Tarkio College closed its doors. Now, 28 years later, the college in Tarkio, Missouri, 31 miles west of Maryville, will reopen under a new name, the Tarkio Technology Institute.

TTI will serve as a post-secondary career and technical school offering diploma and certificate programs in plumbing technology, computer technology and wind energy technology. After receiving certification from the Missouri Department of Higher Education in August, the campus is set to open January 2020.

tling in the northwest Missouri area as TTI plans its 2020 opening. Interim President of TTI John Davis said there will be a strong relationship between the institute and those local energy companies in need of hires.

“We want to support our local businesses as much as we can, but also our programs will really be designed around meeting their needs in terms of employees,” Davis told KMA news. “Also, we will have a series of academic development courses for students who do not have the skills to compete at a twoyear or four-year college.”

The Tarkio Alumni Association and Tarkio College Board have led the efforts of bringing the campus back to life. The organization was tasked with bringing in a necessary $250,000 to complete the certification process.

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Missouri Western State University will have a four-day course schedule starting in the fall semester of the 2020-21 school year.

Missouri Western declined to specify why they decided to change the weekly schedule, but there is speculation that it may be due to lack of funding.

Missouri Western will be removing Fridays from their school week and turning them into flexible, handson learning opportunities, according to a press release from the university. Fridays at Missouri Western will be known as “Gold Fridays.”

Missouri Western is Missouri’s official applied learning universi-

ty. Fridays will be reserved for concentrated and purposeful experiential learning opportunities, according to Missouri Western’s Gold Fridays website.

Students will have the opportunity to do what they wish with their Gold Fridays. Students can still access campus for things such as labs, participating in organizations, tutoring services and meeting with teachers.

They also can use the opportunity to work at their jobs, begin internships or any other learning opportunities.

Missouri Western President Matt Wilson said in a press release, “No other university in the area is doing anything like this.”

Wilson also said in the press re-

lease the university’s main focus will be to retain quality and ensure success.

The revised schedule will hold most classes Monday through Thursday. According to the press release, a four day schedule may not be functional for every program, but most of the programs will be modified to fit the new schedule.

The press release states that Gold Fridays are not intended to be a “day off” but to offer students freedom to seize opportunities that could enhance their education. Wilson sees Gold Fridays as a recruitment tool for future Griffons.

Robert Bergland, an associate professor at Northwest, worked as an associate professor of journalism at Missouri Western for 22 years. Ber-

gland said the new president, Matthew J. Wilson, J.D., at Missouri Western came from an institution that had already implemented a four-day school week.

According to a Missouri Western press release, Wilson’s installation as president, the university he applied a four-day weekly schedule to, was University of Akron. Wilson was president of the University of Akron for two years.

Bergland also said that Missouri Western has done a four-day school week during a summer semester.

He said during the summer, the university closed most of the buildings on Fridays. This allowed Missouri Western to save money by conserving electricity and other utilities used to run the buildings.

“I think it is something that we will periodically take out and look at as is it the right thing to do for our university? Is it the right thing to do for students? Is it the best thing to do for student learning? Right now, I don’t think that’s necessarily the window we’re at,” Northwest’s Provost, Jamie Hooyman said when she was asked if Northwest would do anything like a four-day schedule in the future.

As a close competitor of Missouri Western, Northwest’s consideration of a four-day school week is currently minimal.

Nationally, other schools have had similar experiences as Missouri Western and have implemented a four-day school schedule to recruit and save money.

Northwest invests in recruiting Hispanic students SAMANTHA COLLISON Campus News Editor | @SammieCollison

In an effort to reach a rapidly-growing demographic in the U.S., the role of Northwest’s diversity and inclusion coordinator — with support through the Hispanic Development Fund — has pivoted to include recruiting Hispanic and Latino students in Missouri metropolitan areas.

Coordinator of Diversity and Inclusion Adam Gonzales is the son of immigrants and Spanish is his first language. Since last fall, he has attended college fairs in St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri, to recruit Spanish-speaking and latino high school students to Northwest.

According to a 2018 Pew Research study, the number of Latinos under 35 increased 20% in 10 years, making it one of the fastest-growing youth populations in the country and the U.S.’s youngest major ethnic group. Latinos make up 25% of the U.S. K-12 students.

Because many Hispanic and Latino students are first-generation Americans and first-generation college students, Gonzales works directly with the Greater Kansas City Hispanic Development Fund, which provides assistance to students in filling out college applications, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and scholarship applications.

“With many of these fairs, we’re dealing with first and second generation students whose families, some of them still don’t have a great grasp of the English language, some of the students are undocumented,” Gonzales said. “I’m the only bilingual recruiter we have

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Adam Gonzales works to gain Hispanic recruitment Nov. 5 in his office located in the Student Engagement Center.

on campus. … Culturally speaking, I’ve kind of been in that place that the students are in.”

Through the transition to the Provost’s Office, Gonzales said diversity and inclusion has taken on an even greater focus in recruitment and retention of underrepresented students. In making that change, he said it’s not just about increasing study hours, staff, trainings, scholarships and programming.

“It starts with simply having people who are capable of providing genuine support and a cultural understanding for those students

who come from backgrounds that may not be the same as ours,” Gonzales said.

At the Board of Regents meeting Oct. 23, a two-year memorandum was unanimously passed to match scholarships through the Greater Kansas City Hispanic Development Fund up to $5,000 per student for up to 10 students per year.

According to the memorandum brief, Northwest has provided 18 matching scholarships totaling $14,625 over the last five years.

Northwest has been part of the Hispanic Development Fund Schol-

arship Program for more than 15 years, and Vice President of External Relations Lonelle Rathje introduced the two-year memorandum to extend that partnership.

In addition to the memorandum passing unanimously, Board Member John Moore said he would like to see the University put more resources into the partnership and pay more attention to Latino and Hispanic students populations. He said he wants the Board to match scholarships by 150% or 200%, and either through University funds or donors, contribute $5,000 to

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“I would like to see us establish ourselves as sort of the premier partner of this group,” Moore said.

“I think it would be an excellent way for us to stand out and to perhaps really send a message to the Hispanic community in the Kansas City area about how serious we are about serving their community.”

Gonzales said he feels his outreach is limited by lack of staff.

Since he is the only Spanish-speaking employee recruiting for Northwest, maintaining relationships with communities in St. Louis and Kansas City takes him away from his role with current students.

“I think our efforts could be increased with an increase in focus on recruiting Hispanic and Latinx staff and faculty,” Gonzales said.

Gonzales said having representation of Hispanic and Latino communities on campus in faculty and staff would help students feel more comfortable and help them succeed, but it would also take the burden off him alone to represent the Latino community among employees.

“My greatest fear is I do too good of a job recruiting, and then we get students who say, ‘Where are all the Latinos?’ once they get here,” Gonzales said. “I’m happy to be the person they can go to for that resource and connection, but I’m only one person.”

Gonzales said the University is taking steps toward increasing and diversifying its recruitment, but there is still room to grow in increasing and diversifying recruitment staff.

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for the week of Nov. 7 Northwest Missouri State University Police Department Oct. 28 There is an open investigation for stealing at Perrin Hall.

Oct. 31 A summons was issued to Mamadou Seck, 20, for possession of a weapon at South Complex.

Nov. 1 A summons was issued to Ozzie Rodriguez, 25, for possession of marijuana at Colden Hall.

Nov. 2 There was a closed investigation for six counts of liquor law possession at Perrin Hall.

Nov. 3 There was a closed investigation for stealing at Dietrich Hall.

There was a closed investigation for stealing at Franken Hall.

Nov. 4 There is an open investigation for stalking at the J.W. Jones

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souri, for minor in possession and open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle at the 200 block of West Seventh Street.

A summons was issued to Briana M. Saad, 20, of Kansas City, Missouri, for minor in possession and possession of a fake I.D at the 200 block of West Seventh Street.

A summons was issued to Alex R. Chapman, 19, of Oskaloosa, Iowa, for resisting arrest, minor in possession, littering and possession of a fake I.D at the 500 block of North Buchanan Street.

Oct. 26 A summons was issued to Savana E. Wiederholt, 22, for failure to affix front license plate at the 200 block of East Second Street.

Oct. 27 There is an ongoing investigation for discharging a firearm at the 1100 block of East Fifth Street.

