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Tigers seek payback The Tigers are a perfect 17-0 at Mizzou Arena this season but face a 28-2 Kansas team. JOHN MONTESANTOS Staff Writer The Border War between Missouri and Kansas was born in much more than sport. The rivalry can be traced back to violent disputes with roots in the Civil War, with Columbia and Lawrence often at the forefront of this violence. Today, the competition continues through athletic competition. The Tigers and Jayhawks have competed in the three major college sports for over a century. Missouri holds the all-time lead in baseball and the two are practically tied in football. But when it comes to basketball, Kansas has the upper hand;
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Former Kansas guard Sherron Collins fends off sophomore guard Michael Dixon on March 6, 2010, during the two teams’ last meeting at Mizzou Arena. Kansas took down Missouri 77-56 in March 2010 and by a score of 103-86 when the teams met for the first time this season Feb. 7.
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MUPD is using security cameras in an effort to identify a suspect.
MU’s Office of Student Conduct coordinator say such a policy “could get complicated.”
The MU Police Department is continuing the search for a suspect in a rape that occurred early Tuesday morning outside of Laws Residence Hall. “We’re using cameras and anything available to us to gather more information about the incident,” MUPD Capt. Brian Weimer said. According to an MUPD news release, the victim said a man
approached her between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m., started asking her questions, then assaulted and raped her. The suspect, who the victim described as an older college-age male, ran south toward parking lot WG-6 after the attack. The victim alerted MUPD at about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday. “She was taken to the hospital for an exam, but she was not kept there,” Weimer said. Department of Residential Life Director Frankie Minor said his department worked with MUPD to make the rest of
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MU NAACP seeks zerotolerance on hate crimes MARIE MANDELBERG Staff Writer In response to the raciallyoffensive graffiti message left in front of Hatch Hall in February, the MU National Association for the Advancement of Colored People started an online petition to add a zero-tolerance policy on hate crimes to the
student conduct policy. According to the petition website, the main goal of the movement is to implement specific consequences for hate crimes committed on campus. MU NAACP President Bryan Like said this policy would act as both a reactive and a preventive measure against hate crimes. “I believe that if the consequences were severe enough, students wouldn’t get involved in such acts,” Like said. “Students will know that if they commit a hate crime, they will be expelled.” But MU Chief Diversity
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Diversity requirement vote to come in April The council also discussed studentathlete academic success rates. STEPHANIE EBBS Staff Writer Faculty Council discussed a modified version of the diversity course requirement proposal at its meeting Thursday. Recent changes included the addition of study abroad programs to fit the
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requirement and some specific changes in wording. The bulk of discussion focused on whether some study abroad programs address diversity and explore social inequalities. Executive Committee member Victoria Johnson is in charge of the General Education Review, including the Diversity Intensive Course Requirement Proposal. “It’s not as clear in terms of the social inequality dimension, but if anyone’s ever been in a different country there’s no way you can not get an idea of how fundamentally different other cultures are,” Johnson said. Professor April Langley has also been active with the proposal. “I think that we should define what social inequality is and hold all the courses to that criteria,” Langley said. Faculty Council Chairwoman Leona Rubin presented an idea to solve the disagreements about the
Officer Roger Worthington said making this kind of policy would get complicated. “If you introduce that into university policy, then you have to provide an adequate definition of a hate crime when you are writing the policy,” Worthington said. “Another piece would be if you say there is zero-tolerance for a hate crime, does the student have to be accused, arrested or convicted of a hate crime? You’re sort of blending criminal law with university policy.” Donell Young, Office of
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INSIDE PERFECTION
Sophomore Chelsea Thomas became the first Missouri softball player to pitch a seven-inning perfect game since 1991 on Wednesday. PG. 13, SPORTS
MISSOURI RANKS 10TH IN CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS A new study from the EPA says Missouri ranks among the nation's biggest air polluters. PG. 7, OUTLOOK
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Faculty Council Chairwoman Leona Rubin listens to questions from faculty Thursday at Memorial Union. The council continued to discuss the possible diversity course requirement and education standards for student athletes.
suggested course list included in the proposal. “One possibility is to have the list of possible courses as an appendix instead of part of the
proposal, because they are not approved courses but suggested courses,” Rubin said.
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Africa Week: “I Wear Africa” Fashion Show 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. N201/202 Memorial Union
Missouri Men’s Basktball vs. Kansas 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mizzou Arena
Mizzou After Dark: Mardi Gras Mayhem 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. N103 Memorial Union
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MARIJUANA
NORML panel calls for marijuana legalization MADELINE O’LEARY Staff Writer Spencer Pearson puffed two blunts of Mexican schwag for the first time during his senior year of high school. Pearson, the MU National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws president, said it was then he realized he’d been fed lies about what marijuana is and what it does. With four boxes of Hotbox cookies and a few dozen attendees, NORML monitored a panel discussion Wednesday night. Pearson and four guest speakers strongly urged attendees to advocate legislation in favor of the legalization of marijuana. “Now is the best time in history to change the current drug policy,” said Mark Pedersen, Sensible Missouri activist and guest speaker. “Get educated, learn the truth and share it with other people.” Much of the discussion focused around the drug policy in Columbia. Drug prohibition laws negatively affects the city of Columbia, said Mitch Richards, First Ward Candidate for City Council and guest speaker. Richards said 40 percent of the SWAT raids in Columbia take place in the First Ward. The majority of the SWAT raids are drug-related, Richards said. But, he said he believes the money seized from these drug raids is used to militarize the police force. The process of raiding a home
and keeping the findings is known as civil asset forfeiture, Pearson said. In the state of Missouri, if the SWAT raid includes a federal agent such as a Drug Enforcement Association officer, Pearson said, the law enforcement receives 80 percent of all assets seized in the raid. “(The police) don’t raid people’s houses to get drugs off the street,” said Pearson, formerly of The Maneater staff. “They wait until the drugs are sold, then collect the cash. They’re policing for profit.” Pearson said the problem with civil asset forfeiture is the complete absence of civilian oversight. Criminal defense lawyer and former Missouri Students Association President Dan Viets encouraged audience members to remain distant from police officers and to know their rights. “Don’t talk to the police,” Viets said. “They are not your friends. They won’t help you out, and they will still arrest people every day for smoking pot.” Aside from marijuana in relation to the law, much of the discussion emphasized the benefits of marijuana in medicine. Sensible Missouri activist and guest speaker Mark Pedersen said he became a medicinal marijuana activist out of what he considered necessity. While working a well-paying job at Ameren UE, Pedersen was exposed to high levels of lead and arsenic and subsequently became sick from metal contamination. “I was married, had kids, had a
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Attorney Dan Viets lectures students about their rights Wednesday at the National Organzation for the Reformation of Marijuana Laws Panel at the Geological Sciences Building. Viets is the host of Sex, Drugs, and Civil Liberties on 89.5FM/KOPN.
great job and a great car, but I lost it all because of chronic illness and the inefficiency of the medicine I was given,” Pedersen said. “I was taking experimental drugs for my migraines and lost my memory.” Pedersen later discovered the usage of cannabis for medicinal purposes. Hesaid he faced the difficult decision of either continuing to take the pharmaceuticals
Speakers address Haiti one year later More than 1 million Haitians are living in tents without help from the government. CHRISTINE SOUCY Reporter In January 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince. The earthquake left more than 1.5 million people homeless, and a year later, almost 1 million still live in more than 1,000 tent cities in and around Port-au-Prince. Valerie Kaussen, an associate professor of French in the Romance Languages Department was conducting research in Portau-Prince, Haiti, when the 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit and has encouraged students and faculty to donate money and supplies as aid for Haiti. “Haiti has fallen out of the news, but the humanitarian crisis is on-going,” Kaussen said. MU invited two Haitians to speak to the MU community on “Post-Earthquake Haiti: Housing Crisis, Displacement and the State,” Thursday night at the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center. Reyneld Sanon, a Haitian grassroots activist and a founder of Force for Reflection and Action on Housing, is putting pressure on the Haitian government to help the people in these
so-called tent cities. The housing crisis is growing as private landowners return and evacuate tent cities on their land. Sanon said often these “owners” don’t even have deeds and the people have nowhere else to go. He cited Article 22 of the Haitian constitution that promises fair housing for the people. He said the government has done nothing to help the people suffering under plastic, rags and cardboard. “Those people do nothing but go to the beach and rape women,” Sanon said about the current government. Sanon called for the denunciation of the spending and waste by non-governmental organizations and the removal of United Nations troops. He criticized Red Cross workers and religious organizations for evacuating the homeless from their land. He called the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund apartheid in that it only helps those few who were homeowners before the earthquake. He said he believes bigger countries have taken away Haiti’s sovereignty and names the United States among them. Jean-Germain Gros, associate professor of political science at UM-St. Louis, said the housing crisis existed before the earthquake. There are not reliable property rights or building codes in Haiti. Once someone found an open piece of land, he or she built a home. Engineers, archi-
tects and state inspections were not involved in most cases. There was also no living memory of an earthquake in Haiti. The people did not know what to do when they felt the ground tremble. Used to hurricanes, they ran inside their unsteady homes and were thus entombed inside when the houses collapsed. “The earthquake was the trigger, but the lack of a Haitian state provided the explosives,” Gros said. When asked about the future of the tent cities, Gros said he was afraid those people would never get off the streets. The tent cities of today might just turn into the slums of tomorrow. Gros said Haiti is a failed state. In essence, there are three parallel governments in Haiti. The UN, NGOs and the actual state government of Haiti. The country is stuck in a vicious cycle of failure. International aid does not trust the state with money so they give it to the 10,000 NGOs in Haiti. By withholding the money from the state, the nations are ensuring that the Haitian government remains powerless. The people trust the NGOs over their government because the NGOs have the money. The people are then reluctant to pay taxes because they do not trust the government. “You can’t rebuild Haiti until you rebuild the state,” Gros said. “At some point, you have to start trusting (the government).”
administered to him or become a criminal by breaking the law and smoking marijuana, he said. “I’ve seen the benefits firsthand,” Pedersen said. “We have this holistic substance that’s nontoxic and that can fight cancer, prevent seizures, help migraines — which I don’t have anymore — and you can’t overdose. I take nothing now except for cannabis.”
Toward the end of the discussion, the guest speakers urged activist support for the 2012 ballot initiative concerning the full legalization of marijuana. “You won’t change the law by sneaking into Jefferson City,” Viets said. “Lobbyists are not listening, and they don’t care. The only way they’ll care is if you do. All we have to do is act.”
