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homecoming 2010

Tradition

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homecoming 2010

Tradition

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Friday, October 22, 2010

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Members of Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha Gamma Sigma and Sigma Nu perform the musical “Don’t Rain on my Homecoming Parade” during the homecoming talent competition Wednesday in Jesse Auditorium.

The competition took place from Tuesday to Thursday night.

Greek chapters put in hours for Homecoming The top five pairings performed in the finals Thursday at Jesse Auditorium.

Rockbridge Show Choir for some, they made two lions and shopped through people’s closets for the rest.”

Di Miceli said each sorority is paired with one or two fraternities depending on their size. The Ana Stock pairings work together during Staff Writer all Homecoming events.

“Everyone did a really good Greek Life chapters show- job,” Peterson said. “I think that cased their work during the tal- it is more about bonding with ent portion of Homecoming in the pairing you are with and Jesse Auditorium this week. making friendships, and I think The Talent Competition is in that respect Homecoming is comprised of a song and dance a great event in the Greek and portion. Many hours of work go campus community.” into preparing for the prelimiThe performances were nary rounds of the competition. judged throughout the prelimi“Marathon weekend is the nary process, each by the same weekend before the skits begin, panel. and it is just getting everySkits are evaluated based on thing figured out,” said Elena Di entertainment value, prop usage, Miceli of the Talent Committee costumes and vocals. Each skit of the Homecoming Steering was required to include a board Committee. “This is when all game, an MU tradition and a of the preparations are made. song of their choice, Di Miceli Preparation begins pretty early said. Five pairings made it to the in the year finals Thursday

because they “I think that night. have to work Along with it is more about on casting bonding with the the Talent comtheir roles pairing you are petition, chapand making with and making friend- ters prepare their props and ships, and I think in that house decorasets.” respect Homecoming is a tions, including The Sigma great event in the Greek pomp boards, Nu, Kappa and campus community.” to decorate Alpha Theta Greektown over ­­­— Will Peterson and Alpha the weekend.

Gamma Sigma grouping began “Brothers had to put in seven preparation for their skit weeks hours of pomping and pledges in advance to ensure that all had to put in even more, so of the kinks were worked out we hope to have lots of visitors before production night, Skit to see our great boards,” Alpha Director Will Peterson said.

Epsilon Pi Pomp Liaison Kyle “We have been practic- Sutton said. ing since early September,” The campus decorations are Peterson said. “We usually a Homecoming tradition and practice every weeknight for a lot of alumni and Columbia about an hour a night at first residents bring their families and for two hours when it to see the tradition, Peterson comes down to crunch time, said. so we have been practicing for “Campus decs is really geared about six to 10 hours per week to the Columbia community for the last six weeks.” and also alumni, but students Sophomore Hannah Carlson usually come out as well to said her sorority Kappa Kappa see each chapter’s hard work,” Gamma, Alpha Epsilon Pi and Petersen said. “Alumni bring Delta Sigma Phi grouping their kids back to see the camCostume Committee got creative pus decorations and see how with their resources this year. things have changed and what “The Costume Committee traditions have stuck throughis always in charge of the cos- out the years.” tumes, and this year they really The winning pairing of the made use of their resources,” Talent Competition, as well as she said. “They have a bud- the overall Homecoming Week get for costumes, but instead winners, will be announced on of going out and buying all of the south steps of Jesse Hall on the costumes, they went to the Sunday night.

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HOMECOMING 2010

ALEX RUPPENTHAL

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2010

JACQUELINNE MEJIA

sophomores.

“Homecoming has always been terrific,” Ruppenthal said. “It’s like Christmastime or the holiday season. There’s so much enthusiasm and excitement among the student body.”

Ruppenthal’s favorite part about Homecoming experience is the parade.

“It’s the part of Homecoming where the community and the campus come together,” Ruppenthal said. “There are floats and kids standing on the side of the street in their Mizzou Tiger apparel waving their hands for candy.”

Aside from the excitement of the parade and the unity between MU students and the Columbia community, Ruppenthal feels honored to be representing MU as a homecoming king candidate.

Jacquelinne Mejia is a convergence journalism major from Downey, Calif.

Mejia is being sponsored by the Hispanic American Leadership Organization, but is also involved with Kappa Alpha Theta, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and March for Babies.

Mejia said her favorite part of her experience as a Homecoming royalty candidate has been getting to meet a lot of people and seeing the Homecoming process from the outside.

“I’ve gotten to know people on the steering committee and students coming to the Homecoming events,” she said. “They are people I wouldn’t have gotten to know otherwise.”

Her favorite Homecoming event is the parade Saturday, she said.

“I’ve gone through the parade several times,” Mejia said. “I like to see the enthusiastic crowd, especially the little kids.”

After graduation, Mejia plans to move back to Los Angeles and either work as a video producer and editor or promote online content at a multimedia company.

SHANNON WHITNEY

ANDREW HOWARD

ANDREW LORENZ

Shannon Whitney is a convergence journalism major from St. Louis.

Whitney is sponsored by the Office of New Student Programs.

In 2009, Whitney worked as a Summer Welcome leader. This year, she is serving as the president of One for One At Mizzou, working as a TigerX instructor and volunteering for Center Stage, a student organization that provides free dance lessons to children who can’t afford them.

Whitney said she has enjoyed seeing the Homecoming process from a different perspective.

“It’s been a lot of fun seeing it from this side,” she said. “We have gotten to work with the steering committee and see the work they put into this.”

Her favorite Homecoming activity is the parade, which she will walk in as a queen candidate. She has walked in the parade previously with other student organizations as well.

Although Whitney is still unsure of her plans after graduation, she said she remains optimistic about the future and is open to all possibilities.

Andrew Howard is a communications major from Ballwin. Sponsored by the PAWS/ADAPT: Wellness Resource Center, Howard is a tour guide for the MU Tour Team, a member of Pi Kappa Phi, GAMMA, Greek Allies and worked as a 2009 Summer Welcome leader.

“In the past, I always thought Homecoming was memorable and important,” Howard said. “But my involvement has increased over the years. I went from going to the parade to doing skits with my fraternity to getting involved with the blood drive.”

The unity of the student body is what distinguishes MU’s Homecoming, he said.

“It’s not just the fact that Homecoming originated at Mizzou,” Howard said. “It’s the fact that the students and the faculty unite. At Mizzou, we do it up as much as we can because Homecoming is our biggest tradition.”

After graduation, Andrew hopes to work in the entertainment industry, perhaps with E! or MTV.

Senior Andrew Lorenz is an accounting major from Jackson.

Sponsored by his fraternity Pi Kappa Phi, Lorenz is involved in the Alumni Association Student Board, a coordinator for the Zou Crew, an RSVP peer educator and a former Summer Welcome leader.

“The big buzz around campus is great,” Lorenz said. “I love how all the alumni and old friends come back. Homecoming week itself is so eventful.”

Last year, Lorenz appreciated the presence of his family during Homecoming, he said.

“My entire family showed up, and I got to show off Mizzou to them,” Lorenz said. “My family is spread across all different corners of the state, and it’s nice that we came together for a ‘Mizzou holiday.’”

Lorenz said he also enjoys the unity among the MU student body and the emphasis MU’s Homecoming places on students.

“I love that our Homecoming is the largest student-run Homecoming in the nation,” Lorenz said. “The students do all the work — the decorations, the blood drive. The students are the ones making this entire experience happen, and I love seeing everyone’s accomplishments.”

BRIAN HAMILTON

LAUREN GRANT

Senior Brian Hamilton is an education major from St. Louis. Hamilton is involved in Alpha Phi Alpha, participates in Comedy Wars and is a justice on the Greek Judicial Board.

“My favorite part about Homecoming is the spirit,” Brian said. “Students get really excited, and there’s always something to do.

Mizzou is the birth place for Homecoming, so we do it big.”

As a candidate selected through an application process by the LBC, Brian feels honored.

“It’s kind of strange,” Brian said. “LBC represents the black community as well as Mizzou as a whole. If anything, I feel a bigger sense of pride because I’m representing three communities through my candidacy: the LBC community, the black community at Mizzou and the Mizzou community in general.”

After graduation, Brian hopes to participate in Teach For America. He hopes to work as a substitute teacher and receive his certification as an educator.

Lauren Grant is from Dallas. She is a political science major and a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She is also an intern for Student Legal Services, the president of the Black Prelaw Students Association and the co-founder of Visions, a campus organization started two years ago.

Her favorite part of being a queen candidate so far is getting to be heavily involved with the campus community.

“As a senior, you sometimes lose sight of what the campus has to offer,” Grant said. “I like getting to see the pride and excitement of Homecoming.”

Her favorite Homecoming activities have to do with the events surrounding the football game.

“I like the tailgate because I love anything that involves free food,” Grant said. “But my favorite part would have to be the game, whether we win or lose.”

Grant plans to attend law school, either at MU or at a school in Texas. After completing her degree, she would like to campaign to be a state representative.

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Senior Alex Ruppenthal is a journalism and German dual major from Naperville, Ill. Sponsored by the Alumni Association Student Board, Ruppenthal is a MU campus tour guide, a member of the QEBH secret honor society, was a Summer Welcome leader in 2009, writes for the Columbia Missourian and is a teaching assistant for Mizzou 101 — a relatively new class targeted toward

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MU prepares for Homecoming gameday The game against No. 1 Oklahoma sold out Tuesday.

ALEX SILVERMAN Staff Writer Gary Pinkel and the Missouri football team aren’t the only ones gearing up for Saturday’s Homecoming football game against top-ranked Oklahoma.

With an influx of fans, media and alumni headed to campus this weekend for both Homecoming festivities and the arrival of ESPN’s College GameDay, Campus Facilities and the athletics department are both getting prepared.

The forefront of attention will be on Francis Quadrangle, which will serve as the site for the first appearance of ESPN’s College GameDay in Columbia. GameDay, a television program previewing the day in college football, is set to run Friday from 9:20 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. With the national spotlight shining on

HOMECOMING

ATTENDANCE RATES Memorial Stadium seating was expanded to 71,004 in 2009.

Year 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Opponent Attendance Iowa State 55,016 Kansas State 64,657 Texas Tech 63,396 Colorado 68,349 Texas 71,004 Oklahoma 71,004

Source: MU athletics department website ASHLEY LANE/GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Jesse Hall and the Columns, the athletics department is out in full force, making sure that everything is just right.

“It’s like a rock concert that you’re helping host and put on down at the Quad,” Athletics Department spokesman Chad Moller said. “It’s taking a lot of planning and a lot of meetings to make sure everything is going to be lined up.”

The record crowd for a College GameDay broadcast is 15,800, held see GAMEDAY, page 6

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Workers from ESPN’s College GameDay crew take a break and look out toward the columns Thursday on Francis Quadrangle. The Tigers will be taking on the Oklahoma Sooners at the Homecoming game.

2010 MSA Presidential Election: Student Fees

MSA campaigns focus on fees Three slates are campaigning for the MSA presidency and vice presidency.

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Redshirt junior tailback De’Vion Moore carries the football past Illinois defenders Sept. 4 at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis. Missouri will take on Oklahoma for the annual Homecoming game Saturday at Faurot Field.

KELLY OLEJNIK, AMANDA CAPUA AND NATHAN DIVERS Of The Maneater staff This is the third part in a series looking at the Missouri Students Association presiden-

tial slates and their platform positions.

This article focuses on the candidates’ positions on the issues surrounding student fees.

The MSA presidential election is Nov. 6 to Nov. 8.

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their student fees are going and what they are being used for.

“People know they have to pay fees but they don’t know what they do for them,” Wood said.

To educate students as to see MSA, page 6

Eric Woods and Emily Moon plan to benefit students by giving them the information they need to understand where

Visit themaneater.com to watch video previews of the three campaign slates.

Battle of the undefeated: Missouri hosts Oklahoma Debate over Prop 2 Taser ban heats up JOHN MONTESANTOS Staff Writer Faurot Field will play host to two of the 10 remaining undefeated teams in the nation this weekend, as the 6-0 Tigers take on the 6-0 Sooners. Both teams come off blowout conference victories, with Missouri’s coming in a crucial road win over Texas A&M last week.

Saturday’s matchup has a lot more riding on it than the end of one team’s perfect record. The result will surely shake up the rankings, as the newly released BCS standings have Oklahoma at No. 1

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and Missouri at No. 11, their highest debut position ever.

As for Big 12 standings, each team stands atop its division.

Missouri is the only remaining unbeaten team in the Big 12 North after Nebraska’s loss, and Oklahoma is tied for first with Oklahoma State in the South division.

The matchup carries much historical significance as well, as Oklahoma has dominated the all-time series (66-23-5) and has beaten Missouri in their last seven see OKLAHOMA, page 6

If the proposition passes, all Taser use in Columbia will be illegal.

ALLISON PRANG Staff Writer Columbia citizens will have the opportunity to vote on Proposition 2, legislation to ban Taser use for everyone, including law enforcement officers, during the upcoming Nov. 2 election.

Proposition 2, which has

15 of 72 uses of force involved Tasers 6 involved probe deployment probe deployment 1 involved and drive stun laser7 involved light display 1involved arc-display

been pushed by People for a Taser-Free Columbia, would make Taser use illegal in Columbia. Citizens would still be able to own Tasers, but not use them. Memphis, Tenn., San Francisco and Las Vegas, N.M., are among other cities that have adopted similar policies.

“Proposition 2 is about the Taser being unsafe for anyone,” said Catherine Parke, spokeswoman for a People for a Taser-Free Columbia,

Source: Columbia Police Department news release SPENCER PEARSON/GRAPHICS ASSISTANT

see TASER, page 6

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TASER USE

The Columbia Police Department released its uses of force between January 2010 and March 2010.

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Media Day in KC

Visit The Maneater's website for a photo slideshow on the re-opening of Swank Boutique.

Check out our podcast on the Proposition 2 Taser ban.

The Big 12 conference media day this week focused on the upcoming seasons for men's and women's basketball.

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The 'State of Diversity' at MU Chancellor Brady Deaton gave an address on the State of Diversity at the MizzouDiversity summit.

News, page 5

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OutTakes

No. 1 — Details surface on ESPN’s College GameDay visit to MU No. 2 — Column: Time to shine No. 3 — Column: Tigers’ success must come Sooner rather than later No. 4 — Fiji house returns to campus No. 5 — Column: Diversity course requirement a bust

Events Calendar FRIDAY 22 Homecoming Comedy Show 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Jesse Hall ( Jesse Auditorium) Mizzou Soccer at Baylor 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Waco, Texas

SAT/SUN 23/24

MONDAY 25

Women’s Center and Social Justice Friends in Homecoming Parade Noon MU Campus

Feminist Student Union 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Benton Bingham Ballroom (Memorial Union)

Mizzou Football vs.

Oklahoma 7p.m.

Faurot Field

Faculty Jazz Combo 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Whitmore Recital Hall (Fine Arts Building)

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Marine Corps veteran Jack Baraban talks with his nephew, Judge Gary Oxenhandler, after Baraban’s trip to Washington on Tuesday as a part of the Central Missouri Honor Flight.

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Students, staff dedicate new student center Kaitlyn Gibson Staff Writer In celebration of the opening of the MU Student Center, the Missouri Students Association sponsored various events to commemorate what the center already has to offer students and generate excitement for the next phase of construction Jan. 6.

On Friday, the dedication will involve a free barbecue, a time capsule dedication and ceremonies throughout the day. On Thursday, students were given the opportunity to tour the unopened wing of the new student center and dedicate the Walter Karpiak Room and Chamber Auditorium.

“Throughout these days students will get to see parts of the building that won’t be ready for public use until later,” Student and Auxiliary Services spokeswoman Michelle Froese said. “It’s a sneak peek of what will be coming in the future.”

The MU Student Center broke ground in 2006 after students voted to pass a referendum that raised student fees in order to pay for the building. Four years and $64 million later, the center has begun to influence students’ experiences, junior Susan Griffith said.

“It’s a massive improvement from Brady Commons,” Griffith said. “I mean, there’s no bowling, but it’s definitely student-inspired.

I’m here every day.”

The new wing of the student center has been coined Mort’s, after comic strip art-

ist Mort Walker donated his work to MU. Griffith, who attended Thursday’s open house, said the new area’s aura will increase student use of the center.

Froese said student input played a major role in the construction of the new student center.

“We are really excited about the new phase of the student center,” Froese said. “When we interviewed students about what they would like to see, we heard that they wanted a space with spirit and tradition, not something ultramodern. Saying it’s a home away from home sounds really corny, but when you’re on campus, where else would you want to go?”

The large task of demolishing Brady Commons in order to build the new student center came with a comparable price tag. The center began its journey $8 million over budget, causing financial concerns when Student and Auxiliary Services refused to raise student tuition fees to pay for the additional cost.

Different departments on campus, such as the Student Recreation Center, pitched in to balance the difference, Froese said.

Junior Kyle West found the end product of the new student center well worth the wait and the expense, he said.

“I come (to the student center) quite often because I work in the bookstore,” West said.

“I think everything looks really nice, and I haven’t found anyone who disagrees."

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Henry Karpiak, brother of late Walter D. Karpiak, speaks on behalf of his brother Thursday afternoon at the MU Student Center Dedication. The dedication honored MU graduate Walter D. Karpiak and other former Mizzou Alumni Association leaders. p.m. will include Vice Chancellor for Student “We’re recreating ‘The Shack’ to bring back Affairs Cathy Scroggs and MSA President a piece of Mizzou history that has been lost Tim Noce, among others. Afterwards, Mort for a generation since it burned down in the Walker will conduct a book signing. Megan ‘80s. It was the prototypical campus hangout.

Gill, marketing manager for the project, said It is so exciting to be dedicating the center on the dedication will bring together alumni and Homecoming when everyone is back. It’s cool students. bridging that gap,” Gill said.

MSO hosts national speaker Nuclear disarmament author for Islam Awareness Week David Krieger visits MU Garrett Richie Staff Writer The Muslim Student Organization will be hosting a number of events for Islam Awareness Week, beginning Monday.

The week will begin with a student and faculty panel regarding Muslims and the media Monday night.

MSO spokesman Mahir Khan said a major goal of the week is to educate students on how different Islam is in comparison to how the media portrays it.

“Islam Awareness Week is a really important part of what we do on this campus because the MSO’s intent isn’t that we’re trying to convert people,” Khan said.

“The point of MSO is to raise awareness of what Islam is and that it’s not what you see on the news.”

MSO President Arwa Mohammad said the week is a great opportunity for Muslims to present Islam from a firstperson point of view.

“Sometimes people think, ‘Oh I know Islam, I know what it’s about,’ but they don’t know it through the first-person experience of someone who actually practices it here in Columbia or America,” Mohammad said.

MSO will continue Islam Awareness Week with the screening of the film “Bilal’s Stand” on Tuesday and a “Women in Islam Panel” on Wednesday. Wednesday will also be “Pink Hijab Day” to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month. “(Bilal’s Stand) is about a young African-American Muslim living in Detroit, and basically it’s just about his life and what he has to deal with,” Mohammad said. “I think it’s useful to see Muslims struggle with the same things that everyone else does and how their faith is just one way that they can help to make sense of everything.”

MSO Education Chairman Shafi Lodhi said the movie helps to accurately represent African Americans in Islam.

“A lot of people don’t realize how large of a population there is of African American and black Muslims in America,” Lodhi said. “Of the sum total of the Muslim-American population, about 20 to 30 percent are African Americans.”

