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‘Black and blue’ isn’t the new black It’s no secret that women worldwide have long suffered in the name of beauty. First, African women slowly elongated their necks with iron rings.

Next, Amazonian women stretched their bottom lips with discs. And then Victorian women apparently preferred corsets to breathing.

Today, American women practice drastically different, yet equally painful, beauty and fashion rituals. From body piercings and waxing to high heels and starvation, pain and primping have become virtually synonymous.

It seems the belief that beauty is pain has been replaced with the belief that pain is beauty.

Recently, beauty and fashion photographers have been taking the term “fashion victim” too literally, portraying female models with bruises, burns and other violent injuries.

The most recent photographer to jump on the sexual violence and domestic abuse bandwagon is Tyler Shields.

In one of his latest photo series, “Glee” star Heather Morris posed as a 1950s homemaker.

But a fanciful frock wasn’t all the actress was sporting.

Matching the big black dots on her dress was an equally big black eye.

Adding fuel to the fire, one shot shows the hand of a male holding up a clothing iron to a smiling, playful, albeit injured Morris.

But Shields isn’t the first person to attempt to glamorize violence against women. Not too far back, fashion house Dolce and Gabbana was criticized for a series of print ads that showcased the clothing with a gruesome backdrop of rape and murder.

These distasteful depictions extend beyond mere photographs and fashion advertisements, however.

Clothing retailer Barneys has featured less than peaceful storefront windows in the past, for all innocent passersby to see.

A couple years back, the company came under attack for its brutal display of seemingly dead mannequins dressed in evening gowns behind glass windows spattered with blood.

Sure, you could make the claim that this violent advertising is all just an artistic expression of fashion.

But I can’t help but wonder how violence and abuse toward women could ever be viewed as compelling and inspired.

Even so, I just don’t see how sadistic images like these would persuade people to buy the products being advertised.

The ads might receive lots of attention and hype, but I doubt they actually bring in the revenue their companies truly want.

It’s understandable that the fashion industry strives for shock value. Fashion has always had a penchant for pushing the envelope in order to garner attention, and controversial advertisements is just one of the many ways to do so. There is, however, a fine line between what is controversial and what is downright unacceptable.

No matter how subtle and subconscious the message is, it still exists in the images we see. And the more we see something, the more familiar and tolerated it tends to become. Fashion advertisements should primarily glamorize the clothes and accessories they are trying to promote.

Glamorizing violent images alongside them is simply unnecessary and offensive.

The fashion industry should take a note and start sending a new message through its advertisements: Violence against women is never fashionable. I think it’s safe to say “black and blue” will never be the new black. angie andera | fashion columnist

PREVIEW

A 'Giant' show at Mojo's O, Giant Man brings former Columbia band Scouts back to town.

Vocalist and guitarist Chris Robbins calls his band O, Giant Man’s music “energetic, evolving, playful.”

“The sound is unique,” Robbins says. “In my opinion, we don’t really sound like anyone else.

Yeah, we have influences, but we don’t sound much like them.”

If the Roots ’N Blues festival this weekend is a little too pricey for your pockets, here’s a great free alternative for you: O, Giant Man is returning to Columbia to play at Mojo’s with Scouts, Moonrunner and we are voices on Friday evening.

O, Giant Man, or OGM, is comprised of four men that love to have as much fun on stage as they do off. Based out of Kansas City, the indie-pop quartet has been featured on KRBZ/96.5 FM’s “Homegrown Buzz,” opened for Tapes ’n Tapes and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. and played the Kanrocksas Music Festival this year, a huge milestone for them in their path to fame.

“The fact that we’ve managed to play together for three years and not want to ring each other’s necks is an accomplishment in itself, and we’ve managed to do the complete opposite. We’re much closer now than we were three years ago.”

The last time we checked in with OGM they were getting ready to record at the renowned Daytrotter studio. Since then, the band has been up to a lot.

“There is actually a completely finished brand new album we’re just storing away for the time,” Robbins says. “In fact, the single off of that album will be released sometime in the next couple of weeks so keep your eyes and ears open.”

Courtesy of O, Giant Man O, Giant Man will perform Friday evening at Mojo's. Vocalist Chris Robbins said there is a new album on the way.

OGM is still climbing the ranks to make it in is the time to do this.” the music industry, and it’s determined to find a Not only will OGM make the night a mustway. Robbins says the band gets inspiration from see experience, the event also marks the return a number of places of Scouts, which disbanded two years ago after “Musically, I think the two bands that we, moving to Kansas City from Columbia. Scouts as a band, listen to the most often are Dr. Dog will be headlining the show and playing its debut and Portugal, the Man,” Robbins says. “Non- EP, “I’m Sick, I’m Well,” in its entirety along with musical inspirations? Probably (drummer Andy a few unreleased songs.

Wendling’s) two-year-old son. Watching him It all begins at 8 p.m. Friday. If you’re looking grow up and watching him love our music just for a musical experience you won’t forget, this is like we do really inspires us to continue to chase a show you can’t miss. this dream and to not give up. It makes us realize that we’re not getting any younger and that now nikki hindman | reporter

The bright side to high temperatures

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Even though summer vacation has long ended, summer temperatures have not. Columbia has been experiencing heat that reaches higher than 100 degrees, causing students to continue to indulge in summer fashions.

Tiger Spirit, a shop downtown, has been taking advantage of these outrageous temperatures by selling ladies’ comfy, loose tank tops in a variety of colors. Just taking a stroll around the quad, you can’t miss the bright green, yellow, pink and coral tank tops that almost every girl sports with a pair of Nike shorts.

Although this specific design has been the most popular here at MU, these comfy tanks have been a popular summer trend in general.

Not only are these tops good for spending days outside in the summer heat, they work for anyone. Guys have replaced their baggy T-shirts and jeans with this more stylish grungy alternative.

So, what makes these tanks so appealing?

Why do I see a sizeable number of people sporting this laid-back look everyday, regardless of whether I am on campus or not?

In the world of gossip, “word of mouth” is a medium that ensures news travels faster than

you could imagine. It works the same way with fashion trends, except visually. When girls see something they like, they ensure it becomes part of their wardrobe as soon as possible.

For freshman Kirsty Klauke, proud owner of a neon pink tank, she picked up on this trend just as she would any other.

“I thought they were cute,” Klauke says. “I saw other girls wearing them and wanted to go buy one too.”

They’re also incredibly versatile. They can just as easily be worn with a cute pair of jeans and some Sperrys as they can be thrown on while in a rush to your 8 a.m. class.

Freshman Andrea Pabon was already a fan of this style and simply decided to continue on with this trend in college.

“I had one similar to that in high school, and I wore it all the time, so I thought it was time to upgrade,” Pabon says.

In college, even the biggest fashionista cannot pass up finding

cuteness in convenience. These tops appeal to those who roll out of bed and trudge to class just as much as they do to those who wake up early and decide to look halfway decent.

Anyone can take the short walk to Tiger Spirit and hitch on to this bandwagon. At least while the summer temperatures are still in session, these tanks are sure to grow in popularity and become even more present on the MU campus. aditi shrikant | reporter

David Wettroth/The Maneater Freshman Lindsey Ralls, left, and Alexa Burtnett, right, show off a hot new clothing trend that has swept Mizzou. Ralls and Burtnett originally bought into this trend because they thought it would look perfect for an 80's themed dance.

Another Earth’ establishes itself as one of the year’s best A beautiful and often undervalued aspect of science fiction is its capacity for introspection, for delving deep into the essence of humanity. So many things can be changed — gravity can be turned off, time can become fluid — but the human mind and the human soul are immutable. A man in space is still a man, after all. The emotions still ring true.

The best science fiction is that which uses its otherworldly trappings simply as a vehicle to a deeper and somehow more real humanity, an innate humanness that reveals itself only in extreme conditions.

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beautifully. The pet project of co-writer and star Brit Marling, “Another Earth” approaches its sci-fi elements with minimalism in mind: a second earth, floating in the sky, with its luminous presence more enchanting than its reality.

How and why the mirror planet arrived in the cosmos are unimportant and largely unexplained. What is important, and special and magical, is its effect on those bathed by its aquamarine light, their hopes, ambitions and dreams.

For Rhoda (Marling), the initial effect is a negative one. One night while driving home tipsily from a party, she sees the second earth’s blue light in the night sky and stares, transfixed. Her diverted attention causes her to hit a family of three and

a half, killing the pregnant mother and toddler and leaving the father (William Mapother) in a coma.

After four years in jail, Rhoda is released back into the world, ready to begin anew but forever scarred by her unforgivable accident. The discovery that the second earth is populated by the very same people as on the original earth, everyone has a twin, separated by miles of empty space, sends shockwaves across the planet and ignites a hope within Rhoda. Maybe on the other earth she is innocent. Maybe on the other earth she’s happy.

This sci-fi twist is minimal in terms of alterations from a recognizable earth, but it is just “out there” enough to

open a wellspring of new and interesting emotions and motivations previously untapped.

It’s certainly a promising premise, and Marling, along with co-writer and director Mike Cahill do well to give it the movie it deserves. The acting, directing and script are all impressive given the low budget and the relative amateurism of the crew, this being only their second feature and first non-documentary.

Some of the cinematography shows the directors greenness, with odd lighting and awkward dissolves, but the flaws are well offset by the breathtaking shots of the mirror planet illuminating the sky, shots that could easily be framed and put in any museum. The tone is a somber

one, but it feels genuine, considering the circumstances, and is broken up with enough intermittent levity so as not to become monotonous.

In the end, “Another Earth” succeeds because it holds steadfast to a brilliant premise and is brave enough to hold back, to give just enough: nothing more, nothing less. So many films fall prey to excess, to indulgences both of the audience and of the filmmaker, but Marling and Cahill manage to strike the perfect balance, and I am forever grateful to them for that.

Now, if only there were really two earths so I could experience this movie for the first time again... dylan chapman | movie columist 09.09.11 • MOVE

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Roots ’N Blues BACK IN TOWN + The fifth annual Roots ’N Blues ’N BBQ Festival will attract an expected 65,000 music lovers and foodies from across the nation to downtown Columbia on Friday and Saturday. Combining the best of two worlds, soul crooners and every kind of barbeque imaginable, it’s sure to offer a little something for everybody.

“It’s really a community event,” Festival Director Jessica Brown says. “It’s a really cool thing to have in Columbia. Not a lot of cities get to have cool stuff like that.” alex stewart | reporter

This year, 60 teams have registered to compete in the barbecue competition. There are five categories: chicken, ribs, pork, brisket and dessert.

Although festival attendees cannot sample the contestants’ dishes, there will be several vendors selling barbecue all weekend.

“There will be 70 judges that are certified from KCBS (Kansas City Barbecue Society),” Barbecue Contest Coordinator Millie Rambis says. “Each dish will be judged on presentation, tenderness and taste.”

Barbecue amateurs and connoisseurs alike will be competing this weekend.

“Some are individuals, some are businesses,” Rambis says. “But no restaurants have entered.”

The grand champion will win $2,500 and a trophy, and the “reserve grand champion” will win $1,500 and a trophy. There will also be first place awards given in each food category.

The judging will take place 3 p.m. Saturday at Flat Branch Park.

“We have a phenomenal lineup this year,” Brown says.

According to the event’s Facebook page, there will be “a variety of eclectic, roots, country, bluegrass, gospel, folk and soul music” featured. More than 30 performances will take place during the course of the weekend.

The festival will open at 5 p.m. Friday with a “welcome and introduction” followed by nine concerts (three on each stage), wrapping up at 11 p.m. On Saturday, the events will commence at 11 a.m. and continue throughout the day until 11 p.m.

Musicians appearing this year include Fitz and the Tantrums, Mavis Staples and Taj Mahal. The latter is returning to Columbia for the festival’s fifth anniversary after being the first artist to perform at the event in 2006.

Taj says the festival is among the best in the country.

Also returning is Ana Popovic, a “saucy little lady from Serbia,” Brown says.

