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Board of Curators considers changes to employee benefits JARED GRAFMAN Senior Staff Writer The UM system Board of Curators met Thursday in Springfield to continue discussion of the employee benefits and retirement plan and other subjects.

An employee retirement plan project update was presented by Betsy Rodriguez, UM system vice president for Human Relations.

During the presentation, Rodriguez said the UM system medical plan doesn’t look too different from plans at most universities across the country in the sense that employees and the UM system will see an additional 13 percent increase in expenses. The UM system will maintain its current 73-27 split between the system and faculty in paying for medical expenses and will also share in the additional

cost from the increase.

There are many reasons for the increase to the medical plan, Rodriguez said. The first reason is simply an increase in medical costs occurring across the country. The second reason is there is more utilization on the plan than was available in previous years.

“I’m particularly concerned see CURATORS, page 6

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Former Missouri football senior captain Derrick Washington makes a run against Bowling Green on Sept. 12, 2009, in what ended in a 27-20 Tigers win. At a hearing Thursday, Washington’s bond amount was raised from $1,000 to $10,000 for his Sept. 14 domestic assault charges.

Washington’s bond reset SAMANTHA SUNNE Senior Staff Writer At a hearing Thursday, Associate Circuit Judge Deborah Daniels raised Derrick Washington’s bond amount from $1,000 to $10,000 for his domestic assault charges from Sept. 14.

Daniels required Washington to attend all court proceedings for his domestic violence and sexual assault cases, starting with a preliminary hearing for the felony sexual assault case Nov. 5.

Washington’s new bond also requires he have no contact with

the people involved with the incidents and not commit any law violations, even a speeding ticket.

“You need to be responsible for having no contact with law enforcement,” Daniels told Washington.

Defense Attorney Christopher Slusher said there was no danger of Washington interacting with the victims because he has moved back to the Kansas City area.

Washington has been participating in disciplinary processes at MU, though he is no longer enrolled see COURT, page 6

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Campus Lodge, which houses Mizzou Quads, stands on Old Highway 63. Extended campus housing has opted to disaffiliate from the Residence Halls Association.

Extended campus locations leave RHA ANA STOCK Staff Writer Student staff at MU’s extended campus locations, including Tiger Diggs, Mizzou Quads, TRUE Scholars House and Prunty Hall at Stephens College, have chosen to break from the Residence Halls Association this academic year.

“It is hard to have a government out there,” RHA President Rachael Feuerborn said. “We gave them the choice to affiliate or disaffiliate, because we get part of the student fee, so when they said they wanted to disaffiliate, we gave them their whole student fee back for their floor and hall government.”

Students and hall coordinators

in the extended campus facilities made the decision to disaffiliate from RHA early this semester after communicating with Feuerborn through e-mail.

Residential Life had to limit the number of upperclassman who could live on campus this

erosexual students, faculty and staff.

The study, compiled by the nonprofit organization Campus Pride, documents more than 5,000 experiences of LGBT students, faculty and staff from colleges and universities across the country.

The study stated that even with an expanding number of cities,

states and colleges revising their nondiscrimination laws and policies to include “gender identity/ expression,” more than a quarter of the respondents said they had experienced some sort of harassment in the past year.

Professor wins award for research Study: Almost 25 percent of LGBT students, faculty face harassment ALLISON PRANG Staff Writer

MU Biological Sciences professor Fred vom Saal was named one of 2010’s 10 recipients of the Heinz Award this week.

The Heinz Awards are awarded by the Heinz Family Philanthropies to people based on their contributions to the areas of arts and humanities, environment, human condition, public policy, technol-

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ogy, economy and employment, according to the Heinz Awards website. Recipients are also awarded $100,000.

Vom Saal received the award for his scientific research on the chemical bisophenol A (BPA) and its detrimental effects on humans’ body systems, especially babies.

“Because he established health problems linked to exposee RESEARCH, page 6

ERIC SHORT Staff Writer A study released last week reports nearly 1 in 4 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender students, faculty and staff face some type of harassment on college campuses nationwide, a rate double that of het-

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Mock disaster A simulated plane crash at Columbia Regional Airport aimed to train first responders in dealing with an emergency.

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MSA committees work to meet liaison bylaw requirements Kelly Olejnik Staff Writer Missouri Students Association committees are focusing on meeting MSA bylaw requirements that had not been followed by committees until last semester.

Within the MSA bylaws, most MSA committees are required to appoint and maintain liaisons within their respective committee.

Although the requirements are clearly stated in the bylaws, most committees have failed to meet them in the past.

“The (committee) bylaws had not been practiced at all until last semester,” MSA Senate Speaker Evan Wood said.

According to the bylaws, committee chairpersons must appoint liaisons to attend the meetings of organizations relevant to their committee.

When appointing liaisons, chairs may ask for liaison volunteers and appoint whomever they see best fit for the liaison position.

Liaisons duties include speaking with student organizations and groups of administrators.

They are then responsible for and bringing the groups’ thoughts and opinions back to MSA. The Campus and Community Relations Committee’s bylaws require liaisons to attend Panhellenic Association, Interfraternity Council and Columbia City Council meetings. Despite CCRC’s lack of active liaisons, Chairman Greg Loeffler said communication between CCRC and Columbia City Council

and CCRC and Greek organizations is the committee’s ultimate goal.

“A lot of times MSA Senate does not represent Greek Life as it should,” Loeffler said.

“CCRC will be working on building communication between MSA and Greek Life.”

Although MSA members agree the relationship and communication between MSA and Greek Life need to be fostered, in past semesters CCRC has not appointed liaisons to attend the required Greek organization meetings that make these connections possible.

Loeffler said liaisons for this year would be appointed in the near future.

According to the MSA bylaws, in addition to CCRC, the Academic Affairs Committee, the Student Affairs Committee and the Muliticultural Issues Committee are all required to appoint certain liaisons relevant to their committee’s duties.

Wood said MCI has done the best job of maintaining liaisons and fulfilling its required duties. According to the bylaws, the MCI committee is supposed to have a liaison to the Legion of Black Collegians, Four Front and the Triangle Coalition.

“The liaisons give us (MCI) an update on what other organizations are doing,” MCI Chairwoman Alex Holley said.

Holley said liaisons have been present within MCI throughout the three years she has been involved with MSA. “I really feel like the liaisons help make ourselves (MSA) more available to students,”

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David Babel, Missouri United Methodist Church chairman of trustees, speaks before the City Council on March 15 at the Daniel Boone Building. Although the Missouri Students Association’s bylaws require a liaison to attend City Council meetings, senators said this requirement has rarely been met in the past few semesters.

Holley said.

Because the bylaws have not been correctly followed by MSA committees, the Operations Committee is in the process of trimming the bylaws to make them more user-friendly as well as more relevant to the work of MSA. “The Operations Committee is going through the practices in the bylaws and keep-

ing the relevant requirements, but taking out the less relevant requirements,” Wood said.

Mohn said Operations will be looking at whether the committees need to be meeting the requirements in the bylaws.

“We are not going to cut requirements out of the bylaws just because a committee is not practicing them now,” Mohn said.

MU celebrates A ' bility Week' LGBTQ scholarship offered Jimmy Hibsch Staff Writer MU will host its first Celebrate Ability Week next week, 20 years after the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act, which prohibits discrimination based on disabilities.

Celebrate Ability Week is a collection of events intended to change the public’s view of disabilities, Great Plains ADA Center Specialist Troy Balthazor said.

“This week is about celebrating ability, certainly not disability,” Balthazor said. “I think it’s important for our university community to show support for people with disabilities at Mizzou. It’s just an opportunity to experience something you haven’t experienced before.”

Disability Services Director Barbara Hammer said she is anxious to learn the results of the week, as she sees it as an opportunity to dissolve any ignorance regarding disability.

“What we want is for people to start viewing disability different, because disability should not be viewed as a problem or something that limits people,” she said. “We want people to really see the environment in which we live as the thing that needs to be adjusted, not the people.”

Events range from a Tiger Wheelchair basketball open house Monday to 10 forums and seminars held throughout Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Planning for the week’s festivities has been an extended and rigorous process, Balthazor said.

“The idea’s been floating around out there for a while,” he said. “It certainly wasn’t my original idea. It was something that a number of people around campus had considered doing. I saw what I thought was a good idea and tried to run with it, and with a lot of support from students, staff and faculty at Mizzou, we’ve been very successful in getting it off the ground.”

More than 10 organizations collaborated to make the week possible, Hammer said.

“It has been a really good mutual effort,” she said. “We’ve got a lot of folks on board with us.”

The Missouri Students Association is responsible for Wednesday’s screening of “Murderball,” a documentary following paraplegics who play full-contact rugby. The star of the film, Mark Zupan, will share his story following the presentation.

The week will end with a universally designed presentation of the comedy “Date Night,” which accommodates anyone interested in watching.

“If you are blind and you want to watch and enjoy a movie, there is a voiceover that describes what is going on in a movie when no dialogue is going on,” Hammer said. “As you’re sitting there not seeing the film, you can still follow what’s going on.”

ADA Coordinator Lee Henson said intermingling between students with and without disabilities is an intended outcome of next week.

“It’s very important that students with and without disabilities get to know one another,” he said. “Participating in these events provides them with an opportunity to have a really good learning experience.”

Balthazor said Celebrate Ability Week is just one method of working toward a more inclusive experience at MU. “The goal is for people with disabilities to have an inclusive experience attending the University of Missouri,” he said. “We have a responsibility to provide an accessible experience for the people who are here at Mizzou and for the people who want to be here in the future because we are accessible and we are welcoming.”

Hammer said she hopes next week will empower students with disabilities.

“This just gives a chance to showcase a lot of positive things that are associated with disabilities and ways that people can access programs and services and participate in life just like the rest of us,” she said.

Although this is MU’s first time hosting Celebrate Ability Week, Hammer said it is certainly not the last.

“I’m calling this the first annual,” Hammer said. “We’re going to try to do this next year.”

Jaime Henry-White Reporter For the first time, the LGBTQ Resource Center will be offering three $500 scholarships to students who exhibit outstanding qualities of leadership and involvement in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Ally campus community this fall.

The announcement of the GLBTA Scholarship Fund has been a cause for excitements from students at the Resource Center and to students of the MU LGBTQ community, both of whom have yet to see a scholarship of this particular design. But frustration underlies the excitement, LGBTQ Resource Center Director Ryan Black said.

While scanning through old files in the Resource Center last spring, Black said he found a folder labeled “Academic Scholarship” and, inside, a description of a $10,000 endowment, with an accumulating interest of $1,000 a year, that was approved in 2005.

“It was actually a student who came up to me and looked over my shoulder and said, ‘What’s that?’” Black said. “So you have to look at that and realize that, wow, that’s been there the entire time and nobody’s been able to access it.”

The GLBTA Scholarship Fund, donated from a collection of MU alumni and friends, was instituted five years prior. The primary document enclosed specifications regarding the application layout, the name of the fund, the selection process for the recipients and the amount of money desired for each awarded student.

“When I look at the date on when it was established and think of the date now, the immediate thought is, ‘How many students could have used that within that time?’” Black said. “How many people couldn’t continue their college education for lack of funds?”

The LGBTQ Resource Center, Student Life and Student Financial Aid, departments that contribute to alumni scholarships of this type, could not explain the reason for the

delay in the scholarship’s availability. Student Financial Aid Assistant Director Russell Jeffrey said the inexperience of the LGBTQ Resource Center administration is one of the causes for the delay.

“They don’t do this,” Jeffrey said. “They don’t have scholarships, so they were trying to create a process whereby people would apply.

It has a very specific application process embedded in the endowment itself.”

Both Black and Jeffrey agreed the many changes of the LGBTQ Resource Center’s directors, locations and staff in the past several years have left the scholarship at a disadvantage.

“As an intern director grad student, I had to figure out, ‘Does this exist? Is the money still there?’” Black said, referring to finding the fund last spring. “(The LGBTQ Resource Center) had talked about a scholarship without realizing there was one already there.”

Despite these setbacks, LGBTQ Resource Center staffer Carrie McKinley said she remains optimistic about the scholarship’s benefits.

“I think it just gives people the feeling like their work in this aspect is more justified,” McKinley said. “These people have worked so hard to make (MU) an accepting place.”

The scholarship, with an application deadline of Oct. 1, is now being offered to the MU community and will continue to be offered each year. Black said a nomination committee comprised of various campus leaders who understand the need for and importance of the scholarship will select the first awardees based on a required GPA of 2.9 or above, full-time student status, 30 completed credit hours, submitted writing, a letter of recommendation and a resume.

“It’s disappointing and a little frustrating that it has taken this long,” Black said.

“But the final thing is that it is out there and students can apply for it. Any opportunity to help a student to not worry about their finances is great.”

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TUESDAY, SEPT. 21 Brittany M. Campbell, 17, of Centralia, on suspicion of stealing Christopher D. Nelson, 20, of 2400 E. Nifong Blvd., on suspicion of consumption of alcohol by a minor

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

MU POLICE TUESDAY, SEPT. 21 Samuel J. Gleason, 18, of 507 Kentucky Blvd., on suspicion of possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of less than 35 grams of marijuana WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 22 Alexander X. Domino, 19, of 1547 Rolling Rock Drive, on suspicion of driving while intoxicated --Ally McEntire staff writer

COLUMBIA POLICE MONDAY, SEPT. 20 Michael Fessehaye, 17, of 4406 Hockaday Place, on suspicion of stealing Johnny D. Silvey, 22, of 1402 Court St., on suspicion of thirddegree domestic assault Gary D. Warren, 24, of 1405

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 22 Gregory P. Boyer, 19, of North Hall, on suspicion of purchase or possession of alcohol by a minor Maria C. Lemakis, 19, of Lathrop Hall, on suspicion of purchase or possession of alcohol by a minor Lewis W. Shellady III, 21, of 1912 Juniper Drive, on suspicion of possession of less than 35 grams of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia Marlon Jenkins, 37, of 2900 Lawnridge Court, on suspicion of first-degree tampering and thirddegree domestic assault Pepper L. Rowe, 29, of 3401 Winners Circle, on suspicion of disturbing the peace and seconddegree property damage --Allison Prang staff writer If you have information on these crimes, you may contact Crime Stoppers at 875-TIPS. All calls are confidential.