Khan said the main event of Islam Awareness Week is keynote speaker Imam Suhaib Webb, a nationally known Muslim activist who has studied with many of the most prominent scholars of Islam in America.

Born William Webb in Oklahoma, he struggled with gang involvement during his early teens before converting to Islam.

He traveled to Egypt in 2004 to study Islam at Al-Azhar University. On Friday, Webb will address how Islam shaped his life.

“Imam Suhaib Webb is a really interesting figure just because a lot of Muslim youth actually identify with him and are able to connect with him on a different level than they might with somebody who grew up overseas,” Mohammad said.

Overall, Islam Awareness Week gives MSO the chance to educate the MU community on the realities of Islam that aren’t covered by the media, Mohammad said.

“Sometimes we see a lot of images or stories that people think present Islam, but this is just an opportunity (to present) what the majority of Muslims actually do or actually believe,” Mohammad said.

“This is really an opportunity for them to have their voices heard.”

Khan said this chance to provide an accurate portrayal of Islam is what MSO is seeking as an organization.

“Islam Awareness week is the easiest way to accomplish our mission statement of showing people what Islam in America really is,” Khan said.

Kari Paul Staff Writer A crowd of nearly 30 people gathered in Gannett Hall on Wednesday to discuss nuclear disarmament and peace in the modern age.

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation President David Krieger has edited and authored more than 20 books on the subject of peace. The Missouri University Nuclear Disarmament Education Team and other organizations brought him to campus.

The main focus of his speech was stressing to the younger generation the importance of campaigning for peace in a nuclear era.

“We wanted students to learn the basics of the illegality, immorality, the dangers and the exorbitant cost of nuclear weapons,” adjunct professor of peace studies Bill Wickersham said.

He said it is important for students to know these dangers because the younger generation is the solution to the problem.

“Who is going to fix this?” he said. “It has to be the young people, and the whole idea is to get them to understand that this is their future.”

He explained the problem of nuclear weapons is often overlooked by the younger generation.

Krieger’s speech included many similar references to the responsibility of our generation to promote peace.

“The U.S. now has a responsibility to act, because we are the only country that has actually used the nuclear bomb,” he said.

Krieger also pointed out America’s hypocrisy in relation to these bombings and its nuclear policy in general.

“Ninety thousand people died on impact in Hiroshima, and 40,000 died on impact two days later in Nagasaki,” he said. “In the day between those two bombings, we signed the Nuremburg treaty to hold people responsible for crimes against humanity in

the Holocaust. I think there is just a huge irony in the juxtaposition of those dates.”

He speculated if the Nazis had used an atomic bomb, they surely would have been punished for it in the Nuremburg trials, and yet the U.S. sees itself above the international law. In relation to this, he spoke of the possibility of omnicide — the death of everything in existence.

“Omnicide is a theoretical possibility, but how possible is it?” he said. “Some say the probability of a child born today dying in nuclear warfare is anywhere between 10 to 50 percent. The odds are far greater than we can really understand.”

He paired this ominous statistic with some more promising facts and several solutions. The number of nuclear weapons was 70,000 in 1986 and is now down to 20,000.

“The number has not come down enough, though,” he said, “The appropriate number, our focus and our goal, is zero.”

Sophomore international studies major Patty LaBelle came to the discussion out of interest in nuclear policy.

“Nuclear weapons are a huge deal in American domestic and foreign policy and international law, because they affect everyone,” she said.

She said it is important for MU students to be informed of issues such as this one, no matter what their major or interests are.

“I think no matter what side of the issue you’re on, it’s good to hear some of the facts,” she said.

The most important thing is to be wellinformed, she said.

“At this point I am just trying to learn all that I can about the subject,” LaBelle said.

Being informed is something Krieger stressed as being fundamental in the fight for disarmament.

“What we need is an awakened and aware citizenry that demands a world that we can pass on to our children,” he 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 Tuesday, Oct. 19 Brett R. Kuempel, 19, of 3101 S. Old 63, on suspicion of possession of false identification Wednesday, Oct. 20 Lianchen Liu, 21, of 2500 S. Old 63, on suspicion of leaving the scene of an accident — Ally McEntire, staff writer

Columbia Police Monday, Oct. 18 Davon M. Barnett, 30, of 1705 Perkins Drive, on suspicion of resisting or interfering with arrest Katharine E. Bartlett, 17, of

NEWS 2503 Nelwood Drive, on suspicion of possession of less than 35 grams of marijuana Michael J. Decker, 31, of Hallsville, on suspicion of thirddegree domestic assault Jason S. Proctor, 27, of 2503 Twin Oak Drive, on suspicion of second-degree domestic assault and first-degree endangerment of welfare of a child Tuesday, Oct. 19 Sean C. Harrison, 32, of 1415 W. Ash St., on suspicion of third-degree domestic assault Marc R. Ballinger, Jr., 19, of 2606 Quail Drive, on suspicion of stealing Brittany C. Nicholson, 25, of 1007 Jefferson St., on suspicion of third-degree domestic assault Darris A. Peal, 21, of 302 Fisher Walkway, on suspicion of first-degree trespassing Jamie L. Smith, 23, of 2013 Newton Drive, on suspicion of possession of less than 35 grams of marijuana/five grams hashish Carla D. Wright, 17, of 614 Spencer Ave., on suspicion of third-degree domestic assault Wednesday, Oct. 20 Shawn R. Knight, 31, of 2404 Glenn Drive, on suspicion of stealing Jevon J. Smith, 36, of 13 S. West Blvd., on suspicion of stealing Katlyn L. Coleman, 20, of 3508 Hedgewood Court, on suspicion of possession of drug paraphernalia and purchase or posses-

sion of alcohol by a minor Sofia M. Danna, 19, of 1509 Ross St., on suspicion of possession of false identification and purchase or possession of alcohol by a minor Christopher J. Fasciotti, 20, of 4 Ann St., on suspicion of purchase or possession of alcohol by a minor, possession of less than 35 grams of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia Carolyn A. Guffey, 20, of 809 Richmond Ave., on suspicion of possession of false identification and purchase or possession by minors Brendan M. Maloney, 19, of 1403 E. Walnut St., on suspicion of stealing Emmanual D. Perry, 24, of 1009 N. Garth Ave., on suspicion of resisting or interfering with arrest Blair A. Thompson, 20, of 1501 Rosemary Lane, on suspicion of possession of false identification and purchase or possession of alcohol by a minor

Friday, October 22, 2010

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A car caught fire on the intersection of Providence Road and Elm Street around 4:30 p.m. Thursday. The cause of the fire has not yet been determined.

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Deaton gives update on diversity at MU Recent diversity initiatives were highlighted by the panel.

Jimmy Hibsch Staff Writer Chief Diversity Officer Roger Worthington began the second MizzouDiversity Summit on Wednesday evening by saying he is not only incredibly proud of, but also somewhat astonished by the amount of progress MU has made in the area of diversity over the past two years.

“To some degree, it’s almost overwhelming to know that there is so much engagement on this campus around diversity issues, and that people are really truly committed to these issues,” Worthington said.

“Mizzou belongs to all of us. We are Mizzou.”

Worthington then handed the microphone to Chancellor Brady Deaton, who discussed diversity issues on MU’s campus. To an audience of around 250, Deaton admitted to MU’s checkered history concerning diversity. Specifically, he said the university denied its first

black applicant, spurring a legal battle. This was one of several legalities, he said.

“We’re not responsible, certainly, for all the sins of the past that have occurred,” he said. “But that doesn’t mean in any way that we either excuse or falter in the vigilance we exercise as we seek to identify ways in which we can move forward.”

Deaton also said this progress is undoubtedly taking place. He offered examples such as this year’s freshman minority enrollment and ethnically diverse faculty increases, the creation of specific disability student organizations and the inclusion of gender-neutral bathrooms in all future construction projects to ascertain his presumption.

“We want to call attention to those values that we hold dear and talk about a lot: respect, responsibility, discovery and excellence,” he said. “We want to continue to challenge ourselves to use those values in action and to ensure that as we look at the progress we’ve made, that you can see that we can continue to move forward as we move to the next report.”

He said he hoped several continuing challenges would

be explored in the following day’s workshops, ranging from domestic partner benefits for faculty to a diversity course requirement.

“You may not see the end result that you want to see in your lifetime,” Deaton said. “But I do believe you can help make enormous progress that you’ll be very proud of and will certainly approve for the credit that we as a university want to earn as we work with you to strengthen the fabric of our society in this regard.”

The panel, consisting of 12 of MU’s highest administrators, is one method to open dialogue about diversity issues, Deaton said. He encouraged the members of the audience to be openminded and to reach out of their immediate social circle.

“We can point to an unrealized potential — how far we have yet to go,” Deaton said. “We can set our sights at a higher level, and we can help each other and enrich the campus environment so we can indeed achieve those goals that are so important to us.”

The floor was then opened for the audience to question the panel. Questions were raised pertaining to the prospect of the

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Chief Diversity Officer Roger Worthington delivers a speech at the town hall meeting and State of Diversity address held Wednesday in Memorial black studies program becoming an official major and Residential Life providing gender-neutral housing, as just two examples.

On most occasions, panelists said although many topics have not been under discussion as of yet, everything discussed at the meeting will be taken into account.

Graduate student David Aguayo asked the panel for its stance on the Dream Act, a proposed bill aimed to aid undocumented immigrants who pursue

college degrees.

“I’m one of those immigrants, and as you can see, I’m a master’s student finishing up and I’m here to stay,” he said. “The United States and Mizzou have been my home.”

Following the questions, Worthington readdressed the members of the audience to again thank them for their support of MU’s diversity initiatives and to express his excitement for the remainder of the summit.

Grad students, faculty honored Pershing's Hitt Street for diversity initiatives entrance blocked Five recipients were chosen from 47 nominated for recognition.

Tony Puricelli Staff Writer The five winners of the Mizzou Inclusive Excellence Award were announced Thursday evening in a ceremony held at Memorial Union.

According to the event website, the Inclusive Excellence Award seeks to honor members of the MU community who have made exemplary contributions to any area of diversity, including, but not limited to, issues of gender, ethnic background, language, religion, sexual orientation, abilities or disabilities, national or geographical origin and economic strata.

“We feel it’s important to acknowledge all of the important work that goes on throughout this campus related to diversity,” Chief Diversity Officer Roger Worthington said.

“There are so many people who contribute to the diversity mission of this institution. It’s important to recognize their contributions to the diversity initiative of the university.”

MU graduate students Amy Williams and Tapashree Tah were acknowledged for their heavy involvement in diversity initiatives. Both were nominated by multiple people and were selected out of 47 total candidates.

“I am really happy to be recognized,” Tah said.

Tah is a Ph.D student in chemical engineering, is involved with multiple organizations on campus and spearheaded the Columbia Interfaith Thanksgiving Celebration.

“Events like this show that there is a lot of diversity on campus, and MU supports this,” she said.

Williams, a graduate student in the School of Law, founded the Sustainability Peer Resource Outreach and co-founded the Global Issues Leadership Development program.

“It is nice to know that people are taking notice of the different diversity efforts on campus,” Williams said.

Williams also volunteers her legal expertise to women who are victims of relationship violence and said she encourages anyone looking to get involved in diversity to find something they are passionate about.

“Don’t be afraid to take up a leadership role as a freshman,” Williams said. “There was a huge learning curve, but it was definitely the right way to start out.”

Three other award recipients were honored at the ceremony.

Ellis Ingram is the senior associate dean for diversity and inclusion at the School of Medicine and was recognized for his commitment to providing leadership to diverse students and founding a nonprofit afterschool program, Granny’s House.

Program Coordinator for Undergraduate Research Brian Booton received an honor for expanding the Exposure to Research for Science Students program from 19 students to more than 65 freshmen and

sophomores.

The Mizzou ADVANCE Steering Board was recognized for a multi-year NSF funded program to retain and promote senior women faculty in science, engineering and math fields. It also established a mentoring program for 58 faculty members.

The ceremony was held in conjunction with the MizzouDiversity Summit that took place Wednesday and Thursday in Memorial Union.

All members of the MU community were invited to attend the summit’s events, which included workshops, luncheons and keynote addresses from influential speakers on diversity.

“I could have listened to it for a long time,” MU junior Meghan Moore said about a workshop she attended. “We talked about how many different types of student groups on campus there are from different walks of life.”

Moore said the highlight of the workshop she attended, entitled “Mix It Up: Encouraging Students’ Interactions," was an analogy relating diversity to icebergs.

“When you look at someone, you only see 10 percent of who that person really is and the other 90 percent is hidden like an iceberg under the water,” Moore said.

This was the second excellence award ceremony at MU. The first was held two years ago during the MizzouDiversity summit in May 2008.

The Chancellor's Diversity Initiative is planning to hold the ceremony annually from now on, Worthington said.

Jared Grafman Senior Staff Writer A section of the fence around Cramer Hall construction was relocated Thursday, which allowed workers to prepare for the demolition of the building. The new layout will prevent access from Hitt Street to the most direct entrance of Pershing Hall's lower level.

Residential Life sent an e-mail Oct. 15 to residents, informing them of the new layout of the construction fence.

A handicap-accessible route to the lower level of Pershing can be reached by traveling south on Pershing Drive to Pershing Hall, turning left and continuing to the ramp located on the southwest corner of the building, according to the e-mail. Alternative access will be available through the north entry to Pershing Hall and will require people to take the stairs down to the lower level.

University Hospital spokesman Jeffrey Hoelscher said in an e-mail the construction in that area of campus is in preparation for opening a patient care tower in 2013 for University Hospital.

“Fencing is in place as part of a safety feature of any construction site,” Hoelscher said. “That includes site preparation and construction, not just demolition.”

Demolition for Stafford Hall began in August and was completed last month, Hoelscher said. The demolition of Cramer Hall began in September and is scheduled to be completed in November.

“Originally, demolition for Cramer was thought to be completed in late October,” Hoelscher said. “However, extra time was needed to carefully remove the coping stones from the exterior of Cramer.”

The large stones from the exterior walls of Stafford Hall and Cramer Hall will be re-used in landscaping the retaining wall behind University Hospital’s new patient care tower, Hoelscher said. They will also be used in the healing garden inside the new Ellis Fischel Cancer Center facility.

The patient care tower will be built on the north side of University Hospital.

“The first and second floors of the patient care tower are planned to house Ellis Fischel Cancer Center outpatient services, including space for clinical services such as chemotherapy treatment, radiation therapy and cancer screening,” Hoelscher said. “It also will include spaces designed to give patients and visitors a comfortable healing environment, including an outdoor garden where people can find respite and a boutique with items such as wigs for chemotherapy patients.”

The third and fourth floors will have surgical services, including six state-of-the-art operating rooms and 21 pre- and post-procedure rooms, Hoelscher said. There will also be space for another six operating rooms and 30 pre- and post-procedure rooms to be established in the future. It also will include a large, new waiting area.

“The fifth, six and seventh floors will house inpatient units with 90 total private patient rooms for patient-centered care, comfortable visitor lounges and state-of-the-art facilities for physicians, nurses and other health care providers to treat patients,” Hoelscher said.

Construction for the tower is on schedule, and the demolition of Cramer Hall should be completed in November.

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TASER: CPD says Tasers still useful OKLAHOMA: OU has won last 7 meetings Continued from page 1

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Sophomore wide receiver T.J. Moe and his teammates put little stock in historical significance. In his first year as a starter, the past is never on the mind of Missouri’s top target.

“We’re not living in the past right now,” Moe said. “This is the 2010 Missouri Tigers and the 2010 Oklahoma Sooners. We don’t care about the name on their uniform, we just know they’re a good football team and we’re going to play as hard as we can.”

The Big 12 rivalry between these two teams provides only a fraction of the hype for Saturday’s contest.

With Missouri’s Homecoming as well as ESPN’s College Gameday coming to Columbia for the first time both adding to the anticipation, Tiger players will have to fight through many distractions.

Coach Gary Pinkel knows the visit from College GameDay will be good for the school and his football program, but his players will need to tune it all out.

“It’s great for the University of Missouri, our community, and it’s a way that sport can have a huge positive influence on our great university,” Pinkel said. “There’s going to be a lot of excitement on campus. But we will focus and prepare for this game like we’ve done for any other game.”

Senior linebacker Andrew Gachkar is proud of the recognition that Gameday will bring his team. But the defensive leader knows things like Gameday and Homecoming are for the fans, not the players.

“It’s the first time it’s ever happened here so we’re proud of it,” Gachkar said. “But we can’t throw a party. That’s for all the fans to enjoy.

We just have to go out there and do our thing.”

Gachkar is third in tackles on a Tiger defense that is first in the Big 12 and second in the nation in points allowed. Missouri has allowed just over 10 points a game through six, including a shutout over Colorado.

The defense might be even stronger when Oklahoma comes to town, as sophomore standout defensive end Aldon Smith could possibly make his return from a three-week injury. The Tigers will go without senior linebacker Luke Lambert.

Missouri will be going for its first 7-0 start in 50 years at 7 p.m.

Saturday.

GAMEDAY: Parade start time pushed back Continued from page 1 by the University of Nebraska. With the Quad’s capacity at about 24,000, Moller said he believes the stage is set for MU to take over the top spot.

“Our goal is to pack the quad and beat the record,” Moller said.

“We certainly expect to have a great showing Saturday morning.”

Even with a large crowd expected for the broadcast, Campus Facilities spokeswoman Karlan Seville said she doesn’t anticipate much extra work to be needed on the Quad from a maintenance standpoint.

“We pride ourselves in keeping (the Quad) clean on a regular basis, so it doesn’t require a whole lot of extra planning,” Seville said. “We do expect some damage, but it won’t be the first time we’ve had to make repairs to the sod on the Quad.”

In addition to the Quad, Campus Facilities is making sure the rest of campus is in pristine condition.

Surveying the campus on golf carts, Associate Vice Chancellor Gary Ward and members of the Campus Facilities staff look for any potential eyesores. Seville said the goal is for the campus to be picture-perfect.

“Homecoming and also commencement are the two events that we really put extra time in taking golf cart tours and making sure anyone taking a photo on campus

is going to have a nice, clean campus to photograph,” Seville said.

Another area receiving extra attention this weekend is parking.

With GameDay expected to draw large crowds early in the day, Tiger Scholarship Fund donor parking and accessible parking will open at 7 a.m. Several parking lots and parking structures surrounding the Quad have also been designated as suggested parking for both GameDay and the Homecoming parade, according to the Mizzou game day website.

The Mizzou Alumni Association, which orchestrates many of the Homecoming events around campus, has also had to make some changes. In order to accommodate GameDay, the Alumni Association chose to change the start time of the annual Homecoming Parade from 9 a.m. to noon.

“We think it’s important that students and alums get to experience all of Mizzou Homecoming,” Coordinator of Student Programs Carrie Bien said. “This year, that includes ESPN College GameDay, so we thought it important to move the parade start time back so that they can go to both.”

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a non-profit grassroots organization. “That’s the way the argument has been structured.

We’re saying take them away from everybody.”

Parke said Ta ser International, one of the largest Taser manufacturing companies, issued an advisory warning in October 2009 saying not to shoot the Taser into the chest or heart area.

“When solid evidence appeared that Tasers are unreliable, unpredictable, uncertain in their affects and hence unsafe, the issue of controlling Tasers no longer was relevant and sufficient,” Parke said.

“The need to ban their use by everyone became imperative with regard to public safety.”

