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POLICE INVESTIGATE PITT-SIGHTING RUMORS MAKE SECOND GRAFFITI MESSAGE SOCIAL MEDIA ROUNDS The Columbia Police Department suspects the message was painted by the suspect in the Hatch Hall graffiti case.

Students took to Facebook and Twitter as rumors of a campus visit by actor and former MU student Brad Pitt spread.

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Faculty debate diversity course requirement No vote was made on the diversity course requirement or general curriculum.

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Faculty Council’s overhaul of the general education curriculum culminated in a debate over a diversity course requirement Thursday.

The proposed course requirement has caught the public’s attention in the days since a racially-offensive graffiti message was painted on campus last week.

Council members remained divided on what this requirement could potentially mean for

MU. Some Faculty Council members brought up questions about the wording of the proposal.

“I think we have an inclination to strive for perfection,” Faculty Council chairwoman Leona Rubin said. “I think there are times that we can’t do that. We may need to say that this is a valuable thing to have happen, and we have to

See DIVERSITY, page 6

LEGION OF BLACK COLLEGIANS

LBC searches for solutions

Students and MU officials discussed racism on campus.

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Junior Ashley Anderson dances and lip-syncs along with her Alpha Phi Sorority sisters on stage during the Rockin’ Against Multiple Sclerosis event, Rock-It, on Wednesday at The Blue Note. The event aimed to raise money for MS patients in the mid-Missouri area.

RAMS preps for Rock-It finals The event is a fundraiser for the MS Institute in mid-Missouri.

SALLY FRENCH Staff Writer Rockin’ Against Multiple Sclerosis hosted the second round of Rock-It preliminary competitions to a sold-out crowd Wednesday evening at The Blue Note.

RAMS is a month-long philanthropy project that benefits the local Multiple Sclerosis institute through raising awareness and money. MU raised $78,000 for the MS Institute of MidMissouri in 2010.

Wednesday’s event was a lipsyncing competition between various fraternities and sororities. Participants performed dance numbers to popular songs from today and past decades.

Some routines focused on chore-

ography, while others focused on comedy.

“The atmosphere has been so great,” Rock-It Committee member Greta Bender said. “The fans just love watching the houses participate and their friend’s houses as well.”

Participating organizations have been competing against each other in a point-based system throughout the month of February. Points have been awarded based on amount of money raised, event attendance and community service hours donated. Wednesday’s Rock It Prelims accounted for up to 100 of the 542 possible points. About a dozen acts performed in the second round of Rock-It prelims.

“Every single act is different,” Bender said. “There are so many different themes of performances — Grease, PopIcons, Burlesque — the whole spectrum.”

Among the performers were See RAMS, page 6

KELLY OLEJNIK Staff Writer Representatives from several MU student organizations attended the Legion of Black Collegians senate meet-

ing Wednesday night to discuss solutions for racism on campus.

The meeting was initiated by the graffiti message containing a racial slur found outside Hatch Hall on Saturday.

Students and university officials discussed the recommendations created by a group of student organizations that had met Saturday afternoon to discuss the incident.

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Proposal would protect gay, lesbian Missouri citizens Rep. Stephen Webber proposed the bill to the Missouri House.

ABIGAIL GEIGER Staff Writer A bill proposing an amendment to the Missouri Human Rights Act to protect people from discrimination based on sexual orientation was re-introduced to the Missouri House of Representatives last week.

House Bill 477, proposed by State Rep. Stephen Webber, D-Columbia, intends to have “sexual orientation” added to the list of protections in the act. Forty-eight members of the House cosponsored the bill.

Webber said he believes the time has come to address this underlying issue.

“I don’t think anyone should be exploited just because of who they are,” Webber said.

The act prevents discrimination in employment, housing and

public accommodations. This discrimination can be related to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, disability or familial status; however, in no place does the act protect against sexual orientation.

Rep. Mary Still, D-Columbia, said sexual orientation discrimination is frequently a problem because the House has simply never passed a bill prohibiting it. She said discrimination in this manner should not be legal.

In 2009, there were 135 discrimination complaints in public accommodations, 188 in housing and 1,821 in employment.

House Bill 205 was also introduced to the House regarding the Missouri Human Rights Act. The bill, though, attempts to weaken current laws prohibiting discrimination.

Under HB 205, as long as an individual or group can show another reason besides discriminaSee BILL, page 6

According to the meeting summary report authored by Missouri Students Association President Eric Woods, the group that met on Feb. 12 came up with several immediate and long-term responses with the aim of promoting diversity and a sense of community on campus. The community will be

See LBC, page 6

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Res Life to promote diversity through videos CELIA AMPEL Staff Writer The Department of Residential Life plans to create a series of diversity-focused training videos for its staff, Residential Life Director Frankie Minor said.

The videos would feature interviews with students.

The racially-charged graffiti message painted Saturday outside Hatch Hall underlined the importance of anti-discrimination efforts, Minor said.

“Sadly, this incident has brought to attention that this is still with us,” he said.

Minor said the videos are not in reaction to the graffiti.

“This has been something we’ve been discussing since the beginning of the semester,” Minor said.

The videos, which would be used as part of Residential Life staff training, would include interviews with students on a variety of diversity-related topics.

Those topics include gay, lesbian, bisexual and gender identity and expression issues. Topics also include gender roles and stereotyping, religion and faith, disability and race.

“The purpose of this is to get a student perspective on these issues,” Minor said.

Minor would also appear in the videos to explain what Residential Life does to promote the understanding of diversity on campus, especially in the residence halls.

Throughout each year, Residential Life trains staff to promote a safe, inclusive environment. As part of Residential Life’s staff training, videos could be a valuable discussion tool, Minor said.

A small committee is working on the videos, which are in an early stage of production, he said.

Residential Life sent an e-mail to the student staff Listserv to find students who would like to be interviewed for the videos.

The department has also hired a student intern to help with production.

Residential Life plans to complete the videos by the end of the spring semester to use them during intensive staff training.

Giving students an active voice in diversity initiatives is important, Minor said. The administration’s view of issues is not the only one, he said, and not always the one represented by the largest constituency on campus.

“Students have, by virtue of their numbers, the loudest voice,” he said.

Minor said Residential Life would be willing to help fund ideas put forth by the Residence Halls Association, like One Mizzou Pledge Banners. The banners would be placed in or outside all residence halls and Greek Life houses to show students’ support of a diverse campus, an e-mail RHA sent to its constituents Tuesday stated.

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The Department of Residential Life is planning on releasing a series of diversity focused training videos which will be used in staff training. Residential Life plans to complete production of these videos by the end of the spring semester.

Residential Life already promotes inclusivity through frequent residence hall events and the FIG program’s diversity requirement, but Minor said the department would continue to expand its efforts.

“I don’t think you can ever do too much,” he said.

Rachel Peterson, a freshman living in Lathrop Hall this year,

said she often sees diversity-related events advertised through the residence halls.

“It feels like they’re trying to promote diversity, to make it more accepting,” she said.

Continuing to promote diversity and differences is important to ensure that every person on campus feels respected and safe, freshman Lindsey Wickham said.

“Everyone has feelings and everyone has a sense of self,” she said.

Minor said he hopes Residential Life’s efforts will decrease discriminatory incidents like the graffiti.

“Hopefully, by working together, we can reduce the chance of this happening again,” Minor said.

Social media spark rumors Mizzou Advantages awards projects $1.4 million in grants of Brad Pitt visit to MU JIMMY HIBSCH Associate Editor Mizzou Advantage awarded more than $1.4 million to 38 proposals Tuesday.

“What exactly the project is, varies so much from one to another,” Mizzou Advantage Program Coordinator Meg Phillips said.

“Sometimes it’s a research project, and then one of them is to get a new television channel started. It really widely varies from one to another.”

The program is a collection of five initiatives, ranging from “Food for the Future” to “Sustainable Energy,” all with the intent of increasing MU’s visibility, stature and impact in higher education. Tuesday’s grants will support projects that fall under these five programs, Phillips said.

“The proposals were scored on a variety of things — how well they fit in to the Mizzou Advantage, if they would raise the stature and impact of the university and the intellectual merit,” Phillips said. “If the proposal was clear, well puttogether and the goals were doable, it was definitely considered.”

The selection committee for the grants consisted of 19 people from different areas of campus, many of who were members of Mizzou Advantage, Phillips said.

If a proposal was selected, it received one of two grants: a network or a seed grant.

Network grants awarded up to $20,000 with the intent of gathering

people with similar skill sets to use the money to accomplish their goals.

Fifteen network grants were given.

Seed grants are intended to fund a beginning project that will, upon completion, lead to larger things, Phillips said. Of the grants, 23 were seed grants.

One of the awarded proposals will use sophisticated technologies such as nanotechnology to provide future advances in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer.

Nanoparticle-mediated therapy techniques treat the cancer at cellular level processes are consequently carry the potential to cure metastatic breast cancer. Mizzou Advantage awarded the team involved with this proposal – consisting of Raghu Kannan, Kattesh Katti, Kent Gates and Cathy Cutler – with $50,000.

“I am extremely thankful to the Mizzou Advantage program for providing me with this grant,” Kannan said. “We will utilize this money to validate the hypothesis presented in the grant.”

The Food Dialogue Center project was also awarded $50,000.

“There’s a ton of different polarizing aspects of food production right now,” project team member Ray Massey said. “What we wanted to do is see if we could create a center where people could go to that would have research-based information about all of this. We want to be a one-stop shop for unbiased information that covers all of the different perspectives

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of what is becoming a polarizing conversation in America.”

Mizzou Advantage was originally slated to give out $1.5 million in grants, but because of MU’s budget shortfalls, Mizzou Advantage contributed $4 million to MU. This will help cushion the $12.7 million expected drop in MU funding because of Gov. Jay Nixon’s budget proposal.

“Obviously, the entire university is going to be burdened with the cuts in state appropriations,” Phillips said.

“Mizzou Advantage is just bearing its share of the struggle.”

Chancellor Brady Deaton provided Mizzou Advantage an extra $400,000 to fund proposals with potential for major external collaborations and major components from the arts and humanities. An extra 10 projects were funded because of his contributions.

ALLISON PRANG Associate Editor Rumors of a campus visit from Brad Pitt, actor, philanthropist, Academy Award nominee and former MU student, spread via Facebook and Twitter on Thursday afternoon.

Early in the afternoon, rumors began circulating on campus that Pitt had been sighted at the MU Student Center. These claims were then countered by accounts of online pictures of Pitt in Los Angeles for the day.

False reports that Pitt was in The Maneater office in the lower level of the student center were sparked by the presence of a camera crew for Apple in the newspaper’s office.

The crew was filming a short video on the School of Journalism’s use of Apple products.

According to a Thursday article by the Columbia Missourian, the rumors of Pitt coming to campus were started by MU freshman Patrick Mulvihill and some friends, who were all members of the Sigma Chi fraternity house. Mulvihill had tweeted on

Wednesday that Pitt would be coming to MU, and what started as a joke between friends expanded further than they anticipated, according to the Columbia Missourian.

Sigma Chi president Harry Pettey said he had no knowledge of Sigma Chi being involved in spreading the rumor.

Student Ambassador Kristina Gentile, who was working at the student center at about 4 p.m., said she saw nothing but, like other students, heard rumors there were cameramen getting into a white Escalade near the student center.

She said most of what the student center had heard was rumors.

Freshman Steven Twidwell said he thought he saw Pitt walking out of the MU Student Center with a woman and someone who looked like they might be a bodyguard.

“He was leaving,” Twidwell said. “He was walking out. He got into a white Escalade.”

MU spokesman Christian Basi said he did not know if Pitt was on campus today and that the MU News Bureau is usually informed beforehand in situations where celebrities like Pitt make an appearance on campus.

Pitt was a journalism major with a focus on advertising at MU who left for California two credit hours short of graduating.

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Wieneke said The victim had reported that her ex-boyfriend damaged her car and was still outside.