A summons was issued to Ryan S. Easley, 19, of Edina, Missouri, for driving while intoxicated - drugs at the 1700 block of East First Street.

Oct. 28 There is an ongoing investigation for assault at the 100 block of South Walnut Street.

Oct. 30 There is an ongoing investigation for larceny at the 300 block of East Fourth Street.

There is an ongoing investigation for larceny at the 500 block of West Third Street.

Oct. 31 A summons was issued to Halea G. Vangundy, 20, for minor in possession at the 200 block of East Fourth Street.

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A summons was issued to Kolby M. Tomas, 18, of Creston, Iowa, for possession of another’s I.D. on the 500 block of North Main Street.

A summons was issued to Brody J. Strickland, 18, for driving while intoxicated, under 19 in a bar, possession of a fake I.D., failure to use turn signal and improper display of license plates at the 100 block of West Third Street.

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There is an ongoing investigation for theft of utility services at the 1500 block of East Edwards.

A summons was issued to Lenexa P. Bennett, 17, for minor in possession at the 300 block of East Second Street.

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Oct. 25 A summons was issued to Zachary S. Oberdiek, 28, of Platte City, Missouri, for driving while intoxicated and operating a motor vehicle with an open container at the 200 block of West Fourth Street.

A summons issued to Spencer D. Owens, 20, and Malia Cunningham, 20, of Kearney, Missouri, for minor in possession at the 300 block of West Fifth Street.

A summons was issued to Robert Shoe, 19, of Braymer, Mis-

A summons issued to Spencer C. Weir, 18, of Ravenwood, Missouri, for minor in possession and under 19 in a bar at the 500 block of North Buchanan Street.

Nov. 3 There is an ongoing investigation for property damage at the 600 block of North Mulberry Street.

A summons was issued to Robert E. Tracy, 40, for failure to register a motor vehicle, displaying the plates of another and no proof of insurance at the 1500 block of East Edwards Street.

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CONTINUED FROM A1 The AR-15 80% lower receiver was donated to College Republicans by Robby Theremin from Joplin, Missouri. Theremin knows Logan through working on the Austin Petersen 2018 U.S. Senate campaign together.

Theremin happened upon Logan’s Facebook post when he decided to provide the AR-15 80% lower receiver for the raffle. Theremin said the donation was simply “standard operating procedures” for him.

“I’m a gun guy,” Theremin said.

“I’ve taught people how to shoot; I enjoy it. I enjoy shooting sports, targets. I don’t hunt. I love the machines too. It’s something I enjoy doing and enjoy helping other people enjoy.”

An hour east of Maryville sits McFall, Missouri, population 91, where Jones grew up hunting with his dad and grandpa — who is a taxidermist, often stuffing deer.

A few weeks prior to the raffle drawing, Jones and his brother bought their first AR-15 from a friend, totaling his gun ownership count to four. Jones said he entered the raffle for the slight chance of winning his own lower receiver.

An AR-15, he said, is more so used for coyote hunting. There are quite a few back home.

“There’s a lot of misconceptions about AR-15’s and, I guess, guns in general,” Jones said. “People just need to do more research before they jump to conclusions.”

Theremin already has the 80% lower receiver, market-priced right around $90, and is just waiting on parts to arrive in the mail to finish out the AR-15 before making the nearly five-hour trip north to meet Jones.

“Legally, he has to be the one to finish it. I can’t do it for him,” Theremin said. “That’s considered manufacturing and requires Federal Firearms License, serial numbers and paperwork. So I’ll just head up to his place, let him finish it out. I’ll loan him one of my uppers so he can test-fire.”

College Republicans Treasurer freshman Abigail Shepard said the raffle sale surpassed any expectations the organization had from the get-go. College Republicans had sold 19 tickets by Oct. 21, marking 20 days into the raffle efforts.

The organization saw an influx in ticket sales after an article ran in the Northwest Missourian Oct. 24, selling 50 tickets in a 14-day span.

The original intent behind the raffle was to not raise money, though, Shepard said. College Republicans are in a competition with College Democrats, dating back to the Organization Fair Sept. 4, racing to see who can gain the most members.

“I don’t know that it accomplished what we hoped in terms of bringing people in. I do know that a lot of people know who we are,” Shepard said. “A lot of people have made an opinion on whether they support the raffle or they don’t. I

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College Republicans President junior Jasper Logan draws the winner of the AR-15 80% lower receiver raffle out of a hat at the Nov. 4 meeting.

think that is good in and of itself because it brings political awareness to campus.”

The raffle drew in criticism from alumni on social media and sparked a protest on campus attended by less than 10 people Oct. 30. The protest was organized by Northwest senior Artie Bergren.

Bergren stood at the International Flag Plaza for two hours holding a sign saying “An AR-15 is not the same as a shotgun.” The sign was a direct reference to a statement made

by College Republicans pointing out that the Northwest trap shooting club has raffled off shotguns in the past.

“It made me very nervous,” Bergren said. “Private sale is one of the main ways that people who are domestic abusers who don’t have guns get guns they shouldn’t have.

That is a loophole that needs to be closed. The fact that the University is incapable of doing anything about this because they have no policy really frustrated me.”

Theremin said his whole family owns guns — a lot of them. His

Pocket park features historic fountain DEREK CAMPBELL Contributing Reporter | @dscampbell98

On the corner square of Third and Main Streets in Downtown Maryville sits a pocket park under construction in the empty lot by Blue Willow Boutique.

A pocket park is a small park accessible to the general public. Pocket parks are created on single vacant building lots or on small pieces of land.

Conversation for a pocket park began in 2014 when the Maryville Downtown Improvement Organization began significantly focusing on downtown redevelopment.

The park will include three key features to its overall design: a historic fountain, a Maryville mural and a schoolhouse shelter.

“Downtown pocket parks are usually done in efforts to beautify the space for people to congregate and to have more downtown activities,” City Manager Greg McDanel said. “They’re good for the health and vitality of downtown.”

The 4,500-pound granite fountain was originally donated to the city of Maryville in 1911 by the National Humane Alliance on behalf of its founder Hermon Lee Ensign.

Originally centered in the intersection at Fourth and Market streets, the fountain served as a watering fountain for horses, dogs and cats. It was relocated to Northwest when it became an inconvenience to vehicles.

The foundation was moved several times and then put into storage

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A pocket park is under construction in Downtown Maryville. Upon completion, which is expected in spring 2020, the park will include a historic fountain, a Maryville mural and a schoolhouse shelter.

when the weight of the fountain began to affect the steam tunnels under the University. The fountain was recently donated by the University back to the city for the completion of the Pocket Park.

Another key addition to the park will be a Maryville mural. The mural will have the ‘y’ missing from Maryville so people can interact with the mural by having someone be the ‘y’ in the photo. The mural will also have a heart design where the ‘y’ is supposed to go.

“I would love to see younger people interacting with our park,” Maryville Downtown Improvement Organization President Stephanie Campbell said. “Also, the park

has the ability to bridge the gap between generations.”

One of the final additions to the park will be the restoration of an old schoolhouse. The schoolhouse will be turned into an open shelter for people to rest or host events at the park. Inside of the schoolhouse will be educational billboards about the park and schoolhouse.

McDanel said the schoolhouse would “feel like you are walking into a one-room schoolhouse, but it will be an open-air shelter that ties into Maryville and Nodaway county roots in education.”

The Maryville Downtown Improvement Organization has been working with local businesses and

community members for funding of this park. Due to their efforts, the park will be 100% funded through donations and grants they have received.

“A lot of local contractors have donated their services, which has been super helpful to the parks progress,” Campbell said.

The city and Maryville Downtown Improvement Organization are all hopeful the park will be completed by spring of next year.

Campbell said the pocket park has been a collaborative effort by many people in the community.

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wife recently built her own AR-15 from an 80% lower receiver. Both his wife and daughter have built their own AKs, an AK-47 and an AK-74, respectively. Theremin said his gun ownership ratio of boughtto-built is about 10-to-1.

Theremin said he primarily learned how to build his own guns from internet searches.

“I’ve only built five. I bought, oh God, I lost count,” Theremin said.