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FRIDAY 5 -5:10 p.m. welcome and introduction 5:10-6:45 p.m. Reverend Peytons Big Damn Band 7:15-8:45 p.m. Ana Popovic 9:30 - 11 p.m. Robert Randolph Family Band

SATURDAY 11 a.m. - 1p.m. Blues in the Schools: TJ Wheeler 1:30 - 2 p.m. Chump Change 4 - 5 p.m. Cabin Sessions 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. - Man in the Ring 7:00- 7:45 p.m. - Love Roots N’ Blues Style Wedding

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Although the concept of good music and good food has remained the same, there have been tweaks to the festival since its start.

Starting two years ago, the festival charged an entrance fee for two of the three stages holding the event. The KOPN Community Stage at Flat Branch Park, as well as the Family Zone and barbeque competition area remains open to the public.

Entry to the MO Lottery stage at Peace Park and the Mpix stage at Seventh and Locust Streets require paid admission.

This year there are a variety of ticket options for festivalgoers ranging from a basic one-day ticket ($35) to a “Whole Hog VIP Pass” ($195).

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SATURDAY 11 a.m. - 1p.m. William Elliot Whitmore 1:30 - 3 p.m. Flatlanders 3:30 - 5 p.m. Sam Bush 5:30 - 7 p.m. - Dale Watson 7:30 - 9 p.m. - Los Lobos 7:15 - 8:45 p.m. Robert Cray 9:30 - 11 p.m.Taj Mahal

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WHITE HOUSE, SERVICE ORG INJURIES OPEN DOORS HOLD CONFERENCE CALL FOR BACKUP PLAYERS The Corporation for National and Community Service and the White House discussed a Sept. 11 day of service.

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Junior Alexa Henning places the last flag Thursday as part of the Never Forget Project sponsored by the Mizzou Campus Republicans. Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 bombings.

SEPT. 11EVENTS WHO: Gov. Jay Nixon, et al.

WHAT: Proclamation of "Put the Uniform First" week in Missouri WHEN: 12:15 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9

WHO: Mizzou Black Men’s Initiative WHAT: Sept. 11 memorial walk from Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center to the Columns WHEN: 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11

WHO: Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts Odyssey Chamber Music Series WHAT: Concert honoring fallen U.S. citizens in Sept. 11 attacks WHEN: 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11

WHO: Peaceworks WHAT: “No More Victims: We Declare Peace” at the Islamic Center for Central Missouri WHEN: 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11

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Hitt Street Market to close for renovations CAIT CAMPBELL Reporter The Mizzou Market on Hitt Street, which is open 24 hours a day, offers services to students well into the wee hours of the morning. For those who frequent the facility, the late night socializing and shopping will soon come to an end. Pershing Hall, along with the Mizzou Market inside, will be closing March 23 for renovations.

Campus Dining Services Marketing Manager Michael Wuest said the market is scheduled to remain closed through the remainder of the spring semester and the summer months, with a reopening scheduled in time for fall semester.

The market will receive mechanical, electrical and plumbing renovations.

“We want to do some updating and make sure that we are up to code on everything,” he said.

A new ceiling will include updated fire sprinklers, plumbing and an improved dock and receiving area will be constructed outside.

“We are making it a lot easier to receive deliveries and a little easier for the people supplying our shelves and the employees,” Wuest said.

The inside of the convenience store will change very little, however upgrades to the refrigerated and frozen sections will be made.

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JC Hardaway studies at a table next to Mizzou Market on Tuesday afternoon inside Pershing Commons. The university plans on closing Pershing next semester, and it will remain closed until the following fall semester.

CITY COUNCIL

Council rejects apartment bus contracts SAM ROURKE AND CAROLINE BAUMAN Of the Maneater staff The Columbia City Council voted down proposed transit contracts for extended bus service

for student apartment complexes including The Pointe at Rock Quarry Park, Campus Lodge and The Reserve at its meeting Tuesday.

Mayor Bob McDavid said the proposed contracts by the complexes were below the market value

MU added a little Southeast Asian flavor to its campus Thursday with the grand opening of Sabai, the new dining hall located in Johnston Hall.

The event was a celebration.

Truman the Tiger greeted customers outside and black, red and white balloons lined the path into Sabai. Patrons were then shown presentations on the various dishes the restaurant has to offer. Two laptops were set up, allowing people to “like” the Sabai Facebook page and enter to win an iPad 2.

Truman continued entertaining people inside, moving from table to table. Employees also made rounds, handing out free samples of their unique menu items, like white peach tea frozen yogurt. Customers were being served fairly quickly and seemed to enjoy what they had paid for.

“The menu doesn’t have a ton on it, but what is on it is really good,” freshman Melanie Weilert said.

Others enjoyed the experience as well. “(Sabai) is vibrant and has many unique flavors,” freshman Cory Loeffelman said.

The grand opening ran smoothly, due to the fact that Sabai has actually been up and running for two weeks. The restaurant has been hard at work properly staffing and preparing itself for the event, while continuing to serve customers. Marketing See SABAI, page 6

and were therefore unsustainable.

He pointed out that these contracts provide service at a cost of four to five times smaller a rate charged by comparably sized cities in the Midwest, many of which are college towns.

At this time, the council still plans on making busing available to those locations, however students will have to buy passes.

The council also voted to approve putting together the Transit System

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Weekend Film: “Water for Elephants” Junghwa Lee, piano Jesse Wrench Auditorium, Whitmore Recital Hall, Fine Memorial Union, 7 to 9:30 p.m.

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Seeing is believing for MU drum major Paul Heddings, who is legally blind, became a drum major for Marching Mizzou.

CHRIS JASPER Reporter As junior Paul Heddings stands atop a podium in the Marching Mizzou practice field, he conducts the band with confidence.

He raises his arms and the 350-person band crescendos. As he GRANT HINDSLEY/SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER lowers them, the music grows quietDrum Major Paul Heddings directs Marching Mizzou on Wednesday er. At the end of the fight song, he sig- behind the Hearnes Center. Heddings keeps the band in sync during nals for the band to stop and it obeys. performances.

What the musicians on the ground “Until he brought it up, that he don’t realize is that he is legally blind. half,” he said. “To make a really bad was legally blind, I didn’t even know Heddings’ visual impairment is joke, it really blindsided me.”

Although more interested in that he was,” Snow said. “It’s not like not due to just one medical issue. It is the result of retina detachments sports than music, Heddings start- he views it as a handicap. He views it and cataracts, both primarily in his ed band in fifth grade. He played as the hand he was dealt and he’s just football and baseball until his junior right eye. making it work.”

His left eye is his “good eye,” year of high school, when his eye It has taken quite a bit of time to though he still experiences distor- problems forced him out of contact make it work, too. Drum majors are sports. tions in his central vision. expected to read the scores, mark “Sports were a big part of my life, “There really isn’t much more certain movements and critique indiso I had to find something to do with they can do for my right eye,” he said.

“The problem with cataract surgeries myself,” Heddings said. “That’s where viduals in the band. As a cymbal is that they can lead to retina detach- music came in.” player in the drumline, Heddings Once he got to college, it was would have to take the music home ments. So, if you’ve already had them, a “no-brainer” to join Marching and memorize it in one night, as he’d it just makes it worse.”

As he describes it, the thin layer of Mizzou. During his first two years in be unable to read it during rehearsal tissue in the back of his eye is com- the band, he played on the drumline. the next day.

Despite his visual impairing apart, creating a series of blind Heddings takes pride in his ability spots in his vision. Normally, such ment, Heddings auditioned for and to function without calling attention a blind spot would appear as a little received the position of drum major black dot. Heddings’ brain overcom- for Marching Mizzou, prompting to his sight loss.

“I don’t want to hide, but I don’t pensates and brings the edges of the more than a few “blind leading the spot together, creating bumps and blind” jokes from those that know tell people at first so they don’t act a distortions in his vision and making him. certain way about it,” he said.

“It’s a pretty interesting idea, havreading of any kind more difficult.

Despite his personal obstacles, Heddings also has a scleral buckle ing somebody legally blind conduct- Heddings’ fellow marchers obey him around his right eye to prevent it ing a marching band,” fellow drum without question. from pulling apart, leaving it com- major Jeff Panhorst said.

“A lot of being a drum major is Even though Heddings is in his pletely blind. just being a leader,” Panhorst said.

“I’ve had around 13 invasive sur- third year with Marching Mizzou, “You just need to be a role model, geries, and I don’t even know how band director Brad Snow said he many laser surgeries and treatments, never recognized Heddings had stay informed and solve problems.

You don’t need 20/20 vision for that.” all within the span of a year and a issues with his vision.

Faculty Council holds first meeting CAITLIN SWIECA Senior Staff Writer Faculty Council reopened its discussion on a proposed diversity course requirement and talked about the possibility of performance funding in Missouri in its first meeting of the year.

The Sept. 8 meeting was the faculty’s first under new chairman Harry Tyrer.

Tyrer said he and former chairwoman Leona Rubin had met with various student groups and administrators regarding diversity enhancement at MU. He said he felt students were in support of a diversity requirement but did not want to have to navigate additional graduation requirement.

“My takeaway from the meeting is that students are interested in having some diversity experience as a part of their education,” he said. “They are not so much fixed on the course as they are on the experience.”

Rubin presented information on performance funding given by Gov. Jay Nixon. Although the state has no plans to reduce base funding to MU, it might begin to allocate additional funding on the basis of metrics such

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as graduation rates and the number of graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Similar changes to higher education funding have been controversial after being implemented in states such as Texas and Massachusetts.

A number of faculty members raised concerns about the process.

“We don’t mind accountability, but we just see so many issues with it,” Rubin said. “One of the major concerns with performance funding is grade inflation.”

The council also discussed the possibility that the new funding system would reduce the emphasis on research at MU. “The experience of having an undergraduate work on your scholarship is important for their education,” Rubin said. “There’s nothing that motivates a kid more than having one-on-one time with faculty members.”

Faculty members suggested the possibility of creating an undergraduate research credit to ensure the university continued to offer such opportunities to students.

Rubin said both the provost and Missouri legislators were opposed to the implementation of performance funding.

Diversity Enhancement committee chairwoman Candace Galen reported on the council’s ongoing efforts to add domestic partnership benefits.

Galen said the deans of both MU and UM-Kansas City sent letters to the UM System Board of Curators voicing their support for adding these benefits.

The council plans to establish personal contacts with members of the board that it sees as allies in the fight for these benefits.

“Basically, tell them that we are losing good people because we don’t have these benefits,” Tyrer said.

Faculty Affairs Committee Chairman Clyde Bentley announced he had formed a task force to reexamine faculty tenure rules. The council also questioned why MU loses 35 percent of faculty members before they reach the point in their careers where they receive tenure.

“When you look at the figures for tenure, you have to throw in the quality of your hiring process,” Bentley said. “If you hire right, you should have 100 percent staying.”

Faculty Council’s next meeting will be held Sept. 22.

Project United launches on MU’s campus The new org will promote conversation through Hump Day Holla.

KATIE YAEGER Staff Writer What began as a summer semester project has grown into a campus-wide movement designed to bring MU’s entire student body closer together.

Project United co-founders Charlie Parker, Ted Paletta and Robert Steeples created the group’s diversity initiative in co-adviser Ryan Montague’s Business and Professional Communication class.

They wanted to provide a more representative student voice for diversity programs on campus.

“This is something everyone can get involved in,” secretary Morgan Jefferson said.

After receiving positive feedback from MU administrators, Montague wrote an official proposal and the three students, with Jefferson, established an independent study course where they work with Montague and co-adviser Astrid Villamilon on Project United.

The organization will specifically focus on strengthening communication within the student body.

Beginning Feb. 1, Hump Day Holla will provide students with a friendly environment to participate in learning conversations, which are enlightening discussions, with others from different social and cultural backgrounds each Wednesday.

“It’s a way to just have a conversation with someone else and banish ignorance,” Jefferson said.

