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BORDER WAR

TIGERS ROAR ON ‘GAMEDAY’

Missouri defeated Kansas for the first time in six tries Saturday.

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Senior forward Steve Moore joins the students in celebrating a 74-71 victory over No. 8 Kansas on Saturday at Mizzou Arena. The Tigers finished the game on an 11-0 run in the final 3:24.

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Slates announce RHA No crime committed in presidential candidacy racially-charged fliers SHANNAH ARNER Reporter

Two slates have announced that they are running for the Residence Halls Association president and vice president. The slates are current President Chris Rucker and Vice President Caleb Krenning, who are up for re-election, as well as Zack Folk and Lindsay Weber for president and vice president, respectively.

A mass email will be sent to residents who will have from midnight to 11:59 p.m. Thursday, March 1, to place their vote, Weber said.

In order to run, each slate was required to get a petition with 50 signatures that were verified by an RHA committee. The slates announced in congress Monday

that they were running and are currently in the campaigning stage of the election.

During the campaigning time the candidates can visit hall governments, talk to residents and stuff mailboxes with information.

Campaigning will end Thursday of RHA Week, which is the last week of February. The winner will be announced at the RHA Ball on Friday, March 2, Folk said.

Folk and Weber might be new to the executive office of RHA, but not to government on campus.

Folk said RHA has become his passion, though he is still a freshman.

His running mate, sophomore Weber, also described RHA as a real passion. Their platform focus-

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DANI KASS Senior Staff Writer The MU Police Department determined that no crime was committed regarding fliers with racist language posted in Hatch Hall on Friday.

“Someone had put a flier in a public area in one of the residence halls,” MU spokesman Christian Basi said. “It was noticed rather quickly and brought to our attention. Residential Life staff members immediately removed it and contacted the police because there was a suspicion that there might have been some criminal intent.”

MUPD talked with the individual who made the fliers before determining there was no

crime committed, Capt. Brian Weimer said.

“The information that was there has been forwarded to student disciplinarians to see if they have any rules or violations that they need to take action on, but there is no crime,” he said.

Weimer could not release the text of the flier or the name of the student in order to not interfere with student disciplinary action.

“This type of language is not conducive to a positive living and learning environment for students, faculty and staff,” Residential Life stated in a news release. “The University and the Department of Residential Life are committed to ensuring that

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RYAN HOOD Senior Staff Writer

As smoke from a pre-game pyrotechnic show lingered throughout Mizzou Arena, two long-time foes with hatred dating back to the Civil War went to battle on the court. It was the 266th meeting between Missouri and Kansas and just the third time with both teams ranked in the top 10 in the history of the rivalry.

When it was all said and done, No. 4 Missouri (21-2, 8-2 Big 12 Conference) rallied from an eightpoint deficit to claim a 74-71 victory over No. 8 Kansas (18-5, 8-2 Big 12 Conference).

The rest is history.

It all came down to the game’s waning moments, unfolding under the spotlight of ESPN’s “College Gameday” primetime telecast, in front of 15,061 goldenclad fans at Mizzou Arena.

The ears of those fortunate enough to attend continued ringing long after Elijah Johnson’s lastsecond prayer went unanswered for Kansas.

“You can’t just sit here and say it’s an ordinary game, because it’s not,” Dixon said following the game.

Even for Border Showdown standards, Saturday night’s tussle was extraordinary.

The pair of heavyweights went blow for blow, until a final Missouri haymaker in the form of an 11-0 run to end the game rendered Kansas down for the count.

It’s not often games as hyped as Saturday night’s live up to their

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Events + Weather TUESDAY, FEB. 7

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Re-Orientation Workshop for International Students - How do I...?

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Panel Discussion: Difficulties in Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Insights from Women 12 p.m., School of Medicine M615

Lecture: “The Triumph of Will over Environment: the Ancient Egyptian Affinity for Megaprojects” 5 p.m., Cast Gallery, Pickard Hall

STARS Speaks Series: Dating with the STARS 5:30 p.m., Women’s Center Lounge, MU Student Center

We Read Series: Finding Politics in Unexpected Places: Beauty Shops, Beauticians, Etc. 7 p.m., Ellis Auditorium, Ellis Library

Former Mafia Boss: Michael Franzese 7:30 p.m., Jesse Auditorium

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MSA inauguration ushers in new leaders ELISE MOSER Staff Writer Missouri Students Association President Xavier Billingsley and Vice President Helena Kooi officially took office Friday night at the 2012 MSA Presidential Inauguration Dinner.

The night featured an array of speakers, including members of the MSA Executive Cabinet, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Cathy Scroggs and MSA adviser Farouk Aregbe.

Family and friends of cabinet members, MSA senators, faculty, staff and other student leaders were all in attendance.

Both Billingsley and Kooi promised to work hard in their new positions.

“As vice president, I’ll make it my goal to go above and beyond,” Kooi said. “We have set high goals for ourselves, all of us have, but we will not disappoint.”

Billingsley said he hopes to make a difference on campus.

“I want to say ‘I did something to impact somebody’s life,’” he said.

Billingsley received praise throughout the evening from various speakers, including Secretary of Auxiliaries Lauren Damico, who ran against Billingsley and Kooi during

the fall 2011 election.

“His dedication to Mizzou is evident in everything he does,” she said about Billingsley.

Many speakers brought laughter from the crowd, including Kooi, who recounted the day Billingsley asked her to run with him.

“Xavier asked me to run with him as vice president in a text message,” she said.

Others took a more serious tone, such as Chief of Staff Steven Dickherber. He told the story of a memorable conversation he had with Billingsley.

“Xavier told me the reason he picked me to be his campaign manager when he ran for president was because I was the one most different from him,” Dickherber said. “Xavier sought somebody who would make him better.”

He went on to speak about the importance of differences in MSA. “Intentionally seeking diversity in ideas is what we have to do,” he said.

“Seeking those who approach the situation differently will make our reach farther.”

Billingsley’s address closed the evening. He highlighted the struggles he had during his sophomore year.

“Now as I look back on the rough times, I can attest that plans don’t

always work out,” he said.

Billingsley told the story of how he made the decision to run for MSA president. He said he gave up his job as a Residential Life peer adviser to run.

Although Billingsley and Kooi are now officially in office, speakers throughout the night said the pair and their cabinet have been working on projects since the 2011 election.

Aregbe opened up the evening, speaking about the importance of accountability. He said student government and student affairs staff has the responsibility to always work for students’ best interests.

“Our first accountability is to students,” he said.

Director of Student Communications Zach Toombs highlighted MSA’s new initiative against the Missouri state funding cuts to higher education, “More for Less,” saying that the new executive cabinet was more than capable of representing students’ interests.

“The student body at Mizzou is putting the best foot forward by having these student leaders standing up for them,” he said.

Dickherber and Toombs are former Maneater staff members.

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MSA Chief Justice Brynne Krause swears Xavier Billingsley into office Friday night at the Reynolds Alumni Center. Billingsley and Helena Kooi were elected MSA president and vice president in November.

Trans Action Team Faculty Council looks to address cuts to higher education launches new website CIERA VELARDE Staff Writer The Trans Action Team has recently launched a new website for the transgender community in order to provide students with resources and education for transgender issues.

Garrett Hoffman, the creator of the website, arrived at MU as a graduate student in 2010 and had questions about available resources.

As a member of the transgender community, Hoffman wanted to create a place where students, faculty and staff identifying as transgender could find answers to their questions and learn about helpful resources, inspired by a similar website he found last spring that University of North Carolina - Charlotte had created.

“For a student coming to Mizzou who is wondering if there will be a community and support for them in their transition or in their identity, this is a great place to start and indicates that trans people live and thrive here at Mizzou,” Hoffman said.

According to the 2009 campus climate survey, 57.1 percent of students who identify as transgender have experienced some form of harassment or discrimination.

“I believe that this (harassment) stems from a lack of education on trans identities,” Hoffman said.

The new website provides a place for students to learn more about prejudices and stereotypes as well as give feedback on the transgender community and ways to improve the

climate on campus.

“There are places for individuals to connect with us and we can funnel their questions, concerns or suggestions to the appropriate people,” Hoffman said.

Although Hoffman was the creative force behind the website, he said he used help and resources from his colleagues in the MU Student Life department.

Because the website is in its early days, Hoffman said he sees it growing into a place where more ally resources could be advertised, such as marketing trans-specific diversity training the Trans Action team puts on. With help from the LGBTQ Resource Center, the website ultimately works to build a sense of community between transgender people and the campus, he said.

NEW TRANS ACTION WEBSITE LAUNCHED The website promotes transgender community and education.

Gen-Ed Educates students on gender-neutral terminology

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The potential of severe cuts to higher education is among the hotbutton issues the Faculty Council will tackle this semester.

Faculty Council Chairman Harry Tyrer said the proposed state budget, which suggested a 12.5 percent cut to higher education, will be at the forefront of the Council’s agenda.

“We want to try to help shape what our response should be to the budget,” Tyrer said. “This is the first time university management has pushed back on budget cuts.”

Faculty Affairs Committee Chairman Clyde Bentley said the biggest issue facing the faculty was, without question, the future fiscal situation.

“The combination of decreased state support and restrictions on tuition while enrollment continues to grow is a dismal math problem that doesn’t take a Ph.D. to understand,” Bentley said. “The faculty is committed to maintaining quality as long as they can, but there are few savings left.”

Tyrer said he urged students to voice their concerns of the budget cuts by writing to state legislators.

“There is a richness here that is not possible elsewhere,” Tyrer said.

“I’m not sure if legislators understand the wonderful stuff going on, and by writing to legislators, students can facilitate that.”

Students and faculty will also be encouraged to voice their opinions

of the diversity course requirement, Tyrer said.

Faculty voted down the proposed graduation requirement last May, causing the council to reevaluate how to implement a diversity-intensive course.

“Everyone is for diversity,” Tyrer said. “There were good reasons why it was voted down, but none of them dealt with the subject matter.”

Tyrer said the Council has expanded the idea of a diversity course requirement to a broader title, the “diversity experience.”

“The objective would be to provide a common experience that all MU graduates would have,” Tyrer said. “We think this is more related toward their majors than just taking courses to take care of the requirement.”

Tyrer said it wasn’t likely that the diversity experience would come to a vote this semester, as it needs to be further defined.

Pursuing alternative revenue streams will also be a focus for the council, Fiscal Affairs Committee Chairman Kattesh Katti said.

Katti said his committee will look specifically into expanding MU’s online educational system to capitalize on a growing demand.

“There are many countries in the world that do not have the educational infrastructure in interdisciplinary areas that MU has,” Katti said. “We need to leverage the expertise of our faculty and infrastructure in offering online, formal education programs to aspiring students from those countries.”

MU has the potential to grow its online programs in fields such as pharmaceutical, medical engineering and journalism, Katti said.

“I strongly believe that the online education system is one place where we can reap new and sustainable revenue streams,” Katti said.

The Faculty Council works as a senate would, by representing faculty to constituents of the university.

How to define “faculty” will be an issue addressed by the Faculty Affairs Committee this semester, Bentley said. The committee created a task force of professors to review the status of tenure and promotion at MU. “We are now looking at how to incorporate our growing number of NTT (non tenure track) professors into the shared governance of the university,” Bentley said. “Right now staff is represented by Staff Council and tenure-track professors are represented by the Faculty Council, but the more than 500 ranked NTT professors are in limbo.”

Four NTT representatives sit with the Faculty Council, Bentley said, but have no voting rights.

Tyrer, who is in his first year of acting as Faculty Council chairman, said he has enjoyed the experience so far and believes the Council is set to accomplish much this semester.

“Communication has been excellent between the committees so far and we will continue to get things done,” Tyrer said. “We should be open and things should be transparent.

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SUSPECT ARRESTED AFTER CAR VANDALISM Weslie Kendrick McWilliams, 17, was arrested at about 8:30 a.m. Friday at the 1100 block of Providence Road after he allegedly used a house key to carve an “N” into the vehicle of a black male, according to a Columbia Police Department report.

When confronted by police, McWilliams admitted it was he who damaged the car. He was arrested on suspicion of seconddegree property damage and hate crimes.

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“Officers were sent to investigate an odor of marijuana,” MUPD Capt. Brian Weimer said.

