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Alden ushers Missouri into SEC era Athletics Director Mike Alden celebrated Missouri’s entrance to its new conference with an announcement and a flag raise.

SETH BOSTER Sports Editor Athletics Director Mike Alden played the host Monday, July 2, the day following Missouri’s official entrance into the Southeastern Conference.

There was coffee and big boxes of donuts inside Mizzou Arena’s main lobby for media members and fans before they were invited to gather outside in the heat around three flagpoles on Walsworth Plaza.

Alden, in a pale yellow Mizzou Golf polo, spoke to the crowd about the importance of symbolizing MU’s induction into the SEC with this ceremonial flag raise, about how it could have been difficult to rally fans the previous day before because it was Sunday, a day for church.

He encouraged all to think back to 1839, when MU was founded, and to think of the student athletes, coaches, chancellors and faculty throughout the past 173 years. “(They) all worked together to be able to see Mizzou move forward,” he said. “And today gives us an opportunity to recognize another moment

in time in our history where we’re going to have another chance to move forward.”

Athletics department staff members Gary Anders and Kathy Ungles rolled down the chain for the SEC flag.

At points, the area became quiet, perhaps too quiet for what was intended to be a celebration. At times, there were only clicks from cameras. Someone provided three soft claps.

Alden made attempts to fill the silence.

“Gary, how you feeling about this? Feel confident?” he said as Anders arranged the chain, earning slight laughter from the audience.

“No pressure on you, bud.”

On Nov. 6, 240 days before, Alden had welcomed SEC Commissioner Mike Slive to the MU Student Center, where a celebration took place following the league’s acceptance of Missouri.

Alden had answered questions concerning the school’s ability to compete in the conference, the most lucrative and considered to be the best in the nation. He had heard fans’ concerns about the end of the Border Showdown, old as the Civil War.

“These types of decisions aren’t things that stay in your head,” he said following the July 2 ceremony. “It’s in your heart as well. I think, for the affection my family has for the rivalries we’ve had in the Big 12 Conference, the places that we’ve gone, the familiarities that we’ve had ...

It’s going to be different.”

A week before the flag raise, Alden unveiled an anticipated master plan for facility upgrades to the UM System Board of Curators.

They unanimously approved the project, worth no more than $200 million with a funding jump-start from a $30 million private donation from the Kansas City Sports Trust.

“I want to commend the leadership Athletics Director Mike Alden has provided throughout the time I’ve been chancellor,” Chancellor Brady Deaton said at the announcement. “We made a commitment early on to be the very best in all that we could be.”

Alden reflected the praise to football coach Gary Pinkel, pardoning himself at the

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Athletics Director Mike Alden tosses a football with senior wide receiver T.J. Moe on the sidelines of this spring’s Black and Gold spring game at Faurot Field. Alden played an integral role in Missouri’s transition to the Southeastern Conference.

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Nixon cuts $9 million from higher education Reporter Gov. Jay Nixon slashed nearly $9 million from higher

education from the $24 billion budget for Missouri’s next fiscal year.

Nixon cited concerns about low state revenues, like those from the Missouri State Lottery,

as reasoning for the cuts.

“Cuts are needed — it’s the harsh reality,” said Brian Long, Council on Higher Education in Missouri director. “It’s part of a really difficult situation.”

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Because some feel universities have alternate methods of revenue, their budgets are often cut in troubling times, Long said. Higher education was not the only area to take cuts - social programs will also be affected.

Each university will have to cope with the cuts, Long said.

“It’ll be variable — every public university is grappling with lower budgets,” Long said.

“They’re employing less staff, there are low or no raises for staff and faculty and there’s reduced maintenance.”

The cuts pushed universities to adopt a business-like way of approaching budgets, Long said.

They would have to decide to either do less or do better and

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Biochemistry assistant professor recognized for HIV and cancer research Brent Pearson Reporter Finding a treatment to HIV or cancer might not be far away for one MU professor.

Peter Cornish, a biochemistry assistant professor in the MU School of Medicine, became the first MU recipient of the Pew Scholar Award.

“The Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences provides funding to young investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health,” the Pew Charitable Trusts website stated.

Cornish graduated from Graceland University with bachelor’s degrees in biology, chemistry and mathematics in 2000. He received his doctorate in biochemistry from Texas Tech University in 2005. After five years of working in a post-doctoral program at the University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign, Cornish arrived at MU in 2010, where he has conducted research on disrupting “protein factories” inside bacteria and viruses throughout the body.

“The ‘protein factory’ is called the ribosome,” Cornish said. “Through a process called translation, it reads a message and converts that into a protein sequence. So, all of the protein in the body is made by the ribosome. Using single molecule biophysics, we can investigate how the ribosome moves.”

HIV-1 produces necessary pro-

teins through translation. A special event in translation called “frame shifting” occurs when a nucleotide gets inserted into or deleted from the sequence and alters the coding.

Cornish had the idea to target this process by developing drug molecules. He said if successful, he could inhibit production of HIV. “Our bodies’ natural defenses are constantly working to keep us healthy,” Cornish said in an MU News Bureau news release following the announcement. “We only get sick when the viruses or bacteria are able to replicate enough to overwhelm our defenses. If we can determine how to stop them from replicating, the body’s defenses can take over and get rid of the invaders naturally.”

Cornish’s research, if continued, might also apply to cancer — cells grow rapidly, meaning proteins must be produced quickly. Cornish said he could develop techniques similar to those in his HIV research to target cancer cells and their ability to produce proteins.

Scientists must first research the fundamentals of the ribosome and communication links among molecules before drug development can start.

Though his research is only at the molecular level, Cornish received national recognition through the Pew Scholar Award, which grants a $240,000 prize awarded over four years.

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Peter cornish was recognized as a 2012 Pew Scholar in biomedical sciences. the Biochemistry assistant professor came to MU in 2010.

innovative young scientist,” said Dr. Gerald Hazelbauer, MU biochemistry professor and department chair.

“He is poised to make seminal contributions to our understanding of basic biological phenomena because he can combine his appreciation of fundamental molecular processes of life with an ability to understand and utilize emerging, cutting-edge

techniques that are rooted in sophisticated physics.”

The Pew National Advisory Committee received applications from 170 schools nationwide and selected 22 scientists for the award.

“I was pretty excited,” Cornish said. “There is a name you can carry with it. It helps early on (in your career).”

Each university may only send one nomination per campus.

“Peter was an ideal candidate for MU because he had all the most desirable attributes — superb training, research that addressed fundamentally important issues in biomedical science and the utilization of an emerging, cutting-edge technology,” Hazelbauer said.

said. “Students are recognizing the benefits of staying on campus — convenience, creating community, and doing better academically.”

Residential Life limited the number of returning students able to live on campus to 1,000, turning away another 1,000 students this year. A waiting list for housing consists of 450 returning students, Minor said.

The Virginia Avenue South project, approved at the June 23 Board of Curators’ meeting, has a $28.4 million budget and will house 330 students. The hall will be funded primarily by revenue bonds. The residence hall will consist of 80 percent double rooms and 20 percent single rooms with communitystyle bathrooms.

“This is not a risky proposition at all,” Minor said. “This will be full when we open it.”

Construction on the residence hall is projected to begin in October 2013 and finish in Spring 2015. It is slated to open in Fall 2015.

The residence hall will be located between College and Virginia avenues north of the newly-constructed Hospital Drive. The residence hall has no formal name at this time.

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attended the conference.

“We’re still getting used to it here at the office,” Murray said.

The conference offered informational activities and skills programs designed to address all kinds of OrgSync practices. Some key events included round table discussions, four classes taught by OrgSync professionals and a trip to OrgSync’s headquarters in Dallas.

Murray, who attended OrgSync Connect with MU’s student organizations coordinator Nick Evans, said the conference went very well. This successful outcome was due to not only the professional insight from OrgSync employees, but also the anecdotal warnings of practices that have previously fallen flat.

“We learned what other schools are doing well and what doesn’t work so well, so we won’t make the same mistakes and develop any bad habits,” Murray said.

OrgSync is evolving to become the only student organizational platform this coming semester.

Last year, ORG ran two separate databases.

“Our hope is that everyone will fully embrace OrgSync … that’s really the only way to function in the student organization system this upcoming school year,” Evans said.

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The budget for the project is $24.8 million.

Brent Pearson Reporter The UM System Board of Curators finalized the plan for a new residence hall to accommodate students’ rising demand to reside on campus.

Since 2001, the Department of Residential Life has worked to address expansion of residence halls at MU through the Residential Life Master Plan.

This five-phase plan works to renovate and construct new living areas. The most recently constructed building dates back to the 1960s before the RLMP formed in 2001.

The new residence hall will accommodate the largest growth in enrollment MU has ever seen along with the increase in students interested in living on campus, Residential Life director Frankie Minor said.

“We are trying to increase our capacity now to meet our needs,” he said. “It provides space that we surely need now and in the future.”

According to the Department of Enrollment website, enrollment in fall 2001 was 23,666 students, beginning a 10-year streak of recordbreaking enrollment. The fall 2011 enrollment was 31,745 students, and this record could be shattered again in fall 2012.

Incoming freshmen and current students who wish to live on campus use MU’s Residents’ Online Access to Rooms. According to the MU Residential Life Housing Policy, first-time college students less than 20 years of age as of Aug. 15 and are enrolled in more than six credit hours are required to live on campus. Some in the Class of 2016 are still struggling to find a room.

“I’ve looked for a room since the day ROAR permitted me to check for rooms,” incoming freshman Mark Won said.

By this time last year, 90 percent of freshmen had a room, and 100 percent of freshmen had a room on opening day, according to the ROAR video on the Department of Residential Life website.

“Research shows students that live on campus as freshmen do better academically and are more likely to graduate,” Minor

Reporter The Organization Resource Group attended OrgSync Connect from June 21 to 23 in Richardson, Texas, OrgSync’s first annual user conference.

“We thought the conference would be a really good way to learn how other schools are implementing OrgSync,” ORG Chairman Derek Murray said.

The purpose of the user conference was to engage in discussion and collaborating learning with campus partners with the intent of educating them, according to the OrgSync website.

The OrgSync software helps MU’s many student organizations interact and communicate better.

The program, which was installed last semester, also provides more accessibility and connectivity to students involved or even just interested in student organizations.

MU students can log into OrgSync with their MU usernames and passwords and access all sorts of information about student organizations.

MU is just beginning to use this software more than 250 other colleges have already implemented, which is part of the reason ORG

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Both were arrested on charges of minor in possession of alcohol and released on a signature summons.

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CAIT CAMPBELL | GRAPHICS ASSISTANT of Lincoln Drive in response to a call about an assault. A female victim told police Phillip Washington, 43, had entered her home without permission and had woken her up by placing his hand on her face so she could not breathe. Washington then took her to another room in the house and punched her in the face, causing her to fall onto a bed. The victim was able to fight Washington and force him to leave the residence, according to a police report. Washington was found later in the day in the 1000 block of Larch Court and was arrested on charges of first-

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stealing and released on a summons.

3. POLICE CHARGE TWO WITH ATTEMPTED SHOPLIFTING At 6:12 p.m. Tuesday, CPD officers were dispatched to the Walmart at 415 Conley Rd. in response to a shoplifting call.

Loss prevention officers had two people in custody: Kevin Napieralski, 23, and Angel Napieralski, 27. The two had placed DVDs in the female suspect’s purse and tried to exit the store, according to a police report. Both were charged with

4. ONE ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF FIREWORKS DISCHARGE At 1:23 a.m. Thursday, CPD officers were dispatched to the intersection of Rice Road and McKee Street in reference to multiple people shooting off fireworks at people and their possessions. Approximately 50 people were in the street when the police arrived, CPD spokeswoman Latisha Stroer said.

Several people threw fireworks at the officers. The officers

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stopped Dreshawn Marshall, who had fireworks in his backpack, and he admitted to his involvement in the disturbance.

Marshall was charged with discharging fireworks within city limits.

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.

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IFC recruitment New Latino fraternity Lambda weekend sets Theta Phi settles in at Missouri new chapter of attendance record The Lambda Theta Phi wants to remain small and dream big.

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Pi Kappa Phi junior Ryan Winn shakes hands with freshman Sean Murphy during Interfraternity Council formal recruitment in the MU Student Center in late June. All 28 IFC chapters took part in recruitment.

IFC's formal recruitment increased its participation by more than 100 students.