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Candy, cigarettes stolen from local Walgreens WALGREENS

A man was arrested after ly,” Haden said. “We always tell attempting to steal cigarettes and people if someone is trying to candy from the Walgreens on rob you, let them take your stuff, East Broadway, Columbia Police because you can always get more Department spokesman Jessie stuff.”

Roberts was arrested Sept. 18 Haden said.

When the police arrived, Gary after he allegedly stole candy and Boone County Sheriff ’s the suspect had fled the scene. cigarettes from a local Walgreens.

Department depAnother man at Walnut St. uties were disthe scene knew We are patched at about the suspect thankful the 7 a.m. Saturday and identified clerk didn't get after receiving a him as Gary Broadway hurt and did call about a disRoberts. Haden the right thing turbance at the said he was also by calling 911 store. able to identify Source: CPD spokeswoman Jessie Haden SPENCER PEARSON/GRAPHICS ASSISTANT immediantly. We always The call was Roberts’ car, tell people if someone from a 24-yeara gray Ford Robert refused, they threatened to is trying to rob you, let use a Taser, Haden said. Roberts old clerk who had Tempo. them take your stuff, been working the The police complied, was put in handcuffs because you can always front register. The then set out to and then transported to the police get more stuff." clerk reported a look for Roberts station.

CPD spokesman Jessie The police searched Roberts’ suspicious man and were Haden who walked into unsuccessful. car and found the reported the store and picked up two bottles About an hour later, the police stolen items from Walgreens, of wine. He said it then appeared received a call about a suspicious which were then collected as evidence. the man was going to use the bot- person.

“We were also really thankful tles to hit the clerk.

Haden also said an officer then The clerk told investigators he matched the gray Ford Tempo, that the person who was present was frightened, jumped over the which was parked by a trailer (at Walgreens) was cooperative counter and went to the back of in front of the Petromart on with us,” Haden said. “That inforthe store to call 911.

North Stadium Boulevard, with mation helped us solve this case During this time, the suspect the description of the suspect’s more quickly.”

Roberts is being charged with stole Marlboro cigarettes and vehicle.

M&Ms. Police found Roberts smoking a first-degree robbery.

“We are thankful the clerk cigarette on the porch of the trail— Alexis Hitt, didn’t get hurt and did the right er. The officers ordered Roberts reporter thing by calling 911 immediate- to step off the porch, and after

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CAFNR Week teaches students about agriculture JOYU WANG Reporter The College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources’ week of events ended Thursday with a barnwarming at Snorty Horse Saloon.

CAFNR Week consists of a series of events and activities that started Sept. 16.

“We are trying to get more students in CAFNR involved and the whole campus to be more informed of agriculture,” CAFNR Week Steering Committee Tri-Director Amanda Eiberger said.

Previously known as “Ag Week,” CAFNR Week now aims to celebrate all the different student organizations and departments in the college, instead of just the agricultural groups. Eiberger said CAFNR Week is growing each year.

The week started with a service event at the Central Missouri Food Bank.

“It was a wonderful success,” Eiberger said. “People love it, and the volunteer food bank loves that we were all there.”

She said she thinks volunteering at the food bank will continue in the future.

On Monday, the Lil Ag Expo took place on Lowry Mall. Meals were provided to students who participated in three or more table presentations from various student organizations in CAFNR. At the Expo, each club in CAFNR was assigned different agricultural topics to promote or agricultural myths to dispel.

Junior agricultural business major Phillip Durbin worked the Agricultural Economics Club table. He presented global agriculture production statistics. He said many people do not know about the importance of American agriculture.

“Many people do not realize the United States is the one of the top agricultureproducing countries,” Durbin said. “People need to be aware that we produce a lot of corn, soy beans and wheat to export to other countries.”

Ag Ed Society President Jon Kirchhoff said he agrees people are not well-informed of agricultural topics.

“A lot of people don’t realize how important the agriculture industry is and what it can do,” Kirchhoff said. “Our job is to get (the information) out there and make sure everybody is educated about how agriculture is important so that we can keep producing for the world.”

Sophomore journalism student Jillian Jackson said she had not heard about CAFNR Week before but does know about the import and export of agricultural items today.

“I am surprised about how much we export,” she said.

The Skit Night, which included the King and Queen Contest, was also held Monday.

“The King and Queen candidates get up JAYME GARDNER/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER there, dance and sing,” Eiberger said. “It is a lot of fun because they poke fun at people Graduate student Jake Gaddy helps pack bags of frozen stir fry at the Central Missouri Food and also get to come out of their shell a little Pantry last Thursday. Members of the College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources Week steering committee and different CAFNR organizations participated in a community more.” service project at the pantry for CAFNR Week.

MU defends Mizzou Reads Cotton Summit encourages sustainable way of life CAITLIN SWIECA Reporter

The National Association of Scholars placed freshmen reading programs such as Mizzou Reads under fire in a June report.

The organization promotes a traditional, Western-based education on college campuses.

Its 15-page report charged that the most popular books among such programs are too politically correct, not challenging enough and deal with similar topics, notably multiculturalism and the environment.

Institutions of higher education across the nation have responded by pointing out the goals of these programs are not the same as those of class curriculum, and using books regarding current events allows universities to host the authors, adding a new dimension to the reading experience.

NAS Public Affairs Director Glenn Ricketts said the ability to speak to the author of a book does not justify the modern emphasis.

“Most books that people have read for most of history have been written by people who weren’t there to answer their questions,” Ricketts said. “This exercise doesn’t give you much of a gateway into the minds of ages past.

One of the worst things students bring to school these days is a lack of a sense of history.”

This year’s Mizzou Reads selection was Jean Twenge’s “Generation Me,” a book utilizing statistics to analyze changes in generational characteristics. Past selections have included “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini in 2009 and Greg Mortenson’s “Three Cups of Tea” in 2008.

Although the two books before “Generation Me” dealt with common topics in the NAS report, the program said it does not look for any particular themes when choosing a book.

“We look for books that are intellectually stimulating and will promote interesting discussion,” said Jordan Parshall, graduate assistant in the Office of New Student Programs. “They should also be socially controversial sometimes, just to promote more discussion. They try not

to pigeonhole it. They don’t want just novels or just stories about a particular population. We don’t discount more historically relevant books or older titles, but we do look for things that address current issues.”

Large universities across the nation have implemented programs with similar aims. At Ohio State University, the Buckeye Book Community helps encourage unity among students at one of the largest universities in America.

“It’s important to us that, even though we’re big, we have a sense of community and shared experiences,” said Mabel Freeman, Ohio State University assistant vice president of undergraduate admissions and first year experience.

Freeman said using modern books helps keep course curriculum relevant.

“Three Cups of Tea” inspired Ohio State students to volunteer to help develop schools. This year’s selection, “No Impact Man,” ties in with campus efforts to be more environmentally friendly.

“It’s always helpful when the book really does help the students realize that there’s a connection between what they’re learning in class and what’s going on in the world,” Freeman said.

Although many of the concepts in “Generation Me” were controversial, the MU Office of New Student Programs said this was welcome.

“We were fine with that because that encourages discussion between students and faculty and it actually gets people thinking,” Parshall said.

Ricketts said “Generation Me” could have been used in tandem with other historical works to give students a better sense of the past.

“Why not read that book and then a book from a different era that’s kind of representative of that era and make a comparison?” Ricketts said. “It’s all a question of context and what’s familiar to you.”

Ricketts suggested using works from earlier generations, such as Aristotle’s take on younger generations, to cast current trends in a new light.

The NAS said it believes colleges should choose books other than contemporary literature.

MEGAN SWIECA Staff Writer The Textile and Apparel Management department hosted the Sustainable Cotton Summit on Tuesday and Wednesday in the Donald W. Reynolds Alumni Center. Industry professionals spoke on sustainability in textiles, specifically cotton, at each of the seven sessions.

Co-organizer and TAM assistant professor Jung Ha-Brookshire said an estimated 150 to 200 people attended each of the sessions.

Many of the attendees were TAM students who were required to attend one session for each TAM class in which they were enrolled.

“Students have the chance to be exposed to this type of perspective, beyond organic, a more balanced view,” she said.

The sessions explored the cotton industry from three different perspectives: as a fiber, product and the incorporation of the consumer. Among others, attendees heard from cotton farmers, small businesses and large corporations about their efforts toward sustainability.

“It was cool to hear about the statistics and the grower’s perspective,” senior TAM major Lynnette Yarger said. “I didn’t even know that there were cotton farmers in southern Missouri.”

One session with a large turn out from students was “Shades of the Green Consumer,” given by Genessa Devine, Market Intelligence Corporate Strategy and Program Metrics manager.

“We do reach out to the consumer with environmental messages about cotton, but the great opportunity for improving cotton’s environmental footprint is within the global supply chain,” Devine said.

Devine described the different levels, or “shades,” of the “green consumer.”

Through research, Cotton Incorporated has found the majority of consumers are more likely to act in sustainable ways if there is the added bonus of saving money, she said.

“Environmental friendliness isn’t always the primary purchase driver,” Devine said.

MU students and Columbia residents have a direct connection to the industry right here in Columbia. Mustard Seed is a nonprofit fair trade retail store on Ninth Street.

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ASHLEY LANE/GRAPHIC DESIGNER “As sustainable manufacturers become more and more widespread, environmental friendliness will become inherent and the need to market products as sustainable, and at a premium, will likely become less common,” Devine said.

The Sustainable Cotton Summit informed attendees of the various steps between the cotton field and the everyday T-shirt in a sustainable way, from gathering the cotton to the dyes used and the way the cotton is spun and manufactured.

Right now it is 7 percent more expensive on average to buy a product with environmentally friendly terms attached, said Devine.

Most people are tight on money in this economy, especially college students, but the small price increase might mean a large payoff for the environment and workers abroad.

“Cotton is here,” Brookshire said. “It is natural, renewable, biodegradable and therefore can be sustainable. I wanted students to appreciate it more accurately.”

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COURT: Bond raised CURATORS: Forsee speaks Friday from $1,000 to $10,000 Continued from page 1

about it in some areas we think are preventable,” Rodriguez said. “We would like to start taking a really deep dive into some wellness issues and trying to do some wellness incentives with our campuses.”

Rodriguez said there is already a pilot program at the Missouri University of Science and Technology.

State mandates also increased costs, and health care reform required the UM system to expand its definition of dependent children.

But there will be no increases in costs of other health care plans, including dental, Rodriguez said.

The UM system has a new provider network that Rodriguez said she believes will reduce costs to employees who use the new provider.

UM system President Gary Forsee introduced the presentation of the retirement plan project to the Board of Curators.

Continued from page 1 and has forfeited his athletic scholarship. Slusher said Washington is continuing school this semester in the Kansas City area.

Slusher argued the court should not increase Washington’s bond amounts because it would cause him financial hardship as a college student and argued Washington was not a flight risk, he had no prior offenses and different people were involved in the separate incidents.

Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Andrea Hayes asked the judge to increase the bond amount for the felony sexual assault charge to $25,000, but Daniels denied her request. Daniels increased the bond for the domestic assault charges because Washington was out on bond when he allegedly committed those infractions.

Boone County prosecutors charged Washington with deviate sexual assault Aug. 31. The assault was digital penetration and the charge is a Class C felony, Hayes said.

Washington is accused of hitting and choking another woman, an ex-girlfriend, Sept. 14, according to the Columbia Police Department’s probable cause statement. He was charged with two counts of thirddegree domestic assault, which are misdemeanors.

The court trial for those misdemeanors is also scheduled for Nov.

to ensure our plan, as it has historically, remain fully funded.”

The primary objective for presenting the retirement plan project was to give updates made to the project and to take an inventory of questions to research and report back to the Board of Curators committee during the November meeting.

The Finance Committee met after the Compensation and Human Resources Committee, according to the Board of Curators agenda. A Financial Aid Report was presented in addition to the Endowment and Retirement Fund Performance Annual Report and other business.

The Academic, Student and External Affairs committee was the last committee to meet.

The Board of Curators will be called to order again at 8 a.m.

Friday. Several reports will be heard, including addresses from chancellors of the four system universities.

RHA: Funds redirected from RHA Continued from page 1

5, but Hayes said it will probably be postponed to give the prosecuting and defense attorneys more time to prepare.

RESEARCH: $100,000 awarded to professor Continued from page 1 sure to chemicals at levels that had previously been thought safe and it really will turn some of the regulatory policies upside down,” Heinz Awards Director Kim O’Dell said.

BPA can be especially dangerous for the fetus during pregnancy, because BPA can get through the placenta and become trapped in the fetus, harming the child.

“What happened about 15 years ago is that we stumbled onto the fact that a chemical that is used in a huge number of different products is able to cause harm at exposure amounts that the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and FDA (Food and Drug Administration) had assumed were completely safe,” vom Saal said. “And the way that we went about testing for harm of this chemical was not the way that had been used by people working in the field of toxicology looking for toxic effects of chemicals.”

Vom Saal said the amount of BPA he and his research team found that causes harm was 25,000 times lower than what toxicologists had studied, which he said is not a tiny error in estimating safety.

The BPA manufacturing industries first tried to bribe vom Saal and his research team so they wouldn’t publish what they had found when vom Saal presented the team’s findings at a meeting.

“There’s evidence that they were following me around, going through my garbage, doing anything possible to discredit me, and none of it worked because ultimately in science you are vindicated or shown to be wrong based on

The UM system conducted a review of employee preferences about their benefits last year across the university system, Forsee said.

“Betsy and her staff and I have worked tirelessly to communicate and listen to employee concerns about benefits,” Forsee said. “The presentation this afternoon is with the Board of Curators as the principal and primary audience, but we have invited employees across the system to listen in, in order that they can stay abreast of the discussions we are having with the Board of Curators.”

Forsee said discussion of employee benefits will continue throughout the next several months as data is presented.

“Two years ago we took a very decisive action, having employees contribute to the pitch and plan,” Forsee said. “We did that as a further mitigation action, attempting

whether other scientists can confirm or not confirm your findings,” vom Saal said. “And now there is just a massive amount of information that the basic ideas that we proposed are right.”

