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STRIPES LOOKS AHEAD AFTER 100,000TH RIDE MU's safe-ride program ran its first night of operations on Oct. 4, 2001.

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SOFTBALL ROLLS TO NINTH STRAIGHT VICTORY, IN 12-0 WIN Sophomore pitcher Chelsea Thomas allowed two hits in four innings in her first start after two perfect games.

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Texas A&M knocks Missouri out of Big 12 tournament's second round The Tigers shot 34 percent from the field and 20 percent from long range in the loss.

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KELSEY MAFFETT Staff Writer

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Junior guard Kim English disputes a foul call Thursday night in Kansas City’s Sprint Center.

Missouri lost the game against Texas A&M by an 86-71 score, knocking the Tigers our of the Big 12 Championship Tournament.

SPECIAL REPORT

Spaces deteriorate as funds run low This is the first article in a series of reports on academic buildings in need of renovations.

BUILDING PROBLEMS — Buckling floors — Peeling paint — Confusing floorplan FACILITY SHORTCOMINGS — School spread out over 4 buildings — Small rehearsal spaces — Dangerously loud acoustics SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENTS — New classroom chairs — Updated projector equipment — Whiteboards in each classroom

STRICKLAND HALL FINE ARTS BUILDING

LAFFERRE HALL

ALLISON PRANG Associate Editor A 2009 report from the Missouri Department of Higher Education reviewed the state of facilities at public institutions of higher education throughout the state and found three distinct trends.

According to the report, public universities are struggling to provide enough on-campus, quality space to students and faculty, with deteriorating facilities and a need for more funding for campus maintenance and repair projects.

The report outlined more than 30 MU buildings in need of renovation.

Specifically, it recommended renovations for Lafferre and Strickland Halls and a reconstruction of the Fine Arts Building. Altogether, costs

for these renovations and reconstruction would total to an estimated $177 million.

MU needs $187 million to fund all deferred campus maintenance projects, a Jan. 25 report from MU Campus Facilities stated. The report defines deferred maintenance projects as repairs that were not accomplished as part of normal maintenance and have accumulated to the point that facility deterioration is evident.

The Campus Facilities report stated that in 10 years, MU’s total projected facility needs could be as high as $1 billion.

Lafferre Hall Since it’s construction in 1892,

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THROUGH THE YEARS

1991 Addition added to Lafferre and renovations to two portions of the building

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1936 Construction of the (then) western-most addition to Lafferre Hall is completed. Today, it serves as the center of the building.

2009 A 1922 addition to 1995 Loeb Hall converted from a dining hall to a Lafferre Hall was torn and space for Fine Arts instrumental ensembles replaced. Some renovations were also made to the 1969 Strickland Hall constructed building’s original 1892 structure, including 1987 Fine Arts building's classroom renovation, new 1956 Fine Arts Building entrance renovated and Loeb Hall constructed windows and a new roof.

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In 2009, Lafferre Hall, the Fine Arts Building and Strickland Hall were all identified by a report as three MU buildings in need of repair.

1892 Lafferre Hall’s original construction

Student Conduct reviews RJI altercation

Junior Jay Dee Bush, 32, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of assault.

JOHN MONTESANTOS Staff Writer Missouri was bounced from the Big 12 Tournament in blowout fashion Thursday night, falling to Texas A&M in their quarterfinal matchup, 86-71.

The Tigers shot just 33 percent from the field including 3-for-15 from long range in the loss at the Sprint Center.

Texas A&M led the entire game, expanding the gap to as much as 22 at one point in the second half. The Aggies shot 58 percent from the field in the second-round win.

The lone bright spot for Missouri was junior guard

MUPD

What’s next? The UM system has requested state appropriations for future renovations and additions to Lafferre and Strickland Halls and School of Music facilities.

The student arrested on charges of assaulting a professor in the Reynolds Journalism Institute on Tuesday went through an academic disc ipl i nar y WHAT hearing HAPPENED Thursday.

Although — Third-degree assault on professor, student the Office — March 8, 2 p.m. of Student — Futures Lab, RJI Conduct does not comment on individual disciplinary cases, one victim in the incident said Student Conduct’s decision will affect whether he chooses to press charges.

MU Police Department Capt.

Brian Weimer said the incident started at about 2 p.m Tuesday

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INSIDE

USE AND ABUSE: ADDERALL'S EFFECTS Addiction Journal estimates one in four students use Adderall.

PG. 7, OUTLOOK

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? The Citizens Police Review Board is considering allowing for the option of closing meetings to the public.

PG. 9, OUTLOOK

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Junior Paul Reeves and Senior Keri Smith read from a group monologue during The Queer Monologues auditions Wednesday in the LGBTQ Resource Center.

House overturns voters’ 2 Missouri decision on minimum wage arrested after sorority house burglary 3 Freshman seize 50 grams of cocaine in drug sweep 4 Police Going ‘all the way’ not 5 Column: right for everyone

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100,000 STRIPES looks ahead after 100,000th ride CARPOOL was founded in 1998 at Texas A&M. Staff Writer In April 2001, five MU students visited Texas and brought back STRIPES, MU’s safe-ride organi- plans for what later would become zation that runs Thursday through STRIPES. Saturday nights, gave its 100,000 STRIPES ran its first night on safe ride during operation this past Oct. 4, 2001 and will be celebrating weekend. its 10th birthday this fall, Pautler said.

“It is a “ There pretty big have been milestone many changes for us,” It is a pretty big milestone for us, over the years STRIPES I was the one to actually give the STRIPES has President 100,000th ride, which was really been running, Jeri Pautler even in the said. “I was cool.” years I have the one Jeri Pautler been here,” to actu- STRIPES President said Pautler, ally give who has been a member since the 100,000th ride, which was really Fall 2008. cool.”

In STRIPES’ early years, the orgaSTRIPES is completely volunteer- nization did not have a solid base based and was founded in 2001. of consistent members, STRIPES “We are based off of an organiza- Fundraising Assistant Chris Rucker tion called CARPOOL, a very similar said. program (to STRIPES),” Pautler said.

“We also had a limited amount of According to the STRIPES drivers because no one could drive website, the safe rides program under the age 21,” he said.

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STRIPES THROUGH THE YEARS A brief timeline of the program’s history at MU.

1998 Safe rides program CARPOOL founded at Texas A&M.

April 2001 MU students visit Texas A&M to observe program.

October 2001

STRIPES runs first night of operation.

March 2010 STRIPES gives 100,000 ride.

October 2011 STRIPES will celebrate it’s 10th birthday.

Source: STRIPES Quick Facts compiled by STRIPES spokesman Andrew Worrall

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Since the launch of STRIPES, the driver age cap dropped to 19 and membership has spiked. The organi-

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A parked STRIPES car sits in its headquarters’ parking lot Jan. 22. STRIPES celebrated giving its 100,000 ride by handing out free T-shirts Wednesday in the MU Student Center.

zation currently maintains 300 volunteers, Pautler said.

“We had over 500 applications come in this year, but we did not have room to place them all,” Rucker said.

This past weekend was also the first weekend STRIPES has run 12 vehicles, Pautler said.

“Running 12 cars really decreases car wait time for callers and increases our efficiency,” she said. “This is definitely something we couldn’t do without our volunteers or MSA (Missouri Students Association).”

STRIPES, an MSA auxiliary, receives its funding from donations and from MSA. According to the STRIPES website, it costs about $1,200 to operate one night.

To sustain funding for STRIPES,

and in celebration of the 100,000 ride milestone, the group’s members handed out free STRIPES “100,000 Rides” T-shirts in the MU Student Center on Wednesday and accepted donations. STRIPES will be launching an official fundraising campaign, “$100,000 for 100,000 rides,” this year, Rucker said.

“The campaign will try to raise money for the STRIPES endowment fund, which covers operation costs,” he said. “The goal is to use less of MSA’s money.”

Rucker said as for other future goals, the organization is still in “celebration mode.”

“We will be looking forward to when we reach the next 100,000 ride mark,” he said.

Jesse Hall’s dome sports New group for women focuses on empowerment colorful traditions The dome is typically only lit different colors for Homecoming and Engineering Week.

JIMMY HIBSCH Assistant Editor For the next week, Jesse Hall’s dome will sport a new color: green.

In the spirit of Engineering Week, which begins next week, the spotlights shining upon Jesse Hall’s dome will be filtered with a green tone.

This is a long-standing tradition, Engineer’s Club President Elizabeth Horvath said.

“Today, the green lighting of Jesse Hall’s dome has become a beacon for MU Engineering — signaling the arrival of Engineers’ Week and the annual return of St. Patrick, and reflecting the engineers’ proud history of enlightening MU,” stated a St. Pat’s Board and Engineers Club document.

When Jesse Hall was restored in 1987 for MU’s 150th anniversary, lights were added to the dome.

This was when the St. Pat’s Board and Engineer’s Club decided the dome should be lit green, to commemorate St. Patrick, who was an engineer.

“Lighting the dome green was done before the dome was lit gold for Homecoming,” Horvath said. “Other groups have asked the dome to change colors for them but have been denied.”

The dome has been glowing green annually since the spring of 1988, upon receiving permission from former chancellor Haskell Monroe.

Friday evening, the engineers will celebrate their fourth Dome Lighting Ceremony at 5:30 p.m. on Francis Quadrangle.

This year’s ceremonial switch thrower is Dave Lillard, who won the Distinguished Alumni Award.

“Green is grandfathered in because the Engineering Week organizers requested it several years ago,” MU spokesman Christian Basi said. “It’s become a tradition.”

Basi said Jesse Hall’s dome is typically lit different colors on two occasions: Engineering Week and Homecoming, when it is lit gold.

“We do light the dome gold for special celebrations or occasions that encompass the entire university,” Basi said. “They might be major events, or they might be campus celebrations. One of the major deciding factors is whether they encompass the entire university.”

An example of this was made a few weeks ago for the Big XII Conference on Black Student Government.

Requests to light the dome different colors aren’t rare, he said. But, due to expenses associated with different colors and staff time, MU is often unable to change the filter to anything other than gold.

“What we don’t do is typically light the dome different colors besides gold or green,” Basi said. “There is an additional expense associated with the colors and staffing time.”

Most of those requests go through the University Affairs office, Basi said, but one person in particular doesn’t make the final decision.

“There’s not one individual who makes the decision,” Basi said. “The last decision was made by three people. It really depends on the request.”

The group held its first meeting Wednesday.

“Like all of our events and workshops that we’re going to have on campus, everything is going to be open to all women,” Duncan said.

“If you have friends who want to come in and see what’s going on, please invite them.”

JIMMY HIBSCH A major goal of the new organization is to Associate Editor allow an outlet for the women involved to fosSeniors Ericka Jackson, Jasmin Stewart, ter their academic and personal goals.

But these women want to inspire not only Jenee Duncan and Shante “Fenique” King were inspired following last month’s racial college-aged women, but high school-aged graffiti incident outside of Hatch Hall and last women as well.

“If you work with this committee, you year’s cotton ball incident. can work with seniors and juniors in the “After that happened, me and these ladies Columbia high schools,” Stewart said. “You were like, ‘Enough is enough. We need to unite a certain population on this campus,’” would work one-on-one with them, helping them with things Stewart said. “We decided like financial aid, to make it the women. personal statements We all are women, and we and ways to further all go through the same Why don’t we find that issues, so we thought, commonality and stick together their education. We want to help them ‘Why don’t we find that and find a way to uplift and so they are able to commonality and stick support each other. continue on with together and find a way their education.” to uplift and support each Jasmin Stewart Senior The group will other.’” also bring in women Thus, ‘A Woman they hope will motivate its members, such as Inspired’ was born.

