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Hudson to lead race relations committee

ResLife introduces first gender-neutral housing

The Faculty Council committee was established at its Jan. 22 meeting to address race-related issues at MU. TAYLOR BLATCHFORD AND QUINN MALLOY of The Maneater staff

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Gateway Hall, which is under construction, is viewed from Responsibility Hall on Jan. 27. All residential bathrooms at the new residence hall, scheduled to open in fall 2015, will be “gender-flexible,” with fully-locking rooms containing toilets and showers.

ESTHER SEAWELL Staff Writer Residential Life is introducing the first ever gender-neutral housing option at MU. Director of Residential Life Frankie Minor said four gender-neutral suites will be available on the first floor of College Avenue Hall, totaling 16 beds in double rooms for students and one single room for a community advisor. The changes will be adopted starting in the fall 2015 semester.

Gateway Hall, the new residence hall under construction on Virginia Avenue, will also have gender-neutral bathrooms.

Minor has been advocating for gender-

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Genderneutral housing across the country MU joins 140 universities and colleges across the country that currently offer gender-neutral housing, and will be the first public SEC university to do so.

Colleges and University with Gender Neutral Housing:

Source: Human Rights Campaign

The walls of Berkley Hudson’s office are cluttered with photographs. Some of them capture joyous occasions — weddings, birthdays, anniversaries — but most of them don’t. Most of them are candid: prosceniums into the simple life of a simple family in rural Mississippi.

There’s a picture of Hudson rabbit hunting with his family. There are three of them standing in a field. Hudson, between two of his relatives, is holding the carcass of a recently slain rabbit.

Everybody’s smiling; nothing seems wrong.

But that photograph and others on Hudson’s wall belie the true character of the world in which he came of age. Mississippi in the 1950s and ‘60s was, as he describes it, the center of a “civil rights hurricane.” Hudson was exposed to a bevy of racial injustices, the likes of which are often cited as the lowest citizens of this country have ever sunk. There were personal injustices; shouts and murmurs of racial epithets spat at black men and women on street corners and in grocery stores. There was institutionalized racism; signage outside restaurants and schools denying service to certain Americans under the pretense of “separate but equal.”

The photographs on the walls of Hudson’s

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Finance

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The rising costs of attending MU have not been paralleled by increases in the state minimum wage, putting additional strain on students attempting to pay for college by working simultaneously.

Even if a Missouri resident student worked full time for an entire year making the

NEWS After his transition, J-school adviser Shawn Wallace owns his identity.

24.9 percent of college undergraduates worked full time, year-round in 2011, according the Census Bureau.

MU graduate student Benjamin Schrimpf is a full-time graduate research assistant for the university. Through this full-time position, Schrimpf’s entire tuition fee is waived; he only has to pay MU’s course enrollment fees.

“The tuition waiver was a huge stress relief, and is the only reason I continued my education,” Schrimpf said.

Before working as a full-time graduate research assistant, Schrimpf said, he would not have been able to afford the various expenses of college. Schrimpf began his work as a research assistant during his sophomore year of undergraduate studies, and continues to work there four years later.

His parents helped him pay for his sophomore year of college, but the other years

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minimum wage, which is $7.50 in Missouri, they would fall $8,000 short. A non-resident would be about $23,000 short.

In 2013, the average debt of MU graduates was $24,875, according to the Projection on Student Debt. Fifty-five percent of 2013 graduates were in debt, and MU tuition is expected to increase, according to a Jan. 21 Maneater article.

Some students work full time in order to cope with climbing costs. In Missouri, 20 to

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As tuition increases, working students struggle to afford it

NEWS The 2015 MSA executive cabinet was confirmed Tuesday night.

MOVE A docudrama about illegal child fight clubs will be filmed near Columbia.

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SPORTS Players, coaches and fans have rallied around Clark after Saturday’s loss.

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Corrections An Jan. 21 article titled "Uber brings troubles to Columbia," originally said the Uber drivers were arrested when in fact they were just given citations. The Maneater regrets the error.

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Tiger Pantry nets over $16,000 in holiday donations Following successful fundraising and donation efforts this holiday season, the growing organization hopes to expand its reach and resources this upcoming year.

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Portrait of Shawn Wallace on campus Jan. 20. Wallace is an academic adviser at the Missouri School of Journalism.

CAMPUS LIFE

Adviser reflects on transition STEVIE MYERS Staff Writer For academic adviser Shawn Wallace, deciding whether or not to correct someone on the phone can be a difficult choice to make.

Since Wallace was born female but now identifies as a man, being mistaken as female over the phone is a frequent occurrence and leaves Wallace wondering if it’s a mistake worth correcting.

“You just sort of have to make a choice in that moment,” he said.

“They’re not attempting to be hurtful towards me. They have no idea and I don’t want to shame anybody, because I know it was a mistake.”

Wallace, who is now 43, said he began identifying as transgender around age 27, despite having spent the majority of his earlier years identifying as lesbian. Wallace said he made a promise to himself in

the beginning of his journey to do his best for those coming up behind him by remaining upfront and honest about who he is.

“There were people before me that kind of helped clear the path, and I think it’s important that we keep doing that,” Wallace said. “It takes some of the fear and the confusion and the questions out of it if we’re just living as normal

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ASUM, MSA continue push for student vote TAYLOR BLATCHFORD A HISTORY OF FAILURE Staff Writer

Student leaders and Missouri lawmakers are in talks to introduce a new bill that would place a voting student member in university leadership this legislative session.

Missouri Students Association President Payton Head said in an email he and a student advocate met with Rep. Kip Kendrick, D-Columbia, on Jan. 22 to discuss student-focused legislative goals.

One of those goals is to give students a vote on the UM System Board of Curators, something Head campaigned for during the 2014 MSA presidential election.

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Nearly half of the bills attempting to add a student vote to the UM System Board of Curators have died in the committee stage of the legislative process.

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Tiger Pantry, the on-campus food pantry providing resources to people within the MU community who are impacted by food insecurity, raised a record amount of money and food during the 2014 holiday season.

Through donations, food drives and fundraisers, Tiger Pantry received over 6,000 pounds of food and $16,000 total in donations, Director Tyler Hessler said.

“We were ecstatic because we didn’t expect that amount of money and food,” Hessler said. “We can definitely increase our expansion and reach out to more people. We have a lot of clients, but I don’t think we’re reaching out to everyone in the community with food insecurity. But with these available resources, we can make sure everyone is getting the food they need.”

Twelve thousand dollars came from faculty after Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Cathy Scroggs sent out an email to all faculty members asking to donate.

This was the largest amount Tiger Pantry ever raised, Hessler said.

When Tiger Pantry was founded in 2012, over 15,000 students received need-based aid, over 1,000 students had an Expected Family Contribution of less than $1,000 and about 20 students reported they were homeless.

As a growing organization, Tiger Pantry hopes to continue to expand its reach and resources.

Tiger Pantry works with the different schools and organizations at MU to host events and food drives.

The Craft Studio hosted an event called Empty Bowls in October 2014. Attendees purchased a bowl made by a local artist or by a student at the Craft Studio, received a bowl of soup and bread, and the money raised from bowl sales went to the pantry.

From this event, the pantry received $1,500.

The School of Medicine and the Trulaske College of Business also hosted donation drives. The med school donated 1,174 pounds of food, while Trulaske donated $1,176.

Swipes, an event held every year at the end of fall semester, encourages students with leftover meal points to use their extra swipes to buy food for the pantry. This year, Swipes generated 2,548 pounds of food.

“Every year we pass what we raised the previous semester,” Fundraising Coordinator Morgan Wootten said.

The money raised goes towards supplies the pantry needs, such as dollies and shelving, or buying food it’s short on in bulk from local grocery stores.

Tiger Pantry recently purchased a van to help with food pickups and distribution with help from a $16,000 grant from Mizzou Women Give, the women’s philanthropy group at MU. In the upcoming year, Tiger Pantry hopes to expand its reach and spread the word among students. They also hope to get more donations in the spring 2015 semester.

“Usually, the fall semester is the most successful because people like to do food drives during the

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THE MANEATER | NEWS | JANUARY 28, 2015

MU senior vocal major releases second EP EMMA DILTZ Staff Writer Senior Madelyn Munsell released her second EP under her stage name madelyniris in December.

The EP, “Adventures,” contains five original songs, that Munsell said were inspired by life experiences and memories.

“Music is supposed to be honest, and I use real life experiences to make music,” Munsell said. “‘Ghost’ kind of relates to the idea of losing people, and I feel like most people can relate to it, whether it’s a breakup or something else.”

Three of Munsell’s songs, “Ghost," “Street Signs and White Lies” and “Leave and Never Look Back” came to her in the middle of the night about three weeks before she released her most recent EP. The song she holds closest to her is “Adventure," which is the last song on the album. Munsell said she considers this song to be “super honest and autobiographical.”

Munsell said that it’s about reconnecting with a past love, and knowing where you and your lover stand.

“In a sense, we grew up and discovered ourselves when we were together, so we had a big impact on each other's formative years,” Munsell said. “It's a simple, nostalgic love song. But as time passes, we've changed and we've grown up. We've met new people and challenged

ourselves to try new things. When I think back, though, that love is one of my favorite adventures.”

Munsell was born into a musical family. Her mother works as a choir director and, when she was younger, her parents played in a band.

Because of this dynamic, Munsell grew up in what she described as a “DIY music scene.”

Jenna Stuart, one of Munsell’s high school friends, said she remembers when Munsell first started to produce her music.

“She made her first beat and sent it to me and she called it ‘Jammin','" Stuart said. “She used to just do covers and then she started to write her own songs.”

From there, Munsell’s skills only improved. She recorded and produced her first EP, “Laylah,” in 2013.

Munsell has few outside contributors to her music. She does all the work herself, with the exception of a few instrumental portions, which her brother and father contribute to.

“Since I’m living in the (Kappa Delta) sorority house this year, it’s a little bit difficult to be able to turn an amp up to record a part of my song, so my dad has done some guitar work for me, while my brother has done some bass work,” Munsell said. “But everything else I do on my own.”

Munsell writes all of her own songs and goes through what she

considers a “very weird” writing process.

“I’m constantly writing music,” Munsell said. “All throughout the summer of 2014 I would write down little phrases that I thought were cool. They weren’t exactly lyrics yet, but I thought they might have some potential. Then in August, I went back and looked at all the ideas I had written down and decided if they were good enough to be made into songs.”

Munsell said she chose to come to MU because it offered both a big school and an “intimate music environment.”

While at MU, Munsell said she’s received an overwhelming amount of support when it comes to her music. While here, she said she has found support in her sorority sisters at Kappa Delta. Munsell’s parents, particularly her father, are also very invested in her music career.

“I remember when her and I were hanging out over Thanksgiving break, and her dad came into her room and gave her constructive criticism on one of her songs she was working on for her EP,” Stuart said.

Stuart said Munsell is a very welcoming type of person, which has contributed to her support from her hometown in Illinois.

“Everyone from our hometown thinks she’s super cool because she writes and produces all of her own music,” Stuart said. “People will sing

in the choir or in small bands, but Maddy’s the real deal and she does it all by herself.”

Though many people encourage her, Munsell said she still straddles a tough line since she’s invested in both classical and pop music.

Munsell said that, as a senior, she is challenged with what she wants to do next once she graduates.

“I’m a vocal performance major with an emphasis in opera, so I’m faced with the decision if I want to record and produce, or pursue opera,” Munsell said. “My heart wants to go with production because it gives me more of a creative path. I

either want to do that, or go get my master's. But the music industry needs help with strong voices, and I think I could help to provide that.”

Throughout all of her years making music, Munsell said she learned that she has to be a go-getter in order to achieve what she wants.

“You can’t sit back and wait,” Munsell said. “You have to take initiative. The more you learn to work independently, the more successful you’ll be. It’s OK to let people help, but ultimately you have to know how to do everything on your own.”

nanoscale carbons and nanoporous membranes, and for outstanding service in university administration.”

Foley remembers trying to read the association’s journal, “Science,” in high school. Thirty years later, he’s still an avid reader and has even had his own work published in the prestigious journal.

His success took hard work and a little bit of luck.

While he was a Ph.D. student at Penn State in the ’80s, Foley discovered that the scientist considered the world’s expert on nanoporous carbons worked at the same university. The researcher Phillip Walker wrote a few papers on the then-groundbreaking topic.

Foley describes him as an “expert pioneer.”

Not soon after, Foley was hired by one of Walker’s Ph.D. students. His first job was an industrial position working at the same manufacturing company as Walker, American Cyanamid.

Foley found the work so interesting that he devoted his career to it. Even after 30 years in the same field, he isn’t tired of the possibilities.

“It was hard to figure out how to limit what I wanted to do, and so, even to this day, I continue to think of new things that I want to do,” he said. “It’s just a hugely interesting and exciting area of research for me.”

In total, Foley has published more than 120 articles and has 15 patents under his name. His research opened up a new field of study. Others have referenced his

work with nanoporous carbons approximately 4,200 times since he started in 1989.

“It really took off,” he said. “We kind of opened up the field, and people followed in.”

In some of his papers, Foley collaborates with students. He said mentoring Ph.D. students is “the most rewarding aspect of the job.”

Foley said he tries to give his students freedom. He lets them make their own mistakes and then meets with them to find where things went wrong. Usually, he said, it’s a process of working together to solve a problem.

He said the hardest part of being a student is working through the first big problem. Students remember their experience getting over their first hurdle through discussion or postulations when something unexpected happens in research.

“It’s the hardest thing you’ve ever done, but then you can do it again and again,” Foley said. “Once they get through the first one, they kind of have the hang of it and they’re off to the races.”