Vom Saal said after he and his research team discovered the dangers of BPA, he spent time trying to promote reform in chemical regulatory agencies to help make their products safer for human use.

As far as what he is planning to do with the $100,000 award, vom Saal said it will help pay for his business travels, including his trips to help promote reform in chemical regulatory agencies.

“When you get an award like this, it makes it easier to do things like go to meetings and have the message that there is a problem given greater credibility,” vom Saal said.

Venkataseshu Ganjam, an MU researcher in the division of biological sciences, said he has worked with vom Saal in the past and his accomplishment is excellent for MU. “It’s a real feather in the cap of Dr. vom Saal and it really puts the University of Missouri on the map because it’s such an important topic right now because of all the dangers we are facing with this compound BPA, which is heavily used in the plastic industry,” Ganjam said.

Julia Taylor, a research assistant professor in biological science, worked with vom Saal studying the effects of BPA. “I think it makes the department look very good,” Taylor said. “It’s always great when something like this happens to someone at MU.”

year. Residential Life Associate Director Kristin Temple said the purpose of extended campus housing is to give students the off-campus experience without the reality of paying apartment expenses.

“We did rent 240 beds out at Mizzou Quads that were targeted to sophomores and juniors who wanted a little more freedom and their own room and washer and dryer but not utility bills," Temple said.

Temple said one problem extended campus RHA representatives ran into last year was making it to Congress meetings using the bus system.

The buses run from 6:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on the half hour. At 6 p.m. there is a transition period when the bus picks up and drops off at a new location on Rollins Street. Temple said students, especially those who were new to campus, would get confused and miss the bus or just try to avoid the hassle altogether and not

make it to the meeting.

“With RHA, that shift between 5:30 and 6 p.m. sometimes didn’t match up and students would get confused as far as finding their bus and sometimes would just miss their bus,” Temple said.

The extended campus facilities still operate through Residential Life and still pay activity fees, but they are no longer required to go to Congress, and a portion of their activity fee is no longer allocated to the RHA budget.

“Extended campus living is just not fined for missing Congress this year, and the portion of their $15 activity fee that went to RHA in the past is kept for their floor and hall government,” RHA Advisor J. Heim said. “Prunty is using their money for social functions like they would as part of the government. They just don’t have that RHA portion taken out.”

Feuerborn said each facility has its own form of government.

“Tiger Diggs still has a government,” she said. “They don’t want

to have representatives in RHA and instead just have a hall-type government. I think Mizzou Quads is a little less involved with the government, which is fine because they are a little more spread out.”

Temple said all the students living in Prunty Hall this semester are to be relocated to on-campus Residential Life facilities by December, unless the residents decide they like the small community Prunty offers. She said that on-campus living space would not be an issue by December.

“From when we open in August to opening in January we lose about 10 percent of our on-campus population, because seniors graduate, people study abroad, others decide MU is not for them, and some people do student teaching,” Temple said. “Given that we are close to 7,000 students, that means that we will have about 700 spaces, so the students from Prunty can move back to campus, or if some like it, they are given the option to stay there the whole semester.”

LGBT: Study based on 5,000 studies Continued from page 1 Eighty-seven percent of the respondents indicated gender identity/expression as the cause of the harassment.

Campus Pride Executive Director Shane Windmeyer says the report has drawn new attention to the problem.

“This has been a wake-up call for many colleges and universities, for the reason that people have never gotten quantitative and qualitative data on LGBT students faculty and administrators,” Windmeyer said.

MU LGBTQ Resource Center Coordinator Ryan Black said even though the report highlights notable results, it might not change behavior on campus.

“The general feeling from students is apathetic, even if they know we exist, it’s looked as something that they do not want to know,” Black said.

Some LGBTQ students at MU say they do not feel safe on their own campus. Sophomore Alyx Marema said there are few places on campus where she feels comfortable.

“There was a time when me and my girlfriend were holding hands

and walking down Greek Row and someone screamed out of a window, ‘Faggot!,’” she said. “Places like that and also some places downtown, I avoid so that I can avoid harassment.”

Marema said at times when she feels uncomfortable, she considers “acting straight” out of fear for her safety.

“If you want to feel safer here you have to pretend to be straighter, but

that is still not good because you are not being who you are,” she said.

The report issued by Campus Pride stated that across the country more than half of college and university students try to hide their sexuality.

Triangle Coalition President Sean Jarvis said he’s lost count of how many times he has been a victim of harassment in his four years at MU. “I stopped counting sophomore year, when the incident reporting system started, but it still goes on,” he said.

Jarvis said he thinks there is a possibility of reducing tension between the heterosexual and LGBTQ communities at MU. “The Chancellor's Diversity Initiative, as well at the hate crime reporting system, are positive steps,” he said.

Black said he hopes the campus will keep working to reduce harassment.

“The goal is that utopian idea of zero harassment,” he said. “It is a goal you set up knowing that you may never achieve it, but the closer you get the better.”

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Students 'Take Back the Night' on Columbia streets Jimmy Hibsch Staff Writer Accompanied by police escorts and displaying handmade posters, people taking a stand against relationship and sexual violence marched the streets of campus Tuesday for Take Back the Night.

Danica Pape, Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention Center co-coordinator, said the first step in creating a culture of safety on campus is to raise awareness about relationship and sexual violence, and Take Back the Night is an opportunity to do so.

“Take Back the Night is held annually at MU to increase awareness about relationship and sexual violence, in a visible and active way,” Pape said. “We hold this event to get students, faculty, staff and community members a chance to reclaim their safety at all times in all places.

We know that we’re all affected by violence, whether it is directly or indirectly, and tonight we just really want to show MU and the Columbia community that we don’t tolerate violence and we will continue to support survivors until this violence stops.”

The first Take Back the Night march occurred in October 1975 following the murder of Susan Alexander Speeth, a young microbiologist, who was stabbed to death while walking home alone.

“Women were told to stay inside their homes and not go anywhere at night for their own safety,” Pape said.

“The women responded by asking why the solution was focused on women. Restricting their move-

ment, their life and their work responsibilities — it just doesn’t make sense. These women banded together and took to the streets to symbolize unity and united effort to reclaim their effort of movement.”

MU organizations dedicated to fighting relationship and sexual violence were present, one of which was Stronger Together Against Relationship and Sexual Violence.

STAR is a student-run organization that aims to plan events to raise relationship and sexual violence awareness on the campus and in the community.

“Just know that it doesn’t end here,” STAR member Brett Dinkins said. “That is the most important thing that you can take away from tonight. We have to take back Mizzou. We have to take back Columbia. We have to take back Missouri. One of the ways you can do that is to get involved with STAR.” RSVP member Katlyn Keller echoed Dinkins’ remarks about ending violence on campus, adding that RSVP is available for anyone feeling the need to talk about relationship and sexual violence.

“We’re available in the Center of Social Justice for anybody who is looking for information on these issues,” Keller said.

Jimmie Jones, Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault leader, told the audience his organization is looking to make a comeback on campus this year.

“MARS died down a few years ago, but I’m looking to bring it back this year,” Jones said.

Green Dot advocates Tracey Latimore and Kim Scates spoke

Jared Hogan/Staff Photographer

Students pause at the intersection of Rollins and Fifth streets in a moment of silence for victims of rape and sexual violence Tuesday night. The Take Back the Night march was part of Rape Awareness Month and organized by the Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention Center. next, informing the audience how to perform a “green dot.” A green dot is essentially any action performed with the intention of preventing relationship and sexual violence.

“We can end violence, one green dot at a time,” Latimore said.

To invigorate the crowd in the moments prior to the march, Women’s Center staff member Struby Struble spoke a few words reminding the participants of their reason for attending the night’s festivities.

“This is our chance to take it to

the streets,” Struble said. “This is the night we have when we get to go out there, get out there loud, and make the campus pay attention, because this is a safe place."

Sophomore Alice McElroy said the march had a powerful effect on her.

“It was really empowering,” McElroy said. “It got better as it got darker because it’s called Take Back the Night. I know coming from a big metropolitan city like Chicago, this was really empowering for me.”

After the march, participants were encouraged to attend a speakout in the Center for Social Justice, which adhered to RSVP’s assurance of confidentiality.

“The purpose of this speak-out is to allow victims, survivors, allies or anyone who has been affected by relationship or sexual violence to share their experiences and express how they feel about tonight’s events and the effects of violence and a whole,” RSVP Co-Coordinator Holly Hanover said.

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New policy: ‘Don’t get involved’ In the Sept. 15 issue of The Maneater, my colleague Amanda Shelton wrote a column about a federal judge in California declaring the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy unconstitutional.

The policy excludes openly gay men and women from military service.

Shelton listed many of the better points I’ve heard in defense of gay rights on this issue. Such prohibition goes against citizen rights and popular sentiment.

The fact homosexuals were being excluded from the military, however, is not my main problem with the issue.

I support the California judge’s ruling as a defense of liberty. I am pro-gay rights, but this doesn’t necessarily mean I condone homosexual behavior, in the same way I am an abortion-rights advocate and anti-gun control, but that does not necessarily mean I encourage abortions or want to go buy a 12-gauge shotgun.

I take these stances because they are all personal, private choices that should be made only by those people directly involved.

The problem lies not only in whether those choices can be made by the person, but also in who chooses who can make those choices.

Homosexual Americans are still American citizens and deserve the full rights afforded to citizens. Even though you might or might not agree with their lifestyle, the choice is still theirs and theirs alone. But for a long time, state governments have made this choice for their citizens.

This government intervention through federal rulings makes the issue feel like a crime, as though when the judge makes his ruling he is handing down a guilty or not guilty verdict.

Is it constitutional to make one group of people feel so scrutinized and ostracized, perhaps even inferior in the eyes of their government?

The California ruling represents a move in the right direction on this issue, but, with respect to Shelton, I have a proposal of my own. I support California’s overturning of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” but in its place I think we should institute a new government policy on the issue: “Don’t Get Involved.”

It is simply not the job of the government to have its nose in these kinds of issues, whether it be what you can or cannot do with your fetus, what health insurance you want to buy or what happens when your firm makes terrible decisions and starts sinking like a Wall Street Titanic.

The fact that a policy such as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ever existed is the root of the problem.

Since the end of the Civil War, the federal government has become more and more involved in the lives of its citizens.

Although state governments have largely handled issues of homosexuality to this point, Congress might debate the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy in the near future, meaning this issue is going federal. Regardless of the decision it comes to, this is a step in the wrong direction.

The news of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ruling is at once heartening and disheartening. I am glad our nation is making strides toward protecting the liberty of homosexual Americans but also dismayed to realize legislation and litigation on this issue ever even occurred or was deemed necessary.

The idea that such decisions should involve the government is an encroachment on the liberty of those involved, just as the ruling itself was a step in liberty’s direction. Perhaps someday we will see the day when the government doesn’t hand down verdicts on when and where homosexuality is acceptable, but instead just doesn’t care.

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Columbia airport conducts emergency drill Tony Puricelli Reporter Volunteers acted out lifethreatening injuries as firefighters worked to put out a blaze during a training exercise Thursday at the Columbia Regional Airport.

This was part of a simulated plane crash to help emergency responders practice for a mass casualty incident involving a 50-passenger aircraft with a post-crash fire.

About 40 people acted as injured passengers during the drill, according to a news release from the Columbia Public Works Department.

Most volunteers were MU students or from the American Red Cross and the Boone County Health Department.

Emergency responders treated the “injured” participants and practiced medical care techniques including triage, treatment and transportation to local hospitals. Rescuers also practiced search and rescue techniques in the fields surrounding the runway.

Sophomore Diana Staub came into the drill with no knowledge of what she would be doing, though organizers told her to bring a change of clothes.

Organizers had Staub act as a pregnant woman with severe injuries in her right arm.

“Luckily, the baby was OK,” Staub said. “Although, the decontamination was embar-

rassing, cold and wet.”

Firefighters scrubbed Staub to wash off possible contaminants that might exist in a real accident.

“It was surreal to see people around me dying and know that this could actually happen in the world,” Staub said.

The Federal Aviation Administration and the Missouri Department of Transportation purchased the Mobile Aircraft Firefighting Trainer used during the exercise, the news release stated.

The MAFT used Thursday is the largest of only four that exist in the U.S., said Mark Lee, aircraft, hazmat and program manager and Fire and Rescue Training Institute manager.

The simulator folds up to travel around the country. It is used at airports in Nashville, Houston and more for 12 to 15 simulations a year. The stainless steel and aluminum craft costs more than $1 million.

MoDOT has had it for nine years.

MU’s own Fire and Rescue Training Institute operated the simulator.

This simulation fulfilled the FAA requirement for a fullscale training drill every three years to test the emergency plan at airports, according to the news release.

“It has been several years since we have had to do a training drill,” Public Works Department spokeswoman Jill Stedem said. “This drill is

James Militello/Staff Photographer The Columbia Fire Department drenches water on a mock airplane accident Thursday night at the Columbia Regional Airport. The Boone County Fire Protection District and the Southern Boone Fire Protection District also participated in the event, running several drills and exercises. required for airports that have more than 30 seats. Our airport now has a 50-seat regional jet.”

The last time Columbia held the drill was in 2002, Columbia Fire Department Battalion Chief Steve Sapp said. The airport returned to using 50-passenger jets in spring 2010, so it needed to hold another drill.

Meetings have been taking place between participating agencies for the last three months in preparation for the event, Stedem said.

Other agencies assisting with the drill included the Boone County Sheriff ’s Department and Fire Protection District, Columbia Police Department, FBI, the MU School of Natural Resources and University Hospital.

“Our goal was to treat this drill with as much realism as possible,” Sapp said. “We ran a series of scenarios and trained as we would actually respond.

We want to learn. That’s why we do these: to find our strengths and weaknesses. We want to improve on strengths and fix weaknesses.”

Sapp has been involved in many similar training drills around Columbia, including oversight of the annual Memorial Day Air Show. Sapp has also witnessed emergency programs around the country and claims the Columbia procedure rivals any in the nation.

“Overall, the drill accomplished its goals,” Sapp said. “A lot of people got a lot of experience tonight.”

Young women report violence less Celia Ampel Reporter Women in abusive relationships attempt to leave the relationship an average of seven to eight times before they actually do and have probably been assaulted even more times, a Columbia Police Department detective said.

