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Diversity at MU Series: Part 3 of 3

Still a long way to go for diversity course ZACH MURDOCK Associate Editor

This is the third and final part of a three-part series on the diversity general education course requirement.

After two white students scattered cotton balls on the front lawn of the Gaines/ Oldham Black Culture Center in spring 2010, students, faculty and the Columbia community called into question the progress MU has made on diversity issues.

In the weeks following the incident, town hall meetings and forums, held by the Legion of Black Collegians and Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative, amplified sentiments about a need for better and more effec-

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"...slow change seems like no change,” Chief Diversity Officer Roger Worthington

tive diversity education and inclusion on campus.

But since 2004, the issue of creating a diversity course requirement has stalled.

Administrators point to a variety of hurdles that have slowed the requirement’s progress, but six years after a task force recommendation and student backing, a requirement has yet to be finalized.

Former Four Front Co-Chairwoman Jackie CookEberle, now Jackie Gold, was part see DIVERSITY, page 6

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Junior Heidi Hadler helps junior Kelsey Hinds get through the last steps of donating blood while collection staff member Sherry Harris finishes up during the Homecoming Blood Drive at the Hearnes Center on Monday.

The blood drive ended at 6 p.m. Thursday.

25th annual Homecoming Blood Drive surpasses 4,000-unit goal MADELINE O’LEARY Staff Writer

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Tan Time’s contract with the Student Recreation Complex is set to end Dec. 31. Tan Time and the university are at odds regarding Tan Time’s option to renew its lease after the fall semester.

Heat’s on between MU, Tan Time SALLY FRENCH Staff Writer The Spa, the tanning salon in the Student Recreation Complex, plans to take MU to the Missouri Court of Appeals in a lawsuit regarding whether the company has the option to renew its lease for the spring semester.

Operated by Tan Time LLC, The Spa has been in legal battles with MU since 2008, when MU informed the company that its services would no longer be needed by the recreation complex due to health risks posed by

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The contract between MU and Tan Time ends Dec. 31, and MU does not plan to renew the lease contract beyond that date.

“The university will not be renewing the lease contract beyond Dec. 31, 2010, and has informed The Spa partners of this decision,” Recreation Services and Facilities Director Diane Dahlmann said.

But Tan Time’s lawyer said the company has the right to remain in the recreation center regardsee TAN, page 6

The largest student blood drive in the country surpassed its own expectations Thursday night as the final number of collected units of blood was announced.

With an original goal of 4,000 units, MU and the American Red Cross ended the 25th annual Homecoming Blood Drive with a total of 4,217 units to put in the bank.

Each unit of blood can be used to save up to three lives, amounting to around 12,000 possible lives saved, an American Red

Cross news release stated. Based on the final tally, MU’s actual number of possible lives saved was even higher.

Other blood drives will also be happening around the region in different satellite locations, Homecoming Blood Drive Committee member Deli Shirazian said. Some of these locations include Kansas City, Saint Louis, Chicago and Springfield.

“In 1985, the American Red Cross collected 1,600 units of blood over a period of time,” Red Cross Representative Lane Scholz said. “We have grown over

the years.”

Shirazian attributed part of the growth to an increase in nonGreek involvement. Non-Greek students and members of the community were able to schedule appointments at a table at the new student center. Walk-in appointments were also accommodated, a policy different than that of years past.

“The major difference between this year’s blood drive and previous years’ is that there is no deferral day,” she said. “There are just four straight days of blood drive. see DRIVE, page 6

2010 MSA Presidential Election

MSA presidential candidates square off in first debate of election AMANDA CAPUA Staff Writer The three candidates for the Missouri Students Association presidency debated issues concerning MSA’s effectiveness and the diversity climate on campus at a debate Wednesday.

The presidential and vice presidential slates were also asked specific questions about their platforms and how they planned to work for students if elected Nov. 8.

Josh Travis and Michelle Horan; Eric Woods and Emily Moon; and Ben Hansen and

Kaitlin Oxenreider are the three declared slates.

A question regarding diversity on campus, specifically pertaining to Homecoming events, was posed to candidates by a member of the audience and sparked discussion among the slates. Travis said different groups and ethnicities celebrating Homecoming in different ways was not a problem but that he believes there are very clear divides on campus based on race, religion and participation in Greek life that do need attention.

“This speaks to a cultural problem on this campus, one no

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From coal to biomass

Check out The Maneater's video coverage on the campus political climate during election season.

Watch our photo slideshow on the Filipino American Students Association's Barrio Fiesta on Wednesday.

The MU Power Plant is preparing to transition from burning coal to biomass, an alternative Campus Facilities calls more sustainable.

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one really wants to talk about, one no one really listens to when people do talk about it and one no is willing to stand up and fight for,” Travis said. “Homecoming is just a door to walk into the room when we talk about diversity on this campus.”

Hansen said he did not think having the two Homecomings was a bad thing.

“It’s not different because it has to be, it’s different because of tradition and what’s happened since then, for better or worse,” see MSA, page 6

Basketball back in action The Missouri basketball team opens up its exhibition season Nov. 5 with a few new faces and returning aces.

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Events Calendar FRIDAY 15 Exhibition - Charles Schwartz, Missouri’s Audubon: An Artist in Nature 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

State Historical Society (Ellis Library) Film: “Twilight Saga Eclipse” 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Wrench Auditorium (Memorial Union)

SAT/SUN 16/17 Walk a Hound, Lose a Pound 8 p.m. to 11 a.m. meet at the Central Missouri Humane Society MU Game Watch Party All day Bengal Lair (Memorial Union)

MONDAY 18 Feminist Book Club 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

N214/215 (Memorial Union) New Music Ensemble 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

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MSA Senate votes to oppose Prop 2 Taser ban Amanda Capua Staff Writer The Missouri Students Association Senate voted to pass a resolution expressing its opposition to Proposition 2, a ballot measure that would ban personal Taser use, on Wednesday night.

The Senate's decision is in agreement with the Columbia Police Officers Association.

“The proposed ordinance would make it a Class A misdemeanor for citizens, including police officers, to use or threaten to use Tasers, stun guns or any other conducted electrical device against any person within the City,” the official Proposition 2 ballot language states.

According to the MSA legislation, passage of the MSA resolution shows the association's support of a “NO” vote on Proposition 2 on Nov. 2. This resolution puts MSA in agreement with the Columbia Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee and the Columbia Police Officers Association.

The resolution was passed with 19 votes in favor. Eight senators voted in opposition, with two abstaining.

“We’re not saying we’re pro-Taser, we’re just against the ban,” Wood said.

MSA Operations Committee Chairman Justin Mohn said this was an issue of student safety.

“The equipment (that) cops are allowed to carry affects students,” Mohn said. “It’s an issue of student and Columbia safety.”

At Senate, Mohn gave a speech in favor of the resolution. During floor discussion, Senator Tom Wright said he spoke on behalf of the students who were in support of the passage of the proposition, but that he would need to do his own research before making a personal decision.

“I wanted to table (the resolution) or vote no on the resolution at hand,” Wright said. “We need to think about the other side.”

Wright said he did not think it was right for the student government to decide on what the school believes when the student population is unaware of what is happening.

“I was fighting for people who may not want police to have Tasers,” Wright said.

Greg Loeffler, Campus and Community Relations Committee chairman, said he and his committee spent several weeks discussing the Taser issue before making a resolution and bringing it to the Senate floor.

“The Columbia Police Officers Association came to us for support on keeping Tasers,” Loeffler said.

Proposition 2 will be on the Columbia ballot on election day Nov. 2. Residents may vote to either

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Chris Hessenflow of the Columbia Police Officers Association discusses the issue of Tasers on campus Wednesday at the Missouri Student Association Senate Meeting in Chamber Auditorium. The Senate passed a resolution in support of Taser use, opposing the Proposition 2 ballot measure. support or oppose the ban on Taser usage by Columbia police officers and citizens.

Upon passage of the MSA resolution, Wood and Loeffler sent an endorsement letter to the Columbia Police Officers Association, including Officer

Chris Hessenflow, who spoke in opposition of the ban at Senate.

“As the recognized governing body of the undergraduate students at the University of Missouri, we feel that the passage of Proposition 2 on November 2 would not be in the best interest of

students and the Columbia community as a whole,” the endorsement letter stated. “The ability of law enforcement to use Taser’s is something that this body feels is necessary to ensure the safety of the community and the officers that protect it.”

Humorist Sedaris "talks pretty" at Dean mistakenly forwards Jesse Auditorium on Wednesday private e-mail to students Lauren Bale Staff Writer David Sedaris' dry-humored wit filled Jesse Auditorium on Wednesday as an audience of all ages found hilarity in common experiences as told by the bestselling author.

Sedaris read sections from his new novel, "Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk," which is ranked No. 5 on The New York Times' bestseller list. The book mainly focuses on mocking the human race via the characterization of various animals.

"I would call it a collection of fables, but fables have morals, and I don 't always," Sedaris said.

The author proceeded to jump from topic to topic, mocking the mundane, the weird and the tragic experiences in his life. He filled each anecdote with the dark humor he is famous for.

Sedaris can find humor even in seemingly bleak situations, as evidenced by his account of his younger sister being attacked while walking home one night.

"I called the police, and then I set about hiding my drugs," Sedaris said.

Sedaris also has a knack for taking the boring, everyday events that characterize human existence and transforming them into stories that leave fans filled with laughter.

Columbia residents Mike and Laura Giglio have been enjoying Sedaris ' work for the past 15 years and said his easily relatable subject matter makes his books appealing.

"He takes a lot of real life experiences and shows you the very funny side of those real experiences," Laura Giglio said.

Mike Giglio said one never knows what to expect from a Sedaris essay.

"You read one of the articles, and when you get to the end of it you have no idea if it 's true or if he made it up, but either way it's just as funny," he said.

Sedaris certainly has an abundant supply of societal anecdotes to comment on, as he has experienced everything from poverty to living in France and traveling the world.

"I needed poverty," Sedaris said, commenting on the earlier years of his life. "I needed proof I was creative."

Sedaris might not be a fan of the French, stating he left because he was so tired of feeling ashamed, but he and his partner of 20 years, Hugh Hamrick, have decided to stay in Europe.

The couple recently moved from Normandy to West Sussex, England, where they bought a 380-year-old house.

"I asked the realtor how the heat was, and she said, 'Heat?'"

Sedaris said. "And then I asked her

son, and he said that sometimes if you put a fire in the fireplace it helps."

Sedaris will be touring the U.S. until December while Hugh moves into the house, but he said time apart has never been an issue for them.

"We don 't talk on the phone, but we write each other letters and send e-mails," Sedaris said. "We've been together 20 years, and that's the way to do it. You go away."

Columbia Independent School student John Semlitsch said Sedaris' adventures and travel experiences made him a fan of his books.

"The fact that he seems to have so much to write about, and I have very little, is why I love his work," Semlitsch said. "I have nothing of that caliber that has ever happened to me, and I 'm a bit jealous."

Sedaris might disagree with Semlitsch's statement, as he is quick to downplay his own wit and talent.

"Whenever I read something I like, I copy it down in my diary so my fingers know what excellence feels like," Sedaris said.

Considering Sedaris has been nominated for three Grammys, received the Thurber Prize for American Humor and was voted "Humorist of the Year" by Time magazine, it is safe to say his fingers do not need any help from others in learning what excellence feels like.

Allison Prang Staff Writer

In an attempt to forward a student's e-mail to faculty members Wednesday, Graduate School Dean George Justice accidentally forwarded the message to all MU graduate students. In his own message within the forwarded e-mail intended for faculty members, Justice said, based on his own observation, he believed the student suffered from "mental distress."

Justice later sent out an e-mail apologizing to the students who received the initial e-mail unintentionally and asked them to please delete it from their inboxes.

“It was clearly (and obviously) a mistake which I regret,” Justice said in a separate e-mail to The Maneater.

Justice said the graduate student’s initial e-mail was sent to Chancellor Brady Deaton and copied to him as well as other administrators in the Political Science department. He said the student had also tried to copy the entire MU student body on the e-mail.

Justice said he made the mistake because when he hit “reply all” he assumed he was only replying to the administrators and did not see that the listserv of the MU graduate student body was in the CC box.

“I deeply regret this mistake, especially as I inadvertently violat-

ed the privacy of a former student,” he said.

The political science graduate student in question did not respond to an e-mail request for comment. She left MU earlier this semester.

Counsel for the UM system Paul Maguffee refused to comment on whether the situation could instigate legal problems, but he did say that during his approximately six years in the UM system, he has not been aware of any lawsuits pertaining to student privacy violations.

“We’re here to provide advice and counsel to the university faculty and administrators, so it wouldn’t be appropriate for us to speculate about whether there could be legal concerns arising out of a particular thing like this,” Magufee said.

Journalism graduate student Chelsea Reynolds was among the students who received the e-mail.

“Having looked over it once or twice, I can’t really determine whose fault it was,” Reynolds said.

Reynolds also said the fact that the e-mail contained the student’s I.D. number and name could lead to privacy concerns.

“Well, what worries me about this entire mishap is that if you’re not extremely aware of the way our listservs work, you could provide confidential information to the public,” she said.

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

MU POLICE MONDAY, OCT. 11 Samantha K. Sanderson, 22, of 2712 Quail Drive, on suspicion of driving while intoxicated Anthony M. Barfield, 19, of Wolpers Hall, on suspicion of stealing and purchase or possession of alcohol by a minor TUESDAY, OCT. 12 Cara J. Fromherz, 22, of 307 S. Ninth St., on suspicion of driving while intoxicated — Ally McEntire, staff writer

MONDAY, OCT. 11 Andrew G. Huey, 20, of 302 William St., on suspicion of nuisance parties prohibited Robert S. Tessman, 23, of 2309 E. Broadway, on suspicion of third-degree domestic assault Ryan R. Burns, 27, of 706 W. Green Meadows Road, on suspicion of second-degree statutory rape Darryl E. Troy Jr., 17, of 1608 Sylvan Lane, on suspicion of third-degree domestic assault TUESDAY, OCT. 12 Ryan D. Osterberger, 19, of 3302 Lake Town Drive, on suspicion of possession of controlled substances, use or possession of drug paraphernalia, purchase or possession of alcohol by a minor and first-degree property damage WEDNESDAY, OCT. 13 Ryan D. Bloss, 21, of Moberly, on suspicion of operating a motor vehicle with a suspended or revoked license and possession of a controlled substance Lori M. Buitink, 24, of 205 Jackal Drive, on suspicion of driving while intoxicated Sherry L. Gates, 27, of 708

Demaret Drive, on suspicion of first-degree trespassing Melody M. Green, 34, of Centralia, on suspicion of stealing Michael K. Jones, 29, of 3001 S. Providence Road, on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and operating a motor vehicle without a license Takaira K. Jordan, 18, of 2511 Spruce Drive, on suspicion of third-degree assault Calvin B. Landon, 28, of 2414 Whitegate Drive, on suspicion of second-degree domestic assault Corey R. Schmid, 21, of 2405 UMC Drive, on suspicion of possession of less than 35 grams of marijuana — Allison Prang, staff writer If you have information on these crimes, you may contact Crime Stoppers at 875-TIPS. All calls are confidential.