She stated that Lock had come to the residence to collect some property and then grew angry with the victim.

He proceeded to rip her phone from the wall, as well as damaging the hood of her car when he hit it with his fists.

When police arrived, Lock was not on the scene, but returned shortly after, and was arrested and charged with second-degree property damage.

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2. SUSPECT RETURNS TO APOLOGIZE FOR STEALING SNACKS Monday, Joseph M. Bann returned to Break Time at 200 N. Providence Road to admit he had stolen about $20 worth of snacks a week earlier.

In an e-mail Columbia Police Department spokeswoman Jill Wieneke said Bann brought with

3. LAPTOP STOLEN FROM MIDDLEBUSH Monday, a student reported their laptop computer was stolen from Walter Johnson Auditorium in Middlebush Hall.

Weimer said the 13-inch MacBook Pro computer was stolen between 12:50 p.m. and 1 p.m.

Friday.

Weimer said the laptop is worth approximately $1,400. Anyone with possible information about the theft is asked to contact MUPD.

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1. TWO ARRESTED OUTSIDE OF NURSING SCHOOL Two freshmen were arrested outside the School of Nursing on Feb. 11 on marijuana charges.

MU Police officers arrested Curtis Mathson, 19, and Ryan Dix, 18, at about 11:30 p.m. on Hospital Drive.

“There were officers in the area on foot patrol near where they were,” MUPD Capt. Brian Weimer said.

Mathson and Dix, both residents of Dogwood Residence Hall, were arrested on suspicion of possession of drug paraphernalia.

Mathson was also charged with possession of less than 35 grams of marijuana.

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He admitted to being on drugs with a friend at the time of his crime.

His note detailed stealing 28 honey buns, a bag of chips, a soda and a pack of five doughnuts. He was arrested and charged with theft.

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dents on the phone and had them exit the house. Investigators interviewed the witnesses and have not yet identified a suspect or a motive for the shooting.

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TriCo votes on new officers, logo The new logo features colors of the LGBTQ flag and a black triangle.

MARIE MANDELBERG Staff Writer The Triangle Coalition met Wednesday night to vote for a new logo and 20112012 executive board members.

Communications Officer Kayden Prinster said the logo change was a way for current members to be involved in decision making for the organization.

“I want to make sure that people that are coming to meetings get to have a say in what is going on,” Prinster said.

Senior Keri Smith designed the winning logo.

Smith, who submitted different designs for consideration, created a logo using the colors of the LGBTQ flag and a black triangle. The black triangle is a queer symbol that originated during the Holocaust.

“I think that rebranding can be a positive step for any organization,” Smith said.

“The old logo was nice, but with a new LGBTQ center logo and website, as well as a whole new center, it isn’t surprising that TriCo would want to update their logo.”

The outcome of the executive board voting will take affect next semester, with Emily Colvin becoming the new TriCo

President.

“My hopes for the next year is that we continue to offer a space in which LGBTQ communities on campus can organize and grow, and that the opportunities associated with this space can be made available to more and more members of our communities,” current TriCo President Sean Jarvis said.

Outreach is something Prinster said he wants to see an increase in next year.

“That is one of the areas we have always lacked in, something we have never done very well,” Prinster said. “I hope we can continue to be a pretty big presence on campus.”

Another significant addition to TriCo is the Legislative Liaison position. Jarvis said he has wanted to create this type of position since he began working with TriCo. “I wanted to take the pressure off of the other executive board members to engage in the lobbying that’s a necessary part of any diversity organization’s mission,” Jarvis said.

Taylor Dukes was elected into the position, which will focus on legislative business between the organization and the campus.

TriCo plans a large amount of programming throughout the year focused on raising awareness.

Jarvis said his favorite memory of TriCo was the silent protest held on the Day of Silence in 2009.

“It was such an inspiring show of support from the campus at large, during a

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Candidates for Triangle Coalition treasurer Alyx Marema and Morgan Insley wait outside the LGBTQ Resource Center during the TriCo executive board elections Wednesday. Members decided on everything from the new president to their new logo.

period of intense controversy over the role of queer people at MU,” Jarvis said.

“It was an incredibly hopeful moment for queer politics at Mizzou.”

A large amount of TriCo’s programming occurs during Pride Month in April. Pride Prom and a drag show are two events that TriCo fits into its programming every year.

“We collaborate with the LGBTQ Resource Center to use both of our

funds to make it huge and extravagant,” Prinster said. “We really want to be out and about the entire time.”

If any student is interested in TriCo but has not yet become involved, attend a meeting, Jarvis said.

“You can’t find out if something is for you without having contact with it, and Tri-Co has made great strides in making and maintaining an open and accepting environment,” he said.

New student organization MU handles aftermath helps Rwandan women of Hatch incident Step Up! will focus on a group of women who were victims of violence.

JIMMY HIBSCH Associate Editor When graduate students Dan Kordenbrock and Roshani Mahadevan returned from their Rwandan study abroad trip with French Associate Professor Rangira Béa Gallimore, they came home inspired.

The result of this inspiration is the new student chapter of the national “Step Up! American Assocation for Rwandan Women” organization.

“Dan and I maintained a passion for Rwanda,” Mahadevan said. “He went back to Rwanda on an internship during summer 2010 and when he came back he didn’t want to lose the Kinyarwanda he had learned so Dr. Gallimore suggested he teach English to this particular group of people so he could continue to practice.

As for me, I am an intern for the national Step Up! and was urged and self-motivated to create a student chapter as one of my assignments.”

The national non-profit organization is based in Columbia, and was started by Gangira in 2004.

It works to provide counseling training in Rwanda so more people, particularly women, will know how to counsel others.

Additionally, the organization raises funds to purchase cows and bees, which are then given to the Abasa, a group of women in Rwanda who were all victims of gender-based violence during the genocide.

“The cows and bees provide economic stability for these women as they can sell the products of these animals,” Mahadevan said.

Mahadevan said the 1994 Rwandan genocide left many of these women with HIV and AIDS. Despite their dire circumstances, the women persevere.

“Rwandan women are full of inspiration,” Mahadevan said. “Currently, the Rwandan government contains one of the highest percentages of women in government in the world. This is an incredible example that many countries can look to.”

Mahadevan said the student organization will fundraise for the Abasa through local and campus events, including selling Rwandan coffee.

“We understand that not everyone can travel to Rwanda, but anyone could meet up with a refugee or immigrant for a small amount of time to help teach English or make that person feel welcomed into Columbia,” Mahadevan said.

She asks anyone interested in this plight to come to its meeting at 6 p.m. Sunday in room 309 of the Arts and Sciences Building.

“We encourage anyone who thinks they might have an interest to send us an e-mail or come to our meetings,” Mahadevan said.

Freshman Katarina Sostaric is one of these people.

“I never heard anything about the population of genocide survivors in Columbia,” Sostaric said. “This organization will give me a chance to help women who are usually not noticed.”

Students interested in areas spanning teaching to event planning are encouraged to help the cause Mahadevan describes as incredible.

“An incredible amount of women in Rwanda are learning how to live next door to someone who was a perpetrator in the genocide, a victim or someone with post traumatic stress disorder,” Mahadevan said. “By aiding in the empowerment of these women, we can see them create the life they want for themselves.”

Residential Life has deferred all questions regarding the graffiti incident to the MU News Bureau.

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In the wake of Saturday’s raciallyoffensive graffiti message, The Office of Admissions is focusing on maintaining MU’s reputation as a campus that promotes diversity, Director of Admissions Barbara Rupp said in an e-mail.

“Most of our students and prospective students realize that this, like the awful cotton ball incident, was completely unacceptable behavior on the part of a very small minority of students,” Rupp said. “In general, the vast majority of our students, staff and faculty embrace the growing diversity on campus.”

Despite last year’s cotton ball incident, minority enrollment increased this year.

Rupp said this was due to MU’s prevailing image as a diverse learning environment.

“We hope that prospective students and their families will judge the atmosphere and openness to diversity of our campus of 31,000 students by what they personally see and witness, rather than the abhorrent actions of one or even a handful of students,” Rupp said.

Residential Life Director Frankie Minor said the incident was in complete contradiction with the university’s values and that Residential Life is working to continue promoting diversity in the face of the incident.

“This incident was an affront to the entire campus and the institutional values which are inscribed in bronze on the Francis Quadrangle,” Minor said. “The staff of Residential Life supports efforts of students and institutional leaders to make the campus, and its residence halls and apartments, inclusive and welcom-

ing environments for all members of our community.”

Despite the Hatch incident making headlines, as the cotton ball incident did a year ago, Rupp said MU is still a diverse environment.

“Mizzou in 2011 is a vibrant academic community that embraces students from multiple cultures, countries and ethnicities,” Rupp said.

Res Life phones went unanswered as the university worked to sort out the aftermath of the racially-charged vandalism discovered Saturday.

All media inquiries regarding the incident were deferred to the MU News Bureau, Minor said.

“This was not a Res Life incident, but one that affected the entire campus, so it was appropriate to refer it to the office that represents the university to the media, i.e. the News Bureau,” Minor said in an e-mail.

MU spokesman Christian Basi said the News Bureau handles media inquires so staff members can fully commit to handling emergency situations.

“Whether it is an emergency situation or a situation that is requiring a staff member’s full attention, we serve as spokesperson so that they are able to fulfill their duties and complete their job, and we are able to get the information to the media in as timely a manner as possible,” Basi said.

Basi said the News Bureau tries to link the media with the direct, relevant sources for inquiries.

“During non-emergency or non-urgent situations, we always try to connect media with the best source on campus for their stories,” he said.

Minor said responding to the incident was a higher priority for Residential Life than fielding the media’s questions.

“Given that this was a rapidly evolving incident, our attention was focused on responding to the incident, and not to the media, which the News Bureau was better prepared to do,” Minor said.

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DIVERSITY: Existing courses to fit requirement Continued from page 1 trust that Jim Spain and our colleagues will design a process for the evaluation of courses to fit the current social definition of diversity.”

English department professor April Langley did not hide her emotional investment in the proposal.

“Recent incidents indicate that we’re not doing a good enough job of that, yet it is noted by the American Association of Colleges and Universities that diversity course requirements actually have very positive effects,” Langley said.

According to the requirement proposal, one of MU’s core objectives is for students to observe and critically analyze the human experience.

The diversity course requirement would be implemented in the same method as the Writing Intensive Requirement, according to the proposal.

New courses would not be added, but a committee would approve syllabi of existing courses.

The proposal includes a list of cours-

es that could potentially meet this requirement. The courses range from Introduction to Black Studies to CrossCultural Journalism and Rural Sociology.

The courses on the list were a cause for concern for some faculty members and professor Victoria Johnson, who has led the general education review, insisted the list was not comprehensive.

“There are a number of courses listed, none of which have been approved yet, but based on syllabus are the kind of courses that would be classified as diversity intensive,” Johnson said.

Economics professor Xiaoguang Ni was one of the first to interject against the initiative.

“I fully support the motion that we support diversity, but I question what it will cost,” Ni said.

Ni argued the requirement was mainly symbolic, requiring resources to approve the courses, but not making active changes to the curriculum. Part of Ni’s argument against the requirement addressed the possibility that students would not actually reach out.

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Chief Diversity Officer Roger Worthington speaks to attendees at Wednesday’s Legion of Black Collegians senate meeting in the Gaines/ Oldham Black Culture Center. Much of the meeting’s discussion focused on the racist graffiti message discovered on campus four days earlier.

The proposal was not voted on, and the issue will be further discussed at the next Faculty Council meeting.

Plant Sciences department professor Bill Wiebold made some closing comments.

“You can make those arguments, but in my mind going to a university means

something different,” Wiebold said. “I trust my colleagues that going to a university is broader than just a degree in plant science. We have at least given students an opportunity to grow just a little bit and maybe in a few years the world will get just a little bit better.”

RAMS: Rock-It's final round BILL: Webber says

issue is 'generational'

begins at 7 p.m. Friday Continued from page 1 who performed a ‘90s themed number near the end of the evening.