In the probable cause statement for former Missouri football captain Derrick Washington’s domestic assault charge, the victim said Washington physically assaulted her at least seven times prior to the incident that led to his arrest Sept. 12.

“They put up with it, I think, to some degree,” said CPD Detective Randell Nichols, who is part of the Domestic Violence Enforcement Unit. “They accept what’s going on and don’t call it domestic violence.”

Women often believe they can fix troubled relationships, CPD spokeswoman Jessie Haden said. Abusers are usually apologetic after an attack, so victims think things will improve. Even after an abuser is arrested for the first time, attacks will sometimes con-

tinue, she said.

“It’s very common for women to be abused multiple times prior to ever calling the police,” Haden said.

There is a stigma associated with domestic violence that keeps victims from reporting the crime, Nichols said. That stigma increases with socioeconomic status.

“People with a lower socioeconomic status tend to be more willing to report to us,” Haden said.

Educating young women about domestic violence is very important because their reasoning skills are still developing, Haden said.

“The younger you are, the less of a critical thinker you are,” she said. “It happens to young women much more than I think people realize.”

Often, couples aren’t violent until they’ve been drinking, Haden said. Alcohol impairs judgment, increasing the chance of violence and causing the victims to let their guard down.

“It’s certainly a common theme,” she said.

In handling domestic violence cases, the MU Police

Department helps direct victims to get the assistance they need in each specific situation, MUPD Capt. Brian Weimer said.

If the victim is female, she might be directed to a domestic violence shelter. If it’s a problem with a roommate, the victim might find resources within the Department of Residential Life.

“There’s no canned approach to anything with law enforcement,” Weimer said.

CPD assigns every domestic violence case to a DOVE investigator, Haden said. The DOVE Unit works with a victim after the arrest and does follow-up photos and followup evidence for the prosecutor, Nichols said.

After a domestic violence arrest is made, the DOVE Unit gives phone numbers of counseling centers and women’s shelters to victims but explains to them they aren’t obligated to use those resources, he said.

“The most important thing is to call law enforcement,” Weimer said.

In most of the domestic violence cases the DOVE Unit

sees, the involved parties were dating for just a few months, Nichols said. There aren’t a lot of reported cases of abuse within long-term relationships or among college students, but that does not mean it isn’t occurring, he said.

“It’s less reported, probably, among younger women,” Nichols said.

The DOVE Unit goes to police departments throughout the state and gives training on giving assistance to domestic violence victims. One officer speaks about domestic violence in classes at the MU School of Law and the School of Social Work, Nichols said.

High-profile domestic violence cases such as Derrick Washington’s can help decrease the stigma associated with abuse victims coming forward, Haden said.

When domestic abuse cases are sensationalized, the audience can become turned off to the victim, she said.

“High-profile cases do shift public perception, as long as they’re treated with dignity by the media,” Haden said.

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THE KEY TO YOUR ENTERTAINMENT

Witness Missouri wilderness on two wheels *

Ditch the gas-guzzler and tackle these trails with your eco-friendly bicycle.

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COVER

Get in gear for Columbia biking * Over the years, Columbia officials have striven to make the town as bike-accessible as possible. This is evidenced by bike lanes, bike racks and the many bikers downtown who make driving a pain in the ass for everyone else.

The next time you have to slow down for a biker, rather than grumbling and cursing under your breath, perhaps you should find out for yourself what makes biking so popular in Columbia.

The area offers many trails in and around the city for even the least experienced biker.

So whether you’re the next Lance Armstrong or just taking off your training wheels, hop on a bike and discover the city on two wheels.

THE MKT NATURE AND FITNESS TRAIL Easily accessible from campus, this trail is a Columbia standard and is widely used by students as both a running and biking trail.

The MKT trail branches off the Katy trail, which serves as the biking backbone to Missouri, stretching all the way from St. Louis to Kansas City.

The next time you’re bored on a Saturday, see how far you can bike — can you make it all the way to St. Louis?

Or for those looking for a gentler ride, this trail is paved and mostly flat. It curves around Hinkson Creek and provides a scenic, leisurely ride to bikers of any experience level.

CAPEN PARK Stemming off from the MKT trail is Capen Park’s Hinkson Creek trail. It’s semi-paved with wide gravel-covered trails winding along the creek.

The gravel trail makes this accessible for beginners looking for a picturesque place for a leisurely bike ride. It’s very short (less than a mile long), but what it lacks in length, it makes up for in beauty.

Be sure to go off the main trail at several points and enjoy the views of the scenic bluffs that line the path.

Although the trail is short, it has plenty of variety, opening from shady, cool woods to sunny fields of wildflowers.

This park is also easily accessible from campus because it’s only a quick bike ride down Rock Quarry Road.

ROCK BRIDGE MEMORIAL STATE PARK Further down Rock Quarry Road lies the most kickass of local biking spots: Rock Bridge Memorial State Park. Its miles of well-groomed trails supply the experienced biker and newbie alike with endless entertainment.

The trails here range from paved trails, which are good for relaxed trail riding, to downhill dirt trails, which are temperate enough for beginners but challenging enough to entertain the experienced dirt-biker.

Beginners, beware: what starts as an easy and mostly flat trail can quickly turn into a downhill fight

This is your guide to two-wheeling in Columbia.

for survival. Make sure you know what you’re getting into.

The biggest draw to this park, besides the beautiful scenery, is the well-kept trails.

Rock Bridge Park closes its trails to bikers and horseback riders on rainy days, which keeps the trails in better condition.

This park is accessible from campus if you are looking for a longer bike ride.

Just take a 15-minute ride down Rock Quarry Road and past Capen Park — the route to the park is perfect for road biking. It’s sparsely used and twists through picturesque woods.

COSMOPOLITAN PARK If you like it rough and rugged, check out Cosmopolitan Park’s unkempt trails. Cosmo Park offers several trails, the most well-known being Rhett’s Run. Unlike Rock Bridge Park, Cosmo Park doesn’t close its trails for rain, so expect things to be a little more unrefined.

Although some trails here are beginner-friendly, bike carefully.

Trails are often muddy and uneven with logs or rocks blocking the path.

Cosmopolitan Park offers all types of terrain: hilly, steep, flat, rocky, dirt and grass. This is a difficult trail to bike because of lack of upkeep, but if you are a down-and-dirty biker who loves to bike regardless of trail condition, this trail will keep you on your toes and provide a challenge. kari paul | staff writer

CURTIS TAYLOR JR./THE MANEATER AS THE SUN SETS, BIKERS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF COZY SEPTEMBER TEMPERATURES BY CYCLING THURSDAY AT THE MKT TRAIL. COLUMBIANS CAN ALSO BIKE AT COLUMBIA COSMOPOLITAN RECREATION AREA, ROCK BRIDGE STATE PARK AND CAPEN PARK.

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Appleseed Cast marches, crescendos onward * The Lawrence-based band has been together for more than a decade and will play Sept. 24 at Mojo's.

Nothing good ever comes from Lawrence, Kan. It’s a wasteland -the Mordor to our Shire -- the place where everything except wheat and Jayhawks go to die.

From that pit of collegiate despair rises post-rock band The Appleseed Cast. Even though neither of the two founding members attended University of Kansas, the band has worked out of Lawrence since 1997.

The band’s most recent album, “Sagarmatha,” is a sprawling soundscape album.

It’s one of those albums where, under all the epic crescendos, gentle-yet-intricate rhythms, hushed vocals and foot pedals, there’s a rock band trying to do something big ger than its genre once allowed.

Tracks such as “The Summer Before” and “As the Little Things Go” set up a dauntingly heavy and deeply emotional experience for the listener with minimalistic vocal use.

The album, much less hookoriented than The Appleseed Cast’s previous work, trudges along, throwing the weight of a thousand melancholy guitar lines onto the listener.

Guitarist Aaron Pillar, one of the band’s founders, explained the thought behind the aural shift.

“The last two records were trying to be more rock, as opposed to this one, where we were like, ‘Fuck it, make it sound cool and crazy,’” Pillar said.

Pillar, along with guitarist and

vocalist Chris Crisci, is the primary songwriter for the band and draws his influences from all over.

Citing sources of inspiration such as The xx, Refused and even Hans Zimmer, Pillar is also inspired by abstract, non-musical areas and the way they play into the grand scheme of musical art.

“With classical music, the violins come in and play some riff,” Pillar said. “It’s always the same riff, but you’re adding in other things and making it grand.”

In other words, Pillar wants to do more than create interesting sound effects.

“What are we telling people?” he asked rhetorically. “I want (the music) to sound cool, but I want it to mean something.”

After a short pause, Pillar chuckled.

“I think about it too much,” he said.

There is obviously no lack of ambition in The Appleseed Cast’s camp.

After being around for more than a decade, it certainly takes dedication to keep the metaphorical tour bus running.

“It’s a lot of work, and it’s been a lot of work to continue to do it for so long, but I can’t imagine not doing it,” Pillar said.

Trying to balance crafting a song and crafting a life is no easy task.

With various combinations of girlfriends, kids and mortgages in the mix, scheduling practices, tours and studio time becomes much more difficult -- not to men-

tion the amount of time it takes to develop the sweeping instrumentals The Appleseed Cast are prone to create.

“We recently played the end of one song for three hours, and we still didn’t figure out how to play it right,” Pillar said. “That’s practice at Appleseed’s house.”

Although there’s no release date for a new album yet, Pillar hopes to have a new one out next year.

The band ar rives in Columbia for an 8 p.m. show tonight at Mojo’s. Underneath the thick veil of Missouri-K ansas border hostility, we might find that perhaps even KU fans can make g ood music. robert langellier | reporter

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(MOVIE RELEASE) ‘WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS’ RELEASE DATE: FRIDAY, SEPT. 24

(MOVIE RELEASE) ‘YOU AGAIN’ RELEASE DATE: FRIDAY, SEPT. 24

Shia LeBeouf ’s ego is probably growing just as fast as his pocketbook. His latest blockbuster, “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” is the sequel to the 1987 Oliver Stone film “Wall Street.”

The film tells the tale of Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) and Jake Moore’s (LaBeouf) battle for respect and money on Wall Street as Moore falls in love with Gekko’s daughter, Winnie.

Acting powerhouses Josh Brolin and Susan Sarandon also make appearances in this highly anticipated sequel.

Kristen Bell holds the lead role in this star-studded film about getting revenge on high school bullies.

When Marni’s (Bell) brother marries Joanna, the girl who bullied her in high school, Marni attempts to expose Joanna’s evil side to her family.

An extra wrinkle is added when Marni’s mom discovers Joanna’s mom is the woman who bullied her in high school as well. Follow?

Hilarity ensues as the four women assume the social roles they held in high school.

The best part is Betty White plays Grandma Bunny.

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(EVENT) KCOU 88.1 FM PRESENTS TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS TIME: 7:30 P.M. DATE: SUNDAY, SEPT. 26 LOCATION: THE BLUE NOTE, 17 N. NINTH ST. TICKETS: $14

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists have reinvented their sound often, even after being together for nearly 10 years. The band’s latest album, The Brutalist Bricks, was written completely by Ted Leo and is a return to its pop-punk roots.

Ted Leo and his compadres hit The Blue Note during the Midwest leg of the band’s lengthy United States and European tour.

Although Ted Leo has been around for a while, he is keeping up with the times. His Twitter, @ tedleo, has more than 13,000 followers.

(ALBUM RELEASE) HALCYON DIGEST, DEERHUNTER RELEASE DATE: TUESDAY, SEPT. 28

Indie garagero c k band Deerhunter’s latest album is just as catchy and quirky as the rest of its discography.

In order to boost sales, Deerhunter turned to its fans.

The album was part of a grassroots movement the band started by urging fans to download the album’s flyer and hang it up in the fans’ hometowns.

Halcyon Digest has already received a positive review from “Spin,” and if you’re not convinced, you can stream the entire album at npr.org.

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The Scarlet Review

KATY WAGNER movie columnist

‘Devil’ surprises with innovation Let’s get one thing straight: M. Night Shyamalan did not direct “Devil,” nor did he write “Devil.”

Shayamalan did nothing more than have an idea and produce it. But film reviews don’t usually have a hell of a lot to do with producers, so if you’re looking for cheap and useless Shyamalan bashing, look elsewhere.

This, for better or worse, will be an actual critique of a decent, if unfulfilling, thriller/horror film.

Horror and thriller films do not need to have a larger-than-life plot. Sometimes simplicity is the name of the game, and that is exactly where “Devil” starts, with five strangers mysteriously trapped in an elevator.

When the building staff and the police force fail to break open the elevator, the five strangers begin to die — one by one. Then it is a race against the clock to find out who is causing the mayhem before the last body drops.

Director John Erick Dowdle r e v i e w could very well be considered the saving grace of “Devil.” Dowdle is best known for writing and IL DEV directing 2008’s shamefully DIRECTOR: JOHN underrated “Quarantine.”

DLE DOW K ERIC When it comes to the elevator FEATURING: CHRIS LL- scenes, Dowdle makes some stunSHA MAR AN LOG , SINA MES ning choices. Tight close ups and GREEN, JENNY O'HARA, total blackouts jar the viewer into ND ARE Y FFRE GEO an unsettling spot on the edge of RATING: PG-13 their seat. He pushed standout 1 E: TIM ING NN RU Logan Marshall-Green into a raw HOUR, 20 MINUTES but nuanced performance. of 5 It is in these sweaty, frenzied scenes that “Devil” hits its stride.

Unfortunately, this glimpse of brilliance is quickly eclipsed by the shortcomings of a safe script.

The ultimate downfall in “Devil” is when, less than halfway through the film, the filmmakers got scared of their own gimmick. Instead of committing to a “Lord of the Flies”-esque supernatural thriller, we are forced to watch the superfluous characters outside of the elevator.

It would have taken a lot of guts and faith for the film to take place solely inside the elevator, but at least you could have commended them on the effort.

Playing it safe only crippled the film and left the audience with an underwhelming twist that had nothing to do with the devil in the elevator.

They spent such a painstaking amount of time to make us squirm with claustrophobia, but that all melts away the second we, the audience, are allowed outside of the elevator.

If we are supposed feel the same sense of tension as the characters, we need to be treated like them.