“The reason why ‘A Woman Inspired’ is successful businesswomen.

“We’ve found that there are a lack of accesstarting is because of some of the things that have been going on around campus,” said sible women who are successful in their area of Stewart, who serves as president of the group. expertise,” Stewart said.

The group’s programming will begin in “Mizzou is a great place and we have a great culture, great traditions and a great history. But April, which is Sexual Assault Awareness in that history, there are some racial things that Month.

Its first program is April 13 and is a part of have been going on.”

In the midst of Women’s History Month, the “I Am” segment.

There, the women will discuss intimate the women held their first meeting Wednesday.

About 15 participants showed up to the relationships and domestic violence on meeting, but they were encouraged to spread campus.

“Anything that you’d like to see us do — the word about the organization.

The group’s Facebook page shows don’t be shy,” Jackson said. “Anything that more than 130 members interested in the you’re dealing with — we’re here to be a organization. resource for you on campus.”

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1. FRESHMAN ARRESTED ON DRUG CHARGES NEAR MU POLICE STATION A freshman was arrested above the MU Police Department station Wednesday evening on multiple drug charges, including cocaine possession.

Officers found Richard Kroutil, 18, just before midnight Wednesday in a vehicle on the top level of the Virginia Avenue Garage.

“We perform routine random checks of the parking garage, as well as the rest of campus,” MUPD Capt. Brian Weimer said.

A search of the black Ford Fusion revealed marijuana, methamphetamines and cocaine.

Weimer said there was one other person in the vehicle besides Kroutil, but he was not arrested.

Kroutil was arrested on suspicion of possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of less than 35 grams of marijuana, pos-

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session of a controlled substance and distribution of a controlled substance near a school.

According to Boone County records, Kroutil remained in the Boone County Jail as of Thursday.

2. ARMED SUSPECT ATTEMPTS TO ROB DOMINO’S Wednesday at about 10:55 p.m., police responded to a report of an armed robbery in progress at the Domino’s Pizza

at 3102 Green Meadows Way. According to a Columbia Police Department news release, an employee was walking through the parking lot when she saw the suspect approaching behind her.

The employee managed to enter the building, closing and locking the door behind her.

She alerted the manager about a possible attempted robbery and they were able to lock the front door before the suspect could enter the restaurant.

The suspect had a black handgun and demanded money from the manager through the front door, but the manager would not comply, and the suspect fled the scene.

The Boone County Sheriff ’s Department brought in the K9 unit to track the suspect, but could not find him.

No one was injured, and nothing was stolen in the incident.

3. SUSPECT AT LARGE IN ATTEMPTED BURGLARY At about 4:34 a.m. Thursday, Columbia police officers were called to the 1400 block of Hinkson Avenue to investigate a burglary in progress. The person who called in the report said that an unidentified male awakened her, rubbing her leg, a CPD news release stated.

When she woke up and saw the man, she screamed and the suspect covered her mouth with his hand before running out of the bedroom and out of the back door of the house.

No forced entry into the house was apparent. The victim was unable to give a detailed description of the suspect because the bedroom was dark.

Police were unable to locate the suspect after arriving on the scene.

COLUMBIA POLICE MONDAY, MARCH 7 Winston H. Stewart, 27, of 312 Defoe Drive, on suspicion of first-degree trespassing Kayla M. Cunningham, 18, of 3100 Trail Ridge Drive, on suspicion of theft Robert Prince II, 21, of 708 Demaret Drive, on suspicion of first-degree trespassing TUESDAY, MARCH 8 Curtis A. Hayes, 28, of 5104 Cedar Ridge Drive, on suspicion of first-degree burglary, thirddegree domestic assault, harassment, second-degree property damage and third-degree assault of a law enforcement officer Adrienne K. Henry, 19, of 1718 Juniper Drive, on suspicion of theft WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9 Ethan W. Simonds, 20, of 3902 Buttonwood Drive, on suspicion of possession of less than 35 grams of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia Bruce L. Jordan, 30, of 303 Rogers St., on suspicion of distribution, delivery, manufacturing or production of a controlled substance Damon L. Poston Jr., 24, of 580 NE Park Lane, on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance Alex J. Sanders, 20, of 1308 Rosemary Lane, on suspicion of second-degree assault

If you have information on these crimes, you may contact Crime Stoppers at 875-TIPS. All calls are confidential.

If a court authority later proves innocence of a charge stated in the Blotter, contact The Maneater to request an — Kelsey Maffett and Ally McEntire updated entry. of The Maneater staff

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SEC inspector general speaks at MU H. David Kotz said Bernie Madoff ’s scheme was a result of SEC failure.

Kotz said many believed Madoff was too smart for SEC examiners to detect the scheme.

“The prevailing opinion was that he was this genius,” he said.

“The truth is, Madoff was sloppy.

He contradicted himself.”

CELIA AMPEL Kotz said the SEC examiners lacked skills and competence.

Staff Writer They were thrilled to be in the The inspector general of same room as Madoff, and at least the Securities and Exchange one examiner took a picture with Commission spoke Thursday at him.

“They were pretty much right MU about his investigations of the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme out of school,” he said.

The SEC ignored red flags in and the failure of Bear Stearns.

H. David Kotz spoke as part Madoff ’s returns and failed to folof the School of Accountancy’s low through with investigations Dawdy Speaker Series, which several times. When the examinfocuses on forensic accounting ers asked Madoff why he always had spot-on timing when buying and fraud examination.

MU alumnus Jay Dawdy spon- and selling stocks, he told them he used his gut, sors the series, feeling vibrawhich he started tions on the with School of trading room Accountanc y floor.

Director Vairam We concluded that the SEC “Their Arunachalam. became aware of numerous response?”

He said the series red flags before the Bear said. has brought Stearns collapse, but chose to Kotz “’Works for in five highme!’” profile speak- do nothing about it."

Kotz said ers, including discoverKen Feinberg, H. David Kotz head of the Inspector general of the Securities and ing a Ponzi scheme takes BP claim fund Exchange Commission one phone and Missouri call.

Attorney General Chris Koster.

“They never made that phone “We’ve got good name recognicall,” he said. tion with the series,” Dawdy said.

Kotz spent nine months on In his speech, Kotz said the SEC repeatedly failed to detect his report investigating the SEC’s the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme actions. He and his staff interand the failure of Bear Stearns. viewed 122 people and read 3.7

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million e-mails from current and former employees, including one who married Madoff ’s niece.

There is no evidence that Madoff paid off the SEC, Kotz said. There was no need for him to do so, since the SEC was not investigating him properly anyway.

Kotz also spoke about his investigation of the SEC’s failure to properly oversee Bear Stearns, which collapsed a few months after he became inspector general in late 2007.

“We concluded that the SEC became aware of numerous red flags before the Bear Stearns collapse, but chose to do nothing about it,” he said.

Kotz said the SEC did not exert any influence over Bear Stearns or similar firms that collapsed during the financial crisis.

“The regulators were so cozy with these firms,” he said. “They gave up the ability to do any real regulation.”

Kotz’s investigation of the junior examiners in the Madoff case interested Chris Conant, a graduate student studying regulatory law.

“He recognized that the SEC put a bunch of guppies in a tank with a big shark,” he said.

Dawdy and Arunachalam said the series is valuable for the College of Business.

“It helps the students a great deal,” Arunachalam said.

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H. David Kotz , inspector general of the Securities and Exchange Commission speaks Thursday in the Bush Auditorium in Cornell Hall.

He spoke as part of a series of speakers established by MU alumnus Jay Dawdy.

Intern Queen shares advice JSO members meet Hillel Berger held 15 internships while an undergraduate.

employers — but it’s true what they say. When one door closes another opens, and you keep going.”

Berger has now worked with more than 800 TONY PURICELLI companies.

“It’s important for me, when things are going Staff Writer really well, to make note of those times so that Students and Columbia residents gathered at when things don’t go so well you can keep your 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in Cornell Hall to learn about spirits up,” Berger said. “As an entrepreneur, you “Everything Internships” from Lauren Berger, can get to a place where you’ve had so many bad experiences that you don’t freak out anymore CEO of Intern Queen, Inc. Intern Queen, Inc. is a website created by because you know you’ve been through worse.”

Wolfe said the business school was excited Berger in 2009 to help students find and apply for college internships. The idea came from a to host Berger and hear about her experiences.

“Her personal stories kept it really interlack of resources available when Berger was esting but she’s also really applying for her own inspiring,” freshman Kate internships during college.

Gallagher said. “How things Berger also provides many Her personal stories kept it tips and tricks to help stu- really interesting but she's also fell into place for her makes me think it might fall into dents make the most of really inspiring. place for me, too.” their experiences.

Berger explained how Her presentation Kate Gallagher social media websites like focused on a variety of Freshman Facebook and Twitter have advice as well as anecdotes brought many changes to the internship profrom her own time in college.

Professional Development Program coor- cess by allowing students to connect with the dinator Rebecca Wolfe said Berger helped stu- companies where they want to intern. With this dents find another resource and motivated them connection, though, comes a responsibility of stuto get started. She also said it is important to dents to keep their web pages appropriate to the hear tips from someone who is more their peer ever-present eyes of companies and colleagues.

Berger noted in her speech the addition of than members of the career services staff.

“It means so much more to hear from some- what she calls “Skype” and “Starbucks” interviews one who is young and has just been through the as a norm in the hiring process “There are some new things, but at the same internship process,” Wolfe said. “It’s just more time, a lot of the resume, cover letter, interview relevant for our students.”

Wolfe said this event ties in with the now advice we were hearing years ago still applies fully implemented requirement for students in today,” Berger said She also addressed a few common problems the college of business to participate in at least she sees working with students on internships. one internship before graduation.

“I think a lot of students just apply for internBerger applied for more than 100 opportunities while attending Florida State University and ships on a whim,” Berger said. “They don’t keep it completed 15 internships during her four years. organized, they don’t follow up with the employ“Even though you get rejected, you keep er, and then they never hear back. All companies going,” Berger said in her presentation. “The are not sitting around thinking, ‘Where are the good news is that we’re all going to be rejected interns?’ all day long. Oftentimes, just that followfor the rest of our lives — by girls, by guys, by up is going to land you the opportunity.”

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director candidates Two potential candidates visited to talk with students and tour the campus.

GARRETT RICHIE Staff Writer The Jewish Student Organization met with potential new Mizzou Hillel directors Monday and Thursday to get to know each candidate and hear their ideas for Hillel.

Current Hillel Director Kerry Hollander is retiring after this academic year, and JSO is hoping to have a new director by this fall.

JSO Vice President Emily Shyken said they have known Hillel would need a new director for over a year, but the official recruiting process has been held recently now that the transition period is drawing closer.

“Everyone’s looking for something different,” Shyken said. “I think one of the big things is people are looking for somebody that can relate to them and can be a friend, someone that’s there in a supportive role for students.”

Brian Mitchell, Senior Assistant Director at Crane Lake Camp in New York, came to campus Monday to begin the candidate visits.

JSO members talked with Mitchell over breakfast before giving him a tour of campus and then hosting a Shakespeare’s Pizza lunch at Hillel for members to get more familiar with him.

Rabbi Moti Rieber, of Kansas City, had a similar visit with students Thursday.

Rieber, who studied at Reconstructionist Rabbanical College, has a rabbinical background with communal experience.

During his lunch Thursday, he dis-

cussed Judaism, academic representation of the religion at MU and potential improvements for JSO and Hillel on campus.

The new Hillel director will be another incentive for students to come to Hillel, JSO Treasurer David Feldman said.