As a weekly event, Hump Day Holla stands apart from other events promoting diversity, most of which occur every other week, once a month, once a semester or once a year.

“We’re approaching it weekly to develop the habit and mindset that (conversation) is encouraged and expected,” Montague said. “We want to create something that’s sustainable, where students can get involved in conversation and see the direct implications of how meaningful it is to get to know someone on a deeper level, whether they are friends, acquaintances or students they have never met before.”

Project United will create Holla Hangouts, designated spots around MU where students can gather and engage in discussions. Student volunteers will help initiate conversations and provide their fellow students with a convenient outlet for participation.

To encourage conversations everywhere, students can wear Project United Hump Day Holla T-shirts on Wednesdays to

advertise their support and willingness to participate in conversation.

The T-shirt comes with a social contract in which its wearers agree to participate in learning conversations with anyone who might approach them throughout the day, Montague said.

“It’s more than just buying a T-shirt at the bookstore that anyone can wear at any time,” Montague said.

Project United is not affiliated with One Mizzou, the diversity initiative founded after a student wrote a racially derogatory expression on a statue outside Hatch Hall in February.

“We think (One Mizzou is) doing a great job and they have a great mindset, but we want to be a student voice and want more people to get involved,” Jefferson said.

Although Project United is its own diversity initiative, it hopes to participate in Homecoming and other MU events with One Mizzou and other student organizations. In order to create an effective student body voice, it needs to encompass a lot of different organizations and people, Parker said.

The organization also hopes to reach out to the Columbia community.

“We want to have picnics and volunteer opportunities,” Jefferson said. “We want to go to Rock Bridge and Hickman and talk about diversity. We want to spread out all over Columbia.”

Parker encourages all interested students to participate.

“There are no barriers to get involved,” he said. “We invite anyone and everyone out. If you’re black and gold, we want you there.”

Project United will have a table at Fall Fest on Sept. 14 on Carnahan Quad. The group meets 4:30 p.m.

Monday and noon Fridays in 111 Switzler Hall.

PROJECT UNITED

NEW DIVERSITY INITIATIVE Project United is a diversity initiative that will focus on strengthening communication within the student body.

Unlike other diversity initiatives on campus, Project United will host a weekly event, “Hump Day Holla,” which will provide students with a friendly environment to converse with others.

• Project United hopes to collaborate with other organizations on campus and reach out to the Columbia community.

• Whereas One Mizzou was a created as a response to acts of racism on campus, Project United was created by students who simply wanted to help unite the campus.

• One Mizzou is a universitysanctioned program, whereas Project United is a student organization.

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the BLOTTER The following investigations are in progress, and the following people were arrested or issued summons, according to police reports.

1. CAR CRASH LEAVES TWO DEAD, TWO INJURED A car crash left two dead and two injured Sunday after the driver of a 2000 Nissan Pathfinder lost control of her vehicle.

Emergency personnel were called to the scene at the 2500 block of Blue Ridge Road at about 2:17 a.m, according to a news release.

“There was alcohol and speed related to the crash,” Columbia Police Department spokeswoman Latisha Stroer said.

The driver, Desmeisha Thomas, 19, veered off the right side of the road, striking a curb and then a telephone pole on the passenger side.

Thomas was unable to gain control of the vehicle, which overturned and slid on its top for 75 feet.

Medical personnel pronounced one of the passengers, David McBride, 26, dead at the scene.

The two other passengers, James Miller, 18, and Lateshia Jordan, 18, were transported to the hospital for injuries. Jordan was taken into sur-

2. ARREST MADE IN PATIENT ASSAULT AT PSYCHIATRIC CENTER A Columbia man was arrested Monday afternoon at University Hospital after an altercation with another patient.

"Officers were sent to the MU Psychiatric Center after one patient assaulted another patient," MU Police Department Capt. Brian Weimer said. "The victim was hit in the face and was bleeding."

Brian Hanson Jr., 29, was arrested on suspicion of third-degree assault at approximately 3:45 p.m. Monday.

According to prison records, Hanson is being held in Boone County Jail on a $29,000 bond.

He has been charged with second-degree domestic assault, second-degree assault on a law enforcement officer, harassment and failure to appear in connection with a previous incident.

3. TWO ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF SELLING MARIJUANA Officers arrested two suspects after finding large amounts of marijuana, cash and digital scales as part of a disturbance call, according to a Columbia Police Department report.

CPD officers were dispatched to the 4000 block of Clark Lane at 7:41 p.m. on Wednesday.

Witnesses told officers a vehicle, which had recently left the scene, was causing a disturbance.

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Officers were able to pull over the car when they smelled a strong odor of marijuana coming from the car.

They found a large amount of marijuana in the suspect vehicle, as well as a large amount of cash and digital scales in a purse belonging to the driver, Norma Sanders, 46.

Officers located a wallet belonging to Edgar RiojasOlivares, 26, in the backseat of the vehicle. Riojas-Olivares admitted to his involvement in the incident. He and Sanders were arrested on charges of distribution, delivery and manufacturing of a controlled substance.

4. POLICE ARREST TEEN AFTER CONVENIENCE STORE ROBBERY Columbia Police Department Officers were dispatched to a disturbance at 9:39 a.m. Wednesday

morning at the Petro Mart Convenience Store at 5612 St. Charles Road.

An employee witnessed Justin Myers, 17, grabbing cigars from the convenience store without paying for them. When the employee went to stop Myers from taking the cigars Myers allegedly assaulted him.

An off-duty highway patrolman saw the altercation, intervened and was also assaulted by Myers. Myers was arrested on charges of robbery, trespassing, assault of a law enforcement officer, resisting or interfering with an arrest and possession of a controlled substance. A second suspect, Daree Martin, 18, was arrested on charges of distribution, delivery, manufacture, production of a controlled substance, receiving stolen property and an

outstanding warrant misdemeanor assault.

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MU works to put bed Syllabus archiving bugs problem to rest process continues MARGARET GALLAGHER Reporter

spraying of buildings is usually done twice a year, and students are encouraged to report any possible case of infestation to Residential Life immediately.

Residential Life has also been active in supplying its employees with current knowledge and techniques. Several employees recently attended an Association of College and University Housing Officers workshop held in St. Louis.

Minor, though, said he is still confident with MU’s hold on possible infestations.

“There are over 7,000 students living on campus, (and) the number of pest problems we have is actually relatively minor,” he said.

“We’ve responded well in the past to situations that have occurred.”

Many students aren’t even aware bed bugs are a problem.

“I haven’t seen or heard about any bed bugs, ever,” senior Aaron Schuh said. “I’ve never thought or worried about them.”

Residential Life has a brochure available that answers general questions about bedbug infestation and treatment, which can be found on its website.

The Missouri Students Association is continuing its work on the syllabus archive project that will improve the process of selecting courses for MU students.

The syllabus archive will consist of past syllabi and will be posted online for students to review when selecting courses. Through the program students can make a researched decision regarding which classes they want to take and how significant the workload they take on will be.

“The archive will provide a wealth of information to all students,” MSA Senate Speaker Jake Sloan said in an email. “This wealth of knowledge will give students a view into a class prior to registering for classes.”

Academic Affairs Committee Chairman Everett Bruer and Former MSA Senate Speaker Evan Wood began the project last year.

Bruer and Wood originated the plan for the archive in the fall of 2010. A group was formed to begin building the archive, but the group disbanded after the various members had conflicting duties that prevented their availability to work on the project, Wood said.

The archive was delayed when other projects such as the diversity-intensive course requirement took precedence over it. MSA was also busy last winter getting things back on track after the “Snowmageddon” delays, Bruer said.

The plan is to archive past syllabi so that when students are registering for classes they can see how the class is structured. Professors will also have the option to post present syllabi. MSA President Eric Woods said students can determine how large their workload will be while they register for courses.

As of right now, it is possible for students to find some professors’ syllabi online. With the syllabus archive, all information will be consolidated to better accommodate students. Bruer said it will be linked to the MSA website so students will have easy access to the archive.

With the information students can obtain from the archive, they will know what their semester will require of them. This can decrease the number of classes dropped,

Two steps up, she blacked out. in 95-degree conditions.

“I walked up two steps and was Concession stands in Memorial like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m not going Stadium ran out of water bottles to make it,’” she said. “I sat back by the time Nari began feeling down and tried to call my friends’ sick at the start of the third names. Then I started walking quarter. The line for the nearest up the stairs, and I water fountain, threw up.”

Nari said, was a Nari’s friends 30 to 45-minute brought her to the I walked up two steps and wait. hospital where she was like, 'Oh my gosh, According to received treatment I'm not going to make it.' Faurot Field’s for dehydration. rules and guideMarti Nari lines, “I was definitely outside Freshman really scared,” she beverages are typsaid. “I felt so sick, ically not allowed that’s scary. That, and when I in the stadium except for mediwoke up I felt like the worst, cal purposes. ever. It was horrifying because “I guess you should just you don’t know what’s going on always come prepared,” she said. and you just feel so sick.”

“With water and stuff, buy in Saturday’s game took place bulk the things you’re going to

need. I don’t know if they can install more water fountains, but I feel like people could have just gone to the bathrooms to fill up their bottles in the faucet.”

Game attendant Joe Alonzo said he saw fans suffering in the heat during and after the game.

“I was OK, but out in the concourse, security were dealing with people who were doing badly by holding ice on their necks,” he said in an email. “While we were driving around after the game, we saw several people who appeared to have heat exhaustion.”

Alonzo said after the water bottles ran out he saw concession stands selling cups of ice for $4 each.

He said that price was too high to expect fans to pay in

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Tyler Adkisson sits on his bed before his classes begin Thursday morning at Schurz residence hall. MU has recently adopted a policy that would kill bedbugs with heat instead of chemicals.

IAN FRAZER Reporter As many times as mom might have said “Don’t let the bedbugs bite,” it’s still a possibility at MU. In the past year, the Department of Residential Life has reported seven instances of bedbug infestation. All incidents took place on universityowned apartments housing primarily students who are married, have families and are in graduate and professional schools. Six instances were reported at Tara apartments and one was reported at Manor House.

Bedbugs are small insects that feed on blood and cause maladies such as rashes and bite marks.

“They most frequently travel in anything soft,” Residential Life Director Frankie Minor said.

“Bedding is most common, but they’re not confined to that.”

Minor said leaving unwanted furniture outside residences at the end of the school year increases the risk of infestation. The items are picked up by passer-by and bedbugs, if present, are transported from one house to another.

The pests have been a growing problem in America in recent years. A joint study by the National Pest Management

Association and the University of Kentucky surveyed American pest management professionals and found 99 percent of them had dealt with problems with bedbugs up to a year ago.

“The increase in bed bug encounters is likely due to a combination of factors, but one thing is clear — this pest shows no signs of retreating,” Missy Henriksen, Vice President of Public Affairs for NPMA, stated in the report.

Previously, bedbug infestations were dealt with by treating a room with insecticide, but MU has begun to use heat to eliminate the pests. The affected areas are heated up to 140 degrees, which kills the bugs and allows them to be removed easily. “(The treatment) doesn’t use any chemicals, so if any people have a sensitivity in any way, that’s not an issue,” Minor said.

The heat treatment only takes a few hours to complete. Residents must remove anything in the residence that can potentially be damaged by the heat. Residents also must launder any article of clothing or furniture that could possibly contain the bug.

MU is taking preemptive measures to combat the rising rate of bedbug infestations. Routine

which can be hard to make up for later, Woods said.

Sloan said the archive will ultimately give students at least two major advantages.

“First, it will allow students to choose a professor that best suits their individual learning style,” he said. “The second advantage would be that a student can get a glimpse into a class prior to registering and if the students choose not to take that course then the student wouldn’t have to go through the drawn-out process of dropping a course.”

Another benefit of the archive will be students picking their courses based on their learning styles, Woods said.