Every time we move out of the elevator, the film changes from a taut human drama with supernatural tendencies to a needless police drama with supernatural tendencies.

Still, to laud Dowdle once more, the unnecessary scenes are as slick and swift as the elevator scenes are innovative and chilling. The film might flirt with superfluous plot lines, but it is always engaging.

Although “Devil” might not have delivered exactly what it set out to do, it is still entertaining enough to get in the Halloween state of mind.

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Killing it on stage Veteran stage performers live by the mantra “the show must go on,” even when lines are forgotten, costumes are torn and the set’s falling down around them. Of course, there are some exceptions -- like when Abe Lincoln is shot.

“Our Leading Lady,” which begins tonight at Stephens College’s Macklanburg Theater, tells the story behind the actors in the play Abraham Lincoln attended the night he was fatally shot by John Wilkes Booth.

Set in April 1865, the show centers on Laura Keene, a famous actress and manager who performed “Our American Cousin” in Washington, D.C. the week the Civil War ended.

Although the city buzzes with excitement as the conflict comes to an end, Laura does everything in her power to persuade President Lincoln to attend her performance on the show’s final night. Little do they know, Laura and her fellow actors will become a part of the history.

“Our Leading Lady,” debuted by playwright Charles Busch in 2007, portrays Keene as one of the strong female characters Busch typically includes in his works.

“The show often feels like a 1940s comedy set in the mid-19th century,” director Quin Gresham said. “Act one plays very much like a typical backstage farce. But in act two, the plot takes a much more serious, introspective, socio-political

turn. It really is an interesting piece.”

Michelle Wilke, who plays Keene, found that in addition to the difficulties brought on by the complex nature of the show, the time period the show takes place during also creates certain challenges, especially concerning language.

“Language is so important in the show, especially for my character who is an actress,” Wilke said. “She loves her words, and every line she has is elaborate. Not only were they hard to memorize, but the language is not how we talk today.”

Even though the play is largely fictional, Gresham said many elements of the plot hold true to the events of April 14, 1865.

“Laura Keene was the actormanager performing ‘Our American Cousin’ and, by some reports, did climb into the presidential box to cradle the dying president in her arms,” he said. “The most important fact is that she will always be known, not as a great actor, but as the actor that performed when Lincoln was assassinated.”

Wilke acknowledged that most people only know as much about Lincoln’s assassination as elementary school teachers or history books have taught them. If the audience can relate to and appreciate an event that happened so long ago, it will give the show a deeper meaning, she said.

“Through the research I did for the show, I found out some

play is set during the night of Lincoln's * The assasination.

Katie Currid/Associate Editor Ashlee James grabs the face of fellow actress Michelle Wilke during a rehearsal for “Our Leading Lady” on Wednesday at Stephens College. The play, based on a troupe of thespians who performed at Ford’s Theater the night Lincoln was shot, will open at 7:30 p.m.

Friday. very interesting facts about how devastating it was for them at the time,” she said. “Quin would say, ‘Imagine 9/11 just happened and you’re worried about how it’s going to affect you.’ (I try) to relate it as much as I can to make my emotions believable so that the audience will believe them.”

Stage manager Katie McKellar said even though the show isn’t modern, it does provide a backstage look at what goes on behind the scenes in theatrical productions.

“It shows the theater in a different

light,” McKellar said. “(The audience can) get a glimpse of what it is backstage, and not just the petty jealousies, because that always happens. But there’s true camaraderie that comes out of it as well — family.”

“Our Leading Lady” plays at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 24 and 25 and Oct. 1 and 2 and at 2 p.m. Sept. 26. Tickets are $12 for general admission and $6 for students and seniors. They can be reserved at the Stephens College box office by calling (573) 876-7199. allison pohle | reporter

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Seeing the world from a couch * Ragtag’s Passport Series hosts films from eight different countries.

The Passport Series, a contemporary cultural blitzkrieg of film, music, art and a complimentary drink, is under way in its sixth season at Ragtag Cinema.

“It’s meant to give people a vision of cultures as they exist currently,” Ragtag Cinema Executive Director Tracy Lane said. “Our perceptions of other cultures are primarily rooted in historical facts.”

This year, the films are from eight different countries, each playing for a Wednesday and Thursday over a period of eight weeks. Customers are treated to either wine or beer from the country the film is from, as well as contemporary music and art before the film. Afterward, there is a discussion led by someone with knowledge of the culture.

“The discussion is designed to clear up cultural differences,” Lane said. “But it usually just becomes more about how the audience interpreted the film.”

Brad Prager, an associate professor of German and member of the Program in Film Studies at MU, led the discussion of the German film “Everyone Else.” The discussion touched on aspects of the film from references to Brunhilde, a character from German mythology, to the fundamental differences in European and American film tendencies.

“It’s not just a screening,” Passport Series Programming Director Paul Sturtz said. “It’s more of an event.”

Sturtz said making it an event creates a friendlier entry point into foreign language films, which can often seem esoteric and off-putting for many.

Lane said although the theater screens international films all year, the Passport Series discussions can be especially beneficial for students to dive into movies with subtitles more comfortably.

The crowd is generally made up of older Columbia residents, rath-

er than students, despite attempts to advertise to students in certain groups on campus, such as those in international or film studies.

Although many people don’t have the opportunity to get a contemporary glimpse into other cultures, Columbia itself is an international community — a fact that manifested itself to Lane during the screenings of World Cup games.

“When we showed the World Cup games on the big screen, we saw incredible camaraderie from different nations,” Lane said.

Because the multicultural response was so great during the World Cup and people who hadn’t been to Ragtag Cinema before were coming to watch the games habitually, Lane said they had hoped for a greater turnout for the Passport Series this year. But, the turnout remains somewhat small.

The programming for the series is conceptualized through finding films

that have gained wide critical acclaim, are diverse in nature and have some geographic spread in their origins.

“It’s meaningful to people to quote the New York Times rather than just anybody,” Sturtz said. “I give more weight to people who do this for a living and watch hundreds of movies a year.”

Sturtz said relying on critical acclaim also prevents him from becoming too attached to certain films and thereby skewing his judgment in programming.

“Films I hate, we’ll play,” Sturtz said. “And sometimes films I love would be a terrible sell.”

Although many of the films are appealing to a wide audience, Sturtz said the last film in the series, “Dogtooth,” is one of the more unusual films in this year’s line-up.

“It’s going to be a hard sell,” Sturtz said. “Hopefully people will get the humor.” megan pearl | associate editor

MOVE HIGHLIGHTS (VIDEO GAME RELEASE) ‘GUITAR HERO: WARRIORS OF ROCK’ RELEASE DATE: TUESDAY, SEPT. 28 PLATFORMS: XBOX 360, PLAYSTATION 3, WII RATING: TEEN

If you are one of those stubborn gamers who refuses to buy into “Rock Band,” good news: The latest “Guitar Hero” comes out Tuesday.

Even though the game has updated graphics and a ton of new songs, don’t expect “Warriors of Rock” to differ much from the series’ previous games. Any Megadeth fans out there? Well, all two of you will like the band’s exclusive “Guitar Hero”-only track “Sudden Death.”

(ALBUM RELEASE) PETE YORN, PETE YORN RELEASE DATE: TUESDAY, SEPT. 28

(ALBUM RELEASE) THE DISSENT OF MAN, BAD RELIGION RELEASE DATE: TUESDAY, SEPT. 28

(ALBUM RELEASE) EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN, NO AGE RELEASE DATE: TUESDAY, SEPT. 28

Pete Yorn has been haunting CD players and iPod’s ever since his 2001 release musicforthemorningafter. Yorn has come a long way since his modest beginnings. His latest album, Pete Yorn, was produced by Pixies’ front man Frank Black. The team produced the album in a meager five days. But for Yorn and Black, haste doesn’t make waste — Pete Yorn will be vintage indie rock. Frank Black’s influences are evident, and the album sounds particularly poppy.

Punk bands are notorious for having a short life.

Angry, dysfunctional musicians never stay together for very long. Bad Religion somehow made it work. The Dissent of Man is the band’s 15th album since 1982.

Greg Graffin, the band’s only constant member, brings his politically charged lyrics to the band’s standard punk riffs. No matter how snobby you might be about punk rock, there is no debate Bad Religion has some influence on your favorite bands.

Sub Pop Records’ noise rock duo No Age blends distortion and indie lyrics seamlessly.

Everything in Between is the band’s third studio album, and the record communicates emotion just as easily through its wall of sound as it does its lyrics. The album’s first single, “Glitter,” is a paranoid love song that goes perfectly with sipping PBR and smoking American Spirits with your lover.

Buy the record on vinyl for the full effect. This is your excuse to finally get that record player.

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On the Cat Walk

Local artists, smokin' art *

JASMIN JAMES fashion columnist

Frighteningly trendy costumes Sometimes, when two conflicting fashion worlds come together, the results can be scary good. That’s what happened this fall.

Simon Doonan is from one fashion world. Some of you might recognize Doonan as the stylish little British man who often contributes his somewhat ruthless opinions about various pop culture phenomenon on VH1’s “I Love the 80s,” “I Love the 90s,” etc. Others might recognize him as the man who, in 1989, changed the face of window-shopping forever with his gallant, edgy window displays at Barneys New York.

Doonan has since become synonymous with forming new age constructs of modern fashion. His regular column featured in the New York Observer, “Simon Says,” brings the real world a little bit closer to luxury and style. Simon is, in one word, marvelous. And he will always be one of the great pioneers of this obsession called fashion. This year, he continues to marvel us.

Target is from another fashion world. Target’s reputation has been shaky lately. Some people think of it as the Wal-Mart for the more affluent America, which, before parent company Dayton Hudson sold luxury retailer Marshall Field’s in 2004, could have very well been the case.

Another contingent might think of Target as the launch pad for innovative fashion, featuring both rising and established designers at an amazing price.

Alexander McQueen, Isaac Mizahri, Michael Graves, Zac Posen — they’ve all been there.

Either way, it’s impossible to ignore the social staple Target represents and the tremendous value they wish to give consumers. Sure, you could by a $9 shirt from Wal-Mart, but will it be as trendy as a $9 shirt from Target? I’m afraid not.

So what happens when the Minneapolis-based retail chain — the second largest discount retailer in the world — and the face of Barneys New York unite? What about the most chic Halloween costumes ever? Doonan introduced a series of costumes for the entire family (even the family dog) that are just as fashionable as they are occasionappropriate.

The line, which hit stores Sept. 12, had a variety of inspirations and features 14 signature costumes. The costumes range from spins on the traditional threads, such as diva witch and A-list celebrity, to more imaginative costumes such as giant candy corn (Candace Corn) and spaghetti.

Perhaps the most obviously chic costume is the glamour ghost, a large sheet-like hooded dress with the words “trick or trend” stylishly printed on the front.

Doonan’s clever ideas are a twist on the popular and stylish interpretation of the fame-obsessed society we live in.

Halloween is probably the only day you can wear anything and essentially go crazy. Platforms, fishnets, pink wigs, body glitter — the whole nine yards. Anyone can throw in a Bumpit, bathe in tinted moisturizer, overdo the eye make-up and be Snookie for Halloween. But not just any girl can pull off a stylish plate of spaghetti or a glowing piece of candy corn.

On another note, if you’re more interested in a less boisterous Halloween ensemble, Urban Outfitters Online carries a few trinkets, such as headbands, hats and glasses. If styled correctly, they can pass as the minimalist’s perfect costume.

My favorite? A headband with giant pink bunny ears.

While walking down Walnut Street, you might not notice what looks like a rather small building. What you wouldn’t expect is this building houses both an indoor and outdoor stage and has played host to more than 100 artists’ work. Its basement is home to a number of artists’ studios and even a pink piano in a corner room. Artlandish Gallery, which opened only one year ago, might appear small, but the artistic passion inside reminds visitors that this is no hole in the wall.

“We cater to the slightly strange,” owner Lisa Bartlett said. “We’re not your typical art gallery with just nature art, although I do embrace that art, and it is here.”

For the first time, Artlandish Gallery is partnering with Roots ‘N Blues ‘N BBQ to put on an exhibit of blues art. The show, Roots ‘N Blues ‘N Smokin’ Art, opened Thursday, Sept. 23 and runs until Oct. 22, with an event Friday, Oct. 8 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. during Artrageous.

“I want this to be a come and just relax, nostress type of event,” Bartlett said.

Bartlett has had her work displayed at various locations every year of the Roots ‘N Blues ‘N BBQ festival, but this year she is the featured artist. Her art was featured on the posters and will also be displayed at the festival.

“Lisa’s paintings of blues musicians are wonderful examples (of blues art) to me,” local artist Marilyn Cummins said in an e-mail. “They clearly sing the blues.”

Even though Bartlett’s work will not be at the exhibit, 20 other artists’ work, including Cummins’, will be displayed with more than 30 submissions. Almost all the artists featured are local artists. The submissions are diverse and don’t just include works done on canvas.

“I’m not all that interested in blues,” local artisan Lawrence L’Hote said in an e-mail. “I just

Artlandish Gallery hosts a blues-inspired art show.

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Eli Memamara marvels at the Time Voyager by Greg Orloff at the Roots n Blues n Smokin’ Art event Thursday at Artlandish Gallery. The exhibit gave patrons a chance to vote for their favorite piece of artwork. found this really funky, old trombone at a flea market and decided to put something together.

It’s called ‘Ole Wilson.’”

Students have even had the opportunity to get involved with the gallery and exhibit. Senior Christopher Coyne began an internship with Artlandish in June. He is interested in how the viewers interpret the art.

“Blues music and lyrics are very emotional and powerful from every note to every syllable, just like every line or brush stroke in a painting should be,” Coyne said in an e-mail. “Those lines and lyrics mean the world to the artist, or at least they should, but it is about the listener or viewer

who really makes the piece significant or not.”

Until Oct. 22, Artlandish gallery is giving you the opportunity to be that listener and viewer with its Roots ‘N Blues ‘N Smokin’ Art show.

And you won’t have to sacrifice your soul to participate.

“The good thing about being a fine artist is that I don’t have to go down to the crossroads near Dockery Plantation and sell my soul to the Devil like Robert Johnson so he could become the greatest blues man of all time,” Coyne said.