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4. SUSPECTS Chapel ARRESTED AFTER APARTMENT PARTY CASEY PURCELLA | GRAPHICS ASSISTANT Downtown officers noticed a party at 11:50 p.m. Saturday in an If you have information on these crimes, you may contact Crime Stoppers at 875-TIPS. All calls are confidential. If a court authority later proves innocence of a charge stated in the Blotter, contact The Maneater to request an updated entry. apartment at 220 S. Tenth St. When officers came to the Taylor Payne, 20; Jeffrey Eisman, trying to gain access to restrict- ing the wrong direction on a oneapartment, they had been check- 20; Kimberly Ring, 19; and Jake ed seating before the Missouri- way street at 12:21 a.m. Sunday. ing people in the area with open Barrett, 20, were all arrested on Kansas basketball game, accord“Officers on patrol observed containers. The officers knocked suspicion of purchase or posses- ing to an MU police report. the violations and stopped the on the door of the disturbance sion of alcohol by minors. All are “He was identified as swaying vehicle,” Weimer said. and John Burke answered the MU students. and smelled strongly of intoxiThe driver was traveling on door. Officers said he appeared to cants,” Weimer said. “They turned Curtis and Burnam Avenue. be under 21.

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BELLIGERENT MAN him away multiple times, at which Ashley Hoffmann, 19, was The officers suspected more ATTEMPTS TO GAIN ACCESS point he was arrested.” arrested on suspicion of driving minors in possession and entered TO RESTRICTED SEATING Gregory Young, 21, was arrest- while intoxicated, false identifithe home. They observed at least DURING MU-KU GAME ed on suspicion of first-degree cation, one-way street violation 15 other people inside. Philip Hearnes Center staff trespassing. and failure to exhibit proof of Bland, 20; Daniel Els, 20,; and approached MU police officers insurance.

Ryan Scheidt, 19, were all arrested patrolling at 4:30 p.m. Saturday 6. 19 YEAR-OLD ARRESTED —Ally McEntire and Adam Aton, on suspicion of peace disturbance. in Mizzou Arena to ask for help FOR DUI, FAKE I.D. of The Maneater staff Catherine Reimer, 19; Jonathan in dealing with a belligerent man MU police saw a vehicle driv-

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A BOX CUTTER Dorian Colby Gardner, 24, was arguing with his companion with whom he has a son, Saturday morning at about 9:15 a.m. at their residence at the 2000 block of West Broadway Street. The two were reportedly arguing over money.

Gardner found a box cutter knife and lunged at the victim while she was lying on the bed.

Gardner left the room when he noticed his son was in the room with the two of them. The female victim ran to the phone to call police against Gardner’s will.

According to Columbia police, he punched her on the left side of the face. When police arrived, they arrested Gardner on suspicion of second-degree domestic assault and armed criminal action.

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Students disappointed in campus Wi-Fi According to DoIT, the number of IP addresses available on campus increased last semester.

at all times, especially when it’s required for a class.”

Baker isn’t the only one who feels this way, though some For college students today, students think the system has the Internet is an integral part continued to have issues dating of succeeding in class, from back to the fall semester. using Blackboard to sending and According to the DoIT webreceiving emails from faculty site, Mizzou Wireless provides members.

Internet access to roughly 90 With enrollment at MU percent of the campus in both the highest it has ever been, classrooms and outdoors. For the Division of Information residence halls, TigerNet is Technology has been working to provided through a high-speed handle this increase of students.

Internet connection. According Ranging from Ellis Library, the to a previous Maneater article, Student Center and any location Schurz Residence Hall is the where a class is held, wireless first living area to have wireless Internet is readily available.

Internet access across the entire Some students hall. across MU’s For resicampus have felt dents in other that the school’s halls on cam"Where students Wi-Fi has been pus, wireless less reliable since congregate, we are Internet is returning from only provided upping the wireless the winter holiin lounges day. For some, capacity." or studying Internet access areas. for the spring —Terry Robb, IT Director D o I T semester is not Director Terry measuring up to Robb said he hasn’t been hearexpectations thus far. ing an unusual amount of “I think it’s ridiculous,” freshcomplaints regarding wireless man Danielle Baker said about Internet access. He said DoIT is the wireless service she has continuously trying to improve received. “Especially the way service around campus. grades are set up at Mizzou, you “We are constantly looking have to have the Internet to sucfor ways to increase service,” cessfully perform in your classRobb said. “We measure on es, and the fact that I can’t get average how many users hapInternet a lot is ridiculous. When pen to be where during speI do get it, sometimes it’s realcific times of the day. By taking ly slow and doesn’t work right. those measurements, we know As much as I pay for tuition, I to put in more wireless capacshould be able to use the Internet

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MU students go to TigerTech to resolve internet problems. With enrollment at an all-time high, more students are using Mizzou Wireless than ever before.

ity. Where students congregate, we are upping the wireless capacity.”

Robb said the number of IP addresses available on campus increased between the months of August and December last semester, so this should help MU’s wireless reliability as well.

“It’s an ongoing process,” Robb said.

MU organizations raise money for East Africa The fundraiser dinner is projected to raise between $600 and $700.

MALLORY ENSOR Reporter MU students from different organizations came together Monday night to raise money for East Africa in “The Horn of Africa Fundraising Dinner.”

The fundraiser aimed to promote awareness of the humanitarian crisis in East Africa with the proceeds going to Africare.

The non-profit organization provides sustainable, longterm solutions to food security, health, water sanitation and emergency humanitarian assistance.

South Asian Students Association President Sheela Lal hopes this event will educate students about the impact that their actions can have.

“The famine and the political oppression that is happening in the horn Africa isn’t reported much in the news,” Lal said.

“But if we were able to contribute enough money, (we) can make a complete impact in the area. Because of the exchange rate, one dollar from the U.S. goes a lot farther in developing

nations. Spreading awareness that these countries really aren’t doing OK and then being able to show that we can help, even as college students, is a really good thing.”

In addition to food provided by several different student organizations, the event featured keynote speaker Residential Life Director Frankie Minor and Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Cathy Scroggs.

Minor, who has visited Africa four times in the past three years, commended students for coming together to make an impact.

“The fact that they are coming together across cultures, distance, and language barriers to unite under a common cause is what it means to be a leader,” Minor said. “A lot of people bemoan these global tragedies but most people don’t do anything about them or simply try not to think about them or say somebody else should do something. I’m here to commend them for doing something, but also challenge them to do more.

It’s about, what more can they be doing as student leaders?”

Minor said he encourages students to try to make a difference and advises them to take advantage of the resources they have here on campus.

“Move beyond your comfort

zone,” Minor said. “I think it's human nature to stick with what you know. But I think there are such tremendous opportunities here, even on campus. There are the cultural student organizations, the ability to study abroad, and just the educational opportunities. Don’t stay with what’s familiar. Spoon feeding only shows you the shape of the spoon.”

For Muslim Student Organization President Taha Hameduddin, this fundraiser has been a long time coming.

“For the past few years, I know a lot of people have had the same idea, but it was just an idea,” Hameduddin said. “Then the vice president of MSO was talking about it and we decided we’d do it.”

Hameduddin and Lal have worked with other student organizations since November to the put on the fundraiser. Both agree that though raising money is important, they hope that students will take something away from the experience.

“Hopefully people will realize that it's not just about coming to school and studying, life is a bit bigger than that,” Hameduddin said.

Missouri fans unhappy with loss of KU rivalry Last Saturday's game could mark the final time the Jayhawks visit Mizzou.

MEGAN LEWIS Staff Writer With “Hate Week” and the ensuing game Saturday night fresh in the minds of MU students, a distinct loathing for Kansas is prominent in the minds of Tigers now more than ever.

One of the oldest of its kind in the history of college sports, the 100-plus-year-old Border War stemmed from skirmishes along the border between Missouri and Kansas. The strong emotions carried over into the wide world of sports. There’s no denying that Missouri loves to hate Kansas, and vice versa.

With MU’s decision to leave the Big 12 and enter the Southeastern Conference came KU’s refusal to continue the rivalry that tugs not only on the heartstrings of fans, but also on the cash flow.

Following MU’s last men’s home basketball game against KU, students said they were upset to see the rivalry end.

“It’s a shame,” junior Matthew McCarty said. “A long rivalry like this should continue to last. Even though we moved to a different conference, I feel we should still continue to play them because of the tradition of the rivalry.”

McCarty certainly isn’t the only one to think so.

“I don’t understand why they wouldn’t play us,” freshman Abigail Wheeler said. “Are they scared to get beat? It’s not just MU fans at the game. It’s KU fans there too.”

Despite playing in different conferences, the Fighting Illini of the University of Illinois still take on the Tigers every year in the annual “Braggin Rights” basketball game, hosted in St. Louis. There had been some discussion of Missouri playing Kansas out of conference, similar to how the Tigers play the Illini, but those discussions have not resulted in a game being scheduled.

“It’s kind of selfish that they won’t play us,” sophomore Taylor Larson said. “We’re not in the same division anymore, but we should be able to play one game just for the hell of it.

We should be able to keep up the tradition.”

According to an earlier Maneater article, KU basketball coach Bill Self said he was under the impression that “the majority of Kansas fans don’t give a flip about playing Missouri.”

Larson also said Kansas should be happy to encourage the rivalry, if only for the revenue.

“Last night was a great game,” Larson said, referring to the close score and the intense gobetween throughout the entire 40 minutes. “The fact that we won reiterates that.”

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immense billing. Saturday night’s spectacle transcended expectations.

There were 15 lead changes.

Seven ties. And it all hung in the balance as Johnson’s final shot went awry.

The buzz around the arena was spirited, as students waved their golden pom-poms feverishly through the air in anticipation of the game. The pre-game fireworks accompanying player introductions further amplified the excitement.

During the game, the crowd never once left its feet. Tiger faithfuls were ear-splittingly loud.

“The crowd was as loud as I’ve ever been in, and I’ve been to some loud places.” Haith said after the game.

And for as frenzied as the atmosphere was, it was an equally respectful one.

“I loved the atmosphere,” Kansas

coach Bill Self said. “So much has been made of the hatred and all that stuff. I thought tonight, and this is hard for me to say to Mizzou people, but I thought tonight that was as good and classy of an atmosphere as there is.”

After the final buzzer had sounded, as gold and white strands of confetti descended onto the court and Missouri fans everywhere rejoiced, senior forward Kim English made his way over to the student section.

Surely, the fans would storm the court. But there was English, a senior who has experienced everything but a Final Four at MU, frantically waving his arms, pleading with his fellow students to remain in the stands.

“We don’t go into games expecting to lose,” English said. “I know how much this rivalry means to our fans and we want to beat them real badly, but this game to us was just another game we needed to win to continue our quest to win the Big

12.”

Such is the enthralling new reality for Missouri Tigers basketball.

The Tigers expect to win every time they take the court. Their success in doing so has the Tigers venturing into territory rarely visited throughout program history.

But Saturday night, all that mattered was what had just transpired inside Mizzou Arena.

Saturday night might have marked the final installment of the Border Showdown inside Missouri state lines. Unlike the “Bleeding Kansas” affair, there were no guns, no pillaged towns and the likes of William Quantrill’s bushwhackers and John Brown’s Jayhawkers were nowhere to be found.

Rather, this final battle played out on Norm Stewart Court, between Marcus Denmon and Thomas Robinson, among others. And this time, as opposed to the result from fighting 153 years prior, Missouri prevailed.

RHA: Rucker-Krenning running for second term Continued from page 1 es on increasing awareness of RHA. They want residents to be more involved as well as expand hall and floor government importance and cultivate leadership skills, Weber said.

One of the ways they want to do this is by starting a bi-weekly newsletter to inform residents about RHA, Folk said.

“Everyone should know what they (RHA) do,” Folk said.

Another idea the Folk-Weber slate has is to create a student staff forum. Folk is the treasurer of Flava Hall Government, which is made up of the Responsibility, Discovery, Respect and Excellence residence halls.

Folk said he has had difficulties getting residents involved in spending student funds. Each floor and hall

has funds for the residents to spend, but Folk said it is hard get them involved enough to spend the funds.

The slate also wants the younger residents to realize that RHA is something they can be involved in.

This is the second year that Chris Rucker and Caleb Krenning have run together, a tradition they have been following since they were freshmen. Rucker said he is excited about potentially serving another term because he has seen growth and more potential in RHA the past year and has enjoyed its progress.

Krenning shares a similar sentiment and said he feels they did a successful job last semester.

The two have some projects they have just begun and want to continue working on, Rucker said. Rucker also said their slate is built on their goals from last year.

The Rucker-Krenning platform

includes equipment checkout from the floor government, regular events for residents in order to build community and branching out in order to improve the connection with other organizations such as the Missouri Students Association, Krenning said.

Rucker said RHA and Missouri Students Association implemented trayless dining and want to continue expanding on sustainability on campus in the coming term. The slate also wants to increase retention rates with hall and floor governments and residents, as well as improve communication among hall governments.