The project is in the raw idea stage, but the students working on it are about ready to begin presenting ideas to faculty. Students have sent positive feedback so far, Bruer said.

Ideally, the archive will eventually include profiles of professors.

This could possibly incorporate a survey or rating system, Wood said. Surveys of some professors are already available on myZou, but the syllabus archive will offer one location that provides all of the information to make a wellrounded decision in choosing courses.

Woods said it is possible the project will be finished and functional by the end of the semester. No official time frame is available.

Bruer said that he is pursuing the project aggressively this semester and that it is his main goal. The project requires a lot of work and Bruer said he would prefer it be high quality rather than available soon.

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Lack of water at Faurot creates sea of problems At least one spectator was taken to the hospital because of dehydration.

CAITLIN HOLLAND Staff Writer Freshman Marti Nari felt sick Saturday at Faurot Field during Missouri’s 17-6 victory over Miami (Ohio). She was burning up one second and chilled the next.

Her hands, cramped, grew inflexible. She separated herself from the crowd of Tiger fans in the bleachers and began to climb the stairs seeking relief, but couldn’t.

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extreme weather conditions.

“I think that’s outrageous to begin with, but when that’s the closest thing to water that’s available and it’s 100 degrees, some kind of adjustment needs to be made,” he said. “Maybe they could give away tap water if they run out of bottled water?”

Nari said she found the price of the bottled water, while it was still available, to be unreasonable.

“The water bottles were like really overpriced,” she said. “I would walk by, and I would hear people, and I’m the same way, saying, ‘I’m not going to spend that much money on water.’ That’s kind of a basic human necessity.”

Officials from the Athletics Department did not return multiple calls for comment.

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MARKET: To close on March 23 Continued from page 1 “There are no major architectural changes,” Wuest said. “There will be little if any appearance change to the convenience store from the customer’s viewpoint.”

The Subway inside the store will close during the renovation, but will reopen when construction is done.

“I come here to do homework a lot because it is open 24 hours a day, and I get Subway," senior Lucas Penning said.

In order to provide for students who utilize the 24-hour space, Campus Dining Services is discussing the option of temporary 24/7 service at another campus location.

“We don’t want to lose service with closing,” Wuest said. “The goal is for students not to notice any change in service, except for the location.”

The all-day services of the market cannot be found elsewhere on campus. After midnight, most facilities on campus are closed for the evening. “(The closing) is very upsetting because the other Mizzou Markets don’t have Subway and 24-hour service," Mitchell said. "I like that it also has a variety of options. They have Tylenol, hair products, anything you could need at all hours.”

The closing also comes as a surprise to most students.

“I didn’t know that (the market) was closing,” Penning said. "I’ll probably have to find a place to

COUNCIL: Budget goes into effect 10/1 Continued from page 1 Task Force proposed by McDavid at a previous council meeting.

Despite transit cuts, McDavid believes that Columbia can increase its ridership from 2 million to 10 million in the next five years with the help of the new task force.

“We are capable of having one of the most robust transit services in the Midwest,” McDavid said.

The Pointe would have paid $7,000 annually for day service and limited evening service Thursday through Saturday, Columbia Transportation Supervisor Drew Brooks said in a prior interview.

The Reserve and Campus Lodge, who endeavored to jointly fund a contract, would have paid $3,427.20 per semester, per community for evening service.

Michael Davis, Regional Vice President for Ambling Student Housing, said Brooks met with Campus Lodge Property Manager Lindsey Bright Thursday where Brooks brought up the city’s plans to require students to pay a semester transportation fee for bus services.

Bright said she felt the City Council, by voting down the complexes' proposed contracts, was sending a message to the university by punishing the students who currently use the transit system.

“It was unfortunate that the decision was made so last-minute,” Bright said. “It is up to the City Council at this point. They are focusing on the students because they make up 70 percent of the

ridership.”

Sixth Ward Councilwoman Barbara Hoppe said that while the City Council believes it is important to provide service to the apartments, the council was told that the agreements would not have covered all of the costs.

“The ultimate goal is a system mirrored off of other college communities, where students pay a semester fee and receive excellent transit service,” Sixth Ward Councilwoman Barbara Hoppe said. “We are already taking a loss and we do not want to go further in the hole.”

The Reserve chose not to comment.

“We are very disappointed with the city of Columbia as the evening route was fully funded by Campus Lodge and the Reserve so the city was not losing one cent,” Davis said. “Additionally, other riders would be allowed access to the shuttle so there was an opportunity for the city to make a profit.”

Columbia Transit will still provide day service to the apartment complexes, as well as Log Hill Run Apartments, Columbia Public Works Department spokeswoman Jill Stedem said. Presently, the city is not considering any other contracts from the apartments to provide night service.

“We will await direction from the city manager and council on how to proceed,” Stedem said. “The city cannot afford to continue night service as we do not have a budget to cover those expenses. The council

disapproved authorizing the apartment complexes to pay for it.”

Without the proposed contracts, service to the apartment complexes such as Campus Lodge would begin at 6:40 a.m. end at 5:40 p.m., said Davis.

“We shouldn’t have to worry about having a ride to campus,” Campus Lodge resident and MU sophomore Krista Pulley said. “We signed a lease with the knowledge that the bus would be running late.”

The daytime shuttle service with the city of Columbia is contracted through the upcoming school year, Davis said. Unless MU assesses each student a transit fee in their tuition, however, the city has stated that they may cancel next year’s contract.

“Our ability to provide a night shuttle service has been a great benefit to both our residents and the environment,” Davis said. “The last-minute cancellation of the bus service by the city is again leaving our residents scrambling for alternative transportation to campus in the evenings.”

The council will look over some amendments to the budget at the Sept. 19 meeting and then plans to take a final vote on the budget. The budget that is passed will go into effect Oct. 1.

City Manager Mike Matthes has proposed cuts to services and substantial fare increases to make public transit more economically viable.

Currently, the transit system loses about $100,000 a month and money used to subsidize it is expected to run out by next July, Matthes said

during the meeting.

A large crowd of constituents showed up at City Hall for the meeting, primarily to voice concern for the proposed cuts to the transit system. A steady stream of approximately 20 individuals representing different disability groups, those with previous experience in transportation work, some disabled citizens and simply concerned citizens came up to voice their opinions.

Many cited how, for people using wheelchairs, buses are the only public transportation available. Other concerns raised were the fact that those without an automobile, who are often of a low socio-economic demographic, rely on transit to get to jobs and other necessities.

Mary Hussmann of Grass Roots Organizing spoke to declare her group’s stance against transit cuts.

“We want to go on record as not supporting any increases or cuts,” Hussman said.

Alyce Turner, a member of the Public Transportation Advisory Commission, reiterated her commission’s stance in support of increasing fees for those who are older than 18, predominantly college students, while maintaining the reduced rates currently received by children younger than 18 and those on federal assistance programs.

During the meeting, McDavid said 75 percent of transit ridership is students, which Turner argued would provide significant revenue for the city.

Students older than 18 who currently receive half-price fares would

SABAI: Location features Southeast Asian food Continued from page 1 Manager Michael Wuest said Sabai spent the weeks prior to the opening making sure production was consistent and the staff was welltrained.

“We wanted to be sure we were doing everything we could, and doing it well,” he said.

Sabai offers a menu of many Southeast Asian dishes, the most popular being the chicken curry

and chicken fried rice bowl. It operates like Baja Grill, where each item on the menu constitutes a portion of a meal. Sabai took over the space that used to belong to former dining hall Eva J’s, which closed its doors at the end of last school year.

Even though Sabai hadn’t publicly announced its presence until yesterday, it still has profited from the last few weeks. Wuest said the initial response to the restaurant

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was mostly positive, but there were a few students who missed Eva J’s.

“Overall, people really enjoy the décor and the authenticity of Sabai,” he said.

Freshman Crystal Thomas has visited Sabai three times already and has enjoyed each trip. As opposed to other dining halls, she said she finds it efficient and very reasonably priced.

“I like that you know what’s on the menu from the beginning,

instead of going into the other dining halls blind,” she said.

Her one complaint about Sabai is its location. She said finding the restaurant on the lower level of Johnston is no easy task.

“The back door is now locked, and walking through the front at night can be pretty awkward sometimes,” she said.

Although an outside street entrance would be preferred, Wuest said he still believes people,

as they figure out their schedules, will seek out Sabai for its intimate atmosphere. Sabai is open from 10:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Friday, and from 4 to 11 p.m. Sundays.

In the weeks to come, Wuest is confident that traffic will continue to pick up.

“Typically, business picks up after a grand opening,” he said.

“We’re still working to be the best we can be.”

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Semester brings drug arrest increase DANIEL DEMAY Reporter MU Police Department reported 21 instances of underage alcoholrelated offenses and five marijuanarelated offenses between Aug. 18 and Aug. 25, according to MU police reports.

Compared to similar college campuses, MU’s numbers are significantly higher. MUPD recorded more than three times as many drug- and alcohol-related incidents in the same period as reported to UC Berkeley Police.

Under federal law, it is illegal for anyone under 21 years old to consume, possess or purchase alcohol.

Harsher enforcement, combined with other ordinances, attempt to address the expected issue of underage drinking in the large student population of Columbia.

MUPD focuses on strong enforcement efforts as well as on educating students through alcohol awareness programs, MUPD Capt.

Scott Richardson said. Police are not lenient toward underage drinking, he said.

“More times than not, typically they (minors caught drinking) are issued a summons for MIP,” Richardson said.

At other campuses, police say they do not actively seek out arrests for the offense, but still cite many students, said Diane Brown, University of Michigan Police Department public information officer.

“Typically they do something else that draws attention,” Brown said.

“We get plenty of business from that.”

Sobriety checks are one way local police have attempted to deter driving under the influence of alcohol as well as minors in possession. These are typically a joint effort between local police and highway patrol or the county sheriff and are funded through a highway safety grant program, Richardson said.

The Missouri statutes require that a comprehensive plan is in place and that the public is made “thoroughly aware” of DWI checkpoints’ time and location well in advance.

One of the largest sections of the Columbia city ordinances addresses nuisance parties, which are considered social gatherings of 10 or more people where activities such as minors drinking alcohol, littering, outdoor urination, smoking marijuana, setting off fireworks or discharging firearms happen.

If a particular residence has a “chronic nuisance” problem, in which parties occur frequently, the landlord can be held responsible for

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MU has had three times as many drug and alcohol related incidents in the same period as reported to University of California-Berkeley Police. Columbia Police Department emphasizes sobriety checks and works to address nuisance parties and fake IDs.

the problem, possibly resulting in the tenants being evicted on short notice.

Other college towns, such as Ann Arbor, Mich., and Berkeley, Calif., have similarly explicit provisions

White House, CNCS call college students to action Gearan said he feels optimistic for the future working with college students.

DANIEL SHAPIRO Reporter The White House and the Corporation for National and Community Service held a conference call about Sept. 11 service projects Thursday for college reporters nationwide.

Several speakers held a media briefing for college student reporters about how college campuses and students are observing the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. On the panel were Ronnie Cho, associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement; Robert Velasco, acting CEO for the Corporation for National and Community Service; CNCS chairman and Hobart and William Smith Colleges President Mark Gearan; George Washington University President Steve Knapp and Tulane Outreach chairwoman Lea Bogner.

“Beginning in 2002, family members who lost loved ones in the 9/11 attack began to seek a form of lifting tribute to honor the sacrifice of those lost and pay tribute to those who rose in service,” Velasco said during the call. “They believe that engaging in service on the 9/11 anniversary was a productive and respect-

ful way to honor those who died and create a legacy of compassion and action to help meet the challenges we face today.”

Velasco said Congress designated Sept. 11 a national day of service and remembrance in 2009. CNCS supports this effort across the country.

Velasco proceeded to discuss how to honor the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

The CNCS will provide competitive challenge grants totaling $500,000 to encourage college groups to organize large-scale service projects in relation to Sept. 11.

