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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Amendment II

New bill cracks down on offenders JENNIFER PROHOV Staff Writer

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Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin speaks to the media for the first time since taking over as chancellor Feb. 14 in Jesse Hall. After taking office in February, Loftin has made changes to Title IX and sexual assault procedures.

Sexual Assault

UM System toughens Title IX policies CLARISSA BUCH Staff Writer Changes to the ways in which MU and the UM System handle Title IX and sexual assault cases are underway in wake of new allegations of Title IX violations at MU. In his statement on Aug. 21, Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin pointed to a number of “sweeping changes” he and UM System President Tim Wolfe have implemented since his

taking office in February, such as Executive Order 40, which Wolfe issued in April.

The executive order designates all university employees with knowledge of sexual harassment against a student as “mandated reporters.”

Only health care workers and counselors are exempt from the mandatory reporting policy.

Information required of mandatory reporters depend on

his or her employment status.

Supervisors must report all known details, including names of parties if disclosed. Nonsupervisory employees must report circumstances of the situation, but the initial report does not need to disclose names or other identifying information.

Mandated reporters must promptly report information to the appropriate Title IX coordinator.

System-wide issues are reported to

Betsy Rodriguez, UM System vice president of human resources, and issues in MU are reported to Interim Title IX Coordinator Linda Bennett.

"Our goal is to make this process as effective as possible," UM System spokesman John Fougere said. "If an employee learns of an alleged sexual assault in which the alleged victim is a student, that employee now has the responsibility to report that

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Sexual Health

SHAPE opens dialogue about sex ed on campus

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SHAPE offers MU students access to information about sexual education and anonymous and confidential STI/HIV testing.

State law does not require sexual education, But requires stis and hiv/aids education

NEWS

Columbia Police will now wear cameras to capture interactions with civilians.

The state of Missouri offers anonymous and confidential HIV testing.

teaching about contraceptives, such as condoms, the pill or the patch, is not required.

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The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention suggests adolescents keep six things in mind when starting college. One of the six items is how to prevent sexually transmitted infections.

At MU, a peer education group, Sexual Health Advocate

Sexual Education Laws in Missouri

NEWS

Junior Kevin Carr was not confirmed as the Student Affairs Committee chairman.

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Peer Education, takes on the responsibility of teaching comprehensive sexual education to students.

SHAPE first makes itself visible to incoming freshmen at Summer Welcome each year. They put on skits in order to inform incoming freshmen about the resources

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JACK WADDELL

In the upcoming general election, voters will have many important decisions to make, one of which might make it easier to prosecute sex offenders.

The action, Missouri Evidence in Sexual Crimes Against Minors or Amendment 2, would allow prosecutors who are trying a case against an alleged child sex offender to use relevant past criminal activity as evidence against the defendants.

This means that if an alleged sex offender had been accused, but not found guilty, of a past crime, a prosecutor could still introduce the record of that accusation to the court as evidence against the defendant under Amendment 2.

The amendment has been seen as controversial, as it might make it easier to reach a guilty verdict in those types of cases.

“Due to some Supreme Court decisions, prosecuting attorneys were unable to try many cases of child sexual abuse in our state,” State Rep. John McCaherty, R-High Ridge, said. “As a member of the Crime Prevention and Public Safety Committee, I see the amendment as a positive step to give prosecutors the tools they need to protect our children, and to see those that prey on them prosecuted. There has been no opposition to this legislation, and I was proud to sponsor it.”

McCaherty is the primary sponsor of the amendment, which recently received approval from the Missouri House of Representatives to be placed on the ballot in November.

McCaherty said he felt the bill would address an important gap in Missouri’s justice system, giving prosecutors a powerful tool to imprison sex offenders.

He said there should be no violation of the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution,

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SPORTS

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PHOTO COURTESY OF TIM ELFRINK

Alumnus Tim Elfrink published his first book, “Blood Sport,” in July. The book covers the Biogenesis drug scandal involving MLB star Alex Rodriguez, which Elfrink helped uncover while reporting for the Miami New Times.

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MSA concentrates Alumnus exposes MLB drug scandal on committees “Blood Sport” was released Vice President McKeown wants to get students more passionate about getting involved in the committees.

in July and has received positive reviews.

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CLARISSA BUCH

Reporter Missouri Students Association Vice President Matt McKeown is working to get the student body more involved in the Chancellor’s Standing Committees as part of his goals this semester.

The committees all consist of undergraduate students, graduate students, administrators and staff members who meet to address issues that affect the university and student life.

The 30 committees overseen by Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin vary greatly, addressing a variety of concerns.

“The goal is to sit down and talk about the best course of action to best address (student) wants and needs,” McKeown said. “It’s really great that there’s a mix of administrators, students and graduate students, so there are a lot of voices on the issue.”

Cathy Scroggs, vice chancellor of Student Affairs, reminded MSA to get their recommendations in on time to make sure that the committees are getting the best representation from the student body.

“The chancellor believes it is important to have student voices, so we want them to participate actively,” she said. “It’s important that MSA reaches out to a diverse group of students and gets them to express interest.”

MSA will not have direct control over each

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Alumnus Tim Elfrink uncovered one of the biggest drug-related scandals in professional sports history.

It began when investor Porter Fischer approached Elfrink in November 2012 claiming that Anthony Bosch, owner of Biogenesis,

an anti-aging clinic in Coral Gables, Florida owed Fischer $4,000.

The $4,000 dispute quickly turned into an explosion when Fischer got his hands on hundreds of records while working for Biogenesis. The records showed that Bosch administered performance-enhancing drugs to Major League Baseball players.

Fischer decided to expose Bosch and his company by handing over all the records to Elfrink at the Miami New Times.

“There were tons of handwritten records and notebooks and I had to prove they were all legitimate,”

Elfrink said. “I ended up calling every phone number I found in the documents and talking to clients.”

In January 2013, after months of reporting, Elfrink was able to break the story. Once his series of stories hit stands, Elfrink said investigators and top executives from MLB became involved.

“Two top executives came to our office and asked for the records,” Elfrink said. “We told them no. The experience was amazing, but also frightening.”

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Sustainability Office welcomes new coordinator ANNABEL AMES Reporter The Sustainability Office recently hired Michael Burden as the new coordinator in an effort to keep a better handle on sustainability issues around MU. Burden, who previously served as the project coordinator for the Office of Service Learning, said he hopes to connect groups working on similar sustainability issues while in his new position.

“We have a pulse of what’s going on all around campus, so when somebody comes to us and says ‘we’re working on this,’ we can then connect them to

somebody across campus who is doing something relatable and see if there are any synergies possible,” Burden said. “We love when we can find those collaborative projects that tie those things together.”

Burden said the office recently connected two groups researching waste at football games.

The first group is studying the placement of bins and how it impacts behavior, while the other looks at the food waste stream coming out of the stadium to optimize efficiency. “(The athletics department) really wants to achieve a low waste profile for the games that they have,” Burden said. “When a partner like athletics is

on board with sustainability issues, the amplification of the issue is tremendous because so many people care about it.”

Burden said the office will also help MU administrators in achieving carbon neutrality on campus by 2050.

Alicia LaVaute, the senior recycling and waste minimization specialist for the Sustainability Office, said Burden’s positivity and high-energy personality will improve the office.

“He has great leadership skills and will be able to motivate people to try new things and make changes to live a life that can be more sustainable,” she said.

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Long-running talk show far from over InsideOUT made its debut as a radio talk show in the spring of 2012.

MAX FILLION Reporter InsideOUT has become a familiar sound on campus as one of the longest-running radio shows in MU history, and it is back again this year.

The show, a talk show hosted by the LGBTQ Resource Center, is on KCOU 88.1 FM every Tuesday at 2 p.m.

InsideOUT began as an LGBT-focused discussion group in 2005. However, a declining attendance in the group called for something different.

“We thought, ‘How can we make the information reach more students in an easier, more accessible way?’” said Struby Struble, LGBTQ Resource Center coordinator and InsideOUT DJ. The group was redeveloped into a radio talk show in the spring of 2012, and the format of the show shifted from a lecture and information-focused discussion to a more personal, storytelling approach.

“Listeners want personal stories,” Struble said.

This allows students to empathize and connect with others in a very public or private manner, whichever they prefer.

“InsideOUT brought a lot of outreach with the LGBT community on this campus and has been an easy and accessible resource for most,” senior and InsideOUT DJ Shane Stinson said.

The show allows listeners to be as involved as they want.

Some listen in quiet corners, while others tweet and call in, giving their feedback and

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MU students Daniel Stribling, Joel Dalton, Theo Tushaus and Duy Nguyen have a conversation in the KCOU studio during their show InsideOUT. The hosts are all members of the LGBT community, and during the show they discussed upcoming events for the group and the struggles of syllabus week.

suggesting material for the DJs to discuss on the show.

The show isn’t just for the benefit of the listeners, either.

“It's very cool to be able to have my stories be expanded into a teaching method,” InsideOUT intern and DJ Joel Dalton said. “Hearing that sharing a personal aspect of your life has helped someone come into their own is extremely touching.

Knowing that people use these as resources for advance their identity and educate themselves is humbling and empowering.