“We’re kickin’ it old school,” junior Megan Frank of Gamma Phi Beta said. “We do this every year. We also participate in Homecoming and Greek Week, but I like this. It’s more laid back than other events.”

The sisters of Sigma Sigma Sigma have been preparing for their performance for about two weeks.

“With all the cheering going on, it’s great to see them perform today,” sophomore DeLyssa

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A lot of people live with this absolutely horrible disease. You put yourself in their shoes. It's important to help out, and this is a great cause that so many people can get involved in.

DeLyssa Allen RAMS Rock-It attendee Allen of Sigma Sigma Sigma said. “A lot of people live with this absolutely horrible disease.

You put yourself in their shoes.

It’s important to help out, and

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this is a great cause that so many people can get involved in.”

The event is significant on a personal level for junior Ryan Briggs of Pi Kappa Alpha, who has a family member with Multiple Sclerosis.

“It’s a good cause,” Briggs said.

“It’s fun. It’s important to recognize that there are tons of great causes out there we can support.

This is just one of them.”

The final round of Rock-It is at 7 p.m. Friday.

“Everyone gets so passionate with Rock-It,” Bender said.

“I love the atmosphere — just watching from the audience, watching everyone come together for the same cause.”

tion that is equally responsible for their actions, they can defend themselves against litigation.

Webber said HB 205 creates a “49 percent tolerance” policy against discrimination. In other words, he said it would make discrimination more legally defensible and make companies less liable for their actions.

The issue of sexual orientationbased discrimination is also being addressed in the Missouri Senate.

Senate Bill 239 strives to add “sexual orientation” and related phrases to the Missouri Human Rights Act. The bill was introduced to committee Feb. 9.

“I think it’s a generational issue,” Webber said. “Most people I talk to

think it’s stunning that you can still discriminate against it.”

In 2010, Webber introduced similar legislature to two committees, where it passed, but it failed to advance past the House Appropriations Committee. The bill never made it to the floor.

The bill was read a second time Monday, but a congressional hearing has not been scheduled. Normally, economic and more immediate legislation is given priority over social issues.

“I welcome the House to stand up with what they know is right on this,” Webber said.

Twenty states and the District of Columbia have already passed bills, which prevent discrimination in regard to sexual preferences.

LBC: Group encourages proactivity in fight against racism Continued from page 1 called “One Mizzou” and will include the hanging of banners, an online diversitytraining course for incoming freshmen as well as a creation of a central spot on campus with a diversity theme, which will serve as a diversity reminder to students.

The possibility of a diversity course requirement was debated throughout the meeting. Students present expressed concern whether the diversity course was a step in the right direction and if the diversity course was going to reach the students that need the diversity education the most.

“There is always going to be that percent of the population who is not going to learn, but we shouldn’t have a negative attitude about (the diversity course),” LBC Vice President Cidney King said. “If it means something to a few people that take the course, then it will be worth it.”

LBC Activities Chairwoman Kristen Andrews said students should become more proactive in combination with expressing their concern for the incident.

“Everyone is quick to talk, but there are no actions and no solutions,” Andrews said. “We are not making any progress. If the university isn’t working fast enough for us, we need to take it upon ourselves.”

Students present also questioned if the

NICK AGRO/PHOTO EDITOR

NAACP Chapter President Bryan Like looks over a copy of the M-Book, MU’s student policy handbook, during a Faculty Council meeting Thursday evening at the General Services Building. The council debated details of a proposed diversity course requirement at the meeting.

“One Mizzou” campaign would be enough to move forward from the graffiti incident and raise awareness about diversity.

“I hope the university sees diversity as

something that is important to them,” LBC President Lisa White said.

MU does not tolerate racism, and action will be taken on a case-by-case basis, said

Donnell Young, Office of Student Conduct Senior Coordinator.

MU also provides a bias-reporting mechanism through the Equity Office.

According to the MU Equity website, students may use the bias report form if they have witnessed or experienced an act committed against any person, group or property which a student believes to have discriminated against anyone based on some part of their identity.

Black Studies Professor April Langley, brought the reporting mechanism to students’ attention during the meeting. Langley also said no student had used the mechanism to report the graffiti incident or the cotton ball incident that occurred last year.

“I had heard about (the reporting mechanism) once before, but I didn’t know too much more about it,” White said. “But as far as being surprised that students did not utilize this to report the incident, I take that into poor account that students may not know that it exists. Therefore, they couldn’t utilize it.”

White said she would like to see the reporting mechanism publicized more successfully to students.

“I want to see students figure out how they want to tackle (racism),” she said. “I want the students to be proactive in any way possible.”

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MCI hosts ‘Eat and Greet’ with multicultural foods, mingling The event aims to unite minority groups on campus.

AMANDA CAPUA Staff Writer The Missouri Students Association Multicultural Issues Committee hosted its annual Eat and Greet, an event designed to bring the different minority organizations on campus together, on Thursday.

“The South Asian Students Association, Filipino American Student Association, Alpha Phi Gamma, Muslim Student Organization and Missouri Students Association, as well as others, attended,” MCI Chairwoman Alex Holley said.

FASA President Vanessa Mancao said all members of the minority organizations were encouraged to come. Most groups brought their executive boards as well as some of their general members.

“Everyone mingled together,” Mancao said. “It was nice to talk to people.”

Each group brought a food from their culture, Holley said. Some of the foods that were brought by the minority groups included Asian pasta salad and humus and pita bread.

“Everyone presented their dish, talked about what events they had and explained what they did on campus,” Mancao said.

A major topic of conversation during the event concerned all of the groups keeping closer contact with one another. The groups said they want to do better about communicating effectively with each other on certain issues on campus.

“We all hashed out ideas on how to stay in touch, and we talked about some issues affecting us on campus,” Holley said. “It brings everyone together.”

Mancao said they were all brainstorming ways of how to stay informed of what the other groups were doing. One idea was to keep in touch through a Facebook group.

“We talked about making a Facebook group for all the minority groups to join so we can all stay in contact and share our ideas,” Mancao said.

Through the group, the organizations would remain aware of what events the other groups were planning.

The Facebook group, if launched, would not only provide communication between the minority groups for planning events but also act as a means of discussing ideas to expand cultural awareness on campus.

The vandalism incident at Hatch Hall

PETER YANKOWSKY/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Senior Danielle Owens helps clean up after the Missouri Students Association Multicultural Issues Committee’s Eat and Greet in Stotler Lounge on Tuesday. MCI aimed to bring multicultural groups across campus together.

this past weekend was brought up but not solely focused on.

“We talked about what we can do to

bring awareness to minority issues on campus, but we mainly just kept it light,” Mancao said.

visit www.themaneater.com for updates throughout the weekend

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2011 — THE MANEATER

OUTLOOK ON CAMPUS, AROUND THE NATION A collection of top stories from student newspapers across the nation English-only bill proposed in Minnesota UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA— A bill introduced in the Minnesota State Senate last week would make English the official language of Minnesota.

The bill would eliminate any requirement for agencies to hire bilingual employees and make it illegal for most government business, including meetings and documents, to be conducted in any language other than English.

The bill’s chief sponsor, Sen. Bill Ingebrigtsen, R-Alexandria, said mandating an official language would save money and prevent lawsuits against the state for inaccuracies that might occur during foreign language interpreting.

“Folks moving into our country should expect to learn English,” he said.

Committee member Sen. Barb Goodwin, DFLColumbia Heights, said she would vote against the bill, which she said promotes “a populous right-wing issue.”

“It’s flat-out discrimination,” Goodwin said.

—The Minnesota Daily

By Michael Zittlow

Guns to be legal on Austin, TX campus AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE—The Texas State House of Representatives proposed legislation to legalize concealed weapons on public junior college campuses. Texas is the sixth state to propose similar legislation.

Rep. Van Taylor, R-Plano, filed House Bill 1167 which would make it legal for licensed handgun owners to carry concealed weapons on campus.

Both ACC administration and the ACC Student Government Association oppose legalizing concealed weapons on community college campuses.

“I strongly oppose efforts to allow concealed handguns on campus – as does ACC’s Student Government Association,” ACC President Stephen Kinslow said in a statement. “Despite what proponents say, the majority of public safety experts believe such laws would make our campuses less safe.”

Taylor disagrees; he says the right to carry a weapon should be freely given to licensed handgun owners.

—Accent

By Karissa Rodriguez

An interview with (now former) NYU fellow Nir Rosen NEW YORK UNIVERSITY — Wednesday, Nir Rosen, a fellow at NYU’s Center on Law and Security, resigned his position after making a series of offensive tweets that suggested that Lara Logan, a CBS correspondent who was beaten and sexually assaulted while covering the Egyptian protests in Tahrir Square, did not deserve sympathy because of her past pro-war stance.

What would you like to say to the NYU community?

I’d like to apologize to the NYU community and say that I regret my departure. I enjoyed my time at NYU and the welcoming and stimulating environment I found there.

You were defiant on twitter last night after your first two tweets got a huge response, but then apologized profusely this morning. Why the change of heart?

I was defiant at first because I didn’t think anybody could possibly take a few dumb jokes between friends seriously. I also had not yet realized the severity of the attack, so I thought it was just one more celebrity journalist trying to get attention for themselves. I apologized in the morning because I’m in the Middle East so I woke up and found that a mob had been unleashed at me and while some people were genuinely offended and thought I was serious, others in the right took advantage of the opportunity to destroy a voice from the left. I hoped to make it clear that I wasn’t serious. ­— Compiled by Lauren Bale, Staff Writer

Regional and national news with student views Reach Crime Editor Alicia Stice at astice@maneater.com and City, State and Nation Editor Steven Dickherber at sdickherber@maneater.com

DWI Unit sees increase in arrests during first year

TONY PURICELLI Staff Writer After a year of operation, the Columbia Police Department’s DWI Enforcement Unit has seen an increase in DWI arrests made in Columbia.

CPD started the DWI unit in December 2009, after receiving a grant from the state in October for two officers to work full-time on DWIs. “One of the reasons we were able to justify the need for the unit was with statistics that showed the crash rates in Columbia and the percentage of those crashes that were alcohol-related was above the state average,” CPD Officer Chris Hessenflow said.

This increase in arrests comes with a decrease in the total number of alcohol-related accidents with alcohol TONY PURICELLI/PHOTOGRAPHER as a contributing factor.

Columbia Police Department officer Chris Hessenflow prepares a DWI suspect In 2009, 123 such accidents for a booking photograph at the CPD station around 1 a.m. on Sunday. The DWI occurred. In 2010, that number was Enforcement Unit typically arrests two suspects each night. reduced to 110. Compared to 178 accidents in 2006, the number has sobriety tests. continued to decrease.

The department’s sobriety instrucHessenflow is one of two officers in tors still go to training at least one the unit. They normally work at night or two times a year to keep up with The total number of arrests in 2010 but have been known to patrol in the changing legislation, case law and by the DWI Unit is the highest of the afternoon, especially when there is a improved practices. last five years. large event in town.

Hessenflow said when determinIt is hard to say whether the DWI ing if a driver is impaired, he looks DWI ARRESTS BY CPD: 493 unit has been effective because it is still for swerving, driving in multiple 500 454 so early in its lifeslanes, speeding 400 361 344 356 pan, Hessenflow and even cars that 300 said. Other facto turn on “We don’t try to hide. We want forget tors, such as the headlights.

200 i m p l e m e n t a t i o n people to know that we’re out “People who 100 of the downtown here. That’s why we use a high are intoxicated 0 unit two years visibility approach. We want tend to not real2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 ago, might also people to see us everywhere.” ize they’re going Source: Columbia Police Department's contribute to the as fast as they are,” records system lower drunk drivhe said.

JOYU WANG | GRAPHICS DESIGNER Chris Hessenflow ing rate.

