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Tigers claim their highest ranking of decade

The Tigers climbed to the No. 2 spot in the AP Poll following a victory over Baylor.

Nate atkiNS Sports Editor The last time the Missouri Tigers were ranked No. 2, coach Frank Haith was preparing to play them as an assistant at Texas.

When a campaign of national surprise and instant success peaked with a No. 2 ranking in the AP poll Monday – the program’s highest mark since the 2001-02 campaign – the first-year coach took a pause to collect just how far the program has come in only his first 19 games.

“Wow,” he said with a sigh, staring into a sea of reporters that has grown much like his team with each passing victory. “Who woulda thunk it?”

Before the season, hype was scarce for the No. 25 Tigers. But after the program’s first road victo-

ry over a top five team in 17 years, the Missouri buy-in is affecting more than just Haith’s seven-man rotation.

Prior to the team’s 89-88 upset of then-No. 3 Baylor on Saturday in Waco, Texas, the Tigers had not eclipsed the No. 5 spot in the AP poll this season. They had not beaten a team ranked in the top 15, and they had not won a true road game over a ranked opponent all season.

“You go on the road and beat a team of the caliber of Baylor, it gives (our players) confidence to go out and compete, (knowing) they can compete with most teams across the country,” Haith said.

With the same swagger of consistency that has produced wins in 18 of 19 games this season, the players were considerably less excited about the new number that will appear next to the team’s name.

“I didn’t care when we were 25, I (don’t) care when we’re two,” senior forward Kim English said. “It’s just a number. It’s January. It doesn’t matter.”

Haith was sure to place the rank-

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Junior guard Michael Dixon celebrates a steal and transition layup last week at Mizzou Arena.

With a record of 18-1, the Tigers are ranked No. 2 in this week’s AP Top 25 poll.

ing into an approach perspective, citing the team’s prominent goals to advance through the NCAA Tournament and remain consistent week to week. The previous week served as a teaching point for Haith, when Syracuse and Duke, both ranked ahead of Missouri, fell to unranked teams.

Haith didn’t deny that though

ap top 5 nCaa teams (19-1) 1. Kentucky (61 first-place votes) (18-1) 2. Missouri (2) (20-1) 3.Syracuse (2)

4.Ohio State (17-3) 5.Kansas (16-3) Source: The Associated Press

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players may act like the rankings have no impact, it is a subject they pay attention to.

“It’s a classroom, it’s a time to teach,” Haith said, mentioning he had his players read ESPN analyst Jay Bilas’ column on toughness to comprehend national expectations.

“With being able to handle adversity, we have to be able to handle the other stuff, too.”

The players did acknowledge the hype has made them a target for the remaining teams on Missouri’s schedule.

“When we go on the road into other people’s court, we’re going to get everybody’s best shot,” sophomore point guard Phil Pressey said.

Consistency has been as big of a factor in the Tigers’ surprise start as any through 19 games. With just

MU considering New bill puts lecture up for debate owning its own recordings The bill would an transit system override executive order from eliSe moSeR Staff Writer MU has hired a consultant to assess the possibility of MU owning its own transit system as complications persist with Columbia Transit. The consultant from a firm specializing in transit issues will interview students and staff early this semester to determine what MU’s transit needs are.

Columbia announced a proposal to make severe budget cuts that would end services to many apartment complexes along Old Highway 63 unless MU agrees to

an $80 per semester student fee.

No agreement has been reached between MU and the city of Columbia, but Missouri Students Association President Xavier Billingsley said MU is not closing any doors.

“Right now, any option is up,” Billingsley said. “With a situation like this, anything is possible.”

MSA Senate Speaker Jacob Sloan said the consultant is going to figure out what students want, what MU can provide and what the costs will be.

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last month.

Sam RouRke Staff Writer

Last month, students at MU received an email with an executive order outlining new rules regarding the recording of classroom lectures. The executive order may be short-lived if a new bill, sponsored by Rep. Paul Curtman, R-Pacific, is approved.

The executive order from interim UM System President Steve Owens stated that students are only allowed to share audio or video recordings of a class with

fellow classmates. Any outside sharing currently requires permission from the faculty member and any students recorded.

The executive order was enacted by the UM System in response to edited lecture videos by students at UM-Kansas City and UM-St. Louis to make it look like the instructors were advocating violence, according to the Columbia Daily Tribune. The instructors were later cleared of wrongdoing.

Curtman said some students in his district from the UMSL were concerned with the restrictions and brought the issue to his attention. He agreed to sponsor a bill that would allow students to record lectures and share them

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one hiccup – a 75-59 loss Jan. 7 at Kansas State – the Tigers are 18-1 and rank in the top 10 nationally in scoring, shooting percentage and margin of victory.

“They’ve been hungry,” Haith said. “They want us to keep feeding them. When guys seek you out to watch tape, that’s when you know you have their attention.”

But the climb doesn’t stop with the No. 2 spot in the polls.

“We will get Oklahoma State’s very, very best effort, as we will every night we lace ‘em up,” Haith said of Wednesday’s matchup with the Cowboys in Stillwater, Okla.

“We have to be tough enough to be able to handle that.”

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In the Jan. 20 edition of The Maneater in the story “Bill could help Curators allocate more grants,” we quoted Rep. Margo McNeil, D-St. Louis, as saying, “For every dollar of grant money the Board of Curators is able to give out, the average amount of additional grant money they’re able to get is $10,” she said. “It’s quite important to have this initial feed money here in Missouri.”

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RHA vote approves new system to housing assignments ALEX STEWART Staff Writer The Residence Halls Association convened Monday for the first time this semester to hear from Residential Life about capacity constraints in residence halls and to discuss its upcoming presidential election.

Director of Residential Life Frankie Minor approached RHA with concerns about availability of rooms on campus next year for upperclassmen.

“Next year’s freshman class is the largest in MU history,” Minor said.

“The challenge is that we have the lowest overall capacity in years.”

Mark Twain Hall was closed at the end of fall semester and will remain closed all of next year. Next spring, Johnston Hall will also close for renovations.

With more and more students receiving acceptance for the 201213 school year and current lack of on-campus housing, space is quickly becoming scarce for students who wish to remain in the residence halls after their freshman year.

In the past when there were not enough rooms to house sophomores, juniors and seniors, Residential Life used a system of seniority to grant housing to nonfreshmen. Minor asked the RHA representatives during the meeting if they approved of the current system or if changes needed to be made.

The representatives spent more than an hour deliberating on a fair method to distribute housing to older students. Several argued that upperclassmen have already adjusted to college life and therefore do not need the stability and community of a residence hall. Priority, then, should be given to returning second-year students.

Erin Morris, RHA Events and Planning Committee chairwoman, said she was in favor of maintaining the old system of seniority.

“Using sophomore priority would mean disenfranchising the juniors and seniors wanting to live on campus,” Morris said. “It would mean not tending to a lot of students’ needs.”

Others argued the only fair way to award housing is to use a completely randomized lottery system.

This idea was quickly turned down in favor of a less random and more selective method.

“Mizzou has always used a priority, not a lottery, system,” Morris said. “It may work for other schools, but it could never be popular here.

Keeping seniority is the best system.”

Still, other representatives suggested a sort of merit system when assigning housing. Students with the highest GPA or with the most on-campus involvement deserve the housing more than students with a low GPA or little involvement. But Minor said it would be very difficult to measure campus involvement, especially when

Residential Life only has two weeks to figure it out.

The vote came down to four options: keep the same seniority system, use the seniority system with a quota for each class, use a reverse seniority in which sophomores receive priority or give housing to the first 1,200 upperclassmen who sign up.

After narrowing the choic-

es down to seniority-quota and reverse-seniority, a second vote showed that the representatives preferred the reverse quota system.

If Residential Life goes through with this method, they will allot 67 percent of on-campus housing to freshmen, 20 percent to sophomores, 10 percent to juniors and 3 percent to seniors.

Following the housing vote was

a discussion of the 2012 RHA presidential election guidelines, submitted by Communications Committee Chairwoman Brianna Petersen.

The rules remain unchanged from last year and candidates are allowed to start campaigning this week.

The election will take place online Thursday, March 1, and all students living in a residence hall are eligible to vote.

accountancy,” Moser said. “It’s an honor to be a professor here. A number six ranking is a reaffirmation of the quality of our program.”

Moser said the schools that are frequently seen above MU on the charts might have an unfair advantage. Schools such as the University of Illinois, the University of Texas and Baylor University have teaching faculties constituting of anywhere between 30 and 40 staff members, which Moser said are the highest numbers around.

“Obviously they are going to rank their own schools higher, so the system is somewhat biased,” Moser said.

In the same 2010 survey, the doctoral program was ranked 24. In the most recent survey, the number rose four spots to 20 in the nation.

Accountancy graduate student Olena Watanabe attributes the achievement to a number of things.

“I cannot easily summarize what makes the program good,” Watanabe said in an email.

Watanabe said she could narrow it down to major attributes such as outstanding advising as well as the level of organization of information and how accessible it is to students.

Watanabe also said the highly

competitive acceptance rate for the school guarantees a high intelligence in students and encourages an increased level of participation.

“Many (students) get an internship at least once during the course of the study and most internships result in job offers,” Watanabe said.

“Big 4 accounting firms, mid-size and small firms from various locations in Missouri like to hire our grads.”

Yang Yang, another graduate student, said she shares Moser’s opinion that the size of MU’s program might have somewhat hindered the school in the results produced by the survey, but size isn’t the only thing that matters when examining the quality of a program.

According to the Trulaske College of Business’s website, the accounting faculty was ranked ninth in the nation for research productivity as determined by Academic Analytics. “(The program) here is not very big, but we have a good research culture,” Yang said. “I am very proud of being a student here. The talent and dedication of all members did and will continue to contribute to the improvement in the ranking.”

Judith Haggard, a member of the UM System Board of Curators since 2007, announced her resignation this past week. Haggard’s resignation took effect Jan. 17.

The Board of Curators is the governing body of the UM System and enlists nine members who serve six-year terms as appointed by the governor. Gov. Matt Blunt appointed Haggard to her position on the University of Missouri’s Board of Curator’s in 2007.

As chairwoman in 2010, Haggard’s main goal was to expand a system-wide effort to increase learning opportunities to both new and current students.

The current board currently stands at six senior members and two new members as the process to appoint a new curator begins.

Gov. Jay Nixon is now responsible for appointing Haggard’s replacement. Haggard’s term would have ended Jan. 1, 2013.

“Gov. Nixon withdrew the appointments of Pam Hanrickson and Craig Can Matre,” Student Curator Laura Confer said. “This is a really hot topic right now.”

According to the release, Haggard graduated from MU

with a degree in nursing and is also a member of the Mizzou Alumni Association. After graduating from MU, Haggard went on to found the Dunklin County Caring Council and become an elder in her church.