“In keeping with the wishes of the families of the 9/11 victims, I want to invite you to think of the anniversary of a tragic day in our history as a true call to action,” Velasco said. “I want to urge students from near campuses and every member from your respective communities to get involved. Go to serve.gov type in your zip code and find a project in your area or organize your own service project, using our toolkits.”

Cho then took over the conference call, explaining that the current college generation is now the “9/11 Generation” and that only this generation could answer the call due to the unique qualities of the generation.

“It is our generation that does not allow cowardice to define that day many years ago, not allow ignorance and hatred to harden our hearts and close off

our minds, but instead remember stories of compassion and heroism and resilience that bound us together as a country, bound us together as a generation that is even more committed to helping our communities, more dedicated to service and even more understanding and accepting of the world around us,” Cho said.

Cho then encouraged college students to go to whitehouse. gov/youngamericans to sign up for a newsletter where they can keep up with new service programs that would be announced soon. Gearan further elaborated the point by stating the future is bright with college students interested in community service, both locally and globally.

The next topic discussed was George Washington University’s Freshman Day of Service, launched in 2009. First lady Michelle Obama issued GWU a challenge to do 100,000 hours of community service and she would be its commencement speaker. The school completed 163,980 hours.

“We haven’t had a plan in place that is exactly like that Freshman Day of Service, but it has been brought a number of times,” Cho said. “It is something we are considering and want to pitch to all universities with or without the White Houses’ participation. We would like to encourage everyone, however, to take the bull by the horns and do this on their own.”

regarding nuisance parties in their city codes.

Columbia city ordinances also prohibit fake IDs. Columbia Police Department and MUPD perform

routine checks at local bars and nightclubs. Possession or presentation of a fake ID is a Class A misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine of up to $1,000 and/or one year in jail.

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to students attending private universities and the amount given to those attending public universities.

Nixon’s plan is to cut partial scholarship money from the private schools and not increase tuition for the public school, thus leveling the playing field a little more.

“I think the problem with the proposal is that it is very hard to measure effectiveness in higher education, and I am particularly concerned about using graduation rates as a measure of university performance,” assistant economics professor Cory Koedel said. “For example, if a target graduation rate is really set, then it would be trivial to reach that target by giving students passing grades, even when they don’t deserve them.

But that dilutes the quality of the education, and ultimately the value of the degree.”

Koedel said he thinks the proposal could lead to universities developing unsound practices.

“My concern is that policymakers are not thinking carefully about the incentives they are proposing, and that the incentives will lead universities to do things that are not in the best interests of students or the Missouri economy,” Koedel said.

Nixon’s new model was backed up by students who do not wish to pay higher tuition costs next year, but is of major concern to those who do not trust the universities to set the goals themselves in order to make this happen.

“Moving forward, we must now fix the funding model for higher education, to make it less crisis-driven and more predictable from year to year,” Nixon said in a news release.

Students, faculty react to education funding proposal Reporter Gov. Jay Nixon caught the attention of many Aug. 25 when he expressed his new idea for funding higher education through a goal system for Missouri colleges and universities.

Nixon put together a task force of education representatives from around the state to determine goals for each school by 2013. Under the new plan, if a school does not meet its goals by that date, it will not receive full funding. Representing the UM System on the task force is Nikki Krawitz, UM System vice president for finance and administration.

Although Nixon said the proposal will make higher education funding more predictable for the state, concerns have surfaced at MU about potential flaws in Nixon’s plan. Some say it might hurt Missouri’s economy instead of helping it, and some may argue what defines effectiveness in higher education.

“In theory, Nixon’s program sounds great,” freshman Christi Renfroe said. “I think everyone would prefer lower tuition rates, especially MU students coming from out of state, but I am skeptical about the goal setting aspect.”

Nixon’s goal is for students to not only receive a college degree, but to make the process less expensive and more attainable, according to his office’s news release. More students will enter the workforce with a higher level of education, which will help Missouri’s economy grow tremendously.

There is a gap between the mount of scholarship money given

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Arlington National Cemetery uses smartphones to catalogue fallen soldiers Investigation led to the discovery of eight soldier remains in one gravesite.

With the use of smartphones, the Gravesite Accountability Task Force at Arlington National Cemetery is working to organize the remains of mislabeled fallen soldiers.

By digitally photographing headstones, each gravesite can be uploaded into a database which catalogues every fallen soldier’s remains. Satellites have also been used to digitally map out the cemetery. The technological cataloging was also attempted in 2005, but was unsuccessful, according to the Arlington National Cemetery website.

“In this next year, leadership will focus on using technology to develop programs and products that will bring the American public closer to Arlington National Cemetery,” according to a news release by the Arlington National Cemetery.

Through the use of technology, the cataloging is more organized, making plots more available to the families of fallen soldiers, according to a news release.

“The Army’s actions to fix the problems discovered more than a year ago at Arlington National Cemetery are encouraging, but they still have a long way to go,” Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said in a news release.

McCaskill remains hopeful.

Woman accidentally discharges stolen gun The suspect accidentally shot a bullet through a car floorboard.

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A family walks through rows of gravesites May 30 at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington D.C. The cemetery now uses smartphones to prevent remains identification mix-ups.

“It’s unfortunate that it took an act of Congress to ensure proper accountability and oversight of this sacred ground, but I’m willing to do whatever it takes to protect our veterans and their families,” McCaskill said. “I’m eager to see the Army’s progress and review their full report to Congress later this year.”

Three of the eight soldiers who shared the same unmarked grave have since been identified and their families have been notified.

One other has been confirmed as “unknown,” three sets of remains cannot be identified and an investigation continues for the last set of remains, according to a news release from the Army Criminal Investigation Division.

“Army CID currently has ongo-

ing investigations into possible criminality that includes the burial of eight sets of cremated human remains in a single location at the cemetery, improper burial reservations and possible contract fraud,” a CID news release stated.

McCaskill, who is chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight, was active in the creation of a bill to manage Arlington National Cemetery enacted Dec. 7, 2010.

According to the bill, the cemetery had one year after the bill’s enactment date to report any discrepancies among burials and will also require the reporting of all burial accounts in the cemetery.

— Taylor Fox, staff writer

Earlier in the day, Ferguson was involved in a verbal argument with a driver of a separate vehicle in the 2400 block of Creek Edge Court. They left in different vehicles, both ending up on Range Line and Vandiver.

A woman was arrested A CPD officer was driving Wednesday morning after acci- around the neighborhood when dentally discharging a stolen gun he saw two vehicles stopped in her vehicle and shooting a bul- in traffic. According to a news let through the floorboard. release, a black female outA Columbia Police side of one of the vehicles Department officer was yelling at the driver of pulled over the driver of the second vehicle. When a Cadillac Deville after he the officer turned around to observed a woman getting pull up to the vehicles they into an argument with the VERNITA started to leave the area. driver of a second vehicle FERGUSON The officer pulled over and then making an illegal one of the vehicles, a burright-hand turn near Vandiver gundy Cadillac Deville when it and Rangeline, according to a made an illegal right hand turn news release. from the wrong lane. The other As he approached the scene the officer heard one gunshot, vehicle, a white town car, made according to the news release. The a legal right turn beforehand, woman who shot the gun has been Stroer said.

“People discharge their gun identified as Vernita Ferguson, 45. when they’re cleaning their gun, Ferguson told the officer the accidentally, so it does happen if gun was hers and she accidentally discharged the weapon when you don’t know what you’re doing,” unloading it before he approached. Stroer said.

Ferguson was arrested on chargThe officer ran the serial number es of receiving stolen property, a felon the weapon and it came back ony, and held with a $4,500 bond. as stolen.

Stroer said CPD is still lookCPD spokeswoman Latisha Stroer said she believes Ferguson ing for the other vehicle, but it most likely unloaded the gun does not know what the initial because she did not want the offi- argument was about or if it was cer to find her with a loaded weap- connected to the stolen gun. on. The round went through the —Dani Kass, floorboard where she sat. No one was injured during the shooting.

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Pershing closing calls for alternatives This seems to be news to everyone: Pershing Hall is closing in March. Consequently, the campus’ only 24-hour shopping and dining location, Mizzou Market and Subway, are closing as well.

Night owls: S.O.L. Following in the footsteps of the now-impressive DefoeGraham residence hall, Pershing obviously needs a facelift.

Although we can’t complain, because the reasons for closing down the building are legitimate and necessary, we’re still a little anxious about how the need for a 24-hour location will be filled.

Those involved in the construction have said that they’re committed to finding some alternative location for students to study, shop and eat into the wee hours of the night. In fact, they said they would even consider moving into a trailer if it came to it. And for that, we commend them.

There are plenty of spaces on campus that could potentially house a temporary — keyword: temporary — Mizzou Market. Our old office on the top floor of Memorial Union and the adjacent former Center for Social Justice come to mind. Pushing back the McDonald’s/Student Success Center project might also be considerable; the building that housed the former restaurant could be a potential contender to hold the temporary market.

There are many more spaces that could be used, and we encourage those involved to carefully consider all of them.

What is notable about both suggestions is something that we think those making the final call should keep in mind: they’re in central locations for campus, and they offer study space. There isn’t anywhere else on campus that offers shelter for those pulling all-nighters (minus the residence halls, which all of us can’t get into late at night). It’s important to note that we’re not just looking for somewhere to get a sub sandwich at 4 a.m. — we’re looking for somewhere where we can study as well.

So for the time being, we bid farewell to you, Pershing Hall.

We’ll miss you. You can’t ever be replaced, but we’re willing to give another place a shot.

Nixon’s higher ed. proposals strike out We think it’s safe to say Gov. Jay Nixon is playing a really rough baseball game with the UM System, as well as other state colleges and universities.

Beginning of the game? Tuition increases. Though college students across the state appreciated Nixon’s tuition freeze for a couple years, the large tuition increase last year didn’t make it worth it. Strike one.

Then we got to be surprised by Nixon’s new proposal to funding higher education. He wants to make it based on performance, where colleges and universities will receive funding based on whether they meet goals they have set for themselves. In other words, let’s recreate the failed No Child Left Behind law for universities. Strike two.

And now, automatic college scholarships awarded to Missouri high school students from the state are as low as they can be by state law. Strike three.

Three strikes and higher education’s out.

But higher education isn’t the only state “program” this has happened to and students recognize that. Nixon is not doing anything to higher education that he isn’t doing to every other state program, especially the 45 he has been sued by for unconstitutionally withholding funds from to pay for disaster relief.

Higher education just happened to take all its hits over a very short course of time, resulting in a baseball game where universities were dealt a hand almost as bad as the Chicago Cubs and the World Series.

The fact is, funding for state programs and higher education isn’t coming anytime soon, and cutting scholarships and pressing to make higher education funding based on performance are not the answers to solve this. Nixon definitely shouldn’t rely on more tuition increases (though we’re sure he will) to make up the difference, when he relies on college students in Missouri repeatedly to lower the drop-out rate and become good additions to society. (By the way, a large reason for students dropping out of college is lack of financial aid and struggling to pay for that degree. Ironic, huh?)

The real problem that neither the state governments nor the federal government has the answer to is the economy. The funding cuts and predicted cuts are all based on slower economic growth across the country. Let’s be frank: This is a double-dip recession and we have no idea how to handle it.

In the meantime, higher education will be in the dugout, along with other state programs waiting for government to step up to the plate because someone really needs to figure out how to hit a grand slam. Lack of funding isn’t going away anytime soon.

ILLUSTRATION BY RYLAN BATTEN

MU fans left high and dry The first home game of the season turns into a health hazard for fans.

As a senior, I have never missed a home football game and this past Saturday I was surely not going to let a little heat ruin my record. Like many others I stayed till the end of the game so I could sing our school song. However, on the way out of the stadium I started feeling sick. I almost threw up before a nice tailgater gave me a bottle of water and a cold wet towel to put on my neck. During the game I bought the $4, 20-ounce bottle of water, though I am sure we all sweated more than 20 ounces before the game even began. I found out after the game that the entire stadium ran out of water and Gatorade during the game. In a stadium with 58,000+ and a few hard-to-find water fountains, what is the stadium doing to keep its supporters safe?