The DWI unit CPD Officer The true effect began using SUVs This is an ethical issue, according to of the DWI unit with highly reflec- Hessenflow. will become clear during the next few tive graphics to help it stand out to The officer said patrol officers don’t years. drivers. always have time to take care of DWIs “I’ve had plenty of taxi drivers tell “We don’t try to hide,” Hessenflow because they might end up with 12 me their business has gone up since we said. “We want people to know that calls waiting at any time. The DWI started,” Hessenflow said. “I see that as we’re out here. That’s why we use unit helps to handle this load. a good sign.” a high visibility approach. We want “If we can decrease the number of Members of the DWI unit become people to see us everywhere.” alcohol-related accidents and deaths, drug recognition experts through a He said studies have found the larg- I think that will be the measure of our two-week class. est deterrent to drunk driving is the success,” he said.

The DRE process teaches officers to fear of being caught. narrow down what type of drugs might Hessenflow said, contrary to popuVisit themaneater.com for a have been used by a person based on lar belief, the DWI unit will not simply slideshow of a DWI arrest. their pulse, blood pressure, pupil sizes wait outside bars for drunk people to and level of impairment on various enter their cars.

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Man suspected of stabbing victim, urinating on dog At about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, “He actually came out of a business Columbia police officers were called to an there nearby with his dog,” CPD spokesalley between Ninth and Tenth Streets in woman Jill Wieneke said. downtown Columbia to attend to a man that Weir happened to be urinating in the was stabbed, accordsame alley and then ing to a Columbia urinated on the Police Department (The officers) just did a really victim’s dog and new release. angry when good job of listening on the radio became The victim was the victim confronttaken to the hospital and finding him really quickly. ed Weir about the to be treated for non- Sometimes, officers are just in incident, the news life threatening inju- the right place at the right time.” release stated. Weir ries. Police identified then stabbed the as Deanthony Weir, victim in his abdoJill Wieneke 26, as a suspect. He men and left the CPD spokeswoman was arrested on susscene. Seven minpicion of first-degree utes after Weir fled assault. he was found on the corner of Ninth and The victim, 36, went into the alley to Locust and officers took him into custody take his dog out. without incident, the news release stated.

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“I think there were some cops that were lucky, because the ones that actually found him weren’t exactly downtown officers,” Wieneke said. “They just did a really great job of listening to the radio and finding him really quickly. Sometimes, officers are just in the right place at the right time.”

Wieneke said she does not know the condition of the victim who was transported to the hospital following the incident. She said CPD typically only follow-ups on medical issues if the injuries are life threatening. Even with the other stabbing this week, Wieneke said there is not a pattern to stabbings.

“I don’t think there’s really any set pattern to it,” Wieneke said. “It seems like lately that’s been the assault of choice.”

—Allison Prang, associate editor

MOVE

VOLUME 9, ISSUE 17

THE KEY TO YOUR ENTERTAINMENT

Josh Blue * The Last Coming Standing winner shared why he chooses to incorporate jabs at his cerebral palsy into his stand-up routine.

IN THIS ISSUE

O GIANT MAN

indie + The rockers

talk about a recent recording that could be their "big break."

EXPLORING COMO SMOKE SHOPS

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MOVE visited Eye Candy, Aardvarx, Retro Active and Dreams.

HOLY BOOKS, LAURA BATMAN!: JANSEN

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town looks to recreate to publish the fame undiscovered she found Columbian in Holland in authors. the United States.

PREVIEW

Movie musings

Josh Blue satirizes his cerebral palsy

LAUREN HUMMEL movie columnist

Rabbit Hole' illustrates the journey of grief There’s a general consensus that the loss of a loved one is one of the most devastating and confusing times in a person’s life. In terms of mourning, one could proceed to grieve through the known five stages or simply in whichever way is most endurable. In Howie and Becca’s case, however, we are reminded that all people, no matter the circumstance, grieve in different ways.

In "Rabbit Hole," we focus on Howie (Aaron Eckhart) and Becca (Nicole Kidman), a prosperous couple, more than able to provide for a large family and furnish their home to the likes of a "Pottery Barn" spread. But the death of their 4-year-old r e v i e w untimely son Danny changes their entire RABBIT world.

They begin attending group HOLE therapy meetings for couples DIRECTOR: JOHN who have suffered a similar loss.

L CAMERON MITCHEL Becca finds the sessions utterly FEATURING:NICOLE ridiculous, and Howie adamantly T, HAR ECK KIDMAN, AARON tries to seek solace from them.

T WES NE DIAN Both seem to be on differRATING: PG-13 ent wavelengths, dealing with 1 E: TIM ING NN RU Danny’s death through opposS HOUR, 31 MINUTE ing methods. of 5 While Howie strives to keep the memory of Danny alive through tangible things, Becca hastily suggests the pair sell their home and begin anew. Howie wants nothing to do with the teenage boy who struck Danny with his car.

Becca decides reach out to the boy named Jason (Miles Teller), without her husband’s knowledge. Soon, Becca and Jason begin meeting regularly in an effort to get to know each other better. She doesn’t blame him, reiterating it was nobody’s fault, but the mutual guilt lingers overhead.

In what could have easily been a role depicting an icily dejected woman mourning the loss of her child, Kidman is nurturing and simplistic. Surely, this is one of her best performances to date, as we are so used to witnessing the accentuation of her svelte and striking demeanor onscreen.

Eckhart, too, elongates his range as a conflicted father, consumed with the uncertainty of his and Becca’s future. But Kidman performs with ease, demonstrating veracity that acutely embodies the complexity of the guilt and confusion Danny’s death has generated.

Adapted from the play by David Lindsay-Abaire, “Rabbit Hole” delves deep into one family’s dynamic amidst an unthinkable occurrence.

It’s tragic and morose, but at the same time, the story incorporates humor in peculiar situations, perhaps in an effort to emulate the erratic emotions Howie and Becca experience. In a subtle way, the film is a therapy session in itself, immersing the audience in the couple’s grief and teaching them there is no concrete solution to a problem such as this.

In a scene where Jason shows Becca his comic book entitled “Rabbit Hole,” he suggests the possible existence of parallel universes, places in which we exist with different lives.

Becca likes the idea; she would be happy in another universe, free of pain and sadness. So she holds onto that notion as she progresses in reality, but maybe one day, she and Howie could be happy in reality, too.

“Rabbit Hole” opens Friday at Ragtag Cinema.

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NBC’s Last Comic Standing winner Josh Blue describes his humor as dry and sarcastic. Like many other successful comedians, he keeps his audiences laughing. But the similarities stop there.

Blue’s humor is unique and his struggle with cerebral palsy creates even more unique material.

By satirizing his disease throughout much of his show, he hopes to change people’s views about others with disabilities.

“I think it definitely has given me an edge. I’m not just another goofy white guy,” he said. “I just think it’s so cool to be able to bring a new perspective on disabilities to people, and I hope when you leave my show, you have a different understanding about disabled people.”

Winning Last Comic Standing in 2006 accelerated Blue’s comedic accomplishments, taking him from a popular local stand-up act to national acclaim.

“What an amazing experience the whole thing was,” he said. “I just made people laugh and being the winner of making people laugh is a really cool feeling.”

Blue has performed at more than 1,000 venues, and his favorite city to tour,he said, is his hometown of Denver.

But he is no stranger to

performing in front of college students, finding that college students get his humor much better than any other group.

At his show in Columbia, Blue has new material to perform that’s he really looking forward to.

“I really found myself a new voice and I feel very reinvigorated with it,” he said. “It’s exciting to be doing it.”

Although much of his performance will be previously scripted, about 10 percent will be completely improvised.

“I truly don’t know what’s going to happen until I get there,” Blue said. “I hope it’ll be funny and that the audience likes it. I haven’t had a bad show yet.”

In addition to comedy, Blue has many other hobbies. He competed in Athens as part of the 2004 Paralympics soccer team and also loves to create artwork.

His favorite thing to do though, is to be a good dad to his two children, Simon and Seika.

“What’s cool about performing is that when I’m gone touring, I miss them, but when I’m home, I’m home and I don’t have to work all day, and I can just spend all day with them,” he said.

Blue loves performing to a small, intimate audience, like that at Deja Vu.

Courtesy of Meredith Trotter

“I’m very excited about performing there,” he said. “I love being able to do what I love and make people laugh, and when you put my cerebral palsy into the limelight, it really helps. I get

lots of comments and people stop me, thank me for bringing attention to this disability. It’s pretty awesome.” kristen herhold | staff writer

PREVIEW

O Giant Man looks for breakthrough There is a certain moment in a band’s life that signifies its big break. For the Kansas City indie rock band O Giant Man, that moment might be its recent stop at Rock Island, Ill.’s legendary Daytrotter studios.

“It was awesome,” bassist Jake Schulenberg said. “It was the coolest experience we have had so far as a band. We were in the same studio as these huge bands we look up to.”

Daytrotter, which distributes all its music for free on its website, has recorded songs for indie heavyweights, such as Vampire Weekend, Rogue Wave and Bon Iver. But, unlike those bands, O Giant Man is more like David than Goliath.

The group began while the members were in high school and lead singer and guitarist Christopher Robbins was playing with drummer Andy Wendling as an acoustic guitarist and drummer duet. The next piece was

added during college.

“I transferred schools to Northwest Missouri State and I was asked to play a little gathering,” Robbins said. “It was kind of odd to just play acoustic guitar and drums.”

They solved that problem when the group added Jake Schulenber, who was playing in a metal band at the time, on bass. The group experienced a couple more line-up changes before finding Jake’s brother, multi-instrumentalist Rick Schulenberg, to complete the quartet.

Even in its short life, O Giant Man’s sound has changed dramatically.

“For the first seven or eight months we played together, I only played acoustic guitar, so we had a loungey feel,” Robbins said.

But as the group added more members, the influences of all the members mixed and molded.

“One of the things we prided ourselves on was that we don’t sound like anyone else,” Robbins said. “Something that people have trouble with is pegging our influences.”

The band does have a sound, of course. Its single “Decisions” starts off with harmonized singing, reminiscent of Fleet Foxes, and their song “Wait, Wait” is a poppy indie rock hit that deserves a music video and heavy air play. But Robbins will be the first to ward off comparisons.

“We really don’t want to sound like anybody,” Robbins said.

The group said its first album, Everybody Knows I’m Just an Animal, sounds a lot different than its new singles.

“I’m proud we did (Everybody Knows I’m Just an Animal), and it was almost premature, but it’s good to know where we were,” Wendling said. “That let us know that we

weren’t ready” The group’s new producer Michael Stout helped the group narrow its sound down for its new singles. The singles are available for free download through its Bandcamp page.

The sky is the limit for the group, and although it doesn’t seem to have any intentions of becoming the next U2, it does have goals.

“My biggest goal, what I would love to see happen, is to go Europe,” Schulenberg said.

Wendling wants to feed the addiction of music more than anything. “I’m just looking for anyway to make money to support this habit,” he said, with a laugh. “I don’t care about getting huge, I just want to play and have it mean something to people and have it grow. I want to mean something." pierce courchaine | associate editor

MOVE HIGHLIGHTS (ALBUM RELEASE) KING OF LIMBS (DIGITAL RELEASE), RADIOHEAD

RELEASE DATE: SATURDAY, FEB. 19

Supporters of Radiohead’s innovative 2008 move — allowing the user to choose the price they would like to pay for their seventh studio album In Rainbows — might be a little disappointed to know the UK rockers’ newest work will come at a price.

Available for purchasable download Saturday, King of Limbs promises to be worth it.

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(MOVIE RELEASE) “FOUR LIONS” RELEASE DATE: FRIDAY, FEB. 18 LOCATION: RAGTAG CINEMA, 10 HITT ST.

“Four Lions” has the makings of every comedic crew: the hey-that-guy-could-be-me leader of the group, his dopy sidekick, the genius friend and the downright crazy tagalong. But, this group’s goal is a little unique. They want to orchestrate a large-scale terrorist attack on the London Marathon. Quirky, powerful and controversial, “Four Lions” is gathering a lot of buzz.