JILL DEUTSCH Reporter The Interfraternity Council formal recruitment weekend begins the process of matching men with a fraternity, and this year, it did so in record numbers.

Recruitment, which was held June 29 to 30, is intended to show students all of the IFC chapters in a short period of time, IFC Vice President of Recruitment Matt Goldsmith said. This year's attendance of 363 men this year is an increase from 250 men last year.

“This was our biggest group yet," IFC spokesman Jon Strope said. “It’s becoming more popular with increasing interest in Greek Life.”

Though there was an increase in attendance, the IFC executive board did not make any major changes to the event. The only difference was splitting the group in half to lessen congestion for the opening event of the weekend, IFC Vice President of Recruitment Matt Goldsmith said in an email.

The council did not want to make the weekend too structured, Strope said.

“It’s a laid-back weekend,” Strope said. “It is a great way to get exposed to fraternity life and to know chapters and meet guys.”

Potential IFC recruits began the weekend June 29 in the MU Student Center at the Chapter Expo, according to the IFC website. Participants could visit each of

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the 28 fraternity chapters for about 30 seconds to a minute.

Strope described these short visits as “elevator speeches,” in which each fraternity discussed what it values, what it does and what it's about.

After these brief meetings, each participant listed the top eight fraternities he would like to visit again. In turn, each fraternity made a list of people it wanted to visit them.

Both of these lists were combined to create a schedule for participants’ second-round visits.

The second-round visits began that night, with each participant visiting four of his top eight fraternities. The second-round visits continued the morning of June 30.

“During these eight 30-minute visits, recruits will get to meet with many of the members in each of the chapters,” Goldsmith said. “If the chapter has a house, recruits will also get the chance to get a tour of the facility.”

From these second-round visits, fraternities narrowed their lists of potential recruits. Possible recruits received a schedule of three final third-round visits.

“After these three visits, the recruit can either receive a bid to join a fraternity or a request to informally rush with them," Goldsmith said.

Typically, the recruitment weekend leads into the informal rush process, which begins in the fall.

“Our main goal overall is for these recruits to find a home for four years and men they can legitimately call their brothers,” Strope said.

Men still have the opportunity to informally rush even if they could not attend IFC's formal recruitment.

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As the Latino fraternity Lambda Theta Phi creates a colony at MU, members hope to establish it as a different type of fraternity.

With just 11 members, the fraternity is small — a quality its members see as a major benefit.

“Our members get to learn from one another,” Lambda Theta Phi Primary Contact Andrew Abarca said. “We’re not a large group, which allows us to know our (fraternity) brothers on a very personal level.”

Lambda Theta Phi, which was the first Latino fraternity in North America, began its expansion to Missouri with a chapter at UM-Kansas City in 2008. The process of establishing a colony at MU began in 2011.

The MU community was supportive of the new colony, Lambda Theta Phi Treasurer Alex Sanchez said. “[People] didn’t know exactly what we were but they were excited for us,” he said.

Men had to have a 2.5 GPA and undergo an interest process before they could pledge. Even with these qualifications, not everyone was accepted into the colony in 2011. The fraternity plans to keep its high standards for future recruits. “(Future recruits) have to give back to the community and prove themselves to the brothers,”

Lambda Theta Phi President Nick Ramos said. “It’s not as simple as giving money, pledging and then rushing.”

The members want to keep the fraternity’s intimate nature even as the fraternity expands in upcoming years.

“It is very important that even if we grow bigger, we have a tradition of knowing everyone by name," Ramos said. "We’re more about quality of members rather than quantity.”

The close bond among the fraternity members was key to embracing its status as a Latino fraternity.

“We implement culture into Greek Life," Abarca said. "We get to know each other’s culture and show our own in one way or another.”

Lambda Theta Phi might be small, but it has been busy. To become nationally recognized, Lambda Theta Phi held many events during the 2011-12 academic year, including two education workshops, two cultural workshops, three community service projects, three fundraisers, two collaborative functions with another chapter, two collaborative functions with other organizations and two social functions.

Lambda Theta Phi held events to embrace Latino culture that spanned from Spanish-speaking social events to those embracing Hispanic history.

“Our members don’t have to be Hispanic, but they have to express the culture,” Ramos said.

One event was a salute show, which commemorated Hispanic involvement in the military.

The fraternity focused on more than Latino culture, though.

During the past year, Lambda Theta Phi held a Native American panel for Native American Heritage Month, volunteered for black culture events and hosted a salsa night.

“We hosted the Native American panel to learn about hardship in the Native American community and what they went through and how they are discriminated against,” Abarca said.

Although culture is important to the fraternity, its biggest concern is service. The fraternity’s biggest event this year was “Cocoa for Katie,” which helped raise money for a high school student with leukemia.

“We’re unique because we’re a social fraternity and a service fraternity," Ramos said. "Our goal is to give back to the community.”

The colony hosted events not only to be leaders in the MU community, but also to socialize with members of it. Events to meet other fraternities and sororities included a Super Bowl party and a social with Alpha Phi Gamma.

“Our current goal is just getting our name out there,” Sanchez said.

Lambda Theta Phi plans to host a large event celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month in September. The colony’s goal is to become an integral part of MU. “We hope to give back to the community at Missouri, being the new kids on the block,” Ramos said. “We want to prove ourselves and demonstrate what we’re capable of.”

MU Health System awarded $13.3 million to help aid Medicare patients CARLEY MEINERS Reporter The MU Health System recently received an award of $13.3 million from the Health Care Innovation Awards in order to better its primary care for patients who have Medicare and Medicaid. The award will be put toward a project titled “Leveraging Information Technology to Guide High Tech High Touch Care” in the next three years.

LIGHT2 is intended to create a more enhanced program for the MU Health System. The health care team will be trained in advanced health information technology, evidencebased treatment planning and a specialized workforce to coordinate better care between the patients and the health care team, according to the Health Care Innovation Awards website. This new project is estimated to save about $16.9 million.

MU was honored to receive the award and the LIGHT2 project will have many positive outcomes, Health System Vice Chancellor Hal Williamson said.

“The LIGHT2 project will help health care providers and their patients communicate more effectively to achieve better health outcomes, better health care and lower health care costs,” Williamson said.

“It has the potential to be a model for the nation.”

Missouri’s grant was among $1 billion the Health Care Innovation Awards distributed across the nation. The awards are granted to contenders who are looking to be more innovative than other health care systems. Williamson said he thinks the MU Health System’s strength as an academic medical center was one of the strong factors in the system winning this award.

“These strengths include multidisciplinary teams of physicians, researchers and clinicians from MU Health Care and the schools of medicine, nursing and health professions, plus our strong public-private partnership with the University of Missouri and Cerner Corporation through the Tiger Institute for Health Innovation,” Williamson said.

The MU Health System has been constructing better facilities for its patients since 2009. The new Ellis Fischel Cancer Center and Patient Care Tower are both to be completed in 2013. Along with this grant, the system will now have faster and more innovative health care to provide Missourians, said Joanne Burns, chief information officer for MU Health Care and executive director of the Tiger Institute for

Health Innovation.

An estimated 420 workers will be trained with the new information and technology and a total of 30 jobs will be created throughout the LIGHT2 project. Job titles will include those of a project coordinator, a business manager, three health information analysts and 18 health care coordinators.

“Being selected to receive this award from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is a true testament to the hard work and dedication the University of Missouri has shown,” Burns said.

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MU helps develop telehealth Injured Speakers Circle veteran to return in fall pilot program in Serbia MARY RYAN Reporter On request from National Alliance for Local Economic Development, the Missouri Telehealth Network at MU agreed to help develop a telehealth pilot program in Serbia.

The project, dubbed “Introducing Telemedicine in Eastern Serbia,” was brought to the attention of MTN staff by NALED in early May of this year. “(NALED) works with USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) and Merck Pharmaceuticals,” said Mirna Becevic, project development specialist at MTN. “When they started the project and (USAID) gave them information on several telehealth programs, they found that the most comprehensive network was Missouri Telehealth Network.”

In a still economically developing nation like Serbia, getting access

to healthcare in rural areas is difficult. Telehealth helps to break down the barriers of distance by allowing physicians in larger facilities to confer and even treat patients in smaller, rural areas via videoconference. “(The) project goal is to develop partnership between specialists from big clinic centers (Nis and Zajecar) with primary care clinicians from distant primary health care center (Boljevac) by means of specific, up-to-date, proficient informatic technologies,” the NALED website states. “Their cooperation is aimed at faster and more efficient diagnosing of patients in rural areas.”

NALED representatives traveled from their home office in Belgrade, Serbia, to MTN at MU on May 14. During their three-day visit, the representatives were trained by MTN staff and traveled to rural telehealth sites for demonstrations.

“We’re in an advisory role,” MTN Director Rachel Mutrux said.

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“When they came here we did a lot of training. And going forward we’re working in an advisory capacity.”

Besides training, NALED representatives and MTN staff discussed project models and contacts during the May visit.

“It’s a hub and spoke model,” Mutrux said. “And in this case there are two hubs and one spoke. Two urban hubs will provide specialties to one rural clinic. We recommend several equipment types. One of the vendors Polycom has a presence in Eastern Europe and is working with (NALED) directly. We were able to get them that contact while they were here.”

With training done and connections made, NALED is hard at work on the project back in Serbia.

“They are in the process of doing press conferences and press releases,” Becevic said. “Basically, they are in the selling stages. They are looking for some videos to show to their possible donors to show what telehealth is so they can get a basic understanding.”

MTN and NALED continue to plan and work together to get the project running. Telehealth services are projected to be up in Serbia by late fall.

Murtrux said Telehealth is about building relationships.

“Like we say, it’s not about technology but about people,” he said.

“They are going to have to go into each of these three different organizations and build relationships. I think that they can do this.”

Student entrepreneur began early ALEX STEWART Senior Staff Writer Senior Ben Seidel is not the type of guy to spend his summer napping at the pool and mastering the next level of “Call of Duty” — one is much more likely to find him in front of a computer running his website development and technology company, Igniting Business.

Seidel discovered his entrepreneurial spirit around the age of 13.

A friend taught him how to create websites, and he learned much more through self-teaching and online tutorials. After making his first website, a personal page about himself and friends, he offered to develop a website for a business his father was a part of at a fraction of the price other website development companies charged.

“I turned this hobby of website development into a business,” he said.

“We really focus on value.”

Igniting Business offers a multitude of services. Seidel and his four associates help small businesses with technology consultations, web solutions and marketing materials such as business cards, car decals and even professional photography.

Even as a child, Seidel knew how to be his own employer. He said whenever he saw an opportunity to offer his time or knowledge on a task, he did so for a nominal fee.

“The realization that I could do this for a living came out of that,” he said.

Prior to founding Igniting Business, Seidel spearheaded CentralMO.com, a community resource website for Missourians to

peruse and post classifieds, event listings and information about local businesses.

Seidel’s work has been recognized by the National Association for the Self-Employed, a non-profit member organization that provides resources and benefits to entrepreneurs and micro-businesses. NASE offers services such as legal help, home office insurance and credit cards to its members. The association also represents its members in D.C., lobbying for small business needs such as affordable health coverage and retirement security.

Last year Seidel received the NASE Future Entrepreneur Scholarship, which is worth $16,000.

“The NASE’s Future Entrepreneur Scholarship is the largest scholarship in the nation devoted to the promotion of entrepreneurship among young people,” the association’s website stated.

The rigorous application process for the scholarship took two months and required several essays, an interview and a business plan, Seidel said.

“The business plan helped us show we had the ability to think forward,” he said.

Seidel, who is also a part of NACE’s member council, said he is the first line of feedback for new services the association wants to provide for its members.

“When the NASE is looking to put into place more benefits, packages and services that they want to test out, we represent (the members) and explain how we feel,” he said.

“We take a look at the NASE’s initiatives and give them feedback.”

Seidel even went to Washington in May to discuss with other mem-

bers what they wanted to achieve for the association in the upcoming year.

Seidel’s father, David, also an entrepreneur and NASE council member, largely influenced Seidel’s decision to deviate from the path of seeking employment with a large company after college. David Seidel owns an environmental and energy engineering firm.

“I was kind of raised knowing that I didn’t have to go the general path of working for another company,” Ben Seidel said. “There is always the option of pursuing what I really wanted to do. My parents encouraged me with ideas that were good and were openly critical of the ideas that were bad.”

Ben Seidel attributes much of his success to trial and error and studying the work of other entrepreneurs.