“But maybe I will try someday.” emily voss | reporter

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A manifesto for our upper legs *

Why short shorts can liberate you from fear and discomfort.

I’ve got a lot of leg, a lot of twiggy leg.

My slender stature is more than 6 feet tall, not incredibly tall, but I’m not hiding from anyone either. I also don’t weigh anything, a buck sixty tops. I’ve been described as a gazelle, a tarantula and a grasshopper giving birth, which is scientifically inaccurate, but that’s not the salient feature. The point is I’ve got a lot of leg. And I don’t mind showing it.

I like showing it when I wear shorts, particularly of the 5-inch inseam variety.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with seamstress terms, that means the shorts are five inches long from crotch to bottom, which on a set of gams like mine essentially means a lot of knee cap and a lot of lower thigh. But I’m not solely interested in the lower thigh.

You see, I think a lot of people have a phobia, a phobia that their upper leg is maybe the snow-capped peak to their otherwise bronzed and breezy bottom-half, the barren netherland only exposed privately or accidentally. Men stick feverishly to the cargo short paradigm, which is not to say the excessively-embellished and camouflaged are particularly haute within our college-age

broasis. The paradigm, rather, is the child of that cargo: that is, the institutional demand that male shorts must in no way resemble female shorts, that one “must (only) protect this house” in below-the-knee Under Armour at the cost of exposed ass and stained undies.

The paradigm insists upon short shorts relating to some kind of weird masculinity complex in which the longer the short, the manlier the man. But I’d like to insist upon the opposite, that the more willinglyexposed, the manlier the man. Because masculinity shouldn’t be your passive devotion to some blindly officiated realm of “masculine culture” but rather your pride of your own body — your own gams, in this case. Up until now, masculinity has been the recently blasted pectoral and the unsettling abdominal. But why foreclose the otherwise unexposed from masculine value, whatever that might be?

So this is my manifesto for the short short, but mainly for the upper leg. I know many of you aren’t afraid of the upper leg, and by “you,” I mean the bizarrely shaven mavens of yesteryear with your rolled Soffe

shorts. We’re all impressed and have been since sixth grade.

But for the rest of you, insistent upon your regular sporting of shin-length garments, liberate yourself from the paradigm and invest in some Oxford shorts. Get even more ballsy and buy them in a pastel color.

Seven-inch inseam shorts from J.Crew are a nice middle ground between 5-inch inseam shorts and what you’ve been wearing up until now and are an acceptable step in the right direction. You could even get crafty and take a pair of your shorts and chop off a solid five inches of their length, as cut-offs are fairly popular right now.

In the end, the method doesn’t really matter. It’s more about the message that clothes aren’t meant to hide your gendered differences, nor are they meant to assist you in buying into ambiguous and weakly enforced societal “expectations.” Short shorts are my vice, because I don’t have the pecs you have.

I don’t care to have the pecs you have. My shorts go with everything, and make me feel free, and that’s all they ever have to do. alex pesek | associate editor

MOVE HIGHLIGHTS (VIDEO GAME RELEASE) ‘DEAD RISING 2’ RELEASE DATE: TUESDAY, SEPT. 28 PLATFORM: XBOX 360 RATING: MATURE

Zombie fans, unite! “Dead Rising 2” lets you go medieval on zombie ass with an array of weapons in Las Vegas. This time around, the players can customize their weapons to create even more over-the-top zombie-slaying machines. Got a chainsaw and kayak paddle lying around? Tape them together to create a paddle saw. Turning household products into efficient zombie annihilators is not only fun, it’s good practice for when the real zombie apocalypse happens.

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(EVENT) OVER THE EDGE FOR SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI TIME: 9 A.M. DATE: WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 29 LOCATION: THE TIGER HOTEL, 23 S. EIGHTH ST. TICKETS: FREE

Volunteers who raised more than $1,000 for Special Olympics Missouri are getting a rare and exciting opportunity Wednesday. As a reward for their hard work, volunteers will get to rappel down The Tiger Hotel, Columbia’s tallest building. If you have an extra $1,000 lying around, you too can rappel. If not, the event is free to watch. Bring a lawn chair and enjoy the free entertainment. If you feel creepy watching people rappel down a building, you can still donate to Special Olympics Missouri.

(MOVIE RELEASE) ‘ALAMAR’ AT RAGTAG CINEMA RELEASE DATE: WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 29

As a part of Ragtag Cinema’s Passport Series, the theater is showing Mexican film Alamar . The film tells the story of Jorge, a Mexican fisherman; Roberta, an Italian city dweller; and the couple’s 5-year-old son, Natan.

Before moving to Italy with Roberta, Natan will spend a week fishing and learning the traditions of a fisherman with his father in Mexico. Beautiful cinematography cements this film as a must-see for any movie lover.

(EVENT) “JAZZ, WINE & BEER” PUB CRAWL TIME: 6:30 P.M. DATE: THURSDAY, SEPT. 30 LOCATION: THE DISTRICT TICKETS: $38

“We Always Swing” Jazz Series is back and better than ever. The series kicks off with the “Jazz, Wine & Beer” Pub Crawl, a barhopping adventure that will feature food, booze and jazz at 12 different venues downtown. Beer and wine will be offered at all locations. Food will also be provided at each venue.

For more information about the event or the series in general, visit wealwaysswing.org. If you’re not 21 years old, though, look the other way. These guys are carding.

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Columbia family sues city over February SWAT raid Steve Cassidy Staff Writer A Columbia family filed suit against the city of Columbia, the Columbia Police Department and several police officers Monday for damages related to a February SWAT raid at their home in which their dog was shot and killed.

The family’s attorney Milt Harper said Jonathan and Brittany Whitworth are suing the city because police improperly executed a search warrant on their Columbia home.

In February, SWAT officers raided the Whitworth’s home in the 1500 block of Kinloch Court.

According to a CPD news release, officers suspected the home contained large amounts of marijuana and drug paraphanelia.

The news release stated officers found only drug paraphernalia and a small amount of marijuana residue.

The news release also stated officers shot and killed one of the family’s two dogs and wounded another.

According to the lawsuit, SWAT officers ordered Jonathan Whitworth to the ground, and his wife and their 7-year-old son were ordered to sit in the front entryway of their home.

According to the lawsuit, Brittany Whitworth and her son were in plain sight of the dog

that had been killed.

“This undoubtedly caused major trauma to their 7-year-old son,” Harper said. “He had to witness his pet being murdered.”

The lawsuit accuses one of the SWAT team members of kicking Jonathan Whitworth.

Shortly after the raid, The Columbia Daily Tribune requested video of the raid taken by the SWAT team be released as a public record. The video was released and posted online after misdemeanor charges against Jonathan Whitworth were resolved.

More than 1 million people viewed video of the raid on YouTube, and the tape was featured on national news shows such as “The O’Reilly Factor.”

“The outrage about the video was due to misconstrued information,” CPD spokeswoman Jessie Haden said. “People began to post it on YouTube and due to the poor quality of video, people imagined things they saw.”

Harper said the basis for the suit is the misconduct exhibited when executing the search warrant, but there are several other reasons for the suit.

“We are seeking a financial award for the damages caused to the Whitworth home, and the veterinary costs of the deceased pet,” he said.

CPD Chief Ken Burton issued a statement about the raid short-

ly after the video was released, saying the SWAT officers acted within the law, but waiting for days after obtaining a warrant and then using dynamic entry to serve it is unacceptable.

Harper said the department also never apologized to the family for killing the dog.

“The police department did not issue a statement, a call or apologize in any form for its actions,” Harper said. “They did not even acknowledge that they were inappropriate to fire shots into the Whitworth home.

They’re lucky they didn’t shoot the child, or even one of their fellow officers.”

Haden said the department never apologized because the Whitworth family never filed a claim with the city.

“If they had come to the city asking for restitutions for damage to their home, veterinary bills and doctor bills for their child, all we would have had to do is clear it with (Chief Burton),” Haden said. “It is very likely that we probably would’ve paid for such nominal damages.”

The Citizens Police Review Board reviewed the case over the summer and decided not to take action. Haden said this was because the CPRB, while reviewing the case, voted 4-3 on multiple occasions that the officers’ actions were proper according to procedure.

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Columbia residents Justin Becker and Randall Thomas protest the actions of the Columbia Police SWAT team at the City Council meeting May 18, 2010. Jonathan and Brittany Whitworth are suing the city and CPD for damages resulting from a February SWAT raid on their home.

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In a time of economic downturn, the default rate for student loans in Missouri has declined from 6.09 percent to 5.8 percent within the last year, according to a news release from the Missouri Department of Higher Education last week.

The decrease pushes rates lower than the national average of 7 percent. The rates track borrowers whose first loan repayments were due between Oct. 1, 2007, and Sept.

30, 2008, and those who defaulted before Sept. 30, 2009.

In Missouri, 77,164 borrowers are making student loan payments on time, and 4,539 students from 164 schools are in default.

A default on a loan occurs when a borrower fails to make required payments within a certain time period or when a borrower cannot meet the loan’s conditions.

According to MU Student Financial Aid Director Jim Brooks, MU, like the state of Missouri, has experienced a slight decrease in defaults between 2007 and 2008, as rates dropped from 2.4 percent to 2.3 percent.

Missouri sees lower student loan default rates than other states because of financial literacy programs and grants to institutions sponsored by the Missouri Department of Higher Education.

Despite the recession, numbers have gone down because of the department’s efforts to educate students, said Leanne Cardwell, assistant commissioner for the Missouri Student Loan Program.

The MDHE offers grants to schools seeking to reduce student loan default rates. The Default Prevention Grant Program has distributed $65 million to 43 schools since its debut in 2001. Institutions use the grants to teach students

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Despite the arrests of three football players and one coach in the last month, Athletics Department spokesman Chad Moller said the department’s disciplinary system is effective.

“You certainly can’t prevent things from happening, but when they do happen, I feel that we have a solid system in place,” he said. “It’s responsible for all parties involved.”

Under the department’s policy, student athletes who are charged with a felony are immediately suspended from all competition and practice. If they are convicted, they are dismissed from the team.

Former Missouri football senior captain Derrick Washington was permanently suspended from the team when he was charged with felony sexual assault Aug. 30.

Permanent suspension, or dismissal, is the most severe punishment the Athletics Department can impose, Moller said.

“When you are removed from being part of a team, that would be to me the strongest action that can be taken from an athletic standpoint,” he said.

Moller said athletes who are temporarily suspended could be reinstated if the felony charges are dropped or reduced. If a student is charged with a misdemeanor, his or her coach decides the punishment.

Most Big 12 schools have similar disciplinary policies for student athletes who are arrested.

Moller said the athletics department encourages social responsibility and discourages alcohol and substance abuse among its athletes almost on a daily basis.

“You can educate all that you can and it still comes down to individuals making the right decisions,”

he said. “What we try to do is reach kids and hope that they understand that decisions have consequences.”

Athletes face temptation to use alcohol and other drugs because they are under a lot of pressure, said Jason Shaffer, who helps run an NCAA athlete alcohol abuse education conference called the APPLE Conference.

He also said athletes might be tempted to overindulge in these substances because they are forbidden from using them during the season.

“I think there are a lot of complex factors that all go into it,” Shaffer said.

Three Missouri Tigers were arrested for driving while intoxicated in August, including assistant coach Bruce Walker.

Beau Brinkley and Will Ebner were not suspended from the football team when they were arrested in August because they were not charged with felonies.

In 2009, quarterback Blaine Dalton was suspended after he was arrested on suspicion of possession of liquor by a minor, a misdemeanor. He was later dismissed from the team after he was arrested again on suspicion of driving while intoxicated.

A total of seven Missouri athletes have been suspended due to arrests within the last year. Women’s basketball players Amanda Hanneman and Jessra Johnson were suspended indefinitely after being arrested for assault in December 2009.

The majority of Big 12 schools have suspended or dismissed three or fewer players due to arrests within the last 12 months, according to news accounts. The schools’ athletics departments declined to give an exact number or discuss specific cases.

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orderly conduct last February, his punishment was handled internally because it was not a felony, Oklahoma athletics department spokesman Kenny Mossman said.

Kansas Jayhawk Jamal Greene was dismissed when he was arrested for the felony of attempted armed robbery, Kansas athletics department spokesman Jim Marchiony said.

Chuck Sczuroski, national crime prevention council senior trainer, said alcohol use among students and athletes is sometimes underestimated as a serious crime, because it can lead to crimes such as DWIs and sexual assault. The NCPC offers crime prevention training to campus law enforcement agencies.

“Folks don’t want to see something that they think is relatively small affect either (the athletes’) careers or their eligibility,” Sczuroski said.

about managing finances and the importance of completing their program of study.

Cardwell said she expected to see a rise in defaults because of the economy but was pleasantly surprised to see Missouri’s rates decline.

The MDHE also conducts financial literacy programs that aid students in planning and paying for college with the lowest accumulated debt possible.

“Financing a college education can be a confusing and expensive minefield for students,” Cardwell said.

MU advisers urge students to borrow only what they need, Brooks said. First-time borrowers must complete online entrance counseling through the federal student aid program’s direct loan servicing website.

Edie Irons, communications director for the California-based Project on Student Debt, said she hears from too many students who wish they could turn back the clock. She encourages borrowers to go into the loan process with their eyes wide open.

“Students need to be aware and think about the consequences of borrowing,” Irons said. “It’s tempting to put your head down and stop worrying during the school year.”

The federal government has proposed new regulations to protect students from misleading and overly aggressive loan recruiting practices and to help lower student debt loads, which average $19,000 upon graduation for Missouri students.

For students struggling with loan debt, the MU Office of Student Financial Aid said borrowers can contact their loan servicer. There are also several different repayment methods available for federal loans.

Students can find more information on loan repayment options online.

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City should have started settlement discussion After a video that has attracted more than 1 million viewers, national media coverage and personal outrage reaching as far as California, the SWAT raid on a Columbia home is resulting in a lawsuit against the city.

The Whitworth family has hired a lawyer and is taking the city and the police department to court. We don’t know how much they want yet, but let’s be honest: People don’t just hire a lawyer and commit months of their lives to the judicial system for a paltry reward.

Despite the Columbia Police Department’s view that they, for the most part, acted in the right on that night in February, there were some serious issues with what happened during the raid.