“He’s just one more person that’s going to be there that’s going to be a friendly face,” Feldman said. “I think that’s always important.”

JSO Religious Coordinator Asher Kantor said JSO wanted a leader that could support the students but allow JSO to remain mainly student-led.

“We’re looking for someone who relates to the students in a positive way, not just someone who says, ‘This is what we’re going to do,’ but someone who is involved with the students and is going to get the students to help out and make the organization a student organization,” Kantor said.

Feldman said meeting the candidates was an important investment for the future of JSO and Hillel.

“Basically this is a process of students trying to get to know these candidates to try and think about how we can improve the Jewish community,” Feldman said. “I think we all want to buy into Hillel and JSO and all want to get more involved.”

Feldman also said JSO wants the new Hillel director to have a solid impact on MU’s entire Jewish community.

“We want somebody who is going to reach out to everyone else so that everyone can feel included, somebody that’s going to be a real leader in the Mizzou student Jewish community, someone that can bring us all together,” he said. “I think that’s what we’re really looking for with these lunches.”

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BUILDING: Project needs could reach $1b in decade Continued from page 1 Lafferre Hall has undergone 10 additions, some of which were torn down to make room for new ones, said Marty Walker, College of Engineering director of administrative services.

The latest addition, completed in 2009, demolished 24,000 feet of the 1922 portion of the building and replaced it with a 60,000 square-foot addition that houses an undergraduate lab, research space, faculty offices and student study areas, Walker said.

Restructuring the whole building would be in the university’s best interest, he said. One portion of the building needs a new roof and another needs a new wall.

“Conditions in Lafferre would surprise most visitors to campus,” the MDHE report stated. “Paint is peeling, ceilings are stained, floors are buckling."

According to the MDHE report, cracks in the interior and exterior walls indicate potential structural damage — floors, walls and ceilings show evidence of water damage and some labs are filled with outdated equipment.

Walker said there are some safety issues in Lafferre, and parts of the building do not meet Americans with Disabilities Act codes.

“In years past, there were no ADA standards,” he said.

Buildings are not required to be updated with every new code, but during significant renovations, buildings must accommodate the most current regulations.

“We are very concerned because we want to make the building comply with these standards,” he said.

Some of the standards are impossible to meet without renovating the entire building, which is why it would be more cost effective to build an entirely new structure, Walker said.

The School of Music's Large Instrument Ensembles coordinator Margaret Lawless said these groups are forced to rehearse in Loeb Hall, which was converted from a dining facility to an academic building in Fine Arts Building 1995. The building was not finished and Loeb Hall until five or six years ago, when it was reconfigured to house a small and Constructed more than 50 large rehearsal room and five faculty years ago, the Fine Arts Building studios. now houses the School of Music, art In October 2010, a New York Citydepartment and theater department based professional acoustic designs but has since outgrown the building’s firm, Acoustic Dimensions, reviewed space.

Loeb Hall. Acoustic Dimensions’ School of Music Director Robert Principal Consultant David Kahn Shay said there is a disconnect with made a series of recommendations how it is used now and when con- to improve the building’s acoustics. structed in 1958.

None of Kahn’s recommendations “I think it was designed for have been implemented. Shay said much smaller programs than we they are in the process of responding have today,” he said. “The fact that to the recommendations, but most it doesn’t serve our needs that way of which will need to be done over a makes us feel like it has a lot of period of years. shortcomings. There’s never enough “(Loeb Hall) was not really space.” designed with Shay said the sound the School absorbThe fact that it doesn’t serve our ing material of Music is forced to con- needs that way makes us feel like and because duct classes in (the Fine Arts Building) has a lot of that, the four addition- of shortcomings. There’s never noise level in al buildings enough space.

(Room 201) due to the is extremely Robert Shay lack of space high and just School of Music Director in Fine Arts. not good for Wh i l e the players or there are no pressing safety issues, anyone listening,” Lawless said. he said there are minor renovations She said she would not want to see needed, such as the addition of more anyone bring a lawsuit to the School railways, safety bars and central heat- of Music for the dangerously loud ing and air conditioning. noise levels.

Shay said the students’ learning “For the short term, we will be is affected because there is no one making several acoustical modificaplace for instrumental ensembles to tions to Loeb Hall later this spring rehearse. and over the summer,” Shay said.

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“One of the main changes will be hanging adjustable curtains that will allow the acoustics to be controlled.”

Shay said most of the recommendations would be more costly and would need to be made over a period of years.

Strickland Hall Formerly known as the General Classroom Building, Strickland Hall was built in 1969 and, according to the MDHE report, has only undergone minor renovations.

Karlan Seville, MU Campus Facilities Communications Manager, said Strickland’s classroom technology needs to be modernized to meet the needs of faculty and staff, and the lighting and building operating systems need to be replaced.

“With the increase in demand for an MU education, as evidenced by a continued growth in our student enrollment, Strickland Hall will continue to be a facility that nearly every undergraduate student will experience through the course of their education and must be improved to ensure a quality environment for providing a quality education,” MU’s request for capital funding for fiscal year 2012 states.

Strickland Hall houses a variety of classes for students, including many for the College of Arts and Sciences.

During the summer of 2010, Room 117 in Strickland Hall was transformed into a model classroom for a task force project led

by Jim Spain, MU vice provost for Undergraduate Studies, and UM System President Emeritus Mel George. The group was designed to look into faculty members’ experi-

ences and opinions about classrooms on campus.

Strickland was chosen for the classroom renovation because it houses a variety of different classes from a myriad of different academic departments, Spain said. The renovated room includes new chairs, whiteboards and projector equipment and has no front or back, so students can see and interact from anywhere in the room with faculty.

Finding the Money Aside from Lafferre, Fine Arts and Strickland, more than 30 other MU campus buildings need maintenance, according to the MDHE report. But with continued decreases in state appropriations for higher education, money for campus facilities and deferred maintenance is increasingly more difficult to attain.

According to the UM System’s FY 2012 Appropriations Request for Operations, as the deterioration of buildings continues to increase, it will be more difficult to catch up on backlogged maintenance.

“Right now with the maintenance and repair budget, we don’t have a very robust pool of money to do those kinds of projects,” Spain said.

According to a previous Maneater report, MDHE Deputy Commissioner Paul Wagner said at some level there is not much they can do.

“There comes a time when deferred maintenance catches up,” he said. “And that time is now.”

Visit themaneater.com for a slideshow of buildings that needed repair.

BALL: Selection Sunday approaches Continued from page 1 Marcus Denmon. The Tiger’s leading scorer notched a game-high 22 points and hit all three of the team’s long balls. Junior forward Laurence Bowers and junior guard Kim English also broke double digits, scoring 13 and 12 points respectively.

Texas A&M was led by junior forward David Loubeau and senior guard B.J. Holmes who each scored 20 points. Joining them in double figures was Aggie senior forward Nathan Walkup with 16 points and a game-high six rebounds.

While Missouri hung with Texas A&M in the paint (each team scored 32 points inside), the Aggies dominated from deep. They shot 8 for 16 from beyond the arc, using timely three-pointers to keep Missouri distant.

The Tigers started slowly on both

ends, letting the Aggies jump out to a double-digit lead just five minutes in at 14-4. Missouri shot 2-for-19 to start the game, failing to capitalize on early Texas A&M turnovers.

The Aggies earned their initial big lead and never looked back. The Aggies led 46-33 at halftime.

Junior forward Laurence Bowers saw his team fall behind early and fail to make up the lost ground.

“They executed, they had more energy, and they punched us in the mouth, and we couldn’t withstand it," Bowers said.

The break brought no end to the Missouri mishaps, as the Tigers came out and missed their first seven shots of the second half. The Aggies extended the lead to 20 just five minutes into the half and the Tigers couldn’t claw back.

Hitting the floor just one night after playing down to wire with Texas

Tech might have hurt Missouri.

Coach Mike Anderson knows his team didn’t bring the energy needed to overcome an early deficit.

“It seemed like we were walking in mud, just couldn’t generate that energy we’re always talking about,” Anderson said. “We got off to a slow start and it just seemed like we were battling uphill. We did not have that energy you need to have, especially against a good team like Texas A&M.” Junior guard Kim English made comments after the game suggesting that energy was not the problem.

English said his team quit.

English was not seen at the postgame press conference where his teammates denied any notion that Missouri gave up.

“I’m always going to go out fighting until the clock says zero,” Denmon said. “I feel, as one of the leaders of this team, that the rest of

the players should do that as well.

I don’t know what Kimmie meant, but I don’t feel that anyone out there quit.”

Karen was back up,” not determined in the Teeghman said. “I incident. tried to pull him off “I don’t know of her, and ended up why he did it, but he pulling him onto me. assaulted two other He pushed me and had people and that’s that,” his hands on my throat Weimer said. just for a second.”

Teeghman’s parents Teeghman said were the first people to there were about a notify MUPD at about dozen other students 2:30 p.m. present and people “I left the J-School JAY DEE could see the incident pretty quickly after the BUSH from both the first incident and called my floor and the Futures parents,” Teeghman Lab. said. “I kind of assumed the proWeimer said Bush’s motive was fessors who talked to the student

afterward would call the police.

It didn’t occur to me to be the one to do so.”

When first contacted by The Maneater, MUPD had not received a call regarding the Futures Lab altercation.

Weimer said he was concerned that MUPD was not immediately alerted of the incident.

Teeghman said the result of Bush’s academic disciplinary hearing would have an impact on whether he presses charges.

“I initially wanted to because I thought he wasn’t going to get any sort of academic punish-

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Senior Justin Safford watches coach Mike Anderson during the final minutes of Thursday's game during the Big 12 Championship Tournament. The Tigers will receive word on their berth in the March Madness Tournament on Sunday.

Visit themaneater.com for an audio clip from the post game press conferance.

ASSAULT: Bush was released from jail on $500 bond Continued from page 1 when junior Jay Dee Bush, 32, entered the Futures Lab in RJI with a drink and assistant professor Karen Mitchell asked him to throw it away. When he refused, Mitchell picked up the drink to throw it away.

Weimer said Bush pushed Mitchell from behind, shoving her into a table.

Both the table and Mitchell fell to the ground. Teeghman said he then tried to intervene and pull Bush away.

“By the time I got over there,

ment,” Teeghman said. “The only card I had was to press charges legally. I still haven’t made up my mind.”

Bush remained in the Futures Lab after the incident and was arrested at about 3 p.m. on simple assault charges, a misdemeanor under Columbia city ordinances.

Bush was released after posting $500 bond, Weimer said.

Bush is listed in the student directory as a junior and is still enrolled at MU, according to the University Registrar.

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OUTLOOK ON CAMPUS, AROUND THE NATION A collection of top stories from student newspapers across the nation Professors indicted for fraud in Georgia UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA—Georgia prosecutors have charged two University of Minnesota professors of fraud for being on two universities payrolls simultaneously.

Francois Sainfort and Julie Jacko were allegedly receiving payments from both the University of Minnesota and Georgia Institute of Technology and have been charged with conspiracy to defraud, theft by taking and making false statements. The two are married.

Jacko is a leader in the field of health informatics, the study of using computergenerated health care data for decision-making. Sainfort was the head of the Division of Health Policy and Management at the School of Public Health before the scandal came to light.

—The Minnesota Daily

By Luke Feuerherm

Bob Woodward, of Watergate fame, to give this semester’s Snyder Lecture TUFTS UNIVERSITY—Bob Woodward, part of the pair of reporters who broke the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post in the early 1970s, will next month deliver the semester’s Richard E. Snyder President’s Lecture, according to James Glaser, Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences.