“A lot of it is learning by doing,” he said.

In May, Ben Seidel will graduate with bachelor’s degrees in economics and marketing. He plans to focus solely on growing Igniting Business and expanding its workload. The company currently operates with four part-time associates.

The difference between Igniting Business and its competitors is the quality and depth of the work, Ben Seidel said. The company strives to include tools that manage inventory and social networking in addition to a functional website, and it also offers technology consulting for small businesses.

Ben Seidel’s No. 1 piece of advice to aspiring entrepreneurs is to pursue one’s passions.

“You don’t necessarily have to go the traditional route,” he said.

groove; it’s such an incredible feeling.”

From Humble Beginnings to Hall of Fame

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MU Systems Administrator Derrick Fogle plays hacky sack in Speakers Circle. Fogle, a member of the Footbag Hall of Fame, expects to be kicking again in August.

CONNOR VOSS Reporter Speakers Circle celebrity Derrick Fogle is taking a hiatus from Hacky Sack.

“Basically, it’s looking like I have the equivalent of tennis elbow on my right knee,” he said. “It was becoming more and more painful to keep kicking.”

By day, 48-year-old Fogle is an MU systems administrator. By night and weekend, a husband and father. On Thursday afternoons, he is Columbia’s renowned “Hacky Sack guy.”

While his lingering knee pain has forced him to shelve his alter ego for the time being, he anticipates being “back and kicking” by start of the fall semester — or, at the latest, by Aug. 31, Fogle’s 49th birthday.

He plans to take the day off to celebrate with “a big footbag birthday bash” in Speakers Circle.

The Hacky Sack player suspects his knees are simply “wearing out” after having logged around 20 million reps with his footbag over the past 30 years.

His practice and performances have earned him spots in the World Championship Finals, induction into the Footbag Hall of Fame and even a world record (which has subsequently been broken) for the most consecutive rallies with a footbag.

Since moving to Columbia 19 years ago, Fogle has taken a few hours off work each week to occupy Speakers Circle with a video camera, a boom box and a footbag.

“My music is very integral to my style of performance,’” he explained. “’Footbag freestyle’ involves a lot of swinging your leg over the bag and swinging your body around.”

Fogle’s performances have accrued fame across the Columbia and Internet communities alike. On his website, h4x354x0r.com (computer lingo for “hackysacker”), he posts videos of his kicking sessions.

Fogle achieved viral status with his video “Hackman vs. Preacher,” in which he faces off with campus preacher “Sister Cindy” for control of Speakers Circle.

His injured knees, however, have slowed his video uploads. Fogle is presently looking into some treatment options often used for triathletes, although his current therapy is simply rest.

“I can’t wait to get back to (hacky sack),” he said. “When you keep it up off the ground; have that music; do the dance thing; when you get in the

Fogle’s fans may be surprised to know that kicking the football did not come naturally to him.

“I totally sucked when I started,” he admitted.

Fogle kicked his first footbag at a party he attended with his older brother when he was 17 years old.

“When we got (to the party), there was a circle of people standing outside the house, apparently kicking at something,” he recounted. “I’m like, ‘What are you doing? I’ll try it.

I’m here to party.’ But I couldn’t kick the footbag for anything.”

Despite his initial lack of skill, Fogle was “addicted” to the game.

“I hated organized sports because I was a loner kind of guy, but Hacky Sack was a noncompetitive activity,” he said. “Everyone stood together in the circle and worked together.

When someone missed, you just kept going.”

Starting out by kicking small rocks, he practiced obsessively until his skills improved enough that he started entering freestyle competitions. At first, he learned most of his tricks from other footbag competitors. As he progressed, however, he created his own style.

“One of the things I’m known for in my footbag community is my weird, funky style of playing,” he said.

“They call me the ‘Funky Chicken.’”

After making his mark on the footbag community, Fogle retired from competition in 1997 and was inducted into the Footbag Hall of Fame in 2005.

Fogle no longer plays Hacky Sack socially, as he did 30 years ago at the party in Colorado.

“If I walk into a circle and start doing my moves, it freaks everyone else out and kills the circle,” he said.

One Man’s Sport, Another Man’s Salvation For Fogle, Hacky Sack has become much more than a hobby.

“I call Hacky Sack my religion,” he said. “It’s what found me my salvation. It’s how I discovered myself and my passion for hard work and dedication.”

In addition, the game gave Fogle a positive focus for his energy, which helped him straighten out his life as a young adult.

“It allowed me to grow up and become a functioning adult in society,” he said. “It really changed my life.”

Seeing Hacky Sack make such a difference in his own life, Fogle was convinced it would do the same for others. After years of trying to sell his religion to others, however, he finally realized salvation isn’t the same for everyone.

“Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world play Hacky Sack in circles as a social game,” he said. “One percent end up getting some kind of spark in their body like I did.”

These days, he’s trying to send his audiences a simpler message.

“I’m just trying to show the students that if you work hard at something, if you love something that gives you passion, the whole world opens up to you,” Fogle said. “That’s why I go out there on Speakers Circle and kick the Hacky Sack.”

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Data shows decrease in local underage drinking JAD SLEIMAN Reporter Columbia watering holes seem to be drying up for underage drinkers, according to a recent Wellness Resource Center survey.

Fewer than half as many underage students reported skirting ID checks and getting drinks from bartenders who knew them in 2012 as did in 2005, according to Wellness Resource Center data. The study, which compiled data from a random sample of about 1,200 MU students, also shows 9 percent of students reporting having used a fake ID, down from 16 percent, and a marked decrease in binge drinking.

Bengals Bar and Grill and Campus Bar and Grill are both within a block of MU. Their revenues surge each fall as more than 33,000 students, many of them younger than 21, return to school. Proprietors said such opportunity has to be tempered with

caution as police keep an increasingly watchful eye.

“We definitely want to be profitable, but we have to do it the right way,” said Matt Hudson, Campus Bar and Grill general manager. “No one wants to be that bartender that catches a $1,000 fine for serving someone under 21.”

Hudson and his employees have gone through numerous training courses sponsored by the Columbia Police Department that are designed to teach bouncers and servers about the consequences of serving underage patrons and ways to spot fake IDs. Bengals bartender Celia Close has noted a rise in vigilance among her peers at the Sixth Street establishment in the face of increased police pressure during the past two years.

“They’ve been sending in undercover underage kids to bust people,” Close said. “We have to protect ourselves.”

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There are many different factors that can affect how an underage student population might drink and how much, but bars play a significant role, Wellness Resource Center director Kim Dude said.

Underage drinking at private gatherings has only decreased by 3 percent compared with a 48 percent decline underage drinking at bars and restaurants, according to a Missouri College Health Behavior Survey.

Dude said she credits stepped-up police enforcement and presence for bringing bar owners and operators to the aid of the resource center. “(Bars) are not the only source of alcohol because our students might go to liquor stories or parties off campus, but they are one of our strongest partners in trying to curb underage drinking,” she said.

At stake for area establishments are thousands in fines and liquor license sanctions. For many workers and owners, the risk simply isn’t worth the extra customers attracted to a bar perceived as lenient toward underage drinking.

Samuel Hefter has been bartending at Shiloh Bar and Grill on East Broadway for about a year and said baby-faced undergraduates rarely manage to make it past the bouncer.

“One out of a thousand I would ID them again at the bar,” he said.

“Otherwise I’m pretty confident that the door guy did a good job.”

Sgt. Eric Hughes works with the Columbia Police Department’s Downtown Unit, which formed in 2009. He and his officers walk in plain clothes near bars and restaurants to bolster enforcement and largely work hand-in-hand with area proprietors.

“The bars are really the first line of defense against underage drinking,” Hughes said. “But they have to want to help curb that before they actually do.”

Congress votes to keep Stafford Loan interest rates at 3.4 percent RYAN NEFF Reporter The U.S. Congress voted June 29, only two days before its July 1 deadline, to extend the current interest rate on Stafford student loans for another year.

The Senate voted 74-19 and the House voted 373-52 in favor of keeping the 3.4 percent rate from doubling to 6.8 percent. The issue will be raised again by July 1, 2013, under identical circumstances.

“We have been preparing for an interest rate hike for the past five years,” MU Student Financial Aid director Nick Prewett said. “I do not believe that it has any effect on our (office’s) operations.”

Last year, 9,978 MU undergraduate students were granted subsidized loans at an interest rate of 3.8 percent, totaling $40,514,675.

“College affordability is a growing problem,” Prewett said. “Students are facing great difficulty attending higher education institutions if they

do not have parental support.”

The Office of Student Financial Aid often listens to student’s concerns, Prewett also said.

“We have communicated to the students who are concerned about the interest rate going up,” he said.

Some students, including freshman Kenzie Tysl, were closely watching action on the issue.

“I’m relieved,” Tysl said. “It is less money that I’ll have to pay. It took a pretty substantial weight off of my shoulders.”

Tysl is paying for her education at MU primarily through a mixture of subsidized Stafford Loans and unsubsidized loans.

“I was already worried about having to pay everything back, and now with all of the changing backand-forth in Congress, I am worried how it will be four years from now,” she said.

Many MU students as well as millions of students and graduates across the United States find themselves in the same positions as Tysl, with Americans owing more

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in student loans than credit card debt for the first time in U.S. history, according to FinAid, a financial aid information website.

“A wave of student and borrower mobilization changed the political calculus, confirming that college affordability is a key concern for young people, their families and anyone who cares about the U.S. having a high-skill, competitive economy,” Rich Williams of the U.S. Federations for Public Interest Research Groups said in a press release. “(This) victory is another important step in getting rising student loan debt under control.”

In the past months, many students and communities around the country expressed their concerns with and disapproval of the looming interest rate deadline. Even the White House got involved by encouraging upset students to mobilize in a movement called “Don’t Double My Rate!”

“Students can now rejoice in knowing that all of their hard work paid off,” Williams said in the release.

Student plans to address local drug problem

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Columbia residents listen to Detective Jeff Rukstad discuss common forms of heroin May 24 at the emergency town hall meeting. The meeting was hosted by the Columbia Police Department to address the increase in heroin use in the area.

LAURIEN ROSE Reporter Sophomore Sara Hooshmand has seen the effects of drug abuse from both a personal and community perspective; from her experience, Hooshmand plans to raise awareness about heroin abuse at MU. During her senior year of high school in Jefferson City, there were 13 reported heroin overdoses, with numbers on the rise ever since. Last September, her friend Cody Marshall died due to a heroin overdose.

“After his death, I’ve taken more notice of the rapidly evolving drug problem in the academic atmosphere, which has been brushed aside for far too long as part of the college experience,” Hooshmand said. “The effects of this experience will last far longer than the time we’re in school.”

An emergency town hall meeting entitled “Heroin: A Community Perspective” was held in May to address Columbia’s growing heroin problem. In the past year, two Columbia men have died due to heroin overdose, and police have seen at least a dozen near-overdoses in the community, according to the meeting.

Heroin has become the fastestgrowing type of narcotics case in the past six months in Columbia, Boone County Circuit Judge Christine Carpenter said.

A recovered heroin addict named Emily, an MU student who chose to withhold her last name, spoke at the town meeting. Emily said she dabbled in all sorts of drugs, but got hooked on prescription drugs her sophomore year of high school.

She was arrested at age 16 but did not start using heroin until her senior year of high school. After her first time insufflating heroin, she began using it no more than seven times daily. She recalled having no relationships with her family, having no friends and choosing not to attend her classes at MU. “It’s not a crime to be an addict,” Emily said. “It’s a crime to possess, produce and distribute it.”

After a year of trying to quit, she was finally able to kick the habit after her second arrest and four months of rehabilitation.

In order to help students like

Emily who struggle with addiction, Hooshmand plans to raise awareness of the use and abuse of heroin at MU by collaborating with existing organizations such as the MU Counseling Center, the Wellness Resource Center and the Residence Halls Association. She plans to create brochures and bulletin boards with information to help and inform students.

“I would like to see Res. Life (become) certified with Mental Health First Aid,” Hooshmand said. “This will better equip our campus leaders in public identifying, understanding and responding to signs of mental illnesses and substance abuse.”

After these first steps have been accomplished, Hooshmand wants to provide freshmen with literature, problem-based solutions and lectures through Freshman Interest Group courses. The literature and problembased solutions will include how to confront roommates, friends and family through drug education; prevention; safety; and healthier alternatives to stress.