Rucker said he wants them to be viewed as the approachable slate with the to-do list.

Rucker said RHA has been restructured in a way that gives less money to floor governments and more to RHA.

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HATCH: Fliers were discovered Friday evening Continued from page 1 all people are welcome members of our community and behaviors which interfere with that will not be tolerated.”

Weimer said there is no connection between this event and other racially-charged happenings in the past two years. A racial slur was found last year on a statue outside of Hatch Hall, and in February 2010 cotton balls were placed outside of the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center.

“Those were crimes,” Weimer said. “This was nothing to do with a crime.”

Following last year’s raciallycharged graffiti message incident, the One Mizzou initiative was created to help bring further

diversity awareness to MU. Basi said a big part of preventing incidents like this from happening in the future are education, information and communication.

“Each year we have more than 6,000 new faces on campus,” Basi said. “We have a variety of different events that happen each year where experts lead discussions about diversity issues on campus. Anytime we find anything like that, we take it extremely seriously. We don’t have tolerance for those types of displays. We will always be investigating those as quickly and as thoroughly as possible.”

— Hunter Woodall contributed to this report

MU faculty members paired with University of Technology, Baghdad HANNA JACUNSKI Staff Writer Last fall, MU was approached to submit a statement of interest to the IREX University Linkage Program, allowing MU’s College of Engineering to create an important tie with the University of Technology in Baghdad.

“IREX is an international nonprofit organization providing thought, leadership and innovative programs to promote positive lasting change globally,” according to the IREX website.

After MU responded with a statement of interest, the engineering department was found to be a match for UTB. MU and UTB set up a one-on-one partnership following the match.

“The overarching goal is to help Iraq with rebuilding their higher education system,” said Vlad Likholetov, director of International

Partnerships and Initiatives in the engineering college. “We want to help them restore their educational capacity.”

In October, five faculty members from the engineering department traveled to Kurdistan to meet with partner faculty members from UTB. Professor Linsey Steege was one of the professors who made the journey.

“Our primary purpose there was to participate in a workshop for IREX linkage partners,” Steege said.

“During the workshop, we spent most of our time meeting with our collaborators and partners at the University of Technology, Baghdad to identify areas of focus and activities for our linkage.”

Likholetov said Iraq used to have a respected education system, but violence and the war have been detrimental to the structure.

“Traditionally, Iraq is advanced education-wise, with a solid theoret-

ical education in science and math like many other socialist countries,” Likholetov said. “There is not as much focus on applied areas, openended problems, experiential learning, practical or hands-on work.”

The program will allow MU faculty members to travel to UTB to help train and teach faculty members. Iraqi scientists and researchers, along with UTB faculty members, will be traveling to MU’s campus to work and train with MU’s machinery and technology.

The program focuses on four main areas: industrial engineering curriculum review and education, energy-related course development, nano-/microfabrication course development and career center and professional development.

“The first area is the biggest focus and includes program review, accreditation and quality control,” Likholetov said. “The second two have a lot of hands-on training asso-

ciated with them. The fourth utilizes the career services and professional development center within the college [of engineering].”

Although the program has not officially begun, a proposal for curriculum has been submitted and only administrative aspects need to be worked out.

Likholetov said he has high hopes for the future of the program.

“We are hoping for less violence [in Iraq],” Likholetov said. “We hope the situation will improve and help us achieve our goals.”

There is also a possibility of having Iraqi students come to MU and graduate with an MU diploma.

“I am interested in continuation of activities beyond the project term,” Likholetov said. “It would be great to try to expand into other areas, geographically, to other institutions, and ultimately exploiting multiple collaborative opportunities in Iraq.”

Kifayah Alsaffar, a visiting professor from Iraq, has been working at MU since July 2011.

“I worked at the college of engineering at Almustinyra University in Baghdad,” Alsaffar said. “Iraq has a program that allows all faculty to take a one-year leave to work in one of the respective universities. I was accepted into the Department of Industrial Engineering at Mizzou because they thought it would be a good chance to have people from different places.”

Alsaffar said she knows all too well the difficulties that Iraq has gone through in all respects of life.

She said Iraq need to work with good American universities to rebuild the higher education system.

“Knowledge has to be accumulated,” Alsaffar said. “You have to have a lot of passion and love for your country and your work. You have to try your best to fix the system back home.”

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The candidates left standing for the Republican nomination Missouri’s primary is Tuesday and its caucus is March 17. Here’s an inside look into the candidates’ viewpoints on different topics of discussion throughout the campaign.

MOLLY DUFFY Associate Editor

Newt Gingrich

Ron Paul

Mitt Romney

Rick Santorum

Economy: Eliminate several taxes while simplifying others Healthcare: Repeal ObamaCare, replace with a “pro-jobs, proresponsibility” health plan Foreign policy: Support postrevolutionary states, address nuclear weapons in Iran and North Korea Same-sex marriage: Define marriage as a union between one man and one woman Reproductive rights: Repeal Roe v. Wade, defund Planned Parenthood

Economy: End the Federal Reserve, eliminate several taxes Healthcare: Repeal ObamaCare, allow purchase of insurance across state lines Foreign policy: Secure the border, avoid “long and expensive” wars, end “nation-building” in countries like Libya Same-sex marriage: Federal government should not have a hand in marriage Reproductive rights: Remove abortion from federal court jurisdiction, define life as beginning at conception

Economy: Lower taxes and increase the tax base Healthcare: Repeal Obamacare Foreign policy: Support post-revolutionary states, address nuclear weapons in Iran and North Korea Same-sex marriage: Define marriage as a union between one man and one woman Reproductive rights: Repeal Roe v. Wade

Economy: Eliminate taxes for manufacturing firms and the death tax, cut the corporate income tax and simplify tax rates Healthcare: Repeal ObamaCare Foreign policy: Iran is a threat; build a fence along Mexican border Same-sex marriage: Define marriage as a union between one man and one woman Reproductive rights: Repeal Roe v.

Wade, defund Planned Parenthood

A long time Congressman, Newt Gingrich’s bid for the Republican nomination follows more than 30 years in politics, including a term as Speaker of the House. Gingrich is most known for penning the “Contract With America” in 1994, which helped Republicans take control of the House after 40 years of a Democratic majority.

Economically, Gingrich plans to eliminate the capital gains tax, reduce the corporate income tax (to a lower percent than Romney has suggested) and eliminate the death tax. He would also move toward an optional flat tax rate of 15 percent, allowing “Americans the freedom to choose to file their taxes on a postcard.”

If elected, he said he would repeal and replace ObamaCare with a plan with less government involvement. Gingrich has been critical of U.S. involvement in Libya and has said the U.S. needs to “rethink” involvement with the Middle East. He does not support same-sex marriage or abortion rights.

The 2012 primaries mark Rep. Ron Paul’s second grab for the Republican nomination and his third for the presidency, as he ran as a Libertarian in 1988.

Paul focuses on principles of liberty and Constitutional validity.

He has pledged to end the Federal Reserve System, as well as never raise the debt ceiling if elected. He would also end income, capital gains and death taxes. Paul said he would repeal ObamaCare, make it legal to purchase health insurance across state lines and give a payroll deduction to workers who are primary caregivers of people with terminal illnesses.

Paul has said securing the border with Mexico would be his top national security priority if elected. He said he would also avoid lengthy, costly wars and would not support post-revolutionary states like Libya. Paul said he believes same-sex marriage and abortion rights should be dealt with on a state level, but has said he would repeal Roe v. Wade and define life as beginning at conception.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is making his second bid for the Republican nomination this year. Romney has business experience working with Bain Capital. His platform focuses on jobs, healthcare and foreign policy.

Romney’s economic policy focuses on a need to lower taxes while expanding the tax base.

According to the Christian Science Monitor, Romney wants to make the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy permanent, cut corporate taxes, eliminate income tax on long-term capital gains for households with under $200,000, eliminate the death tax and repeal the estate tax.

On foreign policy, Romney has stated he would support post-revolutionary states Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. He also supports the opposition in Syria, and believes it is “unacceptable” for Iran or North Korea to possess nuclear weapons. Romney has called the withdrawal of troops in Iraq a failure but has not made clear his own plans for Iraq or Afghanistan.

On civil issues, Romney believes in defining marriage as only between one man and one woman and supports repealing Roe v. Wade, although he has been pro-choice in the past.

Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum has been active in politics since 1990.

His platform concentrates on traditional conservative values.

As a “defender of the taxpayer,” Santorum has said he would simplify personal income taxes by providing only two rates, 10 and 28 percent. He would also eliminate taxes for manufacturing firms, eliminate the death tax and cut corporate income taxes.

Santorum said he believes the government has no place in healthcare and he would repeal ObamaCare. As for foreign relations, Santorum believes Iran is a threat to the U.S. and that the “War on Terrorism” should be redefined as the “War on Radical Islam.” Santorum would build a fence along the border if elected and does not believe in giving government services to undocumented illegal immigrants.

He has said the U.S. could have done more in Libya.

Santorum does not support same-sex marriage or abortion rights.

Missouri’s delegates will not be awarded until the state’s caucus March 17.

of only half of an offending state’s delegates counted at the national convention.

“Super Tuesday was becoming so crowded with so many states wanting to go on that day that it was almost becoming a national primary,” Prouty said. “There were enough delegates allocated on that day that conceivably a candidate could secure the nomination.”

Ryan Hobart, a spokesman for Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, said Missouri law mandates that the state must hold a primary election.

Last year, legislators passed a bill to delay the primary, but Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed it because of concerns about provisions in the bill unrelated to the election. As a result, Missouri’s primary will be non-binding and the caucuses will award delegates for the national convention.

“I certainly think that caucus-goers who are participating in March will be interested to know how either their country or their

state voted,” Prouty said.

Missouri has an open primary, meaning that voters do not have to register as members of a certain political party in order to participate. Four Democratic candidates, 10 Republicans and one Libertarian are on the ballot.

Republican candidate Newt Gingrich opted not to add his name to the ballot, a decision that MU Department of Political Science chairman John Petrocik said will not have an effect on his overall campaign.

So far, the only Republican candidate to have campaigned in Missouri is Rick Santorum, who spoke at Grace Bible Church in Columbia last Friday night.

Hobart said the primary will cost around $7 million. He said voter turnout is estimated at 23 percent.

“Primary turnout is almost always very low, typically below a third of the eligible electorate,” Petrocik said. “It is reasonable to believe interest is low and turnout will

Missouri’s presidential primary results will not count toward GOP nomination

VALIRIE MORGAN Staff Writer The polls are open from 6 a.m. until 7 p.m. Tuesday for Missouri’s presidential primary, but the election will not play a role in determining the apportionment of delegates for the Republican party nomination — that will take place during next month’s caucuses.

New national party rules required states to move their primaries back further in the year, said Missouri Republican Party spokesman Jonathan Prouty.

The Republican Party’s rules prohibit any state other than Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina or Nevada from holding a primary or caucus prior to March 6, with a penalty

be lower than average for Missouri presidential primaries.”

MU freshman Hannah Reese said she thought about voting in the primary, but was dissuaded when she realized the votes would not officially count for anything.

Freshman Katelyn Lutz said she will be casting her vote today and has been encouraging her friends to go out and do the same.

“I feel it’s disrespectful to not take the time to vote when the candidates are putting so much time and effort into the election process,” Lutz said. “By voting, I feel like it will give them a clearer understanding of how they stand in Missouri.”

Lutz said she will definitely participate in the Republican caucus as well.

“We hope that people do come out and vote because any time that they go to the polls and make their voices heard, it has an impact on the process and could impact even the caucus in March on the Republican side,” Hobart said.

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Susan G. Komen restores funding to Planned Parenthood OHIO UNIVERSITY — After backlash and outcry from supporters, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation announced Friday that the organization has reversed its decision to halt funding to Planned Parenthood.

Last week, Komen adopted new funding criteria, which excluded Planned Parenthood from receiving future breast screening grants. Komen said it stopped funding Planned Parenthood because the organization was the subject of an investigation launched by a Florida congressman accusing the group of using public funds for abortions, according to a report by the Associated Press.

Planned Parenthood has denied the accusations made in the Florida investigation.

"We are so glad that Komen has restored funding to Planned Parenthood for vital breast cancer screening and education serves," Lisa Perks, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southeast Ohio, said in a statement. "This decision reinforces that women's health care and breast cancer in particular is no place for politics, and we look forward to contenting and enhancing our relationship with Komen."

—The Post

By Joshua Jamerson

Brownback speaks to students about human trafficking UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS — Gov. Sam Brownback shared why he thought human trafficking was an important issue to a crowd of more than 200 people at the event hosted by the Emily Taylor Women’s Resource Center.