InsideOUT has helped me be a

better version of myself.”

With fresh material weekly, it seems as if the DJs never run out of issues to discuss.

“Topics keep coming up, guests keep wanting to come on the show and we have really good conversations,” Stinson said.

The show isn’t completely planned in a syllabus-like fashion every semester, either.

The DJs said they purposely leave some shows unplanned so they can discuss whatever hot topic the LGBT community, the MU community or the country

as a whole is experiencing.

The show isn’t just for the benefit of the LGBT community, either.

Although the information on the show does have an LGBT focus, Struble and Stinson said they have also worked to make it relatable for people who do not consider themselves part of the LGBT community, as well.

“It shows that while we have all these other identities, we also have identities as regular college students,” Struble said.

InsideOUT is far from finished. The group said they

plan to stay the course with fresh material every week this year, just as they have the past two years.

One of their next moves is making the show more accessible to people who are hard of hearing or deaf.

Listeners can also continue to expect keynote speakers and large names in the LGBT community on the show, the DJs said. Already planned are shows on immigration, cultural appropriation and body positivity.

to my grades and my academic said. “I have the confidence to status as a student, but also to step back into the role.”

AAA at the same time.”

AAA External Vice President P h a m Daphne Yu said ONE OF THE made the she is confident announcement REASONS WHY in Victoria’s to AAA on the ability to lead I JOINED AAA, AND AAA again this organization’s Facebook page. year.

WILL CONTINUE “I will still “Last year, TO STAY IN IT, IS try to maintain AAA had one BECAUSE I REALLY a presence in of its biggest AAA,” he said. “I SEE IT AS A SECOND t u r n o u t s , ” will probably be Daphne said.

FAMILY.” a general body “We added a ton member, rather of new events. than hold a (Victoria) position on knows what’s ANDREW PHAM the executive she’s doing. former AAA presiden board.”

We won’t go In Pham’s backwards, absence, 2013-2014 AAA that’s for sure.”

President Victoria Yu took office Daphne said she is confident immediately after the release of AAA will succeed in its goals his resignation letter. under Victoria’s leadership.

“Since I’ve had experience She hopes to have AAA branch from last year, the transition out to other Asian-American will be more smooth,” Victoria and Pacific Islander-American

organizations at other schools, as well as collaborate with the Missouri International Student Council on campus.

Pham said he approached Victoria last week with his decision to resign.

“I talked to (Pham) to see what had been planned out and his vision for AAA, and then I took over from there,” she said.

This semester, Victoria said AAA will be focusing on hosting diversity events, networking with other leaders on campus and creating a welcoming atmosphere for its members, who currently number about 60.

“The organization is as strong as its members,” she said. “I am very open-minded to adding new traditions, events or discussions. I think the input of our members … is very important.”

Victoria also acts as chief diversity officer on the Missouri Students Association executive

cabinet.

Having several different leadership roles on campus will be very positive, she said, especially because they are all interrelated.

“For me, responsibility is important, so just making sure I am always putting 110% effort into these … roles and organizations is what I am hoping for throughout this semester,” she said.

As AAA president, Victoria said she wants to focus on building a sense of community, advocacy and collaboration with other organizations on campus.

“One of the reasons why I joined AAA, and will continue to stay in it, is because I really see it as a second family,” Pham said. “I hope that AAA maintains its strength as an organization.

I hope that we continue to grow, not only in membership, but also in the quality of its student leaders.”

Yu returns after Pham resigns AAA presidency Pham made his resignation known to AAA via the organization’s Facebook.

ELIZABETH LOUTFI News Editor Junior Andrew Pham, who was elected in April to be the 2014-2015 president of the Asian American Association, resigned Aug. 26.

Pham said he had to step down for personal reasons. He has been a member of AAA since his freshman year, and said he will remain in the organization.

“Some personal issues have come up this summer,” Pham said. “I wanted to be able to give AAA the service that … it deserves. If I try to serve as president throughout the year, it wouldn’t only be damaging

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THE MANEATER | NEWS | SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Columbia police implement body cameras

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Columbia police received body cameras at the end of July to add accountability to their interactions with citizens. The cameras and accompanying equipment and data storage cost the department $110,000.

RUTH SERVEN Staff Writer New medallions hang on the chest of each Columbia Police Department officer.

CPD officers now wear video cameras in the shape of medallions while on duty. The cameras were added at the end of July, putting police accountability into focus.

“If you didn’t know what it was, you would never guess it was a camera,” officer Brad Anderson said.

Columbia police tested four types of body cameras over a year-long period, but settled on the threeinch square Axon model, made by

Taser. The 130-degree lens shows the area in front of and to the side of the officer and records everything within speaking range. Cameras are on for the duration of an officer’s shift and can begin recording at the touch of a button whenever an officer interacts with a citizen.

Anderson said it is a much better system.

Columbia police have had microphones and car cameras for years, but there were problems, Anderson said. Officers without a car, like the downtown and business district units who patrol on bike or on foot, did not have visual documentation of their actions by car cameras. And car cameras were

not helpful if officers left their cars.

Video footage from the body cameras is uploaded at the end of each shift and the footage is stored or deleted, based on its evidentiary value. Video for court cases will be stored until the case’s prosecutor allows its destruction. If footage has no value to a case, it is deleted within 60 days. Only a few administrators, like Anderson, have access to the videos. Police officers have no access to their recordings after the footage has been uploaded.

“If I receive a complaint, I have all the evidence,” said Anderson, who is in the Columbia Police Department’s Internal Affairs division.

CPD is the first law enforcement

agency in Missouri to fully implement this technology, CPD spokeswoman Latisha Stroer said in a news release.

“We feel these cameras will support our mission by providing additional evidence to support prosecution; by increasing plea agreements, thus reducing the volume of cases in the system; by increasing transparency and accountability; by assisting in the resolution of complaints; and by increasing efficiency and security in handling evidence,” Stroer said in the release.

The cameras, hardware, installation and licenses cost $110,000, according to the release.

The department will also pay $40,000 annually for data storage.

The money comes from savings in the 2012 budget.

Assistant Chief John Gordon said that the cameras have “cleared officers of misconduct, or allegations of misconduct or excessive force,” and that the cameras have been “invaluable in investigations.”

“I had officers coming and asking for the cameras,” Gordon said. “If there is a $250 piece of equipment that can clear their name, how could you not buy that equipment for them?”

Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering Gary Solbrekken co-taught a course on aerospace propulsion with Nagel.

“Even though he was eventually a professor, he was more of a practitioner,” Solbrekken said. “He was the guy flying the rocket.”

In addition to an aerospace propulsion course, Nagel introduced an honors course in the MAE department during the spring of 2013 on the history of NASA, which was well-received and is expected to return in later semesters.

Nagel’s wife, Linda Godwin, also a retired astronaut, is a physics professor at MU. During his time as a professor, Nagel was a faculty advisor for the MU student chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and assisted students during the process of designing and building rockets for

an annual rocketry competition.

“He was just a genuinely nice guy, and he was really great with the kids,” Solbrekken said. “A student told me that he gave them a 100-page-or-so safety guide before a (rocket) launch and told them to make sure they at least retained the important points. He always had time for them.”

In late 2013, the MAE department was informed Nagel had contracted melanoma.

Yuwen Zhang, chair of mechanical and aerospace engineering, said cosmic radiation is a threat often faced by astronauts.

“The cancer had formed under his arms, so it could not have been caused by sunlight, but rather the radiation from his flights,” Zhang said. “Traveling and chemotherapy caused him to take leave starting in January this year.”

Despite his condition, Solbrekken said Nagel was always

an optimist.

“It happened so fast,” Solbrekken said. “We were under the impression he was coming back to teach. He still had energy and his personality when he stopped by… Whenever he would come in to the department he was always in a good spirit, and full of hope.”

Nagel’s funeral was held Aug. 26.

More than half of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department attended.

For a man who had spent more than 700 hours in space, colleagues said Nagel demonstrated humility and relatability to those around him. Before his work as a professor, he chose to be an academic retention specialist, helping dismissed or struggling students.

“Working for NASA meant Steve was surrounded by high-speed, high-performance individuals,” Solbrekken said. “But he was always ready to help anyone with anything

— there was no barrier with him.”

In fact, some of his colleagues said they were unaware of Nagel’s multiple awards and decorations as an astronaut and pilot in the United States Air Force until they attended his funeral.

Although Nagel had achieved enough to boast about in his lifetime, he will be remembered by his colleagues for his humble attitude, helpful spirit and approachability.

“We learned a lot about his life later on; he didn’t talk about himself in that way,” Solbrekken said. “Unless you dug into him or he was introduced by someone else, you’d have no idea he was so accomplished.”

Nagel’s aerospace propulsion course will be continued, and his positive outlook will be missed by his department.

“You could never come across him on a bad day,” Solbrekken said.

Former astronaut, professor remembered for optimism

LYDIA BIRT Reporter Former astronaut and professor of mechanical engineering Steven Nagel passed away Aug. 21 from melanoma, a form of skin cancer.

He was 67.