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CPD aids in robbery suspect’s arrest The suspect is still in custody.

ARMED ROBBERY Officers were dispatched to a robbery in the 700 block of Demaret Drive on Saturday, Oct. 9.

A Columbia man is in cusForest Hill Country Club tody after being arrested Saturday night in connection N with an armed robbery earlier St. Charles Road that evening.

According to a news release Sarazen Court from the Boone County Sheriff ’s Department, 27-yearold Sidney Gates faces five Source: Boone County Sheriff's Department SPENCER PEARSON/GRAPHICS ASSISTANT charges, including: first-degree robbery, armed criminal action, detained by a CPD officer who third-degree domestic assault, knew we were looking for him in this investigation.” possession of narcotics The suspect returned and an outstanding noto jail yesterday mornbond probation/parole ing because he had an warrant. active probation parole “At 9:41 p.m. officers warrant. were dispatched to a rob“Gates went back to the bery in the 700 block of pen at 11:50 a.m. and is Demaret Drive,” Detective Tom O’Sullivan said.

SIDNEY still there now,” O’Sullivan The victim reported- GATES said. “He’s not going anywhere for a while.” ly told police Gates had Gates has pleaded guilty pulled a gun on her, taken her money and fled. She then identi- to multiple criminal charges in the past, including posfied Gates as her ex-boyfriend.

Gates took off in a car that session of a controlled subhad been waiting for him out- stance and illegal possession side and was found by a mem- of a firearm. He was arrested ber of the Columbia Police and still faces charges for an Department, according to the investigation of shots fired at a Columbia police officer on news release.

“The suspect was found Sept. 7. in the 300 block of Texas — Tony Puricelli, Avenue shortly after midstaff writer night,” O’Sullivan said. “He was Demaret Drive

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Power plant transitions from coal to biomass Megan Swieca Staff Writer The MU Power Plant will have one of its five coal-burning boilers replaced with one that burns biomass, resulting in 100,000 tons annually of clean, sustainable biomass fuel used to supply energy for MU. MU Power Plant Superintendent Gregg Coffin said MU was in need of a new boiler, so variables such as fuel, equipment cost and long-run cost were weighed when researching replacement boilers.

“As we looked at the options, we realized we could utilize biomass energy cost effectively,” Coffin said.

Campus Facilities’ energy management department is partnering with researchers in agriculture, agricultural engineering, engineering, university extension and MU’s forestry department to assist in the project and help develop information on burning sustainable biomass.

“This is the first sizable wood-based bioenergy project in the state,” forestry professor Hank Stelzer said. “We have the responsibility to do it right.”

The biomass to fuel the new boiler will come from four main sources: sawmill residues, urban wood waste, harvest residue and dedicated energy crops.

The forestry department and the MU Center for Agroforestry are creating plots of dedicated, short-rotation, woody crops, such as willow and hybrid poplar.

“The power plant is a business,” Stelzer said. “They have a need. It creates the market.

It creates the demand. (The crops) will help

area farmers develop a sustainable supply chain to the MU energy plant.”

Obtaining the biomass locally is an added economic and environmental benefit.

Coffin said much of the coal being used is bought from surrounding states. The woody biomass will cut down on transportation, in turn cutting down on fossil fuel use and energy dollars.

The project should also result in more economic development for Missouri, Stelzer said. It will provide incentive for landowners to grow trees as a source of potential income through carbon trading and will produce other “green jobs.”

Stelzer said by growing the industry here, the power plant would be able to create jobs.

“On the larger landscape level, these woody crops have the potential to positively impact the area’s air and water quality in addition to being a fuel source for the power plant,” Stelzer said.

The crops also provide an opportunity for students to get involved within the forestry department through management and research of the crops.

“It will put everything they learn in the classroom into practice,” Stelzer said.

Nicholas Mustoe, a double major in forestry and fisheries and wildlife, said a lot of forestry is about advising landowners.

In addition to these sources of wood fiber, the boiler is also capable of consuming grasses, such as switch grass, and agricultural residues, such as corncobs, Stelzer said.

“A lot of corn is grown in Missouri,” Coffin said. “It may be economically feasible to use the cobs.”

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Biomass and coal boilers burn Thursday at the MU Power Plant. The plant is beginning installation of another boiler, which will burn 100 percent biomass.

Some organizations have pushed for 100 percent biomass usage from the power plant.

“You can’t do it overnight, a 20 percent reduction is huge,” Stelzer said.

Melissa Vatterott, Coal Free Mizzou treasurer and spokesman, said the biomass developments of the university are excellent and the organization is excited to see what other research is being done.

“We hope to be allies with the university through future energy use to advance the university’s sustainable efforts,” Vatterott said.

In the future, 100 percent biomass use is not completely out of the question.

“Technology can change and modify over the time,” Coffin said.

Vatterott said the university is committed to creating a timeline to become carbon neutral, and Coal Free Mizzou is hoping to see a deadline.

Replacing just one of the boilers with biomass is a groundbreaking feat for the state and will bring about a great variety of benefits.

“This is going to put Mizzou on the map,” Stelzer said.

Freshmen edit original films Former MU athlete leads fight Sally French Staff Writer Before this year, freshman Molly Hildreth knew almost nothing about film editing. But with a little inspiration from an MTV show and a lot of new-found pressure, Hildreth is now a competitive filmmaker.

Hildreth is a participant in the 2010 Fresh Films competition, a competition for freshmen to create a short video with their peers about life at MU. The competition aims to help freshmen meet fellow students, learn film techniques and win prizes.

Participants must compete in teams of two to four people and films must be less than five minutes.

“Fresh Films allows us to tap into our creativity while teaching us how to better relate to those we work with,” competitor Elizabeth Howard said.

Hildreth’s short film is a spoof of MTV’s reality show “MADE,” which follows teens who have a goal to be made into things like singers, athletes and dancers.

The teens are given a “MADE Coach” to help them attain their goals over the course of several weeks.

In Hildreth’s team’s film, the teens have a goal to become the best possible MU student.

“In our movie, they do different activities like learning Mizzou cheers, going to the Rec Center and studying,” Hildreth said.

In the past, the competition was called the iLife competition, which stressed using solely Apple iLife products, such as iMovie, to edit videos.

“We are open to any platform for shooting and editing the videos,” Fresh Films student representative Matt Kamp said.

“This year, students can use anything they are comfortable with to edit their entries.”

This year’s competition also focuses more on freshman life at MU. “In the past, students could make a video on anything they desired without tying into an overall theme,” Kamp said.

Past videos in the iLife competition did relate to the MU theme, such as the Mizzou Rap, founded on the premise students can have fun on campus doing activities besides playing video games in their dorm rooms.

This year, it is a requirement for fresh-

iLIFE WINNERS The iLife competition began in 2004.

2004 Mark Buhrmester Michael Chesney Scott Parsons

2005 Adam Rux Kiernan Maletsky Zach Noland Michael Ziman

2006 Matt Davis Steve Robertson Patrick Inlow

2007 Spencer Ernst Daniel Posey Alex Ruppenthal Fred Trotman

2008 Matt Kamp Sara Heins Claire Standridge Dave Oster Joe Rozier

Source: School of Journalism news releases

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men to create a video that somehow relates to the underlying message of “My Mizzou Experience.”

Hildreth is the leader of one of about 30 teams entered in this competition.

Some students, such as Hildreth, entered the competition to fulfill a requirement for FIG classes, and others entered for experience, glory and prizes.

The winning team will receive a $250 gift certificate to the bookstore for each team member.

Hildreth said neither she nor her partner knew how to edit and it was difficult to learn how.

“The actual filming part was really fun,” she said. “When the actors started messing up, it was really funny, like bloopers.”

And not only are the characters in Hildreth’s film better MU students, but Hildreth said she thinks she is too because of what she learned in making her movie.

“Now I go to the Rec Center a lot more,” she said. “And I didn’t know the cheers before, but now I do. It helped motivate me.”

Entries for the Fresh Films competition are due by 5 p.m. Friday, at the Center for Student Involvement.

The films will be shown at an awards ceremony at 7 p.m. Nov. 8 in Gannett Hall.

against relationship violence Jimmy Hibsch Staff Writer An All-American athlete, a former MU track star, a Detroit native: Jimmie Jones said he is the last person one would expect to lead an effort against relationship and sexual violence.

He also said he’s going to change that.

“I’m a lot of different dynamics,” Jones said.

“All of those things are not things people would usually expect from someone representing this cause. It’s not often you see someone from my background supporting this.”

This year, Jones is leading the Men Against Relationship and Sexual Violence organization on campus. MARS is an outreach branch of the Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention Center and aims to raise awareness in men, RSVP Center Coordinator Danica Pape said.

“It was more born out of a need for men to have a place to discuss issues of masculinity and challenge masculinity in a traditional sense,” she said. “We have held onto it with it growing and changing. It’s been around for I’m not even sure how many years, but Jimmie is helping breathe new life into it.”

Driven by his desire to change the image of men who stand up to relationship and sexual violence, Jones said he committed himself to making the group flourish.

“One of my main motivations is changing what people think about males who speak out against a cause like this,” Jones said. “I want to bring a different outlook to this whole cause.”

Jones said MARS has existed on campus for several years, but its participation has waned. He hopes to revive the group this year.

“I’m here to get MARS back started again, add a little flavor, a little spice to it,” Jones said. “I want us to have a stronger presence on campus.”

In an effort to break away from what he calls the stereotypical awareness group experience, Jones will be showing different documentaries dealing with relationship and sexual violence issues. For example, on Tuesday night, MARS viewed “Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes,” a 2006 documentary about masculinity, violence, homophobia and sex-

ism in hip-hop music and culture.

“I’m trying to show different, interesting videos and documentaries that aren’t just your cliché stuff where we’re just going to sit around in a circle and discuss,” Jones said. “I want it to touch different points, to be real.”

Being real is exactly what Jones said MARS hopes to evoke in men on campus.

“That’s my main focus: to separate the real from the cool,” he said. “A lot of times grown men are so caught up in being cool that they’re really not being who they know they are. They’re not standing by their opinions.

Instead of standing up and saying what they feel, they’re worried about what everybody else is thinking. All it takes is one person to think.”

Brett Dinkins, Stronger Together Against Relationship and Sexual Violence member, works predominately with STARS but said he is working behind the scenes with MARS. “MARS and STARS are almost like brother and sister organizations, only STARS is really opened to any students and MARS is focused on men,” Dinkins said. “It has a little different twist to it, but the goal is to have two working organizations that can plan events together.”

Dinkins said about 20 people came to Tuesday’s gathering, but Pape said she expects the group to expand over the course of time.

“I think that men who want to learn more about how our culture sustains violence should definitely check it out,” she said.

“That’s what the movie series is all about.”

MARS meets every Tuesday at varying locations and will watch a movie every other week. Both Pape and Jones encourage anyone interested to attend.

“I’m just starting to get the word out,” Jones said. “I want to infiltrate a lot of different populations on this campus.”

Pape said men who are interested in breaking the stereotype of men involved with the cause should attend the next meeting.

“We’ve had some people who are interested, but it’s been a less active group, and it seems like there’s a need for it to be more active,” Pape said. “So many men don’t feel like they have a place in this kind of work, in ending relationship and sexual violence, but the reality is they do. It takes everyone’s efforts.”

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DRIVE: 1,200 units in DIVERSITY: Course under review region needed each day Continued from page 1

Continued from page 1 In years past, there have only been three days of blood drive. Those who were deferred could return the following week to donate.

Because of the extra day in this year’s blood drive, people who are deferred can come back any time during the week depending on their reason for being deferred, or they can find someone else to donate in their place.”

Incentives for students involved in organizations were also added this year in an effort to increase donations. In the past, students could gain points for their organization by checking in and out at the blood drive.

This year, extra points were awarded to students who donated or found someone to donate.

“The points are an incentive, just like the free T-shirts,” Shirazian said. “To be fair, every student who’s a part of an organi-

zation and who attempts to give blood receives points. But if you actually get stuck with the needle, or if you find another donor, then you’ll receive bonus points.”

The blood drive committee also tried to make the actual blood drive more fun, Shirazian said, with movies, popcorn machines, pizza and snacks as people waited in line.

The average blood drive in Missouri’s region collects 30 units. One thousand two hundred units are needed to support the region each day. MU collects the most blood of any university in the nation and holds the largest student-run blood drive, Red Cross Representative Lane Scholz said.

“The Red Cross is the sole provider of blood for the university,” Scholz said. “We want students to come together for a humanitarian effort to donate blood and save countless lives.”

TAN: Legal battles began in August 2008 Continued from page 1 less of MU’s actions.

“Basically we are saying that, first of all, it doesn’t automatically terminate on Dec. 31, 2010,” Tan Time’s lawyer Thomas Schneider said. “We think it automatically renews. The Court of Appeals is going to have to answer that question.”

Legal battles between the two parties have been going on for more than two years.

“It was in August 2008 that we got the injunction against the university,” Schneider said.

“They locked the doors and tried to loot us out. The trial court ruled that out.”

In fall 2009, the court ruled the contract could not be terminated until the end of 2010.

But Tan Time wants to continue operations in its recreation complex location, MU lawyer Kelly Mescher said.

“We have the ability to terminate the contract, and it expires by the term,” Mescher said.

The lawsuit will be reviewed again by the Court of Appeals, where an opinion will be written.

No date has been set for when the lawsuit will reach the court, but Schneider said he believes it will be in December or January.

Schneider attributes Tan Time’s desire to stay in business to the investment the company has put into it.

“They spent a whole lot of money finishing it, like $180,000,” he said about Tan Time.

Schneider said Tan Time doesn’t want to lose the space they invested money in.

Should the case not conclude until after the current contract expires, lawyers are uncertain about whether The Spa will remain in business at the recreation complex beyond the date of the contract’s expiration.

Mescher said MU hasn’t looked into that possibility yet.

“The logical thing is to just continue with the business’ oper-

ation,” Schneider said.

In the meantime, MU has no official plans for the future of the space.

“According to some of our Student Voices survey data, MU students today favor more emphasis on services typically found in day spa settings,” Dahlmann said.

She listed amenities such as de-stressing pods, various massages, manicure and pedicure services, exercise consultation and expanded personal training opportunities.

“As a result, Mizzou Rec is looking at the service options that will best fit the space available and the needs of our students today,” Dahlmann said.

She said she attributes the decision to not renew the contract to changing values among students.