Parke said her organization’s main concern with using Tasers is its members feel there are so many uncertainties about the effects of Tasers and the people receiving the discharges.

Columbia Po l i c e Department spokeswoman Jessie Haden said the benefits of law enforcement using Tasers far outweigh the risks involved.

“We live in 2010 now and there is a lot of new technology that arises every day, and we want law enforcement to utilize that technology just like

the rest of the world,” she said.

“If it were killing people, Taser International would be out of business.”

According to a December 2008 report by Amnesty International, eight deaths occurred from CED usage from June 2001 to Aug. 31, 2008.

Its research was gathered based on autopsy reports, information from families of the deceased or their attorneys, media reports, official investigations and other data.

Amnesty International said in a news release that claims that Tasers are safe do not hold up under scrutiny.

Haden said CPD has incorporated the advisories set out

by Taser International into its training.

She said people will say a subject has a medical problem after the deployment of a Taser, but it is usually because the subject has an underlying medical problem and is not the fault of the Taser.

“I honestly think that the group proposing this made a big mistake, strategically,” Haden said. “I think there’s a lot of people out there who don’t want their rights infringed upon.”

Haden said she does not think Proposition 2 will pass and encourages voters to look at CPD’s website for more

information about Tasers.

She said CPD’s policy pertaining to Tasers is more restrictive compared to other policies nation-wide.

“The fact of the matter is, Tasers resolve situations more peacefully,” she said.

Dan Viets, president of the Mid-Missouri Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said the chapter has not taken a specific stance on the potential Taser ban.

“Just because a weapon is covered by the second amendment does not mean the government cannot regulate it,” Viets said. “There is no doubt that this Taser initiative is constitutional.”

Viets said Columbia already has put restrictions on when guns can be used and he thinks a prosecutor would not file charges against someone who used a gun or a Taser in self-defense.

“If somebody is threatening your physical well-being, then yes, you can use a Taser or gun in true self-defense,” he said.

“The second amendment does not prevent the government from enacting reasonable regulations just like the ones we have on guns.”

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MSA: Fees could become 'opt-out' Continued from page 1 what their fees actually do, Woods said he would like to create a comprehensive student guide to student fees.

This guide would give an explanation for where all their student fees go and how they are used.

“We could make it an online guide so it would be accessible to students,” Woods said.

The carryover MU experiences year to year would be looked at, Woods said.

He said he wants to investigate options to avoid carryover by making a plan to spend what is left over in a way that would be good for students.

“I’d like to emphasize with MSA group leaders the importance of ‘need what you spend, spend what you need,’” Woods said.

Woods said he wants to help students get the best value of their money.

He said he would like to set up a system for students to see how their money is being spent.

Woods said he would like to start looking into endowments for organizations so they could be used to provide supplements to the funding they already receive.

“We want to try making organizations like STRIPES self-sustaining, which would save students money in the long run,” Woods said.

Travis-Horan Josh Travis and Michelle Horan plan to reevaluate organization budgets in order to

redistribute student fees as well as create a carry-over task force.

Travis and Horan do not want to raise student fees, if possible, Horan said.

The campaign plans to reevaluate organization budgets in order to redistribute student fees.

“Josh and Michelle would like to try to get more money for STRIPES,” Missouri Students Association Senate Speaker Evan Wood said.

“They will be looking at the budget and looking to see what they can cut and what can be redistributed.”

The redistribution of student fees would filter more funding toward the programs that need it, Horan said. “ There are a lot of programs that need to grow and deserve more funding, like STRIPES and TigerWatch,” she said.

Travis tends to lean toward lowering student fees. He said he also plans to attend the Student Fee Review Committee as well as keep track of its progress and evaluate all fees the committee looks at, Wood said.

Travis and Horan also plan to create a carry-over task force made up of undergraduate students and MSA members, Horan said.

According to the platform, the task force will create a report for the President and Senate that includes suggestions on where money can be put to better use in order to reduce carryover amounts in the future.

“There are tons of places

where we can reallocate and cut back,” Horan said.

Hansen-Oxenreider During the first MSA presidential debate, Ben Hansen and Kaitlin Oxenreider mentioned looking into the possibility of making certain fees that are currently mandatory for all students, such as the Prepaid Health and Recreation Facility fees, optional for those who don’t plan to utilize the facilities.

One possible outcome of allowing students to opt out of certain fees would be an increase in the amount of money students who don’t opt out would have to pay, Hansen said.

“Although we mentioned the idea of making these fees optional, we have not spoken with all of the appropriate authorities regarding the use of these fees, so it would be unfit for us to make a stronger stance at this time,” Hansen said.

Hansen and Oxenreider plan to make sure student fees are spent appropriately by increasing the level of accountability within MSA through budget updates on the organizations website.

“I believe that transparency is very important for MSA, especially in light of the misconceptions mentioned in The Maneater’s editorial regarding carryover,” Hansen said. “I also think that the breakdown of the Student Activity Fee needs to be more easily available for students so that they know what they are funding.”

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Faculty Council revisits low-producing programs Stephanie Ebbs Staff Writer The Faculty Council meeting Thursday further addressed lowproducing programs and degree completion rates.

Clyde Bentley, professor and MU representative on the Missouri Association of Faculty Senates, gave a report about the recent meeting.

Michael Nietzel, the governor’s adviser for higher education, spoke to the council about the desire to raise the percentage of working adults in Missouri with college degrees.

Currently, 38 percent of working adults in Missouri have a college degree. The state would like to raise that to 60 percent.

The likelihood that students will complete their degree program can be predicted using the number of freshmen entering college that have to take a remedial course, Bentley said.Thirty-eight percent of students are required to take a remedial course as a college freshman.

The number jumps to 60 percent at community colleges around the state.

Raising this percentage is part of the Governor’s Initiative. The MAFS will be meeting with legislators in February to address other elements of this plan.

“One of the best suggestions was to have legislators be guest speakers and guest lecturers in classes,” Bentley said. “Let them experience what it’s like to be part of the higher education system.”

Deputy Provost Ken Dean was invited to the meeting to speak to the faculty about the low-producing programs.

At the previous meeting, the council was presented with a list of 75 programs that have to be defended because they met the state’s definition of “low-producing.”

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MU Libraries Director Jim Cogswell speaks about open access issues at a Faculty Council meeting Friday at Memorial Union. The council approved the academic calendar for 2012-13 at the meeting.

“Part of the process we have to go through here with the low-producing programs is how do we move forward when more could be coming down the line,” Dean said.

The deadline for presenting the information collected about each department has been extended from Thursday to Oct. 29.

Each department has to defend its number of graduates based on the size of the department and programs.

After these defenses are presented to the state, changes might have

to be made to some programs.

The university plans to converse with deans, chairmen of departments and faculty members to collect the information it needs to send to the state to evaluate what actions need to be taken.

“This could mean program consolidations, realignments or even mergers,” Dean said.

Plant sciences professor Bill Wiebold brought up changes that have already occurred.

“Where we had 12 degree programs, we now have three,” Wiebold

said. “My personal opinion is that it helped our educational effort, our research effort and our extension programs.”

Not everyone in his department agrees with this, and faculty from other programs are concerned about the potential for degree consolidation.

“My concern is that we’ll be making some sacrificial lambs, taking small departments and making adjustments, because 5 to 10 percent of our budget is at stake,” political science professor Jonathan

Krieckhaus said.

Many of these changes show no sign of short- or long-term savings, but were mandated by the Coordinating Board for Higher Education in the 1990s, Dean said.

If a program does not produce 10 bachelor’s degree graduates, five master’s and three doctoral graduates, it is defined as “lowproducing.”

“We haven’t made any decisions about anything at this point,” Dean said. “It’s just the beginning of the process.”

T-shirts for clothesline Professor sets counseling standards Project raise awareness Abbey Sussell Staff Writer

The Relationship and Sexual Violence Center and the True North Shelter cosponsored the Clothesline Project on Tuesday afternoon.

The Clothesline Project started in October 1990 in Massachusetts as a way for survivors of domestic violence to share their stories.

“This is a national event held to give survivors of relationship violence an opportunity to tell their story and break their silence in an anonymous way,” RSVP Center Coordinator Danica Pape said.

Each T-shirt hanging was created and designed by either a victim, his or her family or friends and tells his or her story of abuse.

The T-shirts are hung on a clothesline because laundry was typically considered “women’s work.”

“The T-shirts were made by people in the shelter system as a way to express themselves about what they went through,” RSVP Center graduate assistant Alyssa Ruth said.

The T-shirts were hung on Lowry Mall, a high-traffic area on campus.

Ruth said it was important

for MU students to see all the displayed T-shirts.

“This display really puts a face to the violence,” Ruth said. “The sheer number shows how big of a problem this is. Allowing students to see the shirts and raw emotion that comes out of that and all the pain that people go through and how hard they work to survive after it happens shows the strength it takes.”

According to the Clothesline Project website, the project has been held in 41 states and five countries. The website estimates there are 500 projects happening internationally, with 50,000 to 60,000 T-shirts made.

“It’s important for survivors to know they aren’t alone,” Pape said. “There are other people going through the same kinds of things who have the same kind of emotions.”

The True North Shelter is located in Columbia and helps victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. The shelter is hosting a fundraising event, Purse Passion, on Oct. 28, a silent auction where attendees can bid on purses filled with surprises.

— Marie Mandelberg, staff writer

Laurie Mintz, professor of Counseling Psychology at the Education, School and Psychology Program in the College of Education, has been active in dealing with value clashes in counseling training programs.

The clash between students studying to become counselors’ personal beliefs and university counseling programs has continued to generate controversy. In the past year, multiple colleges have fought lawsuits in which student counselors claim discrimination of their beliefs.

Counseling students have been reprimanded when expressing personal values in a counseling session that frown upon the client’s sexuality, race or socioeconomic status.

“We realized this was a huge problem across training and we needed some guidance in the field as to how to deal with this,” Mintz said.

Mintz, along with other university professors, drafted a model values statement for counseling psychology. The statement has been endorsed by many associations, including the American Psychology Association Division of Counseling Psychology and the Society of Counseling Psychology and was published by The Counseling Psychologist.

The “Counseling Psychology Model Training Value Statement Regarding Diversity,” aims to assist training programs and trainees.

“Our code of ethics is clear,” Mintz said. “A counselor needs to be able to work with a diversity of people and not bring in your own value judgments.

This is not about the counselor’s needs, it’s about the client’s needs.”

The values statement does not seek to change counselors’ personal values, but instead provide guidance, Mintz said.

“We cannot dictate your values and we do not want to,” Mintz said.

“But we do want to know that you will be able to set your own values aside at the counseling door and help the client grow and change.

You must be willing to examine your own values and struggle with them to the point of making sure you can provide good services to a client.”

Counseling psychology and university policies inform students entering the profession of what is expected of them, said Glenn Good, professor and associate dean for research and graduate studies at the Education, School and Psychology Program.

“One reason our policy is publicly posted is so students can make an informed choice before they come here and know what kind of expectations the program will have of them,” Good said. Students who are not willing to keep their

personal beliefs separate from their counseling sessions might need to reevaluate their profession, said Jenny Lybeck-Brown, assistant director and training director at the Counseling Center.

“If a counselor consistently has reactions to groups of clients for whom she or he is responsible to serve, I think it is essential for that counselor to closely examine his or her own beliefs and make some difficult decisions about whether or not this particular field of study or specific work environment is a good fit for him or her,” LybeckBrown said in an e-mail.

Working through personal conflicts can be challenging, but it is a crucial aspect of counseling, Lybeck-Brown said.

“The impact of our own biases can be very subtle, which is why I highly value self-awareness and selfreflection for all counselors or counselors-in-training,” Lybeck-Brown said. “Sometimes it is difficult to see how one’s own values, issues and experiences are impacting one’s work which is where the role of good supervision or peer consultation comes in.”

Refusing to counsel a client or passing off a client because of personal conflicts is unethical and harmful, Good said.

“People who seek help are very courageous, but they also can be very vulnerable,” Good said. “They are asking for help and that is not easy to do.”

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Midnight breakfast launches homecoming celebrations Mizzou After Dark and Greek Life continued the Almost Midnight Breakfast.

Joyu Wang Staff Writer In anticipation of the Homecoming festivities, Mizzou After Dark and the Office of Greek Life worked together to host their fourth annual Almost Midnight Breakfast on campus.

The event took place from 10 p.m. to midnight Thursday at the intersection of Richmond Ave. and Burnam Road.

“What we do is hand out breakfast in the middle of Greektown,” said Lauren Karr, student services coordinator of the Department of Student Life.

The event was free to MU students with a valid student ID and $5 for the general public. Eggs, sausage, biscuits, gravy and soda were provided. “ The Greek community is working so hard for the Homecoming,” Karr said. “It’s just the time for them to take one last breath before homecoming starts.”

She said the event is not limited to members of fraternities

and sororities: Every student at MU is welcome.

“We want to stress that we would love everyone to come out,” Karr said.

MU Greek Life Director Janna Basler said Student Life Assistant Director Kathy Murray came up with the idea of having an Almost Midnight Breakfast.

“MAD (Mizzou After Dark) really are the brains behind the event and do an amazing job,” Murray said in an e-mail. “Our (the Greek Life) role is to help promote the event and support them in whatever way they need.”

Karr said Mizzou After Dark is the alternative for students who don’t want to go out but also don’t want to go home on a Friday night.

Normally, Mizzou After Dark holds events on Friday nights.

“We pushed it back to Thursday,” Karr said. “We won’t do something this weekend and just want to make sure that people have time to go to it (Homecoming).”

She said she looks at the event as a start to the Homecoming traditions.

“It doesn’t have anything to do with the Alumni Association, the official Homecoming event

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Freshman Jacob Waidmann gets gravy for his biscuits during the Almost Midnight Breakfast on Thursday in Greektown. The event was one of the first Homecoming activities and offered eggs, sausage and hash browns at 10 p.m. that they have, but we would like to think that it’s part of the Homecoming now,” Karr said.

Truman, MU’s official mascot, will be at the Almost Midnight Breakfast this year.

This will be Truman’s first time

attending the event.

“Halloween is right around the corner,” Karr said. “You can dress up Truman, dress up yourselves and take a picture with them.”

Karr said about 700 to 1,000

students stopped by in the previous years, and she expects to have more than 800 students participated this year.

“Once you go to bed tonight, it’s going to be Homecoming when you get up,” Karr said.

Journalism school gets fresh blood Pilot syllabus archive to launch this semester The staff come from cities across the nation, including Chicago, St. Louis and New York.

Megan Donohue Senior Staff Writer This year, 11 new professors were welcomed into the MU School of Journalism.

Barbara Cochran While attending Swar thmore College to pursue a major in English Literature, Cochran joined the school’s paper and soon became editor.

“My college advisor said maybe I ought to think about the fact that I was spending twice as much time working on the college newspaper as I was on my academic classes,” Cochran said. “That might be a sign of where my true interests lay.”

She changed her career plans from English teacher to journalist and earned her masters degree in journalism from Columbia University.

She then began writing for The Washington Star.

As the head of the news department at National Public Radio, Cochran lead her 30 staff members in creating Morning Edition.

Cochran said she is excited to work with MU journalism students in shaping their careers in the changing world of journalism today.

“One of the things I’ve been telling students is that you do sometimes hear from more veteran journalists that they ’re worried about

the future of the profession,” Cochran said. “ There’s no question that it is changing, but I also think it is a very exciting time.”

Frank Corridori

After New York native Corridori earned a degree in strategic communication from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., he began a career as an art director and designer.

He has served most recently as vice president of design and associate creative director at PURE in Columbia.

Corridori said, so far, teaching has been one of the most memorable periods from his career.

“This is a new experience for me so this really sticks out in what I’ve done professionally,” Corridori said. “I always wanted to teach or thought about teaching because I’ve wanted to kind of give back to a career path that I think has given me so much professionally and personally.”

This semester Corridori is teaching the courses strategic design and visuals one and two.

“Design doesn’t stop in the classroom,” Corridori said. “It’s about personal growth, experience, experimentation and exploration.”

Mike Jenner Originally from St. Louis County, Jenner graduated from MU in 1975 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism.

Since then he has worked at more than five newspapers.

His most recent position was at The Bakersfield Californian where he spent 17 years, 11 of those as top editor.

“We did a lot of things out in Bakersfield,” Jenner said. “Our owner really prized innovation

and wanted us to take risks and create new things. So we did that. We’d create new things and if it didn’t work we’d say ‘OK, that didn’t work,’ and we’d figure something else out.”

Jenner is very excited to be back at MU and to be able to influence the program in a positive and innovative way.

“The focus is on innovation, and I think that is vital for our industry,” Jenner said. “We have to innovate our way out of the ditch here. The need for quality journalism has not diminished.”

This semester, Jenner is teaching the News course.

Amy Simons

After graduating from MU in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism, Simons returned to Chicago, her home city, where she worked for CLTV News and most recently as digital news editor for The Chicago Tribune.

Simons said when she saw the opportunity to take a teaching position at MU, it felt natural to take it.

“I have this philosophy that as journalists we all have had people in our careers who gave us a leg up,” Simons said. “We had teachers and internships supervisors and editors and mentors who took the time to teach everything we know.“ This semester Simons is teaching fundamentals of multimedia journalism, convergence reporting and convergence editing and producing.

“My goals for this year are to get to know my students and teach them well,” Simons said.

“So far, I can tell you, they’re a sharp, brave group, but they have a long road ahead of them. I’m excited to help lead them.”

Kelly Olejnik Staff Writer An online syllabus archive is scheduled to be available for student use by the end of the fall semester.

The archive will be a repository of all syllabi on a central portal and will develop further into a database of professor profiles available for student use during the course registration process, former Missouri Students Association senator Abhi Sivasailam said.

The website to be launched this semester is a pilot guide that students will be able to use while registering for classes, he said.

The archive will give students an idea of how a certain course is structured by allowing students to view, download and compare past course syllabi, MSA presidential candidate Josh Travis said.

“We are in the earliest phases of development,” MSA Senate Speaker Evan Wood said. “There is a possibility that the archive will be up by November. We want the archive to be available during registration, but it probably won’t be done right when registration starts.”

The archive will be an open website that won’t require student login information. The archive was created with the goal to provide students with the most education on course options, Wood said.

Students who have different learning styles also motivated the creation of the archive, Savasailam said. Students who learn a certain way will be able to match their style by comparing course syllabi within the

archive.

The archive will ultimately become a clearinghouse of syllabi, Wood said. Students will eventually be able to view, download and compare syllabi from previous academic years and the current academic year.

The pilot archive set to launch this semester is a dry run to see if it will work, Savasailam said. Once student feedback is received and the program is expanded, the syllabus library will have other features as well, such as an MU version of “Rate My Professor.”

“There will be a database for professor profiles,” Wood said. “Currently on myZou, students are able to obtain limited amounts of information about professors.”

The feature will be an inhouse, student-run course and professor rating system, Travis said.

Professor reviews on the Rate My Professors website can be biased based on personal experience, Wood said. The archive will create a feature close to that of Rate My Professors, but with more integrity.

Ultimately, the archive will become a registration portal that will house everything from syllabi to the professor and course rating feature to myZou, Savasailam said.

The archive website is still under development. A development space has been confirmed, and a URL is in the process of being secured, Wood said.

“The pilot is planned to run for at least this semester,” Travis said. “Whether the site will be updated for next semester or next year will depend on how fast it takes off.”