AFRICA WEEK
ASA hosts ‘Def Poetry Jam’ performer Bassey Ikpi JIMMY HIBSCH Associate Editor Bassey Ikpi has been performing poetry for over 10 years with the “Def Poetry Jam.” Tuesday evening in Bengal Lair, she performed for the second to last time in her career as part of an event for the African Students Association’s Africa Week. “I feel like I’ m taking up space,” Ikpi said. “I’ m not writing poetry as much as I used to, and I also don’ t think my work is as good as it used to be. I’d rather put off quality than just do it. There are a lot of up-andcoming poets and now, they should be up here. Not me.” Ikpi was the featured performer among the 10 who performed throughout the spoken word night. Junior Stephine Nwaneri performed her self-written poem “Overcoming the Struggles in Nigeria,” the same piece she read as she took the crown of Ms. Africa Mizzou in 2009. “I wanted to let everyone know how things in Nigeria are,” Nwaneri said. “Everyone needs to know about how people struggle there. These are my personal experiences that happened to my family and I in Nigeria.” ASA President Patricia Vewenda said she was glad to see a diverse pool of performers, ranging from poets to guitarists, come to the event. Because of Ikpi’s lifelong friendship with former ASA President Doris Agwu, the organization was able to
schedule her attendance at the event. This was her first time visiting MU. “We’ve been thinking about bringing her in to Mizzou for a while now,” Vewenda said. “We thought it would be a great event for Africa Week, and it happened.” Born in Nigeria, Ikpi was a perfect embodiment of what ASA is hoping to advocate throughout Africa Week, Vewenda said. “The whole point of Africa Week is just to promote Africa in general,” Vewenda said. “ Any time we see someone doing something good in the African community, we want to promote it. Bassey always represents Nigeria in everything she does. We wanted to promote that. We wanted to promote her.” Freshman Symone Lenoir has seen Ikpi before on tour, which made her even more excited for the event Tuesday. “I thought she did very well,” Lenoir said. “ She’ s really down to earth, and it showed. You could tell from the beginning that she was great.” Ikpi began performing in college, after learning that poetry is something to be spoken instead of just written. Now, she is working on her first book, “Too Cute to Be Crazy.” “ It wasn’t until I went to an open mic in college, like this one, actually,” Ikpi said. “I was walking by and I had just gotten food and I was like, ‘ What’ s going on?’ I worked up enough nerve to perform, and I’ve been doing it ever since.”
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4. TRESPASSING SUSPECT ENTERS BUILDING IN FRONT OF OFFICER On Wednesday, after an officer arrived at Paquin Tower for a medical call, the officer watched Bruce R. Heinen enter the building at about 3 p.m. Wieneke said the site manager was present at the time, and informed the officer that Heinen had been issued a trespassing warning before, and was not allowed on the premises.
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1. POLICE INVESTIGATE VANDALISM AT GWYNN HALL MU Police Department officers are looking for a suspect in a weekend vandalism incident in Gwynn Hall. A Campus Facilities worker alerted the police at about 9:30 a.m. Monday when he saw a wall and bathroom door had been spray-painted, MUPD Capt. Brian Weimer said in an e-mail. According to MUPD records, the vandalism took place sometime between 5 p.m. Friday and 7 a.m. Monday. No suspects have been named in the second-degree property damage incident.
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3. SUSPECT ADMITS TO ATTEMPTING TO SCAM WALMART Serderia L. Robinson was arrested Monday at about 1:40 p.m. when officers were called to the Walmart at 415 Conley Road in response to a reported a shoplifter. When officers spoke with loss prevention staff, they learned that Robinson had been trying to hide items in her coat and attempted leaving the store, Wieneke said. Robinson admitted this, and said she was stealing the items so she could return them for money or store credit. She was arrested on suspicion of theft.
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Columbia Police Department spokeswoman Jill Wieneke said the victim said her ex-boyfriend was attempting to enter her apartment on Providence Road. When police arrived on the scene, they spoke with both the victim and the suspect. The victim said Bradley Haeckel, her ex-boyfriend, had been calling and texting her repeatedly and threatening her. He was arrested and charged with thirddegree domestic assault.
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ASHLEY LANE | GRAPHICS ASSISTANT He was arrested and charged with trespassing. 5. SISTERS REPORTEDLY USE STROLLER TO STEAL CLOTHING Crystal D. Martin and her sister Elizabeth D. Martin were arrested Wednesday at about 2:25 p.m. when officers were called to Macy’s at 201 Stadium Blvd. after store staff
reported two shoplifters. Officers arrived and talked with a loss prevention staff member, who had witnessed the attempted stealing. Wieneke said the two women were concealing clothes in a stroller and trying to leave the store. One had her five-year-old child with her. Both women were arrested and charged with one count of theft.
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Meet 'Faurotcious:' Contest selects name for tiger statue CASEY PURCELLA Staff Writer “Faurotcious” took top honors in a contest to name the tiger statue in the Reynolds Alumni Center on Saturday afternoon. Senior Sarah James submitting the winning name and won a $50 gift certificate for University Bookstore. James also chose a campus organization to receive a $500 donation, selecting Alternative Spring Break as the recipient. A four-judge panel chose the winner. “I think it’s a great idea to help support campus organizations,” James said. James said she chose the name because it is associated with an influential figure from MU’s past, former football coach Don Faurot, and because it described tigers. “I think it’s a creative way to leave my mark at Mizzou,” James said. MU alumnus Bruce Loewenberg donated the statue, which is on display in the entrance to Reynolds Alumni Center. Until recently, the statue was on loan from Loewenberg. “He’s been there for maybe 10 or 12, 15 years,” he said. Mizzou Alumni Association now owns the statue outright. Loewenberg said the alumni office often tells him people are hav-
ing pictures taken with the tiger statue, which prompted him to consider naming the statue. “They’re telling me there are always people having their picture taken with that tiger,” he said. “He shouldn’t be anonymous. He should have a name.” Loewenberg said he was also motivated by what he said was a debt to the university. “There’s just no question that (attending MU) had a great impact on my life, so I felt an obligation to repay the debt,” he said. Logan Hampton, a member of Mizzou Alumni Association student board, said he has been overseeing the contest through its completion. The contest received more than 370 entries, which surpassed his expectations. “This hasn’t been a letdown,” Hampton said. “We were pushing for above 300.” Hampton said the students he spoke with were excited about the opportunity to name the statue. “I talked to a few students,” he said. “It’s kind of a way to leave your mark at Mizzou. They’re kind of excited.” Senior Kyle Callaway, the vice president of tiger conservation group Mizzou Tigers for Tigers, said the group discussed the statue at a meeting, and members were encouraged to
submit entries to the contest. “Somebody came up with ‘Big Cat Bruce,’” Callaway said. “They were just having fun with it.” Callaway said members of the group felt holding the contest was a good idea. “I think it’s better than having a real tiger,” he said. Loewenberg said he bought the statue from a store in San Francisco’s Chinatown. He said he had planned to put the statue in the entrance of a house he planned to build and move into. “I was looking for a tiger, and I walked into this one store, and they had a small one, and I said, ‘I’m really looking for a big one,’” he said. Loewenberg said he left his business card with the store, and weeks later he received a phone call informing him that a larger statue had been found. He returned to San Francisco and purchased the statue, but he did not build the house he had planned on displaying the statue in. “At the time my wife was ill and subsequently died, so I never built the house,” he said. Instead, he lent the statue to the Alumni Association. Loewenberg said his next goal is to find a female tiger statue to pair with the statue currently in Reynolds Alumni Center. He
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A contest to name the bronze tiger inside the Reynolds Alumni Center ended Saturday afternoon, with winners announced Thursday. Judges sifted through more than 300 entries and decided on the name “Faurotcious.”
said a sculptor could then be commissioned to produce tiger cubs, which would then be sold for scholarship fundraising.
“If I can find (a statue of a female tiger), and I’m constantly looking, that would be my next goal,” Loewenberg said.
SUSTAINABILITY
10 new campus street signs Sustain Mizzou hosts replaced since August clothing swap TONY PURICELLI Staff Writer Following the installation of new MU-themed street signs throughout campus in August 2010, Campus Facilities has chosen to replace some of the signs because the letters were difficult to read. Campus Facilities spokeswoman Karlan Seville said 10 signs have been replaced so far this year. Seville said each set of two connected signs located at traffic intersections costs $100. With about 110 MU signs on campus, the entire project originally cost about $11,000. A recent federal regulation would require all signs for streets with speed limits greater than 25 miles per hour to use a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters in order to make them more legible to drivers. But Seville said this legislation was not the driving force behind replacing some of the signs. “The signs that we made already met the regulations,” Seville said. “So, we did not have to remake signs for that reason.” She said when the new signs were installed last year, Campus Facilities created them all to be the same size and, over time, has noticed the names of longer streets are difficult to read. “We tried to make all signs the same length, but when we put those signs up, the letters were small,” Seville said. “They still met federal guidelines, but we chose ourselves to just go ahead and make the length of the sign longer for those streets.” The streets in question include Carrie Francke Drive and East Campus Drive. Campus Facilities has since installed larger
and longer replacements for the signs on those streets. The last round of road signs replacements occurred in time for Homecoming in the fall. Seville said the Mizzou Alumni Association agreed to fund the signs to let visitors know they had “arrived” on campus. The signs help to distinguish campus from the rest of downtown Columbia. Mizzou Alumni Association Executive Director Todd McCubbin said the idea came up during a chancellor staff meeting when members mentioned other college campuses with similarly styled street signs made up of school colors. “It’s something we’d had on our minds for awhile,” McCubbin said. “It wasn’t something that necessarily had to be done, but it was an opportunity to look at branding our campus, and the Alumni Association was happy to step forward to make that gift and get those signs printed.” The Mizzou Alumni Association figured out how to implement the signs and worked with Campus Facilities to pull it off. “When you’re dealing with the Alumni Association, there’s no such thing as too much black and gold,” McCubbin said. The Alumni Association gave a onetime donation to Campus Facilities to create the signs. Campus Facilities budgeted for replacement signs, but the Mizzou Alumni Association did not provide additional funding for replacement signs. McCubbin said he has heard a lot of positive feedback from students, faculty and returning alumni this past fall. “I think it’s great to see those signs up and about campus now,” he said.