Jones is just waiting on a text message from Theremin to let him know when the remaining parts to finish out the lower receiver arrive in the mail. Then, Theremin will make the trek to Maryville to teach Jones how create an operable weapon.

It is recommended to get a selfbuilt AR-15 registered, though there is nothing in particular to enforce that notion. Though, if a person not legally allowed to own a gun is found with one, they will be put in prison.

“The art of the ghost gun,” Theremin said.

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CONTINUED FROM A1 Last year, SAC hosted an outdoor music festival and sold a total 918 tickets to offset the costs of the festival.

Apodaca said SAC has sold about 600 tickets already and hopes to see a surge of sales closer to the concert. Apodaca said the sales trends usually spike right when the concert is announced, then drop for a while. Closer to the concert, the sales will likely spike again.

Some of SAC’s advertising methods include posters, info tables, ads on Facebook and radio ads. The radio ad that they bought was on 95.7 The Vibe in Kansas City, Missouri. SAC will have info tables set up Nov. 7 and Nov. 8, in the J.W. Jones Student Union where they will sell tickets for the concert.

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CONTINUED FROM A1 It would continue to sell Bearcat apparel and merchandise.

“I reached out to Andy (Peterson) and it’s still just talk as of now, but he seems interested,” Minton said.

Jock’s Nitch used to offer special discounts for Northwest students, some items sold for up to 45% off. Minton said the discount brought a lot of students in and is part of why bringing back a small team store may be a good idea.

Minton recognized Northwest said he is sad to have to move business elsewhere because he has become a Bearcat fan.

“Northwest Missouri State has a phenomenal program,” Minton said.

“We hate to go. This was strictly a business decision that had to be made.”

OPINION

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Getting flu shot is civic duty

YOUR VIEW:

Will recent budget cuts towards higher education in Missouri affect your vote in 2020 for governor?

NATHAN ENGLISH Columnist @ThananEnglish

Vaccines don’t cause autism.

Now that the obvious is out of the way, a vaccine that is often overlooked, or even scoffed at, is the flu vaccine. While this may seem like medicine coming up with a remedy for a “minor problem,” it’s so much more than that, and people should seriously consider getting the flu shot this flu season.

An estimated 79,000 people died from the flu in 2017-2018, according to the Center for Disease Control. That total is higher than the last 8 years, and there are a few potential reasons for this.

The staggering amount of people that believe vaccines cause autism aside, many other people have practical reasons for not getting their flu shot. One popular myth is that people can get the flu from the flu vaccine — yeah, that’s not true at all.

Just like people don’t get measles from the measles vaccine, patients don’t get the flu from the flu vaccine. The virus that is used to make the flu shot is a dead virus, it cannot give a patient the flu, said Dr. William Schaffner, an expert in infectious disease and preventative medicine from Vanderbilt University, in an interview with Live Science.

The body does take time to build up immunization to the flu shot, meaning that the vaccination has fully taken effect two weeks after immunization. This could lead to some people showing flu-like symptoms but still having the flu shot, according to the CDC. This is, however, not a deterrent to getting the flu shot, as those people would have gotten sick for sure without immunization.

“If vaccines work, then why do people still get sick?” is a common, half-baked argument against the flu shots and other vaccinations. One reason for this can be the lack of herd immunity that vaccines create.

In simplistic terms, herd immunity is when a large portion of a population has been vaccinated to a particular disease, protecting that population from the disease as a whole, even those not immunized. For herd immunity to work, the number of people vaccinated needs to be a large majority.

Those who cannot receive the vaccine, such as babies younger than six months, and those who the vaccines are less effective on, those 65 years old or older, need all the protection they can get. Not getting the flu shot doesn’t just have consequences for one person, but others as well. The flu can be lethal to newborns and senior citizens, and not getting a vaccination can cost a life, not just a few days of a fever.

Flu shots should also be received every year because the flu strain is different every year, leaving previous immunizations ineffective.

Finally, because everything is about money, flu shots are cheap, often even free. Most pharmacies including Roger’s and Hy-Vee offer flu shots that may be partially or fully covered by most insurances. The Wellness Center also offers free flu shots by appointment.

With little to no cost to the individual, a chance to prevent others from hospitalization and the whole not getting the flu part, there is no reason, barring serious health issues or allergies, to not get a flu shot.

If someone has the means to get a flu shot, it is selfish not too.

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OUR VIEW:

Missouri funding cuts for higher education show lack of vision Every fiscal year comes with passing a new budget, a process the Missouri state government dreads. Crunching numbers inevitably illuminates expenses going up across programs, and seemingly the first program to be considered for being cut in order to make the numbers work is always higher education.

Politifact reported April 10, that Missouri ranks “45th in the nation in per capita state fiscal support for higher education.”

A miserable rank for a state with misery in its name. Seems fitting.

If that doesn’t seem like a big deal, it really should considering Americans invest in higher education for their future, and visible effects of this poor funding are visible just a short hour drive from Maryville. Missouri Western State University is planning on changing their weekly schedule to only include four days of classes as a result of this funding starvation.

Funding is critical for public state universities to continue to operate, and the state government needs to break their pattern of cutting this funding.

According to the Kansas City public radio station KCUR, in 2000, the state funding per individual student totalled $12,471.

Since then, this number has plummeted. The year 2010 saw that value reach $8,907 before sliding down to $6,627 this year.

Making these budget cuts doesn’t make sense and is absolutely ridiculous. Clearly the Missouri state government needs to revisit basic economic concepts to understand investing.

While cutting the funding towards higher education saves money in the short-term, in the long-term, it’s going to only result in the need for more budget cuts.

Funding will go down. Scholarships will decrease in value and quantity. Tuition will steadily go up. Overall enrollment will widdle away as a result of all of these, leaving the state with less well paid employees to tax.

Higher education is an investment. The payout won’t come right away for the state, but in the long-term, it’ll increase stimulation for the state economy and ultimately net more money for the state’s budget.

Adding a cherry on top, boosting Missouri’s state rank through investing in higher education would likely help increase the amount of people moving to Missouri. More people living in the state would only help the economy and the state’s budget.

Continuing to cut higher education every fiscal year is only going to hurt everyone in the state as time goes on. On the other hand, making that investment now would only see a myriad of benefits for generations to come.

“If someone is for more funding, we can get better facilities and public education and stuff. Yeah that sounds like something I can get behind.”

- Dakota Creason | Soph.

“To be honest, I’m not really sure.

But if somebody is like more for funding public schools, then I mean it’s obviously a good thing that I’d support obviously.”

- Dylan Opokn | Junior

“Absolutely. Because as an education major that budget goes towards my kids, and if I don’t feel like my kids that I’m teaching have a right and access to those materials because the budget is cut, then it’s not fair to them.”

- Maizey Lang | Junior

Thinning out primary suffocates ideas DANTE MORELLO Contributing Columnist

The column “Time to thin out primary runners” by Nathan English states that a Cinderella story of a primary is already long gone.

However, if we do a little digging, we can see there are a few past examples that go against this claim.

Of the 10 Democratic primaries since 1972, four of the nominees have had low polling early on. If we were to take the author’s suggestion, many past nominees wouldn’t have gone as far as they have. Former President Jimmy Carter, in particular, was polling less than the current candidates that “have no real shot at winning the nomination.”

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tyEight’s analysis of early primary polls. Similarly, former President Bill Clinton was only polling at 1.3% in the first half and still made it to the White House.

If you want to look at the power of candidates who are not the frontrunners, just look at Andrew Yang.

His policies about using universal basic income to fight automation came to the forefront in October’s debate. If he were not on the debate stage, it’s likely that Sen. Elizabeth Warren wouldn’t have to defend, previously saying, “job loss to automation isn’t true,” nor would we have seen a comparison of Sen. Bernie Sander’s federal jobs guarantee to Yang’s proposal of every American adult receiving $1,000 every month.

The author also stated that the candidates needed more time to answer pressing questions. However, the debates aren’t the only method the candidates can use to respond. For example, Sanders has a very detailed and comprehensive

plan on his website for the Green New Deal, his plan to fight the climate crisis.

If Warren needs more time to explain how her Medicare for All plan will work, I can guarantee that more candidates on the debate stage is not what’s preventing her from doing something similar to Sanders’ Green New Deal page.