The lecture-based portion of the program will incorporate the resources of Project HOPE (Heroin Overdose Prevention Education), bringing in guest speakers who have either personal or professional experience with substance abuse and mental health resources.

“Hearing someone who has personally been through many of the issues that students face will alleviate the taboo association with substance abuse and mental health issues,” Hooshmand said.

Hooshmand’s long-term goal is to start a Narcotics Anonymous chapter at MU to establish a recovery network where students could engage with and learn from fellow peers going through similar circumstances.

“We must do our best to eliminate substance abuse and the ties of depression and anxiety of a college student,” Hooshmand said. “I believe through the awareness, education and rehabilitation of these issues, we can work collectively toward rebuilding a community where the causality and silence of drug and mental health issues has grown out of control.”

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Continued from page 1 consider alternative methods of educating as well as gaining revenue.

This is the third year in a row in which higher education has taken severe cuts, placing Missouri 45th in the nation for higher education funding.

But past cuts have not gone unnoticed.

The Missouri Students Association started the More for Less campaign last academic year. The campaign culminated with a letter-writing campaign that sent more than 6,000 letters to members of Missouri’s government, including every member of the legislative branch.

“Gov. Nixon’s withholding represents just a tiny fraction of the originally-proposed 12.5 percent cut for higher education in Missouri,” Zach Toombs, MSA Director of Communications and former Maneater staffer, said in an email. “This is a huge legislative win for students, and students’ vocal presence in lobbying for our own interests will have effects on lawmakers’ decisions for years to come.”

Toombs, creator and co-director of the More for Less campaign, said Nixon’s cuts are a signal to students they can — and should — give input on issues at the state level.

“If it wasn’t for the passion

and knowledge students showed in fighting for their interests at the state level, the university could have faced a financial disaster — that’s been averted, for this year at least,” he said.

MU has alternate methods of gaining revenue, Toombs also said. MSA passed a bill last February in support of raising cigarette taxes.

Another possible method often discussed is an increase in tuition, which the More for Less campaign advocates to prevent.

“The university is an efficient institution,” Toombs said. “And our leaders at the UM System and MU administrative level should be able to handle a withholding of this size without hurting the student experience at Mizzou.”

podium for a brief moment in the middle of his statement.

“I remember 11 years ago, we looked at something and said, ‘What could be?’” Alden said.

“Because it wasn’t there when we got together 11 years ago. It wasn’t there when Gary Pinkel decided to come to the University of Missouri 11 years ago. But I think we saw something. We saw opportunity.”

Pinkel was asked if those visions were becoming realized with the facility changes.

“I mean, shoot, that was a

long time ago,” he said. “I feel proud that (football has) made our contribution. But the most important thing is “what are you going to do with it now?”

People celebrated throughout Columbia when the clock struck midnight July 1. Alden said he was modestly celebrating with his wife, Rockie, and son, Jake, by watching a rerun of “Saturday Night Live” featuring Emma Stone and Coldplay.

“It has been a daily, everysingle-day effort,” he said of the nearly 10-month-long conference transition process. “It’s been a daily

effort to be able to do everything we can to cross our T’s and dot our I’s. (But) the work really begins today.”

Alden watched in silence with everyone else as the flag was being clipped onto the chain. Some adjustments needed to be made to the chain, some struggle, perhaps, along the way.

“I can guarantee you this,” he said. “Based upon what I’m seeing with that chain, that flag (isn’t) going anywhere.”

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Gov. Jay Nixon announces budget cuts during the State of the State address in January at the Missouri State Capitol. Nixon slashed nearly $9 million from higher education in the 2013 budget.

A Southeastern Conference flag flies beneath a Missouri Tigers flag in Walsworth Plaza outside the North entrance of Mizzou Arena on July 2. Athletics Director Mike Alden spoke to fans and the media during a ceremonial flag raising that morning.

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New CPD foot patrols work to fix tarnished reputation of Douglass Park CLEANING UP

DOUGLASS PARK Columbia Police Department Capt. Brad Nelson has assigned two officers to interact with Douglass Park visitors on a daily basis. The park is located just north of downtown Columbia.

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Columbia Police Department Capt. Brad Nelson explains Douglas Park is often mislabeled by some local news sources. Nelson has been a police officer for 27 years.

Columbia Police Department Capt. Brad Nelson placed two officers on foot patrol in the park starting in May. JONATHAN FENTON Reporter Columbia police officers are increasing their presence in Douglass Park after crimes in the area have led to perceptions that the park is unsafe.

In May, Columbia Police

Department Capt. Brad Nelson placed two officers on foot patrol around Douglass Park.

“We have assigned two officers to have daily interaction with the people and show a presence,” Nelson said. “The purpose is not to arrest everybody.

You can’t arrest your way out of a problem.”

The unofficially titled Douglass Park Special Assignment has received positive feedback so far, according to Nelson.

“I have heard a lot of positive comments about it,” he said.

Columbia resident Curtis “Boogie Man” Soul said the creation of the foot patrol was a great decision, and he is

impressed with the department’s action.

“This is something that was needed a long time ago,” Soul said.

As the police help to clean up the image of Douglass Park, the biggest concern to the community might be the negative media attention the park has received.

On June 28, a shooting on North Providence Road left four teenagers wounded. The shooting followed a fight that broke out in front of the Blind Boone Center. According to police, the shooting took place in front of Frederick Douglass High School.

However, coverage of the shooting referred to the location as

the “Douglass Park Area.”

“The shooting happened directly in front of the school — sure you can see Douglass Park from there,” Nelson said.

“Anything that happens within a two-block radius of Douglass Park, the media tends to say Douglass Park area.”

Former First Ward City Councilwoman Almeta Crayton said she agreed that the media portrays Douglass Park as crime-ridden.

“The park closes at 11:30 p.m.,” Crayton said. “The shooting happened at the school.

Douglass Park is a safe place.

Nobody is going to mess with you, and (the media) stereotypes the whole area.”

A frequent visitor of Douglass Park, Soul describes the park as home.

“I visit there every Saturday,” he said. “It is not a dangerous park.”

Soul said the disconnect between the media and Douglass Park visitors has contributed to the poor reputation of the park.

“It goes back to not being there,” Soul said. “Most of the people that do the writing and most of the people talking and taking pictures have never spent a day in Douglass Park. It is no more dangerous than Stephens Lake Park.”

Nelson, a police officer for 27 years, said the effects of this negative reputation can linger for long after conditions have improved.

“That perception can be carried for 20 years,” he said. “You might not have anything in 19 years and that perception can still linger.”

Gov. Nixon approves 2013 Missouri state budget Concerns remain about whether the budget is fully balanced.

KATIE POHLMAN Reporter Gov. Jay Nixon approved Missouri’s nearly $24 billion budget for the fiscal year 2013 on June 22. The budget went into effect July 1.

Missouri’s new budget focuses on increasing funding for an assortment of job training programs, maintaining funding for K-12 public education and providing extra funding for disaster recovery.

When the budget was first proposed, there was an estimated $500 million revenue

shortfall from last year. But with compromises such as a reduction in state funding of health care for blind Missourians and the passing of laws that allowed for casino revenue to fund veterans’ homes around the state, the Missouri General Assembly was able to declare that the state’s budget was once again balanced.

However, in signing the budget into law, Nixon announced an additional $15 million in cuts, more than half of which come from the budget for higher education. At a press conference discussing the cuts, the governor justified the cuts.

“You only spend the money you have available,” he said at the conference.

Nixon said he believes the budget is actually out of balance by about $50 million and that future cuts may be necessary.

Nixon said extra funding needs to be put toward disaster recovery due to the events of the past year, such as the Missouri River floods in spring 2011 and the Joplin tornado on May 22 that same year.

Early childhood programs and K-12 public education will now rely on proceeds from a national settlement with tobacco companies and state lottery revenue, respectively, for funding.

Education will receive $35 million from tobacco companies, according to an analysis by the Missouri Budget Project, a nonprofit policy analysis organization. Lottery revenue includes selling tickets and collecting unclaimed prizes.

The budget predicts employment to increase by 0.7 percent in fiscal year 2013. Along with introducing on-the-job train-

ing programs and investments to create jobs, the budget also calls for a pay increase for the state’s lowest paid workers. This wage hike will affect more than 50,000 state workers.

Nixon had originally proposed much more drastic cuts to the higher education budget, but the general assembly blocked them.

Approximately $8 million will be cut from higher education, making it the third straight year of cuts for colleges and universities across the state.

This includes a $4.37 million cut in state funding for the UM System. According to a news release from the UM System, reductions in operating expenses and elimination of positions will result from the funding cut.

“We realigned our budget to put more money toward stra-

tegic priorities, strategic initiatives,” UM System spokeswoman Jennifer Hollingshead said.

The Missouri Budget Project’s analysis of the 2013 budget aligns with Nixon’s concerns that it is not actually balanced.

The organization said even though in theory the budget is balanced — meaning there is a designated source of funding for everything — the General Assembly did not account for shortcomings in revenue or unforeseen expenditures. It points out there are no reserves if those events were to happen.

“As a result, the FY 2013 may not be truly fully funded, which may necessitate $150-$200 million in mid-year budget reductions,” the report stated.

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Bieber can be a gentleman Hey there, friends! I’m Jackson, and I'm going to be a freshman at MU this fall. I run on coffee, I love a good rainy day and I have a huge crush on Beyoncé. But most importantly, I’ll be this semester’s music review columnist for MOVE Magazine! You’ll have the highly-coveted opportunity to read my ramblings every week about new albums by artists you might like. I know, you’re excited — I am too. So without further ado, let’s talk music.

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Justin Bieber. Yeah, you heard right. Bieber’s new album, Believe, came out June 15 and sold more than 300,000 copies in its debut week, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

After previewing his new style on the album’s first single, “Boyfriend,” Bieber clearly a) is on the tail end of his long, high-pitched journey through puberty, b) has matured quite a bit since his last CD and c) still really, really, really, really likes girls.

Compared to My World, his first release, Believe has matured both musically and lyrically. No longer does he only appeal to screaming 12-year-olds — his new style reaches out to a much wider audience. Believe is a diverse album for the most part. Bieber stays true to his pop roots but also incorporates a large amount of rhythm and blues and “dance pop” into his new record. Taking after artists like Justin Timberlake and Michael Jackson in some aspects, Bieber’s new style isn’t exactly “new” in the music world.

However, Believe has just enough originality to please old and new fans alike.

Believe begins with “All Around the World,” a clubready song that will make you hurry to find your dancing shoes. Other high-energy tracks include “Boyfriend,” “As Long As You Love Me,” “Take You” and “Beauty and a Beat.” These dance tracks work well and will definitely be favorites for a lot of fans. “Take You” is probably the most Timberlake-esque song, featuring Bieber’s lower register and falsetto — in other words, ladies, you might want to check this one out.

And what would a Bieber CD be without a few mushy, lovey-dovey ballads? It, well, wouldn’t. You can always count on Bieber to put a few of those on an album. I mean, come on, let’s not forget how much he loves the ladies.

“Fall” and “Be Alright” are practically love letters, but they’re actually good. Both tracks showcase Bieber’s incredible voice and charming personality. “Catching Feelings,” however, is one ballad worth skipping. The song fails in multiple areas: Bieber’s voice seems whiny at parts, and the lyrics are far from clever. “One Love” is another mediocre ballad. It’s by no means horrendous, but it’s also not a song with which most guys would choose to serenade their girlfriends outside a window (People still do that, right? No? Oh). And the title track, “Believe,” is essentially a letter to his fans thanking them for believing in him (Cute, right?), but it comes across as super cheesy, especially when the gospel choir comes in during the bridge. Too far, Bieber. Too far.

Believe also features a slew of special guest artists.

Ludacris, Big Sean, Drake and Nicki Minaj all make appearances on tracks, but unfortunately, most of the special guests fall short. Ludacris’ part on “All Around the World” is — well, about as good as Ludacris can be, which isn’t that great to begin with. Big Sean does a little better on “As Long As You Love Me,” but his lyrics are a bit goofy and the overall flow is choppy. Nicki Minaj is probably the best feature. Her appearance on “Beauty and a Beat” stays pretty true to her style (for better or for worse) and fits the already-catchy song very well.

Overall, Believe is a successful album. It’s incredible to see the amount of growth Bieber has undergone since the beginning of his career, and it’s clear he isn’t done yet. With a new style both lyrically and musically, Believe is a huge step for Bieber because anyone who's not a hyper, infatuated preteen girl can listen to his music without feeling any shame. It probably won’t be the album of the year for most people, but it’s safe to say Believe is a great summer pop album and a huge improvement from Bieber’s debut.