“It has been an honor to work on behalf of the four campuses of the University of Missouri System,” Haggard said in a news release. “I am grateful for the privilege to have served the state in this capacity.”

In the release, current board chairman David Bradley said he thinks Haggard’s absence will be a loss.

“Judy’s passion and enthusiasm for higher education will be greatly missed,” Bradley said in the release. “She made it a personal mission to ensure that the University of Missouri remains in the top tier in both research and education and that our campuses provide an affordable education to the state’s citizens so they are equipped with the tools to become contributing members of society. We wish her all the best.”

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Director of Residential Life Frankie Minor fields questions about ROAR on Monday at an RHA meeting.

Minor addressed solutions to living situations and future residence hall closings in preparation for the largest freshman class in MU history next fall.

MU’s accountancy program Board of Curators rises in national rankings member resigns The undergraduate, masters and doctoral programs all saw a rise in the rankings.

MEGAN LEWIS Reporter For MU students, deciding on an accounting major might have just gotten a little bit easier.

According to the latest Public Accounting Report, MU’s School of Accountancy is currently ranked sixth in the nation for its undergraduate and master’s programs. In 2010, the master’s program was 12 positions lower, ranked 16th in the nation.

Associate teaching professor William Moser said the survey is handled in a specific way each year.

Professors of the nation’s top accountancy schools receive a survey and are instructed to rank the schools.

Professors send in the scores, which are aggregated to determine the average ranking for each school and placed in numerical order.

“We have a wonderful school of

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MU Police Department were dispatched at 9:57 p.m.

Thursday to the College Avenue residence hall to respond to a call from Residential Life staff.

“Officers were investigating an odor of marijuana,” MUPD Capt. Brian Weimer said.

Officers arrested Lauren Whited, 18, on suspicion of possession of marijuana and Alicia Tan, 18, on suspicion of possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Tan is a member of The Maneater staff.

2. THREE ARRESTED WITH WEED IN IDLING CAR MU police observed a suspicious vehicle at 3:06 a.m.

Friday idling with its lights off in a parking lot north of Curtis Avenue and Burnam Avenue.

“After observing the car for five minutes, officers investigated,” Weimer said.

Officers arrested Andrew Yost, 20, Alexander Randolph, 19, and James Marti, 18, on suspicion of possession of alcohol by a minor.

Randolph and Marti were

4. MAN TRESPASSES WITH MARIJUANA, ARRESTED IN PLAZA 900 A man was arrested WMU police were dispatched at 6:42 p.m. Friday to Plaza 900 at 900 Virginia Ave. following a campus-wide trespassing warning regarding Troy Kirouac.

Kirouac, 19, was arrested on suspicion of trespassing, according to an MU police report.

As officers arrested Kirouac, they found marijuana on his person, Weimer said. Kirouac was then arrested on suspicion

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of possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

5. DISPUTE INVOLVING GUN LEADS TO ARREST Channa Kim, 24, was arrested at about 7 p.m. at the intersection of Creasy Springs and Texas Avenue after her ex-boyfriend called and reported Kim had threatened him at his residence, according to a CPD report.

The victim reported Kim had held a gun to his head after he told her their relationship was over. Kim was arrested on

suspicion of armed criminal action, second-degree assault and unlawful use of weapons.

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DINE AND DASH ATTEMPT AT BROADWAY DINER RESULTS IN ARREST Jared Kernan Monsen, 29, was arrested around 1:37 a.m.

Saturday at Broadway Diner, according to a CPD report.

Officers were dispatched to a reported larceny at 22 S. Fourth St. after two males allegedly left the diner without paying.

One of them, Monsen, dam-

aged the door on the way out.

When officers caught up with Monsen and tried to take him into custody, he resisted. A search was conducted and officers found marijuana and drug paraphernalia with Monsen.

He was arrested on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance, second-degree property damage, resisting arrest and use or possession of drug paraphernalia.

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Christopher Evers-Blagg, 27, was arrested Friday according to a Columbia Police Department report.

Officers were dispatched to 504 Oak St. at about 2 p.m. for a reported burglary in progress.

When the sergeant arrived on the scene he located the suspect and found him removing property from a residence. He was arrested, and when searched, he was found to be in possession of cocaine. Evers-Blagg was arrested on suspicion of seconddegree burglary and possession of a controlled substance.

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Change of plans for bike program MSA and RHA’s bike share program is looking to purchase industrial grade bicycles.

MU’s bike sharing program, which was previously looking to use bikes from the MU Surplus Property Warehouse, is now working on purchasing industrial strength bikes instead.

The Missouri Students Association and the Residence Halls Association have been collaborating to start the bike share program since September of last year.

The program was originally planning on taking two to three bikes a month from the Surplus Warehouse, slowly gathering enough bikes for an effective sharing program. MSA and RHA had talked with the Surplus Property Warehouse about a free loan for the bikes.

Although that loan did work out, MSA and RHA decided purchasing its own bicycles would be more beneficial in the long run for the program.

MSA’s Student Affairs committee chairman Tyler Ricketts said

the change of plans came about because it would be difficult to maintain several bikes of different brands and styles.

“If we bought bikes of all the same type from a company, it would allow us to have consistent parts and consistent maintenance and upkeep,” he said.

RHA President Chris Rucker said the bikes MSA and RHA are looking at are sturdier, more industrial grade bicycles.

Although no plans have been finalized, Ricketts said they are looking into buying from Worksman Cycles, which has a plan designed for campus bike share programs.

According to Worksman Cycles’ website, its Bike Share and Green Campus Program is the answer to on-campus parking problems and a way to promote a healthy life style.

The final cost of the bicycles is still uncertain because it depends on the model and number of bikes the bike share program decides to purchase, Ricketts said.

Ricketts also said because the program is no longer getting its bikes through a free loan, the cost of the program will increase.

He could not comment on where the program’s extra funding will come from definitively, but Ricketts said they are looking into

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The Missouri Students Association and the Residence Halls Association have decided to purchase their own bicycles for their bike sharing program instead of obtaining bikes from MU's Surplus Property Warehouse. The program's price will increase due to the change in purchase plans.

whether other departments would be willing to contribute funds.

RHA has already committed to covering the bike locks for the program, Ricketts said.

MU researchers develop new cancer detection method The new method uses photoacoustics to aid earlier detection of cancer cells.

sidered to be the most serious type of skin cancer because of how rapidly the disease progresses. According to the Skin Cancer Foundation, if melanoma is not treated immediately, it spreads so quickly that ELISSA CHUDWIN treatment becomes difficult, making the disease potentialReporter ly fatal. In 2012 there were an Melanoma might not mean estimated 76,250 new cases and a death sentence much longer, 9,180 deaths, according to the thanks to technological advanc- National Cancer Institute.

Viator said photoacoustics es made by MU researchers.

Led by John Viator, associ- could detect metastasis before a ate professor of biological engi- tumor is visible on a body scan. neering and associate profes- It can also be executed on equipment that is sor of biomedimore simcal engineering plistic than and dermatolIt benefits patients by giving MRIs or CT ogy, the team of them a message to monitor their Scans, which researchers distreatment based on their cells in are curcovered a meththeir blood rently used od of detecting to diagnose cancerous cells Ben Goldschmidt melanoma, before they Biological engineering graduate student making the become tumors. method less The method involves photoacoustics, or laser-induced expensive and more sensitive.

Photoacoustics are being proultrasounds, that can detect melanoma much more efficient- duced commercially for various ly than current detection meth- cancer studies and clinical triods. Early detection is crucial als to receive the United States in curing melanoma because it Food and Drug Administration’s prevents the disease from multi- approval before it’s used by physicians as a tool for early diagplying throughout the body.

“Currently, metastatic dis- nosis.

“The ability to detect metaease, the phase of cancer where it is spreading throughout the static disease when it is still at body, is detected by performing the single cell level may allow body scans, looking for mac- treatment to be done in much roscopic tumors that are great- lower doses, so that chemotherer than a few millimeters in apy can be performed in such a size,” Viator said in an email. way that is much easier on the “This method is a new paradigm patient,” he said.

Biological engineering gradwhere we detect cancer's spread in the bloodstream by detecting uate student Ben Goldschmidt contributed to the project for single cells in blood samples.”

Melanoma is typically found the past few months. He specifiin disfigured, pigmented skin cally worked on creating a distissues such as moles. It is con- posable flow cell for a melanoma

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detection system in order for the device to be used commercially.

“It benefits patients by giving them a message to monitor their treatment based on their cells in their blood,” Goldschmidt said.

“If the cell level does happen to go up, it gives the doctor an idea that treatment should be changed."

He said the photoacoustic device benefits patients in a variety of ways, as well as doctors and those who may be predisposed to metastatic melanoma.

“We hope one day to use this method as a general screening tool for everyone, just like women have to get mammograms,” Goldschmidt said.

“After a certain age, it would be part of your routine physical. If you’re predisposed to metastatic melanoma and if the disease is ‘caught early’ by our detection system before the patient shows symptoms, then the chances of survival can be up to 90 percent.”

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IN 2012 Melanoma is estimated as being the fifth most common form of cancer.

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As for when the program will actually start, Ricketts said MSA and RHA are focusing on this semester.

“We are hoping to have significant progress by the end of the

semester,” he said. “If that means we launch on March 1, that’s great.”

CDS expects a 20 percent decrease in food waste through trayless dining.

He also said even though there was a little bit of contention, the general response to this new policy has been positive so far.

“People realize that they are eating less, making an impact and not finding it too difficult to use tray-less plan.” Woods said.

In general, MU students who eat at Plaza 900, the largest dinning hall at MU, have already recognized the meaning of trayless dining. Some say it becomes inconvenient because now they have to move around the dining hall holding individual plates with their hands.

“Trayless dinning plan makes me eat less, (and I) end up wasting less food,” freshman Alexandra Greene said. ”But I would still prefer having a tray because it is more convenient to move around with a tray.”

Other students said though it is inconvenient without a tray, they would still prefer trayless to reduce the food waste.

“With a tray, it is more convenient because I can take it around,” sophomore Jessie Lodderhose said. “However, thinking about the waste of food, I would prefer having a trayless policy, though it is little inconvenient.”

Woods said with the trayless policy, Campus Dinning Services expects to see a 20 to 25 percent reduction in food waste.

“In the past with the similar exercises, we have seen upwards of 20 percent being reduced,” Woods said. “So there is a lot of potential.”

—Molly Duffy, associate editor

Positive feedback to trayless dining

SEAN NA Staff Writer Since the summer of 2011, MU’s Campus Dining Services has been implementing a trayless dining policy in order to help reduce food waste. It was approved as an MU policy in August 2011.

The ultimate goal is to reduce food waste, but program might have other benefits, as well.

“The main purpose is that there is a lot of food waste being done simply because trays make it a lot easier to get more food than you need,” Missouri Students Association President Eric Woods said.