According to RealClearPolitics, every candidate other than the four “serious” candidates the author pushes holds 26% of support in the polls as of Nov. 3. This means that by narrowing down the stage so rashly, one out of every four voters would not have their voice heard.

The Democratic National Committee has decided it’s time to steadily raise the requirements to qualify for the debates. October needed candidates to reach 3% in four polls and have 130,000 unique donors. For November, they needed 3% and 165,000 donors.

Looking at this, of the 12 candidates

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from October, nine have currently qualified for the debate in November.

Beto has even recently announced that he will be dropping out of the race. At the time of this announcement, he had not qualified for the November debate. Castro hasn’t hit 3% in a single qualifying poll for the upcoming debate and likely will be out as well. Tulsi is the only one remaining that may or may not make it in. This would already narrow the field down to nine or 10 candidates.

The cutoffs have risen even higher for the December debate.

They need 4% and 200,000 donors.

Biden, Buttigieg, Harris, Sanders and Warren have qualified so far, and other candidates will have a harder time making the cutoffs.

Understandably, the stage was too crowded. But a knee-jerk reaction to only the highest polling members can be disastrous for having the strongest candidate possible and the best chance to beat Trump.

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SUDOKU

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HOROSCOPE ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, a hectic schedule is on the horizon, so it is important to get your organizational skills in order. Things are bound to get busy as the month wears on.

TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, take a few moments at the start of each day this week to just breathe and get ready for what’s in store for you.

Doing so will help you tackle anything that comes your way.

GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 Romantic prospects have you eager to spend time with a special someone, Gemini.

Block out a night or two when you can enjoy time away as a couple.

CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, you may have to let a situation at work blow over instead of letting it get the best of you. It is important to pick your battles in this scenario.

Wait it out for the time being.

LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, a seemingly impossible situation may just need to be seen through a new perspective. Try talking to someone to get a different point of view.

VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, after a lengthy period of rest and relaxation, it is time to get back to the grind. Your skills may be a bit rusty, but things will come back to you quickly.

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LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, you can’t mask a shaky structure, no matter how many superficial changes you make.

Devote some attention to those things that need fixing.

SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Don’t let your mind get the better of you, Scorpio. It’s easy to dream up scenarios, but put yourself in the here and now this week; the future can wait.

SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21

Sagittarius, if an opportunity for advancement at work pops up, grab it with both hands.

You have been waiting for a chance to make your mark and try new things.

CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20

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Capricorn, you have to push through to the finish line this week even if you are feeling tired. Your reward will come with some weekend festivities.

AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 Changes at work are looming, Aquarius. Try to be receptive to the modifications and find a way to put your own mark on things. A leadership role could emerge.

PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, you may need to play mediator in a delicate situation this week. Take a careful approach and consider both sides of the coin.

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58. About latitude 63. Trivial gadget 65. Film a scene again 66. Small blisters 67. Dark brown CLUES DOWN 1. Advanced degree 2. Goes with flow 3. The Caspian is one 4. Accumulate on the surface of

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HUMANS OF NORTHWEST

Alumnus connects to alma mater, students

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Northwest alumus and Executive-in-Residence Chris Hughes describes how he helps students get more organized by utilizing mind maps, or visual diagrams of a concept, Oct. 24 in his office located in the Administration Building.

“I love dry erase boards, obviously,” Hughes said.

With each day, new ideas and In 1979, Chris Hughes was a seplans accumulate on the pristine nior in Red Oak, Iowa, and had apwhite boards, depicting mind maps, plied for only one college. topics on emotional intelligence, Between the two options of operational organization design and Iowa State or Northwest, he chose “cutting the corner” concepts.

Northwest because of one man.

As executive-in-residence, “I was pushing a grocery cart Hughes enjoys helping students and all of a sudden, the Blue Anplan their career paths after colgels come flying over the water lege along with planning leadertower in formation — all six of ship lessons. them,” Hughes said. “Just scared “They seek professional menthe bejesus out of me, and then torship with me, and I keep them in they started putting on an air show AFGHANISTAN over Red Oak, and I’m standing the queue, and we come in here on a in the parking lot like, ‘What the routine basis,” Hughes said. hell’s going on?’”

“I’ve put a couple in Hughes, 58, leaned forward in medical school, a couKOSOVO his chair as he recounted his story ple in dental school, one with a wide smile. kid in pharmacy school.

“And someone goes like, ‘Oh, It’s what I do. It’s fun. I enthat’s Denny Sapp,’” Hughes said. joy being around MILITARY “And I go, ‘Who the heck is Denyou guys because ny Sapp?’ I mean, I had only lived I used to be you.”

OPERATIONS there for a couple months.

Senior ZachHAITI “Then I met people who knew ary Waterbury is him, and he’s a Bearcat,” Hughes one such student CLASS OF said.

Hughes has helped.

1983 Hughes later ran into Sapp at a Waterbury, who is function where Sapp asked him, BOSNIA from Ogden, Iowa, “Where you going to go to school?” said he feels connected “Well, I’m thinking about Iowa with Hughes since they State or Maryville,” Hughes said. both come from small “He goes, ‘Don’t waste your time towns, have attended Northwest, at Iowa State. … You got to go to are in the same fraternity and even Northwest.” have strong roots within the miliHughes said he only applied at tary, since Waterbury grew up in ALUMNUS Northwest and drove down only a military family. once before officially deciding he While Waterbury was inwas going to be a Bearcat. As for timidated at first by Hughes, joining his fraternity, Sapp also inonce he got to know him fluenced that decision. more, he seemed more down “I’m over at the Phi Sig to Earth. With aspirations to be a house, and he comes dentist, Waterbury sought advice walking up and he from Hughes about his interview goes, ‘Well, you thinkfor dental school. ing about pledging?’”

Waterbury said he is grateBOOK Hughes said. “And I said, ful for Hughes since he did not ‘Well, I’m thinking about 2014 have to help Waterbury with this or Delta Chi,’ and he the interview at all. Instead of WAR DISTINGUISHED goes, ‘Don’t be an idiot. dismissing him, Hughes took Pledge here. This is the it upon himself to meet up PLANNER ALUMNI AWARD best fraternity on campus.’ And with Waterbury at least once I go, ‘Yes, sir,’ and I pledged to every week to discuss interthat fraternity.”

WAR ON view etiquette, genThe same story could be eral topics such as ORGANIZE TWO FRONTS said for the reason he got into morality and how to the military. After being asked LEADERSHIP get organized better.

PHI if he knew what he was going U.S. ARMY “He is probably SIGMA to do with his life, Sapp told one of the most carPACIFIC COMMAND him to “join ROTC, be an ofing and selfless peoKAPPA ficer, what are you, an idiot?”

PROFIT GOES TO ple I’ve ever met. He And Hughes once again took me out to dinFISHER HOUSE replied with, “Yes, sir,” and ner and paid for fillet mignon,” WaFOUNDATION promptly joined the ROTC. EXECUTIVE terbury said. “Like dude, I’m OK For Hughes, Sapp was the with a ribeye or something cheap. man he looked up to when it IN … He could have just went home AJ BRADBURY | NW MISSOURIAN came to making some of his and retired, but he decided to help RESIDENCE major life decisions.

It was through his work as everyone here out.”

“I’m really humbled, I will the first provost at the Army you guys. But if it was helpful, I Through the weekly meetings say that,” Sapp said. “I feel like University in Fort Leaven- would be happy to come back and about interview questions, taking I’ve had some input on other kids. 4.0 GPA kind of person. He just worth, Kansas, that he began on spend a year or two and see if I notes, asking questions after the He’s probably the closest that I’ve couldn’t wrap his mind around his path back to Northwest. can make a positive influence on interview and sending out thank ever known that I’ve had an im- the purpose of an outline. He said “While I was there, of course, my alma mater.” you letters, Waterbury soaked it all pact to.” he used to take hours staring at a being so close to home for the first Even though Hughes works in. The day of his interview came While Hughes remembers Sapp piece of paper, waiting for some time, I got thrilled thinking, ‘Wow, about an hour and 22 minutes from Sept. 25, and he felt prepared and from the first time they met, the unknown, eye-catching quote to we’ll be working with universities his home outside Red Oak, Iowa, he confident in himself and his ability same could not be said for Sapp. start it off. and relationships,’” Hughes said. doesn’t mind the long drive as long to relay his story thanks to Hughes.