(EVENT) POLAR PLUNGE 2011 TIME: 2 P.M. DATE: SATURDAY, FEB. 19 LOCATION: STEPHENS LAKE PARK, 2001 E. BROADWAY TICKETS: PARTICIPANTS MUST RAISE $50 FOR SPECIAL

(EVENT) VAGINA MONOLOGUES TIME: 7 P.M. DATE: SATURDAY, FEB. 19 LOCATION: JESSE HALL AUDITORIUM, UNIVERSITY OF

OLYMPICS; VIEWERS MAY ATTEND FOR FREE

TICKETS: $8 FOR MU STUDENTS, $10 FOR THE PUBLIC

Punxsutawney Phil’s seemingly accurate predictions of an early Spring might make this Polar Plunge a little less polar, but no less entertaining. Whether the weather is warm or appropriately bitter, these fundraisers are sure to receive a chill, after jumping into the newly melted Stephens Lake. Watch for free or join in the fundraising spirit and take a plunge.

MISSOURI

MU’s tenth annual “Vagina Monologues” benefit show features a variety of shorts from nearly every theatrical genre, highlighting various women’s issues. Whether you’re in it for a laugh or a cry, “Vagina Monologues” is sure to leave you feeling inspired.

GUIDE

Fierce like a tiger

ABBY SPUDICH fashion columnist

Spring awakening Until recently, I shopped like a raven drawn to shiny things, picking up random pieces of clothing that caught my eye.

But this left me with a disproportionate wardrobe.

I had countless shirts made out of cheap fabric, which I used and abused for a few months, then donated to Goodwill or threw out.

I spent my high school years in fashion flings, but now I’m ready for something serious. This spring, I’m preplanning my wardrobe by choosing my favorite versatile trends, taking inventory of my existing wardrobe and budgeting for pieces that are actually worth it.

If I only had a brain If my boyfriend doesn’t make fun of me for it, I’m buying a big, floppy straw hat. Floppy hats are great, paired with sunglasses for a very retro look, and you just can’t beat the UV protection. Since a $150 straw hat probably isn’t going to hold up any better than a $15 alternative, quality is barely a factor in choosing an interpretation for this trend. Target carries multiple beach-savvy hats — my favorite is the Merona Tie band Floppy Hat in camel for $12.99, but there are smaller options as well.

Play full Although I’m very skeptical of this trend, I’m trying out a full-length skirt. I am not a fan of the new shapeless floor-sweeping skirts that, in my opinion, have managed to steal the joy from the flower-child staple.

Instead, try tailored, pleated, flare skirts that hit just above or below the knee. This look paired with a cotton button-down is a perfect conservative outfit for a summer internship, as long as the environment isn’t too formal.

Modcloth.com offers a very classic just-off-the-runway version of both of the skirts I’ve described, as well as other styles to play with. Look for the Recut Classic Skirt for $64.99 and Casting Shadows for $86.99.

If you’re convinced that floor-length is the skirt for you, go for one with a sheer panel, so you at least add an ounce of sex appeal.

In the nude One of my favorite emerging trends is nudes and neutrals. These are both flattering and extremely versatile.

While you can be nude just about anywhere (clothing-wise that is), my top priority is finding the perfect pair of nude heels. Nude shoes fit almost any occasion, and the color lengthens your legs. After searching tirelessly for the perfect pair of affordable, non-leather heels, I was rewarded with the discovery of Material Girl Trix Pumps from Macy’s for only $28.98.

April showers Getting trapped in the rain without an umbrella or raincoat is the best way to ruin your day. Instead of drenching a hoodie or buying the always-flattering black and gold poncho, invest in a bright colored raincoat.

Hurley’s Winchester Girls Slicker Jacket comes in seven neutral and bright colors for $69. My favorite is the melon color, which I plan to pair with the Lieutenant Wilson Girls Long Sleeve Woven shirt in seaweed.

Columbia smoke shops offer more than just smokeables On my free Tuesday afternoon, I decided to check out some Columbia smoke shops. Being from Kansas, I hadn’t scoped them out yet and was on a mission to find some incense and a tapestry. I was thrown off by the purple door at Dreams, but loved the incense selection. I did get lost trying to find Retroactive, but I came out with an incense burner and a new tapestry.

Dreams Located downtown, slightly beyond an easy walk’s distance from campus, Dreams is a small, dark smoke shop with a bright purple door and no windows. In the first glass case there are several one-hitters, chiloms and grinders. Dreams has a larger selection of grinders than I had seen all day, but most of them are plastic or wood, with just a couple metal ones. The store has a decent selection of basic colorful tube water pipes, as well as more extravagant 5-foot-tall ones. This is the only store I visited with a large selection of wood pipes, displayed in a glass case with red velvet behind them. Dreams also carries scales, with the cheapest one only $12.

They had a few fancy, intricate hookahs and a small sheesha selection.

The store carried various boxed herbal detoxes, which is something I had never seen and wasn’t carried at any of the other shops. The shop also carried posters, incense and it was the only store I visited to carry snacks.

Eye Candy

This tiny shop, located on Walnut, with convenient parking right outside, appears open and bright thanks to its numerous windows. This shop has a decent selection of average pipes, with a slightly higher price tag. Eye Candy has a huge selection of the most intricate, tall water pipes that I had seen all day. They carry Zong brand water pipes that range up to 3 feet tall. To go along with the water pipes, they carry plenty of intricate sliders and bigger bowls.

This store doesn’t carry any tapestries or clothing, but they do sell a small selection of rolled tobacco products. They also only take cash, so keep that in mind before you get there. They carried some hookahs and hookah accessories, but very little sheesha. The highlight of this store is definitely the intricately blown glass pipes, ranging from insect-shaped to star wars characters. Kept in glass display cases, the pipes seem to be more for looking at than smoking out of, hence the shop’s name: Eye Candy.

Retroactive Unlike the other shops, Retroactive isn’t located in The District. The shop is located off Nifong and isn’t in an obvious location. Located in a strip mall with a Bob Marley tapestry in the window, it’s one of the most spacious shops that I visited, with the most natural light and the best music. It seemed like the main focus of this store wasn’t just pipes, but tapestries, all

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Pipes are displayed at TNT Glass Designs on Ninth Street. Smoke shops are located around Columbia and provide an assortment of local handmade glass. kinds of incense and tie-dye shirts, locations, just off Broadway on among other merchandise. The Tenth Street, it’s an easy walk from store had a lot of basic-colored campus. They carry a large selechookahs and more flavors of shee- tion of tie-dye clothing and some sha than I saw anywhere else. They tapestries. They sell incense, posthave a large pipe selection, bright ers, magazines and jewelry as well. colors and all glass with good pric- They have a variety of trinkets, es. Retroactive carries many storage such as little blown glass perfume containers, including ones disguised bottles and perfume oils to add to as soda cans, soda bottles and vari- the collection of items in the store. ous other cans and containers. They The pipe selection is average, it has also carry a decent selection of just about anything you could want grinders and the largest selection and they seem to have the best of scales, starting at $20. This store prices for basic pipes. The water was the only one that I visited to pipe selection is small, and they carry vaporizers, with the cheapest don’t have anything extravagant. starting around $80 and going up They also sell cigarettes and loose from there. tobacco.

Aardvarx Aardvarx has one of the best ashley lane | associate editor

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Laura Jansen makes a play for the states Laura Jansen’s affectionate pop music has just gone platinum in Holland. In America, she’s still squeezing onto the opening bill.

“In the states I feel like I’m going to war,” Jansen said. “(Everywhere I go) I have to go convince two more people that I’m awesome.”

Jansen is bringing her piano-rock to The Blue Note next Friday, opening for Joshua Radin and Cary Brothers.

Despite her popularity in Holland, Jansen is actually based in Los Angeles. But her father is Dutch, and she spent much of her childhood in both Holland and America, before finally moving to Boston in 2000 to attend the Berklee College of Music.

Eventually, after moving from Boston to Nashville and then to Los Angeles, a friend from Holland invited her to start playing overseas.

Jansen’s decision to take that step seems to have been the right one — she’s sold over 50,000 copies of her debut album _Bells_ in Holland alone.

“It’s been insane,” Jansen said. “It’s kind of like being really successful in one giant city.”

Now she’s trying to tackle audiences in America, an intimidating task in comparison to the less-than-burgeoning population she’s won in Holland. Her bubbly personality bristles with determination, though.

“If I play in a bar with 10 people, I want 12 people to go home with my album,” Jansen said.

“I’m trying to get everyone in the room to come to my side.”

And she’s doing that. Jansen might be playing to smaller crowds, but her intimate songwriting or her adorable, bright-eyed presentation is just as enjoyable for the audience.

“In terms of who’s in the crowd, music lovers are music lovers,” Jansen said. “I play in so many countries, an sd I think I’m learning that fans are fans all around the world, and my goal is to find them.”

Fortunately for Jansen, it’s 2011. The magical frontier of cyberspace has certainly done its part to spread her music to new ears. _ Bells_ reached No. 2 on the iTunes pop charts in Holland. She has also joined the worldwide army of musicians who tweet regularly.

Jansen has noticed the effects of her Internet presence.

“Yesterday I found a video of a girl from India who must have been around 11, singing ‘Single Girls,’” she said.

Jansen has her work cut out for her. She’s swimming in a sea overflowing with pretty faces and soft voices with keyboards. Although her sound isn’t necessarily inventive or genre-defining, it isn’t trying to be. It more than supports itself with its endearing nature and Jansen’s sincere delivery — that is, if sincerity hasn’t become too cliché a quality to aspire to these days.

“I know that when you listen to my music, I’m doing a very honest version of my life,” she said. “I’m a poppy alternative piano player, and there are a lot of us, but we’re each telling our own story.”

Tickets for the show are $15 and can be purchased at The Blue Note. robert langellier | staff writer

MOVE HIGHLIGHTS (EVENT) 100.1 THE BUZZ PRESENTS BANDAMONIM BATTLE OF THE BANDS TIME: 6:30 P.M. DATE: MONDAY, FEB. 21 LOCATION: MOJO’S, 1013 PARK AVE. TICKETS: $3

Local rockers Evidence, Under Red, Treebeard, The Breakdown and La Bella Charade will compete in the final preliminary round of 100.1FM/The Buzz’s Bandamonium battle. The winner will move on to the final round Feb. 26 at The Blue Note for a chance to win $2,000.

(EVENT) WAKA WINTER CLASSIC TIME: 8:30 P.M. DATE: TUESDAY, FEB. 22 LOCATION: MOJO’S, 1013 PARK AVE. TICKETS: $5

(EVENT) THE STONE SUGAR SHAKEDOWN TIME: 8 P.M. DATE: WEDNESDAY, FEB. 23 LOCATION: THE BLUE FUGUE, 120 S. NINTH ST. TICKETS: $5

(EVENT) TAPES ‘N TAPES TIME: 8 P.M. DATE: WEDNESDAY, FEB. 23 LOCATION: MOJO’S, 1013 PARK AVE. TICKETS: $10

The Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival will stop in Columbia on Tuesday in its journey to find the best talent the Midwest has to offer. Reelfoot, Richard the Lionhearted, Nifty 250 and Mary and the Giant will perform. Winners are decided by the crowd, so show up and support your favorite.

St. Louis funk rockers are sure to get you moving and grooving with their unique combination of rock, jazz, funk and soul. The band will be playing with Mexico, Mo., jam band Mammy Woolith

Supporting its recent album Outside, Tapes ‘n Tapes takes on the true meaning of indie rock. After leaving a major label to record on its own, the band came back with a newer, revived sound. Opening are Oberhofer and Richard the Lionhearted.

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Obama’s proposed budget increases education spending, caps defense KARI PAUL Staff Writer President Barack Obama announced his proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2012 Monday; a plan the administration hopes will be responsible for $1.1 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade. The budget focuses on goals for improvement in the areas of education, clean energy and infrastructure.