Not only was the search warrant served eight days after it was issued, but the officers also raided the house and killed a dog in front of a 7-year-old boy. And for what? A small amount of marijuana, under 35 grams, that resulted in a citation.

CPD Chief Ken Burton issued a statement affirming suspicions that something about the raid wasn’t quite right. In fact, according to Burton, the use of “dynamic entry” (a clever euphemism for terrifying SWAT raid entry) was inappropriate action.

The Citizens Police Review Board, the committee meant to serve as a watchdog group for police activity, decided it was not the action of the raid, but rather the timing of the raid, that was wrong.

CPRB’s decided lack of action is frustrating, but even more frustrating is the arrogance of the Columbia Police Department. Little wrongdoing was admitted, no apologies were made and neither were any preemptive actions to prevent an obviously burgeoning lawsuit.

CPD spokeswoman Jesse Haden told The Maneater that the family should have filed a claim with the city first, and they could have settled the issue outside of court.

Rather than being sued for what could potentially be millions of dollars, the department should have initiated settlement talks themselves the moment the video went viral on the Internet and other cable news shows.

If they couldn’t deflect the lawsuit entirely this way, they could have potentially softened the blow. Now the city — and its taxpayers — will no doubt suffer the consequences.

Letter to the Editor

The Maneater should dig deeper Hey Maneater!

Get a grip! Before writing articles blasting fellow students, check yourselves to make sure you aren’t actually the ones confused.

MSA NEVER knows how much carryover they will be getting until the end of the fiscal year just like EVERY other department on campus.

There is no way to gauge that. Yes, we can get an idea but those numbers will always be conservative. They have to be that way.

As far as transparency, we post the budget online, open up meetings to the public, answer any questions to the best of our knowledge at that time, and update you with any changes as we discover them…what else do you want?

Now here’s the kicker, get some comprehension skills. If any of you were paying attention last year you would know exactly why MUTV and KCOU did not get their full matching funds, I know because YOU wrote an article over it!

Maybe you should get your archiving acts together or actually learn to do in depth research before writing an article. We didn’t match them because as said earlier, we didn’t know how much carryover we would have.

We could have matched them completely, but what if we got our final numbers in and it turns out we overspent? All hell would break loose in the “Forum” section!

MSA actually cut their fee by 5 percent two years ago if you do not recall. Now, seeing as we are still operating with carryover, we are looking into more ways to reduce this.

If you, once again, were paying attention, you would have noted the multiple ways we are planning to do this which include student outreach, programming, and another fee reduction. So Maneater, take your words and eat them.

Matt Sheppard MSA Budget chairman mdsmwc@mizzou.edu

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Health reform relieves college students September 23 marks six months since President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law. Although some of the law’s provisions will not be fully implemented for several years, there are many important provisions taking effect this year to end the stranglehold insurance companies have on us.

Insurers will no longer be able to cancel your coverage just because you became ill. They won’t be able to put the same lifetime or annual caps on benefits, and they’ll have to spend a larger percentage of your premium dollars on health care services instead of claims denials and big paydays for CEOs. But perhaps the most important reform for young adults is the provision that allows me to stay on my parent’s insurance. Thanks to the health reform law passed earlier this year, as of today, I can stay covered on my parents’ health insurance until the age of 26.

As a young person it’s hard to afford my own health insurance, but I definitely don’t want to be uninsured and risk being stuck with a big medical expense if something happens.

Being able to stay covered through my parents and being able to see a doctor for regular check-ups means that I have one less thing to worry about. These provisions are just a few of the components of the health reform law that officially take effect today.

I won’t pretend to understand all that’s in the new law – I can only speak from my perspective. But it angers me when opponents of health reform talk about it as if it’s some huge government takeover without stopping to think about the real benefits people like me will get. All I know is that for me and many of my friends and classmates, money is scarce and stresses run high. But knowing that we can retain our health insurance, see a doctor when we need to, and not have to choose between health coverage and things like student loan payments is a huge relief.

I don’t know what my future will hold exactly. Over the next few years, I’ll maybe go to grad school or move cities. It remains to be seen. Yet one thing I can count on is my ability to see a doctor when I need to without fear of financial ruin.

As of today, thanks to health reform, I really do have one less thing to worry about.

Alanna Bauer MU College Democrats Vice President ambgd4@mizzou.edu

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Life provides lemonade recipe Rachel Allred rma6f8@mizzou.edu

Example A: Legless, armless motivational speaker Nick Vujicic came into the world nearly 30 years ago without limbs.

Daily routines are a challenge for him.

Despite this, he graduated college, started a motivational speaking company called Attitude is Altitude and has confidently stated, “I love living life. I am happy.”

Example B: Steven Hayes was charged with capital murder, among other things, in 2007. His trial continued this week.

Allegedly, Hayes and a friend broke into a house with the intent of stealing money.

In the process, three of the four family members living in the house were killed.

A detective who interviewed the suspect said Hayes told him his life had sucked lately; he didn’t have a job and was desperate for money.

The similarity between the two: both faced difficult, almost unbearable challenges. The difference: one has mastered the art of turning life’s lemons into lemonade. The other still has things to learn.

We’ve all had those days. You know, the ones where you can’t seem to win at

anything. You forget to set your alarm and wake up when class is starting. All your stylish clothes are dirty, so you throw on old gym shorts that don’t fit and a tattered shirt that doesn’t match.

You leave your essay at home. You spill hot cocoa all over yourself. It keeps going downhill from there. It’s pretty draggish, but 24 hours later, a better day hopefully begins.

Sometimes, however, one bad day turns into two, which turn into a week, until we lose track of how many crummy days we’ve had. It can be a real bummer when sub par days seem to be coming at us in bulk, like toilet paper or macaroni and cheese at Sam’s Club.

When the going gets tough, we’re often reminded of the admonition, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” It’s a pretty simple phrase to consider but sometimes difficult to execute. Making a sweet beverage out of a tart fruit requires some effort.

First off, we have to be willing to pull ourselves out of our misery as best we can.

Once we’ve resolved to face the difficult situation and give it our best shot, we can start making lemonade.

Obviously we have to start by getting the juice out of the lemon. This requires us to take the reins. If the sour situation

is controlling our lives, it will beat us to a pulp. But if we’re in control, we can take that sucker, cut it in half, drain it of its juice and show it who’s boss.

When the juices are drained, we’re left with a pretty dead lemon and a cup of sour juice. Time to make it sweet. This requires us to find some sugar, some goodness.

That goodness could come from having friends and family to support us, trying to focus on the positive things, laughing at how ridiculous we look with bed hair and cocoa stains down our raggedy tee.

Sometimes it’s difficult to find “sugar,” but with every pinch of sweetness, the sour sting diminishes.

We could sit around and hope the lemon will turn itself into lemonade.

Likewise, we could wallow in our difficulties and hope our problems fix themselves, or we can accept them and make the best of them.

We are all entitled to a few bad days and grumpy moods. In fact, disappointing days can be beneficial because they can make good days seem a little better. I am not trying to undermine difficult situations or say I know Hayes’ life story and exactly what he was going through. However, it would benefit us if instead of letting circumstances break us, like they did Hayes, we learned to be happy, like Vujicic.

Read, write, listen, rule the world Mary Novokhovsky mn5p6@mizzou.edu

Part I: Who are you? A Generalized Image according to Public Data We are babies of helicopter parents, fear-mongering propaganda and Über technology.

We’ve been dubbed “Generation Me” by PhD-toting author Jean Twenge and a slew of big-city, pantsuit-wearing journalists. A New York Times article said our confident, selfish demeanor is nothing more than “irrational exuberance, an example of group psychosis and proof that this generation is headed for a major crash.”

We are desensitized to violent crimes, world issues and general politics. We donate our dollars to a hurricane fund at the grocery store, but which one? Something happened in Thailand, maybe in Haiti, could be China — ­ it’s all the same to us.

Our conflict-ridden globe (Mexican drug cartels, infinite sagas in the Middle East, civil war in Chad, American unemployment) is nothing more than a database for streaming news waiting to fill our Internet sidebars with content.

The world is on the brink of 5 billion cell phone subscriptions and boasts over 500 million Facebook users.

We dominate the Web with constant messages, updates, tweets, posts, blogs and comments. We have found a giant and free toilet hole for shitting out our selfexpression.

We’re a generation of historical illiterates, feigning literacy with Google facts and memorized pop culture references.

Most veritable media sources agree we suck at life. The only thing we’re really good at is continuing to believe we’re something special. We’re just a bunch of losers, waiting for a little spotlight to come shine down on us.

Part II: Who you can be: a heartfelt personal statement We’re screwed! Eh, maybe not so much.

As far as I can tell, every aging generation likes to piss on the one following it. Maybe it’s a right of passage. Once you’re old and bitter and your life didn’t turn out, you get

Illustration by Chelsea Myers free reign to crush someone else’s dreams.

If there’s something older generations can learn from us, it’s true adaptation. We have no problem integrating constantly evolving technology into our daily lives. As soon as one model is obsolete, we smoothly move on to the next.

We might be whiny and poorly informed but damn it, our refusal to settle short showcases admirable resilience.

If there’s a cliché and pertinent lesson I’ve learned from my hard-working-babybooming immigrant parents, it’s not to compromise.

Don’t curl up into a ball and complain about how hard your life has been. It’ll only get harder, and you’re only getting older. It’s time to get shit done. All we have to do is take some time to get educated.

I am convinced I will succeed in the writing industry; I barely bother considering the capacity for failure. One of these days, somebody fancy is going to pay me well for this kind of stuff — the end.

Author Gary Shteyngart said during an NPR interview, “Everyone is a writer

now. Nobody wants to read, but everybody wants to write.”

Suddenly, there’s something to prove.

We’re the best-equipped generation to succeed and we’re not going to blow it. The odds are stacked against us. But I think its pretty exciting.

There’s so much empty garbage to shovel through on the Internet, in textbooks, Barnes and Noble and reading sometimes doesn’t even seem worth it.

But here’s my call to action anyway — it’s easy: Read more, listen to more, become an interesting and fascinating human sponge.

People will call you brilliant and you’ll rule the world. Those pantsuit-wearing journalists will be drowning in all their inaccuracy.

Note: If you find yourself stumbling around The Maneater website or flipping through our paper, please let us know what you think. Without your feedback all this writing becomes meaningless. It is Forum’s aim to provide readers with an open space for discussion. Letters to the editor? Email Forum@themaneater.com, Want to get personal? M.Novokhovsky@gmail.com.

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Sounds have sights as well I wish instituting a nationally recognized holiday were as easy as Michael Scott’s attempt at declaring bankruptcy by simply screaming “bankruptcy” at his employees.

It isn’t that easy, but I still declare next week National Auditory-Visual Synesthesia Week!

I’m only declaring it Auditory-Visual Synesthesia Week because I can’t stop thinking about what I see when I listen to music and I’m curious to hear what others see, too.

For many, “Say You’ll Be There” by the Spice Girls triggers a memory and an emotion, or maybe even a round-house kick a la Sporty Spice, but for those with AuditoryVisual Synesthesia, the song is directly associated with specific shapes, colors or both.

I’m listening to Aphex Twin’s “Flim,” and every time I do, I think of the soccer fields behind my house and projected on that image are specks of gray tick marks and grayish blue globs. That is to say, I’m having a synesthetic experience. But do I have synesthesia?

According to the American Synesthesia Association, I very well might have synesthesia — and you might, too.

The condition was thought to only affect a very small number of the population, but research is showing as many as 1 in 23 people perceive Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream” as a fluorescent fuchsia, crimson mix.

As research develops, new forms of synesthesia are being explored. For example, visually induced sound synesthesia is a form wherein a mom, dad or mascot on the sidelines of a soccer game watches a soccer player run across a field and interprets the motion as a whooshing or whirling sound.

Human hearing by nature is a synesthetic experience. After each sound enters our ears and is interpreted by our brains, the qualities of each sound are quickly analyzed and from those qualities our brain places them spatially in our mind’s eye.

Recorded and live music play games with these perceptions all the time. Listen to the song “Home” by Glasser, and listen to one effect that is clearly at work.

As each instrument is introduced, they work together to add depth and dimension to the imaginary auditory space. I can only describe it as flying over a field that gradually drops off into a canyon or crater.

Later in the song, the same tension between sounding intimate or ethereal continues. By the song’s end, it has grown to a large and dynamic cavern of sound.

But that only informs one aspect of my visions when I listen to it.

The drums that open the song occur in fading beige circles that tumble in the bottom left of my vision. A trickling marimba dribbles down a set of notes, and I see them as pink bars that look like pink ghosts of marble slab.

Every element in the song has a colored and animated counterpart.

This song includes female vocals that look the same as most female vocals. Depending on the melody and the singer, female vocals look like a transparent ribbon of silver cellophane laced with tiny sparkles.

Exceptions do exist, though. Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders singing is golden yolk and not as sharp a ribbon. And Stevie Nicks’ is always a foggy pink with white streaks. But they all appear as ribbons or never-ending strips of grey.

At this point I should state that what I see isn’t my creation or imagination. It’s simply the first thing I see in my mind when I hear the music.

That is why I want to hear from Maneater readers about what they see when they listen to music. Feel free to write me an e-mail describing what you see or comment on the article at www.themaneater.com.

I know I can’t be alone in this. I’m special, just like everyone else.

Friday, September 24, 2010 On the Mike

Mike Vorel Sports Columnist

Eagles make bad Reid On April 4, the Philadelphia Eagles traded Donovan McNabb, the most successful quarterback in team history, to the intra-division Washington Redskins for two measly draft picks.

McNabb was healthy and had just come off one of his best statistical seasons as a pro (22 TDs, 10 INTs). To the outside viewer, this move might have seemed uneven, even immature. But don’t worry, Philadelphia. Andy Reid and the Eagles had their guy, and his name was Kevin Kolb.

Certainly the coaching staff had good reason to be enthusiastic about the 2007 second round draft pick out of Houston. Kolb had started two games for the Eagles in 2009 and threw for 391 and 327 yards respectively. In fact, this made him the first quarterback in NFL history to throw for at least 300 yards in each of his first two starts.

He was named the NFC offensive player of the week after his second start, a 34-14 win over the Kansas City Chiefs.