“It’s important, it’s key, it’s happening in your world,” he said. “You need to do something about it.”

Brownback wanted to give the audience an idea of how trafficking affects the people in these countries. “It’s the worst you can imagine,” he said.

Brownback was an original co-sponsor of the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, a bill that sparked reform of trafficking laws. The act was renewed in 2008.

“We’re missing lots of things like victim service protection,” Dean said. “Many victims suffer STDs or are pregnant when they come in.”

—The University Daily Kansan

By Vikaas Shanker

USenate revising policy for student, faculty sexual relationships COLUMBIA COLLEGE — The University Senate is considering passing a policy that would discourage consensual relationships between students and their instructors.

The consensual relationship policy — which was discussed during the USenate’s first meeting of the semester on Friday — is one of several issues the body is likely to tackle in 2012.

A consensual relationship policy resolution will probably be introduced to the Senate during the March plenary. The resolution, which is being worked on by Associate Provost for Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Susan Rieger and the Commission on the Status of Women, would discourage romantic or sexual relationships between academic officers and students they supervise.

It would also establish disciplinary measures for faculty members who do not remove themselves from positions of authority over students with whom they have a romantic or sexual relationship.

—Columbia Spectator

By Margaret Mattes —Compiled by Taylor Fox, staff writer

Republican candidate Rick Santorum visits Columbia dani Kass Senior Staff Writer Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum stressed his dedication to family Friday at Grace Bible Church in Columbia, during an event entitled “American Heartland: A Conversation on Faith, Freedom and the American Family.”

The former Pennsylvanian senator was joined by James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, in front of a standingroom-only crowd. Santorum’s wife Karen joined the conversation via telephone.

“We’re going to allow you to hear a personal side of Rick Santorum,” Dobson said, opening the event. “I want you to know this man and his family and his character, and what he stands for, and I think you will fall in love with him.”

Santorum’s family life took over headlines last weekend when his daughter Bella, 3, was hospitalized with pneumonia. Bella has Trisomy 18, a life-threatening genetic disorder that can result in heart abnormalities, kidney malformations and other internal organ disorders, according to the Trisomy 18 Foundation.

Dobson asked Santorum why he and his wife refused to undergo amniocentesis, a medical procedure that diagnoses the disability of a prenatal child.

“This is our daughter, period,” Santorum said, inciting a large round of applause from the audience. “She is a blessing no matter what she is. She is exactly what God wanted to give us.”

The Santorums have seven children, whom Karen home-schools. Their eighth child passed away shortly after birth.

Santorum said he holds a special relationship with Bella.

“With Bella it is the simplest of relationships, the absolute basic relationship,” he said. “Bella does one thing, and that is love unconditionally, just loves us.”

Karen Santorum said when Bella gets sick it becomes very serious, which is why she was in the hospital two days before the Florida primary. She had not been hospitalized for three years before that incident.

“This is the child that no one said would live for even a day,” she said. “We feel so

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Republican presidential candidate and former senator Rick Santorum signs a personalized autograph for Candice and Eben Bockenstedt on friday at Grace Bible Church. The American Heartland forum was a last-minute stop for Santorum, who spoke about the importance of family values and the necessity of gaining the support of Missourians in his campaign.

blessed, we celebrate every moment of her life, every single day.”

Santorum used his love of his family and religion to explain why he does not support Obamacare or universal health care. He said if the government gives individuals the “right” of healthcare they are also given the right to regulate it.

For example, Santorum said the secretary of health and human services said all churches and church organizations, including universities, have to provide morningafter pills, contraception and sterilization services for everyone, despite religious beliefs. Not doing so would result in large fines.

“We’re talking about hundreds of billions of dollars that they’re going to coerce to make you back down from what you believe because they now own you, they now have you, they can now coerce you,” Santorum said.

Dobson said he liked Santorum during debates because he consistently talked about the importance of family, especially with it consisting of the marriage between

one man and one woman.

“If we lose the family, everything else falls because everything sits on that foundation,” Dobson said.

Santorum said the institution of marriage has been failing.

“We all know what marriage is, but as with many things, we rationalize it away,” Santorum said. “We don’t want to offend people, we want to sound like we’re tolerant, but the institution of marriage is not something that you can mess with and have civilization survive.”

Santorum said the Missouri primary on Tuesday will show his true chances of winning the upcoming election. Newt Gingrich, who won the South Carolina primary, will not be on the Missouri ballot, making the only candidates Santorum, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul.

“We’ve raised more money this week than we’ve raised any other week,” Santorum said. “I’m confident there’s something going on out there. Obviously the people of Missouri are going to have a role to play in it.”

all pleaded guilty or were found guilty in this case.

They claimed Lewis and the seven other men approached Hobson outside of the Break Time because he was flashing $204 in $1 bills. They dragged him out of his car, a 2004 Chevrolet Monte Carlo with Lamborghini-style doors, and began to threaten him with a gun.

Prosecutors then said Hobson tried to escape from his attackers but was shot three times when he got back into his car.

Prosecuting attorney Daniel Knight said Lewis had planned the robbery and murder outside of the convenience store and helped collect money that was thrown out of Hobson’s car after the defendants confronted him.

“If the defendant did nothing in the United States of America, if Tony Lewis was found doing nothing wrong here, then we’re in real big trouble here if we’re just going to accept a brutal beat down of an innocent victim,” Knight said. “This person right here is an extremely violent and dangerous criminal.”

Two of the men, including gunman Daron Peal, testified for the defense and said Lewis had nothing to do with the

robbery or murder.

Defense said Lewis, who is from Booneville, didn’t know six of his seven co-defendants prior to the shooting, making it impossible for him to decide to commit a robbery with them.

“When you see Tony Lewis on the tape, he’s uncomfortable in that parking lot,” Bukowsky said during closing arguments. “He’s uncomfortable in a situation with people he doesn’t know.”

Hobson’s family members, who were present throughout the trial, said they were shocked by the jury’s decision to acquit Lewis.

“Personally I felt he was guilty, but I’m not the panel, I’m not the jury, so we have to accept what we are confronted with,” Hobson’s grandfather Al Hobson said. “The system found the eighth man innocent. I wasn’t there. If we believe in the Constitution, then we have got to believe in the results.”

Six of the seven co-defendants have been sentenced to a minimum of 10 years in prison. The last defendant to be sentenced, Deshon Houston, will be sentenced Feb. 13, when he is expected to receive an eight-year prison sentence.

Last co-defendant in Aaron Hobson murder, robbery found not guilty Emmy Boyd Staff Writer After only a few hours of deliberation, a 12-person jury found Tony Lewis not guilty of the second-degree murder and second-degree robbery of Aaron Hobson during MU Homecoming weekend in 2010.

Attorneys from both sides finished presenting evidence in the final case connected to the murder of Hobson Friday after four days of testimony. The jury was given the case for deliberation Saturday morning and reached a verdict Saturday afternoon.

“This is about a man named Tony Lewis and his freedom, and his life is at stake here,” Defense attorney Jennifer Bukowsky said during closing arguments. “Tony Lewis was in the wrong place at the wrong time. That’s all the evidence shows. There is no real evidence that any money is missing, no evidence that (Lewis) took money.”

Prosecutors said Lewis was connected to seven other men who robbed Hobson outside of a Break Time convenience store on Oct. 23 2010. Those seven have

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Council approves surveillance camera SAM ROURKE Staff Writer The City Council approved a donation at Monday’s meeting from Keep Columbia Safe for a new downtown camera to be installed at Tenth and Cherry streets.

The donation amounted to close to $3,000, and the purchase will cost the city no additional funds.

The topic drew some discussion because of the fear this new camera and cameras already installed are being used for live surveillance.

Attorney Dan Viets said the live surveillance breaks the promise the city made just a few years ago. When the city voted to allow the cameras downtown, Viets said the community was assured that they would not be used for real-time live surveillance.

“It astounds me that without the bat of an eye that promise, that representation to the voters, which was without question a part of the reason the voters agreed to accept this proposition, has been cast aside with so little notice,” Viets said.

Viets said the issue was more than just accepting or denying the camera.

“The issue is that the voters were told that the cameras would not be used in this manner,” Viets said. “I think that when a candidate for office makes a promise the voters expect that candidate to follow through.”

Keep Columbia Safe founder Karen Taylor’s son was brutally beaten in a 2009 attack in a downtown accident last year, and she founded the organization in response, according to the organization’s website.

Mitch Richards, Treasurer of Keep Columbia Free, said though what happened to Taylor’s son was terrible, that same reaction doesn’t happen in areas where this is more common.

“In a sense, this camera is a monument to a past event,” First Ward Councilman Fred Schmidt said.

Taylor said the camera didn’t violate anything the voters didn’t approve.

“The ordinance did state that the cameras would be used at the discretion of the police chief in the appropriate manner that he deemed necessary to benefit law enforcement,” Taylor said.

The city also discussed a proposal to characterize some areas of Columbia as enterprise zones. The areas must be approaching blight as defined by Chapter 135.205 of Missouri Revised Statutes, which states the area must be “one of pervasive poverty, unemployment and general distress.”

Several citizens spoke with concerns about why such a large area of the city, more than 50 percent, was included.

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Attorney Dan Viets discusses his reasons for opposing surveillance cameras at the City Council meeting Monday night. The council approved the camera during the meeting.

Pat Fowler, president of the North Central Columbia Neighborhood Association, said with 30,000 students in town, most of whom make little or no money, the poverty numbers in the city can be skewed.

The city also agreed to a purchase

of wind energy from Crystal Lakes Wind Energy Center. The purchase will increase Columbia’s renewable energy reliance up to 8 percent from its current level of 5.4 percent.

The city also swore in a new fire chief, deputy city manager and assis-

tant city manager to complete its senior city staff.

“I’m very excited that we are fully staffed and can’t wait to see what we are able to do,” City Manager Mike Matthes said.

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JOVONA TAYLOR Reporter With the introduction of geographic policing in 2009, the Columbia Police Department has been steadily working toward the goal of efficient police services and creating a communal relationship between police officers and the citizens who they have vowed to protect.

“Being assigned to a specific beat is the central theme to geographic policing — that is being assigned to one area, getting to know the people, know the problems in that particular area and working towards making

CPD HIERARCHY Each position is divided into various beats and sectors within the city.

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that beat better for those who reside there,” CPD Patrol Commander Capt. Brad Nelson said in an email.

A CPD map differentiating the department’s beats and sectors is used to interpret the divisions created by geographical policing. The most recently updated public version of the map was constructed in 2010 and is available online.

Large areas within the city are divided into four smaller patrol sectors. The map represents the sectors with alphabetical lettering. The sectors are also divided into even smaller areas called beats. There are no more than three beats per sector and they are numerically labeled on the map.

“The number of officers in each beat are assigned based on number of calls in that beat,” CPD spokeswoman Latisha Stroer said.

Police officers are assigned to a specific beat and their continuation in that beat is based on how they perform.

“By requiring officers to stay in their assigned beats, unless dispatched elsewhere, it will allow officers to get to know their beats and the customers in them much better,” Sgt. Jill Schlude said.

Schlude also noted that the number of police officers assigned to every

beat differs throughout a day. Shifts start at four different times, resulting in overlapping. Officers bid on shifts they want based on seniority.

The patrol division for CPD consists of one patrol captain, three patrol lieutenants, 13 patrol sergeants and 78 patrol officers, who must be divided and assigned to the various areas, beats and sectors within the city of Columbia.

In a college town with more than 100,000 residents, efficient police assignments to allocate the demands of the different beats and sectors can be hard to achieve, Nelson said. He and Schlude said they believe that more officers and police stations could be used to better implement geographic policing.

“The city has grown to a size that does not allow for quick travel from one end of town to another,” Schlude said. “The weakness at this point is that we are still based out of a central police station, which requires officers to leave their beats often to process prisoners and complete paperwork, but we are currently in the process of exploring precinct stations for other areas of the city to help remedy this.”

Beats 70 and 70D represent MU, which is located in the D sector. Some of the unique problems that police officers must commonly address in this area are issues involving alcohol and peace disturbances.

“The most difficult areas to patrol would probably be Beat 20 due to a larger number of violent crimes, and beats 70 and 70D due to the sheer number of calls and people that frequent the beats on a nightly basis,” Nelson said.

Despite the range in difficulty, all beats are monitored and assigned in an unbiased fashion, he said.

“With 80-plus officers assigned to the patrol division, there is no ‘one’ favorite beat,” Nelson said.