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Midsummer merrymaking Big cities have it freakishly easy. This summer, I’ve been living in Chicago for the first time, and after barely one month, I’ve almost literally tripped over all the festivals, fairs and organized frolicking (sometimes there’s no other way to describe it) that fill the city. It’s exciting, for sure. I mean, when and where else can you jam to neon-suited cover bands in the streets one night and herald Nigerian culture at IgboFest the next day? Or throw inhibition (and Mizzou 22 recovery plans) to the wind at the Taste of Chicago? Or mentally prepare yourself to see Passion Pit, at last, with your own bare eyeballs?

At first, it was like getting a jumbo funnel cake of revelry all to myself, and I wanted to just smash my face into it and let it all sink inward. But as any fairgoer knows, it’s physically impossible to have your own funnel cake, eat it and still enjoy standing up, too. You can’t try to have or do it all. It’ll wear you out — or just make you feel gross and wonder how you got powdered sugar everywhere.

That’s what I miss about Columbia, where festivities come a bit slowly but (if this festivals and fairs issue has taught me anything) surely.

Everyone in CoMo comes together every time because they’re special times, so the chance you’ll see people whom you know and enjoy, uh, festive things with is high.

That college-town intimacy is something you definitely can’t recreate in the city. Because when I do happen to see people in remotely black and gold gear, I try screaming, “M-I-Z!” But it just gets lost in a crowd of 2.7 million people, and I sigh.

Columbia, you’ll be good to see soon. delia cai | MOVE editor

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Cover photos shot at the Webster Groves Community Days fair in Webster Groves, Mo.

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Serbian blues at Summerfest

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A passport and a ’64 Strat: Ana Popovic discusses life, the blues and future albums.

Ana Popovic might be well known for her endless array of licks and her heated blues solos that bear traces of Stevie Ray Vaughan, T-Bone Walker and others, but the star has had a long journey from beautiful Belgrade, Serbia, to the blues-rich U.S. As a teenager, she was already opening for blues greats and playing with her band, Hush. Now, she is busy touring the U.S., recording her seventh studio album and taking care of her new newborn baby, Lenna. Her last album, Unconditional, topped U.S. Billboard charts and was nominated for "Best Contemporary Blues Album" at the 33rd Blues Music Awards in Memphis, Tenn.

Popovic has been nominated for many awards throughout the years, including BluesWax Magazine's “Blues Artist of the Year” in 2006 and the British Blues Awards’ “Best Overseas Artist” in 2010. Her success in the U.S. led her to play with blues legends such as Buddy Guy, Robert Cray, B.B. King and her slide-guitar idol, Sonny Landreth. Even though she’s touring and recording fervently, the guitarist/singer/songwriter/new mother had time to discuss with MOVE her music, musicianship and journey from the '80s Belgrade blues scene to major venues around the world.

MOVE: You’re from a place that's famous for obscure time signatures and very fast tremolo picking. What led you to the blues?

AP: Blues was always being played in my house. My father was into blues music before it gained real popularity, so I was used to it from a very young age. He had many records — I loved Howlin’ Wolf, Sonny Landreth, Stevie Ray Vaughan and B.B. King. I really loved the old Mississippi roots players.

When I started playing, it was natural to play the blues. I never cared much for Balkan music, nor did I ever sing or songwrite in Serbian, so playing the blues fit. It was the right thing for me.

MOVE: Beograd is known as a historic European metropolis. Is there a heavy blues scene there?

AP: There is definitely a big blues scene for those who are familiar with the local musicians and blues locales. It’s somewhat underground. There are many ensembles that play in a classic blues style and play standards — it is not difficult to find good music.

MOVE: How come you’re doing a tour in the U.S.?

AP: Like I said, blues was a constant in my house, so I felt obliged to make blues music. I played in Serbia and then went to school in Amsterdam.

In 1999, I started a band, and naturally wanted to play in the States. There were many people who said it was a stretch and it was too difficult, but I was

determined. If you believe in something, you need to go for it. This is what I tell all young musicians in the Balkans — if you’re sitting, playing in Serbia and waiting for someone to book you in America, it will never happen. One must be charismatic and determined to make it anywhere, especially in music.

I was intent on playing on both sides of the Atlantic, and I pursued that goal.

MOVE: You’ve become very popular in America and throughout the world. Did you ever see yourself playing with blues greats like Sonny Landreth and Buddy Guy? AP: Never. I never wanted to set any goals like that. Setting goals in music is tough, because then one may not be ready for disappointment.

Blues music is my passion. I just wanted to play, and I still just want to play.

I want to do it for as long as I am able to do it. This was all I thought about.

Naturally, I had fallbacks. There are always fallbacks, I love graphic design, and I love art, so options were there if music wasn’t. It was though. I think it’s most important to absorb the journey without thinking about success or fame. The point is to enjoy the ride — everything else just comes with it. But playing on stage with Sonny Landreth and Buddy Guy is still a life achievement, and I feel honored to have done so.

MOVE: Any plans for an upcoming album?

AP: Of course! Half of the next album was recorded in Memphis recently, just two months ago, and we hope to have the next half done by August. I’m actually working on three parallel projects right now, though.

One is an acoustic blues album that I’m quite excited about. The other is a fundamentally funk blues album, while the third is a follow-up to Unconditional. I was very happy with the last album, and this one will have a similar sound. We make time for both touring and recording.

MOVE: What is your main guitar on this tour?

AP: My main guitar is a ’64 Strat — it satisfies the majority of my needs on stage, but I also have a ‘57 Strat reissue with a maple neck that I use for slow blues playing. There a few more guitars I own, mainly a Tele and some acoustics, but everything that I have, I use. I don’t like for guitars to sit in closets — they are meant to be played. I’m no collector, but I love my guitars.

MOVE: You’re headlining The Blue Note's 9th Street Summerfest in a few weeks. How does that feel?

AP: Yes, I’m very excited! We love Columbia. We came last year for the Roots 'N Blues 'N BBQ festival and loved the energy and the turnout. The crowd in Columbia appreciates blues music. It’s a great town, and we’re looking forward to returning. haris fazlic | reporter

FESTIVALS LOLLAPALOOZA LOCATION: CHICAGO DATES: AUG. 3 THROUGH AUG. 5

Let’s just get this one out of the way. Lollapalooza is a staple in the music scene and a summer ritual for many. People always get excited for it, and people will come back from the festival all high and mighty because they were there, which always leaves some who haven’t been able to go slightly bitter. If you want to catch bands like Florence + The Machine, The Black Keys and Red Hot Chili Peppers, make friends with a ticket scalper because it’s already sold out this year.

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VANS WARPED TOUR

PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL

LOCATION: VENUES ACROSS THE U.S. DATES: JUNE 16 THROUGH AUG. 5

LCCATION: CHICAGO DATES: JULY 13 THROUGH JUL. 15

If you look over your shoulder before ducking into a Hot Topic store since you were 14 for fear of being spotted by someone you know, Warped is for you. The traveling rock show crosses the country every summer with dozens of bands, bringing with it all-day mosh pits and boys who still refuse to give up eyeliner.

Taking Back Sunday, All Time Low and New Found Glory are among the many bands that will help you travel back to 2006 and love every second of it.

For those of you who think Lollapalooza is just too mainstream for your special snowflake taste in music, there’s another three-day Chi-Town festival just across the city. Pitchfork’s lineup boasts indie acts like Vampire Weekend, Feist and Sleigh Bells, plus a bunch of other bands I’m sure your friends have never heard of. Earn more cred by getting involved with the festival’s sustainability efforts, like their recycling, composting and use of biodiesel fuel to power your favorite obscure tunes.

MOVE IN THE KITCHEN:

funnel cakes

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Nothing smells more like a county fair than frying oil. Don’t wait for the fair to indulge in hot funnel cakes — instead, get in that kitchen and make it yourself!

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GET THIS: 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 cups vegetable oil confectioners’ sugar

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1 egg 2/3 cup milk 1 1/4 cups flour 1/4 teaspoon salt

DO THIS: 1. In a deep skillet, heat two cups of vegetable oil over medium heat. When the oil is ready for frying, drop a small bit of flour into the skillet. If it sizzles without smoking, it’s ready for frying.

2. Meanwhile, whisk the egg and milk together.

3. Slowly add flour, salt, baking powder and vanilla extract into the egg-milk mixture, whisking after each ingredient is added.

4. Once the oil is hot, pour the batter into a gallon-sized plastic bag.

Cut one corner of the bag, similar to how you would cut a pastry bag, and squeeze it into the skillet. Start by making a spiral with the batter in the hot oil, and then go back and forth in a web-like pattern. By this point, the hot oil will jump out of the skillet, so watch out.

5. Wait two to three minutes. Once the funnel cake is golden brown, flip it over with a spatula to make sure both sides are evenly fried.

6. Take the funnel cake out while hot and coat it with powdered sugar. Add chocolate syrup and strawberries if you wish, then dig in! savannah kannberg | associate editor SAVANNAH KANNBERG l PHOTOGRAPHER

Boone Dawdle trailblazers prepare for third year The True/False Film Fest hosts its third installment of the Boone Dawdle on Aug. 18.

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With the warm weather and students gone from town, it's easy for things to slow down in Columbia during the summertime.

But for the True/False Film Fest, Columbia's documentary film festival, summer is the perfect time to roll out a different kind of film-going experience.

True/False will hold its third annual Boone Dawdle on Aug. 18, bringing

Columbians an evening of bicycling, music, food and film. The 30-mile adventure along the MKT and Katy trails begins downtown and ends on the bluff tops in Rocheport overlooking the Missouri River.

"It's a surprise- and music-filled bike ride down the trail which culminates in a local food picnic, concert and outdoor movie at Les Bourgeois Winery," True/ False managing director Jeremy Brown says. "We wanted to offer people a sample of True/False in the summertime and do something a little bit different from the festival."

This year's Boone Dawdle has been in the works for several months.

"Every year we change things around and try to make it feel more interesting," True/False co-director David Wilson says. "We've beefed up some of the trailside surprises. It's a great way to dive back into Columbia."

Upon arriving at the winery, participants will hear the psychedelic band Cave, an outfit formed in Columbia now based in Chicago. The evening will also include a screening of "The Source," a new documentary about a Los Angeles commune during the 1970s. True to

True/False form, the audience will be able to partake in a post-screening Q&A session with Source Family member Isis Aquarian and film co-director Jodie Wille.

Jonathan Sessions, who has previously participated in the Boone Dawdle, registered to ride the trails again in August. He said he enjoys how the event brings out many faces in the community.

"You get to meet a lot of people," he says. "All kinds of different folks come out for this, young and old. And it's a great experience to get out if you're a college student."

Sessions is enthusiastic the Boone Dawdle has also received so much community support.

"This is something that I hope becomes part of that Columbia tradition," Session says.

Participants can buy tickets online for the picnic and film screening atop the bluffs, the bike ride along the trails and both events.

Additional information about the Boone Dawdle can be found on the True/False Film Fest's website. jennifer liu | reporter

“The Amazing Spider-Man” is debatably so.

“The Amazing Spider-Man” swung into theaters just in time for the Fourth of July, which awkwardly fell on a Wednesday this year. One would assume a holiday centered on blowing things up and drinking wouldn’t fall directly in the middle of a week, but apparently our founders were not forward-thinking enough to sign the declaration on “the first Friday of July.” But I digress — there’s a movie waiting to be reviewed.

As the new writer of an old column, it seemed all too appropriate for the first column to cover director Marc Webb’s restart of Marvel’s storied “Spider-Man” franchise. There was ample pressure on the director of “(500) Days of Summer” to make this movie better than the webbed hero’s first foray onto the big screen back in 2002. “The Amazing Spider-Man” did improve upon a few of the weaknesses in the original “SpiderMan” but was still missing that special something Spider-Man needs to contend with any of the other superhero movie franchises (Except for “Green Lantern.” Ryan Reynolds is the only reason that movie is remotely watchable).

Andrew Garfield (“The Social Network”) was called up to fill the shoes for “The Amazing Spider-Man” previously inhabited by Tobey Maguire. Garfield played the role of Peter Parker well and seemed to be very comfortable with it.