“A great deal has changed since the university entered into the lease contract in 2006,” Dahlmann said. “The greatest change has been in the numbers of new students, the firstyear student enrollment and the interests of new generations of students.”

Although Dahlmann said the recreation center is still exploring ideas of what will occupy the space, she expects future use of the space will be self-managed.

of the course requirement effort in 2004, which laid the groundwork for the current proposal.

Working with Multicultural Center Assistant Director Pablo Mendoza, professors and Initiative Office Director Noor Azizan-Gardner, Cook-Eberle and other students created a model course for MU, but one was never adopted.

Cook-Eberle said people were supportive of the idea of a diversity course.

“No one was pushing back on the fact that we need diversity education around the school,” she said.

But by 2006, after Cook-Eberle’s graduation and the expiration of a task force deadline to review a diversity course, no such proposal was officially sent forward.

“I, frankly, have thought since the time I was in LBC 40 years ago that there needed to be a diversity requirement in the curriculum,” Deputy Chancellor Mike Middleton said. “I think it’s important that all students develop some awareness of issues related to people of different backgrounds, different experiences, different cultures and get some academic grounding in the issues surrounding that social interaction.”

Slow change

Under the heading of a general education review, the first task on a list of 12 was the inclusion of a diversity course requirement.

“I think it’s more important that we understand there are some basic values and basic knowledges that we want all students exposed to,” Middleton said.

Faculty Council Chairwoman Leona Rubin said a diversity course requirement proposal, as well as the general education review, has been submitted to the Academic Affairs Committee.

Charged with reviewing the entire general education architecture proposal, the Academic Affairs Committee will present its recommendation to Faculty Council when the review is complete, Rubin said.

“There have been past efforts to do this that have failed, and we don’t want to simply reproduce

failed past efforts,” Chief Diversity Officer Roger Worthington said.

“We want to do something that is going to be successful, so we have been very systematic and methodical to ensure that we are really going to make this happen.”

Under the general education review, the originally proposed diversity course requirement is similar to the writing intensive requirement already in place, Worthington said. Classes that qualify as diversity courses would fulfill the diversity requirement and count toward a student’s major requirements, meaning the diversity course adds no additional credit hours to students’ degree requirements.

“I’m hopeful (the diversity course requirement) happens in the wisdom of developing a mechanism that ensures that every student on this campus gets some academic grounding in these cultural diversity issues,” Middleton said.

diversity.

“Because students are here for only a relatively short period of time, compared to faculty and staff and administrators, slow change seems like no change,” he said.

Cook-Eberle, who has yet to see the work she did as a student manifested in university policy, said the changing face of the student body is part of a bigger issue of social reform on college campuses.

“There’s only so much you can accomplish in four years, and ultimately there’s going to be other leaders that take those issues on,” she said.

In the long run, Middleton said, students who have worked on the diversity requirement and graduated without seeing its implementation should still take pride in their work and recognize the benefit of the requirement for future students.

“They should be proud and satisfied that they were able to be a part of that change,” he said.

“It takes time”

NOT DONE YET

In 1966, Middleton helped found the Legion of Black Collegians and presented a list of 10 demands to the chancellor, he said. None had been met by the time he graduated from the School of Law in 1971, and no progress was made in the following years, either.

“When I came back in 1985 as a law professor, many of those demands had not been met,” he said. “Here we are in 2010, and we’ve received another list of demands, and many of them have been met.”

Middleton explained his frustration as a passionate student when administrators said it took time to accomplish things. “’It takes time,’ they said, and that is not a satisfactory answer when you are passionate about what are you are trying to accomplish,” Middleton said. “But the fact of the matter is, it does take time, and I think we have got to accept that reality and be diligent.”

Although change has been slow, progress has been made to advance the diversity climate on campus, Worthington said. He said students’ limited time on campus is an obstacle to showing consistent progress on complex issues like

After review by a Faculty Council task force, the proposed general education review now sits within the Academic Affairs Committee of Faculty Council. In the coming months, Faculty Council will review the proposal before the entire general education review is voted on by the entire faculty.

But because of the nature of the proposal, if the general education review is not wholly approved by the faculty, no part of the proposal, including the diversity requirement, will be implemented.

For many students, such as former Four Front Co-Chairwoman ChaToyya Sewell, this means they will leave MU without ever seeing the implementation of a requirement.

Sewell, who worked with other students, the Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative and the Chancellor’s Office to create a possible requirement, said there were complications to get the requirement done quickly, but an official proposal should not have taken this long.

“At this point, to be honest, I think it will still be years from now,” Sewell said. “I think it’s going to take a long time.”

MSA: Election scheduled for Nov. 8 Continued from page 1 Hansen said. “So no, I don’t think it’s a problem. I do think we can find ways to engage more ethnicities in overall Homecoming events, as well as engage the ethnic majority, such as Caucasians or Hispanics, in events such as the Black Homecoming show.”

Woods said MSA has the duty to facilitate discussions concerning diversity. As far as Homecoming is concerned, Woods said he thinks everyone can eventually come together.

“The separate committees that compose these different ethnic group homecomings should be in contact with each other,” Woods said. “If we’re not quite ready to come together yet, that’s fine, as long as we have some cooperation there.”

Another issue heavily debated was the vice presidential candidate’s ability to effectively manage

the $1.3 million MSA budget.

If elected, Moon said she would like to establish an endowment fund for MSA. “We would be able to invest money to return interest every year,” Moon said.

Moon also said with this fund, MSA would most likely eventually be able to sustain itself, therefore eliminating the need for student fees to support the student government.

Horan said she sees MSA as a business, and she plans to treat it as such. In response to Moon’s idea to eventually eliminate student fees, Horan said such a thing is not a simple task. She said she wants to cut back on anything not cost-effective, specifically mentioning The Jungle.

Oxenreider said she has experience dealing with money from serving as the fundraising chairwoman for Relay for Life and Little Sisters of the Gold Rose.

Another point made in the debate was the lack of awareness students have about MSA and what it does, as well as how communication between MSA and its constituents could be improved.

Hansen said he would like for students to know more about MSA and understand what it does. Woods said students don’t know when and where meetings take place, which halts any possible student involvement.

“Instead of putting ourselves on YouTube, we’re going to put ourselves in meetings,” Woods said.

Travis said he wants to make the student government work for the students again. He would like to use technology as a means of communicating with students and said he would deliver an address to the student body via social media sites every two weeks or so.

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Fraternity works to inform citizens, empower vote Madeline O’Leary Staff Writer Since the 1930s, Alpha Phi Alpha has integrated the principles of the nationally recognized program “A Voteless People is a Hopeless People” into its chapter mission and community outreach activities.

This year, MU’s chapter sought to extend the major components of the program into a string of events aimed at educating black youth on the importance of voting.

“Alpha Phi Alpha wants the African American community, as well as the rest of the community, to know the important issues going on in our world and to know the politicians on the ballot,” Alpha Phi Alpha member Brian Hamilton said. “We don’t want people going in to the voting booth half-cocked. We want well-educated citizens.”

In collaboration with the Legion of Black Collegians, Alpha Phi Alpha has invited all MU’s student population to participate in the events of the “2010 Election Series: A Voteless People is a Hopeless People” leading up to Nov. 2, election day.

“During the last week of September, we held voter registration tables outside the new student center and registered over 100 new voters,” Hamilton said. “On Oct. 4, a representative from Missouri ProVote came to speak about

Proposition C, health care reform and how health care reform affects students.”

A debate held Thursday night by the LBC and Alpha Phi Alpha outlined many politically relevant issues.

“Within the debate, we outlined Carnahan and Blunt’s views so voters can be informed on both sides,” said Whitney Williams, political chairwoman for the Legion of Black Collegians. “There is political apathy in the African American community, and we want to energize the masses.”

Democrat debaters senior Saba Sahlu and freshman Matt Tharp, as well as Republican debater Mizzou College Republicans Chairman Brett Dinkins, presented arguments concerning health care, Proposition C, energy independence, national security and education.

“I feel like the debate provided a successful overview of relevant issues today,” Dinkins said.

“Hopefully people will be more motivated to research on their own time. Hopefully, they’ll be more motivated to get out and explore the issues we talked about.”

The debate Thursday night was the last scheduled event before election day.

“Our motivation for these events is to get people to come out and get educated,” Hamilton said. “The more people we reach out to, the

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Mizzou College Republicans Chairman Brett Dinkins debates with MU College Democrats members Saba Sahlu and Matt Tharp on Thursday in Allen Auditorium. The event, hosted by Alpha Phi Alpha, covered political issues such as Proposition C and health care. efforts to involve the campus combigger impact we can have, and tial election.

“We’ve seen a lack of motivation munity in the elections until Nov. 2.

Alpha Phi Alpha wants to reach “Knowing what’s going on and out to the most amount of people within the African American community and within our age group being educated is extremely imporpossible.”

This is not the only year the concerning politics,” Alpha Phi tant,” Ngwenyama said. “It’s one organization has interacted with Alpha President Kazi Ngwenyama thing to be aware of what’s going the campus community through said. “In the 2008 presidential elec- on in the world, but when people the “A Hopeless People is a Voteless tion, however, there was a good inform you in an unbiased manner, People” program. In the 2008 elec- turnout. We want to keep that going it makes things easier. Our goal as a fraternity is to benefit the commution series, Alpha Phi Alpha focused in future elections.”

Alpha Phi Alpha will continue its nity as a whole.” its same goals around the presiden-

Button reward system aims to encourage sustainability Megan Swieca Staff Writer Sustain Mizzou has created a campus-wide campaign to promote sustainability by rewarding students for sustainable acts.

“It’s important to connect the general campus community to sustainability issues and bring that to the forefront,” Sustain Mizzou President Tina Casagrand said.

Rewards will be in the form of distributable buttons, which are specially designed to represent different aspects of sustainability, such as alternative transportation, recycling, energy conservation and water conservation.

“These four are kind of the lowest-hanging fruit that people can commit to easily and will be comfortable with doing,” Casagrand said.

Doing things like riding your bike from off campus, volunteering with Mizzou Dashboard, recycling or using a laundry drying rack can earn you a button, Casagrand said.

For less easily monitored acts, like energy or water conservation, people can sign commitments with the organization.

More buttons will eventually be added, possibly including ones for eating local food or getting educated on environmental issues.

Sustain Mizzou plans to borrow the Craft Studio’s button maker to assemble the buttons. Ott said the buttons were designed in the Student Design Center. Both the Craft Studio and the Design Center are auxiliaries of the Missouri Students

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Environmental Studies Director Jan Weaver speaks about majors and minors in the Environmental Studies program during a Sustain Mizzou meeting Wednesday night. Sustain Mizzou has begun discussing plans to start a “button campaign” to award buttons to students acting sustainably.

Association.

Samuel Ott, the project leader of the button campaign, said he hopes to ultimately make the system more complex and turn it into a levels of achievement system. By earning one button you can get the next level of achievement.

This program was initially created by the students in Director of Environmental Studies Program Jan Weaver’s classes that focused on helping MU become more sustainable.

Weaver said the students spent the first third of the class seeing how MU worked by touring and educating themselves on systems such as the MU power plant and the campus recycling process.

The rest of the class was

spent brainstorming ideas to improve sustainability. The students decided to focus on other students’ behavior and choices in regard to sustainability, Weaver said.

“The goal was to come up with a project that would get students at MU to be more sustainable,” Weaver said. “Hopefully there will be a critical mass of students that will like the idea, and that will be enough to move the rest of campus students toward sustainability.”

Sustain Mizzou’s goal is to create and distribute 1,200 buttons, which will reach about one in every 30 students.

“It doesn’t really matter if people strive for the buttons, as long as they strive for the meaning behind it,” Ott said.

MU launches Mizzou Leadership Academy Allison Prang Staff Writer MU plans to hold the Mizzou Leadership Academy, its first campus-wide leadership conference, Nov. 6.

Dave Roberts, one of the chairmen of the Mizzou Leadership Academy said the conference is sponsored by the Department of Student Life, the Department of New Student Programs, the Office of Student Organizations and the Center for Leadership Development. Funding for the program will come from Student Life.

“We haven’t had any large-scale leadership conferences for every student to attend that is really representative of the larger campus community,” Roberts said.

In order to attend the conference, students were nominated by a faculty member to apply or could apply on their own. Faculty nominations were due by Oct. 1, and students had until Oct. 8 to turn in their applications. Those accepted to attend will be notified Friday, said Roberts.

“It’s a two-part process,” said Dave Rielley, one of the chairmen of the Mizzou Leadership Academy.

“We’re reserving about 75 percent of the spots for students who are nominated and those of us who are organizing the conference, we’ve been going around to different areas of the campus and encouraging (people) to nominate students.”

Roberts said they are hoping to have 200 students in attendance, and students who are selected to attend may only attend once during their time at MU. “We want them to know that the University of Missouri is really focused on fostering leadership development on campus because we

know it will benefit (students) when they’re here and when they leave here,” Roberts said.

According to the Leadership Academy’s website, the three goals of the conference are to provide students with educational resources for leadership, help them foster relationships with fellow campus leaders and to help students expand their involvement at MU for their four years in college and their life after school.

At the conference, students will attend leadership training sessionsm with guest speakers, including Chancellor Brady Deaton and Chad Pregracke, the founder of Living Lands and Waters, an organization devoted to cleaning up America’s rivers.

Jake Strickland, one of the student members on the steering committee for the conference, said they pulled some ideas from other leadership trainings MU has held in the past, though none of them have been as large and inclusive as this one.

Strickland said the steering committee is made up of student leaders throughout campus and they have been coordinating the events at the conference.

“We were all chosen because we had all been involved in various organizations throughout the campus," Strickland said.

The steering committee has been in charge of things like picking out the speakers for the conference and getting the word out about it, said Strickland.

“We want it to foster leadership development as well as getting people from different organizations that maybe wouldn’t have the opportunity to talk to each other,” Strickland said.

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Left, Right and Center

Ethan Simonds Politics Columnist

The candidate less discussed About a month ago, I wrote a column in which I listed reasons why I thought there was no good choice in next month’s U.S. Senate race between Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan and U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt.

By only addressing Carnahan and Blunt, however, I narrowed the race down to two people and their parties (Democratic and Republican, respectively). Truth is, there is a good alternative this election season -- he just doesn’t stand the same chance as his big-party opponents.

In this election more than recent ones, antiestablishment ideas are shaping the debate.

Christine O’Donnell, Joe Miller, Rand Paul and other Tea Party darlings are winning votes in their respective states, leaving moderate conservatives and the Democratic Party shaking their heads and scrambling to come up with an answer.

The man who represents the best choice for Missouri in the upcoming Senate election is running for a party that has always adhered to views like these.

Jonathan Dine is running for U.S. Senate as a Libertarian. You won’t see much of him on TV or in the news, but ideas such as his represent many of the questions and answers raised by many rational citizens as they consider issues this election season.