With the near 20-year age differIn one of his early Army schools, Hughes looked into various uni- as his wife, Marguerite, is happy.

“I have to wait till December, ence, Sapp said the first time he re- he was tested and told what his versities that were around the area “It’s Marguerite’s 37th home but he’s been asking me for updates called Hughes’ name was when he weaknesses were. such as Kansas State University, since leaving Northwest,” Hughes like, ‘How did it go?’ He was mad was working on Delta Airlines, and “My weakness was writing, and the University of Kansas and the said. “Military life is hard on a I didn’t call him right away,” Wahe happened to read an article about my weakness was my analytics,” University of Missouri. Each of family. I have no problem driving terbury said. “I was calling my parHughes in USA Today.

Hughes said. “So they took me the higher education institutions he everyday so Marguerite gets her ents first, but yeah. He’s been trying After graduating from North- to these advanced classes where I looked into had a relationship with dream home.” to hook me up with a dentist in Red west in 1983, Hughes wouldn’t find learned the ‘Five Whys’ and where the Army University, except for Hughes office, which is nes- Oak to see if I want to take over. … himself back for another 36 years. I learned how to mind map. As Northwest, his alma mater, which tled in the President’s Office of the He believes in me more than I do.

It wasn’t until many years after soon as I started mind mapping, the was a mere 62 miles north.

Administration Building, has four He’s more confident than I was so it Thus he began reaching out to large dry erase boards decoratcollege, when Hughes was a grand world just went, ‘Hey, that makes felt good when he said, ‘Oh, you’re President John Jasinski. This began ing his walls with the addition of a marshall at a parade on Junctions perfect sense to me.’” going to do good.’”

Mind maps are simply diagrams his connection with Northwest on smaller rollaway board.

Day in Red Oak, which is at the end SARAH VON SEGGERN A&E Editor | @SeggernSarah

of June every year, that Sapp recalls used to organize information in a meeting him for the first time. visual manner showing all parts of a “He was walking around the pa- whole and the relationship between rade, leading the parade with his each piece. It typically focuses on uniform on and everything, and I’m one concept. standing on the side there and I holFor Hughes, mind mapping was lered at him,” Sapp said. “He was “life changing” and is one of his faaware of me, I guess, and he said, vorite visual concepts to share with ‘We need to talk.’” his students.

Through this small interaction, After graduating from Norththey were able to meet the next day west and officially retiring from at Stanton, Iowa, for lunch, where the Army, Hughes said he never their friendship began. thought, “in a million years,” While college life helped shape he would be working at his Hughes, it wasn’t until he joined the alma mater.

Army that he began developing the skill sets he uses to this day in both his work life and his daily life.

Hughes said IRAQ he had very average grades in both high school and college. He wasn’t a MACEDONIA straight A,

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an administrative level. Through his connections with the school and after he had retired from the Army, Hughes took his position as executive-in-residence.

“During those years of discussion, Dr. Jasinki and I started talking about how I can give back, how I can help,” Hughes said. “And you know soldiers don’t make a lot of money, so I don’t have big pockets to give

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

NWDC taps into student talent, dedication SARAH VON SEGGERN A&E Editor | @SeggernSarah

With six weeks of practice, 20 choreographers and more than 120 members making up Northwest Dance Company, students put their all into Show Day with more than 1,000 collective hours of practice.

While this is the largest number of dancers ever in NWDC’s show, it has been on campus for almost two decades. It became a student organization in 2000 when Britney Spears had just released her hit song, “Oops… I did it again” and NSYNC was still together.

NWDC Vice President Gabriel Wagner said she thinks it’s amazing that it has remained on campus for 19 years.

“I feel so grateful that it has stuck around for so long so that I was able to be a part of it, and I hope it continues to stay around for years to come,” Wagner said.

Since its inception, students have continued to enjoy dancing even if they had little to no experience in it.

“A lot of our girls have danced since they were babies, and then we have people who started dancing because their roommate wanted them to come to tryouts with them and now they’re in company

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Senior Holly Hatfield performs in her final choreographed dance Nov. 1 at the Dance Company Show. The fall show marked the largest member count in Northwest’s Dance Company Show history with more than 120 members.

for the last four semesters,” Advertising Executive Chair Mariah Erickson said.

Everybody is encouraged to participate as long, as they’re willing to put themselves out there and present the Show Day crowd all the

hard work they’ve done.

Choreographer and avid dancer Talitha Santana-Baez said she has been participating in NWDC for five semesters and been choreographing for the last three.

“It’s such, it’s such, it’s such an

to laze around for all eternity, like the high school student I once was.

But I can’t.

I have rent, bills, a pet and student loans to take care of. I’d also like to buy groceries every once in a while.

Because I work four jobs and can’t seem to add the word “no” to my vocabulary, things might slip my mind. I am human, after all. As much as I want to do everything and please everyone, I can’t. I’m not Barbie.

It’s unreasonable for each job to demand they are my top priority.

My number one priority will always be my studies. Most of my employers understand and encourage me to

do well and study hard. Some of my bosses don’t.

Apparently being a good employee and moving up the ladder should include unreasonable hours, giving up my organizations and hoping I can scrape by on my pumpkin spice latte with nine shots of espresso.

So, yes, I am a workaholic. I can’t say “no” to save my life, but I also have a breaking point and I’m about to reach it.

amazement,” Santana-Baez said.

“You see a like a lot of hard work go into it, and you don’t get to see the end product until it’s on the stage.”

NWDC advertises itself as a low time commitment organization, be-

cause many of its members are active in other clubs and organizations such as Greek Life.

Once the two day tryouts are finished, the choreographers decided which members they wanted in their dances. There are seven genres: contemporary, hip-hop, clogging, tap, jazz, musical theatre and couples.

Dancers are required to practice one hour for each dance they participate in. So, if someone wants to be in two dances, they have to dedicate two hours to practice each week.

Practices are held in the Martindale Hall and Gymnasium until Tech week comes around. Tech week is during the week of the show.

After everybody is sorted, for members to participate in a dance, they must pay $20 for every dance they want to be in along with the $5 try out fee.

Additional fees include the costumes chosen by choreographers.

Typically, choreographers try to stay under $20, and if it goes above, they’ll ask their dancers if they’re OK with paying the extra money.

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Tau Kappa Epsilon hosted its second annual cornhole tournament at the Student Recreation Center to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s “Up ‘til Dawn” fundraiser Nov. 3.

The tournament consisted of 16 pairs competing in a single-elimination bracket for a chance to win a portion of the proceeds.

Cornhole is a sport and yard game in which two wooden boards with holes in the centers are placed 20 feet away from each other while teams of two toss bean bags at the opposing board.

Games were played to a score of 21. Exceeding the score limit lowered the score to 13. Players can earn points by landing the bag on the board or in the center hole.

“We love to get out and play when we can, plus we were playing for a great cause so that’s always good,” junior Davis Fluckey said.

Fluckey played on the team “The Maizestars” and wound up winning the championship matchup by a margin of 15 points, the largest win of the cornhole tournament.

“We knew the guys we were playing, and they are great cornhole players,” Fluckey said. “We started on opposite sides of the bracket, and it was great meeting them where we did.”

Tau Kappa Epsilon reported 33 teams registered for the tournament, and only 16 of them arrived for competition. Although the attendance wasn’t as expected, Director of the Tournament sophomore Brady Fritts was still ecstatic about the turnout.

“We knew there were a lot of other events going on leading up to this weekend,” Fritts said. “But we are glad that everyone who showed up did, and hopefully we can schedule a better time next year.”

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Fritts does plan on hosting the event next year, as well as looking at other ways to raise money for the fundraiser in more creative ways.

The cornhole tournament raised more than $200 for the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Tau Kappa Epsilon is no stranger to St. Jude, having them as its philanthropy.

“Brady Fritts, Gabby Burt and I talked about how our two organizations could collide and work together on campus,” junior Miranda Ruth said. “Brady explained that TKE wanted to donate 75% of the proceeds from the tournament to our Up ‘til Dawn fundraiser.”

Ruth has been active with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital during her time at Northwest, participating in the Up ‘til Dawn fundraiser.