Nagel joined the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department in 2011 when he retired from his career as an astronaut for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Nagel flew on four spaceflight missions between 1985 and 1993, totaling 723 hours in space, according to his NASA obituary. He served once as a mission specialist, once as a pilot and twice as a commander.

Whether he was piloting jet aircrafts and rocket ships or helping students build them, colleagues said Nagel was an energetic man of action.

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directly to the Title IX coordinator, who will handle it from there."

Fougere said a new training program is being developed to teach mandated reporters what their responsibilities are under the

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available to them on campus regarding sexual health.

The presentations are roughly an hour long and include information about where students can get free contraceptives and get tested for STIs. SHAPE member Sophie McDevitt said the several different organizations start planning the skits about a month in advance before Summer Welcome.

She said SHAPE takes the lighthearted and humorous approach to get the audience laughing, a tactic to get the students to listen to the

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“Our first priority is to train the first responders, such as Title IX coordinators and others that handle investigations,” Fougere said.

Fougere said an online program will be released in the coming months to train faculty and staff to be mandated reporters.

Loftin said in his statement that

a full-time Title IX investigator has been hired, but MU spokesman Christian Basi was unavailable to elaborate on who was hired for the position.

MU is also reviewing how the Office of Student Conduct addresses sexual assault cases and will potentially create an independent committee to handle such cases.

Basi said in an email that while some changes have been made already, others will be completed over time based on priority.

“Our number-one priority at MU is safety, so anything that enhances safety has priority,” Basi said in the email.

Fougere said that Title IX issues are a very important initiative to

Wolfe.

“We are in a constant mode of assessing our resources and how we address these difficult issues, and looking at ways to get better," Fougere said. "Our goal is to have other universities across the country look at the (UM System) as the national exemplar of best practices when it comes to Title IX policy."

information.

“We try to put humor into (our skits) because we figure that most students who have had sexual education have been sat down and told what’s right and what’s wrong or not told anything at all,” McDevitt said. “We want to make it less scary for students to be introduced to a potentially scary topic.”

SHAPE President Sarah Billingsly said she believes the peer-to-peer approach is much more effective than talking to incoming students.

“The way we best reach our population is by acknowledging that we are one of their peers, and it’s OK to talk about things with your peers,” she said. “It makes the presentation light-hearted and fun because you’re talking about sex with your peers. It

really helps the incoming freshmen receive us better.”

Billingsly said the skits do aim to make the audience laugh, but the main goal is to inform students and make sex education something they take seriously.

“I’ve heard stories of students being really excited (about the skits), but I’ve heard of some really negative experiences also,” Billingsly said. “Regardless of whether they liked the skits or not, at the end of the day, I think everybody walks away more informed, and everyone walks away knowing more about the resources that are available to them as students.”

The skits typically have a positive turnout.

However, SHAPE member Katie

Millar said she once received an insult from the audience during a skit when she asked, “I heard that Mizzou gives out free condoms,” as a planted question.

“We really want freshmen, and really all students, to know and understand that sexual health is important and should not be frowned upon,” Millar said. “No one should be called a slut because they choose to take precautions that keep them from getting pregnant or from getting an STI. This is why we provide male and female condoms, free STI testing and free information to keep Mizzou students knowledgeable and safe.”

This semester, SHAPE will be attending classes, residence halls and campus groups to give several

peer-to-peer presentations, as well as hosting several other campus events.

Coming up in September is the huge back to school Get Yourself Tested event, and in October is the annual Sextacular event on Lowry Mall where SHAPE gives out free shirts, hosts games and educates the community.

“Our overall goal is to just destigmatize sexual health, because there is so much stigma attached to talking about sex in general and we want to eliminate that,” Billingsly said. “Our goal is to talk about it, get people talking, and get people to be proactive about taking their sexual health seriously.”

right to a public trial without unnecessary delay, the rights to a lawyer and an impartial jury and the right to know who your accusers are.

“Of course there have to be safeguards in place as well, so a defendant can receive a fair trial,” McCaherty said. “Not all evidence is relevant to every trial. This is

the responsibility of the judge to determine the relevance in each case.”

The amendment has gained local attention and a Protect Missouri Children Committee formed to support the measure.

The group believes that the amendment will protect children and aid in putting dangerous

criminals behind bars.

The group is co-chaired by St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch and Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd.

Jasper County Prosecutor Dean Dankelson is the group’s treasurer.

According to the group’s website, www.protectmissourichildren. com, Dankelson believes that the

passage of this amendment is crucial.

“Passing this constitutional amendment is probably the most important thing we can do to protect Missouri children from the most dangerous child sex predators,” Dankelson said in a news release.

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THE MANEATER | NEWS | SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Carr denied for Student Affairs chairman Carr can appeal the decision next Tuesday.

JACK WADDELL Staff Writer With several members of the Missouri Students Association shifting roles following the resignation of former President Mason Schara, junior Kevin Carr was nominated as Student Affairs Committee chairman but was denied by the Operations Committee Tuesday night.

Carr will have a chance to appeal the decision at next Tuesday’s committee meeting.

He said he was shocked that he was declined by the committee, and was anticipating the confirmation process to just be a formality.

“I am very charismatic, I am outgoing and sometimes I can be interpreted wrong, and that was the largest complaint they had,” Carr said. “I’m a little bit overbearing sometimes and I think one of the strongest things any leader could be is not necessarily overbearing but enthusiastic, and very committed to what they are into.”

The decision made was due to a lack of communication between the candidate and the committee, but Carr said he does not believe it was entirely his fault. “(The Operation Committee) asked me for a list of projects ... but see the thing is, they didn’t ask,” Carr said. “I could have given them five off the top of my head that we’re going to be looking into and researching this semester.”

During Operations, the committee as a whole said Carr needs to focus on projects he wants to work on, how he will handle other senators and what his purpose is in MSA. Senator Dan Paterson said during Operations that this is the first time he has ever seen a candidate denied confirmation.

The Operations Committee had four votes against Carr and two in affirmation.

Those who voted against Carr declined comment, but Operations Committee Chairman Nick Schwartz, who voted in affirmation, said he believed in Carr.

“I voted the way I did because I felt (Carr) would be able to adjust to the critiques that we had for him and that he would be able to fill the position according to his leadership responsibilities, per the questions I asked and the way he answered them,” Schwartz said.

Carr was nominated to fill the Student Affairs position after it was vacated by Mitch Moonier, who left to become MSA Chief of Staff. Moonier was confirmed in his new position by the Operations Committee Tuesday night.

If Carr is eventually confirmed as chairman of Student Affairs, he said he hopes to change the Student Affairs committee internally.

He wants to ‘rebrand’ the committee and make it even more efficient than last year.

“Last year everyone was working together on one project, and this year we’re going to have more smaller groups, like little task forces,”

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Junior Kevin Carr poses for a portrait on Tuesday in the MU Student Center. Carr was a candidate for MSA Chairman of Student Affairs, but was not confirmed by the Operations Committee on Tuesday night.

Carr said. “With these forces, we have people who are doing more projects and people who are more able to meet people or research ways to help students.”

Carr said he also wants to make a culture change within the committee, and wants to call the group the ‘Paws and Claws’ of the Missouri tiger.

“I want the people to think they are an agent of change if they are in this committee,” Carr said. “If you believe that you are something, you’re going to be more incentivized to work

hard on projects and do good work, and that’s what I want out of my committee this year.

That is what makes us the paws and claws of the tiger.”

Moonier said the position Carr hopes to fill is a very challenging one.

“You have to put your committee before yourself, because it’s not about the chairman as a person, it’s about the committee and the students as a whole,” he said.

Carr will be interviewed again at next week’s Operations

Committee meeting, and Senate Speaker Ben Bolin said he remains confident about the candidate.

“Student Affairs has made a lot of great changes, (and) it needs a great leader to fulfill those expectations and more,” Bolin said in a text message.

“I’m confident in (Moonier) and (my) decision, (and) I know (Carr) will impress Operations, and make Student Affairs the best committee in Senate.”

Waverly Colville contributed reporting to this story.

Physics professor builds world’s first 3-D force microscope King’s interest in science stemmed from tinkering with toys as a child.

STEVIE MYERS Reporter An MU faculty was among a team that received the Innovation Award from the Microscopy Society of America for work in developing the first 3-D microscope that allows scientists to study cell membrane proteins.

After three years of work, Gavin King, associate professor of physics and astronomy, and his team received the award. The team created an atomic force microscope, which uses a sharp needle to make a "topographic map" of a molecule by dragging it across the surface.

King compares this needle to the way a blind person would read Braille.

“A blind person would put their finger on a paper and read the bumps as they scan

their finger across,” King said.

“Basically, we do the same thing, except instead of using our finger, we use a really sharp needle. We take that needle and we put it on a surface with molecules of interest and as the needle goes over the molecule, we see the deflection on the needle go up and down — then we can measure that.”

Conventionally, a force microscope can only read one-dimensional motion by bouncing a laser off the back of the needle. King’s lab has built a microscope that is capable of “watching the lateral dimensions at the same time as the vertical to encapsulate the full three-dimensional space that the needle could be potentially reflected into,” he said.

The microscope isn’t just a mechanical device, but also a set of electronics and software, built from scratch.