One of the problems with the American political system is we’ve come to see political office as a field for experts. But does a lifetime politician making $175,000 a year serve as an accurate representation of the people he is supposed to represent?

Dine says no. He proposes four two-year terms for members of Congress and two six-year terms for senators as suitable limitations.

“Congressmen, senators, governors and presidents should be made up of teachers, business owners, bus drivers, doctors, pilots, engineers, and any other profession you can think of,” Dine said on his website. I couldn’t agree more.

He calls for a foreign policy of non-intervention, peace and free trade. This would preclude America continuing its current practice of acting as the world’s “police,” taking it upon itself to settle international disputes and intervene in conflicts in which we have no reason to be involved.

We’ve funneled more than $700 billion into the war in Iraq and more than $350 billion into the conflict in Afghanistan. Surely there were issues that could have better benefited Americans that the American government could have spent more than a trillion dollars on.

Dine has spondolythesis, a pre-existing condition that prevents him from getting health care. He said he believes in reversing this policy and making health care affordable and available, even for those with pre-existing conditions.

The idea that unifies all his others is a classic Libertarian one and an idea that is gaining more press attention as elections get closer.

“I believe every individual is naturally entitled to do as he or she pleases, so far as it in no way interferes with any other persons rights,” Dine stated on his website.

What this country needs is a return to a system of politics that focuses on the individual person operating in a free market. We must return to a position where we speak about ourselves by saying, “the United States are” instead of “the United States is.”

Jonathan Dine and those like him offer hope for such change, something that cannot be said for Carnahan or Blunt.

Maybe the choice isn’t so hard after all.

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CPRB discusses Tasers, SWAT policies Alicia Stice News Editor Members of People for a Taser-Free Columbia spoke out in favor of a ban on the weapons during Wednesday’s Citizens Police Review Board meeting.

Proposition 2 would make the use of Tasers within city limits a Class A misdemeanor. The ban would apply to anyone in Columbia, including police officers.

Ken Green, a member of People for a Taser-Free Columbia, was the first to address the board. Green told the board Tasers are unreliable and dangerous.

Police departments in other cities have decided to stop using Tasers.

Green cited Memphis, Las Vegas, NM, and San Francisco as examples of police departments and city councils that have prohibited Taser use.

Green said it is up to Columbia residents to stop their police department from using Tasers.

“We as citizens, not the police, have the final say on what weapons the police department uses,” he said.

Green also said Tasers are often used in minor offenses. The pain inflicted by Tasers has caused uncontrolled falls, sometimes on concrete.

“We must realize every time a Taser is drawn, litigation against Columbia and even individual officers and individual members of the City Council is possible,” he said.

Catherine Parke, member of People for a Taser-Free Columbia, said rhetoric about Tasers is often off-point.

“You also hear the formulaic phrase, ‘The Taser is a good tool,’” she said. “No, it is not a tool. It is a weapon.”

In October 2009, Taser International issued a warning to Taser users, telling them not to fire the weapon at someone’s chest. This advisory, Parke argued, demonstrates the uncertainty of the

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Citizens Police Review Board member Carroll Highbarger holds up a stack of paperwork detailing the investigation of a SWAT raid conducted by the Columbia Police Department in February. Members of People for a Taser-Free Columbia called for a ban on the weapons during Wednesday’s Citizens Police Review Board meeting.

Taser.

Parke said this was an issue of public safety, and People for a Taser-Free Columbia was equally committed to the safety of law enforcement officers and private citizens.

Columbia Police Chief Ken Burton addressed the board following the group’s comments.

Officers should be trained to understand the mechanical aspects of Tasers in order to properly use them, Burton said. In some high-profile cases, officers have continued to use a Taser even if it was not working.

“There are things we need to do better and need to learn from,” he said.

In response to a question from board member Susan Smith, Burton said he would not be willing to move Tasers into the category of deadly force. The move would restrict officers from using Tasers except in situations that required

deadly force.

“I’ve said this before: Don’t bring a Taser to a gunfight,” he said.

The review board is not a legislative body and cannot make any regulations regarding Taser use, but the members of People for a Taser-Free Columbia said they will likely hear complaints regarding Taser use and should be welleducated about the weapon.

The board also voted down a motion that would have required CPD to notify them about changes to SWAT policies.

During its Oct. 4 meeting, the Columbia City Council had voted to require CPD to notify it and the city manager of any significant changes made to SWAT policies.

Susan Smith was the only dissenting vote in the review board’s 7-1 decision.

“If we do nothing, then it’s just you, and it dies with you,” she said about Burton’s SWAT policy decisions.

Suspect poses as cop over PlayStation Samantha Sunne Senior Staff Writer The Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force investigated a man who contacted a teenage boy in Moberly through the boy’s PlayStation earlier this month.

They found that the man, who was posing as a Missouri police officer, actually lives in the Northeast region of the United States.

The MMIC Task Force traced his e-mails to that location, but could not take its inquiries any further. It concluded its investigation Oct. 4, according to a task force news release.

Task force coordinator Andy Anderson said he did not know whether the suspect would be arrested.

“That probably depends on the authorities back in the area where he resides,” Anderson said. “We kind of have to depend on them.”

If they catch the suspect, Anderson said, he would probably not face charges in this state because impersonating an officer is a misdemeanor and a non-extraditable offense in Missouri.

The man instant messaged a 15-year-old boy over an Internet-

connected PlayStation game, claiming he was a 10-year-old girl, the news release stated. He asked the boy personal questions and became sexually suggestive.

When the boy refused to continue the IM conversation, the man said he was an undercover officer with the Missouri State Police Sex Crimes Unit.

That unit does not exist, and there is no Missouri State Police department.

The Moberly Police Department contacted the MMIC Task Force for assistance. Task force members traced e-mails the man had sent using information from the boy’s father’s MySpace site.

Anderson said the task force, which is a member of the statewide Missouri Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, has had previous cases where suspects made contact through gaming consoles.

“We have seen it before over a multitude of interactive games,” he said.

MOICAC Task Force Director Joe Laramie said games are one form of communication available to offenders because they are a common use of technology among children.

“Offenders look for where kids are,”

Laramie said.

He said offenders play the interactive games and contact other players.

“What it does, is it allows the bad guy to be able to break down barriers very easily because they’re just playing the game,” Laramie said.

Recently the MMIC Task Force, the MU Police Department and the Boonville Police Department arrested a Boonville man on suspicion of enticing a child. The man had IM’ed a member of the task force who was posing as a 14-year-old online, Anderson said.

Anderson said it is not actually a crime for anyone to converse with a child over the Internet or ask that child personal questions.

“In fact, it is not a crime in Missouri for someone to try to talk a child into meeting them,” Anderson said. “If that’s all they’re doing.”

It is illegal for someone more than 21 years old to have sex with someone who is 16 or 17, but it is not illegal for that person to solicit sex from that teenager.

“It’s a crime if the suspect is over 21 years of age and they solicit someone who is 14 or younger to engage in sexual conduct,” Anderson said.

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Busting the boys’ club The third annual Citizen Jane Film Festival gets its reels rolling Friday, Oct. 15, through Sunday, Oct. 17. Hosted by Stephens College, Citizen Jane promises to deliver films that challenge the status quo of women in the film industry.

Featuring women both behind and in front of the camera, the Columbia festival includes films created by women worldwide as well as panel discussions and workshops. Co-directors Paula Elias and Kerri Yost strive to create an inspiring event that strikes a fine balance between showcasing talented filmmakers and giving audiences a small dose of reality.

“It’s really important for women’s voices to be heard,” Elias said. “But only 7 percent of the top 250 highest-grossing films were made by women this year. That means that 93 percent of what we see out there is made by men.”

Despite this harsh reality, Citizen Jane confronts the striking gender disparity head on through the festival’s theme, “Reconstructing Reality.”

“Reality isn’t what we want yet, so let’s reconstruct it for a weekend where women are first and foremost,” Elias said. “Half of the population is made up of women, and surely our stories should be heard too.”

Ky Dickens, the filmmaker behind “Fish Out of Water,” addressed the issue further.

“The primary purpose of this festival is twofold,” Dickens said. “It’s to give a platform for the creative voices of film — that happen to be women -- to be told and celebrated, and the second is to show how the stories of women are integral to the human experience.”

Questioning the status quo, Citizen Jane seeks answers to why women are so underrepresented in the film industry. One answer, according to Elias, is production companies are unwilling to fund female projects because they view the projects and directors as risky investments.

“I think really it comes down to economics,” Elias said. “Films are expensive, and it’s comfortable to go with (male filmmakers).”

Along with struggles to secure adequate funding, female filmmakers also face hardships of sexism.

“The film world is a boy’s club in a lot of ways, and it’s hard as a director to be supported, heard and respected,” Dickens said. “Even though we don’t like to talk about sexism, I think it’s prevalent. And it’s only by acknowledgment that we can change it.”

To combat these hardships, Citizen Jane offers a

Citizen Jane Film Festival * The showcases women behind the camera.

unique support system.

“The festival is really small and intimate,” Elias said. “It’s a wonderful opportunity to get a lot of support and exposure.”

“Festivals make female filmmakers more visible to producers and production companies,” filmmaker Deborah Stratman said.

As a filmmaker who will be screening her film “O’er the Land” at Citizen Jane, Stratman stressed the importance of women’s voices being translated through film.

“The variety of women’s voices (heard at the festival) can be really inspiring,” Stratman said.

Dickens said a woman’s perspective is unique.

“No one can tell a woman’s story the way women can,” Dickens said. “Having women at the helm of the creative process can help tell women’s stories better.”

But the women emphasize female filmmakers should not be restricted to telling only stereotypical women’s stories.

“It’s really important to stress that women don’t just make films about babies and love and families,” Elias said.

Epitomizing this point, Kathryn Bigelow was

the first woman to win Best Director at the Academy Awards with her 2008 film “The Hurt Locker.” “(She) shows that women can tell a story even if it’s an epic war movie,” Dickens said.

Both Dickens’ and Stratman’s films being screened at this year’s festival depart from stereotypical female stories. Dickens’ “Fish Out of Water” employs insight from theologians to deconstruct the seven Bible passages traditionally used to condemn homosexuality.

“The overwhelming issue of the film is to get people to think for themselves,” Dickens said. “We often grow up in a family that has a set of beliefs, and that’s OK, but it’s important to question yourself.”

Regardless of topic, every film at the festival promises to improve the future of female filmmakers.

“You can run a marathon to make a difference, go door to door selling candy bars to make a difference or go to Citizen Jane to make a difference,” Elias said. “It’s that simple.”

For the event schedule and ticket information, visit www.citizenjanefilmfestival.org. angie andera | reporter

PREVIEW Giving Tree Band aims to stand up Giving Tree grows interest locally * The for the environment.

In “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein, a tree provides the protagonist with everything he requests. For The Giving Tree Band, it’s all about returning the favor.

In 2009, the group released Great Possessions, which the Chicago Sun-Times called the “greenest of albums.” It was recorded at the carbon-neutral Aldo Leopold Legacy Center while the group camped in a nearby state park and commuted a total of 500 miles per person via bicycle. The CD was then produced and packaged with biodegradable materials, and 10 trees were planted for every 1,000 units moved to offset pollution from distribution.

“We’re already very much conservationists in our personal life, and we’ve had those values instilled in us from childhood,” front man Todd Fink said. “So it just made sense to incorporate and integrate environmental activism into everything we do and especially into the business side of things with the band.”

The Giving Tree Band even uses eco-friendly instruments, including a slide guitar fashioned from a reclaimed redwood, a bamboo drum kit and recycled instruments upward of 40 years old. The group used these “instreements” to grow a new record, The Joke, The Threat, & The Obvious, released Sept. 21.

“For the most part, the vision behind this album was pretty much creating an album that

sounds very much like what the live concert is like now,” Fink said.

The band accomplished this by recording the songs as single live tracks with only the vocals overdubbed. Fink said recording like this was more challenging than just layering the tracks but worth the extra effort.

“It sounds more real,” he said.

“There’s a certain energy that’s captured in recording when everybody’s playing together and feeding off of each other in a positive way.”

The band’s positive energy translates into a sound as earthy as its business module. Traces of Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson are obvious in The Giving Tree Band’s twangy indie-folk. The Joke is the group’s first album to feature all eight members, and it boasts a fuller, cultivated sound that has already found success by charting on the Roots Music Report.

“It’s pretty cool to have a record charting alongside some of our biggest influences and musical heroes,” Fink said.

Todd Fink and his brother Eric founded the band six years ago, and their tight bond has helped bring the band such success.

“It’s great because there’s so many walls that have been removed in terms of working together and accessing creative possibilities,” Fink said. “There’s almost a telepathic-type communication that we have because we’ve been working and living together for so many years.”

Courtesy of The Giving Tree Band

Chicago indie folk group The Giving Tree Band is touring the country to promote its newest album The Joke, The Threat and The Obvious.

The band will be stopping in Columbia on Monday to play at Mojo’s.

Fink said the brotherhood has extended to the rest of the band.

“We’re all starting to communicate on that level,” he said. “I think that’s why we’re really starting to

tap into something unique and special with this band and with the music that we’re creating.”

The band will show off its new tunes Oct. 18 at Mojo’s, the

group’s third stop at the venue.

“I think people in Columbia really tend to appreciate music, and we’ve had a great response from the people there,” Fink said. “Every

time we come, the interest expands and the crowd gets bigger, so we’re going to keep coming back.” brandon foster | reporter

MOVE HIGHLIGHTS (EVENT) CENTRAL MISSOURI RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL TIME: STARTS AT 10 A.M. EACH DAY DATE: FRIDAY, OCT. 15 THROUGH SUNDAY, OCT. 17 LOCATION: BOSTER CASTLE IN HATTON TICKETS: $7

Now is your chance to live life in the ‘70s — the 1370s, that is.

This weekend, Hatton transforms itself into a medieval village. Enjoy the sights of Shakespeare plays, costume characters, blacksmithing and so much more. The best part? All the citizens of this medieval town bathe regularly. Thanks to Hatton, you can experience all the drama and violence of the Renaissance period with modern amenities, such as toilets and greasy food.

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(MOVIE RELEASE) “RED” RELEASE DATE: FRIDAY, OCT. 15

Based on the graphic novel of the same name, “Red” follows a team of assassins during its fight for survival against an oppressive government.

The starpacked cast will deliever action (Bruce Willis), laughs (John Malkovich) and sex appeal (Mary Louise-Parker). There is gonna be a lot of explosions, and Malkovich will probably bitch and moan throughout the film. But that’s what we love about him, right?