In a news conference Tuesday, Melody Barnes, White House Domestic Policy Council director, said the president cut funding to inefficient or wasteful programs while increasing funding for programs like clean energy and education, which he believed would benefit the advancement of America’s economy in the global market.

“The president’s budget shows how we can out-build and out-innovate other countries,” Barnes said. “In order to make those investments, we have to have the resources to make those investments--the president also believes we have to function within our means and take responsibility for the deficit.”

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said the spending levels suggested in the budget are above what the American population is demanding.

“The president’s budget reflects a complete lack of seriousness about our present fiscal crisis,” Priebus said in a statement. “If this is our generation’s Sputnik moment, then the White House clearly hasn’t gotten the message.”

Obama stressed in his State of the Union address the importance of competing in the global economy. Barnes said the president

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believes the only way to compete with other nations is to invest in education.

The budget allocates $100 million towards Obama’s goal of preparing 100,000 science, technology, engineering and mathematics teachers over the next decade. He hopes to recruit 10,000 STEM teachers over the next two years.

In addition to training teachers, the budget seeks to provide easier access to higher education for students. The budget promises $50 million in 2012 and a $1.3 billion over the next five years in funding to institutions that prove successful in enrolling and graduating financially disadvantaged students—a provision Barnes said the president hopes will help

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President Barack Obama addresses an audience on April 28, 2010 at POET Biorefining, an ethanol producing plant in Macon. Obama’s proposed budget caps Pell Grant awards at $5,500 and reduces military spending over the next few years.

to decrease unemployment by providing the nation’s youth with necessary job skills.

Funding for these programs would be drawn by cutting other programs and slowing spending in other departments, such as defense. “$78 billion will be saved from slowing the growth of our defense department,” Barnes said. “The education budget, however, is something the President sees as indispensible.”

The main cuts within the Department of Education include the elimination of government subsidies of interest on student loans for graduate school as well as the introduction of the Pell Grant Protection Act. The act would make permanent the current cap of $5,550 on Pell Grants, which the Obama Administration

increased by $845 over the last two years.

The act would not allow a single student to receive the Pell Grant twice in one year, a change from the current policy. Kalpen Modi, White House Office of Public Engagement Associate Director, said Obama’s goal of improving education stems from his bigger goal of making America number one in innovation.

“We have the most dynamic economy in the world, but we are right now in a race to develop and manufacture clean energy resources,” Modi said. “The president recognizes that we must find greener energy sources not just to be good environmentally, but to win economically.”

The new legislation would severely restrict abortions after 20-weeks.

facility and a state board, then have the abortion approved by a second, impartial physician.

Jones wanted to keep the proposal constitutional, and the 20-week point thus became the bill’s line between legal and illegal.

A 2011 study by the Guttmacher Institute said nine other states have laws requiring a second physician to be in attendance at a lateterm abortion and ten states require a second physician to approve such a procedure.

Late-term abortions, or abortions conducted after week 20 of a pregnancy, constitute less than 1 percent of all abortions in the United States.

Rep. Mary Still, D-Columbia, does not support the proposed bill and believes the issue of abortion goes beyond the political stage.

“The thing that we all need to agree on, Republicans and Democrats, is to have sciencebased sex education, and to support access to contraception,” Still said. “If you really and truly want to reduce abortions, you’d have to provide the other two.”

Sumners said there are less than 40 proabortion representatives in the House at the present time.

After a brief introduction into committee, the bill was denied and the committee will not take a vote on it.

Sumners said there is a better and lesspolarized atmosphere in the Missouri Congress for abortion and similar issues, primarily due to good committee chairs. She says NARAL is planning to push forward for progress and is mobilizing their grassroots activists for support.

“I think any of these overly restrictive laws are infringing because it’s the right to privacy for a woman to have an abortion,” Sumners said.

Bill seeks to restrict Second graffiti message investigated late-term abortions This graffiti message targeted Jewish people.

JIMMY HIBSCH Associate Editor In addition to the graffiti left in front of Hatch Hall, the Columbia Police Department had a second offensive graffiti message reported Saturday.

In this message, the words “fuck you Jew” were spray painted on a car parked at 1517 Ross St., CPD spokeswoman Jill Wieneke said in an e-mail. She said the victim whose car was vandalized told investigators the vandalism occurred sometime between Thursday, Feb. 10 and Saturday.

Reports about this second act rolled in about 12 hours after the words “Nigger Month” were found spray painted on a statue outside of Hatch Hall. Wieneke said this led CPD to believe to two incidents could be related.

“The investigation revealed some similarities to case MU had at Hatch Hall,” Wieneke said. “The paint used in both incidents was similar. The time frame of both incidents overlaps as well.”

Freshman Ben Elliott was arrested Saturday evening in connection with the vandalism outside of Hatch, and Wieneke said CPD suspects he is responsible for the second incident as well. Elliott has not had formal charges brought against

him and the incident is still under investigation.

“There were no witnesses in this incident and no video, so the lab results will determine whether or not we have probable cause to make an arrest,” Wieneke said.

Evidence from the scene of the second crime has been collected and photographed, and now the police are awaiting lab results. Wieneke said this process would likely take several months.

Another car at the same address was also vandalized, but nothing racial was written.

The MU Police Department arrested Elliott at approximately 9:30 p.m. on Saturday. He was arrested on suspicion of second-degree property damage, which is typically a class B misdemeanor. Given the incident’s classification as a hate crime, the charge became a class D felony because of the Missouri Hate Crimes Statute.

“We won’t divulge how the arrest was made,” MU Police Department Capt.

Brian Weimer said. “That’s something that has to come out later.”

Chancellor Brady Deaton temporarily suspended Elliott on Monday, and he now awaits the student conduct judicial process. After this process is completed, the suspension will be lifted, to be replaced by a final sanction.

The Legion of Black Collegians met Wednesday evening to discuss the incident and encouraged anyone feeling threatened with bias, such as this, to report it on the MU Equity Office’s website.

ABIGAIL GEIGER Staff Writer A new legislative bill, House Bill 213, which would restrict second-term abortions, was introduced to committee in the Missouri House of Representatives last week.

Introduced by Rep. Tim Jones, R-Eureka, the proposal would restrict abortions performed past 20 weeks of a pregnancy. The bill also encourages stronger probing of emergency abortions.

The bill sets out to define the viability of a fetus, which, according to Jones, begins around week 20 of a pregnancy.

There has been controversy over whether the 20-week mark in a pregnancy reveals the fetus’ signs of life such as the sensation of pain.

In a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, doctors studied the fetus’ ability to feel pain. They came to the conclusion that a fetus has a limited threshold for pain before the third trimester.

“In this particular bill, it’s a sort of a wrongful presumption that any fetus would be viable at 20 weeks,” NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri Executive Director Pamela Sumners said. “It’s based on a factual assumption that could not be more incorrect.”

In a case of medical or life-threatening necessity, the bill would hypothetically allow abortions after 20 weeks. But doctors would be required to defend their decision to the medical

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Legal discrimination based on sexual orientation absurd In this day and age, it should be inconceivable to legally be able to discriminate against a person based on their sexual orientation. Yet, in the state of Missouri, it is legal to fire an employee, kick out a tenant or refuse service to a person if they're gay or even appear to be gay. To us, such discrimination is outdated, archaic and morally deplorable.

State Rep. Stephen Webber, D-Columbia, recently introduced House Bill 477, which amends the Missouri Human Rights Act to bar discrimination based on sexual orientation.

The Missouri Human Rights Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability or familial status, but (obviously) not sexual orientation.

We, as MU students, are Missourians. Many of us have grown up or lived here for some time, or at least call MU our home, and it's time we take a moral stance to protect our neighbors and fellow students who are part of the LGBTQ community. Twenty other states as well as the District of Columbia have already incorporated sexual preference as part of their anti-discrimination laws.

Yes, there is no law blatantly saying that institutions can discriminate based on sexual orientation, but the fact that the laws in place designed to stop discrimination don't include this equally deserving demographic is concerning.

No person should be lawfully discriminated against (or even discriminated against at all) based on inherent parts of his or her identity.

Our society needs to wake up to the fact that, just as people don't one day decide to be straight, the members of the LGBTQ community don't decide their sexual orientation either.

However, HB 477 has already hit roadblocks other than the anticipaed one which is the Republican-held Congress. House Bill 205 is almost the anti-477: it aims to, of all things, loosen discrimination laws. HB 205 would allow for a group or organization to discriminate, as long as they found another reason more than 50 percent responsible for their actions.

If anything, this law is a step backward from progress and equality in our state.

We would say that House Bill 477 doesn't go far enough. Yes, sexual orientation is a huge step, but we should press to include protections for gender identity and expression as well. This also inherently deserving demographic is not the same as sexual orientation (though lawmakers frequently confuse the two), and deserves equal protection from discrimination under the law.

In Columbia, we have three representatives who are typically easy to get ahold of and welcome the input of students. It's time to use our voices to support our fellow students and our fellow Missourians. No person should have to face discrimination based on whom he or she loves or whom he or she indentifies them self as. We have the power to construct our own society, and it should be one of equality.

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Today marks the 56th birthday of The Maneater and its service as the student voice of MU. The MU student newspaper existed in a very different form prior to 1955, the year a sociology major named Joe Gold took the helm of The Missouri Student, a newspaper whose name “signified nothing,” he said.

Gold swore the paper would serve as a watchdog for students’ interests and rolled out a new set of aggressive editorial policies that serve as inspiration for Maneater staff members to this day.

“If you want to keep us out, better bar the door,” the policy stated. “And don’t try getting rough or screaming ‘libel’ when a Maneater reporter crashes your meetings. When The Maneater gets mad, all hell is going to break loose. You’ve been warned.”

Below is the editorial policy Gold set Feb. 18, 1955: A newspaper has a personality of its own. That personality dictates the editorial policy, and the writers, from the editor on down, must melt their individual differences into the personality of the paper itself.

The Maneater by its very name cannot content itself with merely presenting the news. For a newspaper to attempt to walk the fine line of impartiality or to present both sides without indicating where it stands is to commit suicide both in circulation figures and in the minds of its readers.

The Maneater is a tiger with fangs bared and claws sharpened ready to analyze the facts and then to pounce. A tiger exists because it is, and not for one group or another.

The Maneater recognizes no vested interest, no political party, no group, no matter how powerful. As a publication of the student body of the University of Missouri, the vital consideration must ever be to the entire student body of this university.

The editorials will be aimed toward what is right and against what is wrong. They will be the results of a staff fitting themselves to the personality implied and evident in the vital name of The Maneater.

The Maneater is managed and funded purely through the work and dedication of its student staff members, who put in countless hours each issue to produce a product of which we can be proud. As always, we encourage you to contribute to the newspaper in your own way, whether that is through joining our staff by sending an e-mail to maneater@themaneater.com or by sending a letter to the editor to forum@themaneater.com.

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MU a place of diversity, acceptance The University of Missouri Council of Deans reaffirms its commitment to diversity, both across MU and in individual schools, colleges, divisions, workplaces and classrooms.

While the judicial and student conduct processes will address questions of individual responsibility for Saturday’s graffiti incident, we are saddened that our university and community have been subjected to such an incident. As pronounced in MU’s Campus Diversity Statement, MU must: — cultivate a welcoming environment for all members of the community; — reflect the diversity of the state by encouraging the participation of all who are qualified; and, — help faculty, staff and students, through education and example, to live productively and peacefully in an increasingly diverse society and world.

As an institution, MU must remain committed to respect, responsibility, discovery, excellence and diversity.

As individuals, we will continue to work to ensure that all are truly welcome at MU and incidents such as Saturday’s never again occur.

MU Council of Deans Feb. 16, 2011

Support organ donation “Enough people to populate a small city-over 100,000-are waiting for an organ donation in

the United States. Unfortunately, thousands never get the call saying that a suitable donor organand a second chance at life-has been found. It can be hard to think about what’s going to happen to your body after you die, let alone donating your organs and tissue. But being an organ donor is a generous and worthwhile decision that can be a lifesaver.”