Foley is most proud of the research that resulted from being unable to solve a problem with his own Ph.D. adviser, Greg Geoffroy.

While working on his Ph.D. thesis in 1982, he published his first big paper after tying together photochemistry, synthesis and kinetics in a solution he wasn’t looking for.

Geoffroy said he saw potential in Foley from the beginning. Out of 50 Ph.D. students, he was always in the

top three.

“His brilliance and his intense desire and motivation to have an impact are the two key ingredients to have a successful career,” Geoffroy said.

Foley’s role on campus extends far from the laboratory.

As well as holding a position as a tenured professor in the chemical engineering department, Foley is the senior vice chancellor for research and graduate studies and the executive vice president for academic affairs.

He said it’s difficult to balance his roles on campus, but he makes an effort to stay involved in science.

He works with a handful of Ph.D. students each year and is always open to collaborate with others.

“I’m still writing papers, and I try to keep my hand in research,” he said. “But it’s pretty hard to do both.”

Foley came to MU a year and a half ago after working at Penn State and the University of Delaware. At Penn State, he became the department head of chemical engineering and then the first dean of information sciences and technology.

Tom Mallouk, his colleague of 14 years at Penn State, said he appreciates Foley’s ability to balance his research with administrative duties.

“I think that was part of the magic with Hank,” he said. “He’s a very unusual university administrator in that he maintained that very close connection with the science … and with students as well.”

Mallouk said Foley steered Penn State’s research program into the 21st century.

Foley was the first to recognize the importance of energy-efficient architecture and implemented new technology in the buildings at Penn State. He also recognized that a university research program should connect with industry while supporting pure scientific research, Mallouk said.

Foley constructed a similar plan to connect the research at MU with the rest of the state and the nation as a whole. He took Missouri’s unique combination of scientific interests, including agriculture, biotechnology and nuclear science, as inspiration.

“The single biggest change is to recognize that ownership of invaluable intellectual property is not valuable,” he said. “It’s more valuable for us to build relationships with entrepreneurs and companies to try to fund students and educate them in the sciences.”

Science may be why Foley entered the field, but he said getting students to connect their research with the rest of the community is the most rewarding aspect.

“It’s just astonishing that we as faculty members get paid to basically mentor other people who want to become scientists and do something we probably would do on our own as a hobby if we couldn’t do it as a career,” Foley said. “So it’s a fantastic life in a lot of ways.”

KEVIN MATHEIN | SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Madelyn Munsell, a senior vocal performance major and songwriter, poses for a portrait outside Mt. Celestial Baptist Church on Jan. 19.

Mansell used the church as inspiration for her new album "Adventures," which was released in December 2014.

Chemical engineering professor named AAAS Fellow MARILYN HAIGH Staff Writer Hank Foley fills a diverse set of roles — researcher, mentor, scientist, inventor and administrator. First and foremost, he calls himself a chemist and a professor.

He can now add American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow to that list.

AAAS exists to advance all fields of science, from physical to chemical to social sciences, and to build an international community of researchers. In 2014, 401 fellows were selected.

A pioneer in his field, Foley has worked on developing carbon sieves for 30 years. One metaphor he uses to describe his work is a pasta sieve.

Just as one would use a sieve to separate pasta from water without wasting any of the food, Foley developed a method of controlling the precise pore sizes of carbon molecules.

Carbon acts as a catalyst in reactions and is used to separate molecules. When the carbon pore size matches the size of the reaction and product molecules, researchers can avoid wasting materials.

This research is one of the reasons Foley said he believes he was selected as a fellow in the chemistry section.

AAAS Senior Governance Associate Kelly O’Brien said in an email Foley was selected “for distinguished contributions to the synthetic and physical chemistry of

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SASHA provides support for non-believers The student group is planning its second annual conference for this spring.

THOMAS FRIESTAD Reporter It’s not uncommon for students walking between classes to see peers holding “Ask an Atheist” signs in Speakers Circle. These students are members of MU SASHA, aiming to spread the word about their organization and to clear up misconceptions.

Founded in 2009, SASHA stands for Skeptics, Atheists, Secular Humanists and Agnostics.

According to its website, the group is “an inclusive group of non-believers led by students” and “the only expressly secular, skeptic group on campus.” “(SASHA) had kind of a slow start until a couple of years ago, when we started to really pick up and get more involved around campus and in protests,” Events Coordinator Katie Huddlestonsmith said. “A couple of years ago, when I was a sophomore, I applied to be an officer and we really started doing stuff, like having regular meetings, hosting talks and having game and movie nights for people who just wanted to hang out.”

Outreach efforts by Huddlestonsmith and other SASHA members make up several of the organization’s activities.

An interfaith social and potluck is planned for Feb. 15. Vice President Chantelle Moghadam is in charge of the event and said

ZACH BAKER | PHOTO EDITOR

SASHA tables at the ORG Involvement Fair on Jan. 22. SASHA is a campus organization for students who identify as skeptics, atheists, secular humanists and agnostics.

it will be an opportunity to develop camaraderie between individuals with different perspectives.

“It’s an effort to get all the religious and non-religious groups together on campus and give them an opportunity to share ideas and find things in common,” Moghadam said.

“I think a lot of people think that we’re unfriendly to other religious groups or we don’t want people who don’t identify as atheist or skeptic at our meetings. We really encourage people from every perspective to come to our meetings and hear a different point of view, and we do the same thing as well.”

Quartermaster Sean Donovan

said SASHA appeals to him primarily as a setting in which he can meet like-minded people.

“Being an atheist is something that’s really important to me,” Donovan said. “It informs how I think about the world and everything I do. Meeting among a group of people who share a similar philosophy is just very important to me and a valuable extracurricular.”

Huddlestonsmith said growing SASHA has not always been easy because sometimes people take personal offense toward the group, feeling their beliefs are under attack.

She said there is nothing personal regarding the group’s atheist principles, which are defined by atheists.org as “a

lack of belief in God or gods.”

She said that SASHA is as diverse a group as any other.

“I can totally understand people taking offense, because if there’s something you’ve held really close to you your entire life, it’s very difficult to get past someone challenging it and realize that it’s not against any individuals,” Huddlestonsmith said. “We do get generalized because of people in the news like Richard Dawkins, who make other atheists uncomfortable with what they say. Nobody pays attention to what the little guys say; they pay attention to the big guys. Some people think we align with that, but we’re really just as different as any other group.”

Another major event

in SASHA’s near future is SASHAcon, an annual conference held in March aiming to help locals get involved in secular activism.

Moghadam said the first SASHAcon, held last spring, required months of planning to iron out the fine details.

“We hit a lot of obstacles along the way, but we pulled it all together in the end,” Moghadam said. “I think last year was probably the most difficult because it was our first, so hopefully it’ll just get easier from here on out.”

Huddlestonsmith said SASHA offers a safe haven to students who may not feel comfortable revealing their atheist beliefs to their family or friends.

“I never grew up religious, so it was a no-brainer for me to call myself an atheist,” Huddlestonsmith said. “But some people worry about being disowned by their family, having their tuition cut off, stuff like that. I love having a group like this where we can all offer support to people like that.”

Moghadam said she hopes to continue clearing up misconceptions about atheists during future activities with SASHA, starting with its first meeting this semester on Jan. 27.

“Over the years, SASHA has allowed us to dispel stereotypes about atheists within our campus and in the area and region, and to give students who may not have ever known other atheists a sense of community they can appreciate,” Moghadam said.

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neutral options since 2012.

While the gender-neutral rooms are available to all students, the new housing option may be more beneficial for students whose options were previously limited.

LGBTQ Resource Center Coordinator Struby Struble said the new housing option could be a safe space for certain students.

“I think because there’s a lot of negativity around gendernonconforming and transgender people in our culture at large, having a space that’s openly transparent about their support of all students is really important,” Struble said.

She said the eight gender-neutral rooms are a great place to start gauging the demand for this type of housing option.

Ben Micek, hall coordinator for College Avenue, said a community advisor for the new gender-neutral floor has not yet been chosen, but ResLife is exploring several options.

“We’re hoping to find someone who is already pretty involved with gender issues on campus or in their personal life,” he said. “We have a number of staff members who fit into that category, so we’ll be looking at them in addition to the new selection pool.”

Micek said the advisor will go through additional training to help meet specific needs residents on the floor may have.

Residential Life Area Coordinator Maya Hernandez said she hopes the new gender-neutral floor will be inclusive to other students who identify as cisgender.

“It doesn’t mean that if you choose to live in this community you are (gender-nonconforming),” she said. “Hopefully you’re supportive of gender-neutral (students), but you could be in transition yourself or maybe you want to be an ally.”

Minor said transgender or gender-neutral students still have the option to live in other residence halls across campus. He said ResLife and the LGBTQ Resource Center currently work closely together to help students decide which residential hall best suits their needs.

All bathrooms in Gateway Hall, which is scheduled to open for the fall 2015 semester, will be genderneutral.

Minor said there will be two bathrooms on each floor. Instead of being labeled “male” and “female,” they will be “gender-flexible.”

Each will have three sinks and five separate rooms within the restroom.

These will have fully locking doors that indicate whether it is available or occupied. Two of the five will have a toilet and shower, and the other three will have a toilet, shower and sink.

Minor said the gender-neutral bathrooms will help provide students complete privacy that may be lacking in other bathrooms.

Hernandez said she is excited about the department’s move to provide more gender-neutral options because it helps improve inclusivity at MU. “If we’re going to be true to having a diverse campus, we need to include this population in the work that we do,” she said.

office are hung about a tall, stately bookcase. The hundreds of books occupying its shelves are the physical manifestation of the time Hudson has spent trying to make sense of his unique and cruel childhood. The days he’s spent wrestling with remembrances of uninhibited racism born of ignorance and hatred are on those shelves. The hours he’s spent trying to shake the spectre of a tempestuous, forlorn youth are on those shelves. The minutes he’s spent negotiating life after Jim Crow are on those shelves.

Hudson, a journalism professor, brings his life’s work and experience as a journalist and scholar to his position as the chairman of the new Faculty Council committee on race relations, which was announced during the council’s Jan. 22 meeting. “(Race relations) is something I’ve been thinking, researching and writing about my whole life,” Hudson said. “I also think I’m a good listener, and that’s what’s important right now. For me to listen to the differences that are present, and also to identify where there are commonalities in this issue.”

One of the primary goals of the new committee will be to identify the nature of the problems related to race and ethnicity at MU. Racial issues have been brought to the fore in part because of what has taken place on the national stage in recent months, but

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“It’s a complete and total mess,” Schrimpf said. “Even just talking to them and trying to get the loans worked out is almost impossible. The cashier’s office and financial aid departments at MU are just completely disorganized, in my experiences.”

Schrimpf said he anticipates to be about $6,000 to $7,000 in debt after graduate school.

Even with working full time, data shows that it’s nearly impossible for an MU student to completely pay for their college expenses without having money already saved, or receiving a tuition waiver.

In 2014, the average cost for a Missouri resident enrolled in 15 credit hours at MU was $23,597. Non-residents paid $38,624, according to MU’s website. Yet, students who work 40 hours per week for an entire year making minimum wage would come up short.

In order to make enough money to pay for the 2014 average cost of attending MU, a Missouri resident would either have to work 40 hours per week making $11.35 an hour, or 61 hours a week at minimum wage. To achieve the same goal, a non-resident

Hudson said racial issues have been a problem on this campus for a long time, despite what detractors may claim.

“I’m aware that not everyone believes there’s a problem,” he said.

“But I’m very clear about the fact that there’s a problem. I don’t need Michael Brown’s death or Eric Garner’s death to make me aware of that.”

The issue was highlighted on campus by student demonstrations and Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin’s listening session in December.

Students at the listening session criticized faculty and administrators for not responding to the issues sooner. Faculty Council Chairman Craig Roberts said the event revealed the severity of the problem.

“It was surprising to a lot of us,” he said. “We’ve always known there have been racial incidents.

We just didn’t know it was a way of life.”

Hudson said the committee is still in its beginning stages, and that he will work closely with Faculty Council member John Lory and journalism professor Earnest Perry, who moderated the December listening session, to work out the details. Perry was unavailable for comment.

While the committee is a part of Faculty Council, Hudson said, its membership may not be limited to those currently on Faculty Council.

Roberts recognized during the council’s Jan. 22 meeting that it does not have an AfricanAmerican member. He said it is sometimes difficult for white faculty members to be “in tune with the mistreatment of people of

color … (it’s) a problem under the surface that we may not detect.”

Faculty Council member Karen Piper said council members plan to meet with student representatives from the Black Culture Center to get a sense of what specific problems should be addressed.

Hudson said he is still in the process of finding faculty members who are willing and able to join his committee. Because this issue is so closely tied to student life, he said, there is a place for student leaders at the table.

“MU has been and is a mainstream, traditionally, culturally white institution,” Hudson said. “We’re talking about big changes that still need to occur.“ Angela Speck, chairwoman of Faculty Council’s Diversity Enhancement Committee, said she believes a part of the problem is that many people are in denial about the extent of race relations issues.

“When you start to explain to people that they don’t know what it’s like because they’re not black, they get all defensive about it,” she said. “That’s part of what we need to overcome.”

A discrepancy in faculty satisfaction between white MU faculty and faculty of color was quantified in 2014, prompting additional study by Faculty Council. As of fall 2012, 57 percent of faculty of color said they were very satisfied or satisfied with MU as a place to work, compared to 70 percent of white faculty. Results were from the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education survey, which measures

faculty satisfaction, show that faculty of color at MU are significantly less satisfied than their white counterparts.