(MOVE RELEASE) “JACKASS 3-D” RELEASE DATE: FRIDAY, OCT. 15

(MOVIE RELEASE) “GHOST BIRD” AT RAGTAG CINEMA RELEASE DATE: SUNDAY, OCT. 15

The former MTV show “Jackass” has been a model of entertainment to a generation looking to watch dumbasses get hit in the nuts. No matter how many times kids saw the “Do not try this at home” warning, it still didn’t stop thousands of injuries from shopping cart rides. “Jackass 3-D” looks to revive the cash-grabbing franchise when it takes stupidity into the third dimension. It’s up to you, though, if it’s worth paying 10 bucks to watch Johnny Knoxville get a bowling ball dropped on his jewels.

Archaeology and bird buffs, get excited. “Ghost Bird” documents some scientists’ search for a supposedly extinct woodpecker in Arkansas. Think of it as a modern day “Fugitive” with birds and the Arkansas woods. Birdwatching might sound like a primitive form of torture, but “Ghost Bird” will make you think twice about that notion. Treasure hunting still exists, but this treasure chest is in the form of a woodpecker.

PREVIEW

Outside the box...office

CoMo Derby: This is how they roll

CHASE KOENEKE movie columnist

At a loss for words Before I start my review, I’d like to pull the curtain back on what I do as a movie columnist. Perhaps there are some of you out there who would like to do what my fellow columnist Katy Wagner and I do and might appreciate a bit of insight.

I’m required to go to a movie every other week and write a 500-word article about my experience.

On the weeks when I’m not reviewing, I write a movie-related blog post for the MOVE website.

You might think going to a movie and writing about it is pretty easy.

How hard can it be to write down your opinion? For the most part, I’ll admit, you’re right. It’s easy to write about a movie you hate.

It’s easy to write about a movie you like. But then there are those rare occasions when you have to write about a movie you love.

It should be an easy thing. Just put r e v i e w down what it is you love about the film, toss in a pop culture reference or two and you’re golden.

But did the column really do justice A 'IT'S KIND OF to the film?

FUNNY STORY' You loved it. You know if people DIRECTORS: see it, they’ll love it too.

ANNA BODEN, But were your words as convincing RYAN FLECK as they could have been? Is someone FEATURING: going to miss out on an excellent ZACH piece of cinema because you didn’t GALIFIANAKIS, make a strong enough argument to JIM GAFFIGA, persuade him or her?

EMMA I bring this up because it’s exactly IR ROBERTS, KE how I feel about “It’s Kind of a GILCHRIST Funny Story.” I love it. I want to RATING: PG-13 see it again. If I had the means, I’d RUNNING pay for all of you to come with me TIME: 1 HOUR, 31 (right after I bought a new pair of MINUTES shoes).

Unfortunately, The Maneater of 5 does not pay me enough to take you all to Ragtag Cinema to go see it. So instead, I’m forced to persuade you to spend your own dollars to go.

I suppose you’ll want more of a reason than “I like it, you will too.” That’s understandable.

Maybe the intrigue of what goes on inside a mental hospital entices you. Maybe Zach Galifianakis’ stellar performance as a mental patient (in which he brings not only his trademark hilarity, but also a real, human quality to the character) gets you a little more interested. Maybe the idea of being so overwhelmed you think you’re about to snap is something you can relate to.

Perhaps the fact I spent more than half my column this week tr ying to explain how hard it is to put into words what makes this the best movie I’ve seen this year — despite the reg retful ending montag e that feels like an impromptu public ser vice announcement — will speak to you somehow.

Perhaps me scrapping my first two drafts in favor of this unconventional style will be enough to put you over the edge.

Truthfully, I don’t care what it is that gets you to see this movie, I just care that you see it.

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CoMo Derby * The Dames have a match at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

Just by looking at Wendy Walden, who only stands about 5 feet 2 inches, you would not think she’s capable of knocking someone down. But as soon as she puts on her custom underwear (over her shorts of course), her helmet and her roller skates, there will be no doubt in your mind.

Walden, also known as Nox, enjoys the recently revived sport of roller derby, and she is a team member for the local CoMo Derby Dames.

“It’s not a sport everyone necessarily thinks of to go see, watch or do on a Saturday night,” CoMo Derby Dames referee Smackbook Pro said.

For those of us who do not know a lot about the sport, it can be a little hard to follow. Essentially, two teams of four blockers and two jammers are out on a track competing to get in the lead. The jammers speed through the pack of blockers and try to pass each other, and the blockers try to prevent the other team’s jammer from getting through them.

These are only the bare bones of how the sport works, but it makes it a little easier to understand.

The unique aspect of the sport is many of the players keep their real life separate from their derby life. Players use face paint and nicknames in the derby world.

“The appeal of roller derby depends on what kind of person you are,” Walden said. “Some see it just for athletics. Some see it as just about putting on fishnets, roller skates and short-shorts and hitting people. It’s empowering to some. Some just think it’s fun.”

A lot of strategy and hard work is also involved in the sport.

“I attend three practices per week,” CoMo Derby Dame Emily Petrie (SCARlet Fever) said.

“I still like attending the beginner practices to brush up on old tricks and meet the fresh meat. I

Breanne Bradley/Staff Photographer

CoMo Derby Dame Pink Diamond pursues her teammates at their endurance practice Thursday. The Derby Dames are Columbia’s women’s roller derby team and will compete Saturday at the Boone County Fairgrounds. also attend endurance and scrimmage practices.

The endurance practice includes some cross training, like push ups, crunches, squats, cherry pickers and all kinds of awesome torture.

Even more important to those involved in the Derby Dames is the community it creates.

“It is like a sorority of extraordinary characters,” Petrie said. “Some of my best friends are moms, graduate students and professors. The age differences don’t matter because of the common bond we have over this sport.”

The Derby Dames family is rather large, too.

The team has seen an influx in interest in the sport, especially after the release of last year’s movie “Whip It.” According to Walden, there has been an addition of at least 30 new girls at the beginner practices.

“There are multiple coaches to address everyone at all skill levels,” Smackbook Pro said.

“More people points to more exciting games.”

For many girls on the team, games are still a new thing, but the training has paid off because the Derby Dames are on a 10-game winning streak. The team hopes this will continue after Saturday’s bout against the ICT Roller Girls, which will take place at the Boone County Fair Grounds.

“We are looking forward to working together the rest of the season and solidifying our teamwork,” Petrie said.

The Derby Dames are working toward meeting Women’s Flat Track Derby Association standards and becoming a part of the association.

Until then, they have nationals to look forward to.

“Nationals is in a few weeks, which I’m jumping out of my pants for,” Walden said. megan hager | reporter

PREVIEW

The long road to independence *

Former ‘90s pop star from the band Evan and Jaron finds a career in country.

When you go on Jaron and the Long Road to Love’s Facebook page, the comments and wall posts from his loyal “frans” are overwhelming.

The term “fran” is one that front man Jaron Lowenstein created himself.

“Well, I didn’t feel that my fans were just fans to me, because I have such an engaging relationship with them and I just felt that I know them better than just fans,” Lowenstein said. “So, fans was an inaccurate term and to call them friends wasn’t true either. So I put them together and decided that they’re my ‘frans.’”

The Georgia-born singer-songwriter is no newcomer to the world of music. He was onehalf of the late-1990s to early-2000s duo Evan and Jaron. The twin brothers were popular for their hit song “Crazy For This Girl,” which was once No. 4 on Billboard Hot 100.

It came as a surprise when the former folkpop artist turned to country, but the music isn’t hesitant or forced. It’s a natural transition for Lowenstein as an artist, and the “frans” seem to be more than accepting.

The country world is also very receptive of the change, with video play on popular country channels CMT and GAC. His video for “Pray For You” had a three-week run as No. 1 on MySpace country videos. The newest video for “That’s Beautiful To Me” features “Laguna Beach” and “The Hills” star Kristin Cavallari. The video shows a lighthearted couple and the love they share.

“We had a great time,” Lowenstein said. “It was a great day, and I think that that comes across on camera.”

The experiences Lowenstein has had as an artist have left him fearless when he performs.

Nerves are no longer a factor for him -- instead, excitement takes over.

“It’s kind of like when you were younger, if you had to make a speech in class,” Lowenstein said. “If you practiced, if you were confident and knew what you had to do, there’s nothing to be nervous about. And I’ve been performing for 17 years. You get nervous with the fear of the unknown. You’re just afraid of what could happen, and I’m not saying there’s something that

couldn’t happen on stage, but I’ve been performing so long it’s just fun.”

This is Lowenstein’s first headlining tour to promote his debut solo album, “Getting Dressed in the Dark.” As the fearless performer he is, Lowenstein and his excitement shine through on tour. Although it’s hard work, he doesn’t let long days bring him down.

“I try to have fun doing every aspect of it, but the most fun I have is actually taking the stage and doing the event,” Lowenstein said.

The overall goal of Jaron and the Long Road to Love seems to be to have a great time, whether through the music he makes or the shows he puts on. Either way, Lowenstein hopes fans leave the show happy.

“When they spend their hard-earned money, I want them to have a great time,” Lowenstein said. “I want them to have fun, and they do. I guarantee it.”

Jaron and The Long Road to Love will be performing at 8 p.m. Friday at The Blue Note. christine cauthen | reporter

MOVE HIGHLIGHTS (EVENT) “BRUTAL BEAUTY: TALES OF THE ROSE CITY ROLLERS” TIME: 7 P.M. DATE: MONDAY, OCT. 18 LOCATION: RAGTAG CINEMA, 10 HITT ST. TICKETS: $6.50

After you see the CoMo Derby Dames’ bout this weekend, head over to Ragtag to witness a documentary about the sport’s impact on a community in Portland, Ore. “Brutal Beauty” shows how the sport saved the souls of the members of the Rose City Rollers but left the team bruised, battered and wanting more. If watching the Derby Dames and “Brutal Beauty” doesn’t make you want to join a roller derby team, you’re a lost cause.

(ALBUM RELEASE) THE BOOTLEG SERIES: THE WITMARK DEMOS: 1962-1964, BOB DYLAN RELEASE DATE: TUESDAY, OCT. 19

Hardcore Bob Dylan fans should rejoice at the release of The Witmark Demos.

The album contains demos from about 50 songs from Dylan’s early career, with hits such as “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “Mr. Tambourine Man.” It might not sound as pure as Blonde on Blonde on vinyl, but The Witmark Demos are worth a listen. If you’re a Dylan discography completionist, pay the bones to get this intimate look into one of the greatest songwriters of all time.

(ALBUM RELEASE) COME AROUND SUNDOWN, KINGS OF LEON RELEASE DATE: TUESDAY, OCT. 19

(ALBUM RELEASE) FUNSTYLE, LIZ PHAIR RELEASE DATE: TUESDAY, OCT. 19

Southern rockers Kings of Leon tasted stardom, and Come Around Sundown looks to continue the success of Only by the Night.

The album’s first single, “Radioactive,” is dirty rock with a splash of progressive guitar pickin’. The album was recorded at Avatar Studios in New York, which also produced records from Iggy Pop and Neil Young. And it seems like there are traces of both legendary artists in Come Around Sundown.

Perennial alt-rock queen Liz Phair is still kicking after all these years. The 43-year-old Phair releases Funstyle after five years away from the studio.

The album draws from influences around the world. The song “Miss September” could easily play on a country radio station. But the track “Smoke” sounds like a cross between The Beatles’ The White Album and 1970s funk band Parliament. Funstyle is Phair’s epic proclamation that she is back, and her sound is still evolving.

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Maître de MOVE

KRISSY TRIPP food columnist

Buy food that has good karma Ethical buying habits have been a rising trend, which means the use of ethically produced and traded products is becoming a lifestyle.

Whether you’re buying local to reduce emissions and help the economy, buying eco-friendly to help the environment or buying fair trade to promote quality of life for artisans, you’re doing your part for the world.

These habits are beneficial for the world, but also yourself. I feel great every time I purchase something from a locally owned business and put it in my reusable bags rather than store plastic.

Imagine my excitement when I found out I would be baking a dish in an effort to help with the Mustard Seed’s Artisan Show and Sell. I made a fair trade-friendly dish — white chocolate blondies with blueberries and macadamia nuts with raspberries.

I copied the recipe from “Divine Heavenly Chocolate Recipes with a Heart,” which can be found at Mustard Seed next to all the chocolate. The volunteer who helped me find the recipe said she was making cupcakes using fair trade coffee as an ingredient.

The idea behind these recipes isn’t searching and making sure every single ingredient is ethically produced and traded. It’s about finding ways to incorporate ethical products into every day life, such as food.

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ILLA MINUTES, ADD MILK AND VAN There are plenty of other ways to eat ethically.

INGRIEDIENTS: Fair trade coffee OA COC DE TRA FAIR OF S 1 TABLESPOON is one of the easiest POWDER examples. I’m willing WHITE SUGAR 2 TABLESPOONS FAIR TRADE to assume by the sheer 2 TABLESPOONS OF WATER number of coffee shops 1 CUP MILK in Columbia that many A BIT OF VANILLA, IF DESIRED readers have a cup or six a day. Simply replacing your regular morning brew with something fair trade, available at a large variety of retailers in Columbia, will help the cause.

For those of you who want to see the results here in your community, buying from local restaurants and grocery stores rather than large chains helps the local economy. According to Time magazine, buying locally keeps twice the money in the community rather than buying from a large chain. It also makes the money circulate more quickly.

Also, with food vendors such as the farmers market and The Root Cellar, the goods aren’t being shipped too far. This means less emissions and a better environment.

As a vegetarian, I’m always telling people (I prefer to think of it as informing rather than preaching) about how large industrial slaughterhouses or industrial farms treat animals. You might not care, but buying from small local farms makes it much more likely the animal was treated well before its death.

It’s not about making a total overhaul of kitchen changes. One ethical buy at a time will lead to a lot of incorporation.

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Local hipster infiltrates brocal culture story of a hipster’s *The dip in the brocean.

For one day, I donned a directionless, cocked baseball cap, suited myself into a red Polo and introduced a comically large Jack Johnson playlist to my ears. I hadn’t slept much the night before, and my face was blemished with enough exhaustion to look hungover. I left my literary fiction at home that day. I said “bro” despondently when I met the autumn air. It was chill, in more ways than one. That Friday was the perfect day for a bro.

I am not a bro. Yes, there was a Hollister insignia on my chest, and I stiffed the bus company, but it was all an act. That day, my dress and my demeanor were warped into that of a bro’s. I decided there was a disparity in the treatment of bros and people like me (hipsters) and had to investigate further.

I aggregated what the quintessential bro might look and act like from websites such as broslikethissite.com and mylifeisbro.com — a polo shirt on top and the rest moot. A bro has an aggressive albeit profound camaraderie with his other bros. The brightest of bros go on to become Wall Street brokers who untuck their shirts at five minutes to 4 p.m. My interest in skinny jeans, generally boring views and feminist tendencies closely identify me with what’s known as a hipster, the antithesis of all that is bro.

This was not necessarily a safe operation: Integrity would be lost.