King said his interest in science stemmed from tinkering with toys as a child.

“I think that growing up I was always curious about

things,” King said. “I would like wasn’t until then that I was to take things apart and try to like, ‘Hey, if I study physics, I figure out how things worked. If can combine this cool science someone had with what I a new, fancy actually just I THINK THAT toy, the first do for fun.'”

GROWING thing I would Another like to do was member of UP I WAS ALWAYS take it apart the team CURIOUS ABOUT and try to is Krishna THINGS. I WOULD figure out how Sigdel, a it works. That r e s e a r c h LIKE TO TAKE THINGS sometimes associate in APART AND TRY TO got me into the physics trouble.” and astronomy FIGURE OUT HOW King said department THINGS WORKED.” he was first who has been inspired to working in enter the King ’s lab GAVIN KING scientific field since June associate professor of after realizing 2011. physics he could Sigdel also combine his received the childhood passion with physics. Innovation Award for working “It wasn’t really until I was on the microscope. an undergrad that I made “It is really great to be the connection between my awarded by this very prestigious childhood interest in taking award from Microscopy Today,” things apart to physics, which is she said. “We are thrilled one of the most fundamental of to have received this award the sciences,” he said. “You take and being able to join in the nature apart and try to figure renowned group of microscopy out how it works. It basically innovations.”

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Both Sigdel and King said it is difficult to tell where this new technology will lead, since they are still in early stages of research.

“At this stage we are focusing on the fundamental research related to membrane protein studies,” said Sigdel. “I believe that this innovation will be able to get new insights into fundamental issues which is lacking in the field at present.”

King said the life of an academic scientist is rather nomadic. After studying in five states and receiving his doctorate at Harvard, King said he has enjoyed his time at MU. “I like it here; it’s a really nice place to do work,” he said.

“I like the physics department because there’s already a big effort on the ground here to study biophysics. Something that is special here at MU is that we have a significant biophysics effort in the physics department.”

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Students addresses rural physician shortage Reporter MU’s medical students are doing their part to help alleviate the need for doctors within rural communities.

Each year, MU’s Area Health Education Center coordinates a summer community workshop for medical students who are in their second year or later. The MU School of Medicine, a U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration grant and the regional health systems provide funding to this endeavor.

Medical students in the workshop can stay in a rural community for two to eight weeks. The program has been in operation since 1995 and continues to draw students in from both rural and urban backgrounds.

The event is affiliated with the Rural Track Pipeline Program for students interested in pursuing a medical career in a rural area.

Through the rural track program, a rural practicing physician usually volunteers to be a “preceptor” or teacher to the student.

The program provides a head start for students by giving them practical experience in the field outside of their standard bookwork. Due to the lack of medical workers in rural areas,

the students and their instructors bear the responsibility of being some of the only physicians for miles.

AHEC director Kathleen Quinn said students from rural backgrounds usually partake in order to help give back to their community, while those from urbanized backgrounds gain new experiences and insights on how rural medicine works.

“Eighteen percent of the university’s medical students practice in rural areas and 57 percent of those who choose to participate in the program end up working in a rural location postgraduation,” Quinn said.

Quinn said that thanks to this program, students are able to make an informed decision on whether or not to continue their practice professionally within a rural area.

Students who choose to attend the workshop are presented with a new array of experiences not normally accessible until later years. These practices can include pediatric, family medicine, surgery and ear-nose-throat work.

“What makes the program so interesting to students is the continuity of care that comes with the work,” Quinn said. “Whether it’s treating the entire family or having to deal with less traffic,

some people like the more simple life.”

Second-year medical student Kayla Matzek said her experience with the program was “interesting and beneficial.” Over the summer, Matzek practiced medicine in Forsyth, a small town near Branson. Dr. Charles Rasmussen was her supervisor during her stay.

“I got to do a lot of things many students don’t get to do until their third or fourth year,” Matzek said. “I got to deliver a

baby, do physicals and minor procedures. I was also the firsthand assistant in surgeries.”

Matzek said the program helps reaffirm to most students why they go into the medical field: to help people. She said this can be easily overshadowed by the academic rigor of first-year studies.

“He made me push myself and be independent,” Matzek said. “He had me taking notes on patients, writing their health history, giving them a physical

assessment and a plan of action.”

Many times, students work with patients independent from their supervisor’s watch.

Second year medical student Jesse Day worked at a hospital in Poplar Bluff over the summer.

“As a rural physician, you may actually have to do things outside of your realm of expertise — that’s just the nature of the job,” Day said. “Overall, though, I got to feel like a doctor, and that’s an experience I think you can’t get anywhere else.”

School of Medicine’s Rural Track

Very few doctors choose to practice in rural communities of the state, but the MU School of Medicine is working to change that with their Rural Track Pipeline Program.

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SHP considers new program Hume and Kuhnert hope to start the new public health program by fall 2015.

ISABELLA ALVES Staff Writer The School of Health Professions is considering a new undergraduate program in public health.

Deborah Hume and Mark Kuhnert, associate professors in the school, have sent out a needs assessment to students, possible employers and alumni to determine students’ interest in the program and demand for a public health degree in the job market.

“So far we have gotten a few hundred surveys back,” Kuhnert said, “and so far they have been very positive.”

The survey results will be used to create a proposal for the program, which will be presented to Dean Kristofer Hagglund in October with hopes of starting the program by fall 2015.

The information gained in the surveys is added to the proposal and a committee was made in order to help formulate the technicalities of the degree. “(For) the proposal, we have to develop the curriculum and our budget, how (many) faculty and staff we will need

and the operating expenses,” school education programs to Kuhnert said. “We assembled assess school nutrition. a committee with our faculty MU currently offers a and student services in order to graduate degree in public develop curriculum.” health, so undergraduate Hume said there are few students could continue their options for studying public education through MU if they health in choose to study Missouri, but PUBLIC public health. if MU were to “ We are HEALTH launch a public look ing at health degree LOOKS AT THE the graduate p r o g r a m HEALTH OF THE school to see and gain acc re di tat ion COMMUNITY AS A what kind of from the (undergraduate) WHOLE (AND) IT Council on requirements IS MORE ABOUT Education for they need,” Public Health, THE PREVENTION Kuhnert said. it wo u ld Public health (OF DISEASES).” expand choices degrees have for students. been around “ T h e for a long only other MARK KUHNERT time to help undergraduate associate professor of prevent disease public health health professions epidemics while major in the state is in St. helping the Louis,” Hume said. “(If MU health of a community as a launched the program), we whole, Hume said. would be the second in the state “Public health looks at the with this degree and the only health of the community as a public university.” whole (and) it is more about Students who graduate with the prevention (of diseases),” a degree in public health would have a background in sociology, Hume said. “I think that statistics, epidemiology and there are already a number of environmental science. Hume people (in the School of Health said an undergraduate degree Science) who have a background in public health would allow in public health and students graduates of the program to should make an appointment work in fields such as assessing to talk to one of these people (if water quality and working in they are interested).”

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MU departments offer unusual classes Classes about wizards and rappers give students a new look on their favorite topics.

NICK ALLEN Reporter Students constr ucting their schedules can include unconventional elective courses, which may both satisfy credit requirements and interest them.

Religious Studies 2240: Harry Potter, Magic and Religion

This course goes deeper inside the world of everyone’s

favorite boy wizard, taking an analytical look at the books we all remember consuming in mass quantities a decade ago.

Professor Signe Cohen, a self-proclaimed Ravenclaw, has taught the class for five years.

“I think students are interested in the class because they are always thinking about and analyzing things going on in popular culture, and this class offers them an opportunity to go deeper than your average superficial chat,” Cohen said.

The students are instructed to read each of the seven books over the course of the semester, to fuel in-class discussion about the way the magic in the books ties to topics such as religion and mythology. Cohen said references to Greek, Nordic

and Celtic mythology as well as Biblical parallels are discussed.

English 2169: Jay-Z and Kanye West

Another unusual class is focused on the analysis of a different facet of pop culture: the music of icons Kanye West and Jay-Z. Technically an English course, this class swaps out the novels, poems and essays for the lyrics of the two artists’ songs.

Professor Andrew Hoberek has taught the class for two semesters and lists his favorite Kanye West song as “All Falls Down” and his favorite Jay-Z track as “Dirt off Your Shoulder.”

“Students that take the class tend to come in already being interested in the subject, which makes it easier for them to really connect with the material,” Hoberek said.

“Even if they are normally reluctant to participate in class discussions, here they would be more inclined because they already have the knowledge.”

Class normally consists of students listening to the artists’ songs or watching their music videos and then discussing meanings and themes as interpreted.

Peace Studies 1150/Rural Sociology 1150: The Amish Community

Students in this class study

the culture of one of the longest-standing populations in the U.S. This course is a verified creditbuster, covering behavioral studies, humanities and writing intensive requirements.

Professor Caroline Brock said she finds herself teaching students from two different spectrums.

“The class is composed of students who both come from Missouri that are exposed to the Amish firsthand in their small towns, and also urban students who have seen the reality shows and media coverage on the culture that has exploded in recent years,” Brock said.