Ethics Committee MARSHALL HITIPEUW Reporter House Bill 1104, more commonly known as the voter ID bill, passed Jan. 25 in the House Ethics Committee, but it has met a backlash from those who find the bill unconstitutional.

“The only thing this bill does is erect barriers to the ballot for thousands of Missouri voters,” attorney Denise Lieberman said.

If put into action, this bill would require individuals to show valid personal identification when voting. The bill defines personal identification as either a current driver’s license, a non-expiringnon-driver’s license or a stateapproved document of identity verification.

Backers of the bill said its main function is to help prevent voter fraud. With no ID required, there is virtually no way of proving the identity of voters. This bill would also keep non-citizens out of the voting process, essentially purifying elections.

As with any bill, there are still some kinks that need to be worked out. A portion of Missouri’s population thinks this bill is unconstitutional by blatantly taking away certain citizens’ rights to vote, Lieberman said.

Approximately 250,000 Missourians are without any form of ID, according to the secretary of state’s office. The vast majority of these people fall into three groups: the elderly, African-Americans and people ages 18 to 24.

The bill states anyone without an ID will be provided one for free, but one must first get a copy

of his or her birth certificate or Social Security card in order to get a valid form of identification.

Procuring those documents costs money and sometimes requires other amenities that can’t easily be acquired.

Lieberman is working out of St. Louis to put together a lawsuit that can stop House Bill 1104 from becoming law. Her staff, the Fair Elections Legal Network and the American Civil Liberties Union aims to create a strong civilian opposition to the polarizing bill.

Most people who don’t have an ID by now have no means of getting one — either they have never been issued one or they don’t have the money to procure one, Lieberman said.

Although this bill seems to be on a course for ratification, the process isn’t over yet. Earlier, a similar bill was vetoed by Gov. Jay Nixon. He shows no signs of changing his opinion on the matter, Gov. Nixon’s spokesman Scott Holste said.

The bill was only given the chance to be vetoed because it did not receive a supermajority of two-thirds of the House, negating any possible chance of a veto.

Rep. Shane Schoeller said he and other prominent backers think they can garner the support to get the supermajority. The bill is set to be reviewed by the House in the next couple of weeks. If it is approved, it will be put into effect in late August.

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MU students skeptical of digital textbooks AndreA Westhoff Reporter The Obama administration issued a statement last week encouraging classrooms across the country to adopt digital textbooks within five years, according to a report by The Associated Press.

The use of digital textbooks at MU is limited, and many students are not receptive to the idea of ever using them. Students have many reasons as to why they are opposed to digital books over traditional textbooks.

“I’ve never used a digital textbook, and I never will use them,” freshman Laura Connor said.

Connor said there is something about having a book in front of her that helps her learn.

“I don’t like reading on my computer,” Connor said. “I feel like it’s less effective in aiding in learning and remembering. I like to annotate and highlight, and I would do that less in a digital textbook.”

Freshman Allissa Fisher also prefers having a traditional textbook in front of her.

“You have to worry about keeping your iPad fully charged and if you have any technical difficulties you may not be able to access it,” Fisher said.

Although Fisher has an iPad, she uses it mostly for entertainment instead of educational purposes.

“I have a few magazine and newspaper subscriptions that I keep up with,” Fisher said. “That’s basically all I use for any class.”

At the MU Bookstore, digital textbook sales have been stagnant for the past several years, Student and Auxiliary Services spokeswoman Michelle Froese said.

“We’re not seeing demand for digital textbooks from students or faculty,” Froese said. “There has to be demand for it and there has to be content for it.”

Froese said there are several reasons for lack of demand. Many students are more interested in the

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Seniors Brad howard and Luke dotta do their homework at the MU Student Center on Monday. “I use (my iPad 2) everyday for homework,” said dotta, who bought the device last September.

bookstore’s rental option, which accounts for almost 10 percent of course material provided by the bookstore. The fact that there is not a standard format of digital course material is also a hindrance to students. Digital content can be viewed from an iPad, Kindle, laptop or other handheld device, but publishers do not always create content that is compatible with all devices.

Although many students are dis-

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interested in digital textbooks, some students prefer studying on digital devices.

“I would honestly probably do a lot more reading if I had a digital textbook than I do with a hardback version,” freshman John Zupon said.

Zupon said he uses his iPad for anything he possibly can when it comes to studying. He makes flashcards, uses the application Notability to take notes and accesses Blackboard.

Unfortunately for students like Zupon, the implementation of digital textbooks also depends heavily on publishers’ decisions to provide textbooks in a digital format. Students who would like to use digital textbooks often find they do not have that option.

“I’ve tried to purchase digital textbooks, but I haven’t been lucky enough to find them for my classes,” Zupon said.

Several classes already use online components that are not necessarily considered digital textbooks.

Students generally purchase an access code from the bookstore and use the site for interactive homework.

“From a bookstore standpoint, we can fulfill that need if there is demand for it and content,” Froese said. “It’s up to the publishers if they want to provide a book in the digital version.”

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the rush to the start: MU fans take in unique experience In contrast to the other time Missouri athletics played host to ESPN’s “College GameDay,” the gold rush came in anticipation as fans showed up with tents, sleeping bags, signs and noise for a day few could ever forget.

Nate Atkins Sports Editor PHOTOS BY BEN WALTON

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Attendance at ESPN’s “College GameDay” on Saturday exceeded the average attendance of first-year coach Frank Haith’s home games last season at Miami.

“GameDay” attendance 2010 average Miami attendance

5,000+ 4,713

Source: MU Athletics Department, Palm Beach Post CASEY PURCELLA | GRAPHICS ASSISTANT

Perfect “Gameday” 2012 (basketball)

Missouri athletics are 2-0 when hosting “College GameDay,” registering victories in each of the last two school years.

2010 (football)

No. 4 Missouri 74

No. 11 Missouri 36

No. 8 Kansas 71

No. 1 Oklahoma 27

Source: ESPN.com

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FIRST, THERE WERE TENTS, DAMP AND WITHERED

from two nights of rain and thunder. Then there was the line, winding round and round the sidewalks and lawn staging Mizzou Arena.

None of it mattered when the gold rush came.

It was 6:30 p.m. Saturday, a moment between ESPN’s “College GameDay” broadcast and what was set to be the final Border Showdown meeting between No. 4 Missouri and No. 8 Kansas at Mizzou Arena.

“This is the biggest game we’ve done probably in the last two or three years,” ESPN analyst Hubert Davis said of the broadcast. “Both of these teams have a chance to go to a Final Four and win a national championship.”

When the door opened to the arena at 6:30 p.m. as scheduled, the line inched forward for about a minute. But when a second door flew open to the right of the partitioned entrance, the gold rush threw its convictions to the wind and stampeded to the show.

Flying elbows, fearless shoving and a sandwiched mob characterized Tiger nation’s plight to reach the

sought-after entrance. Even the partition gates made their way through the crowd’s arms as anything in the way of an hour and a half ’s early entrance was thrown to the wayside.

The scene held a stigma of faint comparison to the last time the gold rush hit MU, the only other time in which “College GameDay” came to town. Missouri had just upset No. 1 Oklahoma in football the night of Oct. 24, 2010. With goalposts and all, the gold rush made its mark.

This rush didn’t come after the game. It didn’t wait until victory sealed the deal or until the magic crafted reality.

This rush precluded the moment, like the tents and the lines and the signs and the wait. This rush didn’t need a moment; the moment needed the rush.

“We don’t win this game without their energy,” coach Frank Haith said after the game.

That moment centered on senior forward Marcus Denmon, who decided one last Columbia dance with

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the Jayhawks was the right time to put on a show. His nine consecutive points brought Missouri from an eight-point deficit to vitory in a game his 29-point showing refused to let die.

It was Denmon and other players who urged fans not to rush after the game. The fans listened.

“We know Kansas is a great team, but we’re at home and we expect to win,” Denmon said on ESPN during the victory celebration.

As students departed, many retrieved the ticket that justified the rush. It was a piece of no material value but plenty of sentimental valor. It was the ticket they paid for, camped out to pick up and then camped out and stampeded to use.

On the front was a familiar face: Marcus Denmon, roaring back at them — just as he did when they needed him most and just as he did when the gold rush didn’t come.

FAR LEFT: Missouri coach Frank Haith makes his entrance to the court during ESPN’s “College GameDay” on Saturday at Mizzou Arena. Haith holds a 92 percent winning percentage through his first 24 games as Missouri’s coach.

TOP RIGHT: Missouri senior guard Kim English drives for a score against No. 8 Kansas on Saturday at Mizzou Arena. English scored 18 points in the 74-71 victory while limiting Kansas center Jeff Withey to zero points on the other end.

BOTTOM LEFT: Missouri senior guard Marcus Denmon takes a jump shot Saturday at Mizzou Arena. Denmon entered the game in an 18-of-63 slump but broke out with a game-high 29 points to lead the Tigers to a comeback victory.

CENTER: Kansas guard Tyshawn Taylor faces the Missouri student section while attempting two free throws with his team down 72-71 on Saturday at Mizzou Arena. Taylor missed both shots as the Jayhawks fell 74-71.

BOTTOM CENTER: ESPN “College GameDay” host Rece Davis and analysts Hubert Davis, Digger Phelps and Jay Bilas break down the day’s college basketball games Saturday at Mizzou Arena. Bilas told the media before the broadcast that Missouri has been his favorite team to watch this season.

CENTER RIGHT: ESPN color commentator Dick Vitale joins the pre-game festivities with Missouri fans prior to the team’s 74-71 victory over No. 8 Kansas on Saturday at Mizzou Arena. Vitale selected the game as his “Game of the Week” to air on replay on ESPNU. BOTTOM RIGHT: Missouri Tigers fans cheer during the ESPN “College GameDay” broadcast Saturday at Mizzou Arena. Fans started camping out for the show and game as early as noon Thursday.

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Missouri registered only its second victory in the Border Showdown in its last 11 tries.

2012 Missouri 74, Kansas 71 2011 Kansas 70, Missouri 66 2011 Kansas 103, Missouri 86 2010 Kansas 77, Missouri 56 2010 Kansas 84, Missouri 65 2009 Kansas 90, Missouri 65

2009 Missouri 62, Kansas 60 2008 Kansas 90, Missouri 71 2008 Kansas 76, Missouri 70 2007 Kansas 92, Missouri 74 2007 Kansas 80, Missouri 77 2006 Kansas 79, Missouri 46

Source: ESPN.com

HIGH-PROFILE ENDORSEMENTS

“This is the biggest game we’ve done probably in the last two or three years.”

Hubert Davis, co-host of “College GameDay”

“This crowd was incredible. We don’t win this game without their energy.”

Frank haith, Missouri coach “I loved the atmosphere... I thought tonight that was as good and classy of an atmosphere as there is.”

Bill Self, Kansas coach

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Non-binding primary is an embarrassment for all of Missouri

Tuesday’s non-biding primary election has been referred to as a “beauty contest” throughout the country. Maybe it’s a beauty contest for the candidates, but for Missouri, it’s just a downright embarrassment.

National Republican Party rules dictate that Missouri cannot hold its primary elections until after March 6, yet Missouri law mandates the state must hold a primary election.

The Missouri Republican Party had a choice: either move the primary to a later date in March or hold the primary earlier and lose half of its delegates in the national convention. So the people could decide and lose half the impact of the decision, or the GOP could decide themselves. It was either a rock or a hard place.

So they tried to move it, but the attempts were victims of regular unnecessary bureaucratic bulk and partisan political conflict. The first bill included an earmark that would strip Gov. Jay Nixon of his power to make appointments to Senate vacancies and other offices, so he vetoed it. The second bill passed in the House but died in the Senate as the result of a delay over a stalemate on an economic development bill.

The fact that Rick Santorum is the only candidate who seriously campaigned in our state shows how seriously presidential hopefuls take our primary: not very seriously at all. Newt Gingrich intentionally dropped out of the primary. They haven’t come to make speeches, shake hands and take pictures here because they know the real power is in the hands of the Missouri GOP when they assign delegates during their caucus in March, and we don’t blame them.

At the present moment, to vote or not to vote is the question. We the people are now in between a rock and a hard place.

Not voting sends the message to our state government that we won’t tolerate our rights and power as voters to be rendered useless, no matter how important this election might seem on the surface.

Perhaps a low voter turnout will create even more of an embarrassment for our state and will convince legislators to take the issue more seriously. If candidates don’t care enough to campaign in our state, Missourians won’t be convinced to care enough to vote for them, especially since voters will be less informed with only one candidate campaigning. Out-of-state college students might better spend their votes on absentee ballots in their home state primaries.

It might affect more change if votes aren’t thrown away.