“For a decade, I’ve thought there’s a climate problem on campus,” Piper said. “I’m glad Ferguson kind of spotlighted that for us. At this point it’s in the initial stages, but I’m optimistic.”

Hudson said he also plans to draft a resolution that will make an empathetic statement about the need to continue discussing the issues of race relations on campus and commend Loftin for the work he has already done regarding the issue.

MU Spokeswoman Mary Jo Banken said Loftin has agreed to hold additional open forums in February, March and April to provide updates on actions being taken and collect feedback from the community.

Hudson said that while there are many parts to the issue of race relations, the goal should be working to create a culture of inclusivity on campus. Many students come to MU having only lived in homogeneous environments and coming to MU means having to learn to mix with the rest of the community, Hudson said.

“There’s a lot to learn,” he said.

“You can create a culture where that falls away. You can create a culture where you have people who are attracted to work here, play here, be here together who have a shared common value of respect, discovery, excellence and responsibility. I’m an idealist in that way, that I can envision that kind of place.”

student would have to either work 40 hours a week making $20 an hour, or 100 hours per week at minimum wage.

MU senior Ashley Szatala is currently taking 18 credit hours and works as an editor for Vox Magazine, which makes working full time impossible. She does work part time as a student supervisor at Baja Grill. It’s her third year working there.

“Even with my supervisor pay at Baja, I still do not have enough to cover my rent, books, any emergencies that develop and even to go out,” Szatala said.

Szatala also wants to make sure she has a life outside of work.

While Szatala said her parents help her pay for some expenses, she still doesn’t always have enough money.

Szatala said she picks up extra shifts in order to cope with this issue.

“This is my sixth day in a row working,” Szatala said.

MU senior Cece Tsevas is a part-time student supervisor at the Starbucks in Memorial Union.

Despite working roughly 24 hours a week, Tsevas said she still doesn’t have enough money.

“I’m always broke,” Tsevas said. “I live paycheck to paycheck.”

Tsevas’ parents are helping her with some of the various college expenses. Without

their help, Tsevas said, she couldn’t afford to go to MU. Tsevas described working that many hours per week while attending school as awful.

“I wake up, I go to work at 6:30 a.m., and then get off at 12 p.m. and go straight to class,” Tsevas said. “Or I wake up, go to class and then go straight to work. I feel like I have no free time, ever.”

Though many employed students still struggle to get by financially, the university has several resources for students needing to make money.

According to records, MU spent an additional $57.4 million on student employment in 2014.

MU provides students with Hire Mizzou Tigers, a website listing various job openings around the area. Students are able to sign in with their university login and fill out a profile, which will filter the career results.

The service also offers workshops to help students with the job search and interview processes, including an Interview Basics workshop 5 p.m. Wednesday in Lafferre Hall W1004.

Career counselors are also available through the Career Center to guide students in their job searching processes.

Other services help students with financial issues.

In 2014, MU federal loans totaled $195.8 million and

alternative loans totaled $18.3 million, according to MU’s records.

Freshman Rebecca Burkhart said she is paying for her entire college tuition, along with the costs of joining different organizations, by herself.

Burkhart’s parents had to pay for school on their own.

Burkhart said they’re trying to teach her the way they were taught: Not everything will be handed to her in life.

Burkhart currently works part time at Sophia’s, a restaurant in south Columbia.

She also works at several different places over holiday and summer breaks.

“It’s not easy, I can tell you that,” Burkhart said. “When the payments come in the mail, they kind of give you a miniheart attack knowing you have to pay that much.”

Burkhart said while financial aid helps, it’s far from covering everything. She had a scholarship last semester and one this semester, but Burkhart said the amount wasn’t enough to make a drastic difference.

Burkhart expects to have accumulated about $40,000 to 50,000 of student loans by the time she graduates.

“I feel like for most students, they kind of just have it easy. Their parents pay for everything … They don’t really have to worry about how much things cost,” Burkhart said.

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PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY ZACH BAKER | PHOTO EDITOR

Many take the security of where they live for granted — not some of those who live in the East Campus area, however.

After several burglaries and an assault on East Campus last fall, MU junior Sarah Sprick began a petition to increase safety on East Campus by adding more streetlights. At present, many stretches of East Campus streets lack adequate lighting.

“Due to the increasing rates of attacks, sexual assaults and rapes on East Campus we are asking that more lights be installed in the neighborhoods of East Campus so that we can feel safe in our community and homes,” Sprick wrote in her online petition.

Sprick’s petition currently has 1,263 supporters, with a stated goal of 1,500.

No streetlights have been added in East Campus since the petition began at the beginning of December. Normally, streetlights are requested by members of the community and then the city Water and Light Department approves and installs the lights, department spokesperson Connie Kacprowicz said.

“When I’m coming home at night, walking down Bass Avenue in the dark, I can’t see my hand in front of my face,” senior Arvin Bustos said.

Bustos said he has never felt unsafe or threatened while walking in the neighborhood, but more lights would be helpful.

Janet Hammen, chair of the East Campus Neighborhood Association and a resident of East Campus for more than 30 years, said adding streetlights is only part of safety improvement needs in the area.

“Of course someone will sign the

petition and say we want things to be safer,” Hammen said. “I think we should also consider other solutions. Would more lights make people less fearful? Maybe, but I doubt it.”

Hammen said she and the neighborhood association are planning a safety walk with city officials and inspectors to see firsthand which areas need improvement.

Hammen also said many recent robberies in the area have occurred when doors or windows are left unlocked.

“I was told by two women living in East Campus that their landlord didn’t replace a broken lock on their back door for six months,” Hammen said. “It’s less of a problem of making the streets safer. We have to educate renters and make sure that landlords are keeping their units safe.”

Hammen because inspections on rental units in Columbia are currently only done every six years, she would recommend requiring annual inspections of rental properties, encouraging landlords to install motion detectors and implementing a better system to know when existing streetlights have burned out or broken.

Senior Katelin Williams said inspections and motion detectors do not address the feeling of fear. Though Williams said she has never been the victim of a crime, she has seen car windows smashed.

“I’m always afraid someone’s going to break in or sneak up on me in the dark,” Williams said.

Hammen, however, said she does not feel unsafe in the neighborhood.

“I’ve lived here for a long time,” Hammen said. “I’ve raised two kids as a single mom and walked my dogs every day. I think the only thing that’s ever happened is someone stole a flowerpot off my porch. I don’t think it’s unsafe and I’m here to stay.”

Birchler, Katti named NAI Fellows for research breakthroughs The two professors join Chancellor Loftin and Dr. Hank Foley as NAI Fellows from MU. PAIGE LALAIN Staff Writer After years of research, breakthroughs and developments, two MU researchers, Dr. Kattesh Katti and Dr. James Birchler, were recently announced as part of the 2014 class of fellows for the National Academy of Inventors.

Birchler and Katti have joined the ranks of 170 inductees worldwide for 2014 and have gained “high professional distinction” for their “highly prolific spirit of innovation,” according to the NAI. The researchers are two of four current fellows at MU, along with Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin and Dr. Hank Foley, professor of chemical engineering.

The NAI Fellows Program currently honors a total of 414 men and women from a collection of over 150 academic, governmental and non-profit research institutions around the globe, according to the Academy’s website.

“It’s an honor,” Birchler said.

Katti said the award is so much more than a title.

“You don’t work for awards, titles and recognition,” Katti said. “It is indeed a great feeling that the global community has recognized the top quality of research being done in my laboratories, my department,

within our Medical School, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine and (University of Missouri Research Reactor Center).”

Candidates for nomination must have a minimum of one U.S. patent and be elected by their peers for “outstanding contributions” in areas including but not limited to “patents and licensing, innovative discovery and technology, significant impact on society and support, and enhancement of innovation,” according to the Academy’s website.

Katti and Birchler began their work more than 10 years ago, and in that time, they have made strides in the efficiency of both cancer treatment and crop growth, respectively.

The two professors were named to the Fellows Program for distinguished contributions in each of their fields, with Katti being honored for work in radiopharmaceutical sciences, green nanotechnology and nanomedicine. Birchler was honored for his work with biological applications of mini chromosomes in agriculture.

Katti’s research involves placing gold nanoparticles into cancerous cells. These nanoparticles then infiltrate the cells and aid in their destruction.

“We can engineer nanoparticles in sizes that are significantly smaller than cancer cells,” Katti said. “This has allowed us to embed nanoparticles of gold within tumor cells. As these nanoparticles have the ability to destroy tumor cells, we are now seeing selective destruction of cancer cells and tumors.”

It was this discovery that led to the

COURTESY OF THE ACADEMY OF INVENTORS

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Portrait of James Birchler, Curators’ professor of biological sciences, who was recently announced as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

Portrait of Kattesh Katti, Curators’ distinguished professor of biological engineering, physics and radiology, who was recently announced as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

establishment of one of 12 Nanotechnology Platforms for Cancer Research in the nation, which Katti himself directs at MU. Katti credits the aid of his collaborator Carolyn Henry, professor of oncology in the department of veterinary medicine and surgery at MU, who helped discover the presence of these aforementioned gold nanoparticles in sample vials that had been left in a laboratory at MU. Birchler’s laboratory works primarily with corn genetics and the creation of synthetic, mini chromosomes, which can, through genetic manipulations, be made to grow to set

specifications, he said.

“The potential application of this is that it is a technology that will allow new properties to be conferred onto plants,” Birchler said.

“These could be new properties for insect or fungal or viral resistance or drought tolerance and, as we go forward, a number of potential properties could be added to this chromosome that would be beneficial for crop agriculture.”

Katti, Birchler and the other Fellows will be inducted on Mar. 20 during the Academy’s conference at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, according to the Academy’s website.

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The Board of Curators, which governs the four UM System campuses, has included a nonvoting student representative since 1984. The student representative was admitted to closed-door board meetings for the first time in 1999.

The Associated Students of the University of Missouri, a system-wide, studentled political education and legislative advocacy organization, has been advocating for the student vote for over a decade. Since 2002, the 27 bills to give students a vote on the board have fallen short. One bill passed both chambers of the Missouri General Assembly in 2008, only to be vetoed by then-Gov. Matt Blunt.

ASUM President Trey Sprick said he is optimistic about successfully passing a student vote bill this year, and that the specifics of an upcoming bill will be announced later this semester.

Kendrick declined to take a stance on the voting issue at this time, but said he would be interested in further discussing the idea with students.

Pushing for a new bill Sprick said he believes a voting student curator would better represent students’ preferences in major university decisions.

“Right now, our board is made

HB1527 2002 Rep. Chuck Graham

SB525 2003 Sen. Jon Dolan

HB1417 2004 Rep. Brian Baker

SB673 2006 Sen. Chuck Graham

up of individuals who are a bit farther removed from day-today life at the universities,” he said. “The goal of the legislation that we’d like to see passed is to make sure that the Board of Curators is grounding their decisions in understanding of students’ experiences in the university system.”

ASUM has advocated for a voting student curator for years.

Bills trying to get a student vote have been sponsored nearly every year since 2002, when then-Rep. Chuck Graham, D-Columbia, sponsored a bill that would give the student member voting rights. The bill passed the House but failed in the Senate.

“The main reason ASUM advocates for this is that as an organization, ASUM feels as though those who provide over half of the revenue to this university and university system should have some say in the business decisions made by the system,” Sprick said.

Sprick said the eight ASUM interns, six of whom are MU students this year, play the most important role in advocating for the student vote.

Sprick said the interns are taking a more active role in Jefferson City this year than they have in years past, with an emphasis on testifying in committee hearings as a way to convey messages to a broader group of elected officials. He said they work full-time in Jefferson City every Tuesday and Thursday, meet with legislators, testify at hearings and provide information to elected officials.

“They register as lobbyists

SB1387 2004 Sen. Jon Dolan

HB440 2005 Rep. Bryan Pratt

Current student representative weighs in Tracy Mulderig, a doctoral student at UM-St. Louis, has represented the 77,283 UM System students since March 2014. She said her current responsibilities include attending all board meetings, including open and closed sessions, during which the board discusses and votes on initiatives such as tuition fee increases and new degree programs. She also attends other formal events on behalf of the UM System.

Mulderig said it would be a

conflict of interest if she advocated for or against a student vote on the board.

“I want my fellow students to know that board members listen to me and take my feedback to heart, which makes a huge difference,” she said. “My priority is to do the best that I can at this job in order to show that students are mature and responsible enough MANEATER FILE PHOTO for voting privileges Portrait of Tracy Mulderig. Mulderig is the when ASUM finally current Student Representative to the does succeed with this Board of Curators until Jan. 1, 2016. initiative.”

Mulderig is a member ongoing basis,” Mulderig said. of the Finance Committee and “The curators truly care about the Academic, Student and students and student issues. My External Affairs Committee, position is critically important according to the curators’ because over time, they trust website. the student representative as Mulderig said she keeps their source of information on in contact with student student issues.” government leaders on the four The selection of the student UM System campuses and uses representative rotates across social media to communicate the four UM System campuses. with students.

After Mulderig’s term ends Jan. “One of the interesting 1, 2016, an MU student will things about this position is take her place. that you have to recognize that UM System spokesman John there are shared challenges, but Fougere said after applications there are also unique problems and issues for each campus,” she are submitted to the student said. “I work more closely with government on campus, they are board members and system reviewed by the chancellor and leadership, but I also remain then forwarded to the Missouri in contact with the chancellors governor, who interviews the top three candidates and makes and student leaders.”

Mulderig said her position the appointment.

“The Curators rely on is important because she the student representative communicates between board members and university to bring to the table the viewpoint of the students to students.