Woods said there were many benefits derived from keeping food waste down on campus.

“However, not only it is wasteful for the food but also it is a waste of money for Campus Dining Services,” he said. “Not to mention it is environmental, wasting less water, which actually works great, in (decreasing) water usage, which also saves money.”

Woods said the trayless dining policy also relates to student health issues. He said as trayless dining is being worked out, students will think more about the diet decisions they are making.

“They probably don’t need an extra piece of cheese cake,” Woods said. “You get filled with your meal, thinking ‘I don’t need a second plate.’ So, there is a health benefit there too.”

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TRANSIT: Billingsley said he's optimistic about Missouri owning its own transit system Continued from page 1 Although MU has hired a consultant, Billingsley plans to keep the lines of communication open between the city and MU. “I hope that we can work more with the mayor and we can work collaboratively,” he said.

Since taking over for Eric Woods as MSA president this semester, Billingsley has worked to become familiar with the transit issue.

“I’ve already had a couple meetings with (Vice Chancellor for Administrative Services) Jackie Jones and (Director of Parking and Transportation Services) Jim Joy to prepare myself for transit,” he said.

“We’re working as a team and the communication is pretty open.”

Billingsley said he is optimistic about the idea of MU owning its own transit system.

“I campaigned on it,” he said.

“I think it’s something that’s worth looking into. We own our own facilities. We own our own Campus Dining Services. It’s at least worth looking into owning our own transit services.”

Sloan is more cautious about the idea.

“It’s something tough to achieve,” he said.

Sloan also said he was hesitant of the idea because the service might not be accessible to all students.

“The problem you run into and the reason why I’m very hesitant is how do you target students who have to walk three blocks to get to a bus stop?” he said.

Sloan currently lives at The Reserve at Columbia, an apartment complex off of Old Highway 63.

“It’s my service (from Columbia Transit) that is going to be cut and

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CONTINUES A breakdown of the progress of the transit issue.

• During fall semester 2011 the city of Columbia proposed an $80 student fee to prevent budget cuts that would end bus services to various apartment complexes along Old Highway 63.

• The city and MU have not made an agreement regarding the $80 per-semester student fee to fund the transit system.

• MSA President and Transit Task Force member Xavier Billingsley said that talks are still open between the city and MU.

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A bus passes through the intersection of Rollins Street and College Avenue. MU has hired a consultant to assess the transit needs of MU students such as a possible bus stop at this intersection.

terminated in May 2012,” he said.

Some of the affected complexes are promising to continue shuttle service regardless of what Columbia Transit decides to do.

“As we decide which direction we want to go, I want to assure all of you that we will have daytime shuttle service in the fall of 2012,”

Matthew Colgin, community manager at The Reserve, said in a Jan. 17 email to residents. “There is no question of that.”

The Reserve is considering proposals from the City of Columbia as well as private shuttle companies.

“The city’s given a proposal and

• There are talks of MU owning its own transit system. Billingsley said he is optimistic about this possibility.

• MSA Senate Speaker and Transit Task Force member Jake Sloan said he is hesitant about MU owning its own transit system.

other companies have also given proposals, so it’s just a matter of choosing the right one,” Colgin said. “We see a need for (shuttle service.) We’re going to do it either way, whatever the city decides.”

• Although bus service to apartment complexes along Old Highway 63 might be cancelled, some complexes will continue their own shuttle service.

• The Reserve has plans to continue a daytime shuttle service for its residents in the fall of 2012.

Source: MSA President Xavier Billingsley, MSA Senate Speaker Jake Sloan and The Reserve Community Manager Matthew Colgin.

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LECTURE: Sponsor Rep. Paul Curtman, R-Pacific, said bill isn't one of his top priorities Continued from page 1 freely.

“It’s my understanding this new policy the school has instituted, students can’t record at all,” Curtman said. “This bill is to permit the rights of students to record for their lectures and classes, so they can use those recordings to study for their personal use.”

MU associate journalism professor Charles Davis said he supports the new bill. He said the executive order was a response that far outweighs the problem.

“I think this will return us back to the status quo, in which a student who is paying tuition to attend a taxpayer-funded institution of higher learning is free to

videotape anything that takes place in their own classroom and use it any way they see fit, provided they’re not building a business,” Davis said.

Davis said when newsworthy events happen in a classroom, such as allegations of unprofessional conduct during a heated political debate, that information should be distributed.

“I think there is more benefit in that being captured and recorded and passed around in a news ecosystem than there is in forbidding it from being recorded in the first place,” Davis said.

The bill would not override policies protecting copyright or trademark laws, according to the bill.

“There shouldn’t be any problem with the violation of intellectual property

rights or copyright laws or anything of that nature,” Curtman said.

Freshman Erin Burris said she agrees with the current policy that students should only be allowed to share recorded info with classmates.

“You’re paying for the class,” Burris said. “If the school looks at it from a business standpoint, you shouldn’t be able to share with someone not enrolled in the class.”

Curtman said you can already copy down class information through note taking, but that recording is just another tool for students.

“Being able to have the ability to record so you can go back and look at the material the professor is talking about, there can be a lot of value in that,”

Curtman said. “Personally, I don’t think that it is probably in the best interest of the students to prohibit them from using tools that will help them study.”

Davis said the current executive order also presents some First Amendment issues.

He said the courts have repeatedly been clear that you have a right, as long as you are not breaking laws in obtaining information, to freely use that information any way you see fit.

Curtman said the bill isn’t one of his top priorities, but he said as a representative he felt the concern of his constituents was worth backing.

A representative from the UM System could not be reached for comment on this story.

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Greek Leadership Retreat builds relationships, unifies councils IFC, NPHC and PHA plan to participate in more cross-council programming this year.

KATIE YAEGER Associate Editor Through team-building activities, skits and even bowling, 72-newly elected Interfraternity Council, National Pan-Hellenic Council and Panhellenic Association chapter presidents and executive board members bonded at the Greek Leadership Retreat.

Held annually the first weekend of second semester by the Office of Greek Life, the threeday event intends to familiarize Greek Life leaders with each other and different aspects of the community.

“The curriculum, for the most part, changes,” Senior Coordinator of Greek Life Julie Drury said. “It ebbs and flows with issues in the community.

This year, I think the focus was definitely on building relationships within the community and that community aspect.”

The Greek Leadership Retreat is the only event where all chapter presidents and executive board

members meet. The three council presidents converse monthly, and executive board members meet informally while working in the Office of Greek Life. Drury said the office is going to make an effort to hold quarterly meetings with the three executive boards.

The retreat has been held out of town in past years, but all events took place at MU this year.

The weekend began at 5 p.m. Friday in Stotler Lounge in Memorial Union with welcome and team-building activities followed by a dinner and bowling.

“Bowling alleys allow a lot of time for conversation,” IFC spokesman Jon Strope said.

“Being on the first night, we could get to know each other so we could open up in activities over the next few days.”

The retreat resumed at 9 a.m.

Saturday in Chamber Auditorium in the MU Student Center. After discussing the relationship between the Office of Greek Life and the chapter presidents and executive boards, attendees began diversity training.

NPHC President Antaniece Sills said she thought the “Crossing the Line” activity, in which members had to cross a line if statements were true, impacted many.

“It allowed everyone to see

some similarities and differences we all have,” Sills said. “Despite what the councils represent, we do have a lot of similarities and few differences from each other.”

Drury said participants then discussed their new roles in value-based organizations, debated whether Greek Life is still relevant on college campuses and discussed why stereotypes of the community exist. After having these conversations, they planned actions and set goals for the Greek Life community.

“Having each chapter’s input will be vital to making these goals a reality,” PHA spokeswoman Alyssa Goodman said in an email.

Seven groups performed skits based on concepts they had learned during the retreat Saturday evening. Performances also contained strolling, moving lines NPHC chapters form to express chapter unity.

“I enjoyed taking part in trying to learn it,” Goodman said. “I was impressed how good (NPHC members) were and how open everyone was to trying it.”

The retreat concluded Sunday morning in Stotler Lounge with a final group discussion.

“By the end of the retreat, we were a cohesive group sharing many of the same goals for our organizations,” Goodman said.

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The Greek Life councils gather in Memorial Union during the Greek Life retreat Jan 22. The Greek Life councils are made up of the Panhellenic Association, Interfraternity Council and National PanHellenic Council.

“As the days progressed, we dug deeper into the meaning of being a member of Greek Life, (and) our goals and responsibilities as Greek leaders on this campus.”

Following the final discussion, council advisers met with the three executive boards together, then separately to discuss future events and community goals.

Strope said after working with NPHC this weekend, the three councils plan to participate in more cross-council programming than in previous years.

“Knowing what (we) know now (about NPHC), we definitely want to bring all three councils together and have a closer Greek community,” Strope said.

Goodman said the retreat helped her reaffirm her passion for Greek Life and get excited for her new position.

“This will be a very valuable experience and one I know I will personally remember as a highlight of my college experience,” Goodman said.

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In Harlem, barrage of protesters greets Obama

Coverage of local, regional and national news Reach News Editors Sally French and Amanda Svoboda at sfrench@themaneater.com and asvoboda@themaneater.com.

Funds donated for installation of new camera downtown LIZZIE JOHNSON Staff Writer Keep Columbia Safe, a local grassroots community organization, has offered to donate

$2,847 to Columbia police for the purchase of a new surveillance camera.

The new camera, which would replace the one located at Tenth and Cherry streets,

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Barack Obama, CC ’83, became the first sitting president to visit Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater Thursday night. But in his second visit to Harlem since taking office, Obama was met by fierce protests.

Obama carried 95 percent of the AfricanAmerican vote in 2008, according to CNN exit polls.

But the heavily black community which W. E. B. Du Bois and Hubert Harrison called home hardly seemed well-disposed to Obama Thursday night.

Laurie Wen, a Morningside Heights resident and activist for Healthcare For The 99%, an Occupy Wall Street working group, said that Obama’s visit felt like a stab in the back.

-The Columbia Spector

By Shayna Orens

Law professor argues pregnancy should be considered disability THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON - University of Dayton law professor Jeannette Cox is making national headlines with her proposal that pregnant women should be covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Cox said she wants to see the workplace reinvented to include a larger scope of people. Her paper, “Pregnancy as a ‘disability’ and Americans with Disabilities Act of 2008,” will be published in March but is available on the Social Science Research Network’s website.

“I think the strongest reaction has been from a feminist perspective, because they’re concerned with linking pregnancy to disability,” Cox said. “Disability shouldn’t be considered a negative thing.”

Natalie Hudson, a UD political science assistant professor, said she has done research in gender studies, human rights and women’s activism. She said considering pregnancy as a disability is an improper way to confront the issue of pregnancy discrimination in the workplace.