His version of the character seemed much more fluid than Maguire’s. He still held to the stereotypical reserved, angstridden high schooler personality that is part of Spider-Man canon, but Garfield seemed more interesting and relatable overall. There is no doubt Garfield has the potential to completely overshadow Maguire’s Spider-Man if he stays with the franchise.

Anyone who has seen the trailers knows New York’s favorite genetically modified human goes toe-to-toe against the originally named villain, The Lizard. Rhys Ifans (Xenophilius Lovegood in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1”) delivers a quality performance, yet his character could have used more originality, and he at times felt like the reptilian version of Doctor Octopus. Considering the writers were forced to search for a villain unused by the previous trilogy to at least add some originality to the newest movie, The Lizard wasn’t a poor choice of villain.

The rest of the movie is marked by a new love story.

“The Amazing Spider-Man” decided to trash MJ’s character (thank you, Marc Webb) and go with Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) instead. Everyone knows the on-again, off-again story of MJ and Peter Parker already. This is something new and (hopefully) without the monotonous “I can’t be Spider-Man and be with you” character development black hole into which the last trilogy fell.

So there’s Andrew Garfield’s great performance, the inclusion of a new villain and love story, a more polished backstory and. finally and rather notably, the correction of a mistake the last trilogy couldn’t take four seconds to distinguish: Spider-Man doesn’t shoot webs out of his wrists because that was never one of his powers. He has to build a gadget to do it. Props to Marc Webb for getting this crucial original detail right.

Unfortunately, “The Amazing Spider-Man” has one fatal flaw that has a vastly negative impact on what would be an average to above-average superhero movie: the original “Spider-Man” was released in 2002, and the subsequent movies were released in 2004 and 2007. It was far too soon to make another movie. Based on the box office totals from “Spider-Man,” you watched it 10 years ago and probably have a few times since then.

Overall, “The Amazing Spider-Man” is a decent movie.

It’s not great, but it was enjoyable to watch and provided a few hours of entertainment. If you really love Spider-Man, or haven’t seen “Spider-Man” or “Spider-Man 2” recently, go see it. You’ll enjoy it. If you want to see something new and exciting, then “The Amazing Spider-Man” isn’t even close to the movie for you, and you will leave feeling like you just rewatched the original “Spider-Man” without the annoying bits.

FESTIVALS OUTSIDE LANDS LOCATION: SAN FRANCISCO DATES: AUG. 10 THROUGH AUG. 12

To get down with your inner hippie, head out west to Outside Lands. Held in the famous Golden Gate Park, you can commune with nature while taking in some fantastic scenery and the most eclectic lineup of the season. Where else can you see Metallica, Regina Spektor and Skrillex in the same place? Outside Lands isn’t just about the music, either — art installations, wine tastings and gourmet food await you. Go get you some culture!

MISSOURI STATE FAIR LOCATION: SEDALIA DATES: AUG. 9 THROUGH AUG. 19

What’s better than going to the fair, ingesting obscene amounts of cotton candy and snow cones and then hopping on one of those insane whirly rides that whips you around until you feel like you’re going to die? Pretty much nothing, that’s what — so show some Missourah pride and hit up the state fair. Sedalia is only an hour west of Columbia, so there’s no excuse for not going to see pig races or the Missouri Fiddling Championship.

KANSAS CITY RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL LOCATION: BONNER SPRINGS DATES: SEPT. 1 THROUGH OCT. 14

Campy things are always the best things. Round out your 2012 festival tour just outside Kansas City at the renaissance festival, where you can pretend to live in the 1500s when cellphones and the Internet didn’t exist, if that’s your thing. Get your fortune told by a gypsy, dance with a court jester and witness a jousting competition during the festival’s month and a half run. The festival is open on weekends, so when you totally miss your mom after the first week of classes, just know there’s someone in tights willing to treat you like a king or queen. compiled by lauren guminger | reporter 07.10.12 • MOVE

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Swag to snag for festival season

fashion columnist

STYLE FILES

claire boston

Thriving off thrifting Whether you're looking to beat the summer heat by refreshing your hot weather wardrobe or you’ve already turned your attention to fall fashion, resist the urge to head to the mall the next time you’re looking to add to your closet. Though it may be tempting to lump every used clothing store under the blanket term “thrift store,” secondhand shops identify themselves by using unique terminology. Here’s a detailed breakdown of different types of secondhand stores and specific suggestions in CoMo: The thrift store: Generally, a thrift store’s selection is determined entirely based on donations it receives, so finding pieces can be a hit-or-miss process. However, the low prices easily excuse the days when the pickings are slim. Expect shirts and shorts for less than $5 and dresses and shoes for less than $10. As an added bonus, thrift stores are sometimes run in conjunction with a charity, so you might be able to justify your too-frequent shopping trips if they benefit a worthy cause. Nearby thrift stores include the Columbia Goodwill Store (1405 Grindstone Parkway) and the Salvation Army (1304 Parkdale Blvd.).

Consignment shops: Consignment shops are the thrift store’s classy older sibling — to stock their racks, they purchase gently used pieces from people who recently purged their closets. You can expect to find a nice selection of sundresses, party dresses and various shirts and tops from brands you recognize. While most items will be in the $10 to $40 range, the quality of the available selection tends to be more reliable than that of thrift stores. If you’re looking to make some quick cash, consignment stores will likely offer you about 10 percent of an item’s retail value.

Nearby consignment shops include New Beginning Consignment Clothing (7 S. Tenth Street) and Plato’s Closet (2609 E. Broadway).

Vintage stores: Selection here is easily the crème de la crème of all secondhand shopping, but vintage pricing can be high enough to make you cringe. The central dogma of vintage store pricing is fairly straightforward: the older the product, the higher the price.

However, they are still worth checking out if you’re in search of a perfect period Halloween costume or if you don’t mind paying extra for the more reliable selection. Check out Maude Vintage (818 E. Broadway) or Absolute Vintage (923 E. Broadway).

For the unabridged version, visit our website at move.themaneater.com

kyle primack | reporter

Whether you're headed to Lolla or 9th Street Summerfest, here's a checklist to make sure you've packed the necessities for your day out.

Festivals have been an American staple since Woodstock. They're perfect symbols of American exceptionalism and hold true to our belief in freedom of speech. In a festival crowd, everyone can express themselves in their own ways: fuzzy animal hats and tie-dye skirts are celebrated, not looked down upon. When somebody asks for a drink from your CamelBak, it is usually followed by the positive and heartwarming response, “Yeah, bro, for sure.”

But do not be mistaken. It takes time, energy and a little creativity to get ready for these festivals. Can't decide between shoes or sandals? Water bottles or CamelBaks? Sunscreen or tanning oil? No fear. With this swag, you can look awesome while still beating the heat: Blankets:

Towel:

They're big enough for five of your friends but still very easy to schlep around. During dead times between acts, there is no better (or, uh, cleaner) place to sit than on your blanket.

Head massager:

For those of you who sweat profusely, it would be a great idea to invest in a towel. The mixture of the humidity and the art of dance can at times be ... unbecoming. The towel is a perfect “swagger savior.”

Lighter/clap apps:

If you're going to a festival solely to befriend everyone there, this is the perfect conversation and lifelong friendship starter.

Gum: Swagger starts with this savory snack. Gum is arguably the most important item on this list. Bad breath is unacceptable at a festival, and as long as your mouth is occupied by the aroma of mint, green apple or watermelon, you will be accepted.

Sunglasses:

What hits artists' cores is when you show your appreciation for their music. There is no better way to do so than taking out your cellular devices and holding your virtual lighters high. One Clap, which is exactly what it sounds like, is annoying yet incredibly fun — for the first 30 seconds, at least.

Camera: People love taking pictures with random people. It's a law of nature.

Hats:

These festival staples will protect your beautiful retinas from the sun whether they're goofy glasses or beautiful, fragile Ray-Bans. Fan fave: refraction glasses (go to your physics professor — he will have 1,000 stashed in his desk).

Sunscreen: Not to be your mom, but you need it. It is very easy to get lost in the music and forget about your skin. Remember to take the extra five minutes to help yourself.

Much like sunglasses, hats are important for several reasons. They protect your head while making a fashion statement. Whether you are rocking a snapback, fedora, beanie or graduation cap, express yourself.

CamelBak: A CamelBak is in a league of its own. It can hold most items on this list while simultaneously dispensing water for your dehydrated body. The CamelBak swagger is off the charts, and quite frankly, a true festival experience cannot be had without one.

9 Best CoMo Fests

The NINE coolest festivals in Columbia and central Missouri victoria ross | reporter

As amazing as MU is, sometimes all a student needs is some off-campus fun. This list consists of the nine coolest festivals in central Missouri, most of which are right here in Columbia. Worried about stretching your budget with an off-campus excursion? No worries, some of the events are completely free!

Midway Music Festival 5 p.m. Aug. 24 Midway Expo Center Tickets: $36 Pretty Lights, Curren$y, Coyote Kisses and Keys N Krates will take over Midway, where Dayglow was held only a few months before. Think you're ready for round two?

Go back to 1859 and celebrate with old crafts and trades. Events include cowboys and wagons, ghost stories and village tours!

Artrageous Fridays 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Oct. 12 to 13

Citizen Jane Film Festival 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 15 to 16

Downtown Columbia Tickets: Free A self-guided art crawl through downtown, Artrageous Fridays are a celebration of the arts in central Missouri.

Columbia Tickets: TBA In collaboration with Stephens College, Citizen Jane showcases films directed by women in an effort to increase awareness of females in the movie industry. Expect diverse films and rowdy after-parties. It's OK, boys — you can come too.

Living Windows Festival 6 to 8p.m. Dec. 7

True/False Film Festival March 2013

Downtown Columbia Tickets: Free

Downtown Columbia Tickets: TBA

Every year, the shopkeepers of CoMo fill their windows with living figures of holiday cheer. Three words: "free," "food" and "discounts."

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35th Annual Heritage Festical and Craft Show 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 15 to 16 Nifong Park Tickets: Free

Easily one of central Missouri's most prestigious festivals, True/False showcases ruthlessly independent documentaries, often fresh from Sundance.

Roots 'N Blues N' BBQ Sept. 21-22 Downtown Columbia Tickets: $55+ Roots 'N' Blues 'N' BBQ is an annual festival that benefits music education in Columbia schools. This year's fest features major headline artists such as Al Green and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, the folksy darlings behind "Home."

Deutsch Country Days 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 20 to 21 Marthasville Tickets: $13.50 Check out how the early German settlers of Missouri kicked it — Deutsch Country Days offers all the German culture you could ask for. Eat delicious homemade dishes, watch artisans master their craft and even practice your sausagestuffing skills!

St. Louis Storytelling Festivals May 2013 St. Louis Tickets: Free Local and nationally acclaimed storytellers gather in St. Louis for this event sponsored

by UM-St. Louis. Go on — you're never too old for stories.

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PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

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President barack obama fought for it. Mitt romney wants to get rid of it.

What does it mean for you?

What are the consequences of the PPACA for you? At more than 380,000 words long, it’s an intricate and complex bill. Add to that the fact parts of the bill have been in effect since 2010 but others won’t be fully enacted until 2018, and it’s easy to get lost. We’re here to help break down some of the facts, figures and effects of the PPACA and how it applies to you as a college student.

INFORMATION COMPILED BY CSN EDITOR MATTHEW FLORES With its 5-4 decision June 28, the Supreme Court upheld a majority of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, one of the cornerstones of Obama’s presidency. The law has faced scrutiny and criticism from its proposal in 2009 to its signing into law the next year and even in this year’s election cycle. The PPACA dominated national news, making terms like “public option,” "individual mandate” and “death panels” part of the public vernacular.. Writing in the majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts made it clear the decision did not reflect the morality of the law, only its ability to stand under the Constitution. “(Policy) decisions are entrusted to our nation’s elected leaders, who can be thrown out of office if the people disagree with them,” he wrote. “It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.”

What the aca means for you

justices vote The healthcare debate promised to split the court along party lines, but a surprise swing vote from the Chief Justice allowed the law to be upheld. Here's a look at how each justice voted and when they were appointed to the bench.