The Snyder lecture series has historically provided a forum for speakers to present provocative viewpoints on significant issues.

“He established his career by challenging a president—an administration—and as a result, he changed journalism and he and his partner had a profound impact on the course of history,” Glaser said. “There are very few people out there like that.”

—The Tufts Daily

By Ben Gittleson

Stressed rats used to study human depression UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS—A recent study on rat brains at the University of California, San Diego has shown depression is triggered by the activation of a part of the brain called the lateral habenula, or LHb. Researchers from UCSD, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory are searching for ways to control the activation to more effectively treat depression.

The LHb is also connected to other regions of the brain, which control reward response, the sleep/wake cycle and eating. Since the LHb is connected to all these systems, depression can lead to sleep disorders, compulsive behavior and eating disorders.

Testing rats with congenital learned helplessness could give insight into how depression is triggered in humans.

—The California Aggie

By Hudson Lofchie ­—Compiled by Lauren Bale, staff writer

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Adderall abuse:

Unhealthy, unfair, or ineffective?

MADELINE O’LEARY Staff Writer

Whether it’s downed with a cup of coffee or crushed up and snorted before a party, illegal use of the cognition-enhancing ADHD prescription Adderall has pervaded college campuses across the United States.

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY PETER YANKOWSKY Adderall sales in the U.S. increased more than 3,100 percent between 2002 The Addiction Journal estimates that one in four college students misuse ADHD and 2005, according to an article in medications. Adderall sales increased 3,100 percent between 2002 and 2005, according to a Washington Post article.

The Washington Post.

Although exact figures are another that I am on Adderall, they’re unknown, the Addiction Journal like, ‘Oh! Oh! Can I buy some from reported an expected 1 in 4 college you?’ or, ‘I know someone who needs students misuse ADHD medications. it! My friend’s taking the MCAT’s next College students between the ages of month, and he needs it really badly.’”

18 and 22 were also reported to be Long-term use of Adderall increases Opponents of illicit Adderall usage twice as likely to abuse Adderall than often argue the drug provides an the chance for some side effects and in extreme cases of abuse can cause non-students. unfair advantage for non-prescribed amphetamine psychosis. Here are Sophomore Nathan Grove said users in academic environments. A some side effects: increased Adderall use on college drug meant to alleviate concentraanorexia campuses could be attributed to more tion issues for people with ADHD, sleeping disorders prescriptions being filled. chronic headaches Adderall heightens the ability for a pain in the stomach “There’s a lot of students that non-user to focus. high blood pressure haven’t been prescribed or been diagKupferer said the claim that sudden and unexplained weight nosed with ADD when they were kids Adderall gives some students a leg-up loss and now they’re in college, and they over others is not necessarily valid. mood swings need it to pass classes,” Grove said. vomiting “I think you can be involved in lots heartburn “There’s a lot more of it out there, and of things and have a social life and be chest pains that makes it easier to get a hold of.” at the top of your game academically For students, there is a rigorous without needing Adderall,” Kupferer With long-term use: process to obtaining an Adderall pre- said. severe withdrawals periods of depression scription, said Stephanie Bagby-Stone, Increased use among people withamphetamine psychosis doctor of medicine and assistant pro- out a prescription has raised questions fessor of clinical psychiatry. about the educational atmosphere of “If a student has been diagnosed today’s universities.

ASHLEY LANE | GRAPHICS ASSISTANT with ADHD before, they can’t just call Critics of the prescription drug up and ask for a refill,” Bagby-Stone speculate the competitive nature of the “(Taking Adderall without a presaid. “They have to provide records U.S.’ learning institutions along with scription) is never a good idea due to of past prescriptions and evaluations the increased emphasis on standard- medical dangers,” Bagby-Stone said. before a prescription can be written.” ized test scores has led to the drug’s “It’s also illegal and a felony offense. A For students who haven’t been prolific abuse. lot of dangerous things can happen.” diagnosed with ADHD, Bagby-Stone Yet within the debate concerning Junior Anthony Postiglione agreed said full testing is required. that shifting educational values are the ethical implications and health “There’s IQ testa contributing fac- complications of misusing Adderall, ing, learning distor to increased writer for The Chronicle Matt Lamkin ability testing and said whether Adderall provides an Adderall usage. testing for ADHD,” I think you can be involved in “I feel like a lot unfair advantage for non-prescribed Bagby-Stone said. lots of things and have a social of teachers focus users shouldn’t be an issue.

“Then the patient life and be at the top of your “Simply calling the use of study on who gets better is evaluated by a game academically without grades rather than drugs ‘unfair’ tells us nothing about psychiatrist. We’ve needing Adderall.” the actual process why colleges should ban them,” recognized potenof learning it,” Lamkin said in the article. “If such tial problems Kelsey Kupferer drugs really do improve academic Postiglione said. with the misuse Freshman Ethical implica- performance among healthy students of ADHD meditions of non-pre- (and the evidence is scant), shouldn’t cation and have scribed Adderall usage aside, Kupferer colleges put them in the drinking put in place structured policies to said the biggest concern should be the water instead?” make sure prescriptions are diagnosed health risks of abusing a prescription Restricting Adderall usage is only adequately.” drug. necessary when health concerns come Prescribed Adderall to treat her “(People) start increasing their dos- into play, Lamkin continued.

ADD and certain side effects of age, and that makes me nervous,” “That seems like an argument about depression, freshman Kelsey Kupferer Kupferer said. “That was one of the safety, not fairness,” Lamkin said. said she is constantly approached reasons I was hesitant to go on the “While safety is a valid concern, it is about possible distribution of her drug even though it was offered to me one that might be overcome by better medication. by my doctor. It scares me to do any- drug design. If we are still troubled by She said students generally request thing that alters the chemical struc- the idea of a study drug that is safe and the medication for school-related ture of your brain. Once you change universally available, we have to look activities. that, you can’t get it back.” for other sources of our discomfort.”

“People have this perception of Bagby-Stone said misusing Adderall Adderall as being this miracle drug that could result in a slew of complications will make you smarter and increase including cardiovascular problems, Visit themaneater.com for a your test scores and all these wonder- high blood pressure, sleep deprivaWord on the Street podcast about ful things,” Kupferer said. “As soon as tion, appetite issues, psychosis and Adderall abuse. anybody finds out for some reason or mania.

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THE KEY TO YOUR ENTERTAINMENT

t o a R i a Rdraws from theRorchard *

The baroque rockers share their inspiration for their cleverly titled album The Orchard.

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Out of the Box...office

CHASE KOENEKE movie columnist

‘The Adjustment

Bureau’ could use a few tweaks It’s 2010. A slightly younger version of director George Nolfi is watching “Inception” for the first time on a recommendation from a friend.

As the credits roll, Nolfi sits and ponders what he just saw. Then, without skipping a beat, he proclaims, “I can do that.”

OK, so it probably didn’t work out quite like that, but when watching “The Adjustment Bureau,” it’s very difficult to shake the feeling that you’re seeing “Inception” for the second time.

You might think this is a bad thing, but in actuality, it’s a great move. Why not model yourself after one of the biggest movies of the past year? In fact, “The Adjustment Bureau” only falters when it strays from the “Inception” formula.

“The Adjustment Bureau” follows the story of David Norris (Matt Damon), a congressman struggling to make it to the Senate. Just as Norris loses his campaign for Senate, he meets Elise (Emily Blunt), a ballerina that helps inspire him to try again.

Just as Norris begins to fall for Elise, the mysterious r e v i e w Adjustment Bureau, a group of dapper dudes who keep the E TH world “on plan,” takes him.

ADJUSTMENT Apparently, Norris and Elise AU RE BU weren’t supposed to see each DIRECTOR: GEORGE other again, and if they conNOLFI tinue their relationship, they’ll FEATURING: MATT mess up both of their fates.

NT BLU MILY ONE DAM From there, the film divides RATING: PG-13 1 itself into half romance as E: TIM ING NN RU Norris and Elise further their HOUR, 46 MINUTES relationship, and half thriller of 5 as the Adjustment Bureau does everything in their power to split the couple up and get them both back on track.

Unfortunately, only one of these halves is interesting.

The love story between Norris and Elise is pretty weak and doesn’t do a great job as a pillar for the film to stand on.

The Adjustment Bureau as a group is extremely interesting, however, and manages to pull its weight and then some.

The practicality the filmmakers bring to a subject as nebulous as religion is fascinating, and every glimpse I got into the inner-workings of the group grabbed my attention more and more.

But no matter how engaged I was with the Bureau, the story would always take a turn back to the regrettable love story.

It’s a shame because with a better plot, “The Adjustment Bureau” would’ve easily eclipsed “Inception.”

It certainly has a better cast in my opinion. Matt Damon and Emily Blunt both are spot on, but the real stars are the Bureau members themselves, played by Anthony Mackie, John Slattery and Terence Stamp.

Each one brings a certain coolness to their role that makes the Bureau everything I could ever want.

Ultimately, “The Adjustment Bureau” is an interesting premise that sadly is used to fuel a trite love story.

The plot is the one thing holding back an otherwise excellent movie, but it’s a big failing that might well ruin the film.

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When life gives Ra Ra Riot lemons, it makes an album about apples * Ra Ra Riot will perform with The Pomegranates at 8 p.m. March 14 at Mojo’s.

Before he was the lead vocalist and keyboardist of baroque band Ra Ra Riot, Wesley Miles studied physics. This unassuming characteristic defies most rock norms, but when the group assembles live, it’s evident why knowledge of acceleration might be useful to a performer.

There is a mild-mannered pretense as sound technicians prop string instruments up among Telecasters and the sweater-wearing members of Ra Ra Riot ascend the stage. Cellist Alexandra Lawn’s debonair dress or guitarist Milo Bonacci’s bushel of hair evinces more of a recital than a rock concert.

But any illusion of propriety drops two measures into Ra Ra Riot’s oceanic “Ghost Under Rocks.” Rebecca Zeller’s fingers sidle the neck of her violin, Miles decanting a melody, and it becomes clear something elegant, albeit kinetic, is charging up.

The band came together at Syracuse University in 2006 with undergraduate Bonacci’s hunt for fellow musicians on campus. From its genesis, Ra Ra Riot was fated to sound different, Bonnaci’s first find being violinist Zeller, not your typical indie rock recruit. After this pairing, the rest of the members soon fell into place and began compiling songs for their self-titled EP. “We played at a bunch of house parties,” Miles said. “A lot of really quick guerilla style shows.”

Ra Ra Riot’s status as a live band oriented its debut LP, "The Rhumb Line", released in 2008.

With a dangerously high resting heart rate, "The Rhumb Line" rockets from poppy cavalcade “St. Peter’s Day Festival” to the inertia-addled chorus of “Too Too Too Fast,” letting nothing stunt its momentum.

"The Rhumb Line" found a large audience upon release, as did the band, who opened for acts such as Death Cab for Cutie and Tokyo Police Club, touring throughout the U.S. Coming off the heels of its first tour, the group retreated to a friend’s farmhouse in Mennonite country. Contemplating in the property’s peach orchard and demoing tracks in its naturally lit living room gave the band direction for its second album.

“Writing upstate in New York was freeing in that way. We didn’t have many restrictions,” Miles said. “The orchard was a good place to be secluded.”

The members cleverly titled their second album "The Orchard". The energetic forte of "The Rhumb Line" is heard on nimble “Shadowcasting,” but "The Orchard" also captures the tranquility of its namesake on ballads such as “You and I Know.”

“If we played in a busier place, I’m sure it would’ve come out different,” said Miles. “The setting definitely influences the creation.”