The Up ‘til Dawn fundraiser is an event where organizations at Northwest compete to raise the most money for charity. The grand prize for donating the most money results in that organization being invited to an exclusive “until-dawn” celebration.

There are 54 active teams with 254 students participating in the fundraiser. The organizations participating this year have raised $16,750 and it continues to increase.

“I think it’s an awesome way to get college students to donate without them really donating,” freshman Dillon White said. “It’s a fun game, you get to hang out, and overall, it’s a good event to play in, I think.”

White did not get to participate in this year’s tournament, but is very excited to participate in next year’s competition.

“I haven’t touched the bags since the summertime and I’ve gotten rusty on my toss.” White said.

“I’m expecting to be back in my prime by this time next year, just in time for the tourney.”

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Two weeks removed from a runner-up finish at the MIAA Championships in Joplin, Missouri, Oct. 26, Northwest cross country will head back to Joplin for the NCAA Central Region Championships Nov. 9.

The men entered the MIAA Championships ranked as the No. 12 team in the country. Following the runner-up finish, the men jumped to No. 11 with their eyes set on chasing No. 6 Missouri Southern and No. 7 Augustana.

Northwest finished second behind the Lions at the Missouri Southern Stampede in September and the MIAA Championships. Augustana has been a perennial powerhouse, earning nine national top 12 finishes in the past decade and winning six of the past seven Regional Championships. Coach Nick Gibson is excited to see the Bearcats compete at the higher level.

“It’s gonna be fun to see where we stack up against them at a bigger meet where there are more teams and more individuals that help break up the team score a little bit more,” Gibson said.

Northwest is looking to battle with those top teams. At the MIAA Championships, the men individually took second, third and fourth, respectively, behind Missouri Southern’s Gidieon Kimutai.

Junior Jhordan Ccope finished runner-up, senior Karim Achengli took third, and junior Augos-

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tine Lisoreng earned fourth. The Bearcats earned 56 points and finished 44 points ahead of Central Missouri, who finished in third place.

Northwest will need another top-three finish in the Regional Championship in order to advance to the National Championship as a

team. Ccope believes the Bearcats are ready for the challenge.

“We have been training hard last week and this week,” Ccope said.

“We are ready for this meet. I am so excited.”

Personally, Ccope has not finished worse than sixth place in Northwest’s four competitions this

season and is looking to continue that success in order to earn a trip to Sacramento, California, where Nationals will be hosted.

Earlier in the season, Achengli won the Bearcat Open and placed sixth at the Missouri Southern Stampede. Lisoreng has had similar success. The trio is looking to

lead Northwest to its first Regional Championship since 1998.

Despite the consistent success, the Bearcats were underlooked to start the season. Northwest was projected fifth in the MIAA Preseason Coaches Poll. Gibson ignored the negative views and kept his athletes focused on the prize.

“We weren’t expected to do anything coming into this year,” Gibson said. “We set expectations and goals for ourselves, but for us, it’s just doing our job, trying to be in the top three and make it to the national meet, where we feel like we’re a much better team just with how we are set up as a team right now.”

Northwest feels good heading into the Regional Championship.

The Bearcats continued training in their two-week break with the majority of their practices taking place in the colder elements that the midwest supplements them with. The grit of his runners, Gibson said, will give them an edge over the competition.

“In races like these, it is the most mentally tough that come out on top,” Gibson said. “This is something that they deserve because they have put in the work.”

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The team responded with a clean sheet throughout the first 45 minutes of play against the Lions. After 2-0 shoutout in the first half, Gordon told the team to keep the pressure on.

“I just brought them in and shared with them where they were having their success and just wanted them to continue to move the ball the way they were,” Gordon said. “Support, the communication on the field, just taking care of the ball.”

The ’Cats carried the first-half momentum into the second half, sending the Lions back to Joplin, Missouri with a 4-0 loss, and thorn in their paw. The win pulled Northwest up to the No. 6 seed, moving them from the outside-looking-in to the inside of the postseason.

When Northwest embarks on its first MIAA Tournament journey in six years, it will travel to Emporia, Kansas, to take on the No. 3 seed Emporia State Hornets Nov. 8. A postseason matchup is enough reason for excitement, but the jitters are higher given the circumstance at hand for the Bearcats.

“Very excited for the seniors,” Gordon said. “Something they have not had the opportunity to experience in their previous three seasons.

It’s a building block, the mindset of, ‘Hey, we’ve made it, now let’s make some more history.’”

Romano is looking forward to making her MIAA tournament debut and says the girls are thriving in the excitement as well. The excitement, Romano said, is showing in the Bearcats’ preparation ahead of the matchup.

“We’re just a lot more excited this week,” Romano said. “A lot of girls are watching film on teams — we’re excited.”

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Sophomores Bethany Elkins and Rachel Sturdevant block the ball against Pittsburg State Oct. 26 in Bearcat Arena. The Bearcats won three sets against Pittsburg State and will play against Newman Nov. 8 in Witchita, Kansas.

The weekend of Nov. 1-2 provided a challenge for Northwest volleyball as it traveled to Kearney, Nebraska, to take on the No. 2 Nebraska-Kearney Lopers and to Hays, Kansas, to face the Fort Hays State Tigers.

In the initial matchup of the season Oct. 5, Nebraska-Kearney took a trip to Maryville, where the Lopers won in 4 sets. The outcome of the most recent meeting was no different, as the No. 14 Bearcats lost in four sets by scores of 25-16, 2514, 21-25 and 25-15.

It was a dismal offensive performance for the Bearcats, as they were limited to hitting .115 against the Lopers. Besides the third set, the Bearcats never tallied more than 16 points against the Lopers.

Coach Amy Woerth praised the Lopers’ defense and the ability for Nebraska-Kearney to limit the Bearcats getting their star players involved.

“I thought they took care of our go-to players when it came down to us needing them in situations,” Woerth said, “They put pressure in areas that were hard for us to function within. They’re one of the best defensive teams frontcourt and backcourt.”

Along with struggling to capture a hitting rhythm, the Bearcats also had troubles with their blocking and

defensive schemes. Nebraska-Kearney hit .243 on the match, including .391 in the first set and .414 in the second. The Lopers sided out at 61%, while the Bearcats fell well below their average at 44%.

While Woerth believes her team made excellent plays, the Lopers responded better.

“They can take the best offenses and neutralize them,” Woerth said. “We had some really good swings, and they made some really good digs, or we’d have a oneon-one when it comes to a blocker, and they would block us. They made plays that ultimately gave us some troubles.”

The most impressive performance from the ’Cats came in the third set. Northwest had three fewer errors than the Lopers and two more kills. The Bearcats held Nebraska-Kearney to .074 hitting. Woerth saw the team beginning to wear down the Lopers in the third set.

“The longer that you play a team, the more you want to break them down,” Woerth said. “By the time we got to the third set, we broke them down a little bit, and they made some errors that helped us. Our offense started to get going as well.”

The Bearcats had to quickly brush off the loss at Nebraska-Kearney, as they battled against Fort Hays State Nov. 2. While Fort Hays State is on an 11-game losing streak, they went punch for punch

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Northwest won the first set behind a stand-out performance from freshman middle hitter Rachel Sturdevant. She had four kills on seven swings and led the way to a .206 hitting average in the set. However, Fort Hays regained their confidence and took a 2-1 set lead by hitting .279 in the second and .429 in the third.

Worth said Fort Hays State gained its confidence from having nothing to lose.

“It’s nothing that we’re new to, but every time we go play someone, we’re the No. 14 team in the country, and teams don’t have anything to lose against us,” Woerth said.

“They were playing really free and playing without a lot of worries and got their offense where it needed to be. They were coming at us with everything they had.”

Even though the Tigers were hitting at a high level and making Northwest play out of their normal offense, they couldn’t capitalize in the fifth set. Northwest won by set scores of 25-19, 21-25, 18-25, 2523 and 15-13.

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Women ride confidence into first weekend of play JON WALKER Sports Editor | @ByJonWalker

The clock on the scoreboard inside Rice Auditorium dwindled down in Wayne, Nebraska, Nov. 9, 2018, leading to an eventual 75-58 season-opening loss for Northwest women’s basketball.