-Flyer News

By Sara Dorn

‘America is open for business,’ Obama says at Disney World CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY ORLANDO, Fla. — President Barack Obama‘s visit Thursday to Walt Disney World is as much an appeal to Brazilians and their dollars as it is Florida voters and their jobs. But it was a brief one, highlighted by a speech that lasted just 13 minutes.

As expected, Obama announced he intends to expand the U.S. State Department’s Global Entry Program for trusted international visitors; expand and accelerate visa application processing for such countries as Brazil, India and China; and attempt to add more countries to the Visa Waiver Program that allows foreigners from 36 countries to skip the visa process.

The moves all are designed to make it easier for international travelers to visit the United States.

“I’m here because I want tourists here tomorrow,” he concluded. “I want America to be the top tourist destination in the world.”

-The Daily Titan

By David Mclaren — Compiled by Taylor Fox, staff writer

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Keep Columbia Safe has offered to purchase a new surveillance camera to replace the one currently located at Tenth and Cherry streets. The new camera would have additional capabilities such as zooming, panning and tilting.

would have additional capabilities, such as zooming, panning and tilting. It would be the ninth camera installed in downtown Columbia since last fall.

The City of Columbia spent $25,000 last fall for the installation of eight new cameras, according to the Columbia city budget. The additions, supported by Keep Columbia Safe, are part of an April 2010 ballot that pushed camera surveillance in order to prevent off-campus crime.

“We want downtown Columbia to be a safe place for everyone in the community to enjoy, and we think the cameras will help achieve that goal,” local resident Karen Taylor said in a past Maneater article.

Taylor’s son Adam was beaten and robbed near the Cherry Street parking garage in 2009.

She has worked with Keep Columbia Safe for the past three years to make the downtown area safer for college students and local residents.

“We know for a fact that they were instrumental in solving the case my son was involved in and feel that they are very beneficial to the community,” Taylor said in a past Maneater article.

The camera surveillance remains controversial and has received negative attention by Keep Columbia Free.

“We did not like the idea of the downtown surveillance cameras to begin with,” Keep Columbia Free President Mark Flakne said. “One, we didn’t really feel there was a need for surveillance cameras on the public streets. Two, research has shown time and time again that, government surveillance on the streets ... does nothing to stop or deter violent crime.”

In accordance with the Missouri Sunshine Law, footage is also stored and held for 60 days following the City of Columbia’s filming. Fiber optic cables that run to City Hall connect them.

The cameras are currently live monitored by police.

“The cameras simply do not reduce crime,” Dan Viets, Columbia attorney and American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri spokesman, said in a past Maneater article.

“They do not deter crime, and they don’t solve crime except in rare situations. A lot of people would find it objectionable to be under surveillance just because they’re downtown. They’re doing exactly what they said they would not do. They lied to the public and they lied to the voters.”

The installation of the more advanced camera has not yet been finalized.

Higher education could lose smaller state funds CAROLINE BAUMAN Staff Writer Although the largest cuts proposed for higher education are a result of a drastic decrease in the general revenue fund, smaller state funds could also allocate less money toward public colleges and universities in Missouri.

The smaller funds, the Guaranty Agency Operating Fund and Clark and Lewis Discovery Fund, are projected to allocate less money toward higher education.

The Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority donated $30 million last year to support scholarships through the Clark and Lewis Discovery Fund. They are no longer able to donate that amount and could only supply $5 million for this year, said Paul Wagner, deputy commissioner for the Department for Higher Education.

The Guaranty Agency Operating Fund is funded through a student loan program in the Department for Higher Education for financial aid activity, Wagner said. The fund is projected to decrease by more than $4 million for 2013.

“Universities will individually have to decide how they are going to survive,” said Rep. Mike Thomson, R-Maryville, chair-

man of the Higher Education Committee. “There will likely be raises in student tuition and that is putting it on the backs of students.”

The more serious proposed cuts in funding, more than $90 million, would come from the general revenue fund, which is supported by Missouri taxpayers. Federal funding would also be reduced by about $1 million.

Scholarship funding, such as the AP Incentive Grant Fund and the Access Missouri financial assistance program, did not see proposed slashes in funding.

The AP Incentive Grant Fund will still provide $100,000 in scholarships from MOHELA for students who score well on Advanced Placement tests in mathematics and science. The Access Missouri financial assistance program funding is proposed to be the same amount as last year, but instead of the state and MOHELA both contributing $30 million each to the fund, the state will fund the program almost entirely in FY2013, with only $5 million from MOHELA. “The budget is a really mixed bag, but it is certainly a pleasant surprise to plug the hole in Access Missouri funding,” Wagner said. “We were concerned of a drastic drop in this program that services students with financial need.”

Higher education could see

the highest single cut in funding in the history of Missouri if Nixon’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2013 is passed by the state legislature in April, Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, said.

“We have had a 12 percent cut over the past two years and could see a 25 percent cut over a three year period, which would be extremely disappointing,” Thomson said. “It would change things in Missouri higher education and I don’t know if all institutions could handle it.”

Schaefer, a member of the joint Committee on Education, said the Senate and House will likely find money to put back into higher education, but the question will be whether Nixon keeps it there.

“The important thing to keep in mind is that there was an 8 percent cut in higher education this year and we brought it down to 5 percent,” Schaefer said. “But Nixon brought it back

SMALLER STATE FUNDING CUTS Guaranty Agency Operating Fund Lewis and Clark Discovery Fund

up to 8 percent again. The cuts he (Nixon) has made to higher education have been disproportional to any other government agency.”

MU spokesman Christian Basi said in a previous Maneater article it was too early to gage how MU would react to the proposed cuts.

“The budget process is a long one and we are working with state legislators as the process continues,” Basi said.

Rep. Wayne Wallingford, R-Cape Girardeau, vice-chairman of the Higher Education Committee, said legislators are collaborating to find money to reduce the cuts.

“We have a lot of hard work ahead to find ways to do this,” Wallingford said. “Hopefully we will get bills going, but bills without money doesn’t work well. We have to find innovative ways to helps schools, because they are the key to our foundation.”

Aside from the proposed plan of less funds being allocated from general revenue, less money is also allocated to higher education from smaller funds.

FY2012 Appropriations

FY2013 Proposed Appropriations

$23,948,012

$19,926,465

$30,000,000

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Nixon’s Missouri Works program looks to revive state economy AMANDA SVOBODA News Editor Despite his push for creating job opportunities in the state under his new Missouri Works program, Gov. Jay Nixon’s spokesman Scott Holste said Nixon still has the goal of increasing the percentage of Missourians who have advanced degrees, whether they are from four-year schools, twoyear schools or technical schools.

“We want to make sure that as part of increasing the number of people with degrees, they’re being prepared for jobs that are going to be in demand,” Holste said. “Missouri Works seeks to bring those jobs that are going to be in demand to Missouri.”

He said the Works strategy goes hand-in-hand with Nixon’s goal of increasing college degrees because it is important that there are jobs available for Missourians to step into after they have finished their training.

“They mesh very well together,” Holste said. “We’ll continue to work with our colleges and universities to continue preparing graduates for the jobs tomorrow.”

Nixon discussed his Missouri Works strategy in his State of the State address in Jefferson City on Jan. 17 as part of his plan to expand the Missouri economy in 2012, according to a news release.

The Missouri Works plan calls

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The Taco Bell located at 220 Business Loop 70 E is now hiring full time management positions. Gov. Nixon’s Missouri Works plan would create more job opportunities in Missouri.

for more jobs in the auto supplier industry, more Missouri-made goods sold as exports worldwide, more training opportunities for veterans and advancements in science and technology jobs, Holste said.

Holste said Nixon’s ultimate goal in this strategy is to keep Missouri’s economy moving forward by increasing exports and

putting more people back to work in manufacturing and high-tech jobs.

“We want to make sure that we’re able to continue to build on the success, give people good jobs and continue the drop in the unemployment rate,” he said.

To accomplish this goal, Holste said Nixon wants to build on the success Missouri has expe-

rienced in export growth during the past three years. Continuing to work with both the manufacturing industry and agricultural industry to keep steady flow of Missouri exports has become a top priority for Nixon, he said.

In addition to expanding on overseas exports, Holste said Nixon plans to focus on ensuring veterans are hired through the

Show-Me Heroes program, which was launched two years ago.

“The governor wants to expand on that through increasing training opportunities for veterans to make sure that the jobs they step into are ones that are in growth sectors,” Holste said.

Rep. Mary Still, D-Columbia, said she supports any program that creates jobs in the state, especially in the automotive industry. Missouri has made historic investments with Ford and General Motors in the past, she said.

“The governor has been successful in reinvesting in those major industries,” she said.

She also said she has a lot of hope for the Science and Innovation Reinvestment Act, which would benefit Columbia given the number of high-tech jobs with MU. “Job creation is the most important thing we can do to revive the budget,” she said.

Still said though she supports the Missouri Works initiative, she believes that investing money in MU, what she calls the “economic engine” of the state, would be the best move to benefit the economy.

“We are the state’s major research university,” she said.

“The key to the economy of the future and job placement is the investment in this university.”

Man solicited sex Columbia business fails from teen in online underage alcohol check chatroom ALCOHOL COMPLIANCE

A 40-year-old man pled guilty to attempted enticement of a child after law enforcement posed as a 14-yearold girl on a chat room and the man solicited sex from her.

James Thomas Swinney began participating in an online chat room in late February 2010 when he started contacting who he thought was a 14 year-old-girl from Boone County.

In actuality, the girl was an undercover officer from the task force who had been monitoring the chat room.

Swinney continued to contact the undercover officer through April, which initiated the investigation.

“The officer was hanging out on the Internet, in essence, and Swinney contacted her,” Task Force Detective Andy Anderson said. “In the course of several chats, Swinney solicited her to have sex with him. He did this on three separate occasions.”

The Boone County Sheriff ’s Cyber Crimes Task Force conducted the investigation.

Swinney pled guilty to three counts of attempted enticement of a child under 15 years old in the Boone County Circuit Court on Tuesday.

Swinney had previously pled guilty to similar counts in Christian County, Mo., and currently has charges pending in St. Charles County as well.

At the time of the investigation and

his arrest Swinney was a resident of Rolla, Mo. The Cyber Crimes Task Force, which was responsible for Swinney’s arrest, investigates criminal activity that could occur on multiple forums throughout the Internet. Common crimes include child enticement, child pornography, cyber bullying and harassment. The task force consists of investigators from the Boone County Sheriff’s Department, the MU Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigations.

“There are 10 task forces in Missouri who do this kind of work,” said Detective Andy Andersion, coordinator of the task force.

“Typically, we investigate any internet crime involving a child. We hang out in all kinds of places where there’s a potential threat, like Facebook, chat rooms and other teen-related sites.”