“I am one of the very aid them in understanding few students that the board recommendations made or members interact with on an issues at hand,” he said.

SB106 2007 Sen. Chuck Graham

SB320 2013 Sen. Kurt Schaefer

SB873 2008 Sen. Chuck Graham

Since 2002, 27 bills pushing for a student vote on the Board of Curators have been introduced and killed in the Missouri General Assembly.

HB1773 2010 Rep. Jill Schupp

HB1999 2010 Rep. Bryan Pratt

Source: Missouri House of Representatives, Missouri Senate, LegiScan.com

HB243 2011 Rep. Mary Still

HB848 2011 Rep. Paul Fitzwater

HB1961 2014 Rep. Jill Schupp HB629 2013 Rep. Chris Kelly

HB494 2011 Rep. Jill Schupp

HB1308 2006 Rep. Bryan Pratt

HB1827 2014 Rep. Caleb Jones

HB1257 2012 Rep. Chris Kelly

HB1912 2008 Rep. Bryan Pratt

HB692 2009 Rep. Bryan Pratt

HB613 2007 Rep. Bryan Pratt

in the state of Missouri, and they’re the ones that truly push the platform,” he said. “We’ve had sponsors for this bill and this bill (was) introduced every year since we started pushing for it, and that really comes down to those interns.”

The Missouri General Assembly is in session from early January to late May each year. Sprick said the ASUM interns start each legislative session focusing on setting up meetings with legislators to talk about their platform and to see who is willing to sponsor or co-sponsor the bills that fall in line with that platform.

“Legislation is only really introduced through the first three months of session or so,” Sprick said. “Basically, by the end of March we know what is feasible to push for in the final debates. After that, it’s all about maintaining relationships with legislators and answering any questions they have.”

HB629 2013 Rep. Chris Kelly

HB573 2013 Rep. Jill Schupp

HB1587 2012 Rep. Zachary Wyatt

HB1353 2012 Rep. Jill Schupp

SB908 2014 Sen. Kurt Schaefer SB747 2012 Sen. Kurt Schaefer

HB1587 2012 Rep. Zachary Wyatt

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holiday season,” Wootten said. “Hopefully, we get equal amounts for fall and spring semester.”

By expanding marketing efforts, Tiger Pantry hopes to continue to reach out to more people and continue to grow their donations.

“We’ve had issues in the past of making sure we have at least one of every item we distribute on the shelves,” Hessler said. “We want clients to have the biggest array of choices. We don’t want to ever have to say ‘sorry, we don’t have that item right now.’”

Hessler and Wootten agreed that the most rewarding part of their involvement with the pantry is seeing the full shelves and the impact it has directly on their community.

“Getting the tally of how many pounds of food people donated then seeing it on the shelves is when everything I’ve done is so worth it,” Wootten said. “Seeing those full shelves that can barely fit any more food is incredible.

It’s not because of me, it’s because of everyone in the Mizzou community, the other student coordinators and the volunteers.”

people. We’re just everyday people.”

Although awareness about the LGBT community has increased in recent years, Wallace said he still believes there are “miles to go.”

Chris Wenzel, a close friend of Wallace, described Wallace as one of the bravest people she knows.

“Shawn is continually one of the bravest, most open people you’ll ever meet,” Wenzel said. “Nothing is really ever off the table as long as you’re being respectful. He’ll tell you anything you want to know.”

After several years as a lesbian, Wallace said it didn’t feel quite right, as he wasn’t relating with people in the community. For Wallace, the transgender community was not on his radar during high school and college. He said it wasn’t until he began working with a therapist that he realized he was transgender.

“Just the second she said it, a lightbulb came on and I knew that was exactly it,” Wallace said. “I don’t feel like I’m a woman; I feel like I’m a man in this body that I have, so what are you going to do with it?

After having that conversation, I had to sit with it for a little bit and figure out what it meant

and what I wanted to do with it.”

Wallace said that although he lost friends after coming out, he still received widespread support.

“I’ve been actually pretty lucky to have the support that I have,” he said. “Most people were able to make that transition with me.”

However, Wallace said some of his family had mixed emotions about his coming out.

“I had come out to them as a lesbian as a teenager, and while they weren’t crazy about it, they kind of just went with it,” he said. “They still kind of struggle with understanding what it really is about but overall are supportive.”

Wallace said the reaction he received from his mother wasn’t at all what he expected.

“My mom surprised me at first because when I came out as lesbian, she really did not handle that well at all, so I was really terrified to tell her this,” Wallace said. “Amazingly, though, that conversation went really well. She said, ‘That actually makes more sense to me,’ and that just really took me by surprise.”

Wallace, who began his career in the School of Journalism as membership coordinator for the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, started work as an academic advisor for the school in 2006.

He said it was during his time

as membership coordinator that he began taking his first steps in the transition process by having others address him as Shawn.

Later, during his time as an academic advisor, Wallace said he began taking bigger steps towards his transition.

During a week off on vacation, Wallace said, he sent an email to his coworkers explaining his situation and asking to be referred to by male pronouns.

“Ever ybody was all really supportive, from the administration all the way down to the staff I work with,” Wallace said.

He said that when he first began his transition to transgender, otherwise simple tasks became major obstacles, such as choosing the appropriate restroom.

“It was actually a big deal,” Wallace said. “I had to start deciding like, ‘Do I pass enough as a male to go into the men’s room?’ but honestly it also became, ‘Do I pass enough to go into the women’s room?’

There was a period of time where that was really difficult and uncomfortable and I didn’t really always have good experiences with that.”

Wallace said another problem he didn’t expect was experiencing the other side of male privilege.

Although Wallace said this was never a problem that

occurred in the workplace, he occasionally faced it around the community.

“Once I was passing more regularly as a male, it was really uncomfortable to experience watching getting preference over women in just very slight, subtle ways,” Wallace said.

“Just kind of experiencing that was really uncomfortable, because it’s never something I’ve been OK with and I don’t think that should be something that happens. But it really was kind of a strange thing to occur — that suddenly I was on the other side of that.”

Christi Duran, a coworker and friend of Wallace, said he now seems “much more confident and comfortable with himself.”

Wallace said the entire process took some time to get used to because some people saw him as male, while others still looked at him as female.

“It’s just kind of uncomfortable at first because you’re just sort of in that middle place,” Wallace said. “I think it took me awhile to get comfortable with the identity and really owning it and not being shy about it. That takes some time, but I feel like I’ve made some really big strides with that, and I feel a lot more confident with it now than when I first started my process.”

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New MSA executive cabinet members confirmed A new Missouri Students Association executive cabinet under juniors Payton Head and Brenda Smith-Lezama was confirmed Tuesday night by MSA’s Operations committee. The six new cabinet members are a mix of students new to MSA and returning student government veterans. The president-elect and vice presidentelect will be inaugurated Saturday. Associated Students of the University of Missouri President Trey Sprick will also serve as a member of the executive cabinet.

Cara Hartwig, Chief of Staff Junior Cara Hartwig was previously the education co-chairwoman for Truman’s Closet in fall of 2013.

Hartwig’s new position, the executive cabinet’s chief of staff, is a role which encompasses the importance of administrative and campus-wide needs. In her new role, Hartwig said one of her main goals is to increase awareness of MSA on campus.

“I want to bridge the gap between the students who (aren’t) involved in student government (and MSA) and let them know why it’s important and why they should care,” she said.

Organizational skills are one of Hartwig’s strengths that will help her in keeping track of MSA’s different departments, she said.

Hartwig admits that her lack of MSA experience could be a challenge for her. Still, she said she has faith her outsider’s perspective will be more of an advantage instead of a drawback.

“I don’t see it as something that will hold me back,” Hartwig said. “I see this as an opportunity to come in with a fresh set of eyes and a new perspective. I have insight on why some students don’t know about it and how we can change that.”

Overall, Hartwig said she hopes to advance students’ involvement and school pride, like the Head/Smith-Lezama platform stated.

“I want students to realize how fortunate we are,” she said. “I really want to help ignite that passion students have to love where they go and make sure they are getting the most out of it.”

Curtis Taylor Jr., Director of Student Communications

Previously, graduate student Curtis Taylor Jr. was the senior chair for black programming in DSA and assisted in making graphics for the Head/Smith-Lezama campaign. He also served on the executive board for the Legion of Black Collegians.

Taylor said he is looking forward promoting the wants and needs of the student body.

“I’m looking to move forward and truly ignite that fire within people to let everyone know that we are here for the students,” Taylor said. “I’m excited for the world to see how great we really are.”

Taylor believes his strength is being a visionary, because he wants to inspire others to get involved.

“I enjoy making things come to life and the process of making things come to fruition,” Taylor said. “There needs to be a call of action because in order for change to really happen, we need to inspire people to keep MSA growing. My inspiration is the people who come after to make sure they have a great platform to be even greater than (MSA) is now.”

In his new position, Taylor hopes to increase communication between different student groups and make the student body more understanding of everyone’s unique backgrounds.

“We have to start understanding each other to truly progress and move forward. We are all Tigers, and all of our stripes mean the same exact thing,” Taylor said. “I’m excited to be the bridge that closes the gap between the different pockets of campus and shed light on the dark spaces.”

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Maiya Putman, Director of Student Activities Junior Maiya Putman said she was interested in the Director of Student Activities position because she has a passion and admiration for how the department caters to students.

“There are so many talented, creative, and hard-working students that make up the Department of Student Activities,” Putman said. “We help create memories through our events on this campus, and as director, my goal is to expand our reach through co-programming with other orgs on campus and having larger scale events that are more inclusive.”

Head said Putman’s fresh plans for the department persuaded him to nominate her for the position.

“Putman was selected as the new director of the Department of Student Activities because of her drive to help revamp DSA by getting the staff and the students whom we serve even more excited about the events that are organized throughout the year,” Head said. “She does a great job of balancing being a friend and a director.”

Putman said she wants to “Ignite Mizzou” by ensuring that students have access to DSA. “We want students’ input to make the events as great as they can be,” Putman said. “I also want students to have pride in the things that MSA does and the resources that we offer.”

Chris Hanner, Secretary of Auxiliaries Sophomore Chris Hanner was previously an MSA senator in budget committee. He served as vice chairman under former committee chairwoman Shelby Catalano before replacing her last spring.

Hanner said he will use his budget committee connections to work with and improve the different auxiliaries.

“Through budget committee, I’ve developed really strong relationships with the auxiliaries, and I can now strengthen those relationships,” he said. “I’ll make sure that they’re being heard within the rest of MSA and they’re serving the students in the best capacity that they can.”

One of Hanner’s goals in his new position is marketing the services the auxiliaries offer, as well as job and volunteer opportunities better than before. He plans to make presentations to various organizations specifically about the auxiliaries, instead of just showing them the general MSA presentation.

“That way, students know that there’s more to MSA than just senate or the executive cabinet,” Hanner said. “There’re so many other opportunities within our 11 auxiliaries.”

Hanner said he hopes that by making students more aware of the services the auxiliaries offer, involvement will increase.

“Sometimes, students don’t realize that STRIPES, Truman’s Closet or Tiger Pantry are a part of MSA, so I’m really looking forward to making that distinction and hopefully by doing that, it will increase involvement and engagement of the student body,” Hanner said.

Hanner also would like to make it easier to access off-campus auxiliaries. He is exploring the possibility of having Tiger Line, the free student shuttle service, stop at auxiliaries such as Tiger Pantry and Truman’s Closet.

The tight MSA budget will be a challenge for Hanner because the auxiliaries are a place that are looked at for cuts, he said. He wants to make sure that their needs are met and the auxiliaries are equipped with their necessities to serve students.

Hanner also would like to make minority and international students more connected to the auxiliaries.

“Sometimes these groups can feel like they don’t have a home on campus,” Hanner said. “I’m looking forward to making sure I can provide more students with a home.”

Samantha Franks, Director of Student Services David Wallace, Deputy Director of Student Communications Junior David Wallace was an MSA senator prior to being named deputy director, and he said he is looking forward to the work.

“Being in this position is an honor,” Wallace said. “I am humbled to be appointed to the deputy director of DSC.” Head said Wallace’s knowledge about social media and reaching out to people is why he was chosen.

“Wallace was selected as the Deputy Director of the Department of Student Communications because he is extremely knowledgeable about how to further engage students via social media and many other different outlets,” Head said. “Most of the Ignite Mizzou platform is about truly engaging students in all things MSA, which is why we have chosen a director and a deputy for this department.”

Wallace said he was interested in the position because he wanted to provide a voice for students who may not have much involvement within MSA. Wallace said a very important part of providing this voice is through transparency.

“I want to be transparent and attract students who might not otherwise be involved with MSA into the MSA family,” Wallace said.

Junior Samantha Franks said she was very thrilled to be named to the position, as the department is close to her heart.

“DSS has given me the opportunity to build programming, run events and really gain experience in communication and leadership,” Franks said. “It’s where I’ve really found my place on campus.”

Head said Franks was chosen for her passion to truly make DSS serve the student body to the best of its ability.

“Franks shares our passion for proactive sexual assault prevention and working to provide a much more accessible campus for all (students),” Head said. “She has an incredibly kind spirit that makes her very approachable, a very important quality for this position.”

Franks said her goals as director are varied, but one she wants to focus on immediately is growing the department.

“We’ve expanded a lot in the last year, and I’d like to have even more students join so that we can continue to create more events,” Franks said. “I’m invested in helping the people in DSS gain leadership experience and in really making the department feel like a home for students.”

Franks also wants to focus on the sexual assault prevention movement, and continue to work on the “It’s On Us” campaign.