New Refund Policy The Office of the Registrar has changed the course refund policy to allow students to change their schedules early in the semester without financial penalty. In the past, students only received a 90 percent refund for dropping a course.

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There is a chair for each committee who is a staff member or administrator.

McKeown said his role is to increase participation; he is increasing representation and productivity of each committee.

Brian Dabson, associate dean of policy and outreach, is the chair of the Campus Facilities Planning Committee. This committee discusses how the university uses its land, the location and design of buildings, and infrastructure while ensuring environmental and energy sustainability.

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Continued from page 3 Fifteen MLB players were suspended over the scandal, including New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez.

Though Elfrink’s series was done, he felt there were still untold stories hidden in the records.

“I was sitting on this huge amount of records, and I wanted to dive into them and tell the full story,” Elfrink said.

“It’s like a crazy, south Florida crime thriller. The characters and stories are something you just can’t make up.”

Elfrink decided to turn his reporting into a book.

To cover the topic as

THE MANEATER | NEWS | SEPTEMBER 3, 2014 engage a variety of voices and ideas, and are subjected to constructive scrutiny from students, staff and faculty,” Dabson said in an email.

“The way the campus operates should be of great concern because decisions made now will impact the look and functioning of the university for decades to come.”

To encourage more student participation, McKeown put an application on the MSA website so it was more visible to students who have an interest in voicing their opinion. By increasing representation, McKeown said he hopes that this will increase the productivity of each committee.

“In the past, there were some students who weren’t as enthusiastic about the topic of their committee, and apathetic attitudes can be dangerous,” McKeown said. “I’m hoping that with a new, fresh batch of students who are really

passionate about an issue and see something they would like to change will help make the committee more productive and get the best representation possible.”

McKeown said the size of each committee varies, along with the number of students on each committee.

“Since MSA is responsible for appointing students to these committees, it’s important that MSA makes good (appointments) because they make a difference around campus to things that are important to the students,” Scroggs said.

McKeown said he anticipates some first-year growth pains, including not having as many applications or finding out a student who was appointed later isn’t fulfilling their duties.

“The first year of trying to set a standard and getting something off

the ground will be a challenge, but I think it will be good,” he said. “I’ll be able to learn a lot from seeing how these new appointments function by hearing back from the committee chairs and identifying what is and isn’t working.”

McKeown said he hopes to continue putting applications for the committees on the MSA website every year so they will continue to grow in size.

“Ideally, the student sitting on any of the committees should have a real interest in the subject matter, want to learn more about the issues, and be willing to come to meetings prepared and be sufficiently confident to participate constructively in discussions,” Dabson said.

McKeown said there will be a precedent for future vice presidents.

This will make it easier for the next vice presidents to work with

thoroughly as possible, he teamed up with Gus GarciaRoberts, one of Elfrink’s longtime friends who is an investigative reporter based in New York.

“We thought it would work best if we could report not just the Miami side, but also the New York side because that is where MLB is headquartered,” Elfrink said. “It made perfect sense to let Gus dive into it.”

G a rc i a - R o b e r t s said writing the book was a true collaboration.

“We ended up doing reporting for both sides together,” GarciaRoberts said. “We really started to share one brain as we were writing.”

Their book, titled “Blood Sport: Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis, and the Quest to

End Baseball’s Steroid Era,” was released in July and received positive reviews.

“I’m pretty excited about the feedback,” Garcia-Roberts said.

“As people read the book, they realize how crazy the actual story is.”

Elfrink said an excerpt of the book was released in Sports Illustrated a week before its debut and was reviewed in The Washington Post.

“It’s really such a big story for anyone who cares about baseball,” Elfrink said. “People want to understand why it happened, and what it means for the sport.”

Since the book’s release, Bosch was arrested and agreed to plead guilty. He now awaits sentencing.

Elfrink said he plans to

stay on top of the story as it continues to develop.

Elfrink graduated from MU in 2005. He majored in journalism and served as Editor-in-Chief for The Maneater. He is now the managing editor of the Miami New Times and runs their news-blog “Riptide.”

He said his biggest piece of advice to journalism students would be to find stories you are interested in and write them the best you can.

“Don’t let yourself be limited by where you end up,” Elfrink said. “There are stories everywhere. If you enjoy reporting and care about writing, let that be what drives you.”

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committee chairs and have a stronger stance on how to get students more active. He hopes that the increase of student involvement will have a chain reaction throughout the university.

“By getting students who have that driven thought process, they come in with new ideas,” McKeown said. “If they come up with a plan of action, the university will implement it. The effects will trickle down because it’s a great resource to be able to bounce ideas off people who have been at the university for a while and know how to make the most out of their committee.”

McKeown said he estimates he will have his appointments for the year made by the end of this week, since many committees start meeting the second week of September.

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Campus Facilities spokeswoman Karlan Seville said Burden will take the office in a new direction. “(Burden) is going to focus more on the big picture of sustainability as a whole on campus — that’s something we’ve been lacking,” she said.

“And someone to get a handle on what is happening across campus and better package that because people don’t know how many different research projects and classes there are.”

Burden said the Sustainability Office will work with Sustain Mizzou and the Environmental Leadership Office to host Sustainapalooza in October and spread awareness of environmental efforts on campus.

“College is a time when you start to develop habits that are potentially going to be lifelong habits and it’s also a time when you’re exposed to a lot of new ideas, and we hope that students will consider how their day to day actions have an impact on others and their environment,” Burden said.

Burden said his goal for the next few months is to get a clear understanding of everything occurring on campus, and eventually propel MU to be recognized as an environmentally -friendly campus.

“One of the goals that I have is that if you visit the campus as a prospective student, I want you to very easily get a sense that this campus is at the forefront of sustainability,” Burden said. “We are in so many ways now, but you might not know that. Sometimes it’s below the surface or isn’t in the promotional materials. I want to continue to amplify and integrate those efforts into the overall messaging that folks receive.”

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Gender is not binary LILY CUSACK

When a baby is born, they are assigned a specific sex that is determined by their genitalia: males have certain parts and females have others. As they grow older, society begins to assign the baby a gender based on their sex. If the baby is assigned male at birth, society treats them according to masculine societal standards (gives the baby ‘boy’ toys to play with like cars and trucks, paints their room blue, etc.) and vice versa for females. Later in life, these labels appear on important documents and solidify which restroom they use.

Now, imagine for a moment that a person does not fit into any of these rigid rules set up for us at birth.

Imagine their struggle and insecurity throughout life.

For many transgender, intersex and non-gender conforming individuals, this is the case. With the emergence of new laws that bring greater equality to a variety of minorities, it is time that we tackle the gender binary problem. It is no longer applicable in today’s society. We need to remove these engrained notions of sex and gender and work toward a more open and comfortable way of life for all kinds of people.

There are many noticeable issues with the gender binary. Foremost is the fact that humans assign specific gender and sex roles to babies as soon as they are born. Humans who have barely even taken their first breath are expected to live up to gender norms in a society that they do not know anything about. They are often forced to play with certain toys and like certain colors, as if to solidify their sex and gender to the surrounding world. When did objects become so essentially important in the identification of oneself?

Another problem with our current way of thinking is how close-minded it is. It is strange to think that we can sort seven billion people into two even groups.

There are so many different people leading so many different lives that this labeling seems impossible.

Yet, we still attempt to force people to fit in one of these categories. It would make more sense to let people live their lives as they see fit, playing with whatever toys they want to and using whatever restroom they consider appropriate.

Eliminating the gender binary would also save countless lives. Nearly half of transgender and nongender conforming people have attempted suicide just because they did not fit into the overly precise gender roles we enact. It would be so much easier if everybody could live without fear of being prosecuted for how they identify.

In reality, eradicating these engrained notions is next to impossible. Humans have been taught these century-old principles from birth. Removing a whole way of thinking from billions of people is an often difficult and dangerous task. However, there are ways to make the lives of transgender, intersex and nongender conforming people better. Enacting equal laws for all genders, creating more unisex bathrooms, and, most importantly, recognizing that there are more than two genders and sexes are just some of the ways that we can look to equality.

The gender binary has been around for a very long time. Nonetheless, as our world is changing and becoming more accepting toward different types of people, it is time that we turn our attention toward the issue of gender acceptance. Although it may take a long time for change to be established, it will be worth the wait to have a more equal world for future generations.

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MSA changes promise a better future The Missouri Students Association is facing a lot of new changes this semester.

After former MSA President Mason Schara resigned in July, former Vice President Kelsey Haberberger has stepped into the role of MSA president. Junior Matt McKeown is taking Haberberger’s place as vice president, and senior Mitch Moonier is taking McKeown’s spot as chief of staff.

First of all, we praise Kelsey for taking on this highly demanding role.

In light of these circumstances, we can understand that this must have been a very difficult position for you to be in. We know you didn’t ask for this, and the fact that you didn’t shy away from this tremendous responsibility is commendable, to say the least. Thank you for stepping up; we, the MU student body, appreciate it.

Your experience as vice president is a key quality that we believe is going to help you find success in your short term as president this year. You understand how the budget works and how MSA’s financial records read. Use that knowledge to make your decisions as president more informed.