Friday, October 22, 2010

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Left, Right and Center

Ethan Simonds Politics Columnist

Tea Party needs substance The moment in the U.S. Senate debate in Delaware that stood out to me was the one that stood out to most people.

When asked by moderators to name a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision with which she disagreed, Republican candidate Christine O’Donnell could only respond with stuttering and scrambling, unable to come up with a single one.

This is especially unfortunate for O’Donnell when you consider she's been widely compared to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who committed an eerily similar gaffe in an infamous interview with CBS anchor Katie Couric.

Moments like these exemplify my main problem with the Tea Party and its sympathizers: they have style, and their style is carrying a lot of weight at the moment, but it remains to be seen whether there’s any substance behind it.

Tea Party rallies are chock-full of colorful signs, passionate speeches, amusing costumes and enough rhetoric to make your head spin — to the right, of course.

The question is whether or not they are equipped to follow through on what they say.

One thing I admire about the grassroots movements that have sprouted this election season is the type of people behind it, both on the ballot and behind the scenes.

They are people who are unhappy with the way things are and looking to instigate a change, to usher in a new era in American politics, which is an undeniably noble goal.

Career politician or not, though, I want to see candidates who know what they stand for and are ready to stand for it when the chips are down.

I agree with some of the things the Tea Partiers and their cohorts are saying, but it’s much easier to say something than truly follow through.

President Barack Obama knows a thing or two about that. He said a lot in his 2008 campaign, and he has followed through on some of it. Some of his shortcomings aren’t his fault, but some of them may be due to him setting his sights and his supporters’ hopes too high.

Another thing that might have hindered him is the same thing that worries me about the Tea Party: style over substance.

The issue is not only a right-wing one. Obama is dashing around the country as I write this column, desperately trying to help the Democrats gain footholds in crucial states in the upcoming midterms.

He is trying to accomplish this through vicious anti-Bush rhetoric, the same kind that helped endear him to millions in 2008. In his latest speech, he simplified the November election for his audience by saying it comes down to two alternatives: stick with the progress he offers or return to the failures of the Bush years.

I think I’ve heard him say that before. Oh yeah, it was in every speech he’s made in the past few months.

It seems his “progress” has ground to a halt, however, especially now that he spends more time talking about his progress and Bush’s failures than doing anything about policy. Talk is cheap, and as far as I’m concerned, saying something about your opponent — whether they are opposing you this year or opposed you two years ago ­— isn’t saying anything at all.

Maybe the Tea Party is going to be that change, or maybe they will prove to be no different than any other group of politicians.

Call me a pessimist, but I’m leaning toward the latter.

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Local law enforcement prepares for Homecoming crowds MUPD and CPD will coordinate their efforts.

Kelsey Maffett Staff Writer The MU Police Department and the Columbia Police Department are joining together to provide added security for the anticipated crowd at Saturday’s Homecoming game.

MUPD Capt.

Brian Weimer said MUPD has 35 officers at its disposal, and each officer works every football game.

“We assign officers based on needs and sizes of events throughout the day,” Weimer said. “We have to judge the size of the crowd and type of event, then staff accordingly.”

Sophomore Joe Lennartz said he sees game day security to be a big issue at MU. “People are pretty dedicated to football here, and from what I’ve heard, the police are stretched pretty thin on game days.”

CPD spokeswoman Jill Wieneke said the police will have extra officers on hand starting Friday night to assist MUPD with security, and they have a specific schedule set up to ensure everything

goes smoothly.

“MUPD asked us for assistance, and we’re happy to provide it,” Wieneke said.

“We’ll have extra officers assigned to the ESPN area, the traffic and mounted units on horseback downtown.”

Wieneke said CPD officers will be helping with traffic at major intersections and helping out with the homecoming parade, including setting up and tearing down barricades.

Weimer said the police department has dealt with many important events in the past, including concerts and presidential visits.

He said the filming of ESPN College GameDay is another big event the two police departments will have to coordinate.

“It’s just one more special event during the day we have to take care of,” Weimer said.

“We cover all sorts of events, and it’s the same plan and procedure this weekend."

Wieneke said the presence of ESPN could be problematic, because the taping can create a 12- to 16-hour day for Homecoming participants.

“We just want to urge everyone consuming alcohol to pace themselves, because it’ll be a long day,” Wieneke said. “Plan ahead and have designated drivers ready.”

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MU Police Department officer Brian Frey and his partner search the area around Faurot Field for explosives before the football game against Furman on Sept. 19, 2009. MUPD will be increasing security for this year's Homecoming festivities.

Wieneke said the crowd for this Saturday’s game will likely be the biggest yet this year.

“This is a huge game for MU,” she said. “They’re undefeated, it’s Homecoming, the weather’s been nicer, and it’s Oklahoma. We’re expecting a lot of people to come into town, especially with ESPN GameDay being here.”

Lennartz also said he expects the crowd to be especially large this weekend.

“The crowd will be bigger than usual, most definitely,” Lennartz said. “Especially for the birthplace of Homecoming, being one year shy of our 100th. It’ll attract a

huge crowd.”

Sophomore Tavia Johnson said she thinks security will be a bigger issue this weekend, but that it's up to MUPD and other security to handle it.

Wieneke said CPD hopes Homecoming participants will be safe and responsible throughout the weekend.

“We’re hoping it won’t turn into a situation where we’re dealing with property damage, arrests or fights,” Wieneke said. “We’re expecting a big win out of the Tigers, and we hope that everyone will celebrate in a respectful way that doesn’t diminish the positive atmosphere of a win.”

Whitworth family denies city counterclaim in SWAT raid lawsuit The city denied all the Whitworths’ allegations in its response.

An attorney for Columbia residents Jonathan and Brittany Whitworth, who filed a lawsuit against the city and the police department, asked the court to drop a counterclaim filed against them by the city in connection with a February SWAT raid at their home.

The Whitworths filed the response papers in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, where they have filed a lawsuit against the city of Columbia, the Columbia Police Department and several members of the CPD SWAT team who were part of the raid at the Whitworth's house.

The response denies that Jonathan Whitworth was responsible for injuries he

allegedly sustained during the raid.

Their lawsuit seeks damages from the city, the police department and the officers in connection with a Feb. 11 SWAT raid in which officers shot both of the Whitworths' dogs, one of them fatally. A video of the raid was posted to YouTube, where it was viewed more than 1.5 million times and generated feedback from around the world.

Officers arrested Jonathan Whitworth on a misdemeanor drug charge. He pleaded guilty to misdemeanor unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia in April and was fined $300.

The Whitworths filed their lawsuit Sept. 20 in federal district court. Attorneys with the Jefferson Citybased firm Schreimann, Rackers, Francka and Blunt, LLC, which represents the city, filed a counterclaim against the Whitworths on Oct. 8.

The city denied all claims made by Whitworth and asked they be dismissed. Its counterclaim seeks damages from the Whitworths and says Jonathan Whitworth was responsible for his injuries.

“Specifically, Plaintiff Jonathan Whitworth was negligent for his own assumption of the risk, the illegality of his conduct, and in such further respects as will become better known through the course of discovery,” the response stated.

It also states officers were acting lawfully and in selfdefense when they shot both of the Whitworths’ dogs.

The Whitworths’ attorney, Milt Harper, said in an interview this week he was not surprised by the city’s claims because defendants frequently make claims against plaintiffs in their initial filings.

“It’s about what you’d expect from the defense,” he said. “Why would they admit to doing anything

before the trial?”

The city’s risk manager, Sarah Perry, said in an interview this week she couldn’t comment on why the city chose to file its counterclaim and said the city’s lawyers had decided what would be in the response.

“Because this matter is in litigation, I can't comment about the response,” she said. “The response was made on the city's behalf by the attorney representing the city in this matter."

Perry also said the city had not been in any settlement talks with the Whitworths before the lawsuit was filed because it had not known it was going to be sued in connection to the raid.

“The city received no indication of a claim or pending litigation prior to the lawsuit being filed,” she said.

— Wes Duplantier, news editor

MOVE

VOLUME 9, ISSUE 9

THE KEY TO YOUR ENTERTAINMENT

Liberate your ears *

Oregon-based musician Emancipator utilizes an eclectic group of instruments to create his sound.

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Electronica artist Emancipator hits Columbia *

The American artist got his start in Japan.

Doug Appling might be the only person who can get away with mixing the music of Sigur Rós with the music of Mobb Deep into one successfully moving song.

Appling, the man behind the electronica band Emancipator, got started producing at a young age.

“It happened when I got a copy of Acid Pro software in high school, and my favorite part about it was that I could combine any sounds the way I wanted,” he said. “It was a lot of fun.”

Appling’s passion for music in

general is evident when listening to Emancipator’s songs.

“I just like finding new music all the time,” Appling said. “Whether or not it’s my style of music, I feel like it has its influence in small pieces.”

His open-minded view of music is what gives Emancipator the power to make unique songs, rather than regular, run-of-the-mill techno-influenced electronic music.

“I listen to all kinds of beautiful music, a lot of electronic production or folk stuff,” Appling said.

His wide range of influence is clear in the music he makes.

The electronic producer’s career initially started in Japan, where his first album Soon It Will Be Cold Enough was picked up and released.

The success he found there is what

essentially skyrocketed Appling’s career.

“It got started for real after I released my first album in December 2006, and in 2007 I got signed to Hyde Out Productions in Japan,” Appling said. “That was probably the first moment in which it took off.”

The American artist owes a lot of his success to the Japanese.

“They’re just really awesome people, the people I’ve met over there as fans,” Appling said.

From this unexpected start came a successful future.

His career then beg an to take leaps and bounds, landing Appling a Puma sponsorship and giving him the oppor tunity to hear his song played during the

Beijing Olympics. It was then Emancipator tr uly started becoming a career, not just a time-consuming hobby.

“It’s always been a dream, and in the past couple years it’s been coming true,” Appling said. “It felt natural to me.”

The depth and range of his music shows in the intricate beats and subtle melodies. Appling’s musical knowledge is apparent in Emancipator’s songs.

“I played the violin when I was four, and I can play guitar, bass, drums, piano,” Appling said. “I have a banjo and a mandolin. Anything that makes noise, I’ll be happy to take a stab at it and try to get some sounds out of it.”

His variety of musical experience

adds to his success in creating songs.

“It’s unlike being in a band where you can only play one thing and kind of compromise your ideas with everyone,” he said.

Emancipator’s latest album, Safe In The Steep Cliffs, was released in January 2010. Appling is touring, though that doesn’t stop him from creating new music.

“My main, personal focus is working on the new album, and I’m making a lot of progress for sure,” Appling said. “My albums generally take a long time before I can say that they’re finished. The next one is well on the way.”

Emancipator will perform at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at The Blue Note. christine cauthen | reporter

GUIDE

Studying outside the comfort of Club Ellis *

Downtown locations provide a change of scenery for studiers.

Everyone has come to find his or her study spot on campus. A cozy couch in Memorial Union, a cup of Pikes Peak and a “relax” iTunes playlist might be the perfect focus formula. But this is the time of year when homework motivation has faded and study spots become stale. A change of scenery will bring a fresh take and a new perspective and might just give the push you need through the last half of the semester.

KALDI’S, 29 S. NINTH ST. Wi-Fi: For two hours, with purchase Hours: Monday to Friday 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Although there are a number of spots on campus that ser ve Kaldi’s coffee (j Café and Bookmark Café) they aren’t quite like the real thing. The eclectic decorations and trendy atmosphere create a haven for college students. The bottomless mug will keep your attention for hours.

Overheard snippets of conversation and the spilling of coffee beans make this a great place for those who need a little background noise. But, others might need headphones and/ or blinders.

Like most spots downtown, your best bet is to walk. But, Kaldi’s is great if you have some change to spare and a car. Take the back entrance through the garage. It’s convenient for late-night cram sessions or a rainy Missouri day.

LAKOTA, 24 S. NINTH ST. Wi-Fi: Free Hours: Monday to Saturday 6:30 a.m. to 12 a.m., Sunday 7:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Lakota is a more rustic option compared to its neighbor across the street, Kaldi’s. The original brick walls, handcrafted wood furniture and aroma of exotic coffee provide a quaint atmosphere for hitting the books.

Lakota is usually less crowded and buzzing. Although there aren’t too many tables to spread out, it’s an ideal place to crack open a textbook or novel.

PANERA, 102 S. NINTH ST. Wi-Fi: Free Hours: Monday to Friday 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The smell of freshly baked bread and other goodies is always one that couples well with studying. Panera, or to the St. Louisans, “Bread Co.,” offers free refills and baked goods that will give studying a needed extra boost.

Granted, late-night studying cannot be done here because of the hours, but it is perfect for all-day, weekend studying. And there’s no need to even leave for lunch.

HY-VEE, 405 E. NIFONG BLVD. Wi-Fi: Free Hours: 24 hours Hy-Vee is a grocery store on ste-

roids. It offers all the normal grocery amenities in addition to ready-toeat Italian, Chinese and home-style cookin’. But the ultimate purchase is Hy-Vee’s all-you-can-eat buffet, which is great for the college budget.

There is no time limit on the buffet, and nothing forbids you from spending the day studying and breaking for thirds or fourths.

Sure, it’s a little unconventional and questioning looks might be shot your way, but the trade-offs are surely worth it.

PEACE PARK Wi-Fi: Free Hours: Sunrise to sunset This park serves as a student oasis. Nature lays a quieting blanket over the stresses of day-to-day college life. Even though you can’t avoid studying, it is possible to break free of the white walls and fluorescent lighting and still accomplish something.

Peace Park might be impractical during the winter months, but it provides a seamless transition from summer to school by merging the two and lessening the blow of papers and exams.

Whether the standard coffee shop sparks your interest or nature helps churn your thoughts, step outside the campus comfort zone when searching for a new study spot. megan swieca | staff writer

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Students file into Panera Bread on Ninth Street. Panera, along with other locations in Columbia, is a great place to study as well as get delicious food.

MOVE HIGHLIGHTS (MOVIE RELEASE) “PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2” RELEASE DATE: FRIDAY, OCT. 22

As the follow up to the hit “Paranormal A c t i v i t y, ” “Paranormal Activity 2” has some big shoes to fill. The film will feature similar events as the first one: A family gets haunted in creepy house, and the audience finds out what happens via personal video cameras. Even though the audience might know what to expect, the sequel’s antagonist goes as far as to possess a baby. After watching this film, you’ll never want to hold your little nephew Jimmy ever again.

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(EVENT) STEPHENS COLLEGE PRESENTS “ALL MY SONS” TIME: 7:30 P.M. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, 2 P.M. SUNDAY DATE: VARIOUS DATES; OPENS FRIDAY, OCT. 22 LOCATION: MACKLANBURG PLAYHOUSE, 100 WILLIS AVE. TICKETS: $12

Even though the great playwright Arthur Miller (“The Crucible”) wrote “All My Sons” in 1947, its influence still resonates today.

Stephens College performs the play about a man who lives with the terrible mistake of knowingly selling the Army defective airplane parts in WWII, resulting in the deaths of men. As with all Miller plays, humanity’s flaws will be examined and critiqued. The film is as much about the mistakes of one man as it is the mistakes of mankind.

(EVENT) CHAD DANIELS AT DEJA VU TIME: 9 P.M. DATE: FRIDAY, OCT. 22 AND SATURDAY, OCT. 23 LOCATION: DEJA VU COMEDY CLUB, 405 CHERRY ST. TICKETS: $8

The family man turned comedian Chad Daniels hits Deja Vu this weekend. He, unfortunately, will be competing with the Homecoming game and ESPN’s “College GameDay” during the weekend. If you, somehow, are missing out on both of those massive events, Daniels on stage is a good option. Daniels has already had his own half hour special on Comedy Central. If you’re lucky, he might even pick you out of the crowd and make fun of you during the show.

(EVENT) HINDER, A THOUSAND HORSES AND DECADENT NATION TIME: 6 P.M. DATE: SUNDAY, OCT. 24 LOCATION: THE BLUE NOTE, 17 N. NINTH ST. TICKETS: $25

Hinder hit it big in 2005 with its poorly reviewed album Extreme Behavior.

Despite the terrible single “Lips of an Angel,” the album managed to go triple platinum. The Oklahoma band looks to repeat some of that success with its newest album American Nightmare. In support of the album, Hinder is hitting the road. Lucky us. The Blue Note will host the band on the Sunday following Homecoming — we’ll probably be passed out anyway.

PROFILE

The Scarlet Review

Therapy through the lens

KATY WAGNER movie columnist

'Buried' thinks inside the box It would not surprise anyone to find out each of the 10 most expensive films were shot in the new millennium, except for one. And it takes only a hop and a skip to guess the excluded film is the 1997 blockbuster “Titanic.”

The top spots are held by “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” and “Spider-Man 3,” respectively.

Unfortunately, these films were nothing more than heaps of A-list actors and convoluted storylines wrapped around a pulpy core of top-notch CGI effects.

“Buried” does not have any pirates or a snarky superhero because the film takes place in a box. Paul Conroy, a civilian truck driver in Iraq, has r e v i e w been buried alive by terrorists, and now he has 90 minutes to get out.

BURIED No frills — it’s as simple as that.

RIGO ROD R: TO DIREC It’s an understatement to say CORTÉS writer Chris Sparling simply “deliv: ING UR FEAT ered” on the script. With a film that RYAN REYNOLDS, immediately locks its main char, ON ERS PAT T ROBER acter in a box and never lets him SAMANTHA leave, it’s hard not to say the diaEN PH STE S, MATHI logue is the most important part of TOBOLOWSKY the film. What’s most intriguing is R G: RATIN the refreshing absence of unneces1 E: RUNNING TIM sary, witty dialogue. Realism is the S UTE MIN 35 HOUR, name of the game here. It might of 5 be heart-achingly brutal, but at least it’s real.

Even though the film never leaves its pine box, director Rodrigo Cortés manages to spin a rich and engrossing world for Conrad to operate in. A motion as simple as the placement of Conrad’s trusty Zippo creates more meaning than a secondary character could.

The use of light and framing in the film is so intricate it might take more than a few viewings to fully understand it.

If anyone still doubts the force that is Ryan Reynolds, there is no way to deny him now. Reynolds takes the success of the film squarely on his shoulders and runs with it. He is not just the star of the show — he is the show.

Although we hear a few other voices through telephone conversations, it’s Reynolds’ reactions and emotions that make it real for the viewers. On such a small stage, every decision is amplified and Reynolds can control the audience with the twitch of an eye.

Even if “Buried” is not exactly your speed, you can still respect the filmmakers from the beginning to the final frame. Imagine the guts of these guys. In a time when movies are increasingly turning toward highconcept ploys, Cortés and Sparling set out to make a 90-minute, real-time movie with one screen actor that takes place solely in a box. And all this isn’t just a gimmick. “Buried” is the most harrowing film experience since the original “Paranormal Activity” hit theaters.

Refusing to kowtow to the show-don’t-tell rule, “Buried” stands as the antithesis to high-dollar Hollywood blowouts. It does not need ironic cameos and dazzling locations. All Cortés needed was a box, an actor and a cell phone to make one of the most original and gripping films of the year.

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Anastasia Pottinger was 8 years old when her parents gave her a Kodak 110. She was preparing to visit grandparents in Georgia and remembers being in the bathtub when she received the gift.

“That was my first camera,” Pottinger said. “I’ll never forget.”