"The Orchard", released last August, was well received for its reprise of bright hues, as well as its voyage to the other side of the color wheel.

Still, the band’s signature facet, the manic live

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show, continues exalting fans into movement.

On whether he gets dizzy, brushing past his bandmates, intersecting his voice with their instruments on upbeat staple —“Too Dramatic,” Miles said, “If you think too much about it, it’s not going to happen. You just let it flow through you.”

Ra Ra Riot will perform Monday at Mojo’s.

parker tarun | reporter

PREVIEW

CEC performs “Doubt, a Parable” *The production will continue Thursday through Sunday.

The dark stage reveals a young priest, illuminated in white vestments, behind a podium. As the audience begins to embody the mysterious, uneasy tone the stage sets, the father unveils his sermon’s topic. It’s no surprise that it describes doubt as a force just as powerful as certainty.

Thus plays the opening scene of Columbia Entertainment Company’s presentation of John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt, a Parable.” CEC performed the play March 3 through March 6 and performances will continue Thursday through Sunday.

Director Shawna Kelty said when she heard CEC would be putting on “Doubt,” she knew she had to apply to be the director.

“I really like John Patrick Shanley’s work and this play in particular in how it’s always wrestling with that idea of certainty and doubt,” Kelty said.

“Doubt’s” cast consists of Sister Aloysius Beauvier, played by Melanie Vessels, Sister James, played by Courtney Wucher, Father Brendan Flynn, played by Rory O’Carroll and Mrs. Muller, played by Erica Bruington.

“I actually heard about auditions from another cast member,” Vessels said. “I thought it’d be

fun to get back onstage again (after a four-year hiatus), and to do such a demanding role would be a real challenge.”

The play is set in Bronx in 1964 at Saint Nicholas’s Church School. The performance unfolds conflict between Sister Aloysius and Father Flynn, regarding Father Flynn’s one-onone meeting with the school’s first-ever African American student, Donald Muller.

Debuting her acting career Thursday, Bruington said rehearsing for the show was her life for the past five weeks, but she thoroughly enjoyed it.

“I like the whole idea of acting, being a different person,” Bruington said. “I get to come in here and be this lady… then when I go home, I’m Erica again. It’s neat.”

Vessels said the most difficult part of the production wasn’t the time commitment, but rather memorizing her lines. She also said committing to one’s character is a major struggle actors face.

“You have to try to make sure you play the character with honesty and truth, so the audience believes the person they are seeing onstage is a real person,” Vessels said.

Apart from his role as Father Flynn, O’Carroll also serves as Assistant Director for the play.

“We strove to have an ensemble cast where everyone has their part to play in the morals we have to tell,” O’Carroll said.

Costume Designer Jolene Metzen said the costume selections were all laid out, having two nuns and a priest in the cast.

“We only had like a $100 budget, so it was more getting a hold of the people in the community and then looking through their stock,” Metzer said.

Kelty said being a Stage II production accounts for these minimal costs.

“A lot of the pieces (set) were loaned to us,” Kelty said. “In terms of costumes, we had a few pieces we purchased and the priest vestments were actually loaned to us very generously

by Our Lady of Lourdes Church, one of the ministers or priests there loaned us his personal vestments for the use for the play.” liz stratman | staff writer

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The Scissor Sisters unique blend of pop and electroclash create a relentless atmosphere, where the dancing doesn’t stop and the music just keeps getting louder. Known for their lively stage performances and danceable anthems, the Scissor Sisters taste for nightlife threatens to challenge Columbia’s lively scene.

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Birth control to make you, your uterus happy I knew as I slid my feet into the stirrups and writhed and wiggled in anticipation of the cold speculum that I was embarking on a new sexual journey.

I would even venture to say that I am now a connoisseur of these experiences. A specialist if you insist. I am, what you would call, an aficionado of everything anti-baby.

While occasionally I oblige to sexual fantasies and kinky acts for writing inspiration solely, this experience was something of its very own. While the actual experience was too intimate to even share with my monogamous partner, I feel compelled to share in an attempt to dispel the taboo nature of “unconventional” forms of birth control in a college setting.

Yesterday, my uterus and I made friends with the gynecologist sought-after intrauterine device (or IUD), called Mirena. The soft, flexible plastic t-shaped birth control contraceptive delivers a low dosage of the hormone levonorgestrel directly into your uterus and lasts up to five years. Sans the daily pill taking and stresses over more conventional forms of birth control, Mirena boasts it is more effective than sterilization, without the permanency.

Before considering any type of birth control, it is important to do your research, but also to go in with a level head. No single birth control is 100 percent effective, 100 percent right for everyone’s body or without side effects or risks.

While the uncertainty of the IUD’s activity might seem daunting, the Internet reviews will have you crying (and cramping) in the corner. Remember, the happiest of birth control users are out there using their loins to their full potential, while the least satisfied are hunched over their keyboard giving message boards their vaginal rage.

Among the side effects listed, the implantation of the IUD seemed more off-putting in comparison to that of other forms of birth control. In the past, I have tried three different brands of birth control pills (including Ortho Tri-Cyclen and Yaz), Ortho Evra (the patch), NuvaRing, condoms, spermicidal products and the not-so-trusty pull-out method as forms of contraceptive.

All of this was not as disconcerting as the implantation of Mirena seemed to be. While other forms of birth control require taking a pill, or placing it in your love box or on your skin, Mirena is placed inside your uterus.

The process takes only a minute or two, but in my experience, it is accompanied with a lot of discomfort for a very short amount of time. I have had close to 8 hours of tattoo work done and countless other piercings, and the implant fell extremely low on my painful experiences.

After all, the worst had yet to come. The procedure was done in less than five minutes. After dressing and transferring to another office for a sonogram (they must check to see if it is placed correctly), I was struck with the most uncomfortable and unbearable cramps while in the waiting room.

After half an hour of seemingly feminine hell, the nausea and cramps significantly subsided after a few more Advil and the successful digestion of the hot dog I had for lunch (read: bad idea).

After leaving the doctor’s office, I felt woozy, bloated and exhausted, however these side effects also subsided within the next two hours and a few naps.

Now into day two, I feel great and back to normal.

I’ll save you the bloody (sorry, I couldn’t help it) details, but Mirena seems to be delivering exactly what it promises — a significantly (75 percent) lighter flow. Twenty percent of women cease their flow all together while on Mirena.

And with Mirena, the contraceptive works immediately and consistently. You know what that means: less down time and more getting down time.

It might be too early to tell (or even recommend), but so far, so good on this hormonal hap. Only time (and my organs) will tell.

But for birth control, don’t let time tell you anything.

Regardless of your method, practice it hard and often. After all, there is absolutely nothing sexier than worry-free, guilt-free sex.

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MOVE spent an afternoon with glass artists at Village Glass Works.

A rainbow dances across the wall, waving and twirling in the decorative windows’ brilliant light. Long icicle figures dangle and intertwine with the larger blotches of color to paint a collage around the warm shop. Within Village Glass Works’ crowded welcoming room, glass displays showcase handmade jewelry, marbles and other knickknacks. Aligning the walls are shelves of glass organized by shade, size and design. One cubbyhole contains glass stir sticks and another exhibits square plates, each with its own unique texture and movement.

Beyond the store hides a workshop that could match that of the North Pole. Shards of glass decorate the tabletops in a patchwork quilt fashion. Stain glass embellishes the windows as if to represent the beauty that can come from broken glass. A third room connects with the workshop; slightly smaller, it houses the kiln used for heating the glass and another table covered with utensils of every shape and form.

It is in this final room where the magic occurs.

With a warm smile, Molly Fiegel invited MOVE into her studio.

“I love how I can choose the effects of glass,” Molly Fiegel said. “I feel like I get to paint with someone else’s colors.”

Molly Fiegel’s parents bought the business when she was 13 years old and transformed it into the shop it is today. Working alongside her

mother, Susie Fiegel, Molly Fiegel is both an artist and a merchant. All of their products are either made in their workshop or by local artists. Village Glass Works also offers public classes, supplies included, on how to make bead jewelry, stain glass and other arts.

MOVE was lucky enough to get its own private lesson.

“Stained glass requires the copper foil method,” Molly Fiegel explained.

Foil is wrapped around each piece of cut glass and solder is put over the lines to bring the glass together.

Jewelry can also be made this way by sandwiching a picture (or piece of paper) between two pieces of thin glass, wrapping it with copper foil and soldering it to form a personalized pendant.

The most common technique is slumping, which creates vases, candleholders and other hollow objects.

First, stack and fuse various colored glasses together to make one solid piece. Then, suspend the glass over a mold in the kiln so the glass melts down to shape the mold.

Fusing incorporates multiple pieces of textured glass that are melted together to form movement underneath the smooth surface of the finished product.

“This art is a magical alchemy of heat and glass,” Molly Fiegel said.

“There’s really no way to learn, except through trial and error.”

Next, Susie Fiegel demonstrated how to make a glass bead using a

Peter Yankowsky/Staff Photographer

Susie Fiegel spins hot glass to create a bead Monday at Village Glass Works. The shop holds multiple classes and hosts local artists and glass. torch. She heated the stainless steal ing the bead out of the heat, the dots mandrel (which is covered with bead will cool slowly and keep their 3D release or clay) simultaneously with a form. However, if they continue to be colored glass rod. The original color heated, the dots will drop down and of the glass will turn to a darker hue; become flat 2D circles on the bead. this process is called striking. When After styling the bead, Susie Fiegel the glass cools down it will return to slowly cooled the hot glass by placing its original color. Carefully stringing it in a container full of vermiculite, the glass on the mandrel, Susie Fiegel a mineral that releases tension in the created a perfect ball of glass balanced bead to avoid cracking or breaking. on the mandrel.

“The designs people create are Rotating the mandrel over the astonishing,” she said. “Different flame, the glass evens out to form a bead. Now through with the basics, sequences of dots and lines can turn the artist is free to design. A glass into something so beautiful it makes stringer (glass pulled into fine threads) your mouth drop open.” is melted with the flame to add dots onto the outside of the bead. By pullchelsea bengier | reporter

PREVIEW next concert in the Award-winning clarinetist *The “We Always Swing” jazz series will take place comes to The Blue Note March 12.

Master reed musician Anat Cohen is taking her music from Israel to Boston and New York and now to Columbia.

“I got to spend more time playing with different musicians,” Cohen said of the time since she’s been in Columbia. “Getting deeper into the performance, into the musical movement. The nice thing about jazz is it’s a moving work, so you can never see the same thing.”

Cohen specializes in the clarinet and tenor saxophone. She was voted Clarinetist of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association from 2007 through 2010, the first person to receive the honor two years in a row.

Cohen, originally from Israel, says there was not much jazz played while she was growing up, though there is much more now.

A member of a musical family, she

discovered jazz at a conservatory.

“When I played in the conservatory, we played the music of New Orleans,” Cohen said. “I loved the spirit of the music, loved the way it felt.”

Cohen started on the clarinet, and felt the saxophone was a natural way to continue as she began playing big band music.

After leaving Tel Aviv, she studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Arriving in New York in 1999, Cohen gained musical experience by playing with groups like the Diva Jazz Orchestra and David Ostwald’s “Gully Low Jazz Band.”

Cohen is also known for her use of South American flavor in her jazz. In addition to both modern and traditional jazz, she plays Brazilian choro and Argentinian tango music.

“The clarinet is one of the leading voices in choro,” Cohen said. “Basically, that’s what really brought me back to playing clarinet, so I think my influences on the clarinet are more from South America.”

Cohen, who said she improvises roughly 95 percent of the time while performing, has expanded her work to include composition.