One in seven teenagers who access the Internet on a regular basis have received unwelcomed sexual solicitation, according to a study conducted by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The study is based upon the information collected by 1,500 Internet users between the ages of 10 to 17.

—Elissa Chudwin, reporter

Eight of nine businesses in the Boone County area passed an alcohol compliance check conducted by the Boone County Sheriff ’s Department on Friday, according to a news release.

To check for compliance, with funding from the Missouri Department of Transportation and Highway Safety Division and the Youth Community Coalition of Columbia, the department hired an undercover minor to attempt to purchase alcohol.

His valid state ID was denied at all but one business, “Whoa and Go” Break Time store on 6050 E. Highway AB. “It’s usually anywhere from one to three businesses (that fail the compliance check),” Deputy Trevor Fowler said. “In the county they’re really good about carding for underage drinking issue.”

Richard Hart of the “Whoa and Go” Break Time store was issued a citation for selling intoxicating liquor to a minor, according to the release.

Fowler said the sheriff ’s department first validates a minor as part of the alcohol compliance check process.

After finding a minor between

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Columbia business failed the alcohol compliance check

The following employee was given a citation for selling alcohol to a minor

•Richard Hart (employee of the Deer Park “Whoa And Go” Break Time store, 6050 E. Highway AB, Columbia, MO)

The following businesses did not sell alcohol to a minor •Mari’s Convenience Store – 1210 E. Prathersville Rd., Columbia, MO •Petro Mart 49 Convenience Store – 5481 E. St. Charles Rd., Columbia, MO •Casey’s General Store – 1011 S. El Chaparral Ave., Columbia, MO •Casey’s General Store – 500 E. Broadway, Ashland, MO •Bee Line Snack Shop – 530 E. Broadway, Ashland, MO •FastLane Phillips 66 Convenience Store – 602 E. Broadway, Ashland, MO •Break Time Convenience Store – 101 N. Henry Clay Blvd., Ashland, MO •Bee Line Snack Shop – 21340 S. Mt. Pleasant Rd., Hartsburg, MO Source: Boone County Sheriff’s Department CAIT CAMPBELL | GRAPHICS DESIGNER

18 and 19 years old, the minor is trained in how to enter the store, what to purchase and what to do when the clerk asks for identification.

“It’s a pretty straight forward operation,” Fowler said.

“It’s a reminder to please be checking ID’s so we can keep this underage drinking problem down to a minimum.”

The minor must follow safety precautions, including being video and audio taped for the duration of their time in the store, Fowler said.

“They’ll go directly into the store, get the item and go straight to the counter,”

he said.

Fowler said the Boone County Sheriff ’s Department on average does two to three compliance checks per year.

He said there are usually not problems with businesses, aside from the occasional business that does not deny the minor, resulting in a misdemeanor charge of sale to a minor.

“It’s basically just a reassurance and reminder to be compliant with the law,” Fowler said.

—Amanda Svoboda, news editor

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New abortion law changes process A Missouri law limiting abortions went into effect last year.

SARA MASLAR-DONAR Reporter The debate surrounding whether abortion should be legal has sparked 67 anti-abortion laws that were passed in the United States last year alone, according to thehill.com. Facts from The Hill’s article were taken from a new report by the NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation.Missouri is among states that have taken steps to limit the increasing number of abortions.

In September of 2010, the state issued a regulation that ruled there would be new requirements on doctors and clinics that provide abortions, in addition to a law that was put into effect Jan. 1, 2011.

Under the 2010 law, women will need to make two trips to their local clinic: one for a consultation with their doctor and one for the actual procedure.

Also, women will be asked if they would like to hear the baby’s heartbeat, given a pamphlet and informed that the fetus will feel pain.

Individual states in the U.S. have enacted laws of their own, totaling 67 laws. These laws were enacted in several states around the country to curtail the rights for abortion, according to thehill.com.

Outside Planned Parenthood in Columbia, protestor Joanne Schrader said she agrees with this new law.

“Before you have a procedure you are fully informed of the risks, so all (this law) does is bring abortion into the standard of care,” she said.

Schrader is an opponent of

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Planned Parenthood on Providence Road provides reproductive health services to residents of Columbia and mid-Missouri. The rate of abortions in Missouri is lower than the national average.

abortion rights and said she believes in the sanctity of life because she was adopted after an unplanned pregnancy.

The law enacted Jan. 1, 2011, states that the parent of a minor must be consulted and health insurance will only cover an abortion if the woman’s life is endangered.

MU junior Sophie Mashburn said she believes that keeping parents out of the picture won’t help a girl in her decision.

“Frankly, if the discussion is supposed to be open about

Police investigate string of assaults, robberies in west Columbia The victims were primarily elderly females.

Police are investigating three home robberies that occurred during the past 60 days.

Three female senior citizens were assaulted in a string of home invasions in west Columbia during the past two months, according to a Columbia Police Department news release.

The Columbia Police Department is investigating the robberies, in which the suspect forced his way into the home, assaulted the victims and stole valuable items. A handgun was found in one of the invasions, according to the news release.

All of the robberies occurred between 5 and 10 p.m.

CPD spokeswoman Latisha

Stroer said no injuries were reported.

More property crimes such as robbery, theft and motor vehicle theft are reported on the northwest side of Columbia than the east side, according to a regional crime analysis provided by BAIR Analytics.

CPD has been discussing whether any special policing should be implemented on the west side during the particular time period due to the increase in evening crimes on the west side of Columbia, Stroer said.

All citizens are encouraged to give any information about these incidents to CPD by calling Crime Stoppers at 875-TIPS. —Sean Na, staff writer

underage sex amongst parents, the discussion about abortion should be equally open and parents’ views should be considered,” she said.

In Missouri, the abortions rates have always been well below the national average, and they have been decreasing every year.

In 1991, the rate of women having abortions was 1.3 percent, and by 2008, the percentage was down to .06 percent, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

ABORTION RATES IN MISSOURI VS. U.S. 25.7% 26.3%

22.5%

22.4%

21.4%

Missouri's overall abortion rate has continuously been below the national rate.

U.S. abortion rate Missouri abortion rate

21.3%

19.7%

19.4%

19.5%

19.6%

13.4% 11.5% 8.8%

9.0% 6.5%

6.6%

7.2%

6.9%

6.2%

6.3%

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Proposed bill would increase college investment options The expanded investment options are part of the Missouri MOST 529 program.

House Bill No. 1192, a piece of legislation designed to vastly increase college investment options for Missouri citizens, has been introduced in the House of Representatives.

The bill would expand the current Missouri MOST program, the state’s version of a federal 529 College Savings Plan.

These plans are savings plans constructed to help individuals and families save for a child’s future college expenses, according to the Missouri MOST website.

“What (the bill says) is that we’re basically going to do a

study on all of the investment options that all of the other states have and try to incorporate all of those choices into the Missouri plan,” Rep. Andrew Koenig, R-Winchester, the bill’s primary sponsor, said. “So it greatly increases the choices on what you can invest in if you want to save for college tax free.”

The bill has been referred to the House’s Financial Institutions committee, but a hearing has not yet been scheduled.

If it passes vote in the House after suggestions are made by the Financial Institutions committee, the bill would then need to be approved by the Missouri State Senate before Gov. Jay Nixon signs it into law.

If approved, the bill would take action after Aug. 28, the date the current contracts for the MOST program expire.

Koenig said the primary goal

of the bill is to give Missouri citizens more options as to where they can invest for college taxfree.

“The reason the bill is important is that the state doesn’t have a lot of money, and I want to give every tool to its citizens for them to be able to provide education for themselves,” Koenig said. “Rather than just government handing it out, let’s empower families that live in Missouri to be able to do it for themselves.”

Koenig also said the bill would make Missouri’s 529 program more “user-friendly.”

“If (college students) were using one of these plans, they’ll have more options,” he said. “It empowers students to be able to invest and save for college.”

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Presidential report card: Woods earns B+ Xavier Billingsley has officially been handed the keys to the presidential office by former Missouri Students Association President Eric Woods. But before Woods finally says goodbye to his presidential term, The Maneater takes its annual look back and evaluates President Woods and Vice President Emily Moon’s term. We’ve identified the most common themes of Woods’ tenure and assigned letter grades to each based on our opinion of his performance, compiling a final grade for his overall effectiveness.

Sustainability -- One of the central focuses of the 2010 MSA presidential campaign was the promotion of a ‘greener’ Mizzou. Woods said he would focus the sustainability aspect of his tenure on campus dining -- and he did.

Woods ran a trial period during Summer Welcome to test student opinion on trayless dining. After receiving positive reaction from polling those students, trayless dining initiative was indefinitely enacted, a feat former MSA President Jordan Paul failed to achieve.

It’s a good move, but we’ve yet to see the results. It’s only been a semester and the statistics concerning waste prevention are still being compiled, statistics that we hope will result in some kind of return for students who are paying for dining services. A reduction in waste should result in a reduction in dining prices for students, right?

The fact that extra food is going toward compost for local farms is another sustainability plus and by sampling locally grown food in dining halls in the early fall last semester, Woods followed through on his sustainability goal.

Grade: B+ Budgeting -- Throughout his campaign, Woods said he would work to eliminate carryover of student fees and emphasize the importance of spending students’ money on students while they are in school -- breaking the habit of previous budgeting. To this degree, he did a good job.

But did the majority of students really want to spend $25,000 over five years to sponsor tiger exhibits in the Dickerson Park Zoo in Springfield and the Saint Louis Zoo? The sponsorship has been publicized as a benefit to recruitment and an effort to aid an endangered species, yet if any school needs help with recruitment, it’s definitely not MU, considering we enroll more freshmen than we can place in student housing.

With this tiger sponsorship, we’re wondering what other uses of MSA money have been passed without much student awareness. It would be nice if students could easily access information about where their student fees are going. Oh right, they would have if Woods and Moon would have followed through on their great idea of an online, easily accessible and thorough guide to student fees. Instead, all we got was a graphic, which is online, but was poorly publicized, defeating the point.

The Homecoming concert never happened, but MSA did meet with student orgs to make sure they could meet their funding needs, even increasing funding for MSA auxiliaries such as KCOU and STRIPES. Grade: BVisibility and Advocacy -- Woods found his calling, his forte, in his communication skills. The visibility of MSA and its student advocacy was particularly strong throughout Woods’ and Moon’s tenure.

The establishment of MSA’s outreach committee, a group of 10 to 15 MSA members who work on developing relationships with other student organizations, was a crucial step in creating a positive MSA reputation.

The members of outreach communicated the role MSA serves and attended other student organization meetings. Our reporters can attest to personally witnessing MSA members, including Woods, speak at meetings held by organizations such as the Legion of Black Collegians and the Residence Halls Association.

Within MSA itself, retention has greatly increased during Woods’ term.

The organization struggled with keeping student senators involved until now, and this year has improved its recruiting efforts.