Instead of primly crossing my legs, I splayed myself into everyone else’s space during class.

Maxim had to appear a more electrifying read than my Michael Chabon book. Peers quickly noticed the difference, punctuating their sentences with “bro!” as one should when addressing a bro. Or they tried their best to ignore my chides.

Most importantly, it was Friday: party night. I exited my apartment and met with friends when I realized something terrible: None of my friends were bros. We were driving to a house party — and not the kind of house party that had “frat”

Photo illustration by Sam Gause and Grant Hindsley

as its antecedent.

I arrived at the house and panicked when I saw it was completely engulfed in flames.

Except it was not engulfed in flames. That was just the mile-long cloud of smoke that could only be generated by a barn fire or a bunch of hipsters smoking American Spirits in a basement.

As I entered the basement, I wanted to break from my bro facade and tell them how much I loved Pitchfork Media. But I had to stay strong. I bumped into a gentleman with prescriptionless glasses on.

“Sorry, bro,” I said.

As I began conversing with one of the only bro sympathizers in the entire house, I was scolded louder than ever by a hipster with artificially red hair. She thought I had distracted her from her drinking game and had more metal in her face than RoboCop. She found me, “The Bro,” and unleashed what must have been years of pent-up frustration about being a natural brunette.

These hostile hipsters had forsaken me. Here,

I felt the alienation I had felt on-campus when being discriminated against by bros for having skinny jeans.

I thought in Columbia (of all places) these hipsters would understand what it was like to be different. As I lay in bed that night and took off my baseball cap for the last time, I thought there was a profound human message in this ironic duality, a message that was completely lost on me. I’ll leave that to brocial scientists.

But the next time a brogade of bros zips down the street yelling less-than-creative insults at me out of its Hummer, I won’t grimace in rage. I’ll pity them. Because when they arrive back at their dorms, there’s probably some bearded guy waiting to call them a meathead, and they truly know what it’s like to be a bro like me. parker tarun | reporter

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The accidental comedian * Comedian Chad Daniels looks more like an insurance agent than a comedian. He is a doting father. He’s also a loving husband. But on certain nights, he’s an opinionated and boisterous guy onstage at the comedy club, using the microphone as his outlet for all the things that are currently bothering him.

Daniels, a Minnesota family man, took the stand-up circuit by storm during the past few years. But if asked, his foray into comedy would certainly not have a normal starting point.

“I got fired from my job, and they gave me a six-month severance package,” Daniels said. “So, I decided to throw myself a retirement party.

During the party, my friends came up with the idea to sign me up for an open-mic night at the club we were at. It was not a very good first show, but I liked being onstage, so I thought I would try it again.”

The first show might not have gone well for Daniels, but it definitely didn’t stop him. The comedian has been on “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” and “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.” He has even been on Comedy

Central numerous times, including his own halfhour special, “Comedy Central Presents... Chad Daniels” in 2008. He has also put out two comedy albums, one of which was self-produced.

“I was shocked about the Comedy Central special because I’d been told that I wasn’t going to get my own special until the following year,” Daniels said. “I was at a tollbooth in Chicago when my manager called and told me about it. I have the guy in the tollbooth asking me for my money, and I have people behind me honking.

I ended up leaning out of my window, yelling, ‘I just got a special on Comedy Central! Stop honking at me!’”

Daniels said his favorite part about being onstage is the times when he does not have to use a large amount of material. He said some of his best times onstage are the moments when he can improvise.

Although Daniels might be a new comedic superstar, he also likes to keep his professional and personal lives separate. He is the normal dad and husband when he’s at home, but that’s not to say he doesn’t love touring.

Chad Daniels balances domestic life with comedy.

“I think my family just likes getting me out of the house for a while,” he joked.

His family is very supportive of his offbeat career, though.

“My mom was really supportive about me getting into comedy, and I’ve known my wife since the fifth grade,” Daniels said. “She knew when she married me what she was getting into.”

But, his friends don’t view Daniels as a celebrity.

“I can tell someone I’ve never met that I’ve been on ‘The Tonight Show,’ and they’re very impressed,” Daniels said. “My friends aren’t fazed by it, though.”

Not only has Daniels been touring, he’s also writing a movie about illegal immigration. He said he believes it would be fun to get a movie made that is not just a typical comedy. Daniels also said he would love to be on Conan O’Brien’s new show.

Before you tune in to Conan’s TBS show, check Daniels out Oct. 21 through Oct. 23 at Déjà Vu Comedy Club. ellen fike | reporter

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(VIDEO GAME RELEASE) “FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS” RELEASE DATE: TUESDAY RATING: MATURE PLATFORMS: XBOX 360, PLAYSTATION 3, PC

(VIDEO GAME RELEASE) “DJ HERO 2” RELEASE DATE: TUESDAY RATING: TEEN PLATFORMS: XBOX 360, PLAYSTATION 3, PLAYSTATION 2, WII

“Fallout” makes the apocalypse look like a good time.

The franchise has centered its games around surviving in a post-nuclear attack landscape in the United States. “New Vegas” is set in the ravaged city of Las Vegas. Prepare to waste days of the next couple of weeks wandering the wasteland that is Nevada. Who knows? Maybe rural Nevada is more interesting after a bomb was dropped on it.

Living off the success of “Rock Band” and “Guitar Hero,” “DJ Hero 2” lets players live out their dream of being, you guessed it, the next great DJ. The game’s TV ad depicts a rockin’ party with “DJ Hero” being the main source of entertainment. Dream on, Daft Punk wannabes: The game might not attract the attention of the whole neighborhood. Instead, it will be just as fun to pop this in when you and your roommates have nothing to do on a weeknight.

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(EVENT) REBELUTION, ZION-I AND TRIBAL SEEDS TIME: 7:30 P.M. DATE: WEDNESDAY LOCATION: THE BLUE NOTE, 17 N. NINTH ST. TICKETS: $16

Put your peace signs up when you’re grooving at this reggae show at The Blue Note. Sons of California Rebelution sound like the love child of Bob Marley and Sublime. Wear your Jamaican flag t-shirt to show how credible of a rastafarian you are. The leaves are changing and the Missouri breeze is nipping at your nose. Pretend like you are on a Caribbean beach with this feel good, mellow vibe-filled show.

(EVENT) FINGER ELEVEN, TADDY PORTER, THE SLEEPING AND GHOST IN THE MACHINE TIME: 7:30 P.M. DATE: THURSDAY LOCATION: THE BLUE NOTE, 17 N. NINTH ST. TICKETS: $20

Alternative rock group Finger Eleven found moderate success on the radio and MTV throughout its career. But the band exploded when it released the annoying rock stomp “Paralyzer.”

The band hits up The Blue Note with Warped Tour vets The Sleeping and Missouri rock band Ghost in the Machine. Thirsty Thursdays could get a little violent when the mosh pits start at this show.

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Candidates field questions from disability advocates The forum attracted approximately three dozen audience members.

Wes Duplantier News Editor Candidates for Boone County’s districts in the Missouri House of Representatives heard from some of their constituents Wednesday, as they took questions and listened to concerns from Columbians during a forum hosted by the Columbia Disabilities Issues Coalition.

The candidates at the forum included those running for House seats in the 21st, 23rd, 24th and 25th districts. Columbia is mostly situated within the latter three districts. MU’s campus falls within the 25th district.

Columbia disability advocate Max Lewis said the forum was an important one because the decisions made in the House would likely affect many county residents.

“Boone County has a large population of persons with disabilities whose benefits are at stake,” he said. “It’s really important that

the citizens be informed which Democratic Rep. Chris Kelly, who candidate supports employment, represents southern Columbia in independent living and the pros- the 24th district, felt the state pect of supporting not-for-profit should continue taking federal programs.” aid because the return on that Lewis said he is concerned the investment is too great to cut state’s deepening budget crisis away. will make legislators reluctant “It’s hard to find anything as to allocate money to programs effective as vocational rehabilitafor the disabled and more likely tion,” he said. to cut funding for personnel and Other candidates, such as equipment.

Kelly’s Republican rival, Second “This climate is really shaky, Ward City Councilwoman Laura and what’s at risk here are peo- Nauser, felt the state should be ple’s very freedoms,” he said. more hesitant to accept fedLewis moderated the dis- eral dollars because continued cussion at the Columbia Public state requests would worsen Library along with the federal gov Aimee Wehmeier, This climate ernment’s fiscal executive direcis really shaky condition. tor of Services “ There is and what’s at for Independent just not enough risk here are Living. Both pep- the people’s very money to continpered the candi- freedoms.” ue to add federal dates with ques— Max Lewis spending,” she tions about where said. they stood on several issues and Several candidates blamed how those stances would change an anti-federal sentiment in the as the next fiscal year’s budget is general assembly for the failure hashed out. of a bill that would have brought Among those issues is whether in more federal dollars by changto accept state funding for voca- ing how different types of care tional rehabilitation, treatment are recognized. The bill had the that teaches patients skills they support of Gov. Jay Nixon and can use in the workforce. Some the state Senate, but failed in candidates, such as incumbent the state House -- a result that

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Dropout students cost MU millions MU’s first-year retention rate is 85 percent.

Tony Puricelli Staff Writer Roughly 30 percent of firstyear college students at fouryear colleges do not return for a second year, according to a recent study.

Mark Schneider, vice president of American Institutes for Research, led the study, entitled “Finishing the First Lap: The Cost of First-Year Student Attrition in America’s Four-Year Colleges and Universities.”

Schneider and his team examined college data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, a federal system with information on colleges across the nation.

“The study was designed to estimate the costs to taxpayers of first-year college attrition,” Schneider stated in an e-mail. “The research team looked at grant money from both federal and state resources that comes to students who later drop out.”

The team combined this data with information from the College Board and Payscale. com to examine issues related to the costs associated with retention, said Patrick Riccards, AIR executive director for communications and public affairs.

The results are published on a website, Collegemeasures.org, which allows anyone to look at retention rates, graduation rates and more for individual colleges and universities.

Riccards said the study looked at issues that have been more or less ignored in the educational world in order to

identify problems and inform the general public.

“Over the last five years, as a nation, we’ve spent over $9 billion on grants for students who don’t return for a second year of college,” Riccards said.

“You have students arriving in college that may not know what all is going into it — be it financially, emotionally or academically and, for whatever reason, don’t return for a second year.”

Riccards said the public needs to hold colleges and universities more accountable for their students.

When the public makes an investment in a student’s first year of college, it is important to get a return on that investment.

To do so, colleges and universities need to re-examine their efforts to keep students enrolled.

According to the study, MU spent $11.3 million on students who entered the school in fall 2007 but did not return the following year. MU’s graduation rate is 67 percent, placing it in the 89th percentile among public universities.

Not everyone agrees with the implications of the study.

Clifford Adelman, a research associate at the Institute for Higher Education Policy, is a former colleague of Schneider and questions the IPEDS data used in the study.

Adelman said data from the National Center for Education Statistics would provide a more accurate representation of transfer students who change states, instead of counting them as dropouts like the IPEDS does. With this data, the percentage of students returning to school would be much higher. “(Schneider) pretends that

COSTS OF COLLEGE

DROPOUTS A report released earlier this month showed how much it has cost the state and the federal government over the last five years to support Missouri students who drop out after their first year of college.

All Institutions: $142,500,000 150 million 120 million 90 million 60 million 30 million

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Total state Federal student expenditures grants Public Institutions: 150 million $136,500,000 120 million 90 million 60 million 30 million

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there is no such thing as geomobility and that traditionalage students have their feet in cement,” Adelman said.

He said one issue with this data, which uses transcripts, is its age. The next long-term study in this forum will not be available for a few years.

Adelman said other studies contain college transcripts for better data.

Riccards said the numbers used in the IPEDS study were provided by university presidents, adding to their credibility. “ The data we’re using is the best data, the worst data and the only data we have in the nation,” Riccards said.

“Yes, we should collect better data. But, this nation has a misperception that when students drop out of college today, odds are they simply transferred or took a year off.”

Kayla Huett/Senior Staff Photographer

Candidates for the Missouri House of Representatives Mary Wynne Still and Paul Quinn converse during a debate held at the Columbia Public Library on Wednesday afternoon. Candidates spoke on issues concerning home care, disability issues and family resources. incumbent Democratic state Rep. Stephen Webber said was disappointing.

“It was one of the more frustrating things I’ve seen,” he said.

Other candidates talked about ideas to raise revenue from within the state through increased excise taxes.

Former state Sen. John Cauthorn, a Republican who is now running for the 21st district House seat, said he would

consider raising the state’s cigarette tax.

“I’ve spoken with people within the industry and it’s seven for and three against, so maybe the people need to decide and vote on this,” Cauthorn said.

Missouri’s cigarette tax is $.17 per pack and the lowest in the nation, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

CNN poll leaves out Columbia U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt leads Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan by 13 percentage points in the race to become one of Missouri’s U.S. senators, according to a new poll by CNN/Time/ Opinion Research Corporation.

The poll states that 53 percent of likely voters in the Nov. 2 election will vote for Blunt, a Republican, with only 40 percent voting for Carnahan, a Democrat. Even though the poll breaks down the Missouri Senate race results into age and region, the poll does not take into account voters between the ages of 18 and 34 or the eastcentral region of the state, which includes Columbia.

The omission of voters aged 18 to 34 and from the east central region of the state could have impacted the actual outcomes of the poll since Columbia, as part of this region, is home to MU and a diverse population and, subsequently, a partially politically active community.

The poll, which has a 3.5 percent margin of error, shows Blunt leading Carnahan by 18 points in the Kansas City region, while Carnahan is up by eight points in the St. Louis area. Blunt also holds a 41-point lead in southern Missouri, but the candidates are evenly matched in the northern region of the state.

Predictably, the poll shows that both Carnahan and Blunt hold vast leads over voters within their own parties. Blunt also has a lead over Carnahan among men and also women voters with Blunt leading by 58 to 35 percent among men and 49 to 44 percent among women.

“Roy Blunt is achieving what many Republicans can only wish for,” CNN Polling Director Keating Holland told the news network.

“He has nearly a majority of the women’s vote in Missouri. That’s bad news for any Democrat, but for a Democratic woman, it’s a major problem.”

Carnahan’s campaign pointed out the CNN poll is inaccurate because it does not include all of the information necessary to take an accurate poll, such as the opinion of voters between the ages of 18 and 34.

Rasmussen Reports and Daily Kos, which collect public opinion polls, also show Blunt leading Carnahan in the state’s senate race, but at a smaller margin then the CNN poll. Rasmussen puts Blunt eight points ahead of his Democratic counterpart, and Daily Kos places him ahead by seven points.

Linden Zakula, a spokesman for Carnahan, noted the campaign was focused on talking to voters and telling the truth about Blunt’s policies.