Leftover clothing will be donated to The Wardrobe. TONY PURICELLI Staff Writer At its weekly meeting Wednesday, Sustain Mizzou hosted a clothing swap for members to exchange clothing. Leftover clothes from the event will be donated to The Wardrobe, a volunteer center downtown that sells reduced-cost clothing and is highly accessible to lowincome citizens of Columbia. Sustain Mizzou Treasurer Sam Ott said President Tina Casagrand came up with the idea at a brainstorming meeting and everyone agreed it would be a good idea. Ott said the goal of the swap was for everyone to bring clothes they don’t wear anymore and trade them. The activity emphasized reallocating resources instead of abandoning them. “With the clothing swap, we tried to touch on a bunch of different subjects, whether it’s energy, reducing consumption, recycling, that kind of thing,” spokeswoman Kelly Gehringer said. Ott said the swap is just one of many ways Sustain Mizzou attempts to make its meetings as interactive as possible. “I think it helps emphasize the idea of reducing consumption and that not everything has to go to waste and you can recycle it and make it fun,” Gehringer said. After the meeting, a giant bag of leftover clothing still remained. Gehringer said it is good that this activity can help the community after the clothes are donated to The Wardrobe. According to the Calvary Episcopal
Church’s website, The Wardrobe, which has been in Columbia for 40 years, is staffed entirely by volunteers from a network of Columbia churches. It uses no government funding and uses profits from clothing sales to provide school supplies to children each fall. “People can get shirts for a quarter instead of driving all the way over to Goodwill and paying like six bucks for a shirt,” Gehringer said. Junior Thanh Le said this is the second time Sustain Mizzou has hosted a clothing swap. “At every meeting we kind of highlight something different,” Le said. “So, usually the meeting are always fun to go to because we always do something different and interesting. So, I do like that.” Le first got involved with Sustain Mizzou a year ago after hearing about it from a friend. She said it is fun to get involved with a variety of topics. Among the other topics discussed at the organization’s meeting Wednesday night was the fact that members of Sustain Mizzou’s executive board will meet with representatives from Missouri Student Unions to discuss ways to make Memorial Union and the Student Center more sustainable. “It’s a big deal because it’s one of our institutions on campus reaching out to us as a student organization saying ‘How can we be better?’” Gehringer said. A brainstorming session during the meeting brought up ideas such as more recycling and composting in the unions, double-sided printing made available in the student center and reusable dishes becoming an option for student center dining facilities.
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Peace Corps offers alternative to traditional jobs after graduation RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE- A Peace Corps information table was set up outside the bookstore in the Student Union Thursday, Feb. 24. Recruiter Normand Tremblay volunteered in Cameroon, Africa for the full service time of 27 months. “My experience in Africa was absolutely profound,” Tremblay said. “All of my ideas of it were incomplete and misdirected. Yes, there is war, disease and famine, but it is a beautiful place with people who care for each other.” About 80 percent of volunteers come out of college and the remaining 20 percent have had some work experience. There are no fees for volunteers. “We’re looking for volunteer experience, good health and a sense of adventure,” Tremblay said of potential candidates. — The Anchor By Rita Nerney — Compiled by Lauren Bale, staff writer
“We currently import wind energy from Iowa and have installed small scale solar to help us evaluate various solar technologies and educate our customers,” Ameren’s statement said. Some of these environmentallyfriendly energy methods are already utilized in the MU Power Plant in Columbia. Campus Facilities spokeswoman Karlan Seville said in an e-mail that MU’s power plant has decreased its greenhouse gas emissions since 2008 and emitted 246,221 tons of CO2 in 2010. “MU’s power plant received the 2010 EPA Energy Star Combined Heat and Power Award.” Seville said. “MU’s operating efficiency is more than 70 percent, compared to conventional fossil-fueled power plants, which are only about 30 percent efficient, according to the EPA.” Much of the plant’s environmental success can be accredited to its combined heat and power method of generating energy, which uses 38 percent less fuel than typical systems. To reduce CO2 emissions even further, Seville said the students must make an effort to help by saving energy. “Turning off your printer saves energy, and saving energy means less power must be made and ultimately fewer emissions are emitted,” Seville said.
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approached her. “He initially ordered her to perform oral sex, and then ordered her to strip down,” CPD spokeswoman Jill Wieneke said. The victim was able to escape from the car and ran inside the store for help. “I guess she felt like there was an opportunity that came up for her to get away, and she took the chance,” Wieneke said. The victim provided police with a description of the suspect and the truck he was driving. Investigators believe the incident is related to one that happened at about 7:35 p.m. at Sam’s Club on Conley Road. A 57-year-old victim told police a man approached her while she was unloading groceries and pointed a handgun at her. She yelled at him to back away. “He just smiled at her and walked off, which is creepy,” Wieneke said. In a news release, Wieneke said she
could not confirm whether Rehkop was a suspect in the Sam’s Club incident. A third similar incident happened again at about midnight at a gas station in Boonville. At about 2 a.m. Wednesday morning, a Lafayette County Sheriff ’s deputy spotted the truck and initiated a traffic stop of the suspect. The suspect initiated a brief standoff with deputies and committed suicide, shooting himself in the head. Wieneke said CPD has not confirmed whether the three incidents are related. “They can look at video, photographs and what victims have said,” Wieneke said. “We believe they are based on the descriptions that are very consistant and the vehicles are very consistent, but we’ve got some very technical things we have to do.” Wieneke said Tuesday night’s incidents are not related to the rape that happened at Laws residence hall.
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FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY- Byron Pitts, chief national correspondent of CBS Evening News, discussed his life in a lecture last Tuesday night. When he was younger, Pitts was told he was functionally illiterate and mentally retarded. Once he made it into college, a professor told him he was a waste of time and should drop out. Pitts discussed how his success would have been impossible if people in his life had not “stepped out on nothing” for him. These people, both strangers and his own mother, made a difference in Pitts’s life and brought him to his current position. Despite setbacks, Pitts graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with a bachelor’s in journalism and speech communication. Since then Pitts has had success in the reporting field. He won a national Emmy for his coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks. In total, Pitts has received four Associated Press Awards and six regional Emmy Awards.
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The MU Power Plant has an operating efficiency of 70 percent compared to traditional fossil fuel plants, which, on average, are 30 percent efficient. Missouri, however, was ranked as the nation’s 10th largest producer of carbon dioxide pollution by the Environmental Integrity Project.
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Missouri produces the tenth most carbon dioxide pollution in the nation, according to a recent study released by the Environmental Integrity Project. CO2 emissions increased in Missouri between 2009 and 2010 from 75,774,756 tons to 83,279,658 tons. The biggest contributor to this pollution is Ameren’s Labadie, Mo. power plant, which the EIP rated the seventh worst individual polluter in the country. The plant emitted 18,996,586 tons of CO2 in 2010. Patricia Schuba, member of the Labadie Environmental Organization, blames this negative record on Missouri’s lax environmental laws, which allow corporations to self-regulate their pollution. “Missouri doesn’t regulate as strictly as other states,” Schuba said. “At the federal level, the EPA is trying to regulate things consistently across all states, but the big industries are lobbying hard and that’s evident in the recent House vote to defund everything related to Subtitle C.” Subtitle C is a measure of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act which would instate federal oversight of power plants to ensure the responsible disposal of coal ash, a toxic byproduct of burning coal for energy. “There’s a water discharge permit and permits on how the plant handles material on site, but there are other things they don’t need a permit from the state for, like moving the waste off site-that’s not tracked,” Schuba said. Schuba said although these regulations don’t pertain to CO2 emissions, it is a testament to the inconsistent environmental regulation within the state of Missouri. “I have a niece and nephew who live within two miles of the plant, and I hear about statistics that people within a five mile radius of a plant like this have 50 percent higher risk of cancer and 10-point decrease of IQ levels in children that live near these plants,” Schuba said. “For me, it’s real and tangible and I just cannot believe that we would allow a company to work in this way.” A statement released by Ameren stated the company is making strides toward clean energy, and is also looking at tapping into nuclear power as an energy source.
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CAL STATE FULLERTON- Bruce Love, an author and lecturer, spoke to students March 1 about the Mayan Calendar and the truth behind the controversial 2012. Love concentrated most of his lecture on the Mayan long count. “The Maya long count is what it’s all about when we talk about 2012,” Love said. Dec. 21, 2012 will be 13.0.0.0.0, a huge transition. “Nothing’s going to end. It’s just going to click over and start again,” Love said Love said the Mayans had no problem crossing over the zero date and that nothing ended; it was simply the beginning of a new era. He said nothing ever ended in the Mayan calendar and the notion that anything ends goes against the Mayan time. Love ended his lecture by saying whatever meaning 2012 has is the meaning that individuals have put on it and 2012, itself, is meaningless.
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Hy-Vee sexual assault suspect commits suicide after police confrontation Tuesday night’s incidents are not related to the rape that occurred at Laws residence hall. SALLY FRENCH Staff Writer Police are investigating three incidents that occurred Tuesday night, one of which was a sexual assault at the Hy-Vee on Conley Road. According to a Columbia Police Department news release, after the third incident, police confronted the suspect, Todd Rehkop, who committed suicide on the scene. The 22-year-old victim of the sexual assault, who ran into the store screaming for help, had been unloading groceries into her car around 11 p.m. Tuesday when a male with a handgun
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In their words: Fifth Ward candidate Helen Anthony KATE GRUMKE Staff Writer Helen Anthony is one of the two candidates running to represent the Fifth Ward in the Columbia City Council. The Maneater sat down with Anthony to talk about her goals to improve the city. The Maneater: What’s your background and have you ever held any elected positions before? Helen Anthony: I am an attorney; I went to law school in Boston, Mass. and graduated in 1988. I moved here in November 2003, from a suburb of Boston, Mass. I was elected to Town Meeting, which is our government where I was from in Needham, Mass. In really whatever community I have lived in I have spent a lot of time volunteering. In 2007, I was appointed to the Columbia Planning and Zoning Commission. M: What skills did you gain from this that are relevant to the city council position? A: Well I’m running on my plan-
ning and zoning experience, and I think it’s very relevant and crucial to bring this experience to city council. M: What other issues are close to your heart? A: The electric transmission lines. Columbia Water and Light has proposed new electric lines out in the Fifth Ward but the proposal is for the new substation to go in at Peachtree, which is right next to Rockbridge High School and Gentry Middle School. And then originally the three lines were running through residential neighborhoods, so that was a big issue in many of the neighborhoods of the fifth. Also, our infrastructure has to be worked on, in particular our road infrastructure. Infrastructure to my mind also includes making sure that our police and fire are staffed adequately. Our central services are really stretched to the limit and I think need to be supported and bolstered. M: Do you have any big changes you want to make? A: We have zoning regulations
that are more than 25 years old. They are inadequate for a city that’s 100,000 and growing. The zoning regs and the land use policies that we have need to be overhauled. M: What makes you the best candidate? A: I’m an attorney and so I have a lot of experience with doing public outreach and consensus building. I think in order to be successful in any kind of organization you have to have the ability to respect different opinions and try to come to some sort of an agreement knowing that not everyone is going to get what they want. Those are the kinds of skills that you can use dealing with any issue that comes before city council. M: What’s your favorite thing about local government? A: The people; plain and simple. I am constantly amazed at the quality of the volunteers here. I like the diversity in terms of where people come from. We’ve got a lot of long-time residents but we have a lot of what I’m going to call newer residents. I myself have only been here for
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Helen Anthony is running for Fifth Ward in the April 5 election. She believes her experience on the Planning and Zoning Commission will help her if elected.
seven years, but I think I’m a good example of people that come into Columbia, love it, adopt it as their
own city and work on the issues that make this even better than it is today.