Voting is the most vital function of the democratic process, however, and as college students who are new to the electoral process, it’s good to get the habit started now. Despite the fact our votes won’t decide how many delegates to send to the national convention, the results of our primary election will be seen by the rest of the nation and might trigger a psychological ripple effect convincing citizens to vote for whichever candidate has had the most support in the past. Additionally, caucus participants might be watching to see how their state voted and act on that information.

Whether or not you decide to vote (the primary is open and includes four Democrats, 10 Republicans, one Libertarian. You do not have to be a registered Republican to vote), the unavoidable fact is this primary is a waste of tax-payer dollars, more specifically, an estimated $7 million, according to the Missouri secretary of state’s spokesman Ryan Hobart. This is one very expensive “beauty contest.”

It is especially infuriating considering the people of Missouri have been excellent predictors of the presidential election results.

Since 1904, Missourians have voted for the future winner every singe election, with just two exceptions, according to 270towin. com. Instead of making the play in the game, we’re forced to sit on the sidelines, hoping our presence might make some kind of impact. At a time when the national spotlight is on Missouri, we’ve been portrayed in a very negative light.

We’re not pointing a finger at anyone specifically, rather, we’re encouraging everyone to listen up and act. This has to change for next time. Perhaps the past few years weren’t enough, but now we have four more. Missouri needs to get a jump-start and make sure it happens.

This “beauty contest” is an embarrassing debacle on a national level, a huge waste of money in a time when our state’s been forced to make serious budget cuts, and a disempowering superficiality that can only disillusion the people of their power in our nation’s most important democratic process. This is a lose-lose situation for all, and it’s the result of the increasingly infuriating circus of partisan politics.

It was a simple action that never happened. Move the primary to a later date. Occam’s razor is the best solution here. For the next presidential election, simply move the primary to a date that ensures voters have a say, and make sure no partisan baggage gets in the way. It’s our vote that counts, isn’t it?

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Fight for Mizzou — write for your rep Gov. Jay Nixon has proposed a 12.5 percent cut, about $55 million, to higher education in Missouri.

The proposal, if passed, would mark a 25 percent decrease in state support for higher education over the last three years. Missouri already ranks 45th in state support for higher education and dead last in the Southeastern Conference.

The facts are devastating, and the student response must be even more overwhelming. The Missouri Students Association is leading a letter-writing campaign — the most effective way to change legislators’ minds. Students who are opposed to the idea of an increase in tuition or a decrease in funding for student services, programming and resources for the University of Missouri should take up this call to action and write their state representatives and senators.

Those in the statehouse have long overlooked the student voice because civic action is not a characteristic our demographic is known for. Already, almost 2,000 letters have been written to those in Jefferson City, an amount that cannot be ignored, even by the governor himself, and this is only the beginning.

The rest of this week, MSA will be tabling in the MU Student Center and encouraging students to weigh in on Twitter with the hashtag #MoreForLess. Take a minute to complete a letter. Fight for Mizzou. Write your representative.

—Steven Dickherber, MSA Executive Chief of Staff sjdrh6@mail.missouri.edu

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Why there are fewer women in math related fields

There are a lot of stereotypes of engineers, some negative, few positive, but the image most people see when they think of engineers is overwhelmingly of a male. It’s not really far from the truth. Although more than half of the students in college are women, majors in the science, technology, engineering and math fields attract far fewer female students than males. According to a study by the Georgia Institute of Technology and Harvard University, roughly 20 percent of engineering and math students are women, and though the number of females in math fields is greater than ever, it is still disproportionately low.

What’s causing this? For one, women seem to avoid these majors for reasons different than men. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found women in engineering seemed to have a certain grade point average threshold, and after their GPA fell below it, they left the major. This GPA threshold was much higher than their male counterparts. Women enter these fields, aware of the gender stereotypes males are better at math and science, and then when their GPA drops, some assume they simply aren’t cut out for the field and leave. With men in these majors, the pressure seems to be reversed — being surrounded by men reinforces the belief of engineering and the hard sciences as one of the respectable degrees for their gender. Sometimes men end up staying in these majors far too long, not even considering other options after being put on academic probation.

In reality, the gender stereotypes employed when discussing underrepresentation of women in engineering and hard science fields (e.g., “women don’t think spatially” or “men think with numbers, women think with words”) are simply incorrect. The University of Wisconsin-Madison study refuted any stereotypes men are naturally better at math than women. Both have the same aptitude. A University of Toronto study indicated spatial cognition capabilities are similar in men and women.

It’s pretty much negative stereotyping acting against women. The joint Harvard and University of Wisconsin – Madison study also reports that even when universities increase female-oriented programming and social activities, the enrollment and retention rates don’t increase.

Lack of awareness and camaraderie between female science majors doesn’t seem to be helping the problem either.

Something else has to happen to close the gender gap.

It has to take place at the lower levels of the education system, especially since a University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee study showed children as young as nine years old are being affected by the stereotypes. Some groups on campus are involved in outreach to elementary schools in an effort to combat this. They focus on introducing the students to the possibilities in pursuing a future in engineering, as well as the various disciplines, through easy and entertaining experiments.

Showing girls applications and possibilities to math outside of an academic setting are vital, but simply sparking interest is only part of the solution, and doesn’t exactly help to increase enrollment and retention rates in colleges right now. Also, talking to professors or professionals related to your field may be beneficial in dealing with a lack of confidence and self-doubt, since mentors may be able to provide guidance through their experience and put things into a different perspective. Talking to mentors could prove to be helpful for those struggling regardless of gender or major.

In the end, the best thing for female college students questioning their suitability for math fields is to keep in mind there is no real biologically based factor hindering them that needs to be overcome.

Primary vs. primary: The Republican race

Leah Forester With the big Jan. 31 Florida primary over, Mitt Romney has stayed ahead in the Republican race, winning the state and keeping himself as a favorite of the Republican candidacy. Although Mitt is now the front-runner for the Republican nomination, there are still 46 states left before the Republican convention.

Why is Florida such an important primary? Well, simply because the Sunshine State is very diverse and, contrary to its nickname, faces many economic challenges, such as high unemployment and high home foreclosure rates.

Now, this might be a factor in why Mitt Romney won the primary.

Aside from his good presidential look, Romney has a strong economic platform. One of his obvious agendas is reducing spending and trying to undo all the trouble President Barack Obama has caused with his high spending.

He also wants more job training for the population to have more qualified people working and more job opportunities.

Romney also has, as they all do, a new tax agenda. As Benjamin Franklin said, there are only two unavoidable things: death and taxes.

Romney wishes to eliminate taxes for taxpayers with adjusted gross income less than $200,000 on interest,

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dividends and capital gains, according to his website, mittromney.com. Now, I don’t at all believe that people should be taxed less just because they make less money. Everyone should be taxed equally. So, though I don’t agree with all his tax changes, if Romney also tries to pursue a conservative revamp of the tax system over the long term that includes lower, flatter rates on a broader base, I believe he’ll be doing some good.

With the controversial Florida primary behind us, candidates and voters are off to Missouri for the next primary on Tuesday. Although many believe the Missouri primaries don’t matter anymore, Rick Santorum has his sights set on Missouri, and many believe he will steal the show.

Now, I do have to be a little partial to Rick Santorum because he’s a big Second Amendment supporter, but he does have some other substantial qualities as well. He has some good ideas for health care reform and some military type experience, serving eight years on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Santorum also has a crazy ass economic plan, with a proposed $5 trillion cut to federal spending in order to start digging us out of debt.

In regard to his social agenda, which I know many voters hold against him, I don’t agree with it all, mainly his extreme pro-life stance. Many see this as horrible to women and unjust, but he just believes every embryo counts.

Instead of pushing funding for abortion clinics, he pushed for money to go to toward organizations that help

pregnant and young mothers who can’t support themselves very well, knowing full well that the reason many women get abortions is because they feel they wouldn’t be able to care for the child.

So, though I might not agree with his whole social agenda, that isn’t the most important part of running a country. Our economy is in the shitter right now, debt is constantly on the rise and people are so focused on feeling bad for those with no money they aren’t doing anything to help them get jobs to actually make money and not rely on taxpayers.

Romney and Santorum both propose strong economic plans in hopes to dig us out of this debt. Because our country is so deep in that debt, we borrow money from other countries. I mean hello, we’re America the great, we shouldn’t have to be borrowing money from anyone. Our economy should be a top focus.

So you might be saying to yourself, “Man, the Republican candidates suck, they all love abortions and religion,” but you need to get a grip on reality.

These social issues really are not of top importance and the sooner young voters realize that, the better. You have to choose what’s more important for the country as a whole: the economy, not laws on abortion. But we still have until November, so anything can happen.

We are Mizzou, but not the viral video

Ian Servantes

My old high school debate teacher taught me that one of the keys to persuasion is making concessions.

Without giving the opposition any validation you’ll only isolate your audience and make your point less relatable, thus failing to persuade.

For the creators of the “We are Mizzou” video, I give you some credit.

At least you tried.

Unfortunately, effort and school spirit alone don’t make a good video.

The lack of any other redeeming qualities is what made it not just awful, but Internet awful. I’m talking “Friday” awful or “Rick Roll” awful. “We are Mizzou” is enthusiastically lame, lyrically cringe-worthy and embarrassingly prominent. If this is the message our school is sending, we need to shoot the messenger.

If by sheer luck or an extreme case of living under a rock, you haven’t seen the video, it features three students professing their love for Mizzou and their hate for Kansas (among others) in an auto-tuned anthem. The accompanying visuals include shots from Mizzou Arena with a pack of groupies most likely brainwashed to eagerly partici-

pate in such a clusterfuck.

Their dance moves make Carlton Banks look like Michael Jackson. Their lyrics make Waka Flocka look like Bob Dylan. Here are a few of the gems: “We’re beating top 20 teams by almost 40/ not cause they’re bad it’s just the real deal” manages to use stream of consciousness without even being remotely descriptive. If F. Scott Fitzgerald were alive, he’d drink himself to death once upon hearing his style being butchered like this.

“Ball up, throw down, Como is our hood” is the simple kind of white-boy rap we’ve all come to hate. Mac Miller probably liked it so much he’s going to steal it for his next project, “Worst Album Ever.”

The best part of the 3 1/2 minute spectacle is the part they didn’t write, the “Mizzou Rah!” chant. Still, they found a way to make that obnoxious.

Even worse than the piece itself has been their public defense of the video. They mirrored Rick Perry’s cowardly move of blocking all comments from his gay-bashing campaign ad.

Not allowing comments in the Internet age is like walking into a debate, shouting your opinion and then walking out before your opponent can even respond. Luckily, people have other mediums to voice their displeasure.

“The negative feedback is from schools in the SEC and KU,” Tanner Brandell, one-third of the “We are Mizzou” group, said in a Columbia Missourian article. “People who don’t like Mizzou or 40-year-old analysts and critics who wish they were in college pick it apart.”

In addition to being a naïve defense, this is also completely wrong. People who are currently in college here, and therefore like MU, have posted many critical comments about the video on Facebook. Among them are “I want 45 seconds of my life back,” “ahahahahaha worst video ever … and the sad thing is I think they thought it was a piece of art” and “kill me now … my friends are going to give me so much shit :(” Even weaker is the cliché Brandell’s cohort Andrew Carter relayed from Michael Dixon, “Haters gonna hate.”

Everybody has this absurd notion they have haters, from the tools wearing “I love my haters” shirts to all rappers addressing their critics. As the everwise Common put it, “If I don’t like it, I don’t like it. That don’t mean I’m hatin’.”

Thankfully, the unflattering display wasn’t enough to completely set our school back. The Tigers beat the Jayhawks on Saturday, showing what effort, school-spirit _and_ talent can accomplish.

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REVIEWS ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’: 4 out of 5 stars There’s nothing like a good tearjerker. Everyone has those certain movies that can conjure up a tear no matter how many times you’ve seen them. There are only a handful of movies, however, that require an entire box of Kleenex. “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” is definitely one of those movies.

Centered on the Sept. 11 attacks, “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” tells the story of 9-year-old Oskar, played by the incredibly talented new actor Thomas Horn. Oskar searches for the matching lock to a peculiar key that was left behind by his father, played by Tom Hanks, who died in the twin towers.

The person who helps Oskar grow the most comes from an unexpected place. Upon going to his grandmother’s house, Oskar finally meets the “mysterious renter” who he had been forbidden to talk to. “The Renter,” played by Max von Sydow, doesn’t speak or give Oskar any details about who he is, but he decides to help Oskar on his journey. The silent interactions are exactly what Oskar needs, and for the first time since “the worst day,” his cry for help is finally heard.