“This movement is aimed at preventing sexual assault on campus, and will be moving to DSS this year,” Franks said.

“I’m intent on not only keeping it alive, but finding ways to expand.”

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OPINION

Students deserve vote on Board of Curators During the Board of Curators’ December meeting, newlyappointed chairman Don Cupps declared 2015 “the year of the student.” But we’re looking for more than just one year dedicated to students.

For years, the Associated Students of the University of Missouri has advocated for the student representative to the board, which governs all four UM campuses, to have a vote on key university issues. The Board has included a non-voting student representative since 1984, and has allowed this student representative into closed door meetings since 1999. The Missouri General Assembly has considered 27 bills giving students a vote since 2002, but each of those bills have failed at various points in the process.

Granting our student representative the ability to vote on decisions made by the Board of Curators is crucial for both the university and for students. As ASUM President Trey Sprick told The Maneater, “those who provide over half of the revenue to this university and university system should have some say in the business decisions made by the system.”

Recently, Missouri Students Association President Payton Head, whose campaign platform included a student vote on the Board of Curators, met with Rep. Kip Kendrick, D-Columbia, to discuss student-related legislative goals, including a student vote. Kendrick said that he is interested in discussing this idea further with students.

One of the main concerns regarding the Board of Curators is that the current curators have a limited understanding of the modern student’s experience on a college campus. We understand that the role of the student representative is to provide a student’s perspective for the board members. But if students remain unable to vote, it will be harder to resolve the issues students are advocating for. We deserve for our representative to have a vote, and a weight on the board commensurate with that vote.

The main argument against having a student vote in years past was that students are not experienced or qualified enough to help make major policy decisions. However, we believe students are capable of deliberating on complex issues. If the MSA cabinet, composed entirely of students and led by a directly-elected student, can be trusted with handling a $1.6 million budget, then we don’t see how another student can’t be trusted to help make informed, effective decisions alongside the other curators.

ASUM’s tireless effort to lobby for students and inform campus on important legislative issues also highlights the passion students

bring to improving their university.

Any board that is appointed by the governor and approved by the Senate is going to be politicized — and it should be noted that the Board of Curators student representative is already chosen by the governor.

But some of the tactics used by the Board of Curators in the past to shut down legislation for a voting student representative seem uncalled for.

In 2008 alone, the UM System spent over $20,000 lobbying to have this legislation vetoed. After the legislation made it through the General Assembly that year, the Board of Curators held an emergency meeting where they voted 7-1 to oppose the bill. There were even reports that a former curator’s position as chairman of the Missouri Republican Party influenced then-Republican Gov. Matt Blunt’s decision to veto a student vote legislation.

The quest for student representation on the board has long been pulled into the messy world of state politics, and has even been subject at times — if you believe the accusations — to the unfair rules of cronyism. We can’t say whether or not the current effort will face these same obstacles, but one thing is clear: The UM System, which serves Missouri and its citizens, deserves more than petty politics.

We recognize that adding another representative to the Board may present an issue of voting ties. In order to solve this problem, we propose it be considered that an eleventh voting member be selected from the faculty of the four universities, in the same rotating manner as the student representative is. Faculty are the ones who truly make our universities work. They would be able to provide realistic, insightful views of what the UM System needs and could help make informed decisions in these respects.

We applaud ASUM and MSA’s efforts in lobbying for a voting student representative on the Board of Curators and for raising student awareness about this issue. We were glad to hear that Head is taking a stance on this issue. We hope to see continued efforts from these groups in rallying students to action.

We encourage students to learn more about the Board of Curators, the ASUM student representative and the potential legislation to allow this representative to vote. The decisions made by the board directly affect student life on campus, literally from the ground up, and students should become an informed, active part in that process. In order for that to happen, we need as many students as possible paying attention to these issues.

As far as the Board of Curators is concerned, every year should be “the year of the student.” Not just 2015.

Campus issues

Going to college shouldn’t be a debt sentence JALEN MOSBY Tuition could be on the rise as the higher education budget is making up less of the overall state budget of Missouri and many other states all around the U.S. Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies Jim Spain and MU junior Gunnar Johanson have done research to track how tuition at MU is changing and increasing almost every year, as reported in last week’s issue of The Maneater, and it is imperative that we take these reports seriously if we don’t want tuition to continuously surge.

The state is not supporting universities like it once did. This is pretty backwards now that tuition is at the highest it has ever been and more people are choosing to attend college than ever before. But even as more people are going to college — enrollment in degreegranting institutions increased by 32 percent from 2001 to 2011 — it is still out of reach for some, especially when it is far away from home and requires out-of-state tuitions. Eventually people will be forced to attend schools that offer more financial options for them.

Those are usually the ones closest to their home.

Choosing to stay home and go to college might become a national norm for America. Students might just stop applying and enrolling in four-year institutions because of costs. Higher prices for school seem ridiculous considering some countries, such as Finland and France, provide free college tuition to students.

The amount of debt we already have as a nation due to education loans is becoming a prominent issue for our country. Student loan debt makes up the largest proportion of American debt today, coming in at over $1 trillion, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

That should be seen as a problem to students as well as

government officials. Our economy will suffer more than it already has if loans are continuously taken out but not paid back. Paying loans back is not easy when the economy is in a bad state and people can’t find jobs.

Going to college should not be a “debt sentence” for students who don’t get enough scholarships to cover yearly costs, don’t have parents or don’t have other resources to help pay for tuition. College enrollment has declined over the past two years, and we have high tuition rates to blame for that. We need to do something to protect the most valuable thing a person could have: an education.

MU is the largest public research university in the state, so naturally it comes with a price tag. But at some point, there needs to be a cap or limit on how much of the burden students are required to take on if they want to pursue higher education. Many people are already drowning in debt by the time they graduate, and that is not acceptable.

It seems that the state government doesn’t think students care enough to get involved with the laws and policies that go into funding for college tuition, and that has to stop. Students need to use their voices and demand some answers. We deserve to know just how much of the state budget is used for our education. We should be at the forefront of representatives’ minds as they make decisions for us.

Education is the most useful and important thing a person can have, and it’s time we start acting like it. As one of the biggest, most powerful universities in the state, I think MU should take our vice provost’s and our fellow student’s advice and demand help from the state. We will not get anywhere if we continue to sweep our problems under the rug. Change can be made if us students, the people who are being affected the most, stand up and join in on the discussion of higher education costs. It’s time we let the people who represent us know that we want a solution to this problem.

self-help

Beginning a new semester JORDAN SMITH Ah, second semester. Brand new classes, people and exam dates to sweat profusely over.

But take a deep breath. We’re only getting started.

Depending on how many hours you’re taking and how difficult your classes are, you could already be feeling apprehensive about the coming semester. Before you have a full-on meltdown, consider the following.

You can add and drop classes. After the first week of classes, you should have a somewhat concrete gauge of the rigor of your courses. If you can handle more without overwhelming yourself, go for it and add a few extra hours! If not, don’t forget you can take courses over the summer, either on campus or at a community college near your home. And if you’re already feeling inundated with work, school and friends, don’t be too proud to drop a class if necessary. If you drop before the “Drop without Penalty” date (Feb. 23, for most classes), it won’t affect your GPA, either.

Online classes are always an option. If you need to add a few more hours but don’t seem to have any time slots for a class, Mizzou offers over 120 self-paced online courses. They can take anywhere from six weeks to nine months to complete, depending on your pace.

Go see your adviser. Advisers do more than send emails every other week reminding you of important dates; they’re actual people who would love to help you! Schedule an appointment via MU Connect on Blackboard, go into their office to request a time to come in for a chat, or check to see if there are available walk-in hours.

Make friends with the person next to you in class. Some days, you just can’t make it to class. That’s okay, but be prepared. Don’t feel creepy for asking the person next to you for their phone number or email. They’ll probably be grateful to have someone they can get notes from when they’re gone, too.

Obviously, there is much more to school than classes. You may have a job or extracurricular activities to squeeze into your schedule as well.

With proper planning, you won’t have to sacrifice either of these things.

Get involved one at a time. If you’re planning to add more to your plate, don’t dump a ton of things on at once. This will likely lead to you feeling completely swamped and dropping a majority of the commitments you signed on for. Instead, join new things one by one until you’ve reached a comfortable capacity.

Schedule work around your schoolwork.

Make a concrete school schedule and then work in your time off. Your employer is probably much more adaptable and accommodating than MyZou. If you see flexibility in your schedule and an opportunity to clump more classes together, do that, so you’ll have more available hours for working while still leaving a few for other things.

Say no. This comes back to not overloading yourself. If you simply don’t have the time for something, don’t feel bad for turning it down.

Obviously, if there is something you’d love to partake in, see if there is anything in your agenda that can be knocked out beforehand so you can free up time for fun.

Say yes. Be open to trying new things this semester!

Lastly, don’t forget to give yourself some love! Whether it’s watching a movie alone in your room with a Chinese takeout box balanced precariously on your chest or going out with friends, taking time to relax is just as important as the rest of the things on your busy calendar.

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THE MANEATER | OPINION | JANUARY 28, 2015 Diversity

Examining the cultural gap While there are many noticeable differences between Chinese and American cultures, most people don’t notice all of the similarities.

LORETTA LEE I was born in Hong Kong, China, and raised there for 18 years. There are a number of cultural similarities that I noticed when I came to America. When it comes to superstitions and gender roles, I found we have more in common than people think.

Sometimes Americans think Chinese people are more superstitious, but Americans are superstitious too.

Both cultures attach meaning to numbers, but in their own way. For instance, Americans believe that bad luck comes in threes, but did you know that the number 3 symbolizes “liveliness” in Chinese? People even put this number in their license plates and phone numbers, and choose apartment numbers that contain a 3.

A 3 is good, but a 3 with an 8, which together symbolize both health and wealth, is even better. While the number 13 means bad luck in American culture, Chinese people actually think it brings them liveliness as well. The number that Chinese people try to avoid is 4, which means death.

Both Americans and Chinese believe in the bad luck of opening an umbrella indoors.

According to myths I have heard from my grandmother in China, spirits live inside an umbrella, and if a person opens it up inside a house, the spirit gets released and will stay inside. The worst thing a person could do is pick up an umbrella on the side of a road on a rainy night and bring it home. A lot of Chinese horror movies start off with this cheesy opening.

The reason why I am bringing up these interesting cultural beliefs is to emphasize that we are all one and the same.

We should respect each other’s culture, whether Chinese, American or from any other nationality. No one should ever tease anyone’s cultural beliefs or be prejudiced against them for their culture.

I remember one time someone mentioned the phrase “Asian persuasion” and I was completely clueless, until I looked it up on Urban Dictionary. This phrase means that some American men tend to think that Asian women are more easy to deal with.

For example, they think that Asian women will cook, do laundry and take care of kids at home — basically, be a housewife.

This is the kind of misperception I would like to address. I want all of you to understand that we are, again, the same.

Asian women are women. They will not cook more often than an American woman. In fact, I know a lot of families back in Hong Kong in which the fathers cook for the family or even stay at home to look after children.

There are a lot of things that people are not familiar with about Chinese culture, and that is something that will stay mysterious until they live in China. The same applies to Chinese students; we are still not as familiar with American culture as Americans are.

But what we can do is be respectful to one another. That way, we can not only live together peacefully, but also learn from each other’s cultures.

relationship advice

The problem with the grey area Talking about the definition of your relationship will ease stress and end confusion.

BRITTANY EMOND There’s a point in every relationship when you ask yourself, “What are we?” Or better yet, you ask yourself, “What does he think we are?”

If you’re asking these questions, you clearly don’t know the answers.

Anxiety starts to run high over thoughts like, “Do I call him my boyfriend?” or “Are we still allowed to hook up with other people?”

All the lines are blurred and you’re left confused and on edge. I like to call this the Assumption Period.

Many people refer to their relationship during the Assumption Period as a “thing.” The problem with this is everyone defines a “thing” differently. Some assume that their relationship is very serious, just undefined. Some assume that their relationship is very minor and just fun for the time being. Some just assume that their relationship is a friends-with-benefits situation.

There’s no real outline to what a “thing” entails.

When people assume that they’re

on the same page with someone who they haven’t outlined the status of their relationship with, one side usually ends up getting hurt. One person could want to take the relationship to the next level, whereas the other wants it to either stay the same or be done with it forever.

The worst part of these situations is that no one wants to initiate the conversation because they’re afraid of the outcome. Therefore, many people find it easier to simply assume that the other person wants the same thing they do, fearing that they actually don’t.

I don’t think many people are huge fans of the “what are we?” talk.

It poses a question that ends in black and white, while sometimes it’s easy to just stay in the grey. This grey area acts as a definition in a relationship that seems to have no definition.

I will say that not all relationships have to be specifically defined. Some relationships thrive in the grey area for long periods of time until the point in which they reach the black and white area that is "boyfriendgirlfriend," or fizzle out for the better.

However, I have seen so many girls stick to the status of “thing” and end up getting hurt because the other person uses the undefined nature of the relationship as a free pass to do whatever they want. How can people necessarily consider it cheating if the

relationship was never defined? Very often, they can’t.

So instead of worrying about this, it’s much easier to bite the bullet and ask the question. Although there’s always the fear that this conversation could make or break the relationship, the final outcome is typically what’s best.

If two people don’t want the same thing, odds are it won’t work out, especially in the long run.

Relationships are about being on the same page, no matter if you’re friends with benefits or exclusive.

Many times you are completely aware that the relationship isn’t anything serious to your significant other. However, you stay with them in the grey area in hopes of this fact changing. Unfortunately, when the other person doesn’t want to define a relationship, it often means they aren’t ready for a serious commitment, and that probably won’t change anytime soon.