— Mayo Clinic Staff Last year in the U.S. organ donors made more than 28,000 transplants possible.

Another one million people received cornea and other tissue transplants that helped them recover from trauma, bone damage, spinal injuries, burns, hearing impairment and vision loss.

Even so, the need remains critical.

There are currently 110,371 people awaiting an organ transplant in the US. Eighteen people will die each day waiting for a donor organ.

One organ donor can save up to eight lives.

As of Jan. 31, in Missouri 1345 people were on the state wait list for an organ donation.

The need for kidneys was most prevalent, with 1009 people on the waiting list, followed by liver (214), heart (68), lung (38), and other or multiple organs (16).

In order to address the nation’s critical organ donation shortage and improve the organ matching and placement process, the U.S. Congress passed the National Organ Transplant Act in 1984.

The act established the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) to maintain a national registry for organ matching.

The act also called for the network to be operated by a private, nonprofit organization. The United Network for

Organ Sharing (UNOS), based in Richmond VA, administers the OPTN under contract with the federal government.

The Missouri Organ Donor Trust Fund was established in 1996 to support the organ and tissue donation programs and to maintain a statewide confidential registry of donors.

The fund is financed solely from voluntary contributions. **House Bill 151, which I am sponsoring, will add a check-off on Missouri income tax forms for taxpayers due a refund to designate a portion of that refund to Missouri’s Organ Donor Trust Fund.** The bill also provides a way for those not due a refund to make a contribution directly to the fund.

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In order to address the nation’s critical organ donation shortage and improve the organ matching and placement process, the U.S. Congress passed the National Organ Transplant Act in 1984.

Rep. Chris Kelly

Currently, Missouri law permits you to make a $1 donation to the Trust Fund at the time you apply for a driver license, permit, or non-driver license, or when titling and/or registering a vehicle.

The Missouri Donor Registry provides an easy way for individuals to designate that they wish to donate their organs upon their death to save the lives of others at http://www.missouriorgandonor.com. Please consider doing so. It’s painless.

Rep. Chris Kelly chris@chriskelly24.com

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THOUGHTS? The Maneater received a smattering of responses on its various Tweets this week. Alex Pesek’s column brought in some fairly polarized feedback. Here’s the headline.

The Maneater: Blaming MU for graffiti isn’t the answer

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The Maneater: Victim struck with goose decoy.

Only in good ole Como....

— Rachel Duitch (RachelD uitch) via Twitter The Maneater: Love Your Body committee says ‘Be your own Valentine.’

I like this.

— Jim Pidoce (JimPidoce) via Twitter

On Facebook, The Maneater received several responses to the post linking to our story analyzing President Obama’s budget cuts and how they effect college students.

How is the “Change Thing working out for you now?

— Charles E. Dudley Jr via facebook The section on the Pell Grant doesn’t look good :/ — Jedidiah White via facebook And on themaneater.com, there were several, heated posts in response to Taeler De Haes’ Tuesday column on the Muslim Brotherhood.

If American’s can elect Evangelical, neocon, jew-worshipping wingnuts like Bush, then surely Egyptians can elect the Muslim Brotherhood.

— Jameela via themaneater.com Here is something for everyone to chew on, the most populous Muslim nation in the world is not in the Middle East at all. It is Indonesia, one of our staunchest allies in S.E. Asia. So rather than coloring an editorial with emotionalism and fear mongering, why don’t we keep it to a constructive discussion about the real problems. #1: The possibly that the new Egyptian government, no matter what groups come into power, may break with the Egyptian - Israel treaty and, after we spent decades propping up Mubarak, may break with the U.S. as well.

— KiplingKat via themaneater.com

THIS WEEK: How prevalent is racism among the student body? Vote at themaneater.com

The opinions expressed by The Maneater columnists do not represent the opinions of The Maneater editorial board.

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Tapping into our true, raw selves

Really enjoyed Alex Pesek’s column @TheManeater (did I get that right guys?)

— Robert Partyka (RobParty) via Twitter @TheManeater That was a horrible column... I’m closing my laptop now. Thoroughly disgusted by @TheManeater.

— Kamaria (kamaria_jasmine) via Twitter

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Lindsey Wehking Who am I? Strip yourself of the suit case, moving pod, body bag, kangaroo pouch or fanny pack worth of baggage; lose the growl you developed while being raised by a pack of wolves; rewind to a time when you happily had all your limbs and didn’t believe Manson was the next Messiah.

Imagine your Dad didn’t drop you on your head as a kid or that you were just you, not six feuding personalities spawned from years of isolation.

Strike from the record all extraneous contributions to your development and return to the only point in time that you remained outside their grasp, conception.

From the moment pa’s juice broke the force field of ma’s pre-packaged baby ingredients the universe shoved its hands into your tub of play dough with the ferocity of a child harboring extreme behavior problems.

As soon as its fingers even could just have been the grain grazed the surface, part of you of wheat that has taken on a had been changed, altered, or completely unidentifiable form, transformed in some unfore- and while I cross my fingers seeable way. that I was at least the six cups The ability of a single expe- of corn syrup, in reality, I could rience, a split-second encoun- have just been yellow dye #5, ter, a fleeting moment, or the simply tainting the appearance reacting and compiling of all of my environment’s product. the above A lt h ou g h to alter our the former being perprop o s it i on You are not more entitled plexes yet makes me f a s c i n a t e s than any other human being, cringe, it is me more and if your hand was dealt in effect a bit than when I any differently your life could irrelevant at heard a frat this point, I boy yell to have been a complete shitam already his slam- show too. a nasty, yet peice that delicious his hamster gives better head when fried, Twinkie. than her—is that animal cruHowever, I do believe it is elty? important and grounding to Should I tell someone? at least make the realization What exactly are the logistics that much of who we are today of that? is written by the mediums in He should get tested. What which we exist and only puncwould Freud say? tuated by our concept of the And returning to the point, pure self. god damnit, who am I? In the Often we take what I feel is purest form what was Lindsey too much credit for who we are Wehking before the universe presently, what we look like, made into her now (as tribute where we are in life, what our to the most synthetic item I can economic status is. conjure) Twinkie self?

When in all reality coming Maybe I was the fluffy but- out of a different womb, growtery breading that society just ing up in a different place or splurged their cream in, or I even experiencing a minuscule

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alteration or misfortune could have created a completely different reality.

When bad things happen we are all quick to pull the ‘well shit happens’ card, but no one ever says that when good things happen, we automatically assume it is because we deserve it.

There may not seem to be a whole lot of point in thinking about things out of our control like this, but I believe it affects our capacity for empathy, tolerance and humanity.

You are not more entitled than any other human being, and if your hand was dealt any differently your life could have been a complete shit-show too.

I am not saying this to void all personal responsibility, but to encourage a little more empathy in the world, challenge you, along with myself, to see behind people’s backdrop, and provoke more thought into your personal influence in the world.

You are affecting the people around you more than you might imagine.

So try to regularly make a positive human connection: just a smile on the street, patience in the line at the adult video store, a tip to your drug dealer and all in all a refrain from judgment.

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Challenge race issues, don’t just let them sit Steve Pan When we talk about fixing racism in the United States, I’m strongly reminded of the missteps the city of Dubuque, Iowa took in the early 1990s to “diversify” their city.

Like most Midwestern cities, racial diversity was not one of Dubuque’s strong suits.

In fact, the city had an ugly history of cross burnings and institutionalized racism since pretty much forever, garnering a reputation as the “Selma of the North.”

Census data showed that Dubuque was the least diverse city in the state.

The final straw came when a local NAACP official discovered the smoldering remains of his garage, along with a small cross and the message, “the KKK Lives.”

Dubuque’s well-meaning city council decided on a solution. They would put out ads in magazines and newspapers asking African-Americans to move

there. ential treatment.” The situation They touted the city’s good spun wildly out of control. One schools, ample jobs and safety. gent arrested for a cross burnPrivate businesses would receive ing told police he couldn’t have incentives to absorb the new- been a racist since “he has black comers. Things were looking up. friends.”

Except, nobody informed the I think Dubuque’s epic fuckup school district that next year’s highlights the difficulty in talkclasses would be much larger and ing about or fixing racism. more diverse.

Currently, white people and Nobody told the manufac- minorities generally don’t see eye turing plants already reeling to eye when it comes to race. from foreign competition they’d As a result, efforts to dismantle be expectracism have ed to hire suffered. even more In part, workers. it has to do As a person of color, my Nobody on parents taught me about with patthe city counterns of cil consulted racism. Nationwide, 75 persegregation or asked their cent of minority households where most n e i g h b o r s teach their kids about race.

Americans how they felt Seventy-five percent of white live in comabout one munities hundred black households don’t. that have families movless than 5 ing in next year. percent of people with a differIn short, nobody prepared ent skin color. a town harboring deep-seated Mostly, I think the issues racist tendencies that had only stem from differences in a handful of black families to education. begin with.

As a person of color, my parYou can imagine what hap- ents taught me about racism. pened next: The cross burnings Nationwide, 75 percent of minorcontinued. ity households teach their kids White people were upset that about race. Seventy-five percent blacks were receiving “prefer- of white households don’t.

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To paraphrase Tim Wise, race in the U.S. is like a book club where some of the members read the book cover to cover and others skimmed the preface. You simply can’t have a productive discussion when everyone is not on the same page.

In the past, minority columnists at The Maneater used incendiary rhetoric to advance a fair point: that racism still exists in society and little has been done to address it.

Although cathartic, I don’t think it’s productive.

At the same time, race is a subject that has been avoided for far too long on this campus. The events that unfolded this week and last year around this time show that.

We’re not going to move past it as a university if no work is being done on it.

You wouldn’t leave dirty dishes in the sink and then ask your roommates to “get over it” when they get moldy.

Likewise, although anger would make sense, no amount of shouting is going to get the chore done if they can’t be convinced to do their damn dishes.

Somehow, both parties need to come to the middle. And that is our challenge.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2011 — THE MANEATER

SPORTS Mike Vorel

Running the MLB marathon I will never, ever run a marathon.

If you know me at all, then you’ve probably noticed some obvious reasons for this. First, I’m unnaturally tall and lanky. This helps me in basketball, table tennis and reaching the cookie jar placed in the top cabinet of the kitchen.

However, it does not lend itself to running. Also, I have similar form to Bigfoot in the one known video of him, where he lumbers awkwardly into the forest. Thirdly, I have the stamina and endurance of a dedicated chain smoker. Physically, I’m a mess. But the other reason I’d never run a marathon is that I already run a spiritual one every year. It’s called the Major League Baseball season, and the teams are nearing the starting blocks.

The baseball season, possibly more than any other sport, is a test of a fan’s will. Games parallel the season as a whole — it’s very long, there are extended periods where nothing happens, and every once in a while you see something brilliant that makes the whole thing worthwhile. It’s a season with more ups and downs than the streets of San Francisco. Teams experience hitting streaks, no-hitters, injuries, extended slumps, steroid accusations, walk-off homers and shaving cream pies to the face — and that’s all before July. If the season is a roller coaster ride, right now we’re all on that slow, exciting, terrifying ascension to the top of the hill.

The truly great thing about February and March for a baseball fan is the undeniably optimistic feeling of hope emanating throughout the league during these months. No matter how unproven your pitching staff is, how many of your players left or were arrested in the offseason or how many games back you were after the first month of 2010, there’s always a chance this season could be different. Even the Kansas City Royals have hope, and that’s not something that can be said in almost any other month.

Of course, just like any other year, there are early favorites. In the American League, the Boston Red Sox are looking incredibly strong after adding the prized free agent bats of Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez, as well as strengthening the depth of their bullpen with the acquisition of Bobby “Supersize Me” Jenks.

However, they’ll be pushed in their division by the Tampa Bay Rays, who have a young, talented pitching staff as well as a “Retro Red Sox” feel after the acquisitions of Manny Ramirez and Johnny Damon. Meanwhile, the pesky Minnesota Twins should contend, as they always do, along with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim of America of Earth (I believe that’s their official title).