Of the many heart-wrenching scenes in this movie, the biggest tear-jerker was a conversation Oskar has with his mother, played by Sandra Bullock in her first role since “The Blind Side.” Without spoiling too much, the conversation allows Oskar and his mother to find at least a semblance of peace after the death of his father and her husband. The dialogue and emotion of both actors resonates from the screen, making the audience feel like it is there, feeling the same pain the characters feel.

In a way, that’s exactly why this movie is able to make a connection. Everyone has been affected by Sept. 11 in some way. The Academy Award Best Picture nominee brings the human side to the historic event we all witnessed. Through Oskar and his parents, we realize that average, genuinely good people were destroyed because of one day, and that realization definitely brings the tears. So seriously, don’t forget your tissues.

—Ciera Velarde Staff Writer

‘2 Broke Girls’: 4 out of 5 stars CBS’s new show “2 Broke Girls” has more worth than most modern sitcoms. While its two leading ladies are practically penniless, the show is still extremely rich in humor.

Fans of shows like “Gilmore Girls” will love these two “broke” girls’ sharp, fast-paced banter. Kat Dennings (“Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist”) plays Max, a jaded waitress who relishes insulting her customers and isn’t afraid to speak her mind — even if her bluntness makes others uncomfortable. “I wear knit hats when it’s cold out. You wear knit hats because of Coldplay,” Max mocks. Meanwhile, newcomer Beth Behrs plays Caroline, an heiress-turned-waitress who must learn to be financially independent after her father is caught operating a Ponzi scheme. “We’re shopping at the Goodwill? You led me to believe we were real shopping!” Caroline exclaims at one point.

The two co-workers strike up an unlikely friendship and soon become roommates. But the polar opposites must learn to deal with each other’s conflicting personalities, providing for plenty of good laughs.

Despite their differences, Max and Caroline realize they make a great team, whether it be waiting tables or motivating each other to aspire to greater goals. The two decide the become business partners and eventually start their own cupcake company. Each episode ends with the amount of money the duo has saved up to start the business.

My only complaint about the series is when the jokes push the envelope a bit too far.

As long as the writers of “2 Broke Girls” learn where to draw the line, I can’t imagine the show going bankrupt anytime soon. With these two broke girls having hundreds of dollars left to save up, let’s hope CBS makes this series a long-term investment.

— Angie Andera Senior Staff Writer

Missouri Quintet plays Whitmore Megan Lewis Staff Writer MU students, predominately those enrolled in the School of Music, as well as other fans of classic musical literature could be found trickling into Whitmore Recital Hall at 8 p.m. Monday for one of the first Missouri Quintet concerts of the semester.

The Missouri Quintet is comprised of five members of the faculty and staff at MU. Flutist Alice Dade Del Camp, oboist Dan Willett, bassoonist Rodney Ackman, clarinetist Paul Garritson and horn player Marcia Spence took the stage in the muffled auditorium.

On the program for the evening was “Suite from Ancient Airs and Dances” by Ottorino Respighi. This was transformed from being a piece strictly for flutes to a composition that accommodates all the instruments in the quintet by Adam Lesnick, giving it a different feel from the original composition.

Next on the lineup came “Alborada del Graciosa” by Maurice Ravel, which was adapted for the group by the quintet’s very own Dan Willett. This piece required an appearance by baritone saxophonist Leo Sanguiguit to add the required amount of bass.

After an intermission, the quintet took the stage again and began with “Fantasy on a Fugue” by J.S. Bach composed by Lowell Liebermann. As the audience was informed, this was a piece originally written for flutes and known for its fast tempo. It was written on the anniversary of Bach’s 384th birthday.

The members chose Sextet in B flat Major, Opus 6 by Ludwig Thuille to bring it home. This is an exceptionally complex piece that required the assis-

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Professor and flutist alice Dade Del Campo performs “suite from ancient airs and Dances” on Monday night at Whitmore recital hall. the Missouri Quintet put on the recital at this event, differing from the usual student body who traditionally performs.

tance of pianist Natalia Bolshakova. The quintet said there are very few recordings of this work, making it a rare privilege to be able to hear.

“I enjoy interacting with my colleagues on a regular basis and playing high-level music,” bassoonist Rodney Ackman said.

Ackman has been an associate professor at MU since August 2005. He has 22 seasons as principal bassoonist of the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra under his belt, as well as various other accomplishments including having his music heard on NPR’s Performance Today.

Alice Dade Del Campo is the quintet’s newest member whose overwhelming list of accomplishments includes a degree from The Julliard School and numerous

honorable positions abroad. She said she chose to come to MU because of the Missouri Quintet.

“I love this place,” said Campo, pausing for emphasis. “The quintet is a great group of musicians.”

Students are just as pleased with the quintet’s performance.

“Tonight was phenomenal because Alice is a brand new member,” junior Ryan DeLeon said. “She’s a beautiful addition to the quintet. It’s great music.”

DeLeon is currently enrolled in the School of Music and follows the Missouri Quintet.

The Missouri Quintet will be performing various other concerts like this one, located both on and off campus.

to women specifically is very manipulative and there is a favoritism shown to one type of identity for women.”

James said she took note of the exclusive nature of the beauty industry while working for Clinique, Estee Lauder and Teen Vogue.

But James is not the only woman to personally experience exclusion in the industry. Audience members Chiffontae Ross and Angelica Murray said they know how difficult it can be for women of color to find products that actually work.

“Some companies don’t put much thought into training employees about different skin colors,” Ross said. “I’ve spent lots of dollars trying to find the right color, and it can be very frustrating.”

Murray echoed her friend’s sentiments.

“I feel like a lot of companies, especially lower brands, don’t actually make products that are helpful or useful for my skin tone or darker,” Murray said.

During the presentation, James discussed the various assumptions about women of color that contribute to this marginalization.

“There is an assumption with women of color that we only watch channels that are targeted toward us or we only read magazines that are specifically for us, even though we know that every-

one reads Vogue, everyone reads Marie Claire,” James said.

Ross said she believes these assumptions can be demeaning to women.

“There’s this assumption that women of color aren’t consumers of high-end cosmetics, but we are,” Ross said.

James said she hopes that her presentation increases awareness of problems in the beauty industry.

“One thing I would like for people to walk away with is knowledge,” James said. “I think knowing something like this changes how we look at commercials, changes how we feel about things we’re constantly forced to look at.”

Despite her frustrations, Murray is optimistic about the beauty industry’s future.

“I think it’s easier for women of color to enjoy better makeup and advertising inclusiveness than before, say 20 years ago,” Murray said. “People are actually recognizing that we are marketable. But I still feel like there needs to be improvement.”

After attending the presentation, Ross said she commends James on her commitment to taking a stand on behalf of all women.

“She’s not listening to the people who talk about the frivolity of the cosmetic industry, because she knows it’s related to women’s self-confidence and self-worth,” Ross said.

Coming clean: the ugly truth behind the makeup industry angie andera Senior Staff Writer The beauty industry is made up of countless products that promise to make the user, well, more beautiful. But behind all the makeup and the glossy magazine ads lies an ugly side of the beauty industry: racial marginalization.

Despite the fact that women of all races spend $7 billion per year on cosmetics, women of color are continually underrepresented and misrepresented by the industry. MU Women’s Center staffer Jasmin James presented her research on this narrow marketing of beauty products Thursday.

“Obviously women of color are no longer minorities in the industry, but we are minorities when it comes to marketing,” James said. “It’s very uneven. You look at ads and see people who look like you maybe once every few ads, and very rarely see a woman of color on the cover of a magazine. And when you do, they usually embody a very European identity.”

James describes this European identity as a generalization about how women stereotypically should look.

“The European identity represents one type of woman—light, brunette, blonde, fair—but it doesn’t include all the diversity of women,” James said. “Advertising

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Scott Turow talks writing, law at MU The best-selling author of ‘Presumed Innocent’ spoke about his unique career path and the questions that unite law and literature.

to emotionally involve their audience in the story they tell.

“I think I’ve been lucky enough to write about what I care about, and the questions that preoccupy me as a lawyer also inform my writing,” Turow said. “How do we judge? How do we tell right from wrong? How do we discover truth? Law and literature tend to give very different answers.”

Junior Olivia Harrison said she found Turow's story relevant to her own life.

“I’m thinking about going to law school after I graduate from here, so it was nice to hear someone else’s perspective on going to law school," she said. "It's interesting to me because he didn't start out wanting to be a lawyer either!"

The event also drew a sizable crowd of non-students eager to hear what Turow had to say.

"Reading is one of my main distractions, so I go to a lot of author talks," Columbia resident Kathy Turner said.

Turow’s advice to aspiring authors at MU is simple: just write.

“You’re in a place with a great creative writing program and a great journalism program,” he said. “There are tremendous teachers here. You’ve got an extraordinary opportunity to write and write with great guidance, so I would say: write.”

SARAH WALSH Staff Writer Columbia residents braved wind, rain and chilly temperatures Friday night to hear New York Times bestselling author Scott Turow speak at Memorial Union.

Turow's career distinctions include serving as a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, practicing as an assistant United States attorney for eight years, publishing eight novels and two works of non-fiction, and playing in a band with fellow renowned authors Amy Tan and Stephen King. He spoke to the crowd in the Benton Bingham Ballroom about law, literature and the winding road that led him to become a professional novelist.

Turow, sometimes called “the father of the legal thriller,” began his literary career in Amherst College’s Creative Writing program in the late 1960s. Graduating in 1970 with high expectations, he found that a life of academia and what he calls “dissipated living” had not prepared him as much as he might have hoped to write the next great American novel.

“I knew something was wrong with my writing,” he said. “I was desperate, and I found that my desire to write about my experience was actually standing between me and my experience. I had to get out of there, I had to get away from a life where I was always going to be thinking about that and live.”

Realizing that he had become fascinated by “the dynamic processes of American law” in the course of writing a never-published manuscript called "The Way Things Are," Turow left creative writing behind to enroll in law school at Stanford University, and, thanks to a series of miscommunications with his agent and said agent’s chance encounter with literary mogul Ned Chase, he almost immediately found himself with an accidental book deal.

“To say that the ironies were savory was an understatement,”

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New York Times best-selling author Scott Turow speaks at Memorial Student Union on Friday night.

Turow told the crowd about his path to becoming a professional novelist.

Turow said.

During the course of his first two years at Stanford, Turow wrote what was to be his first published work: "One L," a non-fiction account of life at law school. The book was a success, but Turow chose to continue

down the legal path instead of devoting himself to writing full-time.

Subsequent years have seen Turow publish several more books, including another work of non-fiction and eight legal thrillers, while simultaneously working as a pros-

ecuting attorney.

During his presentation, Turow drew comparisons between the role of an author and that of a trial attorney, saying that both are obligated to construct a narrative, to examine the nature and cause of evil actions and

Kim Addonizio is the author of five collections of poetry including “Tell Me”, a 2000 National Book Award Finalist.

Michele Morano Morano's essays have appeared in journals and anthologies such as Best American Essays 2006, The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, Under the Sun, and The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction.

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New gallery at MU brings diversity, stories A collection of pieces will be displayed in Pickard Hall in honor of Black History Month and those who contributed to the arts.

ALFIE COX Senior Staff Writer A new exhibit at MU exalts a flavor that aims to satisfy the taste buds of art lovers who crave diversity in the galleries on campus.

"Black Women in Art and the Stories They Tell" debuted at the Museum of Art and Archaeology on Thursday. This exhibit’s opening is not only timely, as February is Black History Month, but it is also

one of many new exhibits arriving this spring.

Alex O’Brien, co-president of the Museum Advisory Council of Students, said the exhibit will go a long way in diversifying art galleries in Columbia.

“The art galleries here are white-men-oriented, which means that many of the art works that I’ve seen are done by white people ... which makes the diversity on display so refreshing,” O’Brien said. “These pieces highlight the creativity and uniqueness of blacks, particularly the portraits of slaves show a different side of a culture that has been often caricatured.”

The broad range of pieces displayed include the statue from Beulah Ecton Woodard, Charles White’s painting, “Birth of Spring” and photographs.

When selecting pieces for the

gallery, Curator Mary Pixley said she and her colleagues looked for pieces that would speak to every type of student on campus and those that followed the theme of storytelling.

“I looked for pieces that created further ways to open discussion for those that are familiar with certain types of art or art in particular,” Pixley said. “We looked for pieces that would be great for programming for Black History Month and could help the culture grow because I feel that art is like food, as there is something for everyone to like.”

A majority of the pieces were borrowed from Chancellor Brady Deaton and his wife Anne.