Your involvement all around campus provides you with

connections to many different parts of the student body. Reach out and use those connections to your advantage. Improve MSA’s relations with the student body by connecting with as many different people as you can.

Matt, with all that you’ve done in these past two semesters, we’re anticipating a positive term from you. Use your experiences as members of both the Department of Student Services and the Department of Student Activities Speakers Committee, as well as briefly acting as MSA chief of staff to improve your term as vice president. That being said, use the fresh perspective that you have in this role to look at things and change them if necessary.

Mitch, we believe that you have every quality necessary to be a great chief of staff this semester.

Your experience as Student Affairs Committee chairman put you more in touch with the student body, which is exactly what MSA needs.

This experience allows you to be a bridge between the legislative and executive branches. Your goal to make MU a more inclusive place makes you, and the entire cabinet, more approachable.

With all of these new members added to the executive cabinet, we

are hoping to see some changes made to the way MSA handles things.

A lot of the legislation that came out of MSA Senate last semester didn’t directly affect the student body, but instead merely altered the infrastructure of MSA. We want to see you, as a student government, focus on the student body more than the bylaws. Use all of the various connections you have as a student government to connect with the rest of MU. Along with this connection to the students, we hope you guys are more transparent with the student body. Show us what you’re doing and explain why you’re doing it. We simply want to know that you have our best interests in mind, and transparency shows us that there is nothing to be wary of. Communicate with us so that we can have a healthier, more important relationship.

We’ve seen you talk the talk. Now, we want to see you walk the walk.

You’ve been saying recently that you’re going to improve communications, be more available and create a good work dynamic between one another. We know that it’s only the second week of school, but we’d love it if we saw you guys acting on your words.

We’re anticipating a good year for MSA. We hope that you are too.

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Ambulances, cop cars and phone calls NINA RUHE

All right, real talk. The first week of classes killed all motivation and optimism I had about getting a fresh start. Not to mention, I’ve basically student-charged my life away between buying books and clothes, because I’ve been sweating through five shirts a day in this miserable heat.

The worst, though, is if you have an 8 a.m. class Monday, Wednesday and Friday. If that’s your schedule, you’re most likely dead right now, because I know I am. Even if you don’t have class until noon, sometimes you just can’t manage to wake yourself up from your after-breakfast nap in time.

So, if the first week of classes has got you feeling like you should be a new cast member of The Walking Dead, you might think it’s time to cut back and let loose. But how?

Go to a party, you say? Have fun?

Yes, let’s do that, because nothing can go wrong when you let a bunch of freshmen — who have been living under their parents’ scrutiny

for almost the past two decades — loose in a college town at night.

In this first week of classes, there have been ambulances galore throughout campus. Whether it is at fraternity houses or residence halls, kids have already taken trips to the hospital, had their stomachs pumped, and had to make the ever-soparent-pleasing call from the police station because of mistakes made.

So I’ll bet any money that all of those unfortunate night crawlers’ responses were, “But guys, it was totally fun and I never thought any of those things would happen to me, OK!” If that’s your response, I am truly sorry for your brain cells. You must have done enough damage to those suckers that you’re actually serious when you blurt out these obscene statements.

I mean, come on! You’re meaning to tell me you genuinely thought that being impaired — most likely illegally — and walking around a new town with 30,000 new people whom you’ve most likely never met before didn’t set off an alarm to you that maybe you should, I don’t know, be careful? Now that just takes a special kind of stupid.

Listen, I get it, everyone wants to enjoy college. There are so many

other ways to make these years memorable than drinking past your limits and ending up in the hospital.

If you want your life to be like “Project X,” I think it’s time for you to take a moment and figure out life priorities, because planning your life around a ridiculous movie that’s meant to satirize stupid decisions young kids make should definitely not be one of them.

And for the love of God, please stop thinking you’re invincible and nothing bad will ever happen to you, because in the words of “Mean Girls,” you’ll get pregnant and die.

OK, maybe not that extreme all the time, but I think you get my point.

Seriously, though, you’re not a superhuman, and the basic laws of physics still apply to you no matter how many substances you consume.

So please, save yourself from everyone from judging your walk of shame the next morning, and more importantly, save your parents from getting that awful call.

Welcome to college — not Las Vegas for a bachelor(ette) party, but college. The place where you’re supposed to get that thing called an education, at a price that will render your wallet so useless you might actually want to vomit.

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Consider the hot dog. While it has its 2-foot-long renditions in places like Six Flags, in general, it is enjoyed by the general public at an average length of six inches. See, six inches is a length that makes sense. Six inches is manageable. Six inches fits in the right places. You can hold six inches in one hand.

Sure, monster hot dogs slathered in chili and Funyuns have their appeal, especially if it’s 3 a.m., you’re hunting down Mizzou Hot Dogs and your bloodstream is circulating more beer than hemoglobin. Any other day, though, six inches is just fine.

So what I don’t get about the male culture is the “who has the biggest dick” obsession. I’m sure it dates all the way back to evolutionary times, when having a big appendage meant that not only were you able to provide for your women, but you could also use said appendage to beat prehistoric predators to death. So understandably, for a caveman and women driven to reproduce, a big penis had its perks.

As a human living in 2014 with ample access to Louisville Sluggers I can use to beat up animal predators, I

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same. Equally, Obama has ruled out cooperating with Syria and President al-Assad against ISIS. Speaking of ISIS, the airstrikes, otherwise known as America’s patented response to terrorism, have been a pleasant response. But the region is so unstable that airstrikes can’t do the job. They might shake up the ground and make it even more unstable. Or, maybe it doesn’t work that way. Who knows?

It does work to turn our attention home. Perhaps address the racial tension within these borders. The heart of the nation beats strenuously on that subject now. Meanwhile, a balanced budget is a distant memory of the Clinton era. Of course, it doesn’t help that Congress has an abysmal approval rating of just 13 percent.

That’s only the tip of a laundry list of issues. Really, something is just missing. Maybe common sense is what it is. It can’t be national pride or lack of commitment? Common sense is the only logical explanation.

Unfortunately, that’s not something you can easily force upon an elected official. We can still hope though, right, Barack?

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In a political column, it tends to be hard not to be political. Within these words lies the sentiment to do what is right. Not simply to drum it up or to debate it, but to do it. No one entity should be about being something; they must be about doing something. That said, it simply isn’t good enough to be the United States of America. It never has been and never will be.

Watching Jon Stewart religiously, as every American college student ought to, this statement might seem clearer; the United States of America is the name of a country. The country has a history. The country’s history is built upon action. Albeit in most instances pre-Vietnam we sat hesitant while watching the theatre of war, that’s not the point. The point is that as soon as we stepped onto that bloody stage, we were swift and decisive.

On the home front, women and blacks broke social norms as the

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boys fought for freedom abroad. The tradition of “what was” simply didn’t matter because, at the time, what was true in the now spurred rationality.

More importantly, the American people and their government equally understood the breadth of the tenets of the mission home and abroad.

The common understanding bore deep enough that even liberty herself knew no other truth. So then the government adhered to those tenets.

Officials leaned on principle.

The nation saw a glimpse of this great American tradition in 2001.

Thirteen years later, calling it a “glimpse” might be an overstatement.

Perhaps a speck, or even a speck within a speck once you consider the worst Congress in history, the cost of the war, the recession and, yeah, the rejection of the veterans’ jobs act, too.

But let's not get into that.

The point is that with so much disunity on Capitol Hill, at least the White House might make an effort to be unified around the world. As of late, the Obama administration has done better in this effort by standing up to Russian aggression by enacting economic sanctions and encouraging the European Union to do the

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that sheer much-ness consistently tend to have actual technique. These are the guys who, while the more well-hung Neanderthals were beating young gazelles to death with their jaw-dropping members, were the ones romancing the cavewomen back at the cave, so to speak.

According to 90-year-old sex columnist Mahinder Watsa, as long (sorry) as you’ve got at least 2.5 inches going, you can do wonders, stud.

Still, if there’s anything we’ve learned from Dove beauty campaigns and a general appreciation for humanity, it’s that we come in all shapes and sizes, and no one size — or length — is better than the other.

I’m just speaking as a relatively short girl with an even shorter cervix, who has had above average experiences with dudes who don’t scare the crap out of me with their body parts.

The takeaway is this: Guys, your penis is a great pleasure-giving, lifeaffirming — literally — part of your body, and that’s all that matters.

Don’t get in a tizzy and whip out a ruler. Don’t compare yourself in the locker room (Is that what dudes do? I don’t know. I get this from watching “Freaks and Geeks”). Keep lube on hand and realize that 99 percent of your potential sexual partners couldn’t care less how many inches you are. Figure out some techniques to use with your little buddy, whether he’s little or not.

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I love going to college at Mizzou. It’s a great place filled with cool people, caring professors and a ton of facilities. Let’s take some time to talk about those facilities. I am free to use these as I please, so I am a little upset when the university runs them inefficiently.

I’m talking specifically about the Student Center. Now that I am out of the dorms, I spend most of my time on campus there. Many other students do the same, and, like me, I am sure they are a little ticked off about how it is managed.