Right-to-work debate Missouri sees increase comes to Missouri in meth production
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LAUREN BALE Staff Writer The prevalence of methamphetamine labs in Missouri has been steadily increasing since 2006. Although Missouri recently lost its spot as the number one producer of meth in the nation to Tennessee, the relatively high number of meth labs in the state continue to pose a problem for law enforcement agencies. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol news release, there were a total of 1,960 meth lab incident seizures in 2010, which marks a 53 percent increase from 2007. According to highway patrol Capt. Tim Hull, the agrarian nature of Missouri can account for the high numbers of meth production. “Missouri is a very rural state,” Hull said. “It is very enticing to those producing meth because the chances of being discovered are much less than in cities and other populated areas.” According to the news release, after anti-meth lab legislation enacted in 2006, the amount of meth incidences in the state decreased, but those numbers began steadily increasing from 2007. Major Tom Reddin said legislation preventing the production of meth works for a short time, but
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A proposal similar to the rightto-work legislation that brought 30,000 protesters to Wisconsin’s capitol could soon be sparking debate in Missouri’s Congress. Missouri Senate President Pro Tem Rob Mayer supports making Missouri a right-to-work state along with the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry, according to a senate news release. Senate Bill 1, sponsored by Senator Luann Ridgeway, R-Smithville, “Bars employers from requiring employees to engage in or cease engaging in certain labor practices” and is listed on the senate’s informal calendar, according to a news release and mo.gov. “Right-to-work is not about whether unions can continue to operate in Missouri, rather it is about removing a legal barrier that is harming our state’s ability to compete for jobs that impact the 89 percent of Missourians that are not union members,” Ridgeway said in a news release. Gov. Jay Nixon’s spokesman, Scott Holste, said in an e-mail Nixon has stated he does not favor right-to-work legislation. In the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s news release, the group cites its reason for supporting making Missouri a right-to-work state as a way to increase job opportunities for Missourians. “By simply making sure that paying dues or joining a union can no longer be a condition of getting or keeping a job, we can bring more jobs to our state,” Mayer said in a
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news release. “By better competing with our neighbors, especially when it comes to manufacturing, we can put more Missourians back to work.” According the news release, six out of eight of Missouri’s surrounding states are considered right-to-work sates. “Tennessee, the only ‘rightto-work’ state with a comparable unemployment rate to Missouri, gained jobs in 2010 while Missouri lost jobs,” the news release stated. Sen. Kurt Schaefer, D-Columbia, did not respond to a request for comment. According to a news release from the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the organization said it performed a review process which involved surveying the Chamber’s membership consisting of business owners and managers across the state of Missouri. According to the news release, 94 percent of members who took the survey were in support of Missouri taking a position on the subject, and 87 percent said Missouri should be in favor of supporting right-to-work legislation. Thirty-nine percent of those surveyed said their companies’ businesses were disadvantaged from Missouri not being a right to work state. Chamber President and CEO Dan Mehan said the survey showed support for a law making Missouri a right-to-work state. “Our members believe that a right-to-work policy could open the door to businesses moving to Missouri - as well as help keep vital companies in our state and encourage rehiring and new hiring,” Mehan stated in a news release.
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in the long run producers find a way around it. “Legislation keeps attempting to regulate and restrain the precursor elements that go into the production of meth and that is a helpful tool, unfortunately those who produce meth are creative and find successful ways to access the precursors,” Reddin said. Columbia Police Department Detective Ron Hall said the legislation made it more difficult to purchase cold medication that contains pseudoephedrine, a main ingredient in meth. Hall said one of the ways to combat meth production is to urge pharmacists to report any suspicious activity. “We’re working closely with the pharmacies here in town for suspicious purchase reports,” Hall said. “The pharmacy monitors cold medication purchases, like if a group is buying medication
or if it’s a frequent customer and alerts us.” Meth possession or labs are usually discovered due to unrelated law violations. Michael Tinker, arrested Friday, was pulled over for a traffic violation and was then found to be in possession of the drug, a sheriff ’s department news release stated. Meth labs have also been discovered from tips made to the police by citizens. “Tips have given us leads to go forward in a proactive manner and make contact with these individuals exhibiting suspicious behavior,” Hall said. Meth labs have been discovered in Columbia, but Reddin says it is not as prevalent here as in other parts of Missouri. “It’s more likely to find meth lab remnants out in the country, but it does happen in the city,” Reddin said. “It can be produced in the back of a van or a hotel room or somebody’s basement.” According to Hull, meth labs have the potential to be dangerous to those living near them. “The fumes are very toxic, and the items used to manufacture it are very volatile,” Hull said. “Meth labs can cause explosions, burns and fires.” Hull also said stopping the production of meth in Missouri would benefit everyone because the production of meth can harm many people. “The by-products are usually dumped into the ground or in sewer systems, so a lot of people can be affected even if you don’t come into direct contact with the substance,” Hull said.
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"We like to maintain that direct farmer-toshopper relationship as much as possible." — Root Cellar owner Walker Claridge
THE KEY TO YOUR ENTERTAINMENT
A taste
of spring * MAPS & ATLASES
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Maps & Atlases guitarist Erin Elders talks about the band's changing sound.
Columbia farmers markets and natural food stores get ready for springtime.
IN THIS ISSUE THE TOTALLY BITCHIN' '80S
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Bring out the spandex and neon for Eastside Tavern's monthly '80s dance parties.
HOLY BOOKS, MENOMENA BATMAN!:
+ A new vocalist, + Menomena publisher in drummer
townmultilooks and to publish instrumentalist undiscovered Danny Seim Columbian shares the authors. band's roots.
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Columbia growers bring greens to spring *
Farmers markets and natural food markets offer fresh produce, local products and Earth friendly alternatives.
It’s the time of year a food-lover’s mind turns from hot chocolate and heavy stews to light, fresh foods and lemonade stands. Accordingly, Columbia’s farmers markets are gearing up for a ravenous season. Columbia is home to a surprising number of fresh food options for mid-Missouri. The Columbia Farmers Market Vendors to this market are required to grow or raise the products they sell, and to live within about 55 miles of Columbia. The market has more than 90 vendors as members. Market Manager Caroline Todd said the farmers market, which has been operating since 1980, enjoys success because Columbia is very supportive of local food. The market was officially open during the winter for the first time this year, located at the Rockbridge Christian Church. The decision to keep the market going year-round was prompted by an unofficial farmers market at Café Berlin, which received a good response. “Winter offers crops that can over winter with proper storage, such as long neck squash,” Todd said. “But there’s more vendors in the summer, because more people grow outside.” It’s not just the vendors that are more plentiful in the summer. Todd said there are many more buyers present in the warmer months. Clover’s Natural Food Market Clover’s has been open for 10 years, but its owners have previous experience as employees at now-closed Columbia Specialty Foods. Clover’s may not offer fresh foods directly from the farmer, but the store stresses their loyalty to “natu-
ral foods.” The website boasts a list of ingredients not found in their products, such as high fructose corn syrup, aspartame, steroids and many other unappetizing words. Clover’s carries a wide array of products, so it’s not entirely local, but it would be the place for those hard-to-find organic products, especially vitamin supplements and herbs. Boone County Farmers Market This weekend morning market, located in the parking lot of the Sanford-Kimpton Health Department Building, will start up again on the first Saturday in April. The Boone County market is similar to the Columbia Farmers Market, but with different vendors, some of whom make their entire livelihood at the market. Market Manager Mick Fleming said farmers markets are better options than natural foods stores. “Our produce will be fresher,” Fleming said. “Veggies they bring in on Saturday usually get picked on Friday. The fresher they are, the better they’ll taste.” Fleming said lettuce, radishes, spinach, peppers and tomatoes will soon be on sale at markets, based on the growing season. In addition, the market offers beef, pork, chicken and eggs. The Root Cellar Store Owner Walker Claridge said The Root Cellar focuses on local foods in the summer. “We like to maintain that direct farmer to shopper relationship as much as possible,” said Claridge, who also co-owns Broadway Brewery. “In the winter, we order organic produce to supplement the small range of produce available.”
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Dry goods sit at Clover’s Natural Market. Clover’s also focuses on fresh produce and has a loyalty to natural foods. Claridge, who has been running the store for 11 growing,” he said. “People have realized that it’s here years, said he doesn’t focus on organic goods as much to stay.” as Clover’s. A natural foods market is more convenient than “We’re more focused on local,” he said. “We get a farmers market, Claridge said, pointing out that his into the vitamin and herb market. We’re both com- business is open six days a week. mitted to supporting local farmers and economically With the warming weather, the Root Cellar will sustaining our community.” soon be bringing Columbia beets, spinach, swiss Claridge said he believes the demand for natural cheese, broccoli and onions. foods is on the rise. “It’s the only part of the food industry that’s teresa klassen | staff writer
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Menomena blends different musical talents, tastes *Portland based art-rockers Menomena will play alongside Maps & Atlases on March 9 at Mojo’s.
The nature of Menomena’s music is similar to the nature of its name: a non-word and yet humanly cadent. From I Am the Fun Blame Monster to Friend and Foe, the Portland band has recorded intricate art-rock, without fear of exploring foreign instruments, limited only by its imagination. And these guys’ imagination is pretty endless. Recorded over three years and released in July, Menomena’s new album, Mines, has elicited unanimous praise, receiving high grades from Pitchfork Media, Rolling Stone and several other popular music outlets. But for Menomena, there’s no grand way to write songs, even when they amount to something like “Sleeping Beauty.” The songs begin as fragmented ideas, and the band gradually tapers them until completion. “It’s a matter of being together in the really early stages,” vocalist, drummer and multiinstrumentalist Danny Seim said. “Capturing
those quick little loops, rearranging those, adding vocals, making it more linear on our own, and handing it over to the other guy.” From the quark-sized bells of “Wet and Rusting” to the tectonic bassline of “TAOS,” Menomena’s craft is a varied art. The band delegates its vocal and instrumental roles equally. Member Justin Harris can play saxophone, bass, guitar, and sing in a span of minutes on a given album. This egalitarian method has worked to permit a free flow of ideas. Frictional influences have also worked to keep Menomena away from any scene or labels. “I can play a drum part, obviously referencing this drummer,” Seim said. “Then Justin will come at it with a completely different set of influences and take it in a completely different direction.” Aside from a few they agree on, Harris and Seim have mostly separate tastes.