The reason cited was a lack of pieces focused on black women and their culture, Pixley said.

The exhibit’s theme of black women in arts showcases the

appropriate images of black women in certain states of being, from an introspective stance in the three-fourth profile painting of “Harlem Girl”

by Fritz Winold Reiss to the full-bodied image of “Tillie” by Aimee Schweig.

Pixley also said through telling stories the art provided a voice to others who couldn't speak, while simultaneously showcasing issues regarding black history, along with bringing cultures together.

“The stories will provide a voice for the disenfranchised, those in the prime of their life and those who are proud of their African heritage through the images shown,” Pixley said.

“This gallery was about bringing other cultures together, which meant getting pieces done by artists who were not black. That

was done on purpose in order to show that this exhibition is for all types of cultures.”

Sophomore Ashleigh Johnson said this exhibit is a good display of a more positive depiction of black people, not only because it reminds her of inspirational women in her life, but it also exhibits positivity amid the constant display of negativity the culture receives in different avenues on a regular basis.

“Our history is so dark, so it’s refreshing to see a rarity of happiness or a more uplifting side of our culture," Johnson said. "It is good because it reminds me of home and something that I can relate to. These pieces tell us more of who we are, which is important because we need an understanding of who we are and where we’ve been.”

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SPORTS BERG IS THE WORD

Mark Bergin

It’s time to start the X-Factor Michael Dixon would be a starter for just about any Division I basketball program in the country.

The 6-foot-1-inch guard is a tremendous confidence player, and it is safe to say the Missouri men’s basketball team would not be where it is right now without his play.

The most incredible part is Dixon has not started a single game for the Tigers thus far this season. It’s something coach Frank Haith might want to reconsider.

The No. 4 Tigers have already well surpassed expectations. Part of the reason is from game to game, there is great continuity between the players and the coaches. The Tigers have had the same starting lineup all season long, and each individual player understands his role.

Although different circumstances call for different lineups on the floor, the Tigers struggle offensively at times with their starters, one reason being that brothers Phil and Matt Pressey are not particularly effective jump shooters.

Nor is it either of their roles. Phil is a distributer, a true point guard who works to create space to get clean looks for his wing players.

Matt is Missouri’s best perimeter defender and always matches up with the opposition’s best guard. With two weaker shooters, the defense can play more loosely on Missouri’s three primary scorers, Marcus Denmon, Kim English and Ricardo Ratliffe.

It says something about the way Dixon has responded to coming off the bench and executing the way he has, especially considering he has started for Missouri each of the past two seasons.

Playing in just more than 25 minutes per game, Dixon averages 12.2 points on 46 percent shooting, whereas Matt Pressey averages 7.4 points on 42 percent shooting in 27 minutes.

Dixon is a fearless playmaker who comes through when his team needs him the most. On Saturday night, it was Dixon’s 15 points and five assists that boosted Missouri to a 74-71 victory over No. 8 Kansas. He delivered when the Pressey brothers struggled in shooting a combined 2-of10 for four points. Dixon’s play late when he took a charge against Tyshawn Taylor and then buried two free throws to put the Tigers up by three points with 9.8 seconds left exemplifies why he is on the court at the end of games.

Not to mention last Monday’s 67-66 road victory against Texas, when Dixon was 9-of-10 shooting for 21 points in 27 minutes. Dixon’s layup with 31 seconds left won the game for Missouri in what was the perfect trap game.

With the exception of Syracuse’s Dion Waiters and Kentucky’s Darius Miller, is there a better sixth man in all of college basketball?

The beauty of what Dixon has done for the Tigers this season is this: Rarely is Dixon the best player on the floor. More importantly, he believes that he is. Sometimes the distinction between the two isn’t that great either.

Maybe it is something Haith realizes of his team in his vast experience of coaching basketball.

It’s not who starts the game but rather who finishes it. Haith did a tremendous job subbing his players in and out at the end of the Kansas game for offensive and defensive purposes. Like any good coach, Haith places his players in situations to succeed.

For once I would like to go to Mizzou Arena this season and when Rihanna’s “Run This Town” starts playing, I would like to hear Michael Dixon’s name announced in the starting lineups. Even if he doesn’t get this opportunity, he deserves it.

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Plight of the newcomer IAN FRAZER Staff Writer For someone who stands at 5 feet, 2 inches, Rachel Updike casts an incredibly imposing figure.

Every time the Missouri freshman gymnast from Olathe, Kan., readies herself for the vault, balance beam or floor exercise, it has been a virtual guarantee that she will deliver.

Updike has been a juggernaut for the undefeated Tigers this season. She has won or tied for the win in 11 individual events this season. She has been awarded Big 12 Conference Newcomer of the Week every time the honor has been given, a first for any gymnast in the history of the conference.

Coach Rob Drass said he relishes the opportunity to work with an athlete as talented as Updike.

“It’s really rewarding because Rachel has all the tools to do really well,” he said. “She had them before she got here as well, and I think that our forte is just fine-tuning those skills, and that’s what Rachel is blossoming with.”

Updike’s lowest score of the season was a 9.650 on the floor against Southern Utah.

She has never scored below 9.800 any other time.

The freshman provided multiple stellar performances in high-pressure situations.

At home against the University of Denver, Updike delivered a 9.925 performance in the floor exercise to spur the Tigers to victory after stumbles on the beam. On the road against Nebraska, she turned in a 9.950 on vault and 9.875 on the floor to help Missouri upset the then-No. 4 Cornhuskers.

Updike was a highly touted prospect when she entered Missouri. She was a member of the United States Junior National Team from 2006-07 and won a Kansas high school state championship in the floor exercise in 2009. Updike has also won championships at the IGI Chicago Style meet and the Junior Olympics National Championships.

Despite all the accolades, Updike has remained humble and focused on her team.

“I just come in and do as much as I can do, try to hit routines and help out the team as much as I can,” she said.

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Freshman Rachel Updike warms up on the beam Friday before a meet against the North Carolina State Wolfpack. Updike has become the first gymnast in Big 12 Conference history to be named Newcomer of the Week four times in a season.

Her teammates have noticed the difference.

“She comes to the gym ready to work, so it feels good to have someone you can rely on and trust and you know she’s got your back,” senior Mary Burke said.

Drass said he believes the improved coach to athlete ratio in college will help Updike improve.

The one gap in Updike’s repertoire is her lack of an uneven bars routine. She competed in the discipline in high school but has yet to develop a routine in college and

compete in all-around.

“We’re trying to get Rachel a routine that can score in the 9.8 and above range and then she has to show that she’s proficient enough to hit it and score higher and more consistently than someone in the lineup,” Drass said. “If she can do that, the spot will become Rachel’s.”

Even without the bars routine, Updike provides a wealth of promise for the Tigers.

“She’s a tremendous athlete and we’re very happy to have her for three more years,” Drass said.

ningly slid in front of an oncoming Jayhawk, rigidly positioned his body and taking two charges. He has taken 23 in 23 games. “(During halftime,) I vomited a lot,” he said, smiling. “I don’t know who catered pre-game meal, but I got it up out of me. I actually felt a lot better.”

English scored seven of his team’s first nine points out of the locker room.

Kansas took command of the second half, shouldered by forward Thomas Robinson, the national player of the year frontrunner. With Ricardo Ratliffe in foul dilemma, his replacement, senior center Steve Moore, finished playing more minutes. He spent most of them tasked with Robinson.

During the week of anticipation, Moore recognized the challenge that Robinson would offer and said he looked forward to it.

Moore showed struggles of matching up with a more explosive and athletic Robinson, who scored 19 of his 25 points and yanked down six of his 13 rebounds in the second half.

But with 1:43 remaining on the clock and the Tigers down five, perhaps Moore’s rise to the occasion couldn’t have come at a more perfect time.

Robinson threatened mid-lane once

again and on his way to the basket, Moore shifted his body to the left and absorbed the full driving force of Robinson. The official called a charge, which proved to be the turning point of the game.

Senior guard Marcus Denmon, also hailing from Kansas City, scored three previous points before it happened. He scored six more and was the one responsible for nine of the Tigers’ 11 unanswered points that capped their victory.

“They had a guy that was unbelievable tonight,” Kansas coach Bill Self said.

That “guy” had shot 18-of-63 from the field and 5-of-31 behind the perimeter in his previous five contests. This time, he shot 10-of-16 and drained six of his nine 3-point attempts, finishing with 29 points.

In the days of preparation for the game, Haith said the coaching staff drilled Denmon before and after practice putting shots up.

“I think you buy into the coaching staff and you buy into whatever it takes to get wins,” said Denmon, who was named Big 12 Conference Player of the Week on Monday.

“That’s what my teammates and myself did to get the win tonight.”

They did that and all the other little things.

Tiger toughness shines on court SETH BOSTER Staff Writer It’s a little thing, but Missouri coach Frank Haith includes “helping your teammates off the floor” when he defines toughness.

“It’s not physical toughness” he said.

“We’re talking about doing those little things all the time.”

His starting five average a height of 6 feet, 2 inches, and Haith knows they all must act strategically on defense.

“We have to be that type of team defensively,” Haith said. “We gotta be a team that moves their feet because we’re smaller.”

It would be hard to say this was the determining factor in what was perhaps the grand finale of the Border Showdown in Columbia on Saturday night in Mizzou Arena, but his team took plenty of charges.

Senior forward Kim English was playing with a stomachache, resisting the embarrassment that throwing up in front of the well over 15,000 in attendance and a national television audience would’ve caused.

Still, English could frequently be seen dueling inside with Kansas’ 7-footer Jeff Withey. On two occasions, English cun-

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Larson, Tigers bounce back in win MATTHEW FAIRBURN Staff Writer Sunday's home meet was a chance at redemption for junior Mike Larson and the Missouri wrestling team.

Following his overtime loss in Saturday's dual against No. 1 Oklahoma State, a match he was supposed to win, Larson ripped off his headgear and screamed in frustration.

Missouri went on to lose to the top-ranked team in the country 22-12, and the bad taste of missed opportunities continued to linger after the match.

“You have a chance to knock off a No. 1 team and we just didn’t make the most of those opportunities, so it’s frustrating,” coach Brian Smith said. “(Larson's) got to get better. You can’t let a guy take shots in overtime. We have to start winning those battles.”

On Sunday, Larson once again tore off his headgear and filled the Hearnes Center with a howl.

But this time he was joined by 1,803 fans and a bench full of Tiger wrestlers in celebration of a last-second pin that was instrumental in Missouri’s 25-12 victory over No. 10 Oklahoma.

He won the battle, and it couldn’t have come at a better time for the 184-pounder.

“I haven’t been performing on the mat like I know I should and (assistant) coach (Matt) Pell knows I should,” Larson said.

“After my loss yesterday I was really down and upset. I was just frustrated because my stuff wasn’t working. Coach Pell told me, ‘Remember this feeling. You don’t let this happen again.’ So today I just came out here and let it all loose.”

The pin also came at a crucial time for the Tigers, who were leading 13-12. Larson’s bonus point victory extended the lead

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Junior Mike Larson competes in a match earlier this season. Larson recorded a big bounce-back victory against No. 10 Oklahoma after falling to No. 1 Oklahoma State on Saturday.

to 19-12, energizing the bench along with the crowd and sending coach Smith flying into the air with excitement.

“That was an important pin, and I like pins,” Smith said. “It’s like a home run in baseball.

That’s the most exciting thing in wrestling.”

That atmosphere is new to Larson, who transferred to Missouri before his sophomore season from California StateBakersfield, where he never wrestled in front of a crowd.

“It was awesome to have the

crowd behind me.” Larson said.

“I came in from a small school in California where we never really had big crowds, nothing like this.

I just really appreciate all of the people that come out and support us.”

That support helped Missouri avoid a season sweep at the hands of Oklahoma and improve to 3-2 in the Big 12 Conference, which was particularly important after a demoralizing loss to Oklahoma State.

“This just shows our resilience,” senior Dorian Henderson

said after earning a bonus-point victory on Senior Day on Sunday.

“Coach wanted us to come out harder and show that we’re better than we competed yesterday.

That loss put more fire in us for today.”

Still, the Tigers haven’t received much national attention after some losses early in the season.

“We’re a good team,” redshirt freshman heavyweight Devin Mellon said. “We don’t get a lot of respect because we’ve lost to some teams that we shouldn’t

have. We’re going to shock a lot of people towards the end of the season.”

The Tigers have certainly shown resilience before, and they hope to parlay that into a successful showing at the first National Duals next weekend in New Jersey.

"We needed to get this win,” Smith said. “We only have one senior in the lineup, so it builds a lot of confidence in this group. I really believe they know they’re a great team.”

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