Called Stacie by all who know her, Pottinger doesn’t remember what specifically she liked to photograph at age 8, but she suspects it was everything. At a young age, photography was already more than a way to document memories –- it was a way to understand her world.

“I feel like photography has always been that tool for me,” Pottinger said.

“When you can stop time, you can sort of see it differently.”

Pottinger has won competitions in Missouri since 2002. In August, she found out she placed second and third in the nude category of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers international competition.

The winning images, “What Time Creates” and “Back,” come from “The Centenarian Series.” The series’ subjects are all at least 100 years old. Although nude photos, few in the series are actually explicit in the common sense of the word “nudity.” Any photo of uncovered skin is defined as nude, such as “What Time Creates.” The image is of now-102-year-old Lucy Hall’s torso.

Pottinger’s mother is Hall’s personal assistant and concocted the idea of the nude photography shoot last October. The day after the shoot, Pottinger looked at the shots and cried.

“I knew I had something really special,” Pottinger said.

As people started to talk about her work, which was featured in numerous local contests and shows,

they began suggesting other models more than 100 years old, and the series was born.

“I didn’t set out for it to be a project,” Pottinger said. “I just set out for it to be an experience.”

She didn’t photograph a second model, though, until earlier this month when she visited Kansas City resident Meryl Sparlin. Her hesitation to call elderly strangers and ask them to model nude has kept her within a circle of people she knows.

Sparlin is her friend’s grandfather.

Pottinger said other cultures respect the elderly, but this country forgets they have incredible experiences to share. She has never seen work like hers on the bodies of the very old and wants to show their stories are worthwhile.

“A body that’s been alive and on this earth for over 100 years -- just the opportunity to capture that in a beautiful, artistic way feels like quite an honor,” Pottinger said.

Pottinger is now a professional in children’s and family portraiture, and she does commercial work for local businesses, but she has no degree in photography. She attended Girl Scout photography camps and worked in a studio darkroom for two summers after high school.

More recently, she has been attending professional workshops.

“All the rest of it is just selftaught,” Pottinger said.

Pottinger said she loves her studio work, but her heart is in the projects she has developed this year.

In addition to “The Centenarian,” she is building a portfolio of work focusing on her bipolar son Isaac.

One year ago, at the same time he was diagnosed, she was advised by mentor Gloria Baker Feinstein to

Katie Currid/Associate Editor

Anastasia Pottinger works on a photo project, taking pictures of centenarians. The photographs depict the landscapes of the bodies of people more than 100 years old.

“Sometimes the camera helps start photographing her family. So, she began documenting the disorder me see it differently or place myself that suddenly became a part of her in the middle of a situation,” Pottinger said. life. Her job is a careful one.

Whether via her new Nikon “I haven’t been able to shoot him when he’s just screaming and yelling, D300S or a Kodak 110, photograbecause I’m a mom,” Pottinger said. phy is how Pottinger makes sense of her world.

“I’m his mom, too.”

The photography is not meant grace lyden | staff writer to be violating, though.

PREVIEW will play Real rock invades Columbia * Sevendust Friday at The Blue Note.

“Wall of Death, Wall of Death!” is a popular chant that can be heard at almost any hard rock or metal show. If you’re passing by Friday at The Blue Note, you’ll probably hear that alongside thundering guitar riffs because Sevendust will be in town.

Sevendust is a hard rock band, formed in 1995, from Atlanta. Its sound is comparable to artists such as Earshot, Taproot and Dark New Day. One of the reasons Dark New Day might be similar is because the lead guitarist of Sevendust, Clint Lowery, is a former member of Dark New Day. Lowery left Sevendust in 2004 to play alongside his brother, Corey. His departure was shortly after the release of Sevendust’s fourth studio album, Seasons, and the album’s supporting

tour. The album was the band’s most successful at that point.

“It was healthy for me,” Lowery said. “It kept me from getting burnt out and allowed me to bring some positive energy back with me when I rejoined in 2008.”

The band released its seventh studio album, Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow and was reunited with Lowery for the subsequent tour.

“I really missed the guys,” Lowery said. “I learned a lot while I was gone. I took all of my good and my bad experiences back with me to Sevendust, and we’re better because of it.”

Lowery played a crucial role in the making of _Cold Day Memory_, the band’s highest-rated album to date.

He was given no boundaries by the band and essentially told to do what

he thought would sound best.

“I was gone for three records,” Lowery said. “They wanted to recapture the sound that I brought to Sevendust, so they just let me do my own thing. They wanted me to be able to retake my role in the band, and I feel I’ve done that.”

The best part of any show for a real hard rock fan is the ability to go out and knock around some of your fellow metal-heads and at the end of the day, leave the venue with bumps, severely sore necks and battle scars.

Where else can you go, punch a guy to the floor, reach down and help him up, only to both bang your heads to the upcoming riff?

After having Lowery back for one full tour and by letting him get comfortable with Sevendust again, the upcoming show promises to be one

of the band’s best to date. In retaining its members, the band hasn’t lost the love and respect of its fans -- or its “family,” as the band prefers to address them. The group’s original sound has also been kept intact through its 15 years of existence.

“We started out with the intention to be as heavy as Pantera,” Lowery said. “I feel like we are as heavy as any of their records. Sure, our sound is going to be different because Lajon sings different than (Pantera lead singer) Phil (Anselmo), but that’s what we aimed for, and I think we succeeded.”

Do yourself a favor, Columbia, go see Sevendust rock the roof off The Blue Note and get some real heavy metal pumping through your veins this Homecoming weekend. steve cassidy | staff writer

MOVE HIGHLIGHTS (EVENT) MIRANDA LAMBERT TIME: 7:30 P.M. DATE: SUNDAY, OCT. 24 LOCATION: MIZZOU ARENA TICKETS: $23.75, $34.75 AND $39.75

(EVENT) “THE VICTIM” TIME: 8 P.M. DATE: SUNDAY, OCT. 24 LOCATION: RAGTAG CINEMA, 10 HITT ST. TICKETS: $5

Country singer Miranda Lambert has been lighting up the charts since her 2005 album Kerosene. Her most recent album, Revolution, features the No. 1 single “The House That Built Me.” Basketball season is a couple weeks away, but Lambert looks to have Mizzou Arena rocking before the Tigers even take the court. But if you’re hoping to score a date with this southern belle while she’s in Columbia, keep dreaming. She’s engaged to Blake Shelton these days.

Illinois artist JefferyElaine Shotzenberger isn’t afraid to talk about tough, cultural topics. The artist brings his 18-minute performance “The Victim” to Ragtag Cinema to do just that. The show will tackle issues such as gender and suicide, all of it wrapped in a comedic casing. As much as this $5 show will attempt to make the audience laugh, it will also challenge views and stimulate conversation. Get there early for a special reading from former Ragtag employee Gabriel Wilson.

(ALBUM RELEASE) KIDS, KELLER WILLIAMS RELEASE DATE: MONDAY, OCT. 25

Acoustic whiz kid Keller Williams is pickin’ fast on his new album, Kids. His latest album is something of a cross between bluegrass, jam and southern rock. It’s as if Williams stood at a Mississippi crossroad and asked the Devil to make him the best acoustic guitar player on the planet. In line with the album title, Williams also plans to play Kids for kids since it is a kids’ album. But that doesn’t mean college students can’t still enjoy it.

(ALBUM RELEASE) DESTINATION: CHRISTMAS, THE SUPERIONS RELEASE DATE: TUESDAY, OCT. 26

You probably don’t know Fred Schneider or his band The Superions. But you do know the band Schneider made it big with. Schneider spent much of his musical career with The B-52s, the band that brought us such high school dance anthems as “Love Shack.” Even though it’s not even Halloween yet, gear up for Christmas with this pioneer of alt-rock. Maybe high schools across America will play the band’s song “Santa’s Disco” at its next dance.

COMMUNITY

On The Catwalk

These heels are made for walkin’

JASMIN JAMES Fashion Columnist

Fashion a global melting pot One thing to admire about fashion is its ability to travel from one place to another. It takes a new form at every destination while still maintaining the original pattern. America has become a fashion hub where trends recycle themselves and then go flying into every direction imaginable. We are the melting pot with a little bit of everything nestled inside. And with men’s fashion becoming increasing popular in the United States, it’s only right that we uncover the origin of the fashion globalization spreading across the world.

Last month, during Women’s Fashion Week, Tommy Ton, one of GQ’s most noted fashion photographers, was sent out to the streets of Milan to find some hot street fashion.

Although he didn’t have to look hard in Milan, he still gave us evocative pictures of the everyday, Milano men paying impeccable attention to detail. They looked polished and sleek with a very gentle approach to masculinity. Their hair is taut, their faces are clean-shaven, and it is clear that they take their wardrobe seriously.

Jackets of all shapes, designs, patterns and textures were a big trend. Although the jacket fad is beginning to catch on here in the U.S., it’s apparent you do not wear a shirt of any kind without a fitted jacket to accompany it. There’s a sense of control in the Italian man’s style: sharp, well tailored and aristocratic.

Nearly 7,000 miles away, Tokyo evolved into an entirely different male trendsetter. Men’s Style Power, a fashion blog run through Google, is a personal favorite to find fashion trends hard at work. It inspires great ideas and encourages taking big risks.

Recently, it did a piece titled “Men’s Street Style October ‘10: Tokyo Drifting,” in which they sent photographers out to find some of the best street styles in Tokyo. The results were amazing. Every picture was different, yet you could certainly spot congruity amongst the men of Tokyo — both young and old, especially in their bold, non-traditional take on gender-suited attire.

In Tokyo, men are not afraid to show their legs and shoulders or draw attention to their torso and upper waist. Suits and shirts become androgynous and colors and eclectic patterns are a free-for-all. Unlike Italy, there is no cookie-cutter appearance for a man to follow. Some men wear designer bracelets. Others wear fanny packs like cross body sacks. Tokyo takes the male psyche and turns it on its head for the better.

Here in America, we pick apart these fashions and find middle ground. There is a bit of complacency to bend gender lines.

But other Tokyo trends, such as tight denim and bright colors, have definitely been adapted alongside funky hats and fashion sneakers. And of course, we would be nowhere without the Italians’ beautifully designed suits and shoes. Although men might not be daring enough to try leopard-patterned shoes, more and more men are going from grungy to prep.

Tokyo and Milan might have an entirely different set of eyes through which they view fashion. It is obvious fashion takes on a much larger role there. To them, fashion is a part of life: nothing more, nothing less.

America might be the melting pot, but these guys are definitely the originators.

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The store hosted a shopping event to celebrate its new location.

In a store full of 20-year-old Kim Kardashian fashionistas clicking and clacking their heels on the hard wooden floor, Columbia resident Barb Glenn asked, “Do you want to talk to me because I’m the oldest one in the store?”

The 50-something shopper swooned over the flattering pair of J Brand jeans she bought from Swank earlier this year at the fifth anniversary reopening Wednesday night.

“There are just certain things she carries that I like,” she said, pointing to the storeowner Erin Keltner with her right hand as she effortlessly balanced champagne and a shopping bag on her left.

She and other guests nibbled on sushi and cupcakes and sipped champagne against the boutique’s antique motif. Complete with three white mirrors hanging on an exposed brick wall, the store had two oversized wooden ladders to comfortably display designer fall shoes, including moccasins, wedges, suede knee-high boots and boots with fringe details.

Chic and bubbly employees chatted with Glenn and other customers at the store. They made the event fashionable and surprisingly inviting.

Even with the chilly fall weather, students and city dwellers clearly didn’t hibernate their style.

Guests came in their heels, knee-high leather boots and funky blazers, and they gushed over black lace leggings with black polka dots, shape-flattering brown dresses and sweaters with fur collars.

Throughout the night, customers who signed up for the RSVP list were automatically eligible for prizes and gift baskets that included jeans, T-shirts and other free goodies from Swank.

“We wanted everyone to show up and enjoy it as much as we do,” Keltner said. “The one thing we pride ourselves on is that our customers are our friends.”

The more she talks, the more emphasis Keltner puts on the word “we” and rightfully so.

Swank has a loyal fan base that clamors to the

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Swank Boutique employee Devon Vincent shows customers Lanny Lee and Hannah Kim a pair of suede boots at the boutique’s fifth anniversary and grand re-opening party. Swank recently moved and a party was held Wednesday at the new location. shop’s laid-back luxe glamour. The fan base follows the store, even when they move only a few buildings down the street.

“I get their e-mails, so I just RSVP’d and brought friends,” Stephens College student Afton Vaughn said, smiling. “I feel like it’s a lowkey feel of what it would be like in California.

Plus, I wanted to dress up.”

Keltner definitely understood the need for the venue expansion on E. Broadway.

“We moved to 913 – obviously to a much larger space, a prettier space,” she said, as she glanced around the store proudly.

The one thing Keltner and her team can be excited about with the larger space is it allows more customers to drool over more clothes. The fashionable elite savored fall designer collections, such as Juicy Couture, Greenline, True Religion and Free People.

“I love Swank because their clothes remind me of high-end clothes from Chicago, and it’s

trendy,” freshman Lindsay Stevens said.

In addition to style, the new Swank also offers functionality that makes it a lot easier for customers to navigate through the store downtown as well as the store online.

“The backroom allows us to focus on the online store we opened in January,” Keltner said.

Although Swank is known for its designer clothes, the most unique pieces both online and in the store seem to be the jewelry.

“I strive to find things that are unique and things that you’re enamored with,” Keltner said.

If the turnout for the reopening is any indication of Swank’s success, then the store’s fan base will definitely grow and allow more fashion dolls to covet and love the pieces as their own.

“My girls keep calling it Swank 2.0,” Keltner said. “It’s like shopping in your well-dressed friends closet. It’s an experience.” jade earle | associate editor

VICES

Boy bands tearin’ up my heart When I’m done head banging to Korn and reciting every word to “I Am The Walrus,” there’s nothing like jumping to the same moves of “Bye Bye Bye” I once saw a curly-haired Justin Timberlake perform on the Disney Channel.

And I know I’m not the only one.

All across campus there are people whose iTunes libraries contain Green Day’s American Idiot and the Backstreet Boys’ Millennium. In a world where we can have nearly an infinite amount of songs on our computers, it isn’t entirely outlandish to keep some of the good ole’ boy bands on there. The fact is: We still play them.

The main two groups I’m talking about are the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC. Less fortunate groups, such as BBMak and Dream Street, didn’t quite make the cut. There was that one song by 98 Degrees that’s on all our Disney playlists, but people with the band’s full collection of albums are few and far between.

I often wonder why I continue to hit play on my “Boy Bands” playlist when I do my Italian

homework or biological anthropology reading. I guess it’s the same reason we listen to the Spice Girls or the young Britney Spears. Our musical worlds once revolved around these groups, and it’s just so hard to dash them aside. Listening to them takes us back to a simpler, single-digit age when we didn’t have to deal with tough classes or how we’re all broke.

For me, I had this image in my head of the groups I knew back then. Just recently, I found out Backstreet Boy AJ had a drug problem.

We’re not singing “I Want You Back” to the groups of yore, but we’re so happy to play “Just Got Paid” on Friday afternoons (even though MU payday is Wednesday).

Listening to boy band music today is a wake-up call. When I listened to “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” for the first time since hitting puberty, I understood what they meant by, “Am I sexual? Yeah, yeah.” Now I know what “Digital Get Down” was about and know of people who act it out over Chatroulette.

Surprisingly, music back then was just as riddled with sexual innuendo as it is today — we were just too young to realize it.

When I see Justin Bieber getting the Beatletreatment, there’s no doubt he doesn’t deserve it. I don’t see Bieber suspended by strings at his concerts. That takes true talent.

Even if you don’t regularly listen to No Strings Attached, *NSYNC plays incessantly in the stores at Christmas. We all know the words to “Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays” when it comes on at Macy’s. In fact, I bet as you read that last sentence you started singing it in your head.

See? *NSYNC is still boss.

Today, Lance is out in the open, Justin’s curls are gone and Kevin left the Backstreet Boys before they cut their comeback album. After all that, I still don’t see boy bands saying “Bye Bye Bye” from my iTunes. And that makes them “Larger Than Life.” kate everson | reporter

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“STARING INTO THE SUN” RELEASE DATE: TUESDAY, OCT. 26

LOS STRAITJACKETS WITH BIG SANDY AND HIS FLY-RITE BOYS TIME: 7:30 P.M. DATE: TUESDAY, OCT. 26 LOCATION: MOJO’S, 1013 PARK AVE. TICKETS: $15

BASSNECTAR WITH EMANCIPATOR TIME: 8:30 P.M. DATE: TUESDAY, OCT. 26 LOCATION: THE BLUE NOTE, 17 N. NINTH ST. TICKETS: SOLD OUT

THE FIRE, SENSES FAIL RELEASE DATE: TUESDAY, OCT. 26

Nashville rockabilly band Los Straitjackets isn’t a band that’s easily forgotten. The group looks like four Mexican wrestlers, complete with luchador masks.

They have a surf rock vibe that reminds you of ‘50s California and cover songs such as “Deck the Halls” and “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” For $15, you can watch this band of contradictions play with Elvis-era rock ‘n’ roll group Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys.

You’re going to have to beg, borrow or steal for this ticket.

Bassnectar always plays a packed house, but his show at The Blue Note sold out weeks ago.

Fans have high expectations for Bassnectar’s live shows. They’ll leave The Blue Note dripping in sweat, with wobbly knees and punctured ear drums. But it will all be worth it. There is a reason why this show sold out so fast: It’s one of the best live performances out there.

Columbia is quickly becoming a film hub. With the recent success of “Winter’s Bone” and the annual power of the True/False and Citizen Jane film festivals, our humble town is more than just a college town. Former Columbian Olivia Wyatt looks to join the ranks with her documentary “Staring Into The Sun.” The film aims to provide a more complete view of Africa by looking at the tribes that inhabit the continent. Who needs to study abroad when you can watch great film such as this?

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P o s t hardcore stalwarts Senses Fail scream its way to a new album on The Fire. The band recently reorganized and The Fire should reflect its more mature sound.

Even though there is less screaming on the new album, you can still expect a violent live performance. If you’ve never been to a Senses Fail show, you’re in luck: A live DVD will be packaged with The Fire.

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League of Women Voters holds issues forum The discussion centered on several local measures.

Lauren Bale Staff Writer In anticipation of the upcoming Nov. 2 election, the Columbia-Boone County League of Women Voters held a forum Wednesday to educate the public on the various propositions set to appear on the ballot.

LWV First Vice President Rachel Brekhus said she hoped the forum encouraged members to vote.

“I hope it inspired people to vote who otherwise wouldn’t have,” Brekhus said. “By voting, you can have a direct impact on issues.”

The meeting was held at the Columbia Public Library on Tuesday, and speakers issued statements in support and opposition of all the proposals, with the exception of Proposition 1, as no speaker could be found for the rebuttal.

Proposition 1 is the renewal of a one-eighth cent sales tax to maintain the upkeep of existing parks, as well as provide the funds necessary to create new parks in the future.

Columbia Mayor Bob McDavid stressed the importance of voting yes to Proposition 1, saying the park and trail system of Columbia is one of the town’s most appealing aspects.

“I don’t want to take this for

granted,” McDavid said. “This is such a major part of our identity in Columbia. It’s really one of the things that makes our community special.”

McDavid also highlighted the minimal amount the tax yields from individual citizens and the large amount of revenue generated by the tax as a whole.