“We are focused on talking to as many voters in the next 19 days as possible,” Zakula said. “Blunt and his special-interest friends know that voters are rejecting his 14-year Washington record of waste, corruption and sticking it to the middle class, which is why they have spent over $8 million attacking Robin.”

The winner of November’s election will replace retiring Sen. Kit Bond, a Republican.

The poll also took note of Missouri voters’ approval of President Barack Obama’s handling of his job as president.

Although 34 percent of voters said they approved of Obama’s job, 61 percent said they disapproved.

— Matthew Patane, senior staff writer

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Administrators waste time, trust If MU’s administration really does care about promoting an understanding of diversity at this university, it doesn’t show in their efforts (or lack thereof) to create a general education diversity course requirement at MU. A 2005 Campus Climate Study proposed more than 100 recommendations for the MU administration and campus as a whole to consider in terms of diversity. Following the study and among nearly 60 task force recommendations was a diversity course requirement. It was taken seriously by students and MU staff, who worked together to make models of what that course would look like. The models went nowhere and the proposal stayed in limbo for about two years.

Then a few events took place, most notably the cotton ball crime outside of the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center. After this, students saw the opportunity for the issue to cut to the front of the bureaucratic line. But, it didn’t. The issue had just stepped forward from its stagnant state as something that was being taken care of, and several people wanted credit for it. Only a few outraged students addressed that nothing had been done in two years. Few in MU’s administration seem to mind that it took an event such as the cotton ball crime for the diversity class proposal to be in the spotlight again.

The university has let this proposal process drag on for much too long. The other 100 recommendations from the Campus Climate Study aside, the diversity course has been supported by students and faculty who actually put work into it, and now it’s stuck in the bureaucracy of administration, awaiting approval by a Faculty Council subcommittee.

Just because it’s a complicated proposal doesn’t mean the course should be on the back burner for eternity. Rather, it should be one of the Faculty Council’s priorities until its future is resolved.

The proposal is bogged down in the Academic Affairs Committee of Faculty Council which decides the makeup of our general education requirements. If it gets through there, the next step is Faculty Council at large. Because the course is one part of a review of the general education system as a whole, one complaint about one part of the review could shoot down the diversity course along with it.

If the proposal’s progress has been allowed to stay stagnant for this long, perhaps Faculty Council should take the time to act. Or, if it’s going nowhere, perhaps they should scrap the review so students and faculty can start over. Either way, action needs to be taken because if the university can’t follow through on this simple initiative, how can students trust their administrators?

Both students and faculty support the idea of a required diversity credit, and it wouldn’t present students with any radically inconvenient change to their education.

It’s important to keep in mind that the course credit is really only one step in an array of changes that need to be made regarding diversity. The problem won’t be solved, but it’s a step in the right direction.

MSA Senate should hear both sides of political arguments The Missouri Students Association Senate is beginning to resemble real-life politics in the worst of ways: a body of voters operated from one perspective by outside lobbyists, rather than by constituents.

Downtown beat officer Chris Hessenflow of the Columbia Police Department recently approached MSA’s Campus and Community Relations Committee and asked it to write a resolution in opposition of Proposition 2, a proposition banning Tasers.

The MSA Senate gladly wrote the bill and had the officer come into Senate to speak on its behalf.

However, no one was brought in to defend the other side, the side opposed to Taser use, and, as was an issue for some of the senators during the voting process, they failed to ask the students they represent what they thought of Proposition 2.

Ultimately, the resolution passed confirming MSA’s opposition to Proposition 2.

It was an irresponsible decision on the senators’ behalf for a multitude of reasons.

Most importantly, the fact that the decision was passed after hearing only one side of the argument. Also, we believe the MSA Senate may not understand the full implications of its vote and that those in opposition to Proposition 2 can now point to this decision and say “MU students don’t support banning Tasers,” when we believe quite the opposite.

The officer who came to persuade the MSA Senate is a downtown beat officer. The people he’s most likely to Tase on duty? Students. Considering the obvious bias of its only speaker, it seems fair to say the Senate clearly didn’t examine all its options when passing this legislation.

The weight of the Senate’s decision is also substantial, as it can now be used in debate settings outside MU as “proof ” of the student body’s opposition to the bill. It’s set a precedent for outside forces to come in, have legislation written and passed for their cause while gaining the support of the “MU student body.”

The MSA Senate needs to seriously evaluate its decisions and the perspectives it hears before making decisions on this political of a level. We would also encourage the Senate to utilize referendums or surveys before taking a stance on ballot measures like Proposition 2 that will end up representing the entire student body’s opinion.

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Column response: No on Prop A I would like to address the column written by Megan Roberts entitled “Prop A is right for Missouri.” I also used to be a resident of Kansas City, Mo. before moving to Columbia to attend Mizzou. I however could not disagree more with the conclusions made by Ms. Roberts. In Kansas City, the earnings tax was enacted after white flight to the suburbs decimated the city of its population and business tax base who had fled to the suburbs. Most major cities in the country have enacted earnings taxes for the same reason and it should be noted that the current earnings tax rate of 1 percent in both Kansas City and Saint Louis City is among the lowest in the nation. In Kansas City, the earnings tax was enacted to help pay for basic services and amenities enjoyed and taken for granted by all metropolitan residents.

Basic services such as the Police, Fire, and Public Works Departments and amenities such as the sports complex, the zoo, and Kansas City International Airport (run by the City Aviation Department) are paid for in part by the earnings tax. These amenities are used to help market and attract businesses to the region but only paid for by the city, and also Jackson County in the case of the Sports Complex. It should also be noted, that Kansas City’s earnings tax of 1% is one of the lowest in the country.

Currently, the earnings tax accounts for 40 percent of Kansas City’s budget, the equivalent of the entire budget for the Police Department. If Proposition A were to pass and Kansas City and Saint Louis City residents were to repeal the earnings tax, both cities would be forced to find ways to make up for major shortfalls in their budgets. The simple fact is, Kansas City would not be able to make up 40 percent of its budget by making cuts alone. Both Kansas City and Saint Louis City would be forced to raise property and sales taxes in order to fill their coffers. If Ms. Roberts is naïve enough to believe that billions of dollars of business would flood into the cities after both are forced to raise property and sales taxes, she is wrong.

Businesses and residents would leave for the suburbs where the tax rates would be lower and what would be left would be broken and ruined cities. Study after study shows that a successful, prospering, central city attracts business and drives growth for the entire region and the earnings tax helps ensure the success of Missouri’s central cities. Should Proposition A pass, Missouri would not be better off.

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Complacency in life creates stagnancy Rachel Allred rma6f8@mizzou.edu

Fear hinders progression. Complacency stunts improvement. Together, fear and complacency create a force that can keep us from never knowing what could have been, never realizing a better future and could very well be the downfall of us all.

At first glance, the two states of mind might not seem to relate to each other. With closer inspection, it becomes clear they go hand-in-hand.

In order to move forward, we have to be willing to take some risks and accept the changes that come with advancement.

But, change can be scary. Instead of dealing with change, it’s easier to become comfortable with the way things are presently.

Complacency settles in, and life, even if it’s not the best, becomes comfortable. Outside of that comfort zone can seem like a horrifying place.

I’m gradually realizing how my life, and the lives of those around me, is affected by

my own fears and complacency. I have feared life alterations, no matter how positive they might be. A recent experience proved to me I’ve still got a lot to learn.

For years, I have been dealing with a health condition that is difficult to live with, and some days are miserable. After going to a number of doctors, one finally seemed confident he had a solution to my problem. He encouragingly informed me a certain medication has had high success rates in patients like me.

At this news, I was elated. The prospect of a medicine helping me live a bit more normally was exciting. My elation soon died, however, as I began to think about how my life would change if the medication did work.

For a long time I’ve lived, in a way, half-alive.

Although it’s not exactly fun, I’ve gotten used to and accepted it. To an extent, my life revolved around my health. I wasn’t sure how I would handle feeling better, how I’d readjust my life. I’ve since thought a lot about it. How silly of me to be afraid of something that could better my life, but the fear of change is real.

People dealing with addictions and other harmful habits often face similar emotions. A friend once told me how a habit was hurting

him, and he knew it wasn’t good. However, he was uncertain about changing that habit, because it was what he had become accustomed to, and the familiarity of it made him feel safe.

Such complacency is evident on both individual levels and in larger schemes such as administration, politics and law enforcement.

A story from 2005 that re-emerged in the news this year is that of Gary Gieselman, who was severely injured after fellow jail inmates brutally beat him. After upsetting correctional officer Valeria Wilson Jackson, who happened to be the chief deputy sheriff’s daughter, Gieselman was placed with violent inmates. The correctional officer allegedly encouraged Gieselman’s beating. According to Gieselman, other jail staffers knew of the injustices committed by Jackson and her father, but they ignored the situation. Their complacency contributed to the unfair injury of a man who was imprisoned only on a bad check charge.

Complacency and fear lead to stagnancy.

Where there’s stagnancy, there can’t be progression. It’s been said, “Evil thrives when good men do nothing.” Even though it might be frightening, we need to learn to be willing to do something.

Staying in the closet hard in military, rap world Merit Myers

mvmq49@mizzou.edu

“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” has been an unnecessary policy that, despite being created to do otherwise, has undoubtedly led to more dissention than cohesion within the military.

Specifically, DADT’s purpose is to maintain order and discipline within the ranks, but it causes turmoil for those who wish to file in and serve as closeted homosexuals.

Problems occur for the gay soldiers as a result of simply following orders. It is the policy that asks soldiers to lie about their identities to their superiors and comrades and perform their military service as well. This parallel life is something that heterosexuals in the service don’t have to endure, which is one of the reasons I believe the policy exists in the first place.

The mindless and selfish policy has very little inherent logic. My favorite part of the policy is DADT was created for the purpose of maintaining “morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion” which, as the policy states, is “the essence of military capableness.” One veteran, who was discharged after coming out to his unit, finds his new domestic world hard to navigate as both a veteran of the Iraq conflict and one the thousands of discharged soldiers asked to quit military service. His unique life is one questioned by seemingly everyone.

He is surrounded by ignorance. On the one side, heterosexuals opposed to the war question his involvement and sometimes his lifestyle, too. On the other, some homosexuals berate him for voluntarily signing up for an institution whose image-defining requisites require a denial of one’s self.

To me, this is real playground shit — we slap a star upon the bellies of those without one, and only then do they become true and honest soldiers.

My freedoms come at a cost, and I know I owe my liberties to people, both both living and dead, whom I’ve never met. Homosexuals and heterosexuals do a job “real Americans” hold in the highest of esteem. But if we honor our troops so much, we’d at least give them the right to truly be all they can be.

It must be similar, but not nearly as dangerous, to gay rappers attempting to establish themselves in the rap world. The rappers in between “don’t ask” and “don’t tell” occupy a growing margin.

The industry term “down-low man” refers

Illustration by chelsea myers to a man in the hip hop community whose nominal sexuality is bisexual, but his partiality is to men. This is different than a closeted homosexual man who, as we know, remains silent about his sexuality.

Rappers who openly express their sexuality in hip-hop face ostracism similar to the soldiers who either retire from service after coming out or who are discharged.

Openly gay industry veteran Terrence Dean describes exactly what happens if you come out to the rap community.

“The more masculine you present yourself, then we will love you, accept you, praise you,” he said.

But he continues.

“The more effeminate you are, we tend to shy away, because we don’t want to be seen with you, we don’t want to be guilty by association,” he said.

In his memoir, “Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down-Low in the Entertainment Industry,” Dean continues to describe the harsh reality for artists struggling not only with attaining success in a turbulent industry, but battling with self-identity.

The battle for equality is a war on many fronts. The load is heavy for homosexuals in the military, out of the military, in the rap world and outside the rap world, but hopefully soon everyone will give thanks to those silenced by “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

Mary Novokhovsky mn5p6@mizzou.edu

Apathy chronic for students I should have failed out of school two semesters ago.

But I didn’t. Instead, I managed to advance forward. What saved me? That burst of adrenaline that comes around when you realize you’re heading for a collision with failure, Mizzou Market’s business hours (24/7 all day, err’day), caffeine and most of all, the skills I acquired maneuvering through the American public education system for 13 years.

Despite being the poster girl for scholastic apathy, I go into every new phase of education with high hopes and motivation.

I firmly believe all this bullshit work has got to be moving me forward this time.

My propensity to work hard never lasts long because sooner or later, I realize I just don’t care about the task at hand and revert back to my old motto: You don’t have to know something well to perform to passing standards.

Whatever information I crammed into my brain freshman year is nearly gone. I can just barely recall the three types of rocks. My long-term retention of knowledge and my desire to keep trying has come to a screeching halt. I came to Missouri to learn to be a good journalist. A year and a half later, I kind of understand the ethical code better. Overall, $30,000 has been pissed upon.

Maybe you’re not all suffering from a bad case of the “I don’t give a damn” syndrome, but I’m sure on some level you understand my sentiment.

To draw an analogy with the story of Sisyphus: A man is condemned by the gods to roll a rock up and down a mountain for all of eternity. Once the man gets close to the top of the mountain, he has to start all over again.

This is the way the system works, too.

Elementary school builds you up for middle school. In middle school, you start all over with a new set of teachers and a new set of standards. By the time you feel accustomed to the new pace and are a ready to take a deep breath, boom: high school. Everything from that point on is supposed to lead you to the ultimate tier in education, the big finale and the point of freedom: college.

But now what? You’ve really just received a whole new set of rules to live by, and this time you have to learn to budget.

You might hate it, but statistics say you have to stay, because you’re going to be able to build a better life for yourself with a degree. All the money, all the job options -- you’d have to be a moron to drop out.

College isn’t the end of the struggle up and down the mountain, and many of life’s big lessons can’t be learned from the pages of a $200 dollar textbook or at a fee of $245.60 per credit hour. We’re spending a huge portion of our lives condemned to a system that doesn’t care where we end up, as long as we remember to pay our bills.

If you’re somebody who’s been sliding by in this life, you know as well as I do that education’s constant transitions are allowing you to do so. You don’t have to look back once you’ve already moved forward.

The other day I met a student who admitted she never learned long division. Look where she is now — ­ in college.

I don’t claim to be a professional in the field of education, but I do know firsthand its capacity to be nothing more than a holding cell for apathetic youth. America needs to pay attention to the cracks in our educational foundation. Instead of herding us around for 13 years, it’s got to stop and recognize we are human, and we need help. Our next generation should not be a pack of cattle standing in line to be ready for production.

Friday, October 15, 2010 On the Mike

Mike Vorel Sports Columnist

Ready to roar It’s Friday, the leaves are changing colors and the Missouri Tigers football team is 5-0. And yet, somehow, I can’t help but start to think about basketball.

Tiger basketball opens up official practice today at 5 p.m., and a young and talented group hopes to build off of two straight NCAA Tournament appearances. It’s also Coach Anderson’s best recruiting class since he arrived in Columbia. Adding further to the optimism is the return of Mizzou’s top three scorers from last season: Kim English, Marcus Denmon and Laurence Bowers.