“To me, it keeps us almost from treading too much on familiar territory,” Seim said. Menomena formed in 2000, but Seim met Harris and other bandmate Brent Knopf a few years earlier. “We were going to the same little religious school in a suburb of Portland and we were playing in bands together and Brent actually came to one of our shows,” Seim said. After Knopf returned from Dartmouth, the three got together and started exchanging sounds. Last November, after touring behind Mines, Knopf split from the band on amicable terms. Minus Knopf, Menomena continues its live show with touring members Joe Haege and Paul Alcott. Recreating its signature atmosphere on stage has been something Menomena labors to do, and with verve. “We get lost in the process when we’re working on a record,” Seim said. “It’s always
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a stress to learn the millions of different parts that you were layering and layering in the studio sessions.” From the sensual burn of “Queen Black Acid” to the willowy sing-along of “Dirty Cartoons,” the live set channels the many moods of Menomena’s palette. With one-third of the original band gone and a groundswell of support for Mines, Seim and Harris are grabbing in the dark for what comes next. “I just feel like I’ve lived and breathed it so long,” Seim said. Despite the band’s uncertain future, Seim said the thing Menomena is best at is taking puzzles and making them linear. “It’s going to be different, but it’s kind of exciting now,” Seim said. “The next record is still a question mark.” parker tarun | reporter
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Returning Deja Vu favorite Greg Morton is said to have received more standing ovations at the Vu than any other comedian. Described as a “cross between Bill Cosby and Scooby Doo” by the New York Times, Morton has provided numerous voice overs for morning cartoon characters, and has contributed material to
In “Rango,” Johnny Depp plays an animated chameleon who finds himself in a town called Dirt in the Wild Wild West. The film sounds a bit like a game of Mad Libs, in which the location, the character and the plot don’t really match up. But with Johnny Depp in tow, this hodgepodge approach just might end up producing genius results...or at least a few laughs.
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Stephens College Dance Company will perform at this yearly Stephens tradition, representing a variety of dance forms, including classic ballet, modern dance, jazz and tap.
Chicago dubstepper Stratus will join local phenoms Jasper and Yvan Carr-Chua onstage. Stratus’ music is described as the result of “crazed robots from outerspace went on a bender,” by glitch.fm. This is a show no electronica fan should miss.
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Fierce like a tiger
Getting lost with Maps & Atlases
ABBY SPUDICH fashion columnist
So wrong it’s * right: black and brown Once upon a time a group of well-dressed individuals traveled across the Earth, filled with despair at the array of poorly-dressed people. Something had to be done. So these travelers gathered together in secret and formed what became the Fashion Police. These arbiters of style gathered about the round table and laid out the commandments of style: thou shall not wear denim with denim, thou shall not wear brown and black together, thou shall not wear navy blue and black together, thou shall not wear socks with sandals. The rules of the Fashion Police governed style for centuries, but as the world becomes more modernized, the commandments are fading into antiquity. In the post-Geek chic, mid-ironic fashion era, rule-breaking fashion statements are dramatic and so wrong that they’re just right. Whoever said black and brown don’t match is a dirty liar. This rule belittles shoppers everywhere with the assumption that we don’t possess the intellect to put together a bi-neutral outfit. The trouble that comes with mixing neutrals is substituting black with a dark brown. If you can barely tell if the item is brown, don’t wear it with black, because it looks like you got dressed in the dark. The key to wearing this look is contrast and color scheme. If you don’t know where to start, there are pieces that already combine brown and black, such as Alloy’s Gwen Knit top, $24.90. To create a complete outfit, begin with what I like to call the Two-Thirds Rule. If the accent piece is brown, that is the focal point of the outfit and one-third of the ensemble, and the other two-thirds of the outfit should be black, or vice versa. The Two-Thirds Rule creates a frame and complements the two colors. For example, start with the Polka Dot Craze blouse from threadscence.com ($32) and add a black pencil skirt (Charlotte Russe Black Ponte Pencil Skirt, $26.50) and heels for a very basic, but polished, business causal look. Swap out the pencil skirt for a less-traditional one, like an American Apparel Corduroy Circle Skirt, and the lower half of your body is now the focal point. Complete the Two-Thirds Rule by adding a solid black top. I love this paired with a thick, off-the-shoulder sweater, such as Victoria’s Secret’s Rolled Sleeve cotton/cashmere sweater, $50. Add colorful or printed tights or chunky socks (or both) and lace-up boots to personalize this outfit. Consider accessories when putting together your outfit. A skinny brown belt complements a solid black or patterned black dress, like BDG’s Skinny Belt, $20 at Urban Outfitters. When choosing a brown shoe or belt, choose a red or orange hue. Forever 21 brown Braided Leatherette Sandals, $19.80, come in a great color. Floral patterns are also a great option for mixing black and brown hues. No matter what color the pattern is, black or brown will most likely complement it. Try a floral dress with a skinny, brown belt at the waist with black heels, or vice versa. Also, it is perfectly acceptable to wear brown shoes with brown tights, as long as it's the right shade of brown, or a brown dress with black tights. No longer are your browns and blacks at war, they can now co-exist peacefully.
The Chicago-based rockers will play with Menomena on March 9 at Mojo’s.
Despite being together more than five years and receiving largely positive reviews, the Chicago-based rock quartet Maps & Atlases hasn’t lost its indie cred. Before releasing its debut album Perch Patchwork last year, Maps & Atlases only released two EPs (which are infinitely more hip than albums) in their existence. The change, though, has been welcomed for fans and the band. Guitarist Erin Elders said the band was planning to make both EPs full-length albums, but eventually decided not to. “They just kind of seemed to work as smaller pieces of music,” Elders said. Although Elder points to the full-length album as a point of pride, he still sees room to grow. “We’re always trying to evolve and examine what we did on the last record and how we can expand on certain ideas,” Elders said. The band’s two EPs, Tree Swallow, Houses and You and Me and the Mountain, were hailed as math-rock masterpieces and earned Maps & Atlases a spot on tour with small label overachievers Portugal. The Man and The Fall of Troy, just to name a few.
Perch Patchwork is more rock sounding than math-rock sounding, and tames a little of the band’s technical prowess. Elders said the band’s technical abilities started when they were young. “All four of us kind of grew up playing music and music has been a large part of our lives for a very long time,” Elders said. “Early on, that was kind of the bonding point.” Elders said some of his early inspirations were, surprisingly, free jazz and 1970s progressive rock. The cover art of Perch Patchwork is a different inspiration entirely. The cover of the album, as well as the cover of the upcoming single “Living Decorations”, was done by a Chicago artist named Ed Cardash. A friend of the band discovered Cardash’s work a couple years ago. After the artist died, Maps & Atlases paid homage to his by putting it on its albums. The band is letting its fans experiment with its music now as well. On the group’s website, fans can participate in a remix competition using stems from three of the songs off Perch Patchwork. Fans can then pick parts of each song they want to remix and submit them
Photo courtesy of Maps & Atlases to the band. The winners of the competition will win themselves a boatload of merch, including shirts and music. The result of this creative activity could be, not surprisingly, another EP. But that’s up in the air, Elders said. “We don’t really know where we’re going with it yet,” Elders said with a laugh. For now, Maps & Atlases will tour the States before a stop at South By Southwest and a tour in Japan. Touring overseas, Elders said, is always a little different.
“It’s a little bit more like a formal setting,” Elders said. The group recently returned from a tour in Europe, where the group was building up its international presence. The group’s upcoming U.S. tour, which includes a show March 9 at Mojo’s, will be alongside Menomena. “Here, it seems like a bunch of people hanging out, like band plus friends,” he said. pierce courchaine | associate editor
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Eastside brings back the ‘80s *The next “Totally Bitchin’ ‘80s Dance Party” is March 5 at Eastside Tavern.
The term “bitchin’” has been applied to many outstanding things in the past, such as guitar riffs, epic music videos and neon. So it makes sense for the term to be applied to a decade that includes all of these…the 1980s. The “Totally Bitchin’ 80’s Dance Party” has Columbia residents breaking out the spandex and hitting the dance floor to New Wave rock. The themed dance party has been a monthly event at Eastside Tavern since October. Another bar, Shattered, had previously hosted ‘80s parties in Columbia, until it closed four years ago. Eastside owner Sal Nuccio thought Columbia needed to resume its ‘80s partying ways. “I figured it was a good time to pick back up on it,” Nuccio said. “It’s a fun night, and I was looking for something unique to do once a month, so I decided to give it a shot.” Eastside already had a strong following for its weekly Dirty Disco Dance Party, which features electronic mashups by live DJs. “I like Eastside because of the music,” said Justin Whaley, who visits the bar at least every other weekend. “The music is what really sets it apart. It’s especially great for dancing. The
stage is always welcome for dancing, and always crowded.” Knowing that good music makes for a good night, Nuccio set out in search of an ‘80s loving DJ. He found one in Ron Ribiat, AKA DJ Ironic. “I figured he had the skills and influence to draw a crowd,” Nuccio said. And Ironic brought with him real ‘80s experience, having DJ’d in Southern California throughout the decade. “A lot of ‘80s DJs don’t even know what was playing in the clubs in the ‘80s,” Ironic said. “I figured somebody who had knowledge of really good dance tracks would be just awesome. There’s a lot of fun music from the ‘80s that a lot of folks aren’t familiar with. I saw a need.” He was right — Nuccio said the decade dance party draws a full house. “It does well,” Nuccio said. “Not quite as giant as Dirty Disco, though.” Ironic said the attendance is very diverse. “We have folks from 18 to 60,” Ironic said. “The biggest group would be folks who were teenagers in the ‘80s. Each month, it gets better
and better as more people get hooked on it. It’s got a really good vibe.” Eastside encourages its attendees to dress up in true ‘80s style, by offering $50 for the best costume. “Ron’s into pushing (people to) ‘dress the role,’” said Nuccio. “That’s what makes the night unique.” Ironic plays existing ‘80s songs, but he is working on mashups of ‘80s hits. “I’m still getting used to the newer technology,” said Ironic, who hasn’t DJ’d since the ‘80s. “So I’m only doing mashups in spare time, but I haven’t brought it to the parties yet. I’m getting a lot of ideas for what I could do with these tracks. A lot of great dance music came out in that time. It’s okay to experiment and create new sound.” If you’re interested in checking out the dance party, dig out your neon leg warmers (it’s still winter, after all) and head down to Eastside Tavern on the first Saturday night of each month. Look up “Totally Bitchin’ 80’s Dance Party” on Facebook to stay posted. teresa klassen | staff writer
MOVE HIGHLIGHTS (EVENT) MOJO’S A-GO-GO TIME: 9 P.M. DATE: SATURDAY, MARCH 5 LOCATION: MOJO’S, 1013 PARK AVE. TICKETS: $10
After a long day of moviegoing, join the True/ False crew for a concert by soul artists Kings Go Forth with Netherfriends and Hai Usagi. Kings Go Forth is a funk/soul band from Wisconsin, and has received wide critical acclaim, with Pitchfork calling its music a step beyond soul revival.