During the second quarter of the game, a girl near me passed out. My friend’s grandmother, who is 88, got dehydrated and was barely able to make it up to the first aid station during half time. At the first aid station, she and her daughter saw people everywhere lying on the floor. They were told they

could only stay for 15 minutes because there were too many people. The attendant also told them that it was the calmest the first aid station had been all day. After the water and Gatorade ran out, they tried to charge my friend $4 for a cup of ice.

In the past ice has always been free, and to take advantage of the dangerous heat and try to make a profit off of it shows a lack of integrity for those in charge of the concession stands.

Hopefully the health and safety of the fans in attendance will be reconsidered and made a main priority at future games. There should be coolers with water in them set up at every hot dog station.

The small price of filling coolers with hose water and setting out cheap cups would be worth it for the safety of the fans. Even theme parks, which charge outrageous prices for their waters, give out free water on hot days. We all want to go to the game and support our team and we hope that in the future they will learn from their mistakes and be more prepared.

Bethany Welcher, senior brw437@mail.missouri.edu

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Ten years past, 9/11 Spotify: The cure to music downloading woes rebuild remains in effect Sheela Lal This Sunday is the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

I have racked my brain for something, really anything, to say about this occasion. I fear that this column will come across too trite or unappreciative.

I have a feeling that for a lot of the students enrolled this year, the memories of that day are incredibly similar. One moment we are in class and the next, a teacher receives word and has the difficult task of explaining to a bunch of pre-teens the most horrific attack on our country since WWII. For me, I was sitting in my sixth grade math class and my teacher, Ms. Garmon, gave us the blunt, abridged version: Hijackers flew planes into the Twin Towers. We all knew we should feel shock and sadness but could not locate the proper source.

As many readers will understand, growing up in the Midwest meant growing up a little isolated. I did not know anyone on the East Coast, let alone in New York City. I did not know what significance the Twin Towers had. I did not understand why anyone wanted to bomb us.

Now we are 10 years removed.

Many of us know people who live in New York City.

Many of us have been to New York City. Some of us have made it down to Ground Zero to pay our respects to the 2,606 who died unnecessarily. When we watch movies set in NYC, we can tell if it was in a pre- or post-9/11 world.

Check out the skyline, bro.

Unfortunately, 10 years later, post-traumatic stress disorder remains in America’s psyche. Everything the nation felt immediately after the attacks is still in play, and it has its costs.

The heroes who immediately arrived on the scene to rescue the victims and the volunteers who came later to help clean up now have diseases from the dust.

The towers’ remains contain carcinogens like asbestos and construction materials. The volunteers breathed this material in and according to research published by The Lancet, there was a “19 percent increase in cancer diagnosis in the first seven years for the firefighters working at Ground Zero.”

Rampant Islamophobia and xenophobia has its costs as well. How many of the readers are friends with Muslim students? How many of the readers know anything about Islam? The prevailing fear and complete misunderstanding of Muslim Americans leads to people like Herman Cain becoming serious contenders for the GOP candidacy.

Other, non-Muslim Middle Eastern and South Asian communities, specifically Sikhs, have been disproportionally targeted in hate crimes in the aftermath of 9/11. Sikhs had nothing to do with the attacks, but because many men wear turbans, they all of a sudden were fair game. Yes, that makes complete sense. Fortunately, hate crime rates against Muslims, Sikhs, Middle Easterners and South Asians have abated.

Over time, this anniversary has moved from grieving to celebration in the form of community unity. In Columbia, there is a peace march. In New York City, faith groups participate in days of service. In St. Louis, an interfaith service will take place.

For those planning on memorial events this weekend, I have to encourage you to take part in these types of activities. Go to a community center of a different faith. Meet people of a different ethnicity. Engage in conversations to challenge your worldview.

It has been 10 years. Let’s start rebuilding the American community.

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Alex Basak

Everybody loves free shit.

That’s a fact. People steal, whether it’s from a convenience store or BitTorrent, and have been stealing for a long time. Most college kids don’t have the money to constantly buy albums for $10 or more from iTunes, so a lot of them turn to illegal file sharing, which has seriously real consequences. But a friend of mine recently turned me on to this legal music-streaming application Spotify, which alleviates the need to steal just a little bit.

My first impression of Spotify is that it’s really user-friendly. If you have used any type of music player, Spotify is familiar. The program automatically integrates your iTunes library in to its millions of songs available for you to play at the click of a mouse, a good competitive move to shut out iTunes as your main music player and to up the hit count on advertisements (and, therefore, increase revenue for Spotify).

You navigate the application with a sidebar that looks just like iTunes. There’s a tab for “What’s New,” which displays top/new albums. Right now I’m looking at it and “The Carter IV” is up there at No. 2. You can filter the lists for top songs and albums by location, which I think is cool. You can see what the most played songs are in a few different regions, or all of the regions together. Aside from the “What’s New” tab, there are Inbox, Queue, Library, Starred (Favorited) and Playlist tabs in the

Spotify side bar.

The way the play queue works on Spotify is really cool. Let’s say you search for Chris Brown, and you go through and queue a bunch of tracks that you want to hear.

The queued tracks will play, and then once they run out, Spotify will automatically load the next tracks on whatever album your last queued track was from. It might sound like a little thing, but this feature keeps the music playing and also does a good job of exposing music that maybe you wouldn’t have listened to otherwise. Both are good for parties.

At the top of the queue page, there are queue and history options, so you can either see all of the songs that have played or all of the songs you’re going to play.

Why is that a plus? Say Spotify automatically loads a song that you like: you have that song saved in your history and you can go to the artist or album and explore.

Spotify is focused on social connection. You can link your Spotify account with your Facebook and share the playlists that you make on Spotify with your friends. My friends and I talk music all the time, so I look at this as an updated version of posting a YouTube link on somebody’s wall. Instead of saying, “Oh you like Drake?

Check out this link. And then this link too. And then if you like that, go to this one, and then so on,” you can make an entire playlist based around a certain artist and then share it with one, some or all of your friends. Just make sure you don’t accidentally share that secret Bieber stash.

That brings me to the feature that really got me in to Spotify, which is sharing. What’s cool

about Spotify is that I can send links to songs that are in my iTunes library to anybody. So, if I wrote a song and wanted to share it, instead of having to upload the file to SoundCloud or some other file sharing site, many of which are brimming with ads and surveys, I could just post a link to my track to a friends Facebook or Twitter.

You can share privately through your Spotify account, too, which you sign up for right after you download the app.

I keep thinking about this iTunes exclusive interview with John Mayer that came out right after his most recent album, “Battle Studies,” dropped. He was talking about how he really got off the ground at the start of his career, and he made this interesting observation that right as he was getting started, Napster was around.

“Everybody saw (Napster) as a dirty, dirty word,” Mayer said.

“I saw it as a way to create this throughway to people’s passions or what people wanted to hear, and for a moment people got really excited about finding music. Some of the most important musical finds that I’ve had in my career were based off of downloading music illegally.”

Take Napster and add contracts with major record labels, and you basically get Spotify. So, if you stay up at night hoping that the feds won’t kick your door in for that new Jay-Z you ripped, you might want to see if Spotify can help you rest easy. Or, if you’re a musician looking to share and find new music, you might want to do it through Spotify, because it’s coming in hot and I think it’s going to stick around.

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Perry, Romney emerge as GOP frontrunners Josh Hinton

The Republican primary process began in earnest earlier this year, although the first real votes won’t be cast until February next year.

The current notable candidates are Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Jon Huntsman. Despite the large field, Perry and Romney have emerged as the frontrunners so far. But the primary process in the United States allows parties to select their own candidates without input from the general population.

Historically, the Republican primaries have been decided by 20 to 25 million Americans, which is less than 20 percent of the number of people who will be voting in 2012.

Due to this, the primary process risks alienating the general population and throwing the election to Barack Obama if Republicans pick a candidate too far to the right.

After a couple months of rumors, Rick Perry entered the race last month and immediately rose to the top of most polls. Perry is the current and longest-serving governor in Texas history, having been elect-

ed right after that other governor social conservatives to be wary from Texas was elected President of Romney. The health insurance in 2000. Perry is a social and eco- reform in Massachusetts while he nomic conservative. He criticizes was governor also worries conthe national government stepping servatives, since it was used as into state issues, he is opposed to a model for the national health same-sex marriage, he criticizes insurance reform Obama pushed human-caused climate change and, for. However, Romney is an ecoduring this week’s debate, called nomic conservative and has critiSocial Security a “Ponzi scheme” cized Obama strongly about the robbing from young people. economy. He has been successful However, Perry is consistent with in the business world. He orgahis support for states’ rights, and nized the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics said New York was and balanced the within its rights to Massachusetts legalize same-sex budget, which supmarriage earlier this Historically, the Report his economic year. Earlier this publican primaries credentials. year, Perry organized A s s u m i n g “Days of Prayer” have been decided by Perry and Romney which caused con- 20 to 25 million Ameriremain the top two troversy and has cans, which is less than candidates, I believe many concerned he 20 percent of the numthe choice between might be too overtly the two could religious to appeal to ber of people who will decide the election. be voting in 2012. enough Americans.

Perry and Romney Romney is a are similar enough successful busion economic issues, nessman and former governor but on social and other issues, Perry of Massachusetts who was in the is further to the right than Romney.

Republican primary in 2008 but In an economic situation where lost to John McCain. Romney is, social policy has taken a back seat, by most standards, more moderate conservatives may have to settle for than Perry, but has drifted toward a candidate they don’t completely more conservative positions on agree with in order to have a betsome social issues throughout ter chance of defeating President the years. This has caused many Barack Obama.

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Nate Atkins

Tonight in Tempe, bravery will be born Win or lose, tonight will be a treat.

This evening’s rare 9:30 p.m. Friday night kickoff between Missouri and Arizona State is a matchup for which Tiger fans have been waiting too long. It’s a gut-check. It’s a show for the fans.

It’s a statement to the BCS that the Tigers aren’t afraid of the road less traveled.

It’s a portrait of all that has been missing from the Missouri football program for the last decade.

College football’s unique race to the top of the BCS standings has rendered the sport a game of survival. The objective is to brave the system’s natural selection and stand tall at the end of the season.

The BCS has rendered many programs scared to death of losing even a single game. For the last decade, Missouri has been a leader of this pack of pansies.

Since Gary Pinkel’s arrival in 2001, the common denominator of Missouri’s nonconference schedules has been its fairly annual rivalry with Illinois, an average BCS program at its best.

The names surrounding that game over the years have been pretty interesting: Texas State, Bowling Green, Ball State, Troy, Eastern Illinois, Middle Tennessee State, Arkansas State, New Mexico, Murray State, Mississippi, Western Michigan, Illinois State, Southeast Missouri State, Buffalo, Nevada, Furman, McNeese State, Miami (Ohio) and San Diego State.

Notice a theme?

Of the 19 aforementioned programs, only one (Mississippi) was a member of a BCS conference. Compare that to eight NCAA subdivision programs. Two more schools on the list (Buffalo and Nevada) have been subdivision programs in our lifetime.

None of Missouri’s frightened screams were shriller than its last-minute backtracking from a four-year commitment to play Iowa from 2005-2008. The withdrawal came right when the Hawkeyes started to win games.

“We were building our program, and it didn’t make a lot of sense for me to play such a great football program,” Pinkel explained.

The problem with this ideology is that many teams in recent years have found value in early nonconference tests.

Big-name programs like USC, Ohio State, Oregon and Oklahoma have had no issue hosting early primetime thrillers. Lesser programs such as Tennessee, Cal, Colorado and West Virginia have also shown they aren’t afraid to step outside the cupcake factory.

One could argue that bigger programs can afford to take on tougher teams, but that line of thinking is counter-intuitive: early challenges so often make teams stronger going forward. And while record is a strong component of the BCS, so is strength of schedule.