“A one-eighth cent sales tax is 10 cents on an $80 grocery bill,” McDavid said. “And for that, we are going to get $12 million over five years.”

Attendees of the forum were urged to vote yes on the tax in order to ensure the park system remains intact.

Proposition 2 was the next issue discussed at the forum. If passed, the act will ban the use of Tasers in Columbia.

Catherine Parke, of People for a Taser-Free Columbia, spoke in favor of the ban and said Tasers are unreliable. “ Taser International, the company that makes and markets these weapons, issued a new advisory warning which recommended not shooting into the chest and heart areas,” Parke said. “If the company itself is still finding out what this weapon does, the logic follows that this weapon should not be used by anyone.”

Columbia Police Chief Kenneth Burton spoke in opposition of the Taser ban, saying Tasers serve as a form of protection to not only officers, but Columbia citizens as well.

“If a police executive truly believed these were unsafe, it

Grant Hindsley/Senior Staff Photographer

A League of Women’s Voters member holds a packet of information on Operation Bark Alert, Missouri’s dog regulation program, Tuesday at the Columbia Public Library. The primary topic during Tuesday’s meeting was Proposition B, an initiative for a change of regulation on puppy mills. would be irresponsible of them to allow their police officers to carry them,” Burton said. “The simple reality is the use of tasers reduces injury to officers and thereby reduces potential injury to citizens.”

Burton said in 2009, police had 154,000 citizen contacts and of those, they had deployed a Taser 21 times.

The final proposition discussed for the evening was Proposition B, which consists of new laws aimed at reducing

the prevalence of dog abuse at puppy mills.

Barbara Schmitz, Missouri state director of the Humane Society of the United States, spoke in support of the legislation, which sets higher standards for dog breeders.

“The facilities Proposition B will impact are facilities that do not care about dogs the way you and I do,” Schmitz said.

“These are individuals who are motivated by profit. They are cutting corners, and that trans-

lates directly into suffering for these dogs.”

Veterinarian Alan Wessler spoke in opposition of the proposal, saying more funding is what is needed to fix the problem of over-breeding, not more regulations which cannot be enforced.

“Proposition B does nothing for the animal hoarder, the abuser or unlicensed kennel,” Wessler said. “We don’t need this law, we don’t need more regulations. We need more inspectors, more funding.”

Statutory rape suspect turns Man arrested for self in after month-long search throwing knife at car Experts say this type of crime goes unreported in many cases.

The crime was reported to the Boone County Sheriff ’s Department in July, and evidence was gathered until sufficient probable cause was found to indict Strickland.

The department began its search about a month before Gregory Zajac Strickland’s arrest.

Senior Staff Writer O’Sullivan said the department believed Strickland was A man wanted for statutory rape turned himself in to the evading them.

The department Boone County Sheriff ’s sent out a news release Department on Tuesday, to local news outlets ending a one-month regarding Strickland search for the suspect. on Monday, and the William J. Strickland suspect turned himis accused of first-degree self in at about 8 p.m., statutory rape, according O’Sullivan said. He to news releases from the William J. was released about department.

The suspect was sTRICKLAND one hour later on a $50,000 bond. reported to have had sex“ The efforts of ual intercourse with the the media was very helpful victim three times during the to us, and he had people tellsummer at locations in rural ing him, ‘Get a bondsman, Boone County.

The victim, 12, discovered turn yourself in, stop evadshe was pregnant, according to ing them,’ and that certainly factored into his decision,” one of the releases.

Boone County Sheriff ’s O’Sullivan said.

First-degree statutory rape, Department Detective Tom defined as sexual intercourse O’Sullivan said it is not uncomwith a person less than 14 mon for the department to years of age, is a felony and is work with cases where the victim is this young or even punishable by a prison sentence anywhere from five years younger.

“We’ve had victims that to life.

Columbia Police Department were babies,” O’Sullivan said.

“Any case we’ve worked with, spokeswoman Jessie Haden said college students are not we’ve had a victim that age.” likely to be victims of statutory

rape, since the age of consent is 17.

Sexual assault in general is common around college campuses, said Barbara Hodges, executive director for True North, an emergency shelter based in Columbia that provides support for adult victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.

The most common victims of sexual assault are 18- to 25-year-old women, Hodges said.

He added that drinking, though not the cause of sexual violence, makes women more vulnerable and potential perpetrators more likely to commit crimes.

“Young people are much more often the victims of sexual assault,” Hodges said.

Acts of sexual violence also commonly go unreported, Hodges said, due to a lack of witnesses or other evidence and difficulty in prosecuting the crime. Haden said statutory rape often goes underreported as well.

“My belief is that statutory rape is highly under-reported, just as are other sex offenses,” Haden said. “Given that it is a statutory crime and neither force nor forcible compulsion are required, it is probably even more under-reported.”

Strickland is scheduled to appear in court at 1:30 p.m.

Nov. 12 in District 9.

Two children were present during the incident which occured in August.

A suspect was arrested this week on suspicion of throwing a knife at a car while two children were inside it.

The incident stemmed from an incident in August at 2300 Parker St., Columbia Police Department spokeswoman Jessie Haden said.

The victim, 32, was with her two children at the time.

One child was just a few weeks old, and the other was 18 months old.

When police arrived at the scene, the victim told them she had been held against her will.

When other officers arrived, they approached suspect Fredrick Kemp and discovered there was an active order of protection against him.

The victim told police Kemp came to the apartment, and the two got into an argument.

“She just wanted to leave with the children,” Haden said.

“He said she could leave, but not with the children.”

Haden said Kemp stood in the doorway, blocking the victim from exiting.

The victim then called an acquaintance, who came over to the house.

The friend took the youngest child out of the house through another door, Haden said.

“He must have gotten distracted or something, because they were able to get the 18-month-old in the car.”

Haden said eventually, the suspect realized the children were no longer in the apartment.

“That’s when he went at the car with a large knife in his hand,” she said. “The knife actually fell apart when it hit the car.”

The knife struck the car in the right rear passenger door, and the friend drove away.

She came back when police officers were in the neighborhood, and the situation was stable.

“He was arrested and brought to the police department to be processed, but he didn’t actually go to jail,” Haden said.

A warrant was requested for the charges, because he was taken to the hospital for a medical condition unrelated to the incident.

The Boone County Sheriff ’s Department arrested Kemp this week for the incident, Haden said.

— Alicia Stice, news editor

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MU strives for improved campus disability services ABBY SPUDICH Staff Writer Sociology professor Wayne Brekhus saw the power of someone who helps people with disabilities during his lecture.

“She would not only interpret the words, but if I was really animated about a point or enthusiastic she would demonstrate, make bigger arm motions,” Brekhus said about a sign-language interpreter who helps a student in his class.

“It was sort of interesting to have someone signing the things you’re saying in class. It was not at all disruptive in anyway, so I thought it was great.”

Brekhus’ experience is mirrored by many as college campuses nationwide have become more accessible for students with disabilities. This is largely due to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, which was amended in 2008.

The improvements also came from the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1975, which was amended in 1997.

The ADA states no qualified individual person will be excluded from participation in or be denied the benefits of services, programs or public activities or be subjected to discrimination. IDEA reformed education for students up to the age of 21.

MU Disability Services Director Barbara Hammer said there are more disabled students at MU this year than she has seen in the past 10 years, and MU ADA coordinator Lee Henson agreed.

“I think more people with disabilities are encouraged to go to college since they have had more

rights and advantages under the IDEA and the ADA,” Henson said.

“My guess is that people with disabilities feel that there are support systems and that the legal system is encouraging them to look forward to a brighter future, and they’re getting more encouragement than they’re used to.”

At MU, students with disabilities are provided with a variety of accommodations through the Office of Disability Services to help them succeed. The office addresses mobility and dexterity, psychological, hearing, vision and learning disabilities with accommodations specified to the student’s needs.

Students may benefit from classroom assistants, note-takers, readers, scribes, time extensions on tests and alternative formatting of classroom materials.

“Mizzou has a long history of being one of the most accessible campuses,” said Linda Baker, executive director of the Governor's Council on Disability.

Disabled students may also find helpful resources at the Student Success Center. The center offers a program called TRiO CATS, a U.S. Department of Education funded program to help first-generation, low-income and disabled students.

The program provides oneon-one study sessions with tutors trained to address a student’s specific needs.

“The campus as a whole is very aware of the need to make sure these students have access to higher education,” TRiO CATS Program Director Carol Howald said.

Although the TRiO Cats program is federally funded, the university sponsors other services

for students with disabilities.

The Office of Disability Services receives funds from the general operating funds to pay for needed accommodations.

“We do get very good support from administration through the university here,” Hammer said.

A 2009 survey conducted by the MU Persons with Disabilities Committee found 54 percent of employees with a disability rated campus accessibility as excellent or good.

“Only 20 percent of respondents with a disability felt that the University was effective in responding to complaints and concerns about job problems or discrimination based on a disability,” according to the 2009 Faculty/Staff Survey on Disability Prevalence, Awareness and Accessibility at MU. The Persons with Disabilities Committee is seeking to change the way people and the university view disability, according to Hammer.

In order to execute these changes, the committee started ACCESS Mizzou, an initiative to promote a welcoming and inclusive environment for people with disabilities.

“We’re trying to find some ways to make as sure as we can be that people with disabilities get a full opportunity to participate in the school system just as others do, try to break down barriers of isolation and misunderstanding,” Henson said.

The committee is working for the adoption of an accessibility program or a commitment from the university to use and buy programs, services, software and equipment that meet accessibility standards under the ADA.

Sheriff's department conducts first driver's license checkpoint The Boone County Sheriff ’s Department issued 51 citations Monday at its first-ever driver’s license checkpoint, Sgt. Brian Leer of the Traffic Enforcement Unit said.

Leer said he expected 20 to 30 citations.

“I was kind of surprised that it was the size it was,” Leer said.

About 500 vehicles were stopped at the checkpoint, a sheriff’s department news release stated. Each driver was required to show his or her license and registration.

“The purpose of this operation was to increase safety on the roadways of Boone County by identifying and citing the drivers who are unlicensed, suspended, revoked and/or uninsured,” the news release stated.

Although such checkpoints are nothing new for the state or the country, Leer said there is a debate about the constitutionality of stopping law-abiding drivers.

“People are almost shocked that this kind of checkpoint occurs,” he said.

The sheriff’s department issued 36 citations for driving without insurance, six citations for suspended or revoked licenses and four for operating a motor vehicle without a valid license. There was one felony arrest for possession of a

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controlled substance.

The police also found one safety belt violation and one child restraint violation. There were two citations for failing to comply with a court order requiring the use of an ignition interlock device and one citation for failing to register a motor vehicle annually with the Director of Revenue.

The checkpoint came as a result of a grant from the Missouri Department of Transportation Division of Highway Safety, the news release stated.

“We received several different traffic enforcement grants,” Leer said.

One of the MODOT grants provided for enforcement against hazardous moving violations. Other police departments have conducted spot checks in Boone County in the past, but the Boone County Sheriff ’s Department had never conducted such a checkpoint until Monday.

“It’s the first one that we’ve done at the sheriff’s department,” Leer said.

Unlike the department’s frequent sobriety checkpoints, Monday’s checkpoint was conducted during daylight hours.

The checkpoint was held at Brown School Road and Providence Road in Columbia. The location for

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SUMMARY The Boone County Sheriff's Department stopped about 500 cars Oct. 18 at a driver's license/safety checkpoint at Brown School and Providence roads.

36 citations for driving without insurance

4 citations for operating a motor vehicle without a valid license 6 citations for 1 citation for operating a motor safety belt vehicle with a violation suspended or 1 felony arrest revoked license 1 citation for for possession child restraint of marijuana violation Source: Boone County Sheriff's Department news release ASHLEY LANE/GRAPHIC DESIGNER

the checkpoint was chosen based on statistical data, Leer said.

“The driver’s license checkpoint location is not random and has been chosen based on the number of suspended, revoked or unlicensed drivers cited for these violations in the area,” the news release stated.

— Celia Ampel, staff writer

Banding together to fight bullying

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Graduate student Wen-Hsin Chang helps Hsueh-Chi Lin re-light her candle Wednesday at the Missouri United Methodist Church. The Center Project led a candlelit vigil in remembrance of youths who committed suicide due to bullying based on their actual or perceived sexual orientation.

Airport takes off with new manager Andrew Schneider was previously an airport manager in North Dakota.

Schneider’s job will consist of multiple duties, from working with the Federal Aviation Administration and the Transportation Security Administration to the everyday happenings at the airport.

ALLY MCENTIRE "He will oversee the daily operaStaff Writer tions of the airport, work with the leasees, Delta Airlines and the With major renovations and FAA," Stedem said. "He will oversee improvements in the works, the the expansion and improvements Columbia Regional Airport will to the airport facility, continue begin these changes with a new working to improve our commermanager, Andrew Schneider. cial air service, and hopefully, terSchneider will replace interim minal improvements.” airport manager Don Elliott, who Stedem said Schneider is comtook over when manager Kathy ing in at a good time. The airport Frerking resigned after four years recently had its master plan for in August. improvements approved locally. It After Frerking left, the airport is now at the FAA for approval. opened the position to applicants, “Hopefully they'll approve it,” and 73 people applied.

Cecil said. “That project This week, the Columbia is funded with federal Public Works Department funds.” chose Schneider, who Schneider said was previously an airport beyond the master plan, manager in Jamestown, he has ideas for the airN.D. port.

"He was the best fit "An airline ticket is a ANDREW from the two candidates product,” he said. “You that were brought in for SCHNEIDER just have to get the cominterviews,” Columbia bination of taking peoPublic Works spokeswoman Jill ple where they want to go at the Stedem said. price they want to do it.”

She said the city manager, He said the airport is planning public works director, the human to conduct a terminal study to resources department and the determine what improvements assistant public works direc- need to made to the terminal. tor were all in charge of sorting “Just to see what we have and through applications and deciding what we need to expand," he said. whom the final two would be.

"We'll get consultants and stuff The advisory board then got to involved.” sit down with the two candidates Cecil said the airport holds a to get to know them. good deal of economic opportu"Well, I had a really good nity. He said he’d like to see some first impression,” advisory board amenities go into the terminal, Chairman Gregory Cecil said. too, such as meeting rooms and “He was very engaging. He has possibly a coffee shop. experience in the areas we have One factor Schneider plans to an interest in, he's worked with focus on is customer loyalty.

Delta (Airlines), he has a desire "In the history of Columbia's to be an airport manager. It's air service, there've been a couple very promising." of different carriers,” he said. "I am Schneider said he had been very optimistic that as the implelooking to move up in his career ments increase, that will attract and had found the Columbia another carrier at least. There's position listed on an aviation jobs really no reason to have people website. drive to Kansas City or St. Louis."

"When Columbia came up, I did Cecil said the airport is excita little bit of looking,” Schneider ed to have Schneider and his said. “I had to ask myself, one, ‘Am experience.

I eligible for the job?’ and two, ‘Is "How long we'll be able to keep it somewhere I want to live?’ I put him, we don't know that, but my name in with 73 others, and hopefully a lot of good things will thankfully, it came out on top." happen while he's here,” he said.

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Diversity column misinformed I completely disagree with the column, “Diversity course requirement a bust,” especially the statement about the course not being a “life skills” class. You will be working with and encountering people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, etc. for the rest of your life. Whether you’re a teacher, a journalist, or a CEO, your actions and words impact the community around you. How can you be a progressive leader if you aren’t aware of basic issues, your own biases, and the institutionalized racism that benefits the few and plagues the majority here in the US? This column is very misinformed. The point of a diversity course is not to convert people, but to INFORM them of the multicultural and social justice issues that impact the world and our future. The cotton ball incident at the Black Culture Center is a prime example of the lack of education this campus has about cultural sensitivity. Is it society’s job to teach us about diversity and tolerance? Hardly! Would the cotton ball incident have happened if that were the case? While Mizzou cannot force students to embrace diversity, it can at least provide a basic course that helps clear misunderstandings and take a step back from common biases to look at the big picture. Providing students with the information they need to think critically about their surroundings and actions — how is that not needed on our campus.

Liz Reed Senior evrhf2@mail.missouri.edu

Enforce non-smoking policy I have mentioned the smoking issues to Jeff Roberts, stating that the signage on the patio posts are too small for the students to actually see. No one pays attention to them. We have office space that faces the patio, and if our windows are open, we can smell the smoke, as it makes its way down to our open window. Also, I eat my lunch up there and have to continually tell the students to please not smoke and point to the signs. This usually meets with a halt to the smoking, but sometimes they have been a bit hostile and have challenged me. This occurs every week and is quite annoying. I have requested some other larger signs, placed as people enter the patio area (near the cigarette “garages”).

I have asked someone please attend to this situation, and here was the answer: Thanks for your e-mail; we’ve determined that larger signage will deter from the visual environment of the Terrace. Like driving through this beautiful state and having the visual clutter of all the billboards along the highways. We will continue to encourage our staff as well as all of our building tenants to help us police these areas. Unfortunately not everyone sees their second-hand smoke as an irritant. I understand your concern and we’ll continue to monitor.

This answer does not seem right. I am not employed as the’ smoking police’ and only have a ‘break’ as my lunch time. I am also allergic to smoke. Didn’t students vote to have this area as non-smoking? It is my opinion that if this is a rule, that it should be enforced. I appreciate your comments/thoughts on this matter.

Charlotte Beuselinck MU Office Support Staff beuselinckc@missouri.edu

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MSA transparency exists, but not taken advantage of During my time at Mizzou, I have come to expect the Maneater to generally produce quality work. Generally, but not always. The area where they seem to most consistently get it wrong is with articles and opinion pieces involving MSA. An illuminating example is this week’s forum editorial, “Transparency from student organizations is students’ right.” In it, the editorial board informs us that a photographer from The Maneater attempted to ride along with a TigerWatch patrol for a night and was refused access. This much is true. They go on to assert that, “[TigerWatch is a] subsidiary of student government and [has] no authority to deny the press coverage for whatever reason.” They conclude with a fervent appeal for transparency as a student’s right.

Both The Maneater and the Mizzou student body deserve an explanation and that explanation is simple: What was requested of TigerWatch by a Maneater reporter, who will remain nameless, was that a photographer be allowed to snap a quick photo of the program in action, not to ride along for the entire night.

TigerWatch is an organization that is in its infancy and is not authorized by MSA or the Department of Student Life to allow third party staff to be embedded with a patrol without prior approval both from myself and from a representative of Student Life. The Coordinator for Student Government Services has already confirmed this fact and affirmed this directive.

I am grateful that The Maneater works hard to keep MSA, its auxiliaries, and its leaders honest and accountable, including myself. I share their belief that students have a right to the transparency of the associations that represent, and the administration that serves them.

At the same time, I am concerned that The Maneater fails to make the most of the transparency that exists.

Since I founded TigerWatch, I have strived to educate students and to make it clear that I am always available to discuss TigerWatch and answer any and all questions regarding its operations.

Given this, I find it upsetting that The Maneater failed to contact me before publishing its editorial. Had they done so, I would have been willing, able, and happy to explain the situation as I have done now. What good is transparency if it isn’t being used? I created TigerWatch to help students feel safe, and I — and everyone on the TigerWatch team – understand that we can’t move towards that goal if we do not continue to remain open and honest with the students we serve.

Moving forward, I would like to encourage students, especially those that serve on The Maneater, to contact me at any time with any and all questions or suggestions on how we can help TigerWatch better serve students. I’m listening.