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(EVENT) LASERS, LUPE FIASCO RELEASE DATE: MARCH 8
After a string of postponements and title changes and a viral video teasing its release, Lupe Fiasco’s third studio album Lasers is finally here. An acronym for “Love Always Shines Everytime, Remember 2 Smile,” the album stands to make a statement about the current state of media, education and society in the U.S.
(EVENT) MARDI GRAS PARTY FEATURING GLEN DAVID ANDREWS BAND TIME: 7:30 P.M. DATE: TUESDAY, MARCH 8 LOCATION: THE BLUE NOTE, 17 NORTH NINTH ST. TICKETS: $10
Celebrate Mardi Gras in true New Orlean’s fashion with jazz trombonist and vocalist Glen David Andrews and his band. Walking the line between contemporary funk and classic New Orleans-style jazz, the Glen David Andrews Band is the perfect party starter.
(EVENT) AS I LAY DYING AND WINDS OF PLAGUE TIME: 6:30 P.M. DATE: WEDNESDAY MARCH 9 LOCATION: THE BLUE NOTE, 17 NORTH NINTH ST. TICKETS $18
Join 100.1 The Buzz for a night of head-banging and hair-shaking with California metalcore band As I Lay Dying, and their neighbors California deathchore band Winds of Plague.
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Perception of sexual assault as ‘isolated incidents’ is wrong
Tuesday’s string of sexual assaults across Columbia and the rape reported outside Laws residence hall have invoked both anger and fear from the student body, but this also provides a new time for discussion about rape and sexual violence. The statistics speak for themselves. The MU Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention Center, or the RSVP Center, reports that one in four women and one in 14 men are sexually assaulted during their time in college. Of the women assaulted, 91 percent knew the person who assaulted them and 62 percent were assaulted by a current or former partner. Most disturbing, however, is that it’s estimated that less than 5 percent of rapes are ever reported to the police. The recent crimes offer us, as a campus and community, the much-needed opportunity to re-evaluate our perception of rape and sexual violence. First of all, we need to shed the blame-thevictim mindset. By its very definition, nobody ever asks to be raped, just liked nobody asks to be robbed or murdered. Yes, people can take safety precautions, but putting blame on anyone but the assaulter is unacceptable. An environment that blames the victim is part of the reason more than 95 percent of rapes go unreported. How can we, as a society, expect a victim to feel safe reporting a rape or assault if he or she is going to be blamed for it? It’s easy to say that reporting incidents to the police is easy, but nobody can ever put themselves in a victim’s shoes. We have no place to judge another victim’s response in these situations. Furthermore, we need to abandon the view that rapes and other acts of sexual violence are isolated incidents and are confined only to women. Men also are vulnerable to sexual violence, as are people of different sexual orientations and ages. Rape has no confined demographic, and is not isolated to young women. Rape happens in friendships, relationships and marriages more than it does between strangers. Again, less than 5 percent are ever reported. If every assault were reported, sexual violence would hardly be considered “isolated.” Thankfully, there are organizations at MU like RSVP, the Sexual Health Advocate Peer Program, or SHAPE, and Men Against Relationship and Sexual Violence, or MARS, that offer resources and help for the victims of sexual violence. The Green Dot campaign, which encourages individuals and organizations to be vigilant and proactive in preventing sexual violence in situations where it could arise, is another helpful effort to prevent assaults before they happen. However, it seems almost sad that we have to have a campaign like Green Dot. Why should only a few people be responsible for preventing sexual violence? Shouldn’t we all be? Just like the response to the graffiti outside Hatch Hall reflected upon us as a campus and community, our response to acts of sexual violence does the same. It takes an event close to home, like the rape outside Laws Hall, to remind us of the basic values that we stand for not only as MU students, but also as members of a community. Just as we have stood together against racism, it is time for us to stand together against sexual violence. As a community, we need to reach out to each other to create a safe environment for victims to come forward, feel safe and recover and also so justice can be served. Each of us may have a friend, relative or classmate who has been raped or sexually assaulted, and what kind of society are we to leave them behind? It is time for us to become involved, proactive and supportive, so one day sexual violence can be a thing of the past.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letter: Americans are cutting back, Congress should too One of the most important parts of my job is visiting with and hearing from Missourians across the state. That’s why I love coming home to Missouri every weekend, and it’s why I enjoyed a recent opportunity to spend an entire week traveling throughout the state listening to your input and ideas at town hall forums and meetings with local groups. Everywhere I went I heard from people who are frustrated with Washington and want to see Congress play by the same rules as everyone else. Some Show-Me State common sense would go a long way in Washington. We started the year off with a big victory by stopping the worst abuses of secret holds when the Senate passed a resolution that
cracks down on a senator’s ability to anonymously block legislation and nominations. I had been pushing for this legislation for months because the public deserves to know who is blocking the Senate from doing the people’s business. But we can’t stop there. I’ve introduced a package of additional congressional reforms that will bring new accountability to Congress while forcing members to do their part to begin addressing the budget crisis. This package focuses on doing what’s right, rather than maintaining the status quo. Americans have to live within their means and when there is a budget crunch, they feel the pain. Members of Congress have been too immune to these realities in recent years. As the country’s budget has spun out of control, federal law continued to give members of Congress an annual pay raise. This has to end immediately, so I introduced legislation to end the automatic Congressional pay raise. But I am also trying to do more by returning 10 percent of my office budget each year. Over the past four years, I have returned approximately $1.6 million.
In order to bring new accountability to Congress, I also proposed a bill that would establish some common sense rules for government-paid foreign travel so we can be sure that members of Congress aren’t abusing the system. It’s time to crack down and make public the details of Congressional foreign travel. To add a new layer of accountability to Congress, I have also introduced legislation to create an independent watchdog to investigate, audit, and review Senate operations. The role of Senate Inspector General would be to help identify waste and inefficiencies in the Senate. As a former auditor, I believe that keeping track of how the government is spending money should be our first obligation to the taxpayers, and an Inspector General will help us do that. I’m already looking forward to my next round of town hall meetings and having the opportunity to hear more from you about reforms you want to see in Washington. The best ideas come from real people, and I hope to hear from all of you soon.
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THOUGHTS? A series of sexual assault incidents Tuesday and a rape reported to the MU Police Department earlier that day sparked discussion on Twitter and Facebook this week. Here are a few Tweets in response to the recent crimes: MUPD receives report of rape outside Laws residence hall. Wow. Scary stuff.
— Plain Jane (Mick_Nutt) via Twitter
Hy-Vee sexual assault suspect commits suicide after police confrontation What the hell!
—Jessica Pippin (jessicapippin) via Twitter
From Facebook MUPD receives report of rape outside Laws residence hall. Matthew Wheeler: Dang, it’s a good thing we don’t permit concealed carry on campus, or it might make it a dangerous place to live, work, and learn. Preview: Tiger basketball travels to Nebraska on Tuesday. Theodore Picraux: WELL WHAT ABOUT THE MU SOFTBALL TEAM. MUPD continues its investigation into the rape outside Laws Hall Paul Love: Not to confound them but MUPD couldn’t figure out how to prosecute a MUPD officer found with child porn on his MUPD issued thumb drive, pluged into the MUPD laptop, sitting in the MUPD police cruiser he drove. What are the odds they will find a rapist or will prosecute him if it turns out he’s someone they like? From themaneater.com Letter: DUI: To blow or not? Greg: I agree with the general message here, but let’s be quite honest. This is not a letter to the editor. This is an advertisement. Editorial: Review board should provide real check on police power Watcher13: Excellent story, and so very true. Ro Sila: A “review board” is supposed to do just that: review facts. Both the writer and commentator seem to be advocating a witch-hunt.
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Not-so-pleasant memories of camping Lindsey Wehking
You know what would be a good idea? If we spent the night under a tarp with people we hate and then we can all sleep in body bags, fermenting in each other’s odor, providing feast for infectious insects and incubators for their young. And if we are really lucky, we will wake up moist after a night of aggravatingly catchy out-oftune sing-alongs still seeing spots and eardrums throbbing from the storyteller who had to blind you with a flashlight while screaming and jumping around to compensate for the lack of actual plot suspense in their fireside tales. No, it is not! Who ever instated the tradition of family camping trips should be held down, severely paper cut, run over by a lawn mower and then tossed into a baby pool of feasting piranhas, because that is how they make me feel.
Luckily my family is now what I would call Eddie Bauer outdoorsy-with all of our twenty-first century gear, we might as well be rolling the woods in a little, plastic climate-controlled bubble taking pictures. We stay in 21st century (made to look rustic) cabins with running water, electricity and doors we can close on each other. Sporting terrain-appropriate hiking boots and rain repellent garb, my little park ranger mother never allows us to enter the scary dark forest null of bug repellant, bear whistles, toilet paper, sanitizer, water-purifying kit, ponchos, snack rations, a week’s supply of water, a machete, collapsible food preparation station, flare, tranquilizer gun, pepper spray for “all the rapists” she seems to think lurk within and, of course, the infomercial-worthy bottomless fanny pack that manages to fit it all, and will be the cause for my hip-replacement. But, there was a time, in their youthful parental ignorance when they tried to cling to the nostalgia of their own childhoods and impose their
corrupted view of fun upon me. I was so scarred I have yet to face family camping trips again. I’ve gotten invites over the years from friend’s families offering to take me camping, and I always respectfully declined because, well, in all honesty I would rather eat hot pockets and watch VHS tapes of bird watching all weekend. It was August 1999, a sweltering month when the units loaded up the four door Saturn like it had the capacity of an RV and wedged me onto a booster seat of stale hot dog buns. Prone to carsickness, I swayed, pale-faced upon my throne of generic brand camping food for the whole trip down to Arkansas, actually appreciating the frequent stops my parent’s un-synched urination schedule allowed. We arrived at the campsite at dusk and in my parents’ fury to set up before dark, they really sacrificed quality set up. Tired from traveling, we only did the bare minimum to get the site ‘functioning’ and then hit the hay, or in our case, the disintegrating 12-year-old
sleeping bags that felt like lying in wall insulation. I itched my soft skin as I fell into dreams of the adventures to come, or tried to, but unfortunately the serrated rock bed my dad pitched the tent on was making that difficult. I now assume he did this on purpose so I would be awake to hear the rabid raccoon assaults on our tent. While little devil boys might find this appealing, to a sixyear-old girl who’s hyper-allergenic skin was inflamed, was sleeping on a bed of rocks and just recovered from her fear of gremlins, it is cause enough to be launched into a full tantrum of psychosis. Just as I was about to scream, “How could you be sleeping?” to my ‘parents,’ a flash of lightning erupted and a boom shook the ground as rain began to pour into our Dollar Tree tent. My parents frantically packed up the gear as I sat in the back of the car soaking wet, gnawing on soggy marshmallows and wondering if this trauma could get me a pony. Never again.