Any generally, unblemished records against a compilation of nobodies fails to impress voters (just ask the midmajors).

Rather than meet its fears head-on, Missouri, like many fellow BCS schools, has long played the waiting game of letting its demons come forth. The ensuing reality checks, often at the hands of Oklahoma and Texas, have altogether been far from pretty.

The end of the Arch Rivalry left the Tigers at a crossroads in the BCS path, and they took the route of scheduling a BCS program. In honesty, that’s all I really ask out of the program. You don’t have to set the world on fire; just play somebody.

Focus on building a good team rather than boasting a predestined record, and let the chips fall where they may.

Cracking the BCS is a trick of luck. Perhaps the Tigers are finally understanding that fortune rewards the brave.

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Big 12 future remains in limbo

PAT IVERSEN Sports Editor Those planning funeral arrangements for the Big 12 Conference will have to wait a bit longer, as threats of lawsuits against Texas A&M’s departure this week have kept the league breathing — even if it is still on proverbial life support.

After Southeastern Conference presidents voted unanimously Tuesday to accept Texas A&M as a new member, only one of the remaining nine Big 12 teams was willing to waive its rights to take legal action against the move.

That school, Oklahoma, will also ultimately decide the Aggies’ (and the Big 12’s) fate once it decides whether to stay or seek another conference.

Texas A&M University and the Southeastern Conference requested that Big 12 members waive any such right to help smooth the progress of Texas A&M’s departure from the conference.

“This is the first time to my knowledge that a conference has been requested to waive any legal claims toward another conference for any damages suffered with a membership change,” Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe said Wednesday.

However, Oklahoma was the only school to express willingness to waive its legal rights. Baylor and Iowa State were the first schools reported to have not complied with the request, and some reports even suggested Baylor was considering filing a lawsuit. A source told ESPN’s Joe Schad that Baylor was the leader in the attempt to keep TAMU in the Big 12.

There remains hope for Texas A&M’s departure. A source with knowledge of the situation told ESPN on Wednesday that if Oklahoma decides to remain a Big 12 member, TAMU would be

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Oklahoma’s Ryan Broyles watches the ball slip through his hands during MU’s homecoming game Oct. 23, 2010, at Faurot Field. MU now hopes Oklahoma won’t slip out of the conference, causing a complete collapse of the the Big 12 Conference. permitted to complete its move to the SEC. In that scenario, the Big 12 would the league’s 10th member.

Oklahoma finds itself unsure of which conference it would like to call its own going forward. OU president David Boren announced Friday that the school would render a decision within three weeks on whether or not to stay in the Big 12.

“I don’t think OU is going to be a wallflower when all is said and done,” Boren said.

In explaining the resistance from the schools, Beebe referred to the 13-year, $1.2 billion TV deal the Big 12 signed with Fox earlier this year.

“If the departure of Texas A&M results in significant changes in the Big 12 membership, several institutions may be severely affected after counting on revenue streams from

contracts that were approved unanimously by our members, including Texas A&M,” Beebe said.

Meanwhile, Texas A&M is left to wait while the conference sits in limbo.

The school canceled a news conference and celebration plans on Wednesday amidst the swirling rumors.

“We are being held hostage right now,” Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin told ESPN. “Essentially, we’re being told that you must stay here against your will and we think that really flies in the face of what makes us Americans, for example, and makes us free people.”Those planning funeral arrangements for the Big 12 Conference will have to wait a bit longer, as threats of lawsuits against Texas A&M’s departure this week have kept the league breathing — even if it is still on proverbial life support.

The Tigers then took yet another injury blow Tuesday. Running back Kendial Lawrence suffered a broken fibula and expects to miss at least four weeks.

The injury epidemic has left the Tigers limping entering tonight’s primetime matchup at Arizona State. But it has also allowed the Tigers to showcase their depth, where younger players are now embracing their time to shine.

Wide receiver Marcus Lucas took his moment Saturday and ran with it — all the way for a Missouri touchdown.

Making his first career start in place of Jackson, Lucas grabbed a James Franklin pass in the back of the end zone for a 10-yard score and the 17-6 lead. “(That was a) really nice catch by Marcus, to see him make that big play and get hit pretty good,” Pinkel said.

“He’s very capable of making those plays and taking the hit with it.”

Lucas was one of many Tigers that embraced their first real game opportunity on Saturday. Offensive linemen Justin Britt and Jack Meiners started on the left side of the line in place of Fisher and Ruth.

Defensively, in addition to the many linemen that shuffled in and out of the game, the Tigers welcomed fifth-year senior linebacker Luke Lambert back to the group. Lambert was a 2010 captain before knee surgery forced a redshirt.

Lambert received more opportunity than originally planned due to an

ankle injury to Will Ebner, who has spent more than his fair share of days on the injured list. Filling Lambert’s hole during the 2010 season, Ebner played with a cracked bone in his foot. An off-season surgery on the foot kept him out of most of spring practice with rehab. Then, in summer practice, he missed time with a concussion. Now, he’s dealing with an ankle injury.

“It’s remarkable that a guy that tough, in that good of shape and a good athlete could have the luck he’s having injury-wise,” Pinkel said. “It’s just absolutely amazing. I guess the good news is that he can come back, so that’s the process.”

Defensive line injuries also brought forth the much-anticipated debut of defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson, a junior college transfer and the Tigers’ top recruit from the 2011 class. Richardson made an immediate impact, recording a big stop at the line of scrimmage.

“I couldn’t wait to get out there,” Richardson said. “When I got out there, (the game) went kind of fast.”

While the injuries have worn on the players dealing with them, the Tigers are learning to embrace the opportunity to inject some fresh blood into their first teams.

“There’s a reason people have been talking about our depth on defense,” defensive end Brad Madison said. “I think we’re going to be all right.”

Injuries open door for backup Tigers With multiple starters on the sidelines, a couple of players are embracing an opportunity to shine.

NATE ATKINS Associate Editor In full support of the team’s 17-6 victory over Miami (Ohio), the Missouri football sideline at Faurot Field on Saturday resembled a waiting line for the trainer’s room.

Starting tackle Elvis Fisher and kick returner Marcus Murphy manned their season-long spots in street clothes. Down the line were faces such as center Travis Ruth, wide receivers Jarrell Jackson and Gahn McGaffie and cornerback Kip Edwards.

As the rigors of the game wore on, two more starters joined the line in defensive end Jacquies Smith and linebacker Will Ebner, both repeat customers.

As the injured corps welcomed new members throughout the game, Missouri coach Gary Pinkel kept a running count.

“We traded off six defensive tackles throughout the whole time,” Pinkel said. “We played some of our thirdteam defensive tackles and defensive ends. When Jacquies went down, it also changed our third-down rush tackle. We traded a new linebacker in all three positions.”

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Something borrowed, something blues Festivalgoers are invited to attend the ceremony Saturday.

brings green to blues Roots ’N Blues will feature a new bicycle event.

Messy-mouthed barbecue eating contests and soulful blues bands are no longer the only attractions of the popular Roots ’N Blues ’N BBQ Festival. Centered on family fun and, of course, blues music, this year’s festival is making strides to combine the two with an entirely new focus: sustainability. The result? Roots’N’Ride.

“The Roots’N’Ride is just a bike parade, but it finishes right at the start time of the kick off for the entire festival,” spokeswoman Alexis Lucente says. “It’s kind of like an opening ceremony to the festival weekend and all the stages will be set up and everything will be coming to life downtown. Friday is the first day, and this will be the kick-starter.”

Powered by a cornucopia of wheels and feet — whether that be by bike, roller skate, skateboard, scooter or simply gliding along on any other wheeled device — the parade morphs going green into an all-afternoon extravaganza. Those with a competitive side can compete in events like most decorative bike and most decorative bike helmet to win prizes.

“They’re going to have a bunch of supplies like streamers, balloons and ribbons,” Lucente says. “We’re basically just encouraging the public to come out, bring their bikes, their helmets, their scooters, anything with wheels and decorate it. Then we’ll walk in a little parade downtown and that will kick start the festival weekend.”

Cruiser bike and brewing company New Belgium will announce contest winners and present prizes. Winners will lead the bike parade, which departs from the corner of Ninth and Elm streets by Shakespeare’s Pizza at 4:30 p.m. Friday.

“It will be really exciting, especially for the little kids,” Lucente says. “I’m just really hoping to get a lot of families out there. I know it’s something that kids may enjoy. It’s a really great event and helps out with not only promoting physical activity but also promoting biking rather than driving in cars. It’s a great family-friendly activity on top of it all.”

Not only is Roots’N’Ride a sure draw for families, but it’s also a free, fun attraction to jumpstart the music festival for college students as well.

“On the weekends, we usually sleep all day, to be honest,” freshman Maria Kernychny says.

“As students, we walk around to classes, but this gives us a good reason to walk because it enforces sustainability. We also get to go to a music festival, so it’s cheap transportation. It’s a really good idea to have a festival that doesn’t cost a lot that is so near and promotes something that people should be learning about anyway.”

The forecasted mild weather, a respite after the heat wave, is another factor drawing college students out of their dorms and out to the community-wide event.

“I’m just happy it’s not as hot,” freshman Emily Behn said. “I think walking is a good way to celebrate that. It’s an incentive to get out and go there. I mean, it’s beautiful weather, why not walk and listen to good music? Plus you save the planet, too.” lizzie johnson | staff writer

From its beginning in 2007, the Roots ’N Blues ’N BBQ Festival has provided a venue to celebrate the local music scene.

This year, the festival will celebrate something a little different in addition to musical entertainment: a wedding.

The blues-loving couple in question hails from Sioux City, Iowa, and has come to Roots ’N Blues every year since 2008.

A short synopsis of the couple from the Roots ‘N Blues website tells it all.

“This couple had seen their share of the blues until they met one sunny day in June of 2008,” the website states. “The date was 6/7/8, to be precise. A few months later they came to Columbia for their first festival and somewhere during the weekend as they were swaying to the blues, it happened.”

Elyse Peery, a marketing and event coordinator for Thumper Entertainment, sought out local sponsors to participate in the wedding.

“They love music, the blues and this festival,” Peery says. “So, we thought it would be a perfect fit.”

Buchroeder’s will sponsor the wedding by giving the happy couple its rings.

“My Secret Garden will be handling the flowers and decorations for the stage, and after the wedding all the flowers will be donated,” Peery says.

Other contributions include hair and makeup by KeLani and a custom veil by HeadFrock for the bride. L. Frisch Photography will capture all aspects of the event, from the planning to the wedding itself.

Jordan Thomas will provide the music with dueling harmonicas.

When asked if a wedding would be the newest addition to this annual blues celebration, Thumper Entertainment spokeswoman Andrea Horowitz said, “No, this is a very special case.”

The couple will exchange vows in front of festivalgoers at 7 p.m. Saturday on Flat Branch Park Stage. sara driscoll | reporter

‘The Biggest Loser’ to join festivities Roots ‘N Blues will bring ‘The Biggest Loser’ winner Rebecca Meyer to Columbia.

Runners, get ready to jog along with the sort of-famous 2009 At-Home winner of “The Biggest Loser,” Rebecca Meyer.

Meyer lost 73 pounds during her time on “The Biggest Loser” and 63 pounds at home, after her stint ended. The recently certified personal trainer has set a personal goal to run 50 races in all 50 states before turning 30 years old.

The Roots ‘N Blues ‘N BBQ festival is being accompanied by a 10K and Half Marathon again. This year organizers have worked to reduce the difficulty of the course, making it more enjoyable for all runners, no matter their skill level.

As in previous years, the race is along the MKT trails and other areas of Columbia. In true Roots N Blues Music festival fashion, music is provided along the trail.

As an added benefit to participating in either the 10K or Half Marathon, runners can enjoy the festival’s namesake delicious barbecue after the race and receive a Saturday pass to the festival.