Josh Travis TigerWatch superintendant jttn87@mizzou.edu

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Self-control key to combating obesity

Just let it be

Rachel Allred rma6f8@mizzou.edu

It’s OK. Admit it. You love fast food. Sure, it’s greasy and fattening and a heart attack waiting to happen, but those salty fries, creamy milkshakes and burgers lathered in cheese and ketchup create a taste sensation that’s hard to beat.

Understandably, fast-food chains have been getting a lot of criticism from diet specialists, physicians and consumers.

Encouraging healthy lifestyles and nutritious eating holds great importance in our society, but some, such as certain health advocates in San Francisco, are taking it too far.

A full-page ad printed in the San Francisco Examiner showed support for the Healthy Meal Incentive Ordinance and asked District 8 Supervisor Bevan Dufty to endorse the ordinance in the upcoming vote.

In part, the ordinance would prohibit toys and other incentives to be given with meals, unless those meals meet certain nutritional criteria. Essentially, bye-bye, Happy Meal toys. The intent of the ordinance is to discourage kids from eating unhealthy foods and to decrease food-related health problems in children. According to the ordinance, at least 17 percent of Americans between the ages of 2 and 19 are considered overweight or obese. Certainly the epidemic of obesity and unhealthy living is a problem that needs to be addressed, but banning toys from kids’ meals seems like a stretch.

According to the ad, these toy giveaways help sell more than 1 billion unhealthy meals to children under the age of 12 every year.

Obviously, it’s usually not adults going after the decorated cardboard boxes and running zebra toys. Children under the age of 12 don’t have jobs, can’t drive and can hardly order for themselves, so they sure aren’t taking themselves to McD’s every week to get those McNaughty nuggets. It’s the parents, guardians or siblings who take these kids to the fried-food-filled restaurants.

Sure, kids see a commercial on TV for the newest Happy Meal toy and insist they have to have it. They don’t really have to have it, and they shouldn’t have their request grant-

Illustration by Chelsea Myers ed every time they want a fast-food meal, just like kids shouldn’t be taken to the mall every time they see an ad for a shirt they like. Is fast food healthy, especially for young folks? Hecks no. Is one Happy Meal every once in a while going to condemn them to obesity the rest of their lives? Absolutely not.

I’m lucky to have a pretty health-conscious mom who taught me about eating right. In elementary school, however, I despised how nutritional savyy she was. I always envied my classmates who had Pepsi, Cheetos and Nutty Bars in their lunch, while I had 100 percent natural fruit juice, Goldfish crackers and carrot sticks. While some of my friends went to fast-food restaurants weekly, such an outing was an occasional treat for me. Whenever we made a trip to the local McDonald’s or Burger

King, I always looked forward to the food and the toy. There was something magical about opening the bag to see what toy I got. Often my brother and I would be so consumed by playing with our toys that we lost interest in finishing our pile of French fries. Although the toys were often silly and broken, lost or forgotten after a week, they made the short and infrequent trip to fast-food places something a little more special.

The rise in unhealthy weight is certainly discouraging and shouldn’t go unnoticed.

But it should be more about learning good self-control and good habits than trying to ban everything that might create a risk. It would be like leaving Santa tomatoes instead of cookies or having fiber bars instead of cupcakes at a birthday party.

If you don’t want to give, go home Mary Novokhovsky mn5p6@mizzou.edu

According to the National Institute for Achievement, “Your résumé means everything.”

Maybe the NIA isn’t a real organization — big deal. This sentiment still holds true for a large portion of success-oriented youths (as opposed to their failure-oriented counterparts). All around the world, you can find young adults and older adults doing things to “build” their resumes.

Imagine this: many people helping people in order for other people to believe they’re good people.

Back in my old high school days, we used to have a community service club cleverly named GIVE. GIVE members were typically ambitious and often had to juggle their time between servicing the community and attending an array of other club meetings: Future Business Leaders of America, Future Health Professionals of America, Future Political Pundits of America — the list goes on.

I remember the first GIVE event I ever attended. It was at a nursing home around Halloween. We spent three hours decorating orange construction paper with googly eyes, glitter and an assortment of markers.

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Apparently the elderly love to watch students make Liberace-esque holiday ornaments.

Four of us sat around a large round table with a lady in her nineties whose son had just recently been divorced. She kept telling me about it every three minutes. I would nod politely, work on coloring and grab onto my friend’s knee for assistance.

The two girls across the table talked about prom; on the other end of the room, a few court-ordered volunteers discussed joint-rolling techniques; the nerdy student coordinator stood awkwardly over a group of pretty girls, surveying the scene down their shirts; and all the while, an old man kept mumbling about the dinner menu.

The last thing on almost every student volunteer’s mind was the presence of elderly folk. We were young and consumed by teenage thoughts: sex, drugs and the homecoming dance. So why did we choose to go there, in the middle of week, coloring amid seniors?

Obviously, we wanted to be able to transcribe that experience on our college applications. We wanted admissions officials to smile at our long list of good deeds and at our dedication to the community. If we could get into a prestigious school, we would have a fulfilling life.

There is nothing wrong with community service. Sometimes you can be forced into doing it and in the process, learn something new and experience growth. The real dilem-

ma occurs when you turn kind deeds and skill-building experience into nothing more than an impressive blurb on your résumé.

I meet a lot of really accomplished students regularly here at MU, and oftentimes they make me feel inadequate. While they’ve been tutoring six languages to foreign students and rescuing puppies, I’ve been sitting on my ass watching TV. Lately, I’ve found myself stuck in this trap of wanting to do things I don’t really want to do. What a conundrum, huh? I see people listing off their accomplishments on fingers and toes with a shrug, and I want that, too.

How great would I look if I could write down that I volunteer at an animal shelter?

The truth is, I don’t really want to volunteer at an animal shelter. First of all, I don’t really like most animals, so the experience would just be irritating. Secondly, I don’t think most of us are at a point in our lives when we can really appreciate giving.

Our time is not infinite, and unless we want nothing more to help our community (which is noble and fair), it’s kind of useless to extend a limp hand.

When my future bastardly children put me in a nursing home in 70 years, the last thing I’ll want is to spend an afternoon coloring with a bunch of hoodlums who don’t give a shit. You’re doing more damage by not caring in the midst of doing. If you’re out there to help but your mindset isn’t, well, go home.

A few weeks ago, I lost my bike to some bikeless asshole or sneaky fox who steals bikes, and it taught me a great deal about letting go and accepting some truths about the universe. Check it out.

As I imagine it, a well-dressed fox in a tweed jacket stole my bike from my back porch and became the happy owner of my handsome bike, You’re My Boy Blue. You’re My Boy Blue was a darling bike that did his job without complaint. He did squeak quite a bit, however.

Anyway, when I first discovered my bike was missing, I was soaked in rainwater and smelled like earthworms. I told my roommate, “My bike’s gone,” as though I were telling him C-SPAN2 were on — I didn’t really seem to care.

I went inside, took off my damp clothes and lay on my bed thinking about what I had lost, and I couldn’t muster the energy to be upset or reason with myself to be upset. I didn’t lock the bike up as I usually do. I left it all alone.

Surely, I’m to blame.

That night, I had a dream about going bald. The dream is as common and as frightening as the I-pulled-outmy-own-teeth dream.

It’s the dream that soaks my pillow in sweat and shows me just how poorly I would handle losing my well-established Hispanic mane. In the dream, I negotiate with my impotent follicles and consider just how well I can lie to myself about the attractiveness of a worn dome.

The mornings after the dream, I’m worn out and usually scrambling to make it to my 8 a.m. class. By class time, I’m pretty grateful to have my hair. It doesn’t stop me from thinking about the inevitable days when I will become more familiar with my scalp. And I think, in actuality, it wouldn’t be so bad.

In the universe, I believe there exists only so much of one thing. Hair, for example, is one item people have or don’t have. I thank Woody Harrelson for my head of hair. I believe his head wasn’t meant for thick locks of smoky brown. Instead, he enjoys fame and success that I don’t.

In the case the day I lost my bike, I took it as an affirmation of my belief.

There are only so many bikes in this universe, and I lost mine. I wasn’t meant to have it. I was meant to ride it for a year, and say goodbye to it.

Only a few weeks before my bike ascended to Oblivion Town, I absentmindedly took a wrong turn on my way to Hy-Vee. As serendipity would have it, I passed a house hosting a free garage sale. In the yard were tables, damp books on photography, creepy dolls and one Yamaha electronic organ.

My boo and I quickly parked, thinking it too good to be true, and snatched that organ right up. A mini rocking chair came, too.

I don’t believe in higher powers working out where my body goes from day to day. I like to think that based on facts, I was meant for this organ and this organ was meant for me. There is a specific number of these organs in existence. I own one of them because a family gave its up to a very happy musician.

I try to remember all life is a sinuous up and down. Sometimes I’m jerked out of orbit (as in the case of my bike), but more often than not, I swing back with a new free Yamaha electric organ.

Everything is copacetic in the cosmos, for now.

Friday, October 22, 2010 On the Mike

Mike Vorel

Sports Columnist

NFL making tough calls on tough hits After years of turning a blind eye to concussions and headfirst hits, it seems the NFL is finally cracking down.

There was an uncanny number of dangerous hits in games last weekend, and after ignoring the issue for years, the NFL finally decided this week to more strictly enforce policies to keep players safe. Starting this week, more players will be fined for illegal and flagrant hits and repeat offenders are subject to suspensions. Although many concerned parties and fans of the game are satisfied to see the league take a step in the right direction, many of the league’s defensive players are feeling handicapped by the new ruling.

2008 NFL Defensive Player of the Year James Harrison was fined $75,000 for a hit on Browns WR Mohamed Massaquoi on Sunday, a play that resulted in Massaquoi leaving the game but no penalty flag being thrown. Harrison, known widely throughout the league as one of the NFL’s most punishing hitters, isn’t sure he wants to play in a league that is trying to handcuff his style of play.

“I’m going to sit down and have a serious conversation with my coach tomorrow and see if I can actually play by NFL rules and still be effective,” Harrison said. “If not, I may have to give up playing football.”

Although Harrison’s view might be a bit extreme, his mindset is similar to many other defensive players in the sport. Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher also spoke out about the NFL’s decision to crack down on dangerous hits, calling the situation “very frustrating.”

“You know what we should do?” Urlacher said. “We should just put flags on everybody. Let’s make it the NFFL — the National Flag Football League. It’s unbelievable.”

Everybody knows something needs to be done regarding concussions and brain injuries in football. I don’t think that’s the argument here. What the NFL needs to establish is a way to improve player safety while still keeping the integrity and physicality of the game intact.

Many people have suggested altering helmets or equipment in some fashion, but it seems any change of that magnitude is still a while off. For now, I applaud the NFL for doing what it thinks it needs to to improve the well-being of its players. These are well-endowed athletes, so fines aren’t necessarily going to get their attention. Suspensions, on the other hand, should help to minimize headfirst and unnecessarily dangerous hits.

Of course, I see where defensive players are coming from as well. You can’t tell a player to second-guess the way they play in the moment, because that’s when players get tentative and start to miss tackles and lose their edge. Having that “warrior” mentality is part of what an NFL player needs to make it in the sport. However, I think whether defensive players like it or not, they are going to have to compromise, for the well being of fellow players as well as the future of the sport.

Obviously, though, that’s easier said than done.

Harrison is one of the best defensive players in the league and many of his peers have a similar mindset.

“I don’t want to injure anybody,” Harrison said.

“There’s a big difference between being hurt and being injured. You get hurt, you shake it off and come back the next series or the next game. I try to hurt people.”

Like it or not, that’s the way many NFL players think. I doubt a $75,000 slap on the wrist is going to change that.

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Tiger volleyball looks to finish strong ZACH DISCHIANO Staff Writer

Entering the final 10 games of the season, the Missouri volleyball team holds a 13-7 overall record and Big 12 record of 5-5. The Tigers are hoping to close the season out strong despite games against some of the top teams in the Big 12.

Missouri is sitting at fifth place in the conference standings, just two games behind Oklahoma and Iowa State. The last three times Missouri finished in sixth place in the Big 12, it made the NCAA Tournament, so the Tigers are going to have to maintain their success to ensure a bid in the bracket.

The Tigers don’t have the easiest opponents here at the end of the season, with two ranked teams remaining on their schedule. Third-ranked Nebraska and 12th-ranked Iowa State have already beaten Missouri previously in the season, so the Tigers will look to get their revenge as the year comes to a close.

The last game on the team’s schedule is no cakewalk either, because the Tigers will play a tough Oklahoma team who is unranked but still receiving votes to be a part of the Top 25.

Missouri will also face Texas A&M, who ultimately destroyed the Tigers’ chances to make the tournament last year when the Aggies swept the team in the final game of the sea-

son. Had Missouri won, it would have finished in a tie for sixth place and likely earned a spot in the NCAA tournament.

On a two-game winning streak, Missouri is in good shape to move up in the conference standings.

The Tigers are coming off a win against the Baylor Bears, who lead the nation in digs per set. Missouri’s defense was superior that night, though, because it recorded 15 more digs than Baylor. Senior libero Caitlyn Vann earned Big 12 Player of the Week honors for her performance against the Bears (a season-high 31 digs) and the Aggies (26 digs and the first Tiger win in College Station since 2005).

Several players for Missouri are close to or at the top of the Big 12 standings in individual categories. Senior outside hitter Paola Ampudia is third in the conference in kills per set and freshman setter Molly Kreklow leads the Big 12 in assists per set.

Service aces have been plentiful for Missouri, with senior outside hitter Julianna Klein and Vann first and second in the category, respectively. Vann is also second in the conference in digs per set, so be on the lookout for some postseason accolades for her, as well as the aforementioned Tigers.

The road to the NCAA tournament starts Saturday for the Tigers, when they

SAM GAUSE/SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Junior outside hitter and middle blocker Brittney Brimmage prepares to spike the ball Oct. 16 at the Hearnes Center. Missouri is in fifth place in conference standings. travel out to Nebraska to take on the Cornhuskers.

The last time Missouri beat Nebraska was in 2003, and the Huskers have won every Big 12 contest they have played in. Nebraska has only lost four sets and one match the entire season, dominating nearly all its opponents. The Tigers hosted the Huskers earlier in the season and were swept, losing by four, seven and nine points in the three sets played.

Ampudia is expected to have a solid performance because she has totaled 102 kills in her last five matches, averaging 20.4 kills per match. Missouri will have to keep an eye on Nebraska’s junior middle blocker Brooke Delano, who is third in the conference in hitting percentage and tallied 14 kills against the team when they met earlier this season. The match starts at 7 p.m. Saturday.

Missouri soccer relies on seniors PAT IVERSEN Staff Writer Only eight teams make the Big 12 soccer tournament. At this point one year ago, the Missouri Tigers were in cruise control, sitting comfortably in third place standing. But this time around, the Tigers are on their last few breaths, and the seniors on the team are putting theirs to good use.

“Alysha (Bonnick) came into the locker room last week and told us that this is crunch time, and we have to pick up the level we’re playing at,” junior forward Kendra Collins said. “She said ‘So if you’re on the field, and I feel like you’re not playing to your potential, I will be on you the entire game.’”

This never-say-die attitude is one Missouri is counting on to carry into its final three matches of the season.

With a conference record of 3-4, the Tigers are in eighth place and right on the cusp of

EYES ON THE PRIZE Missouri leads the all-time series against each of itsfinal three opponents this season as it battles for a spot in the Big 12 tournament.

Opponent Baylor Texas Tech Iowa State

All-Time Record 9-6-0 10-5-0 9-4-1

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elimination.

Senior goalkeeper Paula Pritzen said the five seniors on the team are taking on more responsibility as the regular season draws to a close.

“Definitely after coming off a couple hard weeks here, I really think it’s time for the team to come together and push,” Pritzen said. “And having that leadership is definitely going to help the younger players and keep us positive as we’re going through these last three really important games.”

Missouri will finish the season on the road with games at Baylor, Texas Tech

and Iowa State. The combined conference record of the final opponents is a mere 7-20-1, but Pritzen said playing away games is a challenge.

“It’s gonna be tough,” Pritzen said. “I mean, playing on the road away from home is always tough. I think we’re a good road team. We’ve gotten wins on the road. So we’re used to traveling, and especially with our tough preseason schedule, we know how to handle it.”

Sophomore keeper Jessica Gwin was held out of practice all week after suffering a concussion in last weekend’s match against Texas A&M. Pritzen will get the start in net for the Baylor game tonight, and Collins said having an experienced netminder step in is comforting.

“It’s a huge relief,” Collins said. “Paula’s been practicing with us all season, and we’ve seen her on the field, so we know she knows what she’s doing. So having her behind

us is such a relief.”

Although the relatively small senior class will do its best to lead the team in the upcoming weeks, coach Bryan Blitz said it’s the newer players who can step up and help out.

“I think at this point, they’re not that young anymore,” Blitz said. “Since they’ve been kind of been through the meat grinder this season, I think our younger players are playing some of their best soccer right now.”

Although it’s been almost a year since the Tigers were snubbed from the NCAA Tournament, Collins said they haven’t forgotten the disappointment last year’s seniors felt.

“We still have that bitter taste in our mouth from last year, and my sister was one of them,” Collins said. ”So I have a bitter taste in my mouth for her and me. We saw how the seniors went out last year, and we don’t want to go out that way either.”

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Friday, October 22, 2010 Editor's Special Column

Zach Mink Sports Editor

Tigers poised for success The sun shines bright over the six columns on the Quad at the University of Missouri campus. The aura is a calm one, the vast space inhabited by a few students studying, playing catch and relaxing in the imposing shadow of Jesse Hall. But come Saturday, all this will change.

Hoards of students will pack the normally tranquil site to be a part of the biggest college football stage in the nation. With ESPN College GameDay entering Columbia for the first time in school history, the attention puts the Missouri Tigers in a make-or-break situation. Win and be recognized; lose and be thrust back into the unknown.

For a team such as Missouri, the spotlight does not come calling often and, amid the conference realignment frenzy this summer, the nation got a taste of just how underappreciated the Tigers had become.

Once at the center of discussion as one of the teams potentially moving to the Big Ten, Missouri found itself on the outside looking in as the Big 12 faced possible destruction. Although the dust eventually settled and the Tigers stayed put, Missouri now has a score to settle. The Tigers deserve some respect, and Saturday is the opportunity to earn it.

Missouri and Oklahoma have both compiled 6-0 starts to the season, making them two of only 10 unbeaten teams in the country. Although this feat puts the Tigers in good company, they’ve yet to prove themselves on the national level. With the first true test of the season coming against the Sooner powerhouse, coach Gary Pinkel and his players will have the entire nation watching every move they make.

However, Missouri has been here before.

Even though the allure of GameDay hasn’t graced ‘The Zou’ until now, the Tigers have been the featured game on the road four times since the program started in 1993.

Missouri went 1-3 in those contests, with the lone victory coming against then-No. 2 Kansas in 2007.

The win eventually propelled the Tigers to No. 1 in the BCS and AP polls, and the Tigers ended the season one game shy of playing for a national championship.

A win for Missouri on Saturday would undoubtedly put them in the BCS top 10 and could give the team the momentum it needs to propel it into a consistent national spotlight.

On top of the excitement that GameDay has brought to the student body, the contest also marks the 99th anniversary of Homecoming. Missouri is said to have started the tradition that is now a trademark on many college and high school campuses, and the historic ritual only adds to the grandeur of the scene for Saturday’s matchup. A win would throw the campus into a state of mass hysteria. A loss would spell devastation for hopeful Tiger fans around the country.