“It’s just a slower process…it’s calculated improvisation,” joked Cohen. “I started to compose just to find melodies that are in me.

In my journey, in my past. It all comes out sometimes, and you don’t even realize until you hear it in your music.

It’s a combination of everything I’ve done, of who I am, of where I’ve been.”

Cohen said the way her compositions are might require a musi-

cian to have more knowledge of a certain style.

“All my compositions allow people to bring their personalities into them,” she said. “They have open sections where people can really bring their style to their music. I like that about jazz musicians. I like that music has no gender, no age, no color, no religion.”

Cohen said she doesn’t restrict herself to solely modern or traditional music, in both her performing and her composing.

“It’s a mix and match of everything,” Cohen said. “I’ll be trying to play both when I come to Columbia.”

The Anat Cohen Quartet will be performing March 12 at The Blue Note as part of the “We Always Swing” Jazz Series. teresa klassen | staff writer

MOVE HIGHLIGHTS (ALBUM RELEASE) THE DODOS, NO COLOR RELEASE DATE: TUESDAY, MARCH 15

After seeing the band’s softer side in Time to Die, the assertive, drum-heavy side of The Dodos is back in the form of their newest album No Color. The album features vocals from Neko Case.

(EVENT) STEDDY P AND DJ MAHF TIME: 8:30 P.M. DATE: SATURDAY, MARCH 11 LOCATION: MOJO’S, 1013 PARK AVE. TICKETS: $8

Kansas City native and co-creator of Indyground Entertainment Steddy P will join St. Louis’ DJ Mahf on stage Saturday to spit rhymes, turn tables and draw you out of your chair.

(EVENT) SEAN WALSH AND THE NATIONAL RESERVE TIME: 9 P.M. DATE: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16 LOCATION: THE BLUE FUGUE, 120 SOUTH NINTH ST. TICKETS: $5

New York couch surfers and indie rockers Sean Walsh and the National Reserve boast the ability to make your heart a little lighter with their sweet tunes and laid-back vibe.

(EVENT) RYAN BINGHAM AND THE DEAD HORSES, LIAM GERNER TIME: 7 P.M. DATE: SUNDAY, MARCH 13 LOCATION: THE BLUE NOTE, 17 NORTH NINTH ST. TICKETS: $21

Academy Award winning Americana/ roots singer Ryan Bingham has been compared to Tom Waits by “Texas Music Magazine” for the whiskey-and-cigarette rasp to his voice.

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Police review board to discuss public access to meetings KELSEY MAFFETT Staff Writer The Citizens Police Review Board debated whether to hear complaints against police officers in meetings closed to the public during its Wednesday meeting.

The Missouri Sunshine Law allows a public governing body, such as the review board, to hold closed sessions when it serves the best interest of the parties involved.

In the case of the review board, this means complainants, witnesses and police officers.

When the review board was formed, its ordinances specified that all hearings and deliberations were to be completely open.

City Counselor Fred Boeckmann said at least one complainant and several Columbia Police Department officers wanted the option of testifying before only board members.

Board Chairwoman Ellen Locurto-Martinez said having some sessions closed might be beneficial for witnesses.

“This is a decision we’ll have to struggle with,” she said. “I don’t know which is the right answer, if there is a right answer.”

Board member Susan Smith said she thought the aftermath of the board’s last decision, in which it ruled a CPD officer used excessive force against a Columbia resident Derek Billups, would scare away future complainants.

“He was not a public figure before making this complaint,” Smith said.

“We want openness so much that there are no boundaries.”

Some board members wanted to allow only complainants to choose closed sessions, while others wanted to extend it to all parties involved.

The board initially voted 7-1 to request the Columbia City Council to change the ordinance and allow the board to have closed sessions, but later voted to table the discussion for a later meeting.

Board member Betty Wilson was the only dissenting vote.

“If we take away or erode this openness, we’re eroding the trust people have in us,” Wilson said.

“People will wonder why we’re operating behind closed doors, if we’re truly operating the same way we would in public.”

Smith argued the Billups case showed how public hearings can possibly hurt the complainant.

“We have a private citizen who was attacked by the media,” Smith said. “We want to encourage them to come forward and make complaints, but the media is such that there is no protection.”

During the public comment section of the meeting, Columbia residents spoke both in opposition and in favor of the board’s vote.

“I just want to reiterate the support for openness,” said Mitch Richards, member of Keep Columbia Free. “I think it’s a clear

Suspect drives through checkpoint, flees on foot A driver reportedly fled his vehicle and evaded one of the Boone County Sheriff’s Department’s periodic sobriety checkpoints before being arrested Sunday night.

The driver, identified as Lucas Wren, of Ashland, drove past the checkpoint. An officer then stopped the vehicle, causing the driver to flee on foot, Boone County Sheriff’s Department Capt. Gary German said.

The Columbia and Hallsville Police Departments conducted a lengthy search of the area and located the driver. He was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated.

“It seems like this happens once or twice a year,” German said. “It’s not real common.”

The checkpoint was held on St. Charles Road, and officers checked approximately 135 vehicles throughout the evening.

During the checkpoint, police arrested 11 people on charges ranging from driving while intoxicated to misdemeanor resisting arrest.

Fewer vehicles were stopped at this week’s check as opposed to past ones. In August, 299 cars were stopped, and nine DWI arrests were made.

“It could be a number of different circumstances, whether it be what’s going on in town, or the weather,” German said. “It seems like, if it’s a cold night and dreary weather, then folks usually don’t seem to be out as much.”

These checkpoints are held periodically throughout the year and are funded by grants.

“They raise awareness to the public and hopefully they’ll try to utilize a designated driver instead of getting behind the wheel,” German said. “Also, they hopefully reduce

the number of accidents involving impaired drivers.”

The sobriety checkpoint coincides with other drunk driving reducing efforts within the Boone County Sheriff’s Department this month.

“Besides the officers that are regularly out there, we’ll probably have one or two saturations during the month of March,” German said. “We’ll probably be doing something in relation to St. Paddy’s Day.” —Sally French, staff writer

SOBRIETY CHECKPOINT

COMPARISON

Fewer arrests were made during the most recent checkpoint than during the August, 2010 checkpoint.

March 2011

Outstanding Misdemeanor Warrant Driving With A Suspended or Revoked License

Driving While Intoxicated

No Operator's License Adult August Liquor Law Violations

2010 Driving While Intoxicated

Adult Liquor Law Violations Possession of Fake Identification Card MAURA HOWARD | GRAPHIC DESIGNER

JAMES MILITELLO/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The Citizens Police Review Board discussed offering the option to request a closed meeting to witnesses and officers Wednesday. After originally passing the measure, the board reversed its first vote, then voted 6-1 to table the issue for further discussion at its April meeting.

and fundamental part of your role in the community to be as open as possible.”

CPD spokeswoman Jill Wieneke said she thought allowing closed sessions would get rid of the need for legal representation for officers.

“Speaking on behalf of the officers, the vast majority think that the issue with attorneys would be fixed

by the ability to do this in closed session,” Wieneke said.

After hearing from several residents, some of the board members decided they wanted to reconsider their votes.

“After I voted, I really thought about it,” board member Carroll Highbarger said. “I’m worried about becoming just another government

agency you can’t trust. I wish I had not voted the way I did.”

The board voted 6-1 to put the City Council recommendation on hold and address the issue again at the April meeting.

Visit themaneater.com for audio clips from the CPRB meeting.

MU’s professors, finally break national salary trends MU medical professors make up 19 of top 20 professors salaries.

this year, thinking that most people would do the same and we might move up slightly,” said Betsy Rodriguez, UM System vice president of human resources in a previous Maneater article. “But in fact, many of the AAU instituABIGAIL GEIGER tions did do a moderate salary increase, and we are definitely Staff Writer still at the bottom of that group.”

MU Budget Director Tim A study published in the Chronicle of Higher Education Rooney did not respond to mulon Monday demonstrated the tiple requests for interview.

MU spokesman Christian Basi inequality between professor’s said the aversalaries based age salary of an on the subject MU professor is they teach. $111,000.

N a t i o n a l l y, Many of the AAU instituThe highlaw profestions did do a moderate est paid professors are paid higher than salary increase, and we are sorships at MU any other definitely still at the bottom were the law, medicinal, mardivision, but of that group." keting/business at MU mediand biochemical professors Betsy Rodriguez cal departments, outstrip their UM System vice president of according to the colleagues. human resources Tribune’s dataThe study split up the salaries by the subject base. Nineteen of the top 20 paid in which the professors teach and professors were in the medicinal by the level at which they were and surgical profession. Twentyone professors received salaries teaching.

The legal profession and study exceeding that of Chancellor was the highest salary for a full- Brady Deaton.

According to the budget time professor, at about $130,000.

Theology professors earned the release, MU’s total revenue for 2011 is approximately $1.9 billowest salary, at about $74,000.

Similarly, the humanities lion. Of MU’s total revenue, professors had noticeably lower approximately $488 million salaries at MU, according to the makes up the general operating Columbia Daily Tribune’s 2010 fund, which comes from tuition, salary database. Professors of state support and grants.

Seventy-three percent or art, history and English were frequently under the $100,000 about $356 million of the operatthreshold, according to the ing funds goes toward salaries.

At $625,000, Chairman and database.

“We did no salary increase Professor of Orthopedic Surgeon

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AVERAGE SALARY

BY SUBJECT National averages show professors of law earn the most on average followed closely by business and engineering professors.

Law:

$134,162 Engineering: Business:

$114,365 $111,621 Communication and Journalism: $85,057 Education:

$83,748

Theology:

$74,267

Source: Chronicle.com ASHLEY LANE | GRAPHIC DESIGNER

James P. Stannard, has the highest salary on MU’s campus, according to the Tribune’s database.

Basi said the high salary is blurred by the definition of a professor’s salary. Professors’ salaries also come from different sources, including gifts and grants.

When professors receive grants, some of the grant money may replace part of their university salary. The university can then pay for other instruction expenses.

The professors of business, law and medicine were paid significantly higher wages in comparison to other departments.

The top 10 MU professors make an average of $412,305, and the bottom 10 make an average of $48,046.

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The discussion starts here Forum is a place for opinions. To have yours heard, send your letters, your comments and your complaints to forum@themaneater.com.

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Proposed changes to CPRB undermine already limited influence Just when we thought the Citizens Police Review Board could not become any more useless, they propose an idea to effectively neuter the one semblance of power they have.

On Wednesday, the board voted and then un-voted to request an ordinance change that would allow them to hold meetings closed to the public if a witness, complainant or possibly a police officer requested it.

The debate comes after the Derek Billups case, when Columbia media outlets looked into the complainant’s criminal background after the review board discussed his case.

Several people at Wednesday’s meeting, including board members and Columbia Police Department spokeswoman Jill Wieneke, argued that witnesses, complainants and police officers might be more comfortable talking to the board if they could do so privately.

The board passed the measure, then re-voted after a few people at the meeting got angry. They decided to backtrack and hold off their recommendation until later.

Really, guys?

This is a governing body with no legitimate authority. The decisions they make concerning police misconduct ultimately amount to a letter sent to Police Chief Ken Burton, who promptly ignores it.

The one thing the Citizens Police Review Board had going for it was its ability to foster an open dialogue between the people of Columbia and the police department.

Not to mention having public meetings holds police officers publically accountable.

Public scrutiny and transparency with the review board helps filter out unwarranted complaints and build public trust in both the board and the police department. Clearly, the board has failed to realize when they are unable to determine which complaints are legitimate, the public’s watchful eye and the media’s investigations indeed can.

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Allowing the public to sit in on meetings is the only way the board has any sort of power, and it’s also the public’s only way to have a say on the conduct of their law enforcement officers.