The 10K will begin at 7:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 10. The Half Marathon will begin at 7:45 a.m. Friday, Sept. 10. Both races begin at Flatbranch Park. krissy tripp | associate editor

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After Bonaroo and the Newport Folk Festival, Mavis Staples makes a stop at Roots ’N Blues.

Mavis Staples is coming to town! Mavis Staples is coming to town!

This Friday evening at Roots ’N Blues ’N BBQ, Mavis and her band will be on the MO Lottery Stage at Peace Park. After the introductions, Mavis will be kickin’ off the evening from 5:10-6:30 p.m.

Mavis will be bringing not only her soulful talent but also her new Grammy winning album, “You Are Not Alone,” which was produced and collaborated with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy.

“I wanted to make an album where every song had meaning, where every song told a story and would lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning,” Mavis says on her website. “And I know it’s going to feel really good singing these songs on stage.”

Tweedy and Staples released the album in 2010. It is a combination of sorts, with a capella, country, blues, gospel, pop and R&B. Mavis’s favorite track from the album, “Only the Lord Knows,” sends a political message.

“You talk to this one, listen to that one, pick up the paper, but you can’t get any answers,” she says on her website. “The White House, the church — I can’t get any straight answers to the things I want to know.

So for now, we’re on our own, and we have to go to the Lord. He’s the only one who knows.”

Mavis Staples isn’t your typical artist. She’s been in the media for 60 years. Her most recent shows have included Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tenn., and the Newport Folk Festi val in Newport, R.I. A musically diverse legend, Mavis Staples fits into the Roots ’N Blues line-up perfectly. tess betts | reporter

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Roots ’N Blues ’N Fitz ’N Tantrums The unconventional group will headline Saturday night of Roots ’N Blues with its soulful crooning.

When Michael Fitzpatrick and the rest of the Tantrums take the stage Saturday night at the Roots ’N Blues ’N BBQ Festival, fans can appreciate a retro-blues sound that might have never been.

“I didn’t even have an intention of starting a band,” Fitz says. “I was just losing my mind heartbroken over a girl and just needed to write some songs.”

The neo-soul, indie pop band — which has found recent radio success for the hit single “Moneygrabber” — formed in 2008. It had its big break after a successful five-song EP led to touring with prominent acts like Maroon 5. But the band might have never started without the help of a vintage organ.

“The ex-girlfriend called and says, ‘I know we’re not supposed to be talking but there’s this vintage organ that my neighbor’s selling, and I know you collect keyboards. Are you interested? It’s 50 bucks,’” Fitz says. “I was like, ‘Put the money in the guy’s hands right now.’”

Once Fitz had the organ in his living room, he wrote “Breaking the Chains of Love,” the first track of the band’s debut album, “Pickin’ Up the Pieces.”

After writing a couple songs, Fitz brought college friend James King, who now plays saxophone and flute for the band.

“A couple phone calls later and we’re lucky enough to put together a group of musicians,” Fitz says. “It’s been a crazy ride these last two and a half years.”

The other musicians are Noelle Scaggs (backup vocals and tambourine), Joseph Karnes (bass), Jeremy Ruzumna (keyboards) and John Wicks (drums).

You might notice a prominent instrumentalist missing from that list. Fitz and the Tantrums don’t use guitars in their music.

“In those first songs, I was just really sort of feeling like the guitar is always featured in a live music setup and it’d be really interesting to sort of try and do a band without guitars and see if we could create a full, big, vibrant sound without it,” Fitz says.

The decision has helped the band develop a sound that sets it apart from many other indie-pop bands around today.

“It creates a little bit of a different sonic experience for the listeners, and they might not realize it at first, but we’ve definitely made it our own.”

Motown and ’60s soul music influence the band’s sound, Fitz says.

Add in some ’80s new wave, a little bit of hip-hop and the vintage suits band members don in concert and you find a band with the spunk and class of earlier times bringing a new flare on blues into the 21st century.

Roots ’N Blues representatives approached Fitz and the Tantrums several months ago to headline the main stage Saturday night.

The show will begin at 9 p.m. on the Mpix Stage at Seventh and Locust Streets.

“Anytime we get to play in front of a new crowd, we’re always into it,” Fitz says. “Plus, I’m a big fan of some barbecue.”

Festival-goers can expect to stay on their feet once Fitz and the Tantrums take the stage.

“We play 150 percent every show, like it’s our last, just really trying to give it our all and to win over as many new fans as we can wherever we go,” Fitz says. “It’s really a celebration of music. A lot of dancing is required, that’s for sure.”

After Roots ’N Blues, the band will embark on a prominent fall tour across the eastern U.S. Fitz says come January, he and the Tantrums will likely begin work on their next record.

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JOEL SAMSON BERNTSEN pop culture columnist

'Attack the Block' chops up typical tropes “The Sandlot,” “Skins UK,” “The Wire,” “Shaun of the Dead,” “District 9.” If any of those buzz words mean anything to you, leave as soon as possible and get your ass to Ragtag Cinema to see “Attack the Block,” the UK import that is the culmination of all the aforementioned shows and movies.

“Attack the Block,” as the tagline says “Inner City vs. Outer Space,” pretty much revolves around a gang of young inner city kids trying to fight hordes of huge gorilla-wolf-looking aliens. Basically, the kids beat the hell out of a comet-crashed alien and then have to deal with the consequences - which more or less translates into an alien invasion of their home.

Violence and hilarity ensue.

It’s hard to nail down good group chemistry in any movie, especially with younger actors, so it’s a little shocking how easily and quickly “Attack the Block” establishes a believable band of ragtag hoodlums/ heroes that maintain a quirky likability.

I mean, they mug a nurse in the first scene of the film and yet in just mere minutes they’ve already got the audience on their side, rooting for them to survive close encounters of the third kind.

That quickness of conscience becomes a sort of staple for the movie.

It wastes no time whatsoever getting into the movie or beating the audience over the head with themes (although it does bring up some pretty good ones).

But the most refreshing element about “Attack the Block” is that there’s not a single kiss in the movie.

Now, while that seems a tiny, minute detail, think about it: basically every movie cranked out has some sort of romance or relationship thrown in whether it’s necessary or not, and it make sense.

We all like a little bit of love or sex in whatever entertainment we eat up because that’s the stuff that drives human existence.

And prototypically, at the climax of an action film, before the hero runs that last suicidal run that’s a one in a million shot but might — just might — save everyone he knows and loves, there’s a kiss between whomever they’ve been crushing on the entire movie.

Well, (*spoiler alert*) that doesn’t happen in this film. Instead of merely having the female lead play the typical and redundant role of romance interest, “Attack the Block” gives the audience the much more attention --grabbing role of a nurse dealing with having to help the gang of kids that mugged her in the first scene of the film. That’s so refreshing! Seriously!

Other movies should take note. (I’m looking at you, “The Help.”)

Simply put, “Attack the Block” is just a humble, fun movie. It was designed as a simple action movie, but there are so many sly tips of the hat, winks and Hollywood reversals that it almost seems unfair to call it an action movie, but at its heart, that’s undeniably what “Attack the Block” is all about.

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The free concert will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday on Ninth Street.

Ninth Street in downtown Columbia isn’t usually packed with people at night, dancing, drinking and eating while watching a free outdoor concert. On Wednesday night, however, it will be.

The warm night air will be filled with catchy robust vocals, strong soulful guitar chords, the twang of guitar licks and a healthy backbeat, all provided by Robert Earl Keen. For free.

The veteran Texan country singer will be performing for free as a part of The Blue Note’s Summerfest concert series.

Summerfest is a series of free outdoor concerts held once each month from May to September.

Keen is not your typical country star.

“He’s not radio country by any means,” says Sean Allmeyer, marketing manager for the Blue Note. “He’s not Taylor Swift.”

Keen, who has been performing since the early ’80s, has a large

cult following. He’s performed with other legends such as Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and George Strait. His latest album, "Ready for Confetti," was released Aug. 29. Keen took a different approach to the album, choosing to write the music while on the road instead of at home in his cabin.

According to Keen’s website, "With 'Ready for Confetti,' Robert proves once again that he is one of our generation’s greatest singer/songwriters. It takes you on a ride that keeps you hoping that the road truly does go on forever.”

Keen has been on the road with the same band for nearly two decades. The last time he performed in Columbia was in 2009. Keen has established himself as one of the most entertaining performers on the road.

That’s just the right kind of show needed to get a crowd dancing at

Summerfest. Allmeyer says The Blue Note expects about 3,000 people to attend Keen’s upcoming Summerfest show.

“The Summerfest series is fairly unique, not just for us, but downtown Columbia as a whole,” Allmeyer says. “We block the street for an entire day to set up the stage and put on a really cool show. It’s a chance for people to come see some bands they might not have heard of and have a really good time.”

Allmeyer said that Summerfest brings in nationally touring, well-known and respected musicians. Other bands that have performed as a part of the Summerfest series include Little Feat, Wilco, The Wallflowers, Chuck Berry and Cross Canadian Ragweed. The series began in 2004.

The concert will open at 6 p.m.

Wednesday, and the music will begin at 7 p.m.

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Fall is on its way. All around campus, people are covered in cardigans and jeans instead of tank tops and shorts. With the overturn of the frequently-worn in closets comes the overturn of the frequentlylistened-to in headphones. These tracks boast lyrics of colder weather or at least musical implications of a slower-moving, more relaxed

1. “Underneath the Sycamore,” Death Cab for Cutie Ben Gibbard sings of being lost and finding refuge in love in a typical yet brilliant Death Cab fashion, but this time visuals of fall are woven between the metaphorical lyrics. “Now we are under the same sun/Feel it through the leaves, let it heal us/We are the same/We are both sane/Underneath the sycamore.” There’s something about hoodie weather that makes the thought of having a companion that much more appealing, and DCFC captures those emotions well in this song off of its new album "Codes and Keys."

2. “If Work Permits,” The Format Although The Format is long broken up, its music still lives on through relevant lyrics and elaborate orchestration. “If Work Permits” begins with gentle guitar strumming and the faint whisper of crickets that only fall evenings hold. Vocalist Nate Ruess utters, “but that wind that blows across your room/it’s gonna set the sails, and send me back to you.” The breeze that seems to be cooling campus this week shares the same nostalgic feel as these lyrics. Freshmen newly accustomed to the college experience will relate to the no-longer-homesick feel that the lyrics give off when they exclaim, “I’m writing the folks back home to tell them ‘hey I’m doing alright.’" The way the song is constructed has a feel reminiscent of the end of summer and early fall, the awkward stage of weather we’re living in now.

3. "Pirate Blues," As Cities Burn Unlike the previous songs, “Pirate Blues” doesn’t have lyrics blatantly referencing fall or the turn of seasons, but the slow pulsing bass and drum lines symbolize the way things seem to move slower in the fall than any other season. The lyrics will remind you of the past, whether it be this summer or last year. Something about fall and the start of classes sets the perfect mood for music involving longing. As Cities Burn cover both of these topics in this slowly building fall anthem.

4. "I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light" , Brand New The opening line says it all. “The time has come for colds and overcoats.” Although it may not be that chilly outside yet, it is a little bitter in the mornings, and much like other songs on this playlist, the slow steady beat and gentle guitar strums are the perfect combination to accompany you while you wait for your bus in the morning or walk across campus to that 8 a.m.you’re ready to be done with. Brand New has a way with emotions and channeling them perfectly to fit a wide array of people in its music and lyrics, and this song is no exception..

5. “Volcano,” Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan Something about Damien Rice’s cold and oftentimes bitter voice reminds me of the seasons cooling and the leaves changing. His haunting lyrics and tone accompanied by Lisa Hannigan’s raspy and warm voice pull this song together in an eerie masterpiece about love and what it means to be in a ndled up in a healthy and equal relationship. The lyrics don’t directly relate xt time you’re bu ne e Th >> to the seasons changing, but the mood of the song ass, f, waiting for cl makes it the epitome of fall music. cardigan and scar u like on yo ng so

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