Meanwhile, Woods has done a good job of being a “Leader FOR students,” and not a “Leader OF students,” as he said during his campaign. We think Woods was adept at diplomatically handling issues with a calm and collected demeanor.

Grade: AOther actions Woods has taken include supporting the RHA genderneutral housing initiative; revamping the student tailgating initiative by renaming The Jungle to The Endzone and hosting a few decent tailgates; and changing the MSA newsletter, through which the MSA president speaks directly to the student body, to a video format.

Woods and Moon didn’t follow through on every element of their platform (goMizzou MSA app for the iPhone?) but Woods shined a positive light after former president Tim Noce cast us into the dark -- and the really awkward limelight, given the whole buy-a-tiger-for-the-football-games fiasco. The Maneater would like to congratulate President Woods on a refreshingly positive year. To President Billingsley, the bar’s been set, and pretty high too. We hope you can exceed it. You’ve been warned.

Final Grade: B+ GPA: 3.23

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Exploring renewable resources Kristen Powers It’s sometimes hard for people to feel issues like sustainability connect with their everyday lives because the effects aren’t easily seen. But one issue that has to be addressed is our consumption of petroleum, not only as a fuel source, but also as the building block for many consumer goods including plastics, shoes and some toothpastes.

The demand for petroleum for both energy and the production of commercial goods is not decreasing, but the supply and availability of petroleum is. One way to minimize the effect of our overall demand is by embracing sources of energy outside of petroleum.

Chemists have recently developed a means of producing tires from sugar, according to an article on EurekAlert.

From an environmental standpoint, replacing a limited resource such as petroleum with a renewable resource like sugar in a product that is so widely consumed worldwide is a good thing. However, when the societal impact is considered, the overall implications get a little complicated.

A decision by the tire industry to make the switch from petroleum to sugar would greatly increase the demand for sugar cane production worldwide. Working conditions on sugar plantations in both Central and South America are often substandard. Many sugar field workers die young from kidney failure brought on by constant dehydration, according to an article in The New York Times. Companies pressure workers to work long hours without providing adequate hydration.

Even if these labor problems were rectified, using a food source like sugar cane to produce a consumer good like tires is flawed.

Corn-based ethanol is one example of how using a food source to produce a commodity can backfire. Although use of a renewable resource like corn-based bio-fuel to reduce our consumption of fossil fuels is appealing on the surface, it has inherent negative side effects.

Production of corn-based ethanol drives up the cost of corn as well as the cost of wheat, as many farmers have abandoned wheat in favor of corn, due to profitability and government subsidies. By subsidizing corn to be used in the production of ethanol, the price of corn-based food also increased while supply decreased. This potential consequence of bringing food sources into the commodities market could be disastrous for those both here and abroad needing affordable food.

Nevertheless, the pursuit of renewable resources isn’t to be discouraged, as there are still many cases where renewable sources are successfully employed as alternative energy sources. There has been positive research into making a methane-based bio-fuel from algae that can be grown in water unfit for human consumption, thereby not affecting the amount of available drinking water.

Butanol, a fuel source that is being explored as a replacement for gasoline, can be produced from wood, according to butanol.com. The part of wood utilized in Butanol production is not necessary for paper production, which means it is not as wasteful as sugar or starch-base sources.

Future technological and scientific developments involving renewable energy need to consider how farreaching the potential social, economical and environmental impacts are.

Policymakers, consumers and researchers should keep this in mind now and in the future, as increasing population and demand will only increase the pressure of this issue. Although not every impact can be avoided, we can do our best to mitigate them or select the least severe cause. Our choices should take into account not only the need for sustainability but also the effect those choices will have on our community and our overall quality of life.

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Mitt Romney and his well-planned and even better funded campaign seemed like the inevitable nominee just a few days go. Having fared well in Iowa and walking through to a win in New Hampshire, it seemed with a win in the South Carolina primary the race to become the GOP nomination would be all but over.

Even former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich acknowledged this, saying, “If I don’t win the primary Saturday, we will probably nominate a moderate, and the odds are fairly high he will lose to Obama,” according to NPR. Lucky for Speaker Gingrich the polls quickly turned in his favor. After two televised debates in South Carolina the former Speaker turned a huge deficit in the polls into a lead he carried though to a huge victory in the state. Gingrich receiving 40 percent of the vote to Romney’s 28 percent, Rick Santorum’s 17 percent, and Ron Paul’s 13 percent. He took what was inevitable into what could be a highly contested and fiery race.

The finish line to this race is the Republican Convention held in Tampa, Fla. in August. With this win for Gingrich the convention now has an off chance of being open. Which means the public won’t know the nomination until the delegates vote at the convention. Michael Steele, former Republican National Chairman, explains just how real this prospect is, saying, “It’s a real possibility right

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now. I’d say it’s 50-50. The base wants its chance to have their say. They aren’t going to want it to end early, before they get their chance, which means that the process could go all the way to Tampa,” according to m.politicalwire. com.

The question is, why does it matter if the race carries all the way into August?

For Republicans the answer takes on two forms, both positive and negative. On the positive front it means more debates, more time, and hopefully a better understanding of the candidates. Allowing this race continue until August means more voters of more states will have their voices heard in the primaries. Which the Republicans hope will translate into selecting the best candidate and defeating President Barack Obama.

In a more negative view for the Republicans this means the bloodbath that is the political ads put out by the candidates and their ever supportive Super PACs will continue.

This is great news for the Democrats and Obama, who have already assumed the eventual nominee to be Romney.

While the Democrats have focused their efforts on unhinging the welloiled Romney campaign, Romney’s counterparts have been doing the same.

Watching recent debates and attack ads Democrats have to be considerably pleased. From seeing Gingrich and recent drop-out Rick Perry viciously attack Mitt Romney for his tenure at private investment firm Bain Capital calling him a “vulture capitalist,” to Rick Santorum continue to paint him

as a flip-flopper and neo-conservative, and most recently watching everyone tear into Romney for being in the 15 percent tax bracket and not releasing his tax history, Romney’s taken a lot of heat. Biggest of all for Obama is the candidates continually berating each other each week on nationally televised debates.

The effects of the fierce scrutiny on Romney can’t be ignored either.

Headed into South Carolina Romney had a decent lead in their polls. This was surprising since South Carolina is heavily conservative, and they tend to lean away from Romney. Then came the attack ads, the debates, the sharp decline in the polls, and his eventual loss.

Even with all the speculation, the chance of the nomination being a candidate other than Romney is still slim.

Voters see him as electable, something they don’t find in Gingrich, Paul, or Santorum. Not to mention his past isn’t littered with ethics violations, like Speaker Gingrich. Still his campaign is the most organized and well-funded campaign, and is the only one experts say could go the distance in the race to beat Obama’s near $750 million reelection campaign, according to The National Journal.

The win of Newt Gingrich in South Carolina has blown open what was a closed case for Romney. It guarantees the race will last for at least a little while longer if not all the way to Florida in the fall. But the longer it lasts the more the attacks continue, and the more the real winner becomes the Obama campaign.

Good luck trying to shock us

Ian Servantes Each Sunday night for 23 years, America tuned in to watch “The Ed Sullivan Show.” At its peak, from 1956 to 1957, the show had an audience of nearly 40 million, which accounted for more than a third of households with a television, according to an article in the Los Angeles Times.

Sixty million tuned in Sept. 9, 1956, to watch an up-and-coming singer perform for the first time on the show, according to The Ed Sullivan website. His name was Elvis Presley and on that night he did something so vile that the cameramen would only film him from the waist up.

He shook his hips.

Fifty-five years later LMFAO performed its hit song “Sexy And I Know It” on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.” As the first chorus started, RedFoo tore off his pants to reveal a bright blue banana hammock. After that, he did more than shake. He rhythmically air-humped with no camera angles hiding the charade.

Each new generation has offended the last, with the line between

entertainment and obscenity becoming less defined, if it even remains.

The only way to make LMFAO’s performance more shocking would be if RedFoo started thrusting, dick exposed. Although that wouldn’t fly on national television, it’s still acceptable elsewhere.

Jason Segel did just that in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” He drops his towel, waves his piece and gets dumped without putting on so much as a sock.

In the last decade male nudity has become more commonplace in films, especially comedy. In “Borat,” Sacha Baron Cohen, as the movie’s namesake, fights his friend Azamat while the pair wears matching birthday suits. A black bar covers Borat’s member, but his opponent doesn’t receive the same censorship. What ensues is a disturbing fight scene that could just as easily be called a sex scene.

We’ve become desensitized to male nudity, though women have been fully exposed for much longer.

Female nudity is so prevalent that I’m waiting for it to pop out of every corner. While watching shows on HBO I sometimes have to double check that I’m watching Entourage and not the after-hours programming. Nothing is more awkward than explaining to your mom that you’re not enjoying a porno in the middle of the day on your living room couch — you’re just waiting to see if Vince Chase will stop doing

blow and banging a porn star.

Even the alternative explanation wouldn’t have been acceptable 50 years ago.

It goes beyond nudity. Everywhere I look I find things that would make my poor grandmother blush.

Tyler, the Creator won best new artist at the VMAs for a video in which he eats a cockroach, vomits it and hangs himself as the finale.

These are just the visuals to accompany his lines about killing pop stars, popping Xanex and having threesomes with dinosaurs. He’s both controversial and successful.

Protestors often congregate outside his concerts, but the crowd inside is always bigger.

Meanwhile, one of the most popular shows on cable television features Internet clips that range from bizarre to disgusting. “Tosh.0” has shared with us an angry gamer trying to shove a remote up his ass, a 7-year-old who likes to “do hood rat stuff with his friends,” and a man taking a dump in plain view at the mall. Daniel Tosh then one-ups the videos with jokes that are usually racist, sexist or simply mean.

To our future children, good luck trying to shock us. Our culture is unapologetically crass, vulgar and indecent. Ed Sullivan’s 15 million viewers would look at our entertainment with confusion and disgust.

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‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’: 5 out of 5 stars During its initial promotional push, David Fincher’s “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” advertised itself as “the feel-bad movie of the holidays,” promising a gritty, grown-up alternative to the kid-friendly Christmas films that flood America’s movie theaters every winter. And boy, does it ever deliver.

The film stars Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist who finds himself broke and disgraced after losing a libel suit against crooked business magnate Hans-Erik Wennerstrom (Ulf Friberg).

His chance at redemption comes in the form of a mysterious benefactor and a 40-year-old murder mystery. If Blomkvist can discover who killed 16-year-old Harriet Vanger and why, her aging uncle Henrik (Christopher Plummer) — still haunted by the crime after nearly half a century — promises to provide him with the evidence he needs to prove Wennerstrom’s guilt and restore his own reputation. As he delves deeper into the mystery, Blomkvist discovers that Harriet was on the trail of a killer herself, and that her murder was one of many committed against young women in the area. Perhaps the worst discovery of all: The killer is still at large.