Kolb was hailed as the starter and a future star in the league throughout the entire offseason, an accurate passer with a strong arm who would fit perfectly in Reid’s “throw first, then throw again” offense. It seemed the team had grown impatient with McNabb in the previous seasons because they had a sure, viable option at quarterback waiting in the wings. Week one against Green Bay was supposed to be Kolb’s coming-out party, the beginning of a new era. Instead, it marked the beginning of the resurgence of Mike Vick.

Two sub-par quarters and a concussion into the Kevin Kolb era and it was time to pull the plug. His reign as starter didn’t even last as long as William Henry Harrison’s presidency, and that’s saying very little. Kolb threw for only 24 yards in the first half against Green Bay, and Vick replaced him after a concussion. Vick brought the team back and seemed to mesh with the offense. Vick then started week two against Detroit after Kolb failed a concussion test and impressed again, throwing for 284 yards and 2 TDs in a 35-32 victory.

Finally, Andy Reid named Vick the new starter Tuesday, despite Kolb being cleared to play in week three. In a league built upon the question, “What have you done for me lately?” Kevin Kolb seems to be the latest victim.

To me, this move seems to be a temporary fix to a permanent problem. Vick might be the safest option to give the Eagles a playoff birth, but based on NFL history, it’s pretty certain he’s not going to bring them a Super Bowl — the one thing Andy Reid and the Eagles franchise are lacking. Quarterbacks who try to make up for their lack of accuracy with impressive mobility are undeniably fun to watch, but they just don’t win championships (see: young McNabb, Daunte Culpepper, Steve McNair).

In recent years, the quarterbacks who have taken their teams all the way have not had great mobility but have more than overcome that with good decision-making, a quick release and pinpoint accuracy. Tom Brady, the Manning brothers and Drew Brees all fit that mold. And yes, so does Kevin Kolb.

In the end, Andy Reid felt the pressure of an unforgiving Philly media and fan base and made a snap decision. The move itself is likely to destroy the psyche of the young quarterback the franchise has spent three years grooming, much like the Matt Leinart debacle in Arizona. If Vick succeeds, everybody will be happy. If not, Andy Reid will have a lot of explaining to do.

sports Reach Zach Mink, sports editor, at zmink@themaneater.com

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No. 24 Tiger football rounds out non-conference schedule John Montesantos Staff Writer The No. 24 Missouri Tigers will play their last non-conference game of the season as they host Miami of Ohio on Saturday. Missouri will look to stay unbeaten after moving to 3-0 last week with a comeback win over San Diego State.

Miami is 2-1 and enters Faurot Field on a two-game winning streak after come-from-behind wins over Eastern Michigan and Colorado State. Just three weeks in, Miami of Ohio has already topped its win total from last year’s dreadful 1-11 season.

The strong start as well as the great tradition of the Mid-American Conference has coach Gary Pinkel preparing for another non-conference challenge.

“We all know how good that league is,” Pinkel said. “I know because I played in that league and coached in that league that those teams are good year in and year out.”

Pinkel’s coaching style is to treat every game like a national championship game. His players have adopted his methods of thorough preparation.

“We always talk about overprepare, overprepare, overprepare,” senior cornerback Carl Gettis said. “We just have to refocus and be ready for what they’re going to do.”

Miami of Ohio stuck with then No. 3 Florida in its season opener, trailing 21-12 after three quarters before the Gators pulled away. The Redhawk

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Missouri football tailback De’Vion Moore evades McNeese State’s Brandon Robinson on Sept. 11 on Faurot Field. The Tigers will face off against Miami University of Ohio on Saturday in their last non-conference game of the season. defense, which held Florida to just 113 passing yards, might give junior quarterback Blaine Gabbert some trouble.

Gabbert is coming off a sub-par performance in week three after a nearly perfect outing against McNeese State the week before.

On the defensive end, the Tigers have taken flack for their performance against the Aztecs, but Pinkel read between the stat lines to see promise in his team.

“I don’t know if any team in college football has ever won with three turnovers in the fourth quarter,” Pinkel said. “But our defense gave up three points on those three turnovers and that gave us a chance. We’re giving up too many big plays and

that has to stop, but our third downs are significantly better.”

Although a couple members of the Tiger defense are listed as probable or questionable for Saturday, one big name is ruled out for sure. Sophomore defensive end Aldon Smith will miss this week as he recovers from a fractured fibula suffered in the fourth quarter of the San Diego State game.

Just because he won’t be suiting up Saturday doesn’t mean Smith isn’t in attack mode for week four.

“As you saw, they played well against a really good team in Florida,” Smith said. “We’re interested to see what they can do against us. We’re going to attack them and go out there

with a good attitude.”

Sophomore defensive end Brad Madison will get the start in his absence, though Pinkel plans to play multiple defensive ends in the game.

Madison has already caught the eye of the coaching staff, recording a sack, a forced fumble and three tackles for loss in limited time this season.

“He might not be the fastest of the six there, but you watch how he gets off on the snap,” Pinkel said. “He is really quick off the football. He weighs about 255 and he’s got a great motor.”

This will be the first ever meeting for Missouri and Miami of Ohio. The game is set for 1 p.m. Saturday at Faurot Field.

Simmons, Smith to miss Miami of Ohio game Zach Mink Sports Editor Football The Missouri football team enters Saturday’s game against the Miami University Redhawks with a 3-0 record for the season. This is the Tigers’ last non-conference game of the season before they begin Big 12 play against Colorado on Oct. 9.

The Tigers have only a few players in question for the game against the Redhawks. Junior free safety Jasper Simmons is listed as questionable after undergoing meniscus surgery a little more than a week ago.

Coach Gary Pinkel is unsure of Simmons’ status for Saturday, but remains hopeful the junior will be on the field.

“Simmons had meniscus surgery probably about ten days ago,” Pinkel said in a press conference Monday.

“He’s doing very, very well. Is he doubtful, probable, I have

no idea. We’ll find out as we go in the next couple of days. He’s done really well in his rehab along with our medical staff.”

Simmons recorded five tackles and one interception in his lone game of the season for the Tigers.

Also questionable for Saturday’s contest is senior linebacker Luke Lambert, who has been dealing with a hamstring problem since the season opener.

“Luke Lambert had a hamstring (injury),” Pinkel said. “I would say he’s probable. But again, with the hamstrings, our medical staff pays close attention to those and they’re a little sensitive. That’s something we’re going to have to look at Tuesday, Wednesday, as we get going.”

Lambert had eight tackles in Missouri’s victory over Illinois on Sept. 4.

Also sitting out of the game against Miami (Ohio) is sophomore defensive end Aldon Smith. The Tigers revealed

Monday that Smith had a fractured fibula and is ruled out of Saturday’s game.

“Aldon Smith is going to be out for this game,” Pinkel said.

“He’s got a small fracture in his fibula.”

Pinkel noted that the bone is non-weight-bearing, which increases the probability of a fast recovery time. Smith had 15 tackles and three sacks through the Tigers’ first three games, and he is coming off a record-setting 11.5 sacks last year.

The Tigers will look to go 4-0 in nonconference play as they square off against the Miami (Ohio) Redhawks at 1 p.m. on Faurot Field.

Swimming and Diving The Missouri swimming and diving team begins its season Oct. 1 with the Black & Gold Intersquad. The Tigers will look to improve on an impressive 2009-2010 season with a new coach, Greg Rhodenbaugh, after finishing last season ranked No.

21 in the nation and 3rd in the Big 12.

Volleyball After an impressive 7-0 start to the season, the Tigers have hit a rough patch, losing four of their last six games. Missouri is 1-2 in Big 12 play, losing to Iowa State and Texas in the last two games. The Tigers look to bounce back as they take on the Kansas State Wildcats on Sept. 25 in Manhattan, Kan. Soccer Missouri soccer is off to a slow start this season, compiling a 2-4-2 record in nonconference play. The Tigers now face 10 conference games before the Big 12 Championships in early November. Missouri will start off Big 12 action against Kansas on Friday at Walton Stadium. The Jayhawks come into Columbia with a 4-4 record on the year, and both teams are coming off losses to the Milwaukee Panthers.

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Tiger soccer preps for Border Showdown The Tigers start Big 12 play with a 2-4-2 record on the season.

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Missouri has faced more than its fair share of hot goaltenders during nonconference play. Things don't get any easier from here for the Tigers, the next three opposing keepers are in the Top 5 for saves in the Big 12.

After a grueling nonconference schedule, the Missouri Tigers soccer team will begin Big 12 play Friday against rival Kansas in the annual Border War Rivalry. The Tigers are 7-10-1 all-time against Kansas.

The Tigers (2-4-2) are coming off an up-and-down weekend that ended in a disappointing fashion. After rallying to defeat Loyola 3-2 in two overtimes last Friday, Missouri fell to Wisconsin-Milwaukee by a score of 3-2 two days later.

Despite the outcome, coach Bryan Blitz said the team worked hard to shake off the loss in preparation for the Kansas game.

“I’d say they’re very focused after last weekend, and they feel confident,” Blitz said.

“They know it’s the first conference game, and they know it’s the Border War. Obviously any conference game is going to be a war, but I think they’re in a good place. They’ve worked hard, and they’ve had a hard schedule.”

The last time the Tigers and Jayhawks met was in the first round of the 2009 Big 12 tournament, and Missouri escaped with a 3-2 overtime victory off the foot of senior Kristin Andrighetto.

Although this year’s team

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is without star veterans such as Andrighetto and goalkeeper Tasha Dittamore, senior captain Alysha Bonnick said the team’s youth doesn’t dampen any energy for the rivalry.

“I think we do get really pumped up for the Border War,” Bonnick said. “But obviously the freshmen don’t as much, because they’re not used to the tradition. But practice this week has been up to par, and we’re going to show up to play.”

Leading up to the Kansas game, the team has been focused on improving its play in the back. Missouri ranks last among Big 12 teams in goals allowed per game (2.20) and goals allowed (19).

The competition has admittedly been tough, but senior captain Kari Adam said letting teams back into games has been an issue.

“We’ve looked through a lot of the reasons why we’ve been letting goals in later in games, and we’ve looked at ways to fix that,” Adam said. “We just

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Missouri forward Alysha Bonnick races University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee midfielder Mary Wandolowski for the ball Sept. 19 at the Walton Stadium. The Tigers lost to the Panthers 1-3. need to have the mentality that we have in the first 15 minutes throughout the whole game.

We’ve been working on coming out and bringing that same energy in the second half that we do in the first.”

Kansas’s non-conference schedule looked slightly similar to Missouri’s, as both teams played Northwestern and Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

But, the Tigers have played three games against Top 25 teams, which Blitz believes sets his team apart from other Big 12 schools.

“I just hope that we’ve put ourselves in a position by going out (against difficult teams),” Blitz said. “We believe the schedule is good for our program. Once conference comes around we feel like we’ll be prepared.”

With last season’s National Tournament snub still fresh in their minds, the Tigers are banking on a higher Ratings Percentage Index, which is a method of ranking teams based on their opponents, and a successful conference tournament to push them further

this year.

But first Missouri must withstand weeks of Big 12 games, and Adam stressed the importance of a fast start.

“I think conference play is just more of a reality that we really need to get it together and come out strong,” Adam said. “I think that it’s just important that we come out and set the tone for the game.

Obviously all of the games matter, but these next few games really play a role into making the tournament.”

Missouri volleyball fails to upset No. 12 Texas The Tigers fell to 1-2 in conference play with the loss to the Longhorns.

ZACH DISCHIANO Staff Writer The Missouri volleyball team fell to No. 12 Texas on Wednesday, dropping its season record to 9-4.

The box score at Wednesday night’s game was deceiving, as the Tigers played very closely to the Longhorns despite only winning one set.

Like its last match against Iowa State, Missouri played well early and won the first set.

The final score was 27-25 as the Tigers had some difficulty putting away the Longhorns in the closing points of the set.

Missouri played just as hard in the second set as it did the first, keeping Texas in check the majority of the set.

The Tigers looked to be in good shape heading into the final stretch of the set, holding on to a 19-18 lead.

The Longhorns proceeded to score seven out of the next eight points to take the set, 25-20.

“We played our first 20 points very well,” coach Wayne Kreklow said. “We have to

HOLDING THEIR OWN The Tigers played tough against the No. 12 Longhorns, but could not come out with the upset. Missouri is now 9-4

on the season.

Three players had kills in double digits:

Brittney Brimmage Julianna Klein Paola Ampudia

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learn how to play the last five the same way we played the first 20.”

After the Longhorns evened out the series, the Tigers looked to retaliate with a win of their own.

The third set was back and forth the whole way, as there were 18 ties and nine lead changes, and no team led by more than two points the entire set.

It was a hard-fought battle but someone had to come out victorious, and for the second set in a row, it was the Texas Longhorns.

“We played really well,” senior outside hitter Julianna Klein said. “There were a couple of spots where we just dropped with our consistency.

We couldn’t get to the end and finish it out.”

Missouri continued to play

with heart as it kept the fourth set close, scoring six out of the last nine points.

Unfortunately, the Tigers’ late efforts were not enough to 6take down the Longhorns, who won the final set, 25-21.

Longhorn outside hitter Juliann Faucette dominated for Texas, tallying 22 kills on .280 hitting.

Freshman setter Hannah Allison was also a big part in Texas’ win, posting 58 assists on the night.

Three Tigers recorded 10 or more kills, with junior middle blocker Brittney Brimmage finishing with 10, Klein finishing with 14 and senior outside hitter Paola Ampudia with 15.

Senior middle blocker Catie Wilson had a strong showing, with seven kills on .333 hitting to go with her six blocks and six digs.

“I think it was one of my better games this season,” Wilson said. “I’ve hit kind of a rough patch the last couple of weeks, but I’ve been practicing all the little things. I could have done a couple of things better, but I’d say I had a good night tonight.”

With the loss, the Tigers move to 9-4 on the season and 0-2 in Big 12 play.

Missouri will look to rebound Saturday against the Kansas State Wildcats in Manhattan, Kan.

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Freshman Lisa Henning follows through on her spike as Rachael Adams and Hannah Allison prepare to block it Wednesday at the Hearnes Center.

The Tigers lost 3-1, giving them an overall 9-4 record.

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