POLITICS: OUR COLUMNISTS DEBATE
Views from Right, Left, align on ‘Right-to-work’ debate Nick Calcaterra Missouri State Sen. Rob Mayer, R-25, has dug up an old issue he says was a shallow grave. According to him, Missouri has lost businesses to bordering states, such as Arkansas and Tennessee, for not being a “right-to-work” state. Traditionally, right-to-work legislation entails barring companies from making exclusive deals with unions, forcing any employee to join them. This allows workers to accept all passive benefits gained by unions, without actual membership. I believe right-to-work legislation is wrong on its own merits, but Mayer suggested the legislation would attract more businesses in the Missouri area. I would have to believe increased freedom of employers, to make contracts with workers, would allow for greater efficiency and overall profitability (look at the effects of state-level corporate taxes). This would lead to increased business infrastructure, includ-
ing the need for more internal jobs. Either the Senator is completely full of it or he is taking liberties with statistics in a damaged and questionable economy. While it is true the neighboring right-to-work states have lower unemployment rates, it’s illogical to attribute this to one factor. Consider what would happen if Missouri passes legislation to block exclusive union contracts. If we take a look at simple group dynamics, we see each new employee has two choices: Either join the union, or don’t and receive the same benefits. Obviously one choice has the same payoff with a lower opportunity cost, thus nearly all new members would opt out of the union (This choice would be the Nash equilibrium for all of you game theorists.) Soon the union would diminish in number and eventually lose all of its power. Without the union negotiating for the workers, everyone’s wages and benefits would be reduced in the long term. I think this is just another case of credulous Senators not taking issues into a global context. Analyzing the consequences and philosophy of this bill shows it is total crap.
Steve Pan Right to work laws are the biggest misnomer in this nation’s history of naming things. What are they? You may be aware of the labor strife going on in Wisconsin, where Republican Gov. Scott Walker has been busy stripping collective bargaining rights from state employee unions. Put simply, right-to-work laws prohibit the payment of union dues and restrict making employees become members of a union as a precondition of employment. Sounds simple enough, but it’s been the largest impediment to widespread unionization in the South. The Midwest and Northeast, by contrast, are by and large union strongholds. Missouri, thankfully, is not a right-to-work state. Rightto-work laws contribute to a free-rider effect. If people can benefit from union protection without having to open their wallets, then they won’t ante up. Collectively, this poses a large problem when every-
one wants a union but nobody wants to pay for it. It’s much easier to organize when dues are, well, due. Right-to-work laws, in general, tend to lower the pay of rank and file workers and benefits once enacted. Proponents of these laws often claim industries are more willing to relocate to states with these laws on the books. This is probably true. Many industries are attracted to lowcost labor. However, if your company’s sole reason for moving is that you want to pay workers less, chances are the state doesn’t need your business. In a few years, that factory or office is going to China anyway. Many states right now are in a cash crunch. Right-towork laws, while protecting corporate profits, do little to fill state coffers. By depressing wages, these laws cut down on income tax revenue. Not only that, workers that are paid less would generate less money in terms of state sales taxes. You simply can’t buy as much stuff when you don’t have the money to begin with. Currently, there is legislation in the Missouri legislature, which would make the state right-to-work. Do we want this for our state? Probably not.
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BASEBALL
Mike Vorel
The NFL combine: A gift and a curse Run faster. Jump higher. Leap further. Once a year, NFL hopefuls lace up their PF Flyers and look to impress pro scouts, coaches and the legendary hair of Mel Kiper. That time has arrived. The NFL combine, held in Indianapolis, is a chance for future draftees to display their athleticism, and hope to see their draft stock soar as scouts and media personnel clamor over their “tremendous upside.” We stare intently at stopwatches, overanalyzing the difference between a 4.39 40-yard dash and a 4.40. Players are fawned over or completely dismissed, all because of how many repetitions they can bench press, or how high they can jump. It’s savage, it’s inhumane, and yet, it’s a standard part of the drafting process. What always struck me about the combine was that the NFL is the only major American sport to put on such a public display. Did major league baseball scouts ask Stephen Strasburg to do curls before they drafted him No. 1? Of course not, they just drooled over his game film. Did NBA coaches need to see Larry Bird’s time sprinting from one basket to the other to know that he was a tremendously instinctive, talented player? I doubt it. The NFL is simply a different breed. Much more attention is paid to pure athleticism; if players aren’t deemed the strongest, fastest and most agile at their position, many scouts and coaches assume they won’t succeed. At the combine, a player’s skill on the football field doesn’t even come into the picture. Players are put under a spotlight, for coaches and scouts to dissect and gawk at. Yet, for a player to make the jump to the next level, they must not only attend the combine, they must excel. Of course, we’ve seen over time that a player’s physical attributes doesn’t define them; you can be as fast and strong as you want, and still have no idea how to play football (example: Brian Bosworth). Look at Emmitt Smith. He is one of the greatest running backs of all time, and holds the NFL record for rushing yards. Yet, he wasn’t the strongest or fastest at his position. He didn’t have breakaway speed like Barry Sanders, and couldn’t swat away potential tacklers like they were mosquitoes, a la Bo Jackson. What he did have was superb instincts and vision, attributes that carried him to the Hall of Fame. And to the chagrin of NFL scouts and coaches, instincts and vision can’t be judged at the combine. In the same vane, here’s a cautionary tale. In 2008, Ohio State DE Vernon Gholston was drafted 6th overall by the New York Jets. He had been erratic during his college career, but dominated at the combine, raising his stock significantly. After running a 4.67 second 40-yard dash and bench pressing 225-pounds an inhumane 37 times, he couldn’t miss, right? Wrong. Gholston was cut this week after three seasons of poor technique and zero total sacks. In 45 games, he accumulated a mere 42 tackles, zero forced fumbles and zero interceptions. In pop culture terms, Gholston may have been a worse flop than “Gigli,” if that’s possible. The lesson is: take the combine with a grain of salt. Yes, it can be helpful. Athleticism is a huge part of the game, and the combine can help expose poor conditioning and work ethic. But still, brute strength isn’t everything. Players can excel with less, or fail with more. Coaches and scouts need to take a deep breath and put down the stopwatch. In the end, talent is all that matters.
Analysis: Tiger baseball set for home opener against Flames
MIKE VOREL Staff Writer For the Missouri baseball team, there’s no place like home. After a disappointing 2-5 start to the season, the Tigers will be playing their first home game 6 p.m. Firday, hosting the University of Illinois- Chicago. They will try to continue the home success they enjoyed in 2010, when the team finished a stellar 18-9 at Taylor Stadium. To do that, though, they will need sophomore outfielder Blake Brown to continue his sizzling start to the 2011 season. Brown leads the Tigers with a .444 batting average, and also holds team highs in hits (8), RBIs (5), and stolen bases (4). Quite simply, he’s done it all for the Tigers thus far, and continues to make the most of his increased playing time in his sophomore season. Even with Brown’s hot bat, the Tigers haven’t been able to overcome large deficits in the first two weekends of the season. Missouri has given up an average of 8.7 runs per game, a number that will need to go down if the Tigers want to make a significant run in the Big 12. They will be leaning heavily on starters Jeff Scardino, Rob Zastryzny and Matt Stites to keep the Tigers’ bats within striking distance. Scardino, a senior, will bring much-needed experience to a young pitching staff. The Tulsa native gave up only one earned run while striking out six in eight innings last Saturday, propelling Missouri to a 4-2 win over Charlotte. Scardino, as well as coach Tim Jamieson, will be hoping for a similar effort this
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Missouri junior pitcher Ryan Clubb takes the mound during the 2010 season’s home opener against Western Illinois on March 10, 2010, at Taylor Stadium. The Tigers will be playing their first home game of the season against University of Illinios-Chicago at 6 p.m. Friday.
weekend against UIC. Alongside Scardino in the Tigers’ rotation is Rob Zastryzny, a highly touted freshman who has not disappointed thus far. The 6-foot-3-inch lefty was named a second-team AllAmerican in his senior season at Calallen High School in Corpus Christi, Texas, after compiling a 17-1 record with 198 strikeouts and a microscopic 0.20 ERA. That success has carried into his first two college starts, as Zastryzny has thrown a teamhigh 10.2 IP and amassed a 3.38 ERA. Jamieson can only expect Zastryzny to continue improving as he gains experience throughout the 2011 season. But where Zastryzny lacks in
experience, senior reliever Phil McCormick more than makes up for it. McCormick pitched in 36 games for the Tigers last season, setting a school record for appearances. That trend seems to have carried into 2011, as McCormick has appeared in five of Missouri’s first seven games this season. Moreover, not only has he been consistent, he’s also been effective. In last weekend’s series against Charlotte the southpaw pitched a total of six innings, giving up only one unearned run while striking out six. If he continues at this pace, McCormick might be in line to set his season appearances record once again. Missouri will need all of
these players to be clicking this weekend against University of Illinois-Chicago as well as in the looming Big 12 schedule. Jamieson, now in his 17th season as coach, is four wins away from the vaunted 550-win plateau. Jamieson comes into Friday with a 546-387-2 career record, the second most wins in school history (behind Gene McArtor). With a 4-game series scheduled for this weekend, there’s a slim chance that Jamieson could reach that milestone by Sunday night. However, if Blake Brown continues to hit, the starting staff fulfills its potential and Phil McCormick eats up innings, that goal may be within reach.