Yes, the Missouri Sunshine Law says that public governing bodies can have closed meetings as long as they serve the best interest of the parties involved.

However, the board is founded on an ordinance that states its meetings must be open.

There was a reason for this.

Allowing the public to sit in on meetings is the only way the board has any sort of power, and it’s also the public’s only way to have a say on the conduct of their law enforcement officers.

If police officers are allowed to request closed review board meetings, does anyone honestly think the public will ever hear another case that goes before the board?

What police officer wants public attention on a complaint filed against them?

These meetings aren’t supposed to be comfortable.

They are supposed to hold police officers accountable for their actions.

The people of Columbia deserve a chance to do this.

Public accountability is a safeguard to the review board’s limited authority.

If the organization is designed to give the public a voice on police matters, closing them out from important hearings is counter productive, and only delegitimizes the review board even more — and, yes, it turns out that is possible.

Who knew?

ILLUSTRATION BY RYLAN BATTEN

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letter: We know better than the voters?

There’s a theme that has become increasingly prevalent in the Missouri legislature over the last several years.

On several occasions the legislature has ignored the opinion of Missouri voters and voted to repeal laws enacted by the people through the initiative process.

The attitude seems to be: “We know better than the voters. We know what you should want. We have more power than you, so we will do what we want.”

That attitude worries me.

That’s not why I was elected to the Missouri House and I doubt that is what voters believe.

Sure, some voters — those who opposed linking the minimum wage to cost of living, or opposed the puppy mill legislation, or opposed campaign finance limits, or were in favor of the conceal and carry measure — may agree with overturning them, but how can any voter argue that it is all right to disregard ballot box decisions in a representative democracy?

I tried to broker a compromise position on Proposition

B, the puppy mill law, after it became apparent that the House was going to overturn it.

No room for compromise there — they have the votes, and it looks like legislators will again exercise their will.

Last week with HB 61 the House of Representatives voted 92-60 to overturn the state minimum wage law approved in 2006 by 76 percent of Missouri voters.

The bill prohibits the state minimum wage from exceeding the federal minimum wage and specifies that every employer must pay each employee who receives compensation in the form of gratuities a wage of $3.63 per hour.

In 1999, Missouri voters defeated a conceal-carry gun measure by almost 50,000 votes statewide.

Four years later, the state legislature undid the vote of the people and pushed through right-to-carry legislation.

Now, lawmakers continue to push bills that would erase any existing right-to-carry restrictions on college campuses and other public venues.

In 2008, the voters adopted a statewide renewable energy standard by a ration of 2:1.

Just this session the majority of the legislature defeated rules that would have given meaning to the voters’ intent.

It is wrong for legislators to

blindly follow a political party’s political agenda.

When that agenda also opposes the previously tested will of the voters, it is doubly wrong.

— Rep. Chris Kelly 573-289-4067

Letter: Marijuana legalization safe, right thing to do Dear Editor of the Maneater,

I got the impression from Spencer Pearson (NORML Panel Calls For Marijuana Legalization, March 4, 2011) that Missouri is attempting to legalize cannabis (marijuana) on the 2012 election ballot.

The list of states trying to become the 1st to legalize cannabis is growing faster than the plant itself. May the best state win.

Legalizing the relatively safe, extremely popular God-given plant cannabis is one of the most important issues of our time.

Truthfully, — Stan White stanwmtn@colorado.net Cell 970-485-0397

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Last week’s response to “How do the recent sexual assault cases in Columbia affect your sense of safety on campus?”

Question of the Week

Total Votes: 65

Each week, we will pose a question to readers on a certain issue.

40% said very much so.

The incidents have left me fearing for my saftey on campus.

The Maneater received several Tweets in response to articles on the voting student curator initiative reaching a dead end as well as this week’s assault in the Reynolds Journalism Institute.

THIS WEEK: Do you have any experience using Adderall?

Despite heated debate, Mo. House votes down student curator legislation.

HUMOR

That is disappointing. Students should have a voice in the decisions made about their education.

— Suzi Steffen (SuziSteffen) via Twitter How not shocking.

— Josh Barone (joshbarone) via Twitter Student arrested on charges of assaulting journalism professor in RJI. Working at the Futures lab, which is apparently now a crime scene?

— Catherine O’Neill (catquinn) via Twitter FROM FACEBOOK 32-year-old student Jay Dee Bush arrested on charges of assaulting journalism professor in RJI. It’s not a good idea to handle possessions of students.....I’m sorry for the professor. It isn’t easy these days with headstrong students who may not be respectful.

— Barbara Leonhard via Facebook This is beyond being disrespectful! This was downright violent!

There is never a time where this kind of behavior is acceptable, ever!

— Shawn Wallace via Facebook I can’t believe the professor didn’t notify the police! That was their first mistake. What kind of drink did the student have? It seems like there is much more to this story than we know.

— Erica Evans via Facebook Column: Obama should arm US agencies in Mexico Why don’t you trust the Mexican government? Is it because it is run by Mexicans? Why do you think the US should undermine their sovereignty by sending in armed agents? I’m also disturbed that you think adding more guns to the mix will stop the violence.

I don’t think giving our agents guns will deter the heavily armed drug cartels. What’s driving the cartels are the millions if not billions of dollars they are making off of drug sales in the US. Legalizing marijuana in the US would decrease the demand for the imported, black market stuff and take a big cut out of the cartels’ business.

— John E. A. from themaneater.com

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45% said somewhat.

The incidents are worth taking precautions over.

15% said not at all. I feel as safe as I ever have.

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How to target inept Facebook users Lindsey Wehking Instant messenger bullying is so last decade.

Yes, I will admit I used to frequent Internet chat rooms because nothing pulls you out of funk like belittling and degrading random strangers via the persona SexiLexiKittyKat19.

And I must confess I would get a sick sense of satisfaction out of answering the solicit a/s/l (age/sex/location) with 45/in limbo/behind you.

But, I have learned to channel my addiction to the greater good.

I like to think of myself as somewhat of a digital Dexter.

Facebook has spurred my desire for online vigilantism, targeting those inept Facebook users who’s abuse of the public forum places me on the brink of taking down my firewall, unplugging my surge protector and craving the Blue Screen of Death.

In response to this frustration I have constructed the ultimate retribution plan, five steps

to Facedown (Facebook breakdown).

However, I do want to stress the extremity of this attack. Do not implement lightly.

In order to prevent abuse of the Facedown I have included some examples of appropriate activity to target.

All scenarios are actual Facebook activity posted by real Facebook users.

Statuses intensely asserting your satisfaction with your life: Woke up early this morning feeling sexy and was getting ready and saying bye to my gorgeous amazing boyfriend when he randomly confessed his love to me.

Itinerary statuses explicitly detailing your entire years plans and emotional reactions, especially when grammatically slaughtered: Well sitting at home as of now.

Getting ready to go eat and than go work out and get my Zumba freak on its been forever since i went and worked out and let me say I really need to bad.

Done with guys for awhile im tired of them being mean to me for no reason so ima live life to the fullest and just do me.

Guys are pigs and always will be.

Photos including but not lim-

ited to: romantically gnawing or attacking a significant others face or other body part, holding dead, dying, or mutilated animals and doctored, planned or adjusted idyllic times captioned to create the allusion you are always uniquely happy, majestic or chic.

Playing Farmville or even worse, failing at Farmville: Ariel needs some critter milk to heal her wounded lamb.

Obsessively liking mundane activities and every-day commodities: Lan likes cookies.

Lan likes water. Lan likes going outside. Lan likes lamp.

Liking unreasonably long and dumb statements: Tara likes “when a girl walks into a room with no make up on, third degree burns, and missing a leg and asks her boy if he thinks she is pretty and boy puts down the Xbox controller, causing him to loose four weeks of progress and says, ‘I don’t like you with no make up on and physically mutilated, I love it.’

Then boy pulls out banjo and begins to serenade her with, I like it, I love it, I want some more of it.”

Now that you have reviewed the evidence and acquired your subject let the physiological warfare begin.

Five Ways To Facedown: Inescapable friending purgatory: With extreme cases, where deserving subjects can be identified upon friend request, leave them in Facebook purgatory. Neither accepting nor deny their friendship will cause hyper-anxiety.

Wall-post schizophrenia: Sporadically delete all of their posts on your wall. For optimal effect alternate between instant deletes and day later deletes.

The selective de-tag: De-tag yourself only from the photos of you and that person in albums where you are pictured and tagged with their friends.

One click retribution: Attack them in the post passive ways possible, the poke and the like. Poke them, obsessively, everyday.

Then like everything you should dislike.

This includes all status they post that detail their personal despair and misfortune. If you are successful at this you may even reach the point where you are liking passive aggressive status directed at you!

And that is all folks— five easy ways to Facedown. Enjoy!

POLITICS: THE FIFTH COLUMN

Recent policies make office holders look like idiots Steve Pan

Last year, the United States elected a host of idiots and buffoons to national and state offices.

Nationwide, the country has been overrun with right wing lunatics that would make Reagan look like a bleeding heart in comparison.

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., for example, is obsessed with the idea of investigating American Muslims for supporting terrorism and generally being a spooky, disloyal people.

Florida’s Tea Party Gov. Rick Scott turned down $2.4 billion in President Barack Obama high-speed rail money, a move so unprovoked and unpopular with his own party that a bipartisan and veto-proof gang of lawmakers is going to request it anyway.

South Dakota briefly flirted with a law that would make it

legal to murder doctors who perform abortion under the guise of “justifiable homicide.”

The theory goes, if this guy’s gonna murder some babies, we gotta get to him first.

Of course, whether it’s okay to murder the presumptive murderers of other murderers to prevent the original murderers from getting murdered was never considered.

Nowhere are the shenanigans more evident than Wisconsin’s Gov. Scott Walker (what is it with these guys and the name Scott?).

Facing a $137 million budget deficit, Walker piled on an additional $140 million in tax breaks for large corporations and then decided to fill up this hole by busting Wisconsin’s public employee unions.

Keep in mind; Wisconsin is the birthplace of the (formerly) great American labor union.

The recent Egypt-style protests there are a testament to the fighting spirit of the folks who got you the five-day workweek and the eight-hour workday.

This guy even axed the

University of Wisconsin’s new biomass boiler, a power plant upgrade which would lessen the university’s dependence on foreign fossil fuel imports by burning switchgrass, woodchips,

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A real conservative wouldn’t be so quick to sell out a capital investment that would lower costs for the state in the long run.

and other leftovers grown in Wisconsin.

Although an expensive investment, it would’ve been cheaper in the long run to operate and maintain than a natural gas boiler.

A real conservative wouldn’t be so quick to sell out a capital investment that would lower costs for the state in the long run.

A clown ass governor, beholden to the fringe right and his corporate bosses, would do it in a heartbeat to

score cheap points with “fiscal conservatives.”

Don’t even get me started about Walker’s plan to sell Wisconsin’s state-operated power plants at fire sale prices.

How did this happen?

How did the very sensible Cheeseheads of Wisconsin elect Darth Vader?

Easy: Voters stayed home.

An apathetic political culture pretty much enables the vocal crazies who do turn out and vote to dictate the agenda.

It happened in 1994 when fresh Republican majorities in the House and Senate arrested Clinton’s march of progress and forced him to adopt a more conservative agenda.

All of this because people who turned out the first time didn’t come out for the sequel.

Of course, things have scarcely gotten better since 2008.

The Democrats squandered nearly veto proof majorities to pass watered down bills.

But how does electing people hell-bent on dismantling the government and America as we know it going to help?