In the National League, or as I call it, “the Inferior League,” the Phillies look poised to dominate, having compiled one of the premier starting rotations in league history. If pitching really wins championships, look no further. Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, Cole Hamels and Roy Oswalt are all legitimate Cy Young contenders. And in other news, 5th starter Joe Blanton is a warm body with a pulse, which is all you really need to man the back end of that rotation.

If their offense holds up, the World Champion Giants may also have what it takes to make another deep run. They were virtually unhittable throughout the 2010 postseason, and with the entire starting staff returning Los Gigantes are once again going to be very hard to beat.

But like I said, although some teams seem to be more stacked than others, in February everybody has a chance. Even though I’m tall, lanky and uncoordinated, before that marathon starts, my chances of winning are the same as everybody else’s. So Royals fans, enjoy it while it lasts.

Reach Sports Editor Zach Mink at zmink@themaneater.com.

Tigers stay perfect at home with win over Red Raiders Missouri improved to16-0 inside Mizzou Arena this year.

JOHN MONTESANTOS Staff Writer The Tigers have not lost within the confines of Mizzou Arena in nearly a year. Go back a little farther and Missouri has won 51 of their last 53 home games since the end of the 2007-08 season.

With a streak like that, Tuesday night’s game was business as usual for the Big 12’s lone undefeated team at home.

Missouri topped visiting Texas Tech 92-84 to improve to 16-0 at home this year.

The Tigers improve to 20-6 on the season and 6-5 in conference, putting them tied for fourth in the Big 12. Texas Tech falls to 11-15 overall and 3-8 in conference, which is good enough for 11th in the Big 12.

Missouri’s leading scorer and junior guard Marcus Denmon had a monster first half for the Tigers, scoring 18 points in the first twenty. He would finish with 20 points after a slow second half.

Denmon is Missouri’s leading scorer at 16.2 points per game.

Coach Mike Anderson thought his team needed their best shooter to show up in this one.

“Marcus Denmon was

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in a rhythm tonight on offense, and I thought we needed that because we weren’t getting much production from our forwards,” Anderson said. “Marcus did a good job of moving and attacking the basket.”

Denmon was joined in double figures by junior guard Kim English with 16 points, sophomore guard Michael Dixon with 13 and junior guard Laurence Bowers with 10 points. English also led the Tigers with 7 rebounds and six trips to the free throw line.

Also lighting up the stat sheets was junior center Steve Moore who had a season-high three blocks. Freshman guard Phil Pressey continued his hot shooting from distance with three three-pointers.

As for the Red Raiders, it was their senior leaders who showed up in the road contest.

Senior guards John Roberson and David Tairu led the way for Texas Tech. Roberson led

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Freshman guard Phil Pressey tries to get by a Texas Tech player on Tuesday at Mizzou Arena. The Tigers defeated Texas Tech 92-84.

all scorers with 21 points and Tairu added 17 in the loss.

Texas Tech kept it close early until Missouri started pulling away ten minutes in.

The rest of the first half then became a game of runs.

The Red Raiders went on a 16-2 run to go up 38-32 with five minutes left in the first half. Then the Tigers answered with a 13-1 run to regain the lead at 45-39. A late surge

by Texas Tech made it 45-44 Missouri at the break.

It was more of the same in the second half as the teams went back-and-forth until Missouri slowly pulled away.

Texas Tech trailed by double digits for much of the half until they cut the lead to three with just over a minute left.

But the Tigers turned the 87-84 lead into 92-84 by the final buzzer.

Dixon explained how the visitors were able to keep it close throughout the second half.

“Coach called it a little wake up call,” Dixon said. “They have a couple of real shifty, good guards who saw the ball go through the hole early and that can give you as much confidence as you need.”

Texas Tech coach Pat Knight was happy with how his boys battled.

“I was proud of the way my guys competed,” Knight said.

“They didn’t give up at all.”

With two straight home wins under their belt, Missouri will now travel to Ames to take on Iowa State. The Tigers will be looking for their first Big 12 road win against a Cyclones team that has just one win in conference play. Tipoff is set for 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

Women capture comeback win PAT IVERSEN Staff Writer The Missouri women’s basketball team treated its home fans to a dramatic, 13-point comeback win in overtime against Oklahoma State on Wednesday night. But for junior forward Christine Flores, the biggest comeback of the night came much earlier in the game.

About four minutes into the second half, with Missouri trailing Oklahoma State by seven points, Flores was struck in the head by a Cowgirl player trying to drive the lane.

Flores immediately clutched her head, went limp and collapsed to the ground in a heap.

Play was stopped as trainers immediately rushed onto the court to assist her. Flores was eventually helped off the court, though obviously dazed from the incident.

“I think I woke up snoring,” Flores said. “I don’t even know what happened, to be honest. I wanted to come back in. I didn’t want to come out. I wanted this win. I think everyone wanted this win. I owed it to my team to come back in.”

She did make a return later, scoring 11 points down the stretch to help Missouri overcome a 13-point deficit with five minutes remaining. Flores, who struggled with a broken finger last month, ended up with 23 points and seven rebounds on the night.

“I was proud of her,” Missouri coach Robin Pingeton said. “She’s been struggling as of late. She’s really trying to do right. It’s

been hard for her to be out of the starting lineup. But she’s continued to hang in there and stay the course. They really hung in there and I’m proud of them.”

Flores’ incident was one of a few instances where physicality rose during the game Wednesday. Missouri lost senior forward BreAnna Brock to a leg injury a few minutes after Flores went out, and Cowgirl player Heather Howard was issued a technical foul after elbowing Tiger Sydney Crafton in the head. Pingeton was visibly unhappy with the officials, who issued her two bench technical fouls. Senior guard RaeShara Brown said the team fed off of their coach’s energy.

“You look on the sideline and our coach is going to die for us,” Brown said. “We talk time and time how much we love this coaching staff. To see (Pingeton) just continuing to fight and continuing to help us get calls and stuff like that, it just lit something under me.”

However, Pingeton downplayed the incident, giving credit instead to her team’s resiliency through the drama.

“I just think it speaks volumes about the growth they’ve had over the year,” Pingeton said. “Just their character, their integrity, their toughness. I saw a lot of good things out of them tonight in that closing few minutes and overtime. I thought this was a game they would regret for a long time if they didn’t find a way to finish it out.”

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Brown said the Tigers couldn’t get ahead of themselves while they’re on the back end of conference play.

“You either make your run now or you just lie down and take it,” Brown said. “We’re definitely not that kind of team. We got some opportunities ahead of us that we definitely can take advantage of. We couldn’t overlook Oklahoma State. We had to get this win.”

Now that they earned the win in dramatic fashion, Brown said the team would try to savor it while they can before they get ready to play rival Kansas in Lawrence on Saturday.

“You walk around with a smile on your face that can’t be wiped off,” Brown said.

“You enjoy it.”

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Music keeps Tiger gymnasts in rhythm Classical music is a popular choice.

RYAN HOOD Reporter There comes a time when many athletes wish for music to accompany an athletic competition, like a background playlist. Gymnasts, unlike most other athletes, are afforded that luxury.Although most athletes can only create playlists of their favorite pump-up songs to get focused during pre-game, gymnasts integrate music into their performance.

Assistant coach and team choreographer Amy Smith lends the gymnastics team a helping hand in the process of selecting music and implementing it into their routine.

“The song is something that should be feeding them,” Smith said.

“When I choose music and a routine for the kids, it’s one of those things where I’m not going to force someone to do a certain routine. If they love it and have a connection to it, they’re going to perform it ten times better, because it will feed them and enhance the performance.”

Each player has an identity of her own and personal preferences when it comes to routine music, something made evident after discussing the topic with the gymnasts themselves.

Sophomore Tori Howard performs to a variety of different songs from “West Side Story.”

“I’m better dancing to very showy music that I can smile a lot and get into,” Howard said. “It helps me get into character while perform-

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The Missouri gymnastics team cheers on junior Allie Heizelman as she flips across the floor at the Feb. 4 competition against Nebraska at the Hearnes Center. Unlike most sports, gymnastics incorporates music into athletes' performances.

ing. The music helps a lot because it allows you to really get into the routine.”

Freshman Taylor Medrea recognizes the importance of having the right music for a routine.

“The music keeps you on key,” Medrea said. “It’s all about staying on top of the music and hitting the

right poses at the right time.”

Medrea performs to dramatic, classical pieces that contain violins.

For her, routine music choice is a reflection of personality.

“It’s how my attitude is,” Medrea said. “I’m not really the hip-hop, smiley type. I like to hit hard poses, and show my personality off by giv-

ing judges attitude.”

Like the majority of the squad, junior Allie Heizelman also performs to classical music because it fits in with the tempo of her performance.And in addition to being a reflection of personality, Heizelman said having the right music playing can be the difference between

recovering from a fault, and that fault ruining the routine.

“If you make a mistake during your first pass you have to get back up because the music is going exactly the same as it always is,” Heizelman said. “So you have to dance like you always do and finish the routine the way you know how to.”

Missouri rallies behind Flores’ 23 for overtime victory The Tigers will head to Lawrence, Kan., to face the Jayhawks on Saturday.

NATHAN ATKINS Staff Writer Prior to Wednesday night’s game against Oklahoma State, the Missouri women’s basketball team spent its most recent stay at Mizzou Arena in heartbreak after blowing a 12-point lead to fall to Kansas State in overtime.

Wednesday was the same story with a different outcome.

This time, the Tigers were the ones leaving the court in jubilation.

In an alternative-universesort-of turn of events, the Tigers found themselves on the winning end of a strikingly similar comeback that made up an 11-point deficit with four minutes remaining.

Missouri capped off the comeback to defeat Oklahoma State 71-65 on Wednesday to improve to 12-13 overall and 4-7 in the Big 12 Conference.

“The girls really rallied around each other (and) said, ‘Enough is enough and we’re not going to go down. Not tonight and not on our home court,’” first-year Missouri coach Robin Pingeton said. “I thought this was a game they would regret

for a long time if they didn’t find a way to finish it out. They really hung in there and I’m proud of them.”

Prior to the dramatic finish, physicality and competitive frustration characterized the play of both sides.

Oklahoma State took a 33-30 lead to the locker rooms to close out a first half that featured eight lead changes and never once saw the score separate by more than five points.

By that point, junior guard Christine Flores had already established the game as her opportunity to bounce back with a team-high 12 points.

Equipped with finger issues that have plagued her all season, Flores played the part of the battle-wounded veteran in rebounding from a first half ankle roll and a second half collapse to the floor.

“I just put it all on the line,” said Flores, who finished with a game-high 24 points. “I said, ‘This is going to be my game.

This is going to be our game.

We have worked too hard to let another game slide from us.’”

Oklahoma State emerged from halftime on a mission to bury the young Tigers and until late in the second half, it appeared as if the Cowgirls were well on their way to doing just that.

Rough-and-tough defense forced the Tigers to be both frustrated and unproductive in

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The Tigers women’s basketball team celebrates its win over Oklahoma State on Wednesday at Mizzou Arena. The team defeated the Cowgirls 71-65.

an 18-6 Oklahoma State run that brought forth the Cowgirls’ largest lead of the game at 51-39.

That was when senior guard RaeShara Brown took over— again.

“There was a moment when we came together,” Brown said.

“We vowed we were not going to lose this game. It just gives you goose bumps. It’s something that really can’t be put into words.”

Alongside Flores’ consistent scoring punch, Brown (20 points, six assists) assumed her role as the team’s go-to player down the stretch of the team’s comeback.

After Flores’ three-pointer capped off a 13-2 Missouri run to send the game to overtime, Brown scored seven of the team’s 17 overtime points to complete the victory.

For Missouri, the win was another step on the path to restoring a program fallen on hard times of rebuild.

“This (was) the biggest game of the season so far,” Pingeton said. “It’s a huge win in relation to us trying to lay the foundation for our program and set the standards and the expectations (for) what it takes to be successful.”

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