Sometimes when I walk through the Student Center, I will see two or maybe even three tables not being used, as well as maybe a dozen or so chairs with no occupants. It’s time we get all of those extra tables and chairs out of there to free up some space for studying and standing in line at Pomodoro.

Speaking of Pomodoro, do we really need all of those restaurants in the Student Center? Infusion Café, Sunshine Sushi, Kate AND Emma’s? Kate seems to be doing all of the work in that deli; we need to get that space-sucker Emma out of the picture. Also, can we get rid of the vending machines that sell school supplies? Whenever I walk by them, it reminds me of that episode of The Office when Jim bribed the vending machine guy to put all of Dwight’s stolen office supplies in the break room vending machine.

Another way to cut down on wasted space would be to integrate the meeting rooms. It’s time the St. Louis Room occupants and the Kansas City Room occupants put aside their differences and learn to cohabitate. One Mizzou, guys, for real.

Could you imagine all of the space that would free up? There would be a lot more room for uncomfortable encounters. Now, when I see an old classmate or someone who may have lived in the same dorm as me, I barely have room to raise my hand and wave. With all of those extra chairs and tables gone, there would not only be enough room to wave, but also sufficient space to walk right up next to them and make awkward small talk for ten minutes.

Also, the Student Center would have even more room for stands of groups that I don’t want to join. Right now, these groups all have to fight for space around Speaker’s Circle, and they normally aren’t even noticed, with all the free food and evangelists. In this new, cavernous Student Center, organizations like the Bond Life Sciences Center Post-doc and Graduate Student Association or the Human Environmental Sciences Divisional Student Council will have plenty of space for students to pass them by.

This picture I’ve painted of a utopian Student Center could become a reality. If you want to see this change, file suggestions for the Student Center at the information desk. I am not sure if the information desk takes suggestions, but that seems like the logical place they would be, right?

If nothing else, just complain about it on social media.

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just don’t see why bigger is supposed to be better. Because, let me tell you, the worst sexual experience I’ve ever had was with the most well-endowed guy I’d ever seen.

Sure, at first sight, I was pretty thrilled when the pants dropped and I was introduced to the organ in question. It was like when you get the “Gotta Have It” bowl at Cold Stone. There’s so effing much of the goodness that you’re momentarily dazzled by sheer much-ness. Because if we value anything here in America, it’s much-ness.

Within seconds, though, there, ahem, arose some problems. Like an over-sized diesel truck, it took forever to, well… you know. And then, because over-sized diesel trucks get terrible gas mileage, there was about a 30-second window before the blood flow failed to keep up, and the show was over. Our supposed romantic tryst turned into a Great Pumpkin watch party, as we laid in wait for the appendage in question to resurrect.

Putting on the condom was nearly impossible. Trying to fit it anywhere led to an aching jaw and a terrified vagina that refused to cooperate. We tried three times. It literally did not work.

Which is why I say: Give me a small penis any day. Not only is it more manageable, like your favorite hot dog, but guys who know that they can’t just stun you to orgasm with

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The Dapper Don of Alley A, located in downtown Columbia, is a consignment store that specializes in men’s clothing.

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Ty Segall returns with ‘Manipulator’

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Store sells ‘pre-loved’ suits QUINN MALLOY Reporter

PATRICK MCKENNA He’s the prince of the grimy, cigarettestained musical underworld. He’s one of the busiest artists around, having released seventeen albums through various outlets, not even counting his seven solo albums. He’s loved by nearly every weirdo with a sweet tooth for raunchy rock and roll. He is Ty Segall.

For those unaware of Mr. Segall’s prominence in the rock world, the man went from being completely unknown in 2008 to releasing three critically acclaimed albums in 2012, while trailblazing the newly distinct California rock sound. His sound embraces the energy of ‘90s skate-punk and distorted guitar chaos from the likes of the 13th Floor Elevators, T. Rex and Thee Oh Sees.

A lover of punk, prog, pop and psychedelic, all genres come together in Segall’s sound.

In the middle of that timeframe came countless contributions to fellow Bay Area psych-garage aficionados such as Mikal Cronin, White Fence and Sic Alps. Throughout his six-year career, Segall has garnished the old but promising mentality of working incessantly while progressing as an artist by playing dirty bars and scuzzy venues.

Segall released his seventh and handsdown-strongest solo album this past week through Drag City. “Manipulator” has garnered heavily positive initial reception from the likes of Rolling Stone and The Guardian.

Candidly demonstrating his progression from the lowest of lo-fi on 2009’s “Reverse Shark Attack” to streaks of glam-rock (“The Faker”) and Spanish-traditional guitar, Segall makes “Manipulator” reek of raunchy goodness. Even adding a silky string section to the unusual

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To many, clothing that has been bought, owned and then resold would be called “used.” But Steve Gilpin, owner of The Dapper Don of Alley A, has another name for the pre-owned suits and other men’s formal wear that stock the shelves of his consignment store.

“Our inventory is pre-loved,” Gilpin

says. “(Our clients) see their clothes as an extension of themselves, and we show the clothes the same respect.”

The Dapper Don of Alley A, located at 906 Alley A between Ninth and Tenth streets, opened its doors May 1 as one of only a handful of local consignment stores specifically catering to men. The store offers a full range of clothing, from suits and formal wear to T-shirts and blue jeans. Gilpin likes to keep his suits priced between $29.99 and

$49.99. The most expensive suits in the store are $55.99, unless they are acquired on consignment.

If a client wants to lend The Dapper Don of Alley A a suit on consignment, he must agree on a set price with Gilpin, sign a contract stating that he will not sue the store for potential damages to the suit and pay a small commission. If the suit doesn’t sell after 90 days, the store

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frozen treats

The CoMo smoothie worth sipping on KATELYN LUNDERS Staff Writer Smoothies are the key to a cool escape from the sweltering Columbia heat, but the question of where the best place to get a smoothie is still remains. Luckily for everyone melting in this weather, MOVE decided to investigate Blenders, Red Mango and Main Squeeze to find the answer. After trying a similar smoothie at each location and looking at taste, consistency, nutritional value and cost, here is what we found: Blenders is the clear winner by a landslide in every category. By taste alone, the dairy-free Bombora, made with orange, mango, strawberry and banana, comes out on top. It also has a very thick consistency that can fight the heat.

The only potential downside of the Blenders smoothie was that

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How to: Make a Smoothie Basic guidelines for the perfect smoothie Top layer extras, to taste cinnamon, honey, flaxseed, oats, chocolate chips Second Layer 1/2 Cup Thickener Peanut Butter, Yogurt, Banana Third Layer 1 cup liquid Skim/Almond/soy milk, coconut water, water

Pro Tips

Bottom Layer 2-3 cups frozen fruit bananas, strawberries, blueberries, pinapples, mangoes

Eat your veggies! try adding 1 cup of dark leafy greens (Think: spinach, kale, chard) Supercharge your smoothie Add chia seeds for healthy Fats and Goji Berries for Antioxidants BEN KOTHE // GRAPHICS MANAGER

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During my freshman year, my floormate was on the phone with his mom, trying to explain his grades.

“Yeah … I forgot I had an exam yesterday, so I didn’t do so hot.”

Don’t be like him.

College is hard enough. Between trying to learn things, extracurricular activities, jobs and all of that jazz, you don’t need to make it worse by piling on mental clutter. Mental clutter makes it hard to remember what you need to get done and deters you from achieving your goals. It’s the first week of classes, and it’s in your best interest to avoid an entropic beginning of the semester.

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Senior, English major Shirt: Tilly's Shorts: Active Ride Shop Socks: SunDiego Shoes: Vans

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Write it down.

I know this is really old school, but it actually works.

If you keep overwhelming thoughts in your head, they will stay there. If you can’t immediately take care of a problem, don’t sit and worry about it. Write down your obligations in a planner and add them to your calendar. As soon as you know about something like an assignment or meeting to attend, write it down and get it in your calendar.

Mental clutter, like physical clutter, gets in the way of your productivity and goals. Take time to recognize how you’re helping and hindering yourself.

Set time now to get organized and avoid unnecessary distractions, obligations and thoughts.

Know what you need to do.

The most important thing you can do is incredibly basic but necessary: Make yourself a good sevenday schedule with your classes and work and weekly obligations. I like using Excel for this, but you do you, as long as it’s on something you won’t forget and won’t lose. If you really want to ball out, set time blocks for things that are essential to you. If this is the semester

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Take as much control of your time as you can.

Once you’ve got your schedule in place, take a look at how you’re spending your time. Don’t be afraid to say “no” to things or you will find yourself constantly overwhelmed. Give yourself time to relax and time to work.

Time is incredibly valuable, and it’s worthwhile to pay attention to how you spend it. If you’re working and in class for eight hours a day and spend eight sleeping, you’ve still got eight hours free. Give yourself time sets for what you want to do. If you pay attention to how you spend every hour, you’re already aware and in better control.

Cool it with the computer(s).

Take time to manage your emails. If you’ve got multiple accounts, look into linking them together.

It makes it easier when everything’s together. Go through your email, find your subscriptions and ask yourself if they’re ever worth your time. That shirt you bought three years ago is really cool, but you probably don’t need a daily sales email from the store. If you’re subscribed to newsletters that you actually read, make time to read them by deleting the ones you don’t.