Enter the title character, genius hacker Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara). Pierced, tattooed, severely blunt and aggressively antisocial, Lisbeth takes a special interest in the murdered girls because of her own history of victimization at the hands of men. Her partnership with Blomkvist is a tense, sexually charged one, but her commitment to pursuing abusers of women is unyielding.

Overall, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” is not a movie for the faint of heart — an abundance of grisly crime-scene photos and an especially graphic rape scene see to that — but for a viewer who can stomach it, this dark and complex film lingers long after the lights go up.

—Sarah Walsh, reporter

‘Young Adult’: 3 out of 5 stars When Charlize Theron’s character Mavis Gary proposes to her old high school boyfriend Buddy (Patrick Wilson) that he leave their hometown, move to the city with her and leave it all behind, he coolly reminds her that he’s a married man and a new dad. Mavis shoots back, “I know — we can beat this thing together.” Such a stubborn determination and complete disconnectedness from reality frame “Young Adult,” the latest collaboration between Jason Reitman and writer Diablo Cody since 2007’s acid-tongued “Juno.”

The trailer might suggest Mavis’ quest to win back her old high school flame after her own failed marriage is a haphazard romp back in her nostalgia-teeming hometown, but “Young Adult” is anything but an easy feel-good flick. Cody, though, manages to make Mavis’ life crises darkly funny with twisted, sardonic wit but the last third of the film take a complete turn for the serious and sad.

When Mavis returns to her hometown of Mercury, Minn., from the “big city” of Minneapolis, she prides herself as better than the small-towners and former classmates who never made it out. As a ghostwriter for a failing young adult fiction series about a group of ultracool teen queen bees, it’s clear that Mavis is the perfect fit for the job, as Reitman shows us a woman in her mid-30s who is still in a state of arrested development.

Her constant procrastinating, Diet Coke chugging, daydrinking and fixation on the one that got away — to the point of wearing Buddy’s old high school gym sweatshirt — slowly reveal her to be completely unlikable and pathetic.

When she meets Matt (Patton Oswalt), a former high school classmate at a dive bar in Mercury, we figure out that maybe we aren’t supposed to like her after all. While he recounts to her his memories of having a locker next to her throughout school, Mavis can’t see past her own tormented heartbreak to feel sympathy for him until she really needs him to pick up the pieces from her overthought strategy to win back Buddy, which gives her a glimpse into her own demise. “Young Adult” is not playfully dark as the trailer suggests, but delivers surprising emotion and depth.

—Kristin Torres senior staff writer

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MU Confucius Institute celebrates Chinese New Year CLARE NGAI Reporter A crowd of 200 people waited with bated breath Friday night at Jesse Hall. Finally 11-year-old Xi Fang Zhang appeared on stage in traditional Peking Opera costume.

Zhang was one of the 64 students who performed at MU’s first Chinese Culture and Art Night.

The show, held by the MU Confucius Institute, the Office of the Vice Provost for International Programs and China Society for People’s Friendship Studies provided an opportunity for the local Chinese community to celebrate the new year and promote Chinese arts and culture.

Posing at the center of the stage, Zhang slowly turned in her golden dragon robe as she started to sing and narrate in old Peking dialect. Her heavily powdered face, vibrant red lips and bold eyeliner appeared striking under the blazing spotlight.

Along with Zhang, the group was made up by students and teachers from

BaYi Middle School and HaiDian Foreign Language Shi Yan Middle School in Beijing.

In addition to Peking Opera, a variety of programs were presented at the show, ranging from Chinese folk music that features pipa, the Chinese guitar and cucurbit flute to ethnic dance and martial arts.

Chong Hui Liu, the accompanied martial arts teacher at BaYi Middle School said in Mandarin that she felt honored to be able to spread cultural awareness personally in the United States.

“I’ve been practicing martial arts all my life but I was never able to promote our culture abroad,” Liu said.

Liu said the majority of the visiting students and scholars have never been to the U.S. and are thrilled to spend the Chinese New Year overseas.

The occasion brought a unique experience to a lot of the audience because usually the Chinese students on campus put on an annual show called “China Night” featuring MU students.

“I think the event this year is very different,” Joey Clemons, attendee and interna-

tional banking consultant at the U.S. Bank branch on campus, said. “It’s nice to see the high school students get to come all the way from Beijing to perform here in Columbia, but at the same time I miss the one put together by MU students.”

Vice Provost for International Programs Handy Williamson Jr. said the event was a collaboration between MU, Shanghai Normal Univeristy and the Confucius Institute headquarter in Beijing at a higher level. He said programs like this serve as a bridge for local residents to understand and appreciate different culture.

“It’s a chance for the people in Columbia to have a glimpse into the ethnic diversity of China as well as to the talents of the students who were performing,” he said. “We hope that people will feel a need to become closer and interact more with people from different cultures.”

Williamson added that it is likely for the Columbia public school system and schools across the country to have opportunities to learn Chinese languages in the near future.

plays represented at the national festival last year,” Henry said. “That’s never happened.”

Fotis had two plays included in this year’s festival, “The Book of Adam” and “Nights on the Couch.” “The Book of Adam,” which won the Mark Twain Prize For Comic Playwriting last year, explores the idea of why we believe what we believe.

“Nights on the Couch,” which was a finalist for the John Cauble Outstanding Short Play Award last year, is about the journey from being a kid to having a kid,” Fotis said. He said it was inspired by becoming a father himself.

Senior Hannah Baxter is the only MU student officially going to the national festival in April. She was the winner of the National Critics Institute Award for theater criticism.

“The experience was chaotic, but informative,” she said in an email. “I learned that almost every show has positive and negative attributes, and that no review should focus on just one.”

Ph.D. candidate Kevin McFillen and senior Amanda Newman are still in competition to find out if they will attend the national competition. Newman and McFillen are the regional winner and run-

ner-up for a one-act play, respectively.

McFillen’s play “Subtraction” is about a man who is visited by a woman from the Office of Subtraction. Her job is balancing the universal equation, which is a complex equation that explains the nature of the universe. McFillen said it is revealed that she has been visiting him periodically to erase the memories of his previous wife who was subtracted from him.

McFillen has attended the festival four times.

“I think the best thing about KCACTF is just the opportunity to share your work and to see other people’s works,” he said. “I think that’s what’s exciting is having people from so many different programs from the region come and share their work and be able to see what everyone else is doing.”

Fotis also said the best thing about the festival is working with other people in theater.

“I think the biggest thing is just a camaraderie that other people are doing the same thing as you and that they can be successful and you can be successful,” Fotis said. “It’s nice to share because a lot of time writing you work away on your own and in this setting you get to share work with other people.”

MU students awarded at theater festival DANI KASS

Senior Staff Writer MU students took home multiple awards in playwriting, design, acting and theater criticism last week at the 44th annual Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.

The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. provided travel grants for participants to come to the regional festival, which took place from Jan. 15 to 21 at Iowa State University. Select awardees are invited to a national festival in April that includes master classes, workshops and professional development seminars.

“It’s not only just to give them awards and recognitions but also to start the introduction process to the professional theater, to make connections,” said Gregg Henry, comanager and artistic director of KCACTF. Attendance for Region 5, which includes MU, is about 1,500 people, Henry said. The festival includes six to 10 productions, 80 workshops and galleries for design expos.

Ph.D. candidate Matt Fotis returned to the festival this year after winning multiple awards last year.

“Matt is the only playwright in the history of our organization who had three

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From Bach to Beethoven: Taylor Burkhardt gives senior recital CAITLYN GALLIP Staff Writer MU senior Taylor Burkhardt’s senior piano recital Friday night at Whitmore Recital Hall was a culmination of her time at MU. The senior performed four pieces by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Ligeti.

Burkhardt’s unnconvential and inconsistent beginning to the instrument did not stop her from progressing with piano.

“I have studied piano since the age of seven,” Burkhardt said. “I haven’t had the most traditional musical background, and as a result I have worked extremely hard the past few years to achieve the same results that more carefully groomed young musicians achieve.”

Burkhardt’s recital opened with Toccata in E Minor, BWV 914 by Johann Sebastian Bach.

This late Baroque piece was played in each of its four parts.

Opening with dramatic octave leaps in the lower register, Burkhardt’s skill and hard work was clear and her high-energy performance style not only brought something beautiful to listen to, but something wonderful to watch as well.

“I enjoy working with all the students at the MU School of Music, but week-in and week-out, for four

years Taylor has been a real joy to teach,” Peter Miyamoto, Burkhardt’s undergraduate instructor for the past three and a half years, said.

“She’s got such a beautiful sense of how to shape a phrase, it will be interesting to watch where her talent will take her in the coming years.”

In her next piece, Sonata in D Minor, Op. 31, No. 2 “Tempest” by Ludwig van Beethoven, Burkhardt was able to transport the audience. In the three-movement piece Burkhardt brought to life a storminess, a soft melodic beauty, and a continuing stormy characteristics all in 20 minutes.

Burkhardt delighted the audience again after a short intermission with Frederic Chopin’s Ballade in A-flat Major, Op. 47.

“I find new subtleties in the music every time I practice, and better understanding the piece only makes it more beautiful to me,” Burkhardt said about the complex poetry of Chopin’s romantic piece.

Any romantic would agree, with its flowing lines and subtle energy this tragic piece is a true gem in Burkhardt’s repertoire.

For her final performance, Burkhardt skipped ahead a few decades and played Two Capriccios by the modern Hungarian composer, György Ligeti. Performed in two parts, this ever-changing piece

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Burkhart opened with Bach and also played Beethoven, Chopin and Ligeti.

brings the unexpected and has the audience constantly surprised.

“I love all four of the pieces on this recital — each presents a unique

puzzle of problems as well as beauty, and I enjoy working that out,” Burkhardt said. “Music is my passion, something I inherently knew

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For JoePa, there is no bounce-back Over the past calendar year, State College, Penn., has faced some of the most difficult patches any community could endure.

Legendary ex-coach Joe Paterno’s untimely passing to lung cancer early Sunday morning was the last straw.

Paterno, 85, the exiled Penn State football coach, was fired last November due to what has now become a widely known alleged child sex abuse scandal involving former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. Paterno could not survive the test of time for a chance at exoneration.

There have been dramatic fallouts in sports before, but none worse than the aftermath that came to light when the allegations against Sandusky made headlines. Unlike a baseball star that has been linked to performanceenhancing drugs, unlike Tiger Woods or Michael Vick or Jim Tressel, Paterno has no chance to redeem himself, however impossible it might have seemed to do so. At the very least, Paterno is not the one accused of sexual abuse, and that is not saying much.

A man who coached 46 seasons, a man who won two national championships, a man who will go down as the winningest coach in major college football history with 409 wins is now gone.