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Currently

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Prohibits insurers from charging higher premiums based on pre-existing conditions for policyholders under the age of 19

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No insurance plans, including campus health plans, are allowed to put lifetime caps on coverage

aug. 1, 2012

Other preventative screenings, such as mammograms and colonoscopies, will be covered without required copays

Allows young adults to remain on their parents’ health insurance plans up to the age of 26, even after college graduation

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Requires all medical care facilities, including campus health systems, to restructure their plans so that more of the money paid by policyholders goes to medical care

2014

Those who are capable of purchasing health insurance will be required to do so or pay a fee

Chief Justice John Roberts (G.W. Bush, 2005)

Justice Anthony Kennedy (Reagan, 1988)

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg (Clinton, 1993)

Justice Clarence Thomas (G.H.W. Bush, 1991)

Justice Stephen Breyer (Clinton, 1994)

Justice Samuel Alito (G.W. Bush, 2006)

Justice Sonia Sotomayor (Obama, 2009) Justice Elena Kagan (Obama, 2010)

missouri’s coverage The ACA promises to bring coverage to all Americans, but Missourians on average have higher percentages of coverage than other states in the nation.

currently

Preventative services are covered by the ACA, including alcohol counseling, HIV screening, STI screening and contraceptive coverage

Has Coverage

86%

84% on medicaid

Has Private Coverage

64%

68%

uninsured

15.3%

on medicare

Additional funding to the Children’s’ Insurance Health Program (CHIP)

16.3% Missouri

2013

National

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“ofThis Election will decide whether the states will approve a complete government takeover healthcare or if a private insurance market will remain. The incredibly high stakes of

Missouri’s gubernatorial election just got even higher.”

-Bill Randles, Missouri GOP Gubernatorial Candidate

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This ruling has significant complexities and implications for families, health care providers and insurers in our state.”

- Gov. Jay Nixon

“premiums, This decision does not change the fact that ObamaCare will lead to higher health care increased federal spending, and greater uncertainty for small business owners nationwide.”

- Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo.

“likeWhile all American families deserve access to high-quality, affordable health coverage, many Missourians, I believe this law does nothing to better achieve these goals.”

Source: healthcare.gov, USNews.com, US Census Bureau, news releases of elected officials, politicmo.com, governor.mo.gov, cnn.com, firedupmissouri.com

- US Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer

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Higher ed cuts haven’t gone unnoticed by college students When the state legislature passed its version of the budget in spring, it had restored all of Gov. Jay Nixon’s proposed budget cuts to higher education. The legislature sent it to Nixon to be signed, saying the budget was balanced. Then, somehow, he found reason to shave $9 million from the $24 billion higher education fund. Is anyone else having déjà vu? This feels like the budget cuts we’ve been getting for three years now.

We understand the budget has to be balanced, which often means cuts for some programs. But higher ed in Missouri has been on the chopping block too many times, and we are already one of the most underfunded states when it comes to education. What’s worse, this cut seems pretty symbolic. Nixon said the budget could not be balanced without cuts to higher education throughout the budgeting process, but the legislature proved him wrong by finding a way to avoid them.

House Budget Committee Chairman Ryan Silvey said Nixon’s cuts were completely political, and we can’t say we disagree. It seems Nixon didn’t want to admit he was wrong. His reason for the cut was to balance the budget, which he apparently found to be $50 million out of budget. Regardless of whom was doing his or her math correctly, Nixon’s changes didn’t even balance the budget, since his changes only shifted $15 million.

On top of that discrepancy, Nixon just signed a bill that promises to match higher education institutions’ raised funds with state funds for some construction projects. The bill only applies to certain projects, but it’s not hard to see this bill could cost the state much more than $9 million. Last year, renovations to Switzler and Tate halls cost $15 million. Had this bill been signed then, the state would have owed MU $7.5 million. Missouri is home to dozens of higher education institutions — if just two have projects the size of Switzler and Tate halls’ renovations, this bill backfires. We’re not against the offer, but it’s illogical. Don’t take away $9 million and then offer even more with a catch. Either the state is making empty promises or Nixon didn’t need to cut higher education this year. Either way, Nixon should be consistent in what he signs.

When the legislature passed a budget restoring higher education funding, Missouri students had a taste of what it felt like to go to school in a state that cares about higher education. That feeling ended with Nixon’s changes — he reminded students Missouri is the sixth worst state when it comes to funding public colleges and universities.

We didn’t lose much, but this was not a step in the right direction.

Hopefully Nixon doesn’t expect these changes to go unnoticed by students. More importantly, it’d be a mistake for him to think students won’t head to the polls in November and let him know what we think of his recent actions.

New residence hall is a good step towards solving enrollment issue

When the Class of 2015 arrived on campus last August, MU struggled to find housing for incoming freshman and returning students on campus.

At a university scrambling for funds, an 83.6 percent acceptance rate can be a burden when it comes to practicalities like finding shelter for each of them. With an even bigger freshman class this year, it looks like the Department of Residential Life and the UM System Board of Curators are finally taking the hint — the Board of Curators approved the construction of a new residence hall June 23.

The new hall, tentatively titled Virginia Avenue South, will open in fall 2015, and Residential Life expects it to be filled immediately. With Johnston Hall and Mark Twain Hall undergoing renovation,s the need for a new residence hall has become more than obvious. All of these changes are part of the Residential Life Master Plan, which aims to better student living arrangements campus-wide. Since it was announced in 2001, the master plan has helped MU improve its student residence halls annually, and we acknowledge they have stuck to the plan and have helped students in the process.

The Division of Enrollment Management has estimated that 6,450 freshmen will enroll for the fall semester. It’s the third consecutive year the freshman class record has been broken. This after university officials predicted enrollment would decrease over the next few years. Students have been calling on MU for years to either make additional accommodations for its growing population or decrease the number of students admitted. Will one new residence hall solve all of our problems? No. Will it be enough by the time it’s finished in 2015? No. But it’s something. And from Residential Life, it’s a lot given our current financial situation.

The new hall will cost $28.4 million to build and will eventually house 330 students. We already have a class demanding much more than 330 spots, and by the time those rooms are available, the number could be even larger. But we also understand that’s the best that could happen with our funds. Yes, it would be nice to just cut enrollment, but then we might not have the funds to build residence halls. It’s good that Residential Life is doing this in the face of budget cuts from the state government. But if enrollment trends don’t change, we’ll likely have an even larger freshman class next year and for years to come. It’s not in Residential Life’s power to change those numbers, but it is its job to provide housing to every student.

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MU should let Log off: social networking is law handle crimes killing our communication skills Kristen Powers

Ian Servantes

Throughout my childhood, I didn’t always see eye-to-eye with those in positions of authority. I wasn’t what you would call a “bad kid,” but often times I found myself questioning the need for certain rules, like the ones governing the appropriate times for talking in class or how many times you can use the word “fuck” in a persuasive speech (the answer, it turns out, is zero. Though, in my defense, I was quoting a rapper, and it’s difficult to find quotes from them without “fuck” in one form or another).

And as I often found out, there are consequences for breaking the rules, no matter how unjust you think they are. Talking in class led to roughly 12 grades worth of report cards with “too much socializing” in the comment sections.

Dropping the F-bomb resulted in me doing 10 pushups in front of the entire class and getting an B instead of a A on what was an otherwise brilliant speech.

These days, my continued fight against rules that are inequitable and arbitrary has brought on more serious consequences. Terms like “trespassing” or “student conduct violation” are starting to be thrown around just for wanting to throw a touchdown pass on Faurot Field at a time when the stadium might or might not have been open to the public.

One night, we managed to sneak into Memorial Stadium.

We ran down the steps then onto the field, surprised at how easy it was to get in. Now was our chance to play ball on a real college field, which is exactly what we did until we were out of breath and the Missouri humidity had brought out enough of our sweat.

Still unsatisfied, we decided to check out the area beneath the band’s seating on the south side of the stadium.

That was when we got busted.

A cop pulled up with only a fence in between us, leaving my friends and I utterly conspicuous. We were issued tickets for trespassing and then sent on our way. It didn’t seem like a big deal and it turned out to not be, at least on the legal side.

But MU wasn’t satisfied with letting the law handle it.

Instead of dealing with the long dick of the law, I had to deal with the long dick of the school. The law’s dick was actually quite small and painless in comparison.

The punishment handed down to me was three essays — each totaling more than 1,500 words — a year of disciplinary probation and 25 hours of community service.

I wouldn’t go as far as saying rules are meant to be broken because I quite enjoy the safety of breaking into my house and kicking me in the nuts being illegal. Instead, I’ll say we should live by the spirit of the law rather than the letter of it.

Punishing me for trespassing makes sense if I broke in and spray-painted “Ian was here” or took a dump on the 50-yard line. But for something so innocuous as tossing the old pigskin around? Not so much.

Also worth consideration is the fact so many students have done the same thing.

Breaking in and kissing the 50 is one of the seven unofficial traditions of this school. Despite five of them being illegal and despite what I’m being forced to write in those monstrous essays, the traditions are relatively harmless. They don’t encourage vandalism — they encourage exploration.

That exploration can be a beautiful thing, as students get to see some of the unique parts of our beautiful campus.

Sure, it’s risky, and the administration will point out students can fall climbing onto Jesse Hall or into the sewers.

But I know many people who’ve ventured into those areas, none of whom got hurt.

At the very least, MU should let the law handle these violations and not add insult to injury. I’m not suggesting I should have gotten away with what I did — I just think the punishment far outweighed the crime.

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As college students, we all need technology to function, but some of us crave it. Whenever one of my professors doesn’t use Blackboard, students get annoyed because the system makes accessing study materials and grades much easier. Cellphones have gone far beyond making calls and texting.

I personally get lost and frustrated without a GPS, and the games and apps on smartphones have given many of us the means to kill time.

Smartphones are so prevalent that providers are reportedly worried about the possibility of a spectrum crunch — the idea that we could “run out” of airwaves for data signaling because of increased smartphone and Wi-Fi use.

Even if that never happens, our fears of a theoretical spectrum crunch reflect how technology use is being taken to the extreme. As a result of our increased consumption of technology, social networking in particular, we have to deal with aspects of our social identities

that never have existed before, and it is starting to have an unhealthy effect.

Online networks place a pressure on us to be available at all times. Of all the social networks out there, the one that seems to have nearly universal membership is Facebook. With its more than 901 million users as of March 2012, Facebook’s massive social network is severely distorting how we perceive our relationships with others. Some openly fret about their number of “friends” on Facebook, which is often in the thousands for more prolific users.

The idea we can maintain a contact network of this size in which people are anything more than a number on a web page is completely implausible.

Research has shown the brain cannot handle more than 100 to 150 meaningful connections with other people in one’s immediate day-to-day life. Social networking has its purpose, but it is important we keep the purpose of sites like Facebook in context and avoid using it as a replacement for meaningful social interaction. Solely communicating with someone via text can get boring, and a lot of nuanced emotions can get lost when not communicating in person.

Because of this, these sites should primarily serve as a sort of Rolodex, not as a social register or replacement for direct interaction.

Another distressing side effect of our

increasingly large electronic identities is once you put something online, it exists indefinitely, which could be harmful for younger generations. If every thought I had as a 14-year-old was documented on Twitter, I would be living under a rock from embarrassment.

What’s more, the legacy you leave on the Internet could outlive you, giving others the freedom to manipulate it. At the Coachella Music Festival this year, holograms of the late Tupac Shakur and Nate Dogg appeared onstage. Though this performance helped increase the sale of Tupac’s records by nearly 600 percent, some privacy advocates voiced their disapproval, and rapper Waka Flocka Flame complained record companies were “getting paid off a dead man’s body.”

Most of us aren’t particularly worried about being regenerated as a hologram postmortem, but the increasing size of the average person’s online presence is making it increasingly difficult for us to control the information we choose to share with people. As society increasingly judges people based on their online identities, this lack of control can be extremely frustrating.

Because of the unhealthy effects of online social networking, I suggest we leave our laptops and make an effort to connect more with our friends faceto-face.

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Misplaced incentives disrupt markets and destroy our future A.J. Feather The 2008 recession can teach us a lot, but many Americans refuse to take the time to learn. It’s not rocket science.

If you’ve turned on the news in the last three years or heard someone rant about the 2008 fiscal crisis, you probably heard some very abstract anger toward “big banks” or greed.

These arguments are similar in some ways to saying water is wet. Yes, these things exist. That doesn’t explain why they’re so horrible, though.

Normally, greed creates incentive for big banks to make good loans — that is, banks make loans to people who can afford to pay them back. As a result, big greedy banks get their money back with interest.

So why did banks make bad loans that resulted in the housing collapse?

There were countless factors at play, but the implicit guarantee the government would bail out failing banks, especially Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, was the driving force, which altered incentive.