However, sometimes it just takes the right person to come along and make them forget about their prior agenda toward dating.

The grey area is full of assumptions that are right or wrong. In order to avoid any trouble, it’s much easier to talk about boundaries and draw the lines. If you define your relationship as a “thing,” make sure your definition of this matches up with your partner’s.

Politics

‘American Sniper’: a distorted truth The film whitewashes many of the main issues in the Iraq War. LILY CUSACK Clint Eastwood's “American Sniper” has been an incredible success with moviegoers around the country.

BBC News reported the movie exceeded box office expectations by raking in around $90 million over its opening weekend.

The movie has earned six Oscar nominations, including best picture and best actor for Bradley Cooper.

The movie recounts the story of Chris Kyle, a sniper in the Iraq War from 2003 to 2009, who executed 160 confirmed killings during his four tours of duty. An unstable Iraq War veteran killed Kyle at a shooting range in his hometown in Texas in February 2013.

Despite the enormous success, the movie has sparked debate and outrage about how it portrays Kyle and the Iraq War. This film has vital errors and points that were unaddressed, which is disappointing for a movie on this topic. It had a chance to explain the motives and realities behind the often-enigmatic Iraq War — a chance that the movie unapologetically abandoned.

The principal issue with “American Sniper” is that it attempted to explain the Iraq War in black-and-

white terms, whereas the conflict has many sides that need to be taken into account. According to Vox, the film claims the war was a response to the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

However, this is an outright falsity.

The Iraq War, instead, was of George W. Bush’s choosing.

Foreign Affairs cites the reasons the U.S. went to war was to remove Saddam Hussein as leader and establish a democracy. The truth is shrouded in the film to give better credentials to why the U.S. was fighting in the first place.

This is not the only reality the film smudges. “American Sniper” seems to stretch the truth regarding Chris Kyle’s personality. It seems to forget that Kyle had a history of claiming events that didn’t really happen, including how he attested to killing two carjackers in Texas and shooting looters in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, both of which did not take place, according to BBC News. The film also tones down Kyle’s more extreme opinions about Iraqis. He described Iraqis as “savages” in his book, and recounted that he liked killing them and regretted not killing more. The film, on the other hand, portrays Kyle as deeply troubled over the amount of people he killed.

Perhaps one of the most disappointing aspects of the film is how it portrayed Iraqis in the Iraq War. As Vox states, they were primarily all “terrorists or terrorist sympathizers.” The film does not

explain the motives or ideals or even the humanity behind any character of Iraqi origin. They are there as the enemy and nothing more.

This makes it easier for the audience to sympathize with the Americans and their struggles that they had to deal with during the war. It completely whitewashes the fear of Iraqi citizens and the pain that came with the deaths of 15,060 civilians. Furthermore, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee stated that there has been an increase in the amount of threats on Muslims and Arabs, especially on social media sites, following the film's release. This film has further elevated animosity towards this subset of citizens. This is particularly concerning due to the relationship the U.S. already has with people of Muslim and Arab origin.

Although addressing the Iraq War is important, “American Sniper” is not the movie the U.S. needs.

Through its inaccurate portrayal of the main subject, the motives behind the war and Iraq as a nation, it has elevated tensions and incorrect assumptions related to this topic.

It celebrates violence and war while diminishing the humanity of a whole population. The U.S. needs a film that tells the whole story of the Iraq War, but that might be a long way coming.

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The key to your entertainment

MOVE Single Girl Diaries: Eurotrip

The awkward flock to me

Columnist Ellise Verheyen on her experience with British boys (thus far).

ELLISE VERHEYEN

You’ve got me hooked, Netflix. It’s not often you offer up a Showtime gem, and this was definitely a quality decision on my part. But what’s the origin of the appeal?

Perhaps it’s the execution: “Californication” won two Emmys and a Golden Globe.

While the awards were for acting and cinematography, a different aspect struck me as undeniably praiseworthy: As you’d expect of a series with a novelist as lead, the writing is great.

It’s not the mind-blowing banter of “Scandal” (which can become aggravating in its finesse, at times), but rather a quirky and overwhelmingly blunt approach to characterization that specializes in airtight one-liners and the perfect

It has to be my perfume. The weird guys here must really love One Direction’s Our Moment or something, because they can’t seem to get enough of me.

On Friday night, two of my flatmates and I went to a local pub to hang out and enjoy the unique British pub culture. We were talking, laughing and enjoying each other’s company when things went downhill. Caitlin, my flatmate, and I needed to use the “loo.”

We left our friend Nikki alone for a matter of minutes, only to return to her conversing with someone we’d nicknamed “Penn State.”

This 20-something guy had been seen all over Camden over the short 10 days we’d lived there, and he always seemed very odd, wearing a Penn State letterman jacket from the ‘80s and hovering alone near groups of girls. Now he was hovering around us.

We were being friendly, but Penn State just didn’t know how to interact with females. One of the first things he asked was, “How do you know when a girl isn’t attracted to you?”

Over the course of the next 25 minutes, we tried to explain that when girls start talking to their friends instead of you, it’s time to walk away. So when we began a conversation among ourselves and he remained standing there, we knew we were in trouble.

In an effort to escape, we made an excuse to go to the other side of the bar. He followed.

He then cornered me and told me I was cute.

He waited expectantly for me to share the sentiment, but I didn’t and changed the topic.

Caitlin and Nikki quickly devised a plan to get us out of there. Again, it’s me. Always me.

Last Tuesday night after a long day at work, I decided to stop by Sainsbury’s (our nearby grocery store) to pick up some food for dinner.

Everything was fine. I was in my own world, listening to some James Bay and trying to decide on which frozen vegetable to buy, when I heard a voice next to my ear. I took out my earbuds and turned to see a very strange boy with a black streak on his cheek.

“The mixed vegetables are the best,” he said in a breathy, British accent.

“Oh. I like green beans,” I replied in hopes that that’d be the extent of our conversation. It wasn’t.

The guy continued to stick with me as I moved towards the checkout. I had a few more things I’d wanted, but decided they weren’t essentials.

Aaron, as he introduced himself, followed me all the way there. I politely acknowledged his musings, and then tried to part ways by saying, “Nice to meet you.”

At this point, I was really uncomfortable.

Aaron then decided he would check out with me.

All he had was a large bottle of water and he said he would just add it to my cart and pay me the difference. I told him no, but he insisted. I began to assume that he just needed a little money, so I buried my fight-or-flight urges.

The girl at the register gave me the, “Are you okay?” eyes before I packed up my groceries.

Aaron tried to help me out, but I grabbed my stuff and headed out the door. Fortunately, we had to part ways there because he was going the opposite direction. Unfortunately, before I could do anything, he opened his arms and gave me a huge hug. A hug. (!!)

I didn’t know what to do. I panicked and gave the awkward, “nice to meet you” laugh and ran

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COURTESY OF JOEL GREENBERG

A promotional image from Jammin Joel Productions’ film “You Have the Right to Remain Violent.”

movies

Docudrama to be filmed in Mid-Missouri The film will be filmed in June around Montgomery County.

CLAUDIA GUTHRIE Associate Editor A docudrama on child fight clubs is set to be filmed near Columbia this summer.

The feature film “You Have the Right to Remain Violent” aims to expose the world of the illegal clubs, where adults make a profit by forcing minors to fight each other.

The film’s director, Dimas Bardales, says the docudrama style will “(have) you on the edge of your seat the whole time.”

“The film is based on real stories, kind of like a docudrama instead of a documentary sort of thing because some of the real subjects are kind of afraid to be on camera,” Bardales says. “It shows you things that you don’t really hear about, things that the media covers up, accidents that happen to kids and why some kids are taken away and never heard of.”

Producer Joel A. Greenberg says his inspiration for “Violent” came several years ago when he saw news stories about children being forced

into a fighting situation. “(The movie) is a very important story,” he says. “It’s based on truths, reality.”

Production is scheduled to begin in June. Along with Montgomery County, Missouri, the crew will also shoot in New Mexico, Massachusetts and possibly Montana.

Greenberg says the purpose of filming all over the country is to show that child fight clubs are a problem across America, not just isolated in one area.

“It doesn’t matter if you’re in a big city, it doesn’t matter if you’re in a rural country setting or if you’re in the suburbs, it makes no difference,” Greenberg says. “It’s happening all over the place and it’s happening in all 50 states, and that’s why we’re showing some of them and we’re making it known that we’re in different states in the movie. We’re also showing that the problem is interconnected with the states.”

In order to help with funding, the producers say they plan to launch an Indiegogo campaign next week to raise the remaining $25,000 needed to finish the film.

Bardales, who is still a student at the New England Institute of Art, has already worked with Greenberg on two previous films. For this next

collaboration, they’ve been contacting survivors of child fights on Facebook to be potential sources.

“This is not a violent movie,” Bardales says. “It’s a film that’s designed as a wake-up call to make people stop and say, ‘We must put an end to it.’ We want people to be angry at what is happening and we want them to take action against these people that are behind this. It’s not just a cock fight, it’s not just a dog fight, it’s a child fight, too, that’s happening out there. We just want people to wake up and realize that this is happening right in their backyard and they don’t even know it.”

The film’s title, “You Have the Right to Remain Violent,” is, as Greenberg says, “purposefully misleading.”

“We’re not encouraging violence, but what we’re doing is we’re saying that the kids in the film who are victims of this abuse have been given one right — and that is the right to remain violent,” Greenberg says.

“I’m hoping it pisses (the audience) off and makes them angry and that somebody starts looking into different fight clubs that are popping up all over the place,” he says. “And not all of them are fight clubs, some of them are just forcing kids to fight. I’m just hoping it calls attention to the problem.”

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Dear Netflix

Sex (and drugs) appeal in “Californication” Columnist Elana Williams on the Bukowski of Showtime.

ELANA WILLIAMS Dear Netflix, “What’s with the sex anyway?”

I asked as I watched the not-veryhandsome-at-all-actually Hank Moody stick his dong into yet another hopelessly attractive 20-something.

This was probably the third girl he’d slept with that day, with no intention of slowing down. Moody has no regrets and keeps his emotions away from his lays, yet somehow

continues to make each and every woman he sleeps with feel important.

It’s pretty disgusting. And I’m obsessed with it.

So what is with the sex? What does it say about me, a sassy 18-yearold who isn’t so innocent, for not realizing earlier the implications of a show called “Californication”?

Take the premise: Hank writes books. He does lots of blow and drinks lots of hard liquor. He’s in love with his kid’s mom but they’re not together.

His best friend is his washed-up agent, he lives in L.A., and between the drugs and rock and roll, he does a fairly terrible job at raising his daughter.

The series is essentially a coitus parade, and let’s be honest, I saw it coming.

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THE MANEATER | MOVE | JANUARY 28, 2015

What’s age got ‘Mortdecai’ fails to impress to do with it?

Taylor’s Turntable

BOBBY CERESIA Staff writer

“Are aging rockers doomed to mediocrity after all their revolutionary works of modern day myth and legend?”

TAYLOR YSTEBOE When Paul McCartney recently released the song “Hope For The Future” for the video game “Destiny,” I was, well, disappointed.

Don’t get me wrong — you really can’t go wrong with Macca. He’s a lyrical genius, a brilliant composer and an energetic performer, not to mention that he was part of a little band from Liverpool called The Beatles. “Hope For The Future” just doesn’t quite top McCartney’s list of timeless compositions.

But this made me think. Are aging rockers doomed to mediocrity after all their revolutionary works of modern day myth and legend? Looking over the past decade, it’s a mixed bag of excellent and third-rate albums, but I still can’t grapple with new releases by old rock stars.

I think one of the most consistent singers is Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin. Plant released his 10th solo album last year, “lullaby and … The Ceaseless Roar,” full of vast yet intimate soundscapes. Even at 66, Plant’s voice is as eerie yet alluring as ever.

Tracks like “Rainbow” from his last album and “Angel Dance” from his 2010 album sound like they could have been recorded with Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones in the ‘70s. Bravo, Plant, bravo.

More often than not, though, it seems like some singers still live in the past. I’m talking about you, Rod Stewart. Over eight years, Stewart here released not one, not two, not three or four, but five volumes of “The Great American Songbook” where he covers hits from the ‘30s and ‘40s by American music icons like Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. While these songs pay well-deserved homage to the early greats, five volumes of covers do not do Stewart proper justice.

Now, Bob Dylan may be releasing an album of Frank Sinatra covers next month, but he’s a guy who doesn’t care about what anyone thinks, so he does whatever he wants. More power to him. And that’s fine and dandy to me because whatever he wants is almost always golden. Though his voice is, to put it nicely, not the same as it was in 1964, Dylan knows how to craft an album. Even in 2012, Dylan released “Tempest,” proving that he will keep on truckin’ until he is dead and buried.

Regardless of the merit of any of these new albums, I still think nostalgia gets the best of me.

I just want to preserve the image of my favorite artists as the creators of the best albums of all time.

I don’t want these new songs and albums to taint the epic “Tommy” and the superb “Beggar’s Banquet.”

Undoubtedly, The Who are not going to play 2006’s “Endless Wire” nor are the Rolling Stones going to touch ‘05’s “A Bigger Bang” in concert. They’re going to play their biggest hits, and for a good reason — they will always be amazing. These artists paved the Yellow Brick Road of rock music. They were around for the British Invasion, Woodstock and everything else that the ‘60s through the ‘80s brought. In those times, bands saw the revolutions all around them and reacted through their music. Their albums are not just compilations of songs. They’re representations of history.