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Missouri prepares for Big 12 Championship STEVE CASSIDY Staff Writer The No. 12 Missouri Tigers wrestling squad heads to Ames, Iowa this weekend to take on Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Nebraska and Iowa State in the Big 12 Championship at Hilton Coliseum. The Big 12 Championship is always loaded with storylines, and this year is no different. The top 50 wrestlers in the Big 12 conference will battle for the 33 qualifying NCAA Championship spots allotted to the conference. Ten of the 50 wrestlers are representing Missouri, and six of those 10 are newcomers to the Big 12 Championship. Freshman Alan Waters, redshirt freshman Zach Toal and junior Dom Bradley lead the pack of talented Missouri wrestlers. Toal, having already qualified for the NCAA Championships,
has his biggest pressure out of the way, but will still compete in the tournament. At 165 pounds, Toal will square off with some of the best wrestlers in the country, a few of them coming from his own conference. “The 165 weight class is absolutely stacked,” Missouri coach Brian Smith said. Toal has a couple of tough challenges ahead of him in the Big 12 Championship. He has to work through Dallas Bailey of Oklahoma State, who he has already beaten twice, and tournament favorite and defending national champion Jordan Burroughs of Nebraska. Toal lost his first match of the season to Burroughs at home by technical fall. “Jordan makes a lot of people not wrestle well,” Brian Smith said. “The 165 pound weight class is one of the best in the country, and he is at the top of it.” Missouri faces a lot of tough competition in the
four other teams at the Big 12 Championship. No. 3 Oklahoma State might be the toughest of the bunch. “Dallas (Bailey) has only lost to quality opponents this year,” Oklahoma State coach John Smith said. “Zach is one of those quality opponents, but Dallas competes. He has good demeanor on the mat and can help our team out a lot.” Oklahoma State is the favorite to win the tournament this year, as they did last year. “I like the atmosphere in our program right now,” John Smith said. “I give a lot of credit to our two seniors, Clayton Foster and Neil Erisman, they were great leaders for us. I think for that reason you’ll see us at our best on Saturday.” For Nebraska, another tough competitor, this will be its last Big 12 Championship because they are moving to the Big Ten Conference next season. “We’re living in the moment
right now,” Nebraska coach Mark Manning said. “We’re focused on what’s right in front of us, and that’s the Big 12 Championship. We want to leave the conference on a high note.” Having the top-ranked wrestler, at one of the most difficult weight classes in the country, provides a high level of comfort for the Cornhuskers. “I’m sure we will face these Big 12 teams again in the future, so our departure isn’t really that big of a deal,” Manning said. The host of the tournament, Iowa State coach Kevin Jackson said the departure would affect the conference. “I’m happy that we will continue as a four team conference,” Jackson said. “The decision to add teams is a bit higher than me at this point, but I’d like to add teams in the future.” The tournament begins at 10 a.m. Saturday.
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Thomas throws perfect game en route to two Tiger victories PAT IVERSEN Staff Writer After coming up short in her first two appearances of the season, Tiger pitcher Chelsea Thomas finally broke through in a big way on Wednesday. Thomas tossed the first perfect game for a Missouri pitcher in nine years en route to a 5-0 win over Drake. The redshirt sophomore struck out 11 batters in seven innings of work in the first game of a doubleheader between No. 17 Missouri and Drake. The last perfect game by a Tigers pitcher was Feb. 17, 2002, and the Missouri program’s last seven-inning perfect game was in 1991. After the game, Thomas said she didn’t even realize what was at stake in the final inning. “I’ve been trying to work on this one-pitchat-a-time idea for me, and that’s how I try to get through each game,” Thomas said. “So I was taking it one pitch at a time, and after the last pitch, Lisa (Simmons) ran up to me and was like, ‘You just threw a perfect game.’ I was kind of in shock for a second.” Coach Ehren Earleywine said after the game he was proud of his team for not talking about the perfect game, honoring a longtime softball superstition. Even so, catcher Lisa Simmons said she felt the pressure mounting during the game. “All I was focusing on was ‘make sure you catch the third strike,’” Simmons said. “Don’t drop it, because then it wouldn’t be (a perfect game). So I was trying to focus on those things, but I was trying to keep it out of my head though.” The game was only Thomas’ third start since missing most of last season with a stress fracture. On a limited riseball count as a precaution, Thomas mixed in drop balls and a slow changeup to keep hitters off balance.
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Chelsea Thomas’ perfect game on Wednesday against Drake was only the third perfect game thrown by a Missouri Tiger since 1991.
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LIZ STRATMAN | GRAPHIC DESIGNER Earleywine said what impressed him the most about the performance was how she and Simmons utilized location during the game. “We need to be able to do that, and those are things we can’t see from the bench,” Earleywine said. “And they could feel that out there, that outside corner giving two or three inches, and they just lived out there. (Drake) couldn’t reach it or catch up to it, and you have a perfect game.” The Tigers finally broke things open in the fourth inning, when senior outfielder Rhea Taylor stepped to the plate with two outs and the bases loaded. Taylor homered to right centerfield, giving the Tigers their first lead of
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Senior Rhea Taylor celebrates with fans after the second game of a doubleheader against Drake on Wednesday. The Tigers defeated Drake by scores of 5-0 and 8-1.
the game. “That’s what I call my perfect pitch,” Taylor said. “It was beautiful. I knew immediately when it left her hand that it was going to be a home run." Drake drew first blood in the second game, scoring a run in the first inning. But Missouri scored eight unanswered runs, and junior Kristin Nottelmann shut down Drake’s offense with seven strikeouts over seven innings of work. “It’s easy to just be like ‘Oh, we’re just playing Drake,’” Taylor said. “I think patience (is big) because if you try to go outside yourself instead of playing within yourself, a lot of things start happening. And we didn’t want that. So I
think the biggest thing that helped us today was patience.” As for Thomas, Earleywine said he was proud of her performance, especially after pitching so well in her first two outings. “And here she is, 0-2,” Earleywine said. “There’s no pitcher in the country I’d rather have than Chelsea Thomas, and she’s 0-2. So you’re just happy to see her get a win and more importantly I want her to rattle off about fifteen or twenty in the next couple months.” The Tigers head to St. Louis for the Missouri Breast Cancer Awareness Tournament this weekend, and face Southeast Missouri State University on Friday.
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Analysis: Tigers blown out Huskers upset Tigers in final Big 12 road game on the road NATE ATKINS Staff Writer Needing little more than a hot start, the Baylor women’s basketball team flexed its Big 12 Conference Championship muscles Wednesday night in defeating the Missouri Tigers at home, 84-52. The loss marks four straight for the Tigers, who now hold a record of 12-17 and 4-11 in the Big 12. Baylor made sure from the moment the game started it would close out Senior Night with a victory. The Bears sped out to a 12-0 lead and widened the margin to 30-8 in a dominating start to the team’s final home game of the season. The closest Missouri would get to making it a game would be to close the gap to 37-21 with 3:31 remaining in the half. Baylor closed out the first half in style to take a 43-22 lead to the locker rooms. There was simply no stopping the Bears in their own building that night. In bulking its resume for a 1-seed in the NCAA Tournament, Baylor clinched its second Big 12 championship behind better than 50 percent shooting, seven three-pointers and a rebounding edge of 44-27. For yet another game, Missouri received a big night from senior guard RaeShara Brown. In her final regular season road game in a Tigers uniform, the team’s statistical leader across the board led the offensive effort Wednesday with 17 points and six steals. Shakara Jones, the team’s other senior, followed up Brown’s scoring with 10 points of her own.
Another positive the Tigers were able to take away from the game was the performance cashed in by junior forward Christine Flores. Having worked her way back into the starting lineup just a few games ago, Flores set a career high seven assists to go along with six points and six rebounds. A season of road woes came to a close with the loss, as the Tigers closed out the 20102011 season with a 2-11 road record. The defeat marked Missouri’s 11th straight road loss as the team completed a conference road slate with a 0-8 record. Although the Tigers were far from impressive on the road, they did show promise at points away from home. Missouri upset thenNo. 12 Georgetown on a neutral court and came within single digits on four different occasions. Coach Robin Pingeton talked earlier in the season about the difficulty of a young team playing in its first season under a new coaching staff in one of the most highly-regarded conferences in the nation. Though the Tigers have stumbled down the home stretch with four consecutive losses, they can take pride in holding their own at Mizzou Arena. The Tigers enter their final home game with a 10-6 record in home games, including a 4-3 mark in conference games. Missouri will have one final opportunity to impress at home before embarking on the Big 12 Tournament next week. The Tigers return to Mizzou Arena on Sunday to play No. 25 Iowa State and will recognize Brown and Jones for their efforts as part of the Senior Night festivities.
The Tigers finished 1-7 on the road in conference play. ZACH MINK Sports Editor The Missouri men’s basketball team had one chance left to put their road demons behind them. One last opportunity to prove the team’s dismal record away from the comforts of Mizzou Arena was merely an anomaly. That final chance came and went Tuesday night as Nebraska said its Big 12 farewell instyle with a 69-58 victory over the struggling Tiger squad, which finished 1-7 on the road in conference play. Junior forward Marcus Denmon led the team with 19 points in the defeat. “I’m kind of disappointed the way we’ve played on the road, especially today, playing a Nebraska team,” Denmon said. “Starting today, no more road games. There’s nothing more for us to figure out. It’s either home or neutral. The Tigers jumped ahead early in the first half, but the Huskers continued to scrap, eventually taking a two-point lead into halftime. Nebraska came out of the intermission lively on the defensive end and used a 17-3 run midway through the second half to pull away from the road-weary Tigers. “They had a nice little spurt there and we just weren’t able to recover,” Missouri coach Mike Anderson said. “We just couldn’t make the plays going down the stretch.” The trends that have plagued Missouri
all season came out in full at Bob Devaney Sports Center. The Tigers were outrebounded 35-24, and only got to the charity stripe four times to the Huskers 23 attempts. The Tigers also turned the ball more than 17 times, which was a statistic Anderson said was out of characteristic for the young team. “The thing I was most disappointed with our guys was the inability to take care of the basketball,” Anderson said. “That’s one thing we do. We value the basketball. We want to disrupt it, and create tempo, but we want to value the basketball. Our two point guards had seven turnovers between them. You can’t do that on the road and expect to win.” Husker senior Lance Jeter also proved to be a problem for the Tiger backcourt. Jeter, who was originally scouted as a football player in high school, used his size and strength en route to a team high 16 points to go along with seven rebounds and seven assists. Nebraska coach Doc Sadler was extremely pleased with the play of Jeter and the rest of the Huskers on Senior Night. “I’m very happy for Lance,” Sadler said. “He got us going again like he’s done so many times like when we were struggling in the first half offensively. I can’t say enough about our basketball team, and what they did tonight.” Missouri concludes its season with rival Kansas at home Saturday. The Tigers are 17-0 at home this season, but fell to the Jayhawks on the road earlier in the season. Tipoff is scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday at Mizzou Arena.
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