Then-junior transfer guard Kendey Eaton made her Bearcat debut, putting up 17 points on 6-of12 shooting. One day short of a full year later, the women, led by Eaton, will take on the same opponent at the University of Nebraska-Kearney tournament Nov. 8 but with different expectations.

“I think that just coming into these games, it’s a different expectation,” Eaton said. “We expect to win. Last year, I came in and didn’t really know what to expect. … This year, we’re kind of lockedin on what we can do together as a team and what we can accomplish this year.”

A scrimmage against the University of Missouri-Kansas City Oct. 29 gave second-year coach Austin Meyer his first look at the Bearcats in a real-game setting.

What Meyer witnessed was his leading scorer from last season pick up where she left off. Eaton recorded 25 points on 7-of-11 shooting en route to a 69-58 loss to the ’Roos.

Despite being a team that finished

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8-20 a season ago, Meyer said, the growth of the program to this point of the season has been obvious. “(Watching last season) made me realize how much better we are at this point than we were last year, just the program as a whole,” Meyer said. “A lot of that has to do with the work our returners have put in

… also the newcomers as well.

(It’s) just a totally different feel, and we’re excited to get started.”

In those new faces to the program includes six true freshmen, along with one junior-transfer in Ellie Horn from Newton, Iowa. The highlight of the freshman class is perhaps Paityn Rau, a forward from

Des Moines, Iowa.

Rau, rather successful before coming to Northwest, knows how to win and has done it a lot, Meyer said. The challenge for most programs would be getting a roster consisting of 17 players to mesh well. For the women, that doesn’t seem to be the case.

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then, of course, the Spoofhounds have won seven straight wins over the Cardinals.

The matchup will mark the first time that the programs have squared off against each other in the playoffs since 2007, when the Spoofhounds defeated the Cardinals 15-7.

“One challenge is that they’re physical. Lawson football teams a r e a l w a y s p h y s i c a l , ” We b b said. “They’ve got a great tradition in their community, just like Maryville. It’ll be exciting.”

The challenge, Webb said, is the talent of the “four-headed monster” Lawson is equipped with. Led by senior quarterback Andrew Stephens, the Cardinals bring a Wing-T style offense — one similar to Maryville’s.

Most of Stephens’s production this year has come from his legs.

The senior has compiled 1081 yards rushing and 17 touchdowns on 147 carries. With his arm, he’s recorded 468 yards passing with four touchdowns and three interceptions while completing 49% of his attempts.

For the Spoofhounds, Webb said, it will be sticking to the team’s playoff motto of trying to survive and advance. The next chapter in doing so lies ahead with Lawson.

“The goal is to win a district championship,” Webb said. “In order to do that, the first thing you

“You would think, right?” Eaton said. “The girls that (Meyer) has brought in, they’re just high character people — they’re great people. It’s great when you bring in somebody who is not only talented but a great person and a great teammate. That’s gone a long way with our team, 17 doesn’t seem like that much to us because we all just click well.

Ahead of the game against Wayne State, followed by a contest with Minnesota-Crookston Nov. 9, the stakes aren’t as high for the women as they are for their counterparts — the Northwest men’s team. There’s no reigning national championship. There’s no target on the back of the team that’s projected to finish 10th in the MIAA, but there is a sense of flipping the script and getting to that same level. And with that, the expectations, Eaton said, are high for the women.

“It’d be nice getting off to a great start,” Meyer said. ‘There’s just a whole different level of confidence, knowing that we can compete, knowing that we can win.”

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Maryville football’s junior running back Aiden Cullin runs down the sideline in the Spoofhounds’ 62-0 win over St. Joseph Christian Nov. 1.

Scoring three touchdowns on its first three plays from scrimmage put Maryville football on track to a 62-0 first-round victory over St. Joseph Christian Nov. 1.

Entering the postseason as the No. 1 seed in MSHSAA’s Class 2 District 8, the expectation was for the Spoofhounds to win over the No. 8 seed, Maryville coach Matt Webb said. A second offensive onslaught in as many weeks, coupled with the defense’s second shutout of the season, turned that expectation into a reality.

“The goal was to come out and play like a No. 1 seed,” Webb said.

“I think we did that.”

The taming of the Lions sets up the No. 1 Spoofhounds (81) with a district semifinal date against historic-rival No. 5 Lawson (7-3) Nov. 8 in the ’Hound Pound. The Cardinals are coming off of a 48-10 first-round win over No. 4 Lexington Nov. 1.

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have to do is take care of a very good Lawson football team. …

It doesn’t matter if you win by 1 point or if you win by 62 points; the whole point is to survive and advance to the next round.”

To counter the monster that the Cardinals present in their offensive backfield, Maryville is looking to have an advantage with its own “four-headed monster,” Webb said.

Along with junior quarterback Ben Walker, Maryville brings in the running back trio of juniors Connor Weiss and Trey Houchin and senior Aiden Cullin. The running backs have accounted for 10 touchdowns over the last two weeks for the Spoofhounds, making them responsible for 60 of Maryville’s 109 points over that span.

The difference in the game for the Spoofhounds is, perhaps, the offensive line that’s guided them all season.

“The offensive line is great,” Cullin said. “It’s amazing being able to run behind those guys; I think anybody could run behind that line.”

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Northwest men’s basketball hasn’t lost a game in more than a year and a half. The team has won 40 games in a row, 33-straight on neutral floors and 24 consecutive games in November. The No. 1 Bearcats are 102-5 across their last four seasons.

Coach Ben McCollum doesn’t care. Statistics, he said Nov. 5 at the Northwest Athletics media luncheon, don’t do it for him. In the wake of another pair of Northwest neutral-floor November victories over the weekend, both wins that came over ranked opponents, the only figure the coach was hung up on was 88 points allowed.

Northwest moved past No. 22 Daemen College with an 85-65 victory in the first game of its regular season at the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame Classic in St. Joseph, Missouri, Nov. 1-2. In their second game of the Classic, the Bearcats shot lights out en route to a 100-88 win over No. 9 Southern Nazarene. The point total allowed to Southern Naz is what stuck with McCollum through the weekend.

He asked media members and Bearcat Sports employees when the last time Northwest allowed 88 points in a contest in his opening statement at the Northwest Athletics media luncheon. The question went unanswered. No one knew.

“Been a long time,” McCollum said in his opening statement Nov. 5.

It’s been two and a half years.

The Bearcats haven’t allowed 88 points since they lost 88-71 to Missouri Southern Feb. 18, 2017. They haven’t allowed more than the total since they fell 91-71 to the Lions Jan. 17, 2011, when McCollum was in his second year as head coach and sophomore guard Trevor Hudgins was in middle school.

The statistic, of course, doesn’t mean much. Northwest allowed 88 points to Southern Naz and

still escaped with a 12-point win.

They shot 58.7% from the floor and watched junior forward Ryan Hawkins drop a program-record 44 points. The stat does provide insight into McCollum’s focus.

The statistics and records that hang above his program don’t ever tend to surprise him, he said. Northwest is two wins away from tying a 90-year-old conference and program record, on the cusp of a 41st and 42nd consecutive victory. For McCollum, it doesn’t matter.

“They don’t really do ‘em for me,” McCollum said. “If I was from the outside looking in, I would say, yeah, that would be shocking, like, ‘wow.’ From the inside-out, essentially, I don’t even pay attention. It doesn’t excite me.”

Then the coach talked about what would do it for him, about what might excite him. McCollum joked that Hawkins executing an after-timeout play would do it. He said having a good practice Nov. 5 would too. Seeing his former players after graduation does it for him, he said. The list went on. Statistics and records weren’t on it.

The accolades that have come with McCollum’s 10 years at the helm are cool, he said, but have never been his focus. He said he’s process-oriented, regardless of the outcome. And sometimes, he said, failing is what gives way to a successful process.

The Bearcats lost 31 games in McCollum’s first two seasons with the program, 27 of which came in the MIAA. They lost more conference games his first two years at the helm than they have in the eight since.

By McCollum’s own evaluation, he was a bad coach. And after two national titles, a bevy of conference and national awards and 40-consecutive wins heading into the Hillyard Tipoff Classic in St. Joseph Nov. 8-9, he’s glad he was.

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Junior forward Ryan Hawkins scored a career-high and program-record 44 points in Northwest’s 100-88 win over Southern Nazarene Nov. 2 at the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame Classic in St. Joseph, Missouri.