There is a quiet buzz around campus that gets louder with each passing day. Walking across the historic campus, the whispers of anticipation are unmistakable. The time is now for Missouri to pave the path to success.

The fans, the school and the atmosphere will all shine in the spotlight Saturday. But the question is: Will the Tigers?

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Big 12 media conference focuses on basketball Kirsten Herhold Reporter On Wednesday and Thursday, coaches and select players from each of the Big 12 teams gathered in Kansas City for the conference’s Media Days. This was the last time they would join before next year’s conference realignment.

“This time of the year, I guess your body tells you that basketball is really, really in the air,” coach Mike Anderson said. “I’m excited about this group. It is year five, and we hope to make another move to another level in Tiger basketball.”

Missouri is ranked No. 15 in the preseason coaches’ poll, and it’s the first time the team has appeared on the list since 2003.

“These expectations are, more than anything else, a reflection of what’s taking place in our program,” Anderson said. “It’s a reflection of how our program is really rising.”

The players are also hoping to match the expectations set by the preseason rankings.

“It feels good to have people talking about us,” senior forward Justin Safford said. “It means we’re doing something right. I’m very excited to be a part of the team this season. I expect us to do very well.”

Like Stafford, many players’ ultimate goal is to become Big 12 champions and then to win the NCAA Tournament this season.

“Those are the goals that are down the line that we’re going to set but not think about every day,” junior guard Kim English said. “Our goal right now is just simply to get better each and every day and take it one day at a time. It’s a cliché, but right now, our first exhibition is all we’re worried about. But hopefully that’ll lead to the trophy.”

On the women’s side of things, Missouri is welcoming new coach Robin Pingeton.

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Senior forward Shakara Jones reaches to regain control of a ball going out of bounds after a struggle with Iowa State forward Chelsea Poppens on Feb. 7 at Mizzou Arena.

The Tigers expect a more successful season under new coach Robin Pingeton.

Pingeton, who spent the last seven years as the coach of Illinois State and was named Missouri Valley Conference’s Coach of the Year in 2004, said she is very excited for the upcoming season.

“We’re taking over a big program,” she said. “I have pretty high expectations, but I also think you have to be realistic. When you’re in the best conference in the nation, it will take some time.”

Pingeton’s players are also enthusiastic about their new coach.

“I am very happy,” senior forward Shakara Jones said. “It’ll take a while to get used to, but it’s been a good change overall.”

Jones also said there’s a need to take the games one at a time.

“I don’t want to set the bar too high, so I want to take it game by game,” she said. “But I would like to finish at least in the top six of the Big 12, and with Pingeton, I think we can reach that.”

Unranked nationally, Missouri is No. 11

in the Big 12 preseason poll, ranked ahead of only Colorado, who will begin their last season in the Big 12. Starting next year, the Big 12 will lose two teams in the conference: Nebraska and Colorado.

But, both Tiger basketball teams are optimistic about the conference realignment.

“It’s going to be a beast now, because of what’s about to take place,” Anderson said. “These teams leaving, I think, will only make the conference stronger. I think the best conference in the country just got tougher. Now there will be a true champion, no question about that.”

But like the women’s team, Anderson is on the smaller picture.

“But right now, all of my focus is on this season,” he said. “It’s going to be a challenge. It’ll be a tough road ahead, but take it one step at a time is what we’ll do. And I know Mizzou will succeed.”

Sports Shorts: Men’s basketball looks forward to upcoming season Zach Mink Sports Editor Men’s basketball The Tigers enter the season ranked No. 15 in the ESPN/USA Today Top 25 Coaches Poll. The ranking is the highest for the Tigers, who have climbed since the 2008-2009 season, when they won 31 games and fell one game short of the Final Four.

Last year’s leading scorer Kim English returns along with guard Marcus Denmon and forward Laurence Bowers. The trio combined for 34.4 points per game last season.

Also returning is senior forward Justin Safford, who averaged 8.8 points per game before tearing his ACL against Colorado. Safford looks to assume a leadership role as the only starting senior in the lineup.

“Justin’s been here for three years, so he has seen the bad, the good and the real good,” coach Mike Anderson said.

“I’m sure he’s feeling pretty good to be in this position. But at the same time, his leadership is going to be valuable to our basketball team.”

Newcomers include junior forward Ricardo Ratliffe, a transfer from Central Florida Community College who is looking to make an impact in his first year

with the Tigers. Ratliffe had a historic career in his first two years, becoming one of only 13 players in junior college history to earn first team All-America honors. He also set Central Florida school records in scoring with 1,653 points and rebounding with 580.

Ratliffe was hyped to enter the Tiger’s 2010-2011 season and was named the preseason Big 12 Newcomer of the Year as voted by league coaches.

The last person to earn the preseason award was forward DeMarre Carroll, who is in the NBA with the Memphis Grizzlies.

Coach Mike Anderson said he has been pleased with what he has seen from Ratliffe in practice so far.

“For a guy that comes in with the accolades he has, his work ethic has been great,” Anderson said. “In sprints, he is outrunning some of the guards, so that’s good to see. Anything that we’re doing, he’s working as hard as he can and if he doesn’t understand it, he’s asking questions.”

The Tigers open up the season with the Black vs. Gold scrimmage Oct. 28.

Football Senior linebacker Luke Lambert will not be in the lineup Saturday against Oklahoma. Lambert strained his knee

in last week’s victory over Texas A&M but played through the game. Coach Gary Pinkel said he was unsure of when the senior would be able to return to action.

“He has a knee strain that happened in the third quarter, but he played through the game with it,” Pinkel said.

“The medical staff précised two games that he will be out. That can change, but for sure he’s out this week. He’s had some tough luck. He’s a great kid, a great leader, a great captain and everything else, and hopefully we’ll get him back soon.”

Lambert has accumulated 17 tackles and one sack in four games played.

Another notable Tiger injury going into Saturday’s contest is redshirt sophomore Aldon Smith, who fractured his fibula earlier in the season.

“I don’t want to project,” Pinkel said.

“I think it’s certainly a possibility that he can play. His attitude has been great through this situation, so we will see where it goes.”

Smith is second on the team in sacks, with three in three games. As a freshman, the defensive end earned the Big 12 Newcomer and Freshman of the Year awards.

The Tigers will look to remain unbeaten against the Sooners at 7 p.m.

Saturday at Faurot Field.

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KELSEY MIRANDO

CHRIS SPURLOCK

Kelsey Mirando is a magazine journalism major from Tulsa, Okla. She was sponsored by her sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta.

Her other campus activities include being a member of the Alumni Association Student Board and the Society of Professional Journalists.

Mirando said her favorite Homecoming tradition is the campus decorations Friday night.

“It’s the first time during the week we get to see the whole Columbia community come together,” she said. “There’s something that night for everyone.”

Like the other candidates, Mirando said she has enjoyed spending time with her fellow Royalty candidates.

“I’ve enjoyed getting to be in such incredible company,” she said. “The other nine candidate are the students I’m closest with or I respect the most on campus.”

After graduation, Mirando hopes to enter the magazine industry as an editorial assistant in New York City. Eventually she would like to be a departmental or section editor or a freelance writer.

Chris Spurlock is a convergence journalism and political science dual major from O’Fallon.

Sponsored by the MU Tour Team, Spurlock is an Mizzou tour guide, a 2008 Summer Welcome leader and former Residential Life PA. He is also working as a TA at The Columbia Missourian.

“When I was nominated, it felt good,” Spurlock said.

“However, I wasn’t expecting to be a candidate at all.

This has been a surreal experience, to say the least. I put on the sash at these various Homecoming events and think to myself, ‘Is this really happening?’”

Spurlock’s fondest memories of past Homecomings include showing off the campus to all the alumni and getting to hear about past students’ experiences and why they love MU, he said.

“As a self-described ‘Mizzou-nerd,’ every moment of each Homecoming has been unique,” Spurlock said.

After graduation, Spurlock plans to hopefully work on an infographics staff for a publication.

JUSTIN YEATER

ALEXANDRYA HOLLEY

Sue Yun is from Kansas City and is sponsored by her sorority, Chi Omega. She is majoring in communications with double minors in Spanish and psychology.

In addition to being in Chi Omega, Yun was involved with Summer Welcome, worked as a community adviser, participated in the Vagina Monologues and Greek Week Steering Committee and is the campus campaign coordinator for Teach For America.

She said her favorite annual Homecoming event is the blood drive.

“I think it is the best way to see students giving back to our community,” Yun said. “The fact that Mizzou’s blood drive is one of the largest in the country truly says a lot about our university.”

Yun said she has enjoyed sharing the experience of being a candidate with the other royalty members.

She has applied to teach through the Teach for America program after graduation.

Justin Yeater is a biological sciences major from Joplin. Yeater was sponsored by the Alumni Association Student Board, of which he is president. He is also a member of Beta Theta Pi, a 2009 Summer Welcome leader and a Learning Center science tutor.

Because Yeater’s Greek Life chapter doesn’t participate in Homecoming, his involvement in past years has been limited,

Alexandrya Holley, from Irving, Texas, is a broadcast journalism major with minors in both Spanish and sociology.

Holley is a member of the Missouri Students Association Senate, serving as the chair of the Multicultural Issues Committee. She is also a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., which sponsored her court nomination. She is an anchor for both KOMU/ Channel 8 and newsy.com and is the creator of SWIPES Make a Difference.

She has enjoyed the entire process of being a Homecoming candidate.

“I love being able to experience the traditional MU Homecoming,” Holley said. “It’s been great going to all the events and participating in them.”

Holley’s favorite part of Homecoming is the atmosphere before the football game. She likes the camaraderie and spirit shown at the tailgate.

“I love the atmosphere and energy,” Holley said.

Her post-graduation plans include reporting or anchoring for a local TV station. Eventually, Holley wants to go into the entertainment reporting industry.

he said.

“Last year was the first time I had been to the parade, and I walked with the AASB float,” Justin said. “I’m thrilled that I’m able to be more involved with it this year.”

Yeater’s favorite part about MU Homecoming is its deeply rooted tradition and the alumni that return to their alma mater to partake in the festivities, he said.

Yeater has applied for the Teach for America program and is waiting to hear about his acceptance, he said. After graduation, he’s also considering joining the Peace Corps or going to medical school.

DENISHA THOMAS

GREG GREEN

LANEE BRIDEWELL

Denisha Thomas, from Memphis, Tenn., is a convergence journalism major and sociology minor.

She serves as a committee chairwoman of the National Association of Black Journalists, a peer advisor at Hatch Hall and a member of the Student Recreation Center’s Team Mizzou.

Thomas said she has enjoyed being able to talk to more underclassmen outside of Hatch throughout her candidacy.

“I want to let them know their voices will be heard,” Thomas said.

One of her main reasons for coming to MU was the sense of school spirit, and her favorite part of Homecoming is the football game.

“I like to see the students, alumni and people that don’t even go here cheering on Mizzou regardless of whether we win or lose,” she said.

If selected for the Teach for America program, she will teach inner-city children for two years after graduation.

Otherwise, she plans to go to graduate school.

Senior Greg Green is a sociology major with a minor in psychological sciences from East St. Louis, Ill. Green is involved in Kappa Alpha Psi and is the community service chairman for the NPHC, a member of the Black Program Committee and the Legion of Black Collegians political committee.

Aside from the floats and the parade, student involvement and the push for community service are some of Green’s favorite parts about Homecoming.

“I’m really big on community service,” Green said. “Homecoming gets people to do service for something they love, and I think that’s great.”

As a part of his fraternity, Green has participated in highway clean-ups, volunteered at nursing homes and provided service for the Boys and Girls Club and the Humane Society.

After graduation, Green plans to join the Air Force and eventually work for the FBI. Green said he is also considering education and politics.

LaNee Bridewell is a sociology major from St. Louis and a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She is also a member of Mizzou Families Involved Together, the College of Education’s Parent League and is a Spotlight participant, a student family specialist and works at Club Hub, which provides free kids’ care to student parents.

She has enjoyed talking to other students throughout her time as a Homecoming candidate.

“I like engaging in conversation with people I wouldn’t normally get to talk to,” Bridewell said. “I feel more connected to the community.”

Her favorite event during Homecoming is the skit show.

“There are lots of alumni, and it is a culturally rich experience,” she said.

After graduation, Bridewell plans to eventually get her Ph.D from the College of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in student family advocacy.

As the parent of a son, Bridewell wants to win queen to represent student families.

“I try to live my life as an example to others,” she said.

“I want to show them they don’t have to sacrifice their dreams.”

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Black Homecoming tradition kept alive at Ball A record-breaking 1,367 votes were cast for King and Queen.

Madeline O’Leary Staff Writer On Thursday night, the Legion of Black Collegians held its masquerade-themed third annual Black Homecoming Ball at the Stoney Creek Inn. Black Homecoming was instituted 30 years ago, but the Ball was reinstituted only three years ago.

“We wanted to bring something back to revive the students and revive the organization,” LBC President Lisa White said.

The history of the LBC Homecoming is deeply rooted in the creation of a sense of unity among MU’s black community, but LBC Homecoming Queen Lauren “Lo” Grant said some speculation of racial separation between leadership organizations on MU’s campus still exists.

“If all of leadership on campus joined together to do something, it could be done,” Grant said. “We wield a tremendous amount of power as students.

Yet if there were things (black student organizations) could realistically participate in, such as the Greek talent show, then maybe we wouldn’t need two homecomings.”

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. member Sydnea Redwine said there originally wasn’t a place for minority students in MU’s traditional Homecoming celebrations.

“Today, however, the Black Homecoming Ball is more about upholding a tradition within our community than separation,” she said. “We’re working to get the whole Mizzou campus involved in our Homecoming.

We want to become more integrated within the entire Mizzou community.”

Aside from increased community involvement and campus integration, LBC sought to gain more votes as well as make

other changes within the actual Black Homecoming campaigning process.

“The candidates were not allowed to create Facebook groups for campaigning,” LBC Activities Chairwoman Kristen Andrews said. “They had to bring out their own supporters to the events, as well as attend three events themselves.”

LBC Homecoming Court Count Je’Von Adams-Walker said he has enjoyed the campaigning process.

“I’ve gotten involved more and I feel more prepared for life,” Adams-Walker said. “If you want a career, you’re going to be busy. I’ve definitely been busy.”

The ambient light and catered dinner provided a positive mood among attendees at the ball and served as a nice break from the busyness of the week.

“I’m ready to enjoy a classy and sophisticated night,” Grant said. “Aside from the parties and the game, this is my favorite night of Homecoming week.

It’s a big night for everyone who participated in voting. I’m excited to see people from the community in an atmosphere of elegance.”

Adams-Walker said he was pleased with the crowd’s appearance Thursday night.

“Everyone’s out looking good, which is a sight I don’t normally see,” he said.

“Normally everyone’s out wearing shorts around campus.”

After dinner, court was called on to the main floor where they performed a short dance and awaited the crowning.

With a record-breaking total of 1,367 votes, Brian Hamilton was pronounced LBC Homecoming King and Lauren Grant the LBC Homecoming Queen.

“I feel really good, and I don’t know how else to put it,” Hamilton said. “I’m excited for the step show on Saturday, and I’m anticipating being presented at the Black Family Reunion.”

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(Top) Senior Oghosa Lyame celebrates senior Brian Hamilton’s win as Homecoming King on Thursday at the Stoney Creek Inn. The Legion of Black Collegians event included food, a slideshow and a DJ.

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(Right) Senior Homecoming Queen Lauren Grant shouts Alpha Kappa Alpha’s “skee wee” after winning Thursday at Stoney Creek Inn. Grant was joined by senior Brian Hamilton as Homecoming King at the Legion of Black Collegians event.

Grant was attempting to hold back tears after her coronation.

“I don’t want to cry,” Grant said. “I’m ecstatic and I love it.”

Aside from coronation festivities, the overarching theme for the evening was unity.

“Sometimes we lose touch with our culture because there’s such a small percentage of us at Mizzou,” Adams-Walker said. “It’s nice to see prominent members of our community coming together.”

Homecoming Service Challenge exceeds goal Sarah Clancey Staff Writer The newest event on the Homecoming schedule, the Homecoming Service Challenge, met its goal of 10,000 service hours completed.

The challenge, replacing the traditional Homecoming 5K, was created to allow more MU students and alumni to get involved with Homecoming.

“Even people who aren’t here in Columbia, the alums, can still be a part of Mizzou Homecoming, and it helps the community at the same time,” Homecoming Steering Committee Adviser Carrie Bien said. “It was a way to celebrate Mizzou and the spirit of Homecoming.”

Additionally, Bien said students not a part of a residence hall, Greek Life chapter or other campus organization were able to participate by serving the community.

“This was a way for them to do something smaller, but still be

a part of Mizzou Homecoming,” Bien said.

There were many opportunities for both alumni and students to get involved with the challenge, Bien said. Many alumni groups held food drives or worked at local food banks while others cleaned local rivers or did a site clean up at Boys and Girls Town.

Two alumni members from the Des Moines, Iowa chapter worked at the IMT Des Moines Marathon on Oct. 17. Michelle Leonard and her daughter helped with the set up of the water station on the 21st mile of the course.

“We mixed Gatorade, filled many cups with water and Gatorade, handed them out to the runners as they went by, cleaned used cups off of the course and shouted words of encouragement to all the competitors,” Leonard said.

Even long-distance, it was important for Leonard to be involved with the Service Challenge.

“I’ve been a volunteer my whole life just like I’ve been a Tiger my whole life, so it made perfect sense to represent our Central Iowa Tiger Alumni Chapter and the University of Missouri for this Homecoming Service Challenge,” she said.

Hours of service were counted through an online submission form. According to Bien, those wishing to submit hours submitted their name, the number of hours completed, the group they completed it with, a description of the service event and their e-mail address.

“We will contact them through e-mail after Homecoming to update them on the total hours of service,” Bien said.

Although only about 2,500 hours had been submitted at the end of last week, the goal of 10,000 hours was reached during the first part of this week, Service Committee Chairwoman Emily Albertson said.

The committee received an

e-mail a few days ago stating the goal had been met, but they are not sure the exact moment it happened.

The sudden jump in numbers could be attributed to several factors, Bien said. A lot of alumni chapters’ and students’ events took place within the last week, including the Homecoming Blood Drive, and the organizers had hours backlogged that hadn’t been updated. Hours are still being received.

“We’re still getting more e-mails saying that more hours are being added, so we are way past 10,000 hours now,” Albertson said.

The final number of hours will be announced at the football game Saturday, though students and alumni are encouraged to volunteer throughout October.

The Service Challenge was a relatively quick addition to the Homecoming schedule, as it was developed in late July and most events were planned in January.

The Service Committee was in charge of advertising and speaking

to many of the campus organizations and answering questions through e-mail.

“It was a very low-maintenance project,” Albertson said.

The Challenge was seen as a success by its organizers, and hopes are high for holding this event in the future, especially as a part of next year’s centennial Homecoming.

“As more people heard about it, they were more excited about it,” Bien said. “Hopefully in the future we will get more alums and people across the country involved in the program.”

Bien said the Homecoming Service Challenge helped to reinforce service as a tradition of Homecoming week, just like the football game and talent show.

“When you look at the tradition of service and the values our students and alums have, we’re just finding another way to connect those values with the values of Mizzou Homecoming,” Bien said.