Smartphones are great for getting organized and all, but they’re also a huge catalyst for mental clutter.

Get rid of the crap flooding your phone. Turning off your push notifications is huge; you won’t constantly need to look at your phone, and it’s really not that important that your aunt liked your profile picture.

Delete your apps you never use and turn off email notifications.

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you told yourself you would actually exercise regularly for longer than three weeks, set a time for it. Once you have these set, you can add them up for each day and see how much time you’ve got for other things.

Make a calendar so you don’t have to say you forgot about an exam. Take your syllabus for each class and write down dates for assignments, quizzes, exams and anything else. Add in all of your other important things and you’re set. I like to do this on a huge calendar in my room, as well as an electronic one for my computer and phone.

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When I heard Blake Lively was launching a fashion and lifestyle website, I had hopes higher than a pair of strappy Manolo Blahniks. It's no secret that Mrs. Ryan Reynolds has an amazing fashion sense. Her days as the designer-donning Serena van der Woodsen clearly influenced her wardrobe over the years and made her into a fashion and beauty icon.

Much to my dismay, when her online blog and e-commerce site, Preserve, launched at the end of the summer, the sepiafiltered nightmare of a site had only just begun.

Ten percent Etsy, ten percent Gwyneth Paltrow and two hundred percent Instagram filter, Preserve is one huge fashion faux pas. The site's black backdrop, sepia photos and folksy fonts just make it look like a promotional ad for the 2005 horror movie “The Skeleton Key.” Once my eyes adjusted to the color scheme, I actually was able to browse the site's various fashion and food products for sale. Lively describes the merchandise as "a sort of greatest hits of 'Main Street, USA.’" Sure, if the residents on Main Street are uberwealthy twenty-somethings who only shop at farmers' markets for $7 ketchup and are in the market for a $295 pair of pants.

If you're in the mood for a flower cactus necktie, it's yours for just $100. And who could live without $11 vegan hot fudge described as "a soothing salve for bruised feelings?"

Who knew dessert could have such a complicated backstory?

The trend of celebrity lifestyle sites is nothing new. Both trendsetters Lauren Conrad and Paltrow have had successful blogs and e-commerce sites for years. But at least I can shop for a flirty frock on LaurenConrad.com or make a meal from Gwyneth's without taking out a loan. Preserve might as well have been named Pricey.

While the site's shop does donate some of its proceeds to charity (a whopping five percent!), apparently the folksy folks at Preserve think preserving profit is more important than preserving face. Unlike her celebrity lifestyle site predecessors, Lively and her website are hardly relatable.

Lively's choice of merchandise and words of wisdom seem to be nothing more than humble bragging and fake effortlessness all wrapped up in an organic and overpriced burlap bow.

So, Blake, please preserve your dignity and just take down the site. While you do, I'll be over at LaurenConrad.com.

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THE MANEATER | MOVE | SEPTEMBER 3, 2014 Rants and Reviews

Comic book adaptations: the failure of ‘Sin City 2’ ROBERT MECCHI

MOVE columnist Robert Mecchi on the financial disaster of the sequel.

The original “Sin City” was a refreshing breath of fresh air for the film industry when it was released in 2005. Comic book adaptations were beginning to hit their stride in that decade, but audiences had not yet begun to gravitate toward comic adaptations like they do today. With disappointing adaptations like “Daredevil,” “The Punisher” and “Catwoman” regularly making their way into theaters, it’s not hard to see why people were still apprehensive about comic adaptations.

Granted, the early 2000s had quite a few hits that laid the groundwork for the hugely successful comic adaptations of the next few years, but the general consensus is that studios hadn’t fully grasped what made a comic book adaptation good.

Studios would often tone down the language and violence in order to nab a PG-13 rating, hoping to make a quick buck during the summer seasons at the cost of a film’s integrity and quality. The general blandness of most comic adaptations during the time was sharply contrasted by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s bombastic and stylish “Sin City.” Soaked in sex, lathered with violence and littered with profanity, “Sin City” was a 12-year-old’s dream film, and critics largely agreed.

The film was lauded for its neo-noir atmosphere and hyper-stylized violence, with some critics claiming that “Sin City” had pushed the comic book adaptation genre to its absolute limit. Sadly, the general audience consensus was that “Sin City” was just too strange and different for their tastes.

It seems that audiences haven’t yet changed their minds, seeing as how its sequel, “Sin City: A Dame to Kill For,” a film with a $70 million budget, has only made a measly $6 million at the box office Objectively, “A Dame to Kill For” is as solid as the original film. It still has the neo-noir feel, gratuitous sex and violence, a healthy dose of black humor, and

the iconic styling of the first film. Joseph-Gordon Levitt adds a youthful touch to the film, and watching Mickey Rourke bulldoze through bad guys as Marv is as enjoyable as ever. The film looks sharp as hell, and it still is refreshing to see a comic adaptation in which the heroes aren’t actually heroes. So why did it bomb at the box office? Well, a couple things could be at fault.

Firstly, releasing a film at the tail end of the summer is just asking for it to bomb. School is starting up again, and moviegoers are worn out by the bombardment of blockbusters during the previous months. The only positive to releasing a film during this window is that it allows a studio to wait out their competition. Obviously, this strategy didn’t work out for “Sin City 2.” Perhaps it could have if it weren’t for the film’s atrocious marketing campaign. I rarely saw trailers or posters for the film while in theaters, and its presence online was virtually nonexistent.

Another possible reason for the film’s failing is that critics and audiences have matured (or like to think they’ve matured) over the course of nine years.

Is the film crude? Yes. Is its violence and sex appeal gratuitously over the top? Absolutely. Is it still a little bit cool? Hell yeah. Don’t get me wrong, I completely understand someone outgrowing their adolescent tastes. However, I am a man-child, so for the same reasons I enjoy watching “Adventure Time” for its nostalgic properties, I enjoy watching films like “Sin City: A Dame to Kill For” to relish in my adolescent fantasies.

Sadly, as much as I want to praise this film, I know that it is not perfect, and evidently not suitable for a general audience. I’m certainly happy that I got to see the location of Basin City on the silver screen once more, but after a financial blunder this large, it’s going to take a miracle to keep this series alive.

Whether you chalk it up to the studio’s awful marketing team, a bad release window, or audiences’ distaste with a film as strange as “A Dame to Kill For,” it is almost certain that this is the last time we will see a film as hyper-stylized as this get a wide release.

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Unplugging from Internet can be good, helpful ELLIE PAPADAKIS

Columnist Ellie Papadakis shares her adventure without the Internet.

Moving into a new apartment is always hectic, but you know that once you set up your room, get your kitchen organized and hang up your décor, you can relax and sit on your computer until school starts again.

Or not.

Because of some issues with our Internet provider, my roommate and I were without Internet for almost three days after we moved in. Yes, we both have data on our phones, but that isn’t the same as using Wi-Fi. For one, it’s much slower and, secondly, it’s a lot harder to catch up with your Netflix shows on a tiny smartphone.

I should also mention that our TV was working just fine, but I don’t watch a lot of TV as it is.

Let’s face it, there are only so many episodes of “Chopped” I can watch in a row.

That said, we did a lot of roommate bonding over those three days, including making up a game that was basically like Pictionary, but with Play-Doh. The point is, we were pretty lost (and bored) without easy access to our Twitters and Facebooks and Pinterests. There must have been about 20 times in those three days where I opened up my computer out of habit to Google something and then remembered I couldn’t.

I think I forgot just how integral the Internet is to our society and how we use it for everything. Or, at least, it showed me how important the Web is to me and how I use it for everything and anything.

There were, however, a few good things that came out of having no connection for three days: — I learned how much I don’t like dealing with customer service.

— I realized that being on the other end of a customer service phone call is probably a really hard and terrible thing to have to do.

— I actually got to hang out with my roommate and have real conversations with her.

That last point is a good one to remember. When we finally got our connection up and running, we sat down in the living room, logged on and proceeded to just sit in silence while surfing the web. Eventually, I got tired of looking at the screen, looked at the time and realized my friend and I hadn’t talked for two hours.

“Yeah, but we deserved that time to recuperate,” she said. And while the ridiculousness of our threeday, Internet-less adventure made it easy for me to agree, I also remembered that once we plug in, we get lost in our own little digital world for a long time.

I’m not going to lie: Playing with the Play-Doh was fun (especially because I haven’t done that since I was, like, five) and so was just chilling out in the living room just talking.

If we’re not careful, plugging in for too long can affect real-life relationships with those around us, even if we live with them.

But don’t get me wrong, I’m happy that I can continue catching up with “Mad Men” once again.

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Letter from the (MacK)editor: Let’s do this.

MACKENZIE REAGAN MOVE Editor

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Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes will play The Blue Note on Sept. 8.

Clairy Browne comes to CoMo Frontwoman Clairy Browne talks doo-wop, Laverne Cox and Stevie Wonder.

PATRICK MCKENNA Staff Writer

I remember the feeling. A lot of The friends and some I had worked with, Beatles and Velvet Underground. and we put on a show. And it was Then I got into early R&B