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SPORTS ON THE MIKE

Mike Vorel

Don’t call it a comeback

“I gotta go out the way I gotta go out.”

These words, drawled by an aging, timebeaten Sylvester Stallone in the 2006 series finale “Rocky Balboa,” reflected the pride of a former champion who desperately craves one more moment in the spotlight.

The world learned on Tuesday that it also applies to the attitude of former (and maybe soon-to-be) NFL running back Tiki Barber.

Barber, who retired after the 2006 season, was one of the most underrated running backs in the league during his ten-season career with the New York Giants.

He posted six 1,000-yard seasons, including five in a row to end his career.

He was also a weapon out of the backfield, finishing with over 500 yards receiving in six seasons.

Quite simply, he could run, he could catch and he rarely got injured. You can’t ask for much more out of a running back.

However, after only seeming to improve in the twilight of his career, Tiki called it quits prematurely at the age of 32, in favor of what appeared to be a very promising television career.

Suffice it to say, that career has lasted about as long as the “Friends” spinoff “Joey” (and if you’ve never heard of it, that just further proves my point).

As it turned out, for Tiki the grass wasn’t greener on the other side. A Sunday Night Football analyst job, “Today Show” correspondent gig and two books later, Barber is looking for a way back into the NFL. The problem is, however, that I’m not sure the NFL is interested in a 36-year-old running back with four years of considerable rust.

The hard truth is that there is very little room in the NFL for a running back in his late 30’s, especially one who just enjoyed a football-free four-year hiatus.

The league is stocked to the brim with talented runners, and every year better athletes show up the veterans who had enjoyed prior success.

Yes, Tiki was once a very skilled running back. But consider this. The NFL’s four greatest running backs of all time, in my humble opinion, were Jim Brown, Walter Payton, Barry Sanders and Emmitt Smith.

All four of these players were no longer in the NFL by age 36. Not only were they no longer playing at an elite level, they weren’t even in the league.

Running backs, like pieces of gum, just don’t last as long as we’d like.

Yet, despite having history as a deterrent, Barber is moving ahead with his comeback.

“I’m really looking forward to the challenge of seeing if I can get back to the level of where I was,” Barber said Tuesday, according to espn. com. “I started working out again recently.

It kind of shocked myself. I still had a lot of the strength I had before. I’m really looking forward to making a return.”

I hate to sound negative, but I’ll have to see this return to believe it. I’m not saying I want him to fail. Barber is a borderline hallof-famer if he never plays another down, and if he were able to make a comeback it would undoubtedly be one of next season’s great stories (if, indeed, there is a “next season”).

And if there’s one thing I learned from “Rocky Balboa,” it’s that you should never count a guy out.

The odds are against him, but Tiki Barber has a puncher’s chance.

Comprehensive coverage of Missouri athletics, by students, for students Reach Sports Editor Zach Mink at zmink@themaneater.com.

BASEBALL

McCormick racking up innings for Missouri baseball MIKE VOREL Staff Writer Phil McCormick may not be the fastest, strongest, or flashiest player on the field at any given point. He is, however, the most consistent.

The senior reliever from Wildwood, Mo., leads the Tigers as well as the Big 12 in appearances, a year after breaking the Missouri school record for appearances in a season with 36. He’s thrown the most innings of any Tiger reliever with 13.1, is holding opponents to a team-best .239 average, and is also the team leader with 14 strikeouts. He’s on pace to eclipse his own appearances record again in 2011, and is well on his way to becoming one of the most prolific and efficient relievers in school history.

With all that said, success didn’t always come easy to McCormick. The lefty redshirted in 2007, made four appearances the next season, and struggled in the early part of the 2008 campaign. It was this turmoil that led him to adopt the “submarine” delivery that he has since made his own.

“I started during my redshirt sophomore year,”,” McCormick said. “It’s kind of a long story, but basically, I was getting shelled. I was getting hammered pretty bad, and it was upsetting. I just asked what I’d have to do to get on the mound, and the coaches suggested throwing submarine. I started throwing for a week like that, and a week later I threw in a game and a week after that I was throwing against Texas. It’s kind of been my thing ever since.”

The submarine style allows McCormick to present batters with unique arm angles, making it difficult to follow the pitch and take a decent cut. He has been especially lethal against lefties, as his pitch tends to

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Senior relief pitcher Phil McCormick delivers a pitch against a University of Illinois-Chicago batter at Taylor Stadium on Sunday. McCormick is on track to top the Missouri baseball program’s record for appearances he set last season with 36.

run away from hitters, making it nearly impossible to make solid contact. This effectiveness and consistency has led his teammates to have supreme confidence in his skill set on the mound.

“When Phil comes in we know what he’s going to do,” sophomore catcher Ben Turner said. “He’s going to throw strikes; he’s going to get us ground balls; he’s going to get us out of jams because he’s done it for two or three years.”

And to go along with his durability and unique delivery, McCormick has the poise and tenacity necessary in order to succeed on the mound in the Big 12.

“Phil is very confident and aggressive.

He knows how to get it done, and in addition his stuff is better now than it’s ever

been,” coach Tim Jamieson said.

If the Tigers are going to have success in 2011, Phil McCormick is going to be a big reason why. He is more versatile than a typical situational lefty; he can be plugged in to get a particular left-handed hitter out, last multiple innings when the bullpen is worn down, or come in to nail down a save. One thing is for sure— McCormick is ready to do whatever necessary to help his team win.

“I’ve got all the confidence in the world in the rest of our bullpen, and I know (Jamieson) does too, but if he wants to keep throwing me out there he can keep throwing me out there, and I’ll do my job ‘til my arm falls off,” McCormick said.

GYMNASTICS

Freshmen gymnasts fill big shoes RYAN HOOD Staff Writer This season’s group of freshmen gymnasts had a big void to fill entering their first season of competition at the collegiate level.

The freshmen gymnasts are replacing four seniors in a class that helped propel Missouri gymnastics to historical heights last season. Last year’s squad was just the second in MU history to qualify for the national championships, snapping a 29-year drought.

“There was a big role to fill,” coach Rob Drass said. “We had lost about half of our competitive routines, and we were counting on freshmen to replace seniors, it was a daunting task for them.”

As if having to replace one of the most successful classes in program history wasn’t enough of a challenge, the newcomers had to overcome injury issues. A handful arrived at summer practice banged up from club gymnastics and others were still recovering from recent surgeries.

“As coaches, we had to get them not only healthy but also accustomed to college life in addition to gymnastics,” Drass said. “The girls had to deal with homesickness, roommate issues, classes, all the stuff regular freshmen have to deal with.

At times it was a little overwhelming.”

The learning curve was immense, but the six girls came together, forming a

FINDING FRESHMEN

The Missouri Tigers gymnastics team has relied heavily on freshman this season after the loss of several seniors in the offseason.

Cathryn Aliceaacost Houston, Mackenzie McGill Taylor Medrea Brittani Price Alex Skinner Katelyn Trevino

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bond that has helped the largest recruiting class of Drass’s tenure at MU acclimate themselves to the new experiences presented by both college life and college gymnastics.

“We’re all coming from being the top dogs at our gyms, and (we) are now at the bottom of the totem pole in college,” freshman Katelyn Trevino said. “But here it’s about the group, not just the individual.

You have to get used to being a part of a team.”

Drass said he believes the girls have

grasped the concept of “we” rather than “me”.

“They’re starting to figure out what it means to be a part of a team,” Drass said.

“You change focus from your individual performance to that of the team, and it’s a hard change. You have to realize that despite possibly having a disappointing individual performance, it’s about the team.”

It’s been evident that the freshmen have made the adjustment to collegiate gymnastics, as Cathryn Aliceaacosta, Taylor Medrea, and Trevino have all found themselves in the lineup regularly as of late.

“We’re doing a better job now,” Medrea said. “We’re acclimated, and it doesn’t feel like we’re freshman anymore”.

The common bond shared by the freshmen has made their progression possible.

“We’re all completely different, yet we’re so close,” Trevino said. “We have people that are outgoing, laid back, shy, really serious but when it comes down to it, they’re like sisters to me.”

After successfully weathering what Drass referred to as the “Perfect Storm”, Trevino believes the possibilities for the future are endless.

“We have great expectations for ourselves that we’re going to hold ourselves to for all four years,” Trevino said. “We can win nationals down the road.”

FR IDAY, MARC H 11, 2011

SPORTS

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The Missouri Tigers get hyped up before the Wednesday game against Arkansas. The Tigers went on to defeat Arkansas 12-0 in five innings.

Thomas, Tigers roll for ninth straight win Pitcher Chelsea Thomas allowed only two hits in four innings.

PAT IVERSEN Staff Writer The Missouri softball team continued its dominant run Wednesday, run-ruling the Arkansas Razorbacks 12-0 in five innings for the team’s ninth consecutive victory.

Fresh off her second straight perfect game, sophomore pitcher Chelsea Thomas improved to 4-2 by allowing just two hits while striking out 10 during four innings of work.

The offense carried the Tigers, putting up 12 runs on eight hits against Arkansas pitcher Kim Jones.

Senior outfielder Rhea Taylor said the hitters didn’t let the cold weather affect their swings.

“We hit the ball really well today, especially since it’s like 30 degrees out here,” Taylor said.

“It’s freezing. I just think that we have to push out all of the outside elements and focus on what we had to do. Our offense has definitely come around since the beginning of the year.”

Taylor became the all-time Big 12 leader in stolen bases in the first inning when she stole her 154th base of her career.

The steal broke a tie for the record with Texas A&M’s Sharonda McDonald.

Taylor downplayed the record after the game, but junior Ashley Fleming had praise for her teammate.

“I think what impresses me most is just how she’s so versatile,” Fleming said. “I think just last year she started hitting for power, and I’ve seen her make great improvements in the outfield since her freshman year. So it’s great to be around someone like that and have her at the top of our lineup starting things for us every day.”

Fleming led the offense with two hits and five runs batted in, including a three-run homer to open up the scoring in the first inning.

Freshman Maddison Ruggeberg added a two-out single and Lindsey Muller drove in two runs with a double off the wall.

Coach Ehren Earleywine said he was impressed with the rhythm of the first inning.

“They squared up to two or three balls on a 40-degree day with wind blowing and overcast (skies),” Earleywine said. “I’ve played this game, and it’s hard to hit when the weather is nice, much less a day like today. So it was a very impressive inning against a good SEC team. For the most part, had good at-bats all game.”

Missouri found itself in some trouble in the second inning after two fielding miscues loaded the bases with one out for Arkansas.

But Thomas recovered and managed to get out of the jam by striking out the next two batters.

“In all the years that I’ve played, that was the one thing you could tell if you had a real stud on the mound,” Earleywine said. “Somebody gets into scoring position, and they shift gears and the hitters have no chance.

And you saw that today. They had zero chance.”

Missouri has outscored its last five opponents by a score of 43-0.

They take on Illinois State on Friday afternoon, the first of four games over the weekend for the Tigers. Fleming said the best is yet to come from the Missouri offense.

“I think a lot of people are starting to become more comfortable, which I think this early in the season is what you’re working on,” Fleming said. “(We’re) just getting comfortable, facing different pitches and finding your rhythm. You don’t want to be peaking in the beginning of the season, you want to peak at the end. I think we’re still starting to get where we need to be.”

WELL-EARNED

AWARDS Redshirt sophomore Chelsea Thomas threw two perfect games last week, earning three awards for her performances.

Division I National Player of the Week from National Fastpitch Coaches Division I National Player of the Week from USA Softball Pitcher of the Week from Big 12 MAURA HOWARD | GRAPHIC DESIGNER

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