Now, let’s go back to “Hope For The Future.” I stand by saying that its cliché lyrics make McCartney a bit of a sell-out. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

We’ve heard some impeccable works that prove that the opposite is true. While nostalgia may get the best of me, perhaps something new is what we need sometimes. Besides, we shouldn’t criticize artists for seeking to perfect their lifelong craft. Just like any of us, they’re pursuing a dream. It may be difficult, but just let it be.

“Mortdecai,” Johnny Depp’s latest film, opens with Depp playing a goofy British art thief introducing himself to a trio of Asian mobsters to whom he owes a lot of money.

“My name is Charles Mortdecai, and this is my mustache,” he asserts.

Depp then smiles wildly while the mobsters stare unimpressed at him, probably wondering how this conniving cartoonish caricature managed to steal so much money from them. By the end of the movie, I was wondering the exact same thing, wishing I had spent my $7.75 on nearly anything else than this massively unappealing catastrophe.

On the surface, it seems like a typical comedy. Depp travels the world with the government, acting as a double agent trying to trace a stolen work of art.

Meanwhile, thieves chase them down trying to get the painting, and its bounty, for themselves. There’s double crossings, wacky situations, back-and-forth insults and a mystery waiting to be solved. But “Mortdecai” fails to impress on the most basic levels.

The biggest problem with “Mortdecai” is its protagonist, the mustached face plastered on every pop-up ad for the film. Mortdecai as a character is neither funny enough to cheer for nor suave enough to feel any sympathy toward. He is remarkably selfish, constantly harming and insulting those around him, like

his poor bodyguard Jock Strap (a pun that would’ve been the funniest joke in the entire film if they had mentioned it earlier, but it was never mentioned until the credits) or his wife, played by an uninterested, give-me-my-paycheck Gwyneth Paltrow. Mortdecai shoots Jock twice during the movie and nearly cheats on his wife many times throughout his escapades. His antics fail to entertain, instead prompting frustration with our hero and his adventures.

In other spy comedies, like “Get Smart” or the “Austin Powers” trilogy, the protagonist is the core of the entire film, and he usually grows through his experience to become a better person at the end. Mortdecai doesn’t learn a damn thing, yet the audience is still supposed to laugh everytime he twiddles his mustache and blabbers on in a vaguely British accent that more closely resembles a blend of a constipated goat’s bleating and the whines of Frenchman with a lisp.

But don’t worry, if you’re one of the people who believes Depp can do no wrong, there’s plenty more to hate about “Mortdecai.”

Ahem: – None of the other actors give a crap, especially an Eastern European stereotype working in Mortdecai’s garage who blandly announces “I’ve been shot,” then is shot again and says “I’ve been shot again,” and is dead on the floor the next scene.

– The CGI is so laughably cheap and

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sloppy that the explosions looked right out of “Sharknado.”

– The movie nearly lasts two hours, and I’m not ashamed to admit I nodded off for a few minutes in the middle.

– The scenes leave gaps to give the audience time to laugh but they were more like the awkward silence at Thanksgiving after a racist relative makes a joke about “those people.”

– The movie is rated R (solely for naughty language), but I can’t think of anyone over the age of 12 who would enjoy these lame jokes.

If I have to list positives, there was a scene with a Corgi puppy that made me smile. You don’t see many puppies in college and it made me feel good.

For those who don’t know, January is a magical month for movies. If the producers have faith in a movie, they will usually push to finish production in time for December and advertise a lot so it’ll make its money back. If the producers know the movie sucks, then they don’t want to compete with all the great movies in the holiday season and they put it off to January where the competition is less impressive and advertising is less expensive.

“Mortdecai” is the perfect January movie: low production costs, little advertising and no effort put into it. Do yourself a favor and go watch “American Sniper” again rather than see this mess.

MOVE gives “Mortdecai” 1 out of 5 stars.

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Filling a taco-shaped void in CoMo MACKENZIE REAGAN MOVE Editor Quick: Name the best taco place in CoMo. …

Tough question, right? We have chains like Chipotle and local eats like El Rancho and Las Margaritas, but as far as quality tacos go, we’re

in a bit of a taco desert.

Enter Boss Taco, the brainchild of Lindsey Spratt.

After living in Austin, Texas for eight years after graduating from MU, Spratt had grown accustomed to the city’s taco trucks and taquerias that offer a wide array of authentic Mexican tacos. Upon returning to Columbia, Spratt quickly became aware of the lack of restaurants specializing in tacos.

“Nothing like this was happening,” she says of her three-month-old business venture.

Boss Taco, owned and operated solely

by Spratt herself, supplies tacos to a few local eateries, including Logboat Brewery and 9th Street Public House. Cooked in an industrial-sized kitchen housed in Broadway Brewery (Spratt’s the former

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true emotions and only allowing their disappointment to show in situations where it’s entirely unavoidable.

Take the time Hank’s daughter, Becca, comes home to a room full of strippers and Rick Springfield, a TA he’d been sleeping with (Hank’s a professor circa season two), and the mother of her best friend (with whom he’s also slept).

This sort of thing happens with a striking regularity. Does the execution really compensate for that? It doesn’t actually have to.

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amount of questionable silence to back them up.

This is most apparent in Hank, but paralleled in other leads, including his daughter and ex.

Both are exasperated with his way of life, yet they don’t know how to abandon him. They play a sort of song-and-dance, often hiding their

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Human emotions are a funny thing. Hank Moody? Well, he’s the unwavering counterpart to Charles Bukowski.

Hank’s a misogynist, he’s vain, he’s offensive, et cetera, et cetera.

And we love him because he hurts much harder than we do.

In some ways, his lost eyes seem to mirror our own heartache, and we see in him a brokenness that only comes from being far too brave in the face of chances we were always too timid to take.

Hank mirrors the appeal of every

One of her most popular concoctions? The green chili pork tacos, with roasted Anaheim chilis, braised pork shoulder and the aforementioned fresh salsa verde.

Spratt says her tacos are based off Mexican street tacos like the ones she enjoyed from food trucks in Austin, where she attended culinary school.

In addition to operating with no help (other than girlfriend Shannon Diaz, who occasionally pitches in), simply finding the space to house the operation is a challenge.

Leaving Broadway Brewery to work at Boss full time means losing the brewery’s kitchen. While a new fullsized kitchen is a must, Spratt says there are no immediate plans to

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kitchen manager), the tacos are, admittedly, quite time-consuming.

“For Logboat, I gather all the stuff on Monday. I cook the meats, make the salsa. Then on Tuesday, I make stickers (and other packaging items) and the fresh green salsa,” Spratt says.

For a recent order of 650 tacos, Spratt spent an estimated 100 hours preparing the order, with ingredients from local suppliers like Lucky’s Market and Patchwork Family Farms.

we don’t have, watching Netflix on our couches. Hank’s going out and getting what we, perpetually lame and far too prone to cat-ladiness, want really deep down.

I’ll stay on my couch, but boy, am I along for the ride.

You’ve got me again, Netflix.

Thanks for “Californication.”

Yours, Elana open a free-standing Boss Taco.

“A storefront would be nice, but (with the current model), there’s really no overhead, no need to change. (I’m able to make) enough to make a decent living,” she says.

Despite the normal challenges of opening a new business –– understanding costs, working with a small staff (OK, no staff), keeping it all organized –– Spratt says she wouldn’t have it any other way.

The city “has the crowd (she) was looking for,” and is in desperate need of authentic, fresh tacos.

Boss Taco is a labor of love, of sorts, providing gourmet food to eager customers and filling CoMo’s taco void.

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I watched over my shoulder the entire walk home. I took a longer route to ensure he wouldn’t follow. As soon as I was in the safety of my flat, I recounted the tale to my three

bad boy in history. I know, because I’m a sucker for them myself.

The downsides?

“Californication” can be predictable in the sense that you usually know how an episode will end before you’re halfway through it.

Hank’s daughter also isn’t the best actor in the world, but she’s young, so I can overlook it.

It’s the kind of show that anyone and everyone will fall in love with, which is probably why it’s been so popular. The sex is all part of that. It’s the key to the freedom

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flatmates and they all hugged me to negate Aaron’s unrequited hug.

Essentially, I’ve been here two weeks and have already had numerous horrific encounters with the opposite sex. Honestly, I’d hoped for a more profound column this semester on how I’d grown and matured, but instead, life in Britain is just as uncomfortable as it was in Columbia. You’re welcome. Enjoy.

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Missouri Tigers guard Wes Clark covers his face with his jersey as he is ushered off of the court Jan. 24, 2014, at the Mizzou Arena in Columbia, Missouri. Arkansas beat Missouri 61-60.

Men’s Basketball

Team defends Clark after missed free throws DANIEL WITT Staff Writer Wes Clark slowly made his way to the Missouri locker room. His jersey covered his face while he sobbed into the white polyester fabric.

Clark was led off the court by former Mizzou standout Kim English, who walked with a right arm around the sophomore

guard while sporting his “white out” attire.

Clark had just missed two free throws with 3.3 seconds left in the game and his team down one point. The Tigers lost to Arkansas 61-60 Saturday afternoon at Mizzou Arena, making it their fifth consecutive loss.

“No one feels worse than Wes Clark for missing two free throws,” Missouri coach Kim

Anderson said Monday. “There’s some real disappointment in the locker room. We fought this for 40 minutes and had the opportunity, but couldn’t get it done.”

When Clark arrived in the locker room, he was comforted by a group of 12 sweaty basketball players.

“It wasn’t his fault,” freshman guard Montaque GillCaesar said. “After the game,

that’s what we told him. We win together, we lose together. It was nobody’s fault.”

Arkansas coach Mike Anderson took a timeout before Clark went to the line. While he said it was mostly to plan for what his team would do following the attempts, Mike Anderson admitted the timeout was also meant to “ice” Clark.

He said his team was fortunate to win.

“I’m sure if Wes shot those free throws nine other times he’d make them, but this afternoon, it shined on the Razorbacks,” Mike Anderson said.

Moments later, Clark came up short on both free throw attempts. Both shots clanged off the front of the rim and the

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Women’s basketball

Challenging conference schedule takes toll on Missouri BRUNO VERNASCHI Sports Editor The Missouri women’s basketball team has hit a rough patch.

The name of that rough patch? The Southeastern Conference.

Going into conference play, the Tigers were on a roll, with a 10-3 record and enough healthy players to have at least some depth on their bench.

Now seven games in, Mizzou has fallen to 11-9 overall and has only nine eligible players without injury.

Despite the unfortunate circumstances, the team has resisted dwelling on it.

“I’m a person that’s in the present, but in the big picture,

if we had our healthy roster, golly, we’re right where we wanna be,” Missouri coach Robin Pingeton said. “But we don’t, and here’s where we’re at. We just have to continue to challenge our players and help them get better at what they’re doing.”

With six teams in the AP Top 25 Poll, the SEC is one of the toughest, if not the toughest league in the country.

This means Mizzou has faced a ranked opponent in five of its last seven games, a difficult road for any team.

“The SEC is one of those conferences that you’re playing against future WNBA players and just the best of the best,” senior guard and captain Morgan Eye said. “You have to

bring your best, day in and day out.”

The one team that Missouri has prevailed over during conference play is Florida, a win that called for a comeback after the Tigers were down 10 points.

This Thursday, Mizzou takes on the Gators again and hopes to secure its second win since Dec. 22.

Florida had multiple injured players during the last meeting, but now has a full roster, which Pingeton said worries her a bit, especially in the backcourt.

“I anticipate we’ll see a little more full-court pressure than we did,” Pingeton said. “We saw some (last game), but I think they’ll take it to another level

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Conference Complications With a 1-6 record, the Missouri women’s basketball team is struggling to close out opponents in the Southeastern Conference, with its record falling from 10-3 to 11-9 since the beginning of conference play.

-Bruno Vernaschi, Sports Editor

10-3 69.6 56.6 NON-CONFERENCE RECORD

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1-6 54.6 64 CONFERENCE RECORD

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Missouri set for rematch with top-ranked Kentucky Nowhere to go but up for Tigers as they try to stage an upset.

MICHAEL NATELLI Assistant Sports Editor After a three-point win against Ole Miss and an overtime win against Texas A&M, the Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball team came home to Rupp Arena to flip a switch and blow Missouri out of the water.

The 49-point deficit in the Wildcats’ 86-37 win surpassed the total number of points the Tigers scored, and the game was seemingly over before the teams went to the locker room at halftime.

“What kind of scared me coming in is that I knew they hadn’t played great,” Missouri coach Kim Anderson said following the game.

“They probably didn’t play with the same pace as they did tonight.”

Fast forward 15 days, and the scenario is very reminiscent of that in early January. The Wildcats have posted back-to-back under whelming performances against Southeastern Conference cellar dwellers Vanderbilt and South Carolina, and will be looking to get back on track against a Missouri team that hasn’t won since before the two last met.

Freshman guard Namon Wright said the Tigers struggled to execute in the final minutes of the Tigers’

game against Tennessee, which led Missouri hopes to cut that number to a late run by the Volunteers and down this time around. ultimately a loss for Missouri. But The Tigers have also played the team’s lack of execution wasn’t noticeably better in front of strong a unique occurrence. home crowds, as evidenced by the On paper, the betting man has fight they put up against onceno reason to pick the Tigers in ranked Arkansas on Saturday this week’s rematch. They’ve been and 35 minutes of strong play unable to close out tight games against Tennessee on Jan. 17. against Tennessee and Arkansas, With Thursday’s crowd likely to and have relied heavily on an significantly outperform either of inconsistent three-point shooting those, Missouri will be looking to game for points on the offensive adjust its performance accordingly. end.