The precedent was set several years ago under the Greenspan era of the Federal Reserve in an attempt to limit losses. The intentions were good, but this opened up the floodgates for more

recklessness, as most well-meaning government policies do. That is, no rational person would give someone with an astoundingly low credit rating a mortgage that jumps from 3 percent to 8 percent after two years. Regardless, when banks were given the ability to package these mortgages and sell them to larger banks, why wouldn’t they?

It’s a win-win situation, except for the people bailing the banks out.

The implicit guarantees on these banks appeared to work at first.

The housing market looked great, and the price of houses did as well.

Unfortunately, though, as with all other artificial stimulants, the high doesn’t last forever.

Since you’re reading this, you’re probably going to be at MU this August.

Congratulations! That means you’re a part of the latest and greatest financial bubble!

College is a great excuse to move out on your own, learn a lot (or a little), have a lot of fun and generate mountains of student debt. When you leave, your finances will look like you just recovered from a gambling addiction. However, unlike a gambling addiction, the school will give you a piece of paper that some employers might or might not care you have. It’s fun, right?

The student loan bubble, not unlike the housing bubble, is the result of a large misallocation of resources.

College tuition hasn’t just increased at the same rate as other prices — it has taken off like a rocket. In fact, the cost of tuition and fees at an average four-year public school has risen by 150 percent to an average of $8,244 per student

since 1990, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Why is this explosion of tuition occurring? You guessed it — the government altered the incentive! By giving out student loans to everyone and his cousin, Uncle Sam made cash for tuition a lot easier to obtain. Who cares if my tuition is $35,000 a year if my Pell Grant covers $15,000 of it and my student loans get another chunk (for now, anyway)?

Now that students can access ridiculous amounts of money and justify the expense of college because it’s going to “help” them get a job, what would any rational institution do in reaction to this artificial increase in demand? That’s right, raise prices!

Greed isn’t the problem. Educational institutions aren’t the problem.

Misplaced incentives are the problem.

As long as the federal government makes more cash available for student loans, college tuition will increase and more semi-useless institutions will spring up.

The housing bubble was dangerous.

Millions of retirement plans hung in the balance. But the student loan bubble might be even more dangerous. If the bank making the loans collapses this time, the government won’t be able to bail it out. That’s because this time, the government is the bank. Ah well, what’s another trillion dollars in debt? We’re already at $16 trillion.

This insanity won’t continue forever.

It will blow up like the mortgage loan debacle did. Let’s pray the fallout doesn’t destroy higher education the way the housing bubble decimated the housing market.

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MU AtHLETES’ OLYMPIC DREAMS FALL SHORT Freshman Kearsten Peoples fights her way to fourth at trials

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Sophomore thrower kearsten Peoples practices throwing shot put during a summer workout at audrey J. Walton Stadium. Peoples won the Big 12 outstanding Freshman award this past year.

Mihir Bhagat Staff Writer Sophomore Kearsten Peoples finished fourth at the Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore., in the shot put, one spot short of qualifying for the London 2012 Summer Olympics. It marked an impressive finish to her first season in Columbia.

But the way it all began might be even more impressive.

Peoples, who grew up in Ottawa, Kan., began playing sports in seventh grade but didn’t have immediate success.

“At first I thought, ‘Maybe I don’t want to do this,” she said.

“But my coach told me to stick with it. Looking back, I can’t imagine where I would be if I didn’t do track.”

Peoples’ life was challenging off the track, too. She grew up with a single mother and, as the eldest, was often responsible for

taking care of her four siblings.

Peoples moved out of her mom’s house when she was 17 because the two did not get along.

“Being in that situation made me grow up faster than other people my age,” she said. “Some parents try to hold their kids down while they’re supposed to be living. If I had a parent to tell me what to do now, I don’t know if I’d be able to handle it because I know how to be responsible and take care of myself.”

Peoples said she has moved on from her past and doesn’t want to be treated differently.

“A lot of people could have that built up inside and want that to push them, but there’s nothing now that can be done to change that,” she said. “I’ve found a way to say, ‘Yeah, it happened, and I’ve had the support to bring me back up, so why look back on it?’”

But it still isn’t an easy road. Earlier in the season, she fouled out at the Big 12 Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships.

“I’ve done the same thing in the same meet, and it’s so tough to come back the next day and compete,” director of team operations Krishna Lee said. “She came back and threw amazingly.

That’s a true testament to her competitive spirit, especially being so young.”

Peoples’ resiliency comes from within, Lee said.

“Some people just have it,” Lee said. “You can tell people as much as you want to refocus but if they don’t believe it themselves, there’s not a lot you can do. She believes it herself.”

Peoples said she’s also driven to be a role model.

“People that come from my background, they feel like they can’t make it to the top,” she said.

“I want to prove that wrong. It doesn’t matter where you come from; if you’re rich or poor, big or small; it doesn’t matter. It’s just how hard you try.”

Though Peoples remains focused, her teammates said she likes to have fun too.

“She’ funny and very loud,” said sophomore javelin thrower Hailey Twietmeyer. “She kind of embarrasses me a bit every now and then, but she’s fun and very outgoing.”

Peoples said she brings that laid-back attitude to competition.

“I’m probably the only person on our team who isn’t stuck to what they do before meets,” she said. “There are people who will watch all these motivational videos and eat all the proper foods.

I don’t, because what happens if you can’t follow your routine?

You just have to go with the flow.”

Peoples’ resume suggests her method works. In her first season at Missouri, she won the Big 12 championship discus title and the Big 12 Outstanding Freshman Award and has earned first-team All-American honors in both discus and shot put.

Lee, then-assistant coach, recalled Peoples’ initial visit to MU. “The first time I saw her I told (head coach Brett Halter), “She’s built just like Jessica Pressley,’” she said. “’We have to get her here.”

Pressley is the defending national champion in shot put.

Others have also compared Peoples to former Missouri thrower Christian Cantwell, who recently qualified for the U.S. Olympic team.

But People said she has set her bar higher.

“I want to be better,” she said.

“I want to be the best in the world.”

MU grad Leinert chases Olympic track berth, doctoral degree While studying for her doctorate, Shannon Leinert rediscovered her dream and tried to achieve it.

Brent Pearson Reporter Shannon Leinert had a dream. The dream, which was conceived at age 10, was to run in the Olympics.

Leinert, 24, graduated from MU in 2010 with a decorated collegiate track career. Before she stepped foot on MU’s track, she began collegiate athletics at the University of Florida. She transferred to MU with two years of eligibility remaining.

With the Tigers, Leinert became the indoor and outdoor Big 12 Conference champion in the 800-meter dash, qualified for the NCAA Championship twice and marked a time of 2 minutes,

4.34 seconds in an indoor race, still second in program record books.

“My fondest memory was the positive and supportive team atmosphere,” she said. “I was on the 4-x-400 meter team that has the school record, and the excited, loud cheering from the team during that race was always an unbelievable experience.”

The St. Louis native returned to Columbia in 2011 to study for a doctoral degree in special education at the place where she gained an interest in the field.

“I have always been passionate about growing as a person both physically and intellectually,” she said. “I fell in love with special education and learning about kids with special needs so that I can learn how to improve their quality of life.”

After watching the 800-meter dash at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Leinert saw the runners were between the ages of 27 and 32.

“I thought to myself, I am only 22; I am just a baby in the running world, and if life

doesn’t get in the way, I want to try and make this dream possible,” she said.

And so, as a doctoral student, Leinert rediscovered her dream.

She laced up her shoes and set her sights on the 2012 Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore. An intense training regiment began for Leinert. She ran 60 miles a week, an increase of 15 miles from her collegiate training.

“I didn’t think I would make the trials,” she said. “I wanted to train in hopes that I would make it.”

In the months leading up to the trials, Leinert dropped her weekly mileage to 35 miles a week, all while still working on her degree.

“I love running, but on the days I didn’t want to get out of bed and go for a run, I would think to myself that I have no other choice,” Leinert said. “It’s either now or never.”

After 17 years of running competitively, Leinert’s time to achieve her dream came.

“I could not believe I made

it (to the trials) and often described this experience as surreal,” she said.

She began competing at the U.S. Olympic Trials on Friday, June 22. Of 32 runners, Leinert recorded the sixth best time of 2 minutes, 2.78 seconds in the opening round. She advanced to the semi-finals Saturday, needing to place inside the top eight to advance to the finals Monday.

“There are a lot of track fans in the stands cheering you on,” she said. “They are all there to be a part of this. But, at the same time, it is just another track meet.”

Leinert’s first attempt to become a member of the Olympic team ended in disappointment as she finished 16th place in the semi-finals race with a time of 2 minutes, 7.63 seconds.

Her dream has not been put to rest, though.

She still aspires to make the trip to Rio de Janeiro as a member of the 2016 team. She plans to continue training and making a name for herself as a profes-

sional runner with a sponsorship and an agent.

She will continue to pursue her dream by working with MU assistant track coach Fred Binggeli and McMillan Running coach Ben Rosario.

“I really have not come across many athletes that would be able to handle all of that stress, but she did an amazing job,” Rosario said. “In the end I think it will make her stronger because she will know, when she steps on the line, how much she sacrificed to be there.”

Leinert will continue to research for her dissertation in special education. She will receive her degree in May 2013 with an emphasis in autism and positive physiology.

“This year I surprisingly figured out how to balance two professional careers,” she said.

“I know next year will be a new year with new challenges, but I am excited to work hard to meet those challenges.”

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Coaches expect ‘banner year’ for SEC basketball with Missouri The conference has not had more than six teams make the tournament since 1985.

RYAN HOOD Senior Staff Writer Following Missouri’s first Southeastern Conference teleconference with men’s basketball coaches, it was clear the Tigers’ new neighborhood was one thing: top-heavy.

The SEC is home to reigning champion Kentucky and has taken three of the past six titles.

Still, the league is not typically perceived as one of the nation’s most dominant.

That might come down to depth.

Yes, Wildcats coach John Calipari and his “fabulous freshmen” cut down the nets in New Orleans, but only three other SEC schools (Alabama, Florida and Vanderbilt) went dancing into the NCAA tournament. The Big East, the Big 10 Conference, the Big 12 Conference and the Atlantic Coast Conference each had more (with nine, six, six and five, respectively), and the Atlantic 10 Conference and the Mountain West Conference each had four teams in the field of 68.

The league’s coaches think the days of having a few very good teams and a bunch of also-rans are over, as made evident during a teleconference at the end of June.

“I’m excited about the future of the SEC,” Alabama coach Anthony Grant said. “We’ve got some very good teams. There’s the potential for this year to be one of the best in quite a while for our league.”

Grant also said he thinks other SEC coaches feel the same way.

“If you would poll the coaches across the league, I think you’d hear consistently that this could be a banner year for our league, in terms of how many teams we can potentially get into the postseason,” he said.

Calipari wasn’t afraid to give a number to how many teams could get into the postseason.

“You think about our league and the teams that we had, now you add Texas A&M and Missouri — think about what happens now,” Calipari said.

“Now we start moving up a notch in where everybody is. I think, again, seven teams in our league, half of our league is going to be in the NCAA tournament. That’s what I believe. And I think that will be from here on in.”

The SEC has never had more than six teams make the tournament since the field expanded to 64 teams in 1985, but for the fourth time in four years, Calipari’s Wildcats are reloading with one of the nation’s most heralded recruiting classes.

But they should have some stiffer competition than last year when they ran the table in conference play.

Though Florida lost freshman dynamo Bradley Beal, the Gators have plenty of experience returning. Coach Kevin Stallings has built a consistent contender at Vanderbilt, Alabama landed one of the country’s top recruits in Devonta Pollard, Arkansas made strides under coach Mike Anderson last year and South Carolina hired the reputable Frank Martin from Kansas State.

For Missouri, which just had multiple players selected in the same NBA draft for the first time in 23 years, things seem to be looking up, too.

Gone are five of last year’s seven players in the rotation, but the return of former AllBig 12 senior forward Laurence Bowers, coupled with an influx of transfers, could keep coach Frank Haith’s Tigers among the nation’s top 20 in his program’s inaugural SEC season. Led by junior point guard Phil Pressey and senior guard Mike Dixon, Missouri could be a contender to knock Kentucky from its conference throne.

“It’s going to be a special year for the SEC, no question,” Auburn coach Tony Barbee said.

“It’s as strong as any conference in the country … I think this year coming up could be a banner year, the best ever in the SEC, where we’re looking at getting six, seven, maybe even eight teams into the NCAA tournament.”

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