(in) their first couple years or first year, because they’re always good enough that they won’t really evaluate what they’re doing,” McCollum said. “And so, by getting absolutely destroyed for two seasons, losing eight, nine in a row, at one point my second year, I had to really soul search. … I think that helps you become that much better.”

The Bearcats lost six in a row in McCollum’s second year and went on to lose seven of eight. Tucked in the middle of the losing skid was the loss to Missouri Southern, in which the Bearcats allowed more than 88 points, something they haven’t done since.

After eight seasons and after Northwest’s 2-0 start this year, McCollum remains focused on improvement. The Bearcats have to be better defensively, he said, and

they can’t give away possessions.

“Just early-season stuff,” McCollum said. “You know, closing out games. (The) first game, in particular, I think we won by 20; we probably should have won by 30.

There were some wasted possessions down the stretch.”

The weekend, though, came with more good news than bad. The Bearcats earned two victories that McCollum called “huge.” Hawkins scored 68 points across two games and shot 70% from three. Hawkins, Hudgins and sophomore guard Diego Bernard were all named to the Hall of Fame Classic All-Tournament team.

“I’m just glad we got out of there 2-0,” Hawkins said. “I think all six of us played really well. I think we learned a lot about each other and just what this year is going to be like.”

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Through two games this season, along with Northwest’s exhibition matchup against Duke, McCollum has leaned heavily on a cast of six players, a group that played the entirety of the matchup with Southern Nazarene. McCollum said Northwest could go further off the bench this weekend, with that outcome dependent on which players earn it.

For Northwest, of course, the plan is to improve at the Tipoff Classic.

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s Northwest football approaches the final two weeks of its season, and with it, the toughest two games on its schedule, the Bearcats have a choice to make.

They can win against Fort Hays State (7-2) Nov. 9, keeping No. 12 Northwest’s postseason intentions realistic and setting the team up to battle for a share of the MIAA Championship with Central Missouri. The team could even host a playoff game if the chips fall in order.

Or the Bearcats (8-1) can lose to the Tigers for the third year in a row, leaving Hays, Kansas, with their conference title hopes in peril.

If things go awry in Hays, it could potentially eliminate any thought of the postseason, leaving the Bearcats out of the playoffs for the first time since 2003.

For Northwest, everything remains on the table. A win against the Tigers would, at the very least, help the Bearcats tread water in a close conference race, perhaps breathing life into the team ahead of a Week 11 matchup. A loss would tie an anchor to Northwest’s feet.

Third-year head coach Rich Wright knows this.

He knows Fort Hays is the only team in the MIAA he’s yet to beat in his first three seasons, some-

thing the coach said he’s not worried about. And he’s aware of the conference and playoff implications that will inherently come with the matchup with Hays. That’s why Wright said it’s fair to call Northwest’s Week 10 contest the biggest of its season.

“Very fair,” Wright said. “But at the same time, they’re all big because of what our expectation levels are. I mean, we treat every game the same.

But you’re at the end of the season and you’re playing for some thing. … We’re in the final two games. We have to play well.”

Northwest’s next matchup with Fort Hays could define its season. Its last two matchups with the Tigers were defined by mistakes, ones Wright recalled in some detail in front of a group of reporters at Northwest Athletics’ media luncheon Nov. 5.

A season ago, a roughing the kicker penalty doomed Northwest in the late-going of an eventual 17-16 loss the Tigers. In 2017, an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty doomed the team on its last drive, taking the Bearcats out of field goal position in a 13-12 loss. An inept offense doomed the team in both.

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“You’re gonna hear a redundancy of words, but it’s details,” Wright said. “A missed extra point, roughing the punter, turnovers. …

We’ve been right there, you know.

(The) personal foul in 2017 when we’re driving down the field to kick a field goal — those are all those things that show up in high-stress and high-pressure games, and those are the things that we have to focus on this week.”

a superior record, as the underdog.

“It kind of goes to an ‘us against the world’ kind of mentality,” Wright said. “They’re the favorite; we’re the underdog. They’ve won the last two years. We’re going to go out and give it our best shot. You know, we don’t have anything to lose, and that’s the mentality that we have to attack it with. … You can either be intimidated by it or you can relish in it, and to me, I’ve been here for 16 years, and those are the fun games to go play in.”

The upcoming contest in Hays seems destined to come with a playoff atmosphere, Wright said. For fifth-year senior defensive lineman Zach Pierce, games like the one awaiting the Bearcats in Kansas are the reason he came to Northwest.

In his first career start against Northeastern State Nov. 2, in Northwest’s dominating 79-0 win, Pierce recorded four tackles, one sack and forced a fumble, helping the defense hold the RiverHawks to 130 yards of offense in the game.

Pierce said he’s excited to play for Northwest every time he gets the opportunity, that in-game action is what he looks forward to.

But the chance to play in big-time

It kind of goes to an ‘us against the world’ kind of mentality.”

-RICH WRIGHT

The stage, of course, is set for the biggest game of both team’s seasons. Northwest, Wright said, is embracing a rare underdog mentality in its trip to Hays. The Bearcats haven’t beat the Tigers since their last trip to Hays in 2016, losing two in a row at Bearcat Stadium, both with shares of the MIAA title on the line.

The last two matchups were close, Wright said, and they went down to the wire. But the Tigers won, the Bearcats lost, and Wright is championing his team, one with

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games is why he’s here.

“From high school, my coach always said, ‘Go somewhere you’re going to win,’” Pierce said. “I came on (a) visit here … and I just remember, we walked out of Lamkin, out on Bearcat Field, and (then-coach Adam Dorrel) showed us the wall.

And it was just — it was like mesmerizing, it was just crazy, all the history. Every single day at practice, it’s just a great reminder of the tradition that we’re fighting for.”

The tradition itself isn’t on the line against Fort Hays Nov. 9. The season might be.

Wright, who’s been a coach on Northwest’s staff since 2004, has never missed the postseason. He’s taken in hundreds of games over the last 16 years. He’s made a ton of memories. His favorite one against Fort Hays, he said, came in the 2015 Homecoming matchup when Northwest raced to a 35-7 halftime lead over the Tigers, who were still emerging as a power in the MIAA. Wright’s tenure as head coach has been marred by near-misses against Fort Hays. He’d like to change that Nov. 9 in Kansas.

Soccer clinches first postseason berth since 2012 CORBIN SMITH Contributing Reporter | @curly_corbs

Heading into the last weekend of the regular season, Northwest soccer was on the outside looking in, vying for a spot at the table that is the MIAA Tournament.

The Bearcats, hungry, found a feast with two season-defining wins.

After a successful weekend, the ’Cats secured a berth to the 2019 MIAA Tournament. When it was do-or-die, Northwest earned the No. 6 seed in the tournament with a 4-3 win over Missouri Western (4-11-3) Nov. 1 and a 4-0 win over Missouri Southern (3-14-1) Nov. 3.

This marks the first time since 2012 that the program has reached the postseason.

“As a coach, I get the excitement,” coach Marc Gordon said. “I learned some history about our program and how it hasn’t been recent that we’ve had the opportunity. And so there’s some eagerness and excitement.”

Against the Griffons, the ’Cats were able to have the advantage in a nail-biter. The team struggled defensively, giving up three goals to the second-worst team in the conference. Offensively, the Bear-

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cats excelled, matching their season-high with four goals.

The Bearcats got a much-needed win, but had to win the regular-season finale when playing host to Missouri Southern Nov. 3. Hosting the Lions was easy, senior midfielder Izzy Romano said, but the team felt the pressure of a postseason berth at stake.

“After Friday’s game I honestly thought we had it in hand but apparently we didn’t have it clinched yet,” Romano said. “Going into Sunday it was a lot more stressful of a game than I thought it would be but we were very excited to win that game.”

Romano felt that it was their mindset to clinch a postseason berth that carried them past Missouri Southern. However, Gordon said, continuing the good things led to more success on the field.

Gordon’s goals were to keep playing their attacking style and work to clean up the defensive side.

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Freshman center forward Teagan Blackburn celebrates after she assisted freshman forward Kaylie Rock’s goal Nov. 3 at Bearcat Pitch. Northwest clinched a spot in the MIAA tournament for the first time since 2012.