That being said, due to the allegations against Sandusky, are all of these accomplishments taken with a grain of salt? Maybe they are in the eyes of the public, as well as those who reside outside of State College. But one can see the profound impact Paterno had upon his former players and his peers around him throughout college football. Paterno was a father figure for hundreds of young men whose lives were forever changed because of the affectionate influence he had upon them.

Not to turn a blind eye to what transpired this past fall, but it is a damn shame for someone with such a storied legacy, and someone with a name so synonymous to Penn State football, to have gone out like this. Paterno is to college football what Vince Lombardi is to the NFL: neither would be what they are today without the efforts of both men.

At the same time, that legacy is forever undermined on the basis of failing to appropriately act on a situation that endangered the safety of multiple children.

Former Penn State All-American Matt Millen put it best on SportsCenter back in November, “If we can’t protect our kids, we, as a society, are pathetic.” Millen played under both Paterno and Sandusky.

That is the tragedy in all of this, in that Paterno was not supposed to end such a storied career in this manner. He was supposed to continue his winning ways as head coach of Penn State forever. Paterno’s life was Penn State football, and when that was taken away from him he passed away.

Moving forward, as Sandusky’s case will continue to unfold, we can hope the proper consequences are taken in the court of law, and that the victims of the allegations have some peace of mind that the proper actions are finally taking place. The hope is that this dark chapter in Penn State history is finally coming to an end, as a new era looms in State College.

What Penn State needs now, more than ever, is stability. What they need now, more than ever, is someone like Joe Paterno.

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Burke looks for perfect dismount to career IAN FRAZER Staff Writer To topple the higher-ranked University of Denver Pioneers on Friday, the Missouri gymnastics team had to have a special night.

Doubt reigned, though, when senior Mary Burke mounted the balance beam, stumbled and had to restart. Although she nailed the rest of her routine, the Tigers’ chances of winning suddenly looked quite a bit bleaker.

But on the floor exercise, Burke refocused, rebounded and delivered a stellar 9.900 point performance, her best of the season in the discipline to help catapult the Tigers to victory.

This sort of poise is typical of an experienced, accomplished athlete, the perfect description of Burke.

“Whatever is best for the team is whatever Mary is going to do,” coach Rob Drass said. “She’s one of those coach’s dream kind of kids that you just love going in and working with every day.”

The Inverness, Ill., native has been a standout for the Tigers her entire career.

In Burke’s freshman year, she tied a team NCAA Regional record with a score of 9.900 on the uneven bars and made the all-Big 12 Conference Championship Team with a score of 9.850 on the vault.

During her sophomore season, Burke set a Missouri record in the floor exercise with a score of 9.975 and went on to be named all-Big 12 in the all-around.

Burke’s junior season was her best yet.

She was named Big 12 gymnast of the week four times, won the Big 12 all-around championship and finished second on the uneven bars at the same tournament.

Burke has seen the whole spectrum of team sports, evolving from a highly touted freshman to an undoubted team leader her senior year.

“I think that, coming in as a freshman, (everything) was kind of new to me, but being a senior now, I try to be the leader of

the team and try to help out all the freshmen and younger girls as well as I can,” she said.

Freshman sensation Rachel Updike, who won three events at the meet against Denver, spoke highly of Burke’s influence.

“Mary and Allie (Heizelman, the Tigers’ other senior) are amazing team leaders,” Updike said. “They know exactly what to tell you whenever you’re down and how to pump you up.”

Burke has been just as successful in academics as gymnastics. She has earned Academic all-Big 12 honors the past two seasons and was named Scholastic AllAmerican by the National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches/Women.

“I put a lot of work into my schoolwork,” she said. “I think it’s really important to me to do well in the classroom as well as the gym. It’s really hard to balance both gym and school, but there’s a lot of people around me who help me out.”

After graduation, Burke said she hopes to enter the physical therapy field and possibly work with gymnasts. She also said she wants to end her senior season, one in which she has already been named Big 12 gymnast of the week, with the same gusto she has shown throughout her time at Missouri.

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Senior gymnast Mary Burke finishes her floor routine Friday night at the Hearnes Center. Missouri gymnastics beat No. 16 Denver 194.725 to 194.625 at the Pink Out Meet.

“In my senior year, I just want to go out, have the best season I can and contribute anywhere I can,” she said.

FOURTH TIME’S A CHARM Missouri senior gymnast Mary Burke looks to end her Tiger career with All-Big 12 Conference recognition, an honor she has received in each of her first three years.

2008 All-Big 12 in vault 2009 All-Big 12 all-around 2010 All-Big 12 all-around Source: MUtigers.com CAIT CAMPBELL | GRAPHICS DESIGNER

Tigers still seek first Big 12 win

SAM ROURKE Staff Writer

Just three short weeks ago as the world rang in the new year, optimism abounded for the Missouri women’s basketball team. In coach Robin Pingeton’s second season, the team was off to a 10-1 start in nonconference play and was primed to improve on its five-win total from Big 12 Conference play last year.

But six games later, the team is still in search of its first conference win.

Saturday’s 62-58 loss to the Oklahoma State Cowgirls at Mizzou Arena was gut-wrenching as players struggled to hold back their emotions in the postgame press conference.

Pingeton took the blame for the performance but pointed out that the team’s play simply wasn’t at the level it needed to be.

“I’m extremely disappointed,” Pingeton said. “It’s unacceptable. I take absolutely full responsibility for the way our players played.”

Pingeton said she thought the team wasn’t ready to play at the game’s outset and continues to struggle with execution and turnovers.

“We have to play pretty well to have a chance and this is probably the toughest loss of the season so far,” Pingeton said.

Senior forward Christine Flores echoed Pingeton’s sentiments.

“I agree with (Pingeton) 100 percent,” Flores said. “Not all of us stepped up today. It was a disappointing game, and we all have to be ready. It takes every one of us to get a win.”

Pingeton has continued to insist that this year is just another step in a rebuilding process, something that isn’t easy in the nation’s top RPI rated women’s basketball conference, according to RealTimeRPI.com.

Four out of six of the team’s conference games have come against teams ranked in the top 30, including No. 1 Baylor. The schedule doesn’t get any easier as the team travels to face No. 14 Texas A&M on Wednesday.

“We know it is one of the toughest conferences in the nation, but we really want to get that win,” freshman guard Morgan Eye said. “It’s really frustrating when you go to work each and every day and you just really want it to show up on the scoreboard.”

Eye offered simple solutions for the Tigers to get back on track in areas

she feels the team can control: limiting turnovers and mental errors while playing hard for the full 40 minutes.

Senior forward BreAnna Brock said the team has to remain positive and focus on what it can control.

“We could easily be down because we are losing,” Brock said. “But we have to continue to move forward and we’re not going to move forward if we dwell on what’s been happening.”

Although Pingeton has critiqued her team’s performance routinely, she has rarely questioned their effort.

She reiterated her pride in the team Saturday as it continues to be resilient, work hard and come to both practice and games with the right mindset during this losing streak.

“I think we work harder in practice than we do in a game, which absolutely makes no sense to me,” Pingeton said.

Despite the team’s lack of success, fans have continued to come out to Mizzou Arena to support the team.

Saturday’s game drew a season-high 3,015 fans.

“Our fans have been so wonderful,” Pingeton said. “They deserve better. They absolutely deserve a better effort.”

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Ratliffe’s hook shot keeps Tigers afloat SETH BOSTER Staff Writer It was bad enough having to run up and down a soccer field with 267 pounds of senior teammate Steve Moore on his back. Then Missouri senior forward Ricardo Ratliffe had to get in the pool.

The weekend before conditioning week — before the Tigers began their historic campaign under coach Frank Haith — was structured like military training, Ratliffe recalled. For the team’s lone starting post player, the most grueling part of it all may have been the swimming part, the part that he was totally incapable of doing.

Luckily, he wasn’t alone in the water.

“All the guys were trying to hold me up,” he said with a smile.

“Without them, I would’ve probably drowned.”

And who knows where his team would be without this week’s Big 12 Conference Player of the Week?

Surely the Tigers would’ve struggled to escape their 89-88 victory over then-No. 3 Baylor on Saturday in Waco, Texas. Ratliffe, undersized to be jumping in opening tip-offs at 6 feet 8 inches, once again faced taller opponents when he met the Bears. Still, he managed a career-high 27 points.

His coach likens his build to a brick wall and, it’s true, his muscular presence requires attention.

Otherwise, Ratliffe’s style of play is rather unassuming, like the low,

ever-modest tone of his voice.

Yet it has been his game that has the nation’s eyes turning and the experts proclaiming him the difference in the Tigers’ rise to prominence.

“We don’t have success if we don’t have Ricardo’s play,” Haith said, noting Ratliffe’s two points in 14 minutes against Kansas State, when the Tigers were dealt their only loss this season.

Missouri thrives off that quick hook, the first shot Ratliffe developed after the eighth grade when he played guard before abruptly sprouting 4 inches and becoming a center in high school.

“If you do one of those, you’ll be hard to guard,” his then-coach Arthur Jones told him.

Ratliffe has only failed 36 times to find the bottom of the net all season. At .772 percent, he’s on the verge of busting the singleseason field goal percentage record of .746.

Haith said much of Ratliffe’s ability is “innate,” and the way he’s able to laterally move and identify vulnerable spots in defenses has been key in his efficiency. He said the biggest challenge for Ratliffe has been mental.

“The biggest improvement with Ricardo is his focus,” Haith said.

“When tough things happen, I think Ricardo has had the tendency to lose focus in the past. He’s gotten to the point where he’s able to say, ‘Next play.’ You can’t worry about what’s happened in the past.”

BIG STRIDE Missouri senior forward Ricardo Ratliffe has elevated his game since becoming the team's only starting post player while averaging around the same minutes per game (around 25 both seasons).

Points/game Rebounds/game Shooting Percentage

2010

2011

10.6

14.6

6.0

6.8*

.571 .772*

Source: MUtigers.com

* Leads team

CAIT CAMPBELL | GRAPHICS DESIGNER

Ratliffe said the change in attitude is due to trust, something he said he’s dealt with his whole life.

In his second year with the program since transferring from Central Florida Community College, Ratliffe said he feels closer with the team. He is also willing to believe in the lessons taught by Haith, someone he respects greatly after observing all the small things, like the way the coach leaves his first-class plane seat to sit with his team.

“I know they (have) my back,” Ratliffe said. “I’ve learned to trust these guys and it’s really helped us out. We’re really together.”

Ratliffe will credit his team for his Player of the Week honor.

But en route to Missouri’s No. 2 ranking, every one has lifted one another.

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Senior forward Ricardo Ratliffe lays the ball in over a Texas A&M defender in last Monday’s game at Mizzou Arena. Ratliffe became the first Tiger this year to be named Big 12 Conference Player of the Week.

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