But perhaps Anderson said the biggest change after the team’s loss of tides entering WE NEED TO to the Volunteers Thursday night that Missouri’s PLAY ALMOST A will be freshman margin for error guard Montaque PERFECT GAME TO is very small, and Gill-Caesar, who it will be even WIN.” missed the first more so against matchup with the National back issues. GillKIM ANDERSON Championship Caesar has since Mizzou basketball coach favorite. returned, and is “We need to play playing arguably almost a perfect his best ball of the season. The game to win,” Anderson said in a freshman was 6 for 9 from the field press conference Tuesday. against Arkansas, including 3 for 3 So how do the Tigers put up from three-point range, and if he a fight against college basketball’s can come close to those numbers deadliest juggernaut?

Senior forward Keanau Post Thursday, it will increase the Tigers’ commented after the first game chances of an upset substantially.

The 1954 Kentucky squad was that the Wildcats’ size gave Mizzou fits on both sides of the ball, and the only SEC team to ever post he could be the solution to that this an undefeated regular season, time around. The Tigers allowed meaning that odds are the Wildcats 25 second-chance points in the will fall eventually. Every metric in first game against Kentucky and existence suggests the Tigers have Post’s size, interior defense and no shot Thursday night, but it’s rebounding ability will be crucial if called an upset for a reason, right?

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the wit of schmidt

Another familiar heartbreak at the foul line Wes Clark may have missed his free throws, but he secured my heart.

DANIEL SCHMIDT 2005. Conference USA Men’s Basketball Championship game.

Memphis vs. Louisville. Calipari vs.

Pitino.

The game came down to its final seconds, and after Louisville missed a free throw to go up by three, Memphis’s freshman point guard Darius Washington Jr. took the ball the length of the floor. Stopping at the three-point line, Washington rose in the midst of three defenders and got his shot off.

The shot clanked left and the clock hit zero.

But Washington had been fouled, and since the shot had been a 3-pointer, he had three shots to win the game.

Three straight makes and Memphis would be the conference champ.

Washington, a 72 percent free throw shooter calmly made the first and held his follow through, a ballsy move for a freshman on a national stage with two more free throws to make.

He missed the second. You could see his body immediately tense up as he turned to Calipari for support. He stepped to the line for his third attempt.

The ball danced on the front of the rim for a moment, before falling to the floor.

Seconds later, Washington was on the floor, head in his jersey, his body limp as his teammates and coach tried to lift him up and support him. It was an image I’ll never forget.

On Saturday morning (excuse me, afternoon) I rolled over on my Rams sheets to check my (brand-new, lifechanging) iPhone 6. It was around 3 p.m. and the Tiger Grotto had just opened, meaning it was time to rally the boys to go to the steam room. “Hold up real quick,” my buddy Mitch responded to my group text. “We’ve got Suitcase Mike on the ropes with less than a minute left.”

Screaming four-letter words at myself for not waking up earlier, I flipped on my TV. Mizzou had just called timeout with less than 20 seconds to go.

These are the types of situations where coaches earn the bulk of those sevenfigure paychecks. Those game-winning situations where you must draw up a play that gives your team literally the best shot at winning. I assumed the ball would be in Wes Clark’s hands at the top of the key with a ball screen from Johnathan Williams coming with less than 10 seconds to go. Out of that action, we would see what Anderson had drawn up to win the game.

The ball screen came, but before Mizzou could get a shot off, Arkansas wisely fouled. On the ensuing inbounds,

Clark was able to find a baseline lane to the rim, and was fouled on the layup attempt. Clark would go to the line for two shots. Make both and Mizzou beats its biggest conference rival at home, a feat that could end up being Mizzou’s best win of the year.

Clark, a 73.7 percent free throw shooter stepped to the line for his first attempt. Rimmed out. My mind immediately flashed back to Washington’s limp body, sobbing in his jersey. _Please don’t make me watch something like that again,_ I thought to myself, _this poor guy is going to be distraught._ Clark went through his routine for his second shot. It seemed to me his body language was off. Clark set himself, and shot.

Short.

After the game I saw an image of Williams and Mizzou color man Gary Link walking Clark off the floor with Clark apparently sobbing into his jersey.

These are obviously different situations, teams, and circumstances.

Obviously, Clark’s miss wasn’t as catastrophic as Washington’s. The fact remains that missed free throws left two young men in tears being helped off the floor.

The following year after Washington’s miss, he was first team all-conference and an honorable mention All-American as he helped lead Memphis to the Elite Eight.

Here’s to Clark sinking the next one.

The daily struggle to make weight Alan Waters: “It’s not about gaining, but maintaining muscle.”

HARRISON DEGROOD Reporter On Jan. 10, the Missouri wrestling team faced the then-No. 4 Cornell Big Red. Before the dual had even started, the Tigers gained a key advantage.

Senior Alan Waters was awarded a victory due to forfeit when Cornell’s 125-pound wrestler, Nashon Garrett, failed to make weight, forcing him to move up a weight class.

The Big Red’s No. 3 wrestler ended up facing sophomore Zach Synon at 133 pounds because of this mistake. Garrett lost 6-2 and Missouri ended up winning the dual 27-9.

Wrestlers are required to weigh in one hour or less before a match, per NCAA rules. If the wrestler fails to make weight, he can’t wrestle in his preferred weight class. Similar to football and other sports, wrestlers train and practice for a particular opponent. Garrett’s failed weigh in may have cost Cornell a victory.

For No. 3 Missouri, a team with national title aspirations, making weight is all about discipline, coach Brian Smith said.

“You have to be eating enough, and eating the right stuff,” Smith said. “In this day and age, kids are always tempted to go eat fast food, but to maintain your weight you have to eat the good stuff. Our nutritionist and trainer do a great job preparing food for the team.”

The focus on discipline and healthy eating is a change for a sport that saw three wrestlers die in a span of six weeks in 1997. The wrestlers were trying to lose weight quickly, according several news reports at the time. After their deaths, the NCAA revamped its weight management guidelines.

For Waters, maintaining his 125-pound physique starts with his diet.

“It depends on when we are competing, but at the beginning of the week, I tend to eat less,” Waters said. “Then, closer to the meet, I’ll eat plenty of proteins and calories so I have enough energy to compete.”

Waters also works diligently in the weight room.

During the off-season, the focus is more on heavy lifting and gaining muscle, but season practices are almost the opposite, he said..

“We focus on lighter weight, but harder reps,” Waters said. “It’s not about gaining, but maintaining weight.”

According to Smith, the idea behind avoiding heavy lifting is to burn calories, “which is key.”

At 125 pounds, Waters said it was a struggle to maintain weight early in his collegiate career.

“I’ve been getting better (at controlling weight),” he said. “Last year, I wrestled at 133 pounds, so I had to adjust, but I’ve been disciplined and it’s working out.”

Between last season and this season, Waters said, he had to work hard in transition back to 125 pounds, a weight class he wrestled in for three years before redshirting last season.

“I’d say 125 is definitely the hardest (weight) to make,” Smith said. “Kids at this age aren’t usually anywhere close to 125 pounds, so it’s pretty impressive that (Waters) is able to do that as a fifth-year senior.”

Smith added that finding heavyweight wrestlers can be just as tough as finding 125-pound wrestlers.

Heavyweight wrestlers in college must weigh in between 183 and 285 pounds.

“Usually when you find kids that size they aren’t fit to wrestle, or they’re playing football,” Smith said.

Smith explained he ran into Missouri football center Evan Boehm in the weight room last week and joked that he would weigh him in to wrestle in the next meet.

“Coach, I don’t think I would make weight,” Boehm said with a chuckle.

Listed at 315 pounds, Boehm was dead right.

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THE MANEATER | SPORTS | JANUARY 28, 2015 For your a-moose-ment

If kansas won’t play us, bring on Ar-kansas BRENDAN SIMPSON The final class of students who can say they were a part of the Big 12 Conference are due to graduate in May. Yes, we are in the SEC, the crown jewel of college athletics.

We now play teams that seem to tout that they are the best at fill-in-the-blank sport every year.

Though this may be true, most consider the University of kansas (lowercase on purpose) as the enemy and chief rival of the University of Missouri. Or at least you should.

I am a native Missourian, so I learned at a young age that

kansas is our arch-nemesis.

More foul than Russia. More despicable than North Korea.

Plain and simple, the absolute worst.

But because of our move to the SEC, kansas refuses to schedule a regular season game against the Tigers in any sport.

Luckily, the NCAA enjoys making the Jayhawks play us in postseason competitions.

We’ve faced off against these losers in two NCAA tournaments: Once in softball in May of last year, and the other in soccer. We have prevailed twice.

Besides a three-year hiatus, the Border War is still the second-longest college football rivalry, holding its first game in 1891.

But because kansas is scared of us, we have been forced to find a new rival. One that holds geographical, cultural and historical significance.

I’m obviously speaking of the newly christened Battle Line Rivalry with the University of Ar-kansas.

You’re probably saying, “But Brendan, it’s pronounced ‘Arkansaw,’ not ‘Ar-kansas’!”

And you were correct. Until we joined the SEC. Now, in order to preserve the past, we must alter the name of our new rivals. It definitely helps that no one wants to be associated with kansas, so it adds a little flavor to the rivalry as well.

This relates to the Antlers because we have traditions to uphold, and come rivalry

time, one of the most sacred of traditions is carried out.

In preparation for last Saturday’s Ar-kansas game, we had a hog feast at Smokin’ Chick’s BBQ the Friday before the game.

This was accompanied by meeting Dirty Mike Anderson and the Boys at the airport, after which we cut their bus off and took a slow drive down Stadium Boulevard to Mizzou Arena. (Sorry, Columbia.)

If you looked over at us on Saturday, you could see that gave the first-year Antlers spiffy (disgusting) new haircuts and dresses, while the older guys dressed as their redneck male counterparts — a representation of the Ar-kansas fan base.

We may have lost the game

in a heartbreaking finish, but we’re proud of the team (and of Wes, who we love unconditionally) regardless.

If anything, that difficult loss adds fuel to the rivalry fire.

In the end, the Antlers do what we can to help out our boys on the court, and that includes buying into the new rivalry that we are a part of.

Although the true enemy is and always will be the Jayhawks, we can now enjoy a new archenemy in the “Hawgs” down south.

Just remember today’s lesson: It’s “kansas” and “Ar-kansas,” not “Kansas” and “Arkansaw.”

But Clark’s misses did not erase a solid stat line from the game. Clark scored eight points to go along with five rebounds and six assists. He did not commit a single personal foul in the game Saturday.

Clark proved his worth on the defensive end too, as he held Arkansas junior guard Michael Qualls to eight points on 3-for-15 shooting. Qualls is the team’s second-leading scorer, averaging 16.4 points per game.

“Wes is an elite defender,” Gill-Caesar said. “He’s quick.

He’s smart. Putting him on Qualls was a smart move, because it made his night very difficult.”

Gratification for Clark continued in the hours following the game. English took to Twitter to express of how proud he was of Clark.

“Wes Clark today established himself as the leader of this basketball team for the remainder of this season and the next 2 years,” English tweeted.

The tweets did not stop there.

Clark received an outpouring of

support over social media.

Freshman guard Tramaine Isabell tweeted this about his fellow guard: “If I'm in a fight, I want Wes on my side.. My boy is fine.. We wouldn't have been in that position without him. #ToughAsTheyCome.”

And Isabell was right. Out of Clark’s eight points, six of them came in the game’s final six minutes when the Tigers were trying to stage a comeback against a six-point deficit.

Multiple teammates, including sophomore forward Johnathan

Williams III and freshman forward Jakeenan Gant, retweeted Isabell’s message.

Another tweet came from Clark’s roommate, senior guard Keith Shamburger.

“Tough one thanks for the support my brotha will bounce back better,” Shamburger tweeted.

Shamburger said tears nearly come to his eyes when thinking about Clark’s reaction to Saturday’s missed free throws.

"The basketball gods wanted a different outcome," he said.

emphasized there has been a lot of maturation on the team, especially in the point guards who have replaced injured junior guard Lianna Doty.

“I feel like there’s growth,” Pingeton said. “I look at Lindsey Cunningham and Maddie Stock and I think they’re doing a better job of dictating the tempo a little bit.”

It hasn’t been perfect, however, and Pingeton expressed that there have been

plenty of turnovers that need cleaning up.

While it may be true that this squad is having a difficult time, the spirit in the locker room has not wavered.

“I feel like we’re a positive team and we just have to think about the next play, the next game,” sophomore guard Sierra Michaelis said. “The SEC is the most athletic conference, but I feel like we’re sticking right in there.”

Along with the team’s morale staying intact, Pingeton’s high opinion of her players has continued.

“I don’t think confidence is an issue,” she said. “Certainly not toughness, certainly not grit, so from my perspective, I couldn’t be more proud of them. They seem to be right on point.”

With nine games left in the season, along with the conference tournament, there’s

still plenty of time for the Tigers to turn things around.

And the hungry team has a gameplan to get back on track.

“I think we have to focus more on ourselves right now, see what we can fix,” sophomore forward Jordan Frericks said.

“We need to come each game prepared, ready to bring the energy. We can’t take any opponent lightly.”

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second one was grabbed out of the air by Arkansas senior guard Rashad Madden. Game over.

The arena’s crowd of 11,022, the highest of the season, groaned in disgust and disappointment following the misses. Clark, a 71.4 percent free throw shooter on the year, had failed to win the game, or even tie it.

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on the home court with a full roster.”

Pingeton explained that the team has been spending a lot of time watching film and talking about game flow and shot selection.

The fourth-year coach

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