Missouri has more depth now than it’s had in a long time, which only adds to its ability to play fast and to effortlessly substitute players in and out, keeping everyone fresh. The Tigers’ backcourt is among the most talented in the country, with sophomore Michael Dixon Jr. likely sharing minutes with stud recruit Phil Pressey at the point guard position. Pressey was one of the most sought-after guards in the nation (the No. 1 overall recruit according to rivals. com), and he offers excellent speed as well as a natural shooting stroke. Both are perfect fits for Mike Anderson’s “run ‘til you drop” style of play, and if they can hold their own defensively, both should see significant playing time throughout the season.

Dixon and Pressey will have the good fortune of passing to Kim English and Marcus Denmon, two experienced shooting guards who can pull up from anywhere on the court. English, a junior from Baltimore, led Mizzou in scoring last season, putting up 14 points per game to go along with 3.4 rebounds. At 6-feet-6-inches, he has excellent size for his position, which allows him to shoot over smaller defenders and draw fouls with penetration. Denmon is the perfect complement to English, a deadly 3-point shooter who averaged 10.4 PPG last year and shot 41 percent from beyond the arc. This backcourt is extremely well-rounded and can match up favorably with any in the Big 12 — ­ and perhaps the nation.

The frontcourt will also be vastly improved with the return of Justin Safford (the team’s lone senior) and Laurence Bowers. The tandem averaged a combined 18.8 points and 9.8 rebounds per game last season. They should also bring the athleticism Anderson’s teams need to get up and down the court quickly and run the fast break.

Newcomer and junior college transfer Ricardo Ratliffe is also expected to add bulk as well as plenty of scoring in the post.

The 6-foot-8-inch, 240-pound physical specimen was rivals.com’s No. 1-ranked junior college recruit last season, averaging an eyepopping 27.4 points and 11.3 rebounds per game for the College of Central Florida. The verdict remains out on top prospect Tony Mitchell, who was the Tigers’ biggest recruit in school history but has been ruled ineligible for first semester. If Mitchell joins the team in January, an above-average frontcourt will instantly improve.

As has been the case in recent years, Mizzou will have to prove the doubters wrong to land atop the Big 12. A preseason poll of Big 12 coaches slated Missouri to finish No. 5, behind Kansas State, Kansas, Texas and Baylor.

Missouri has kept virtually all of its scoring power while bringing in a top 10 recruiting class, but it will still need to gain the respect of its Big 12 peers. Judging by how the last two seasons played out, though, Mike Anderson probably wouldn’t have it any other way.

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Preview: Missouri at Texas A&M John Montesantos Staff Writer

The No. 21 Tigers will travel to College Station, Texas, to take on the 3-2 Aggies. The undefeated Tigers will look to improve to 6-0 for only the fifth time in Missouri history.

The two losses and lack of ranking are no reason to take this Texas A&M team lightly, as the Aggies come off close losses to two ranked teams: Oklahoma State and Arkansas.

In last week’s win over Colorado and in earlier victories over Illinois and San Diego State, the Missouri defense has kept the Tigers in games. As the offense continues to be inconsistent, the defense has allowed just 56 points, the fewest in the Big 12 this year.

The leader of the underachieving offense, junior quarterback Blaine Gabbert, suffered a high hip pointer injury in the second half last week. He is listed as probable and is the likely starter for Saturday.

Although the defense picking up the offense is becoming a recurring theme, coach Gary Pinkel sees no division between the two sides.

“Everybody has each other’s back,” Pinkel said. “One group might be more mature than the other or one might be younger than the other.

But this is all about us together as a football team.”

The Missouri defense will once again be without sophomore defensive end and firstteam Freshman All-American Aldon Smith this week. Smith

LONG ROAD AHEAD The Missouri Tigers look to remain unbeaten as they take on the Texas A&M Aggies on Saturday at Kyle Field.

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fractured his fibula in the San Diego State game and his recovery has taken longer than expected.

Down at the other end of the defensive line is junior defensive end Jacquies Smith, who has come into the spotlight in Smith’s absence. The Dallas native is one of the 28 Tigers who were recruited out of Texas.

Smith looks forward to playing in College Station, just a three-hour haul from his hometown. But Smith’s family and friends, decked out in black and gold, will be drowned out by the sea of maroon and white Aggie fans.

“Winning on the road is a lot different than winning at home,” Smith said. “They have a lot of stuff going on at their field, but it all comes back to us. What we do will determine if we win or lose.”

Entering his first game at Kyle Field, sophomore wide receiver T.J. Moe has already been informed of the rowdy fans and hostile environment at Texas A&M. “It’s going to be a challenge,” Moe said. “We have to go in and play our best football just like we would here.

The only difference is the fans

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Defensive lineman Dominique Hamilton lifts safety Jarrell Harrison at Faurot Field on Oct. 9. Missouri went on to defeat Colorado 26-0, and will take on Texas A&M on Saturday. are not on our side.”

Although the Tiger players hope to tune out any distractions and stay focused, Pinkel knows that is easier said than done.

“They’ve got a great stadium to play in,” Pinkel said. “It’s got a great reputation. But can you zone out all that’s in that stadium and focus on your job? That’s the bottom line.”

Pinkel said Kyle Field is

one of the Big 12 sites he mentions in recruiting as a really fun place to play. With away games at Nebraska, Texas Tech and Iowa State on the slate, this weekend’s contest will be the first of many for Missouri.

Kickoff is scheduled for 11:10 a.m. Saturday as the Tigers look to narrow the 7-3 edge the Aggies hold in the all-time series.

Football experience aids women’s soccer player Pat Iversen Staff Writer As the Missouri soccer team moves deeper into conference play, it’s hard for the players to ignore the great importance of the next few weeks. But for sophomore defender Jessica Greer, pressure is nothing new. It’s something she’s known since high school.

In fall 2008, the SmithCotton high school football team fell flat in its first game of the year, losing by two points after missing three extra point attempts. Greer attended the game, filming the team along with one of her soccer teammates. After some prodding from his quarterback and son, Bryce, Smith-Cotton coach Mark Johnson decided to try something completely different at kicker.

“We were waiting for all of the boys to come out of the locker room to go home on the bus, and coach Johnson

asked me if I could kick a football,” Greer said. “I was like ‘I’ve never kicked a football before, but I mean, I can try.’”

Johnson invited her to practice the next Saturday and ran Greer through multiple kick attempts. Although she was an experienced soccer player, Greer said it took awhile to get the hang of kicking a football.

“My first tries were terrible, and I didn’t know how to kick it,” Greer said. “Whenever we played (for fun), I tried to kick it sideways so I could kick the fat end. But then it got easier, and it just stuck.”

After attending enough practices to become eligible, Greer was given a chance to kick an extra point in her first game. As the only female on the team, she was given her own locker room before the game. When she came out for her first attempt of the season, the crowd was chanting her name.

“The crowd was cheering, wanting her to kick,” Bryce said. “I go out and put my knee down to do the hold, and I look at her and go, ‘You better not miss.’ It put a little pressure on her and she ended up making it, and it was uphill from there.”

Although the thought of a girl playing football might have been a strange idea for some teams, Johnson said the Smith-Cotton squad knew exactly what kind of girl Jessica was when she joined.

“She’s a competitor, for one,” Johnson said. “That’s what I liked about her. When she’d miss (field goals) in practice, nobody would get mad at her, but she would get mad at herself. That’s just her competitive nature. Everything she does, she pursues perfection and she wants to win.

That’s the big thing, she’s a winner.”

Greer attended every practice after school, and right afterward would drive

to Kansas City to go to her soccer practice. Most nights, Greer wouldn’t get home until almost midnight.

“I don’t know about the other guys, but I know for me that was really unbelievable,” Bryce said. “That just goes back to her character. It’s not about her. She’s just worried about the team. And I think that’s what drew the guys to her being on the team, because she had such a passion for it.”

Greer finished her career having made 91 PATs, and received multiple all-conference and all-district awards for her efforts in football. Bryce said the awards say a lot about the respect Jessica earned.

“For them to give a girl an award like that, not because she’s a girl but based on her skill and how effective she was as a kicker, I think that really says a lot,” Bryce said.

“But she’s very humble, she loves what she does, and she’s very competitive. And that’s how we see Jessica.”

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Tiger basketball prepares for season John Montesantos Senior Staff Writer The Missouri basketball team wrapped up preseason workouts this week and is scheduled to begin practice Friday. With their first exhibition game just three weeks away, the new and old Tigers continue to gel in preparation for November.

Missouri graduated three key seniors last year: top rebounder Keith Ramsey, steals leader Zaire Taylor and defensive specialist J.T. Tiller. This year’s group has just one senior in forward Justin Safford and a group of game-tested juniors ready to take the lead.

Besides two transfer students, Missouri features four experienced juniors, three of whom led the Tigers in scoring last year.

Junior guard Marcus Denmon is one of those returning juniors who knows he has big shoes to fill with the seniors gone.

“We're just trying to take on those positions and become leaders,” Denmon said. “We just want to show the younger guys the way. We're a pretty close group, and we've gelled with each other through all the ups and downs of the past few seasons."

Coach Mike Anderson explained the circumstances in which this junior class grew and how they were his first true recruiting class after he joined Missouri four years ago.

"It was the first big class that we actually had the chance to go out and select and pick the kids that we thought fit,” Anderson said. “I think those guys really started a standard when you talk about that particular class.”

One of the youngsters in the juniors’ supporting cast is sophomore guard Michael Dixon. Dixon logged significant playing time his freshman year, playing 16 minutes per game and leading the team in free throw percentage.

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Missouri sophomore guard Kim English fights for a rebound against Nebraska freshman guard Eshaunte Jones on March 10 during the Big 12 Tournament at the Sprint Center in Kansas City. The Tigers will open their exhibition season Nov. 5. threat knows the expectations of the upperclassmen and is eager to do his part.

“It’s challenging because those junior guys expect to do a lot this year,” Dixon said. “I feel like I can contribute and help them out any way I can. I think that we all mesh well together and we will more as the season comes along.”

The expectations of the players might not match those of the Big 12’s coaches, as the Tigers were ranked fifth in the preseason polls

despite returning four of their top five scorers. Missouri is used to being underestimated in the polls as it was ranked seventh the past two years.

Although the Tigers might have something to prove as a team, some individual players also have a chip on their shoulders. Missouri brought in two transfers students this year, junior guard Matt Pressey and junior forward Ricardo Ratliffe.

The 6-foot-8-inch, 240-pound Ratliffe joins the Tigers after two

stellar years at Central Florida Community College, where he earned national junior college player of the year recognition. The new post presence was also named the Big 12 Preseason Newcomer of the Year on Thursday.

"Coach Anderson brought me in here to rebound, score on the block and really just get some extra depth,” Ratliffe said. “I think I do a pretty good job of bringing that to the table.”

Joining Ratliffe and Pressey as

first-year Tigers are the three freshmen of the 2010 recruiting class.

Freshmen Ricky Kreklow, Kadeem Green and Phil Pressey head up the class as the much-hyped Tony Mitchell awaits NCAA eligibility.

The 5-foot-10-inch Pressey joins his older brother, who transferred to Missouri from Navarro Community College.

The Tigers' season opens with back-to-back home exhibition games, beginning Nov. 5 at Mizzou Arena.

Sports Shorts: Volleyball, soccer, basketball updates Zach Mink and John Montesantos Of The Maneater Staff Soccer After going 1-1 on the road against Colorado and Nebraska, the Tigers return home to continue conference play against Texas on Friday.

The Tigers (5-6-2, 3-2-0) outlasted the Buffaloes 1-0 Oct. 8. Sophomore defender Jessica Greer scored the game-winning goal in the second half for the Tigers. Missouri couldn’t keep the momentum going, though, and lost 4-2 to Nebraska on Sunday.

Despite a stellar overall record, the Longhorns (8-3-3, 1-2-2) have struggled in conference play. Texas earned its first conference victory of the season against Baylor on Sunday.

The all-time series between the two teams has not favored Missouri. The Tigers are 3-122 against the Longhorns, but earned a 1-1 tie in double-overtime last year.

Friday’s matchup will also honor Missouri’s seniors, as well as the annual “Play for Pink” game in support of breast cancer. The Tiger seniors are Kari Adam, Alysha Bonnick, Krista

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Missouri midfielder Krista Kruse leaps for the ball Sept. 19 against the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Walton Stadium. The Tigers will play Texas and Texas A&M this weekend in Columbia.

Krause and Paula Pritzen.

The match will begin at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Walton Stadium.

Volleyball The Missouri volleyball team has struggled in conference play this year with a 4-5 record in the Big 12. The Tigers will look to improve Saturday as they return home to take on the Baylor

Bears. Baylor has also had a rough go in the Big 12 so far with a 3-5 record through eight conference games.

Missouri is coming off a big win against Texas A&M, which marked the team’s eighth away victory, already surpassing last years total. Despite the win, the Tigers were outscored in nearly every statistical category, including hits, kills, digs and

blocks.

Senior outside hitter Julianna Klein continued to add to her impressive Missouri career, moving into second place alltime in career attacks with 42 in the game. Klein has accumulated 3,875 for her career, which leaves her 606 back of the school record. The senior also recorded a solo block in the victory, moving her into 10th place all-time.

The Tigers will look to senior outside hitter Paola Ampudia against the Bears. Ampudia has 79 kills in her past four matches and a team-leading 270 kills on the season.

Freshman setter Molly Kreklow also looks to play a big role in the offense, leading the Big 12 in assists per set with 11.74 and good for 10th nationally.

The match will begin at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Hearnes Center.

Basketball The 2010 Missouri basketball team begins practice Friday with five players who have never worn a Missouri uniform.

Leading the pack of transfer students and freshmen is junior forward Ricardo Ratliffe,

who was named the preseason Newcomer of the Year by Big 12 coaches Thursday.

The Hampton, Va., native transferred to Missouri after two prolific years at Central Florida Community College. Ratliffe averaged 27.4 points and 11.3 rebounds in his sophomore year to earn national junior college player of the year honors.

Ratliffe’s two years in junior college earned him back-toback first team all-NJCAA AllAmerican honors, making him one of just 13 players to do so twice in a career.

He also set school records in scoring and rebounding with 1,653 points and 580 boards in two seasons.

The 6-foot-8, 240-pound post presence was recruited by Missouri for his size and ability to score from the block. The Tigers have lacked a strong inside scorer in past seasons and will also benefit from his rebounding.

This Preseason Newcomer of the Year award was the second for the Tigers under coach Mike Anderson, with DeMarre Carroll winning it before the 2007-08 season.

Missouri fans will have a chance to see Ratliffe and the rest of this year’s team in action at the Black vs. Gold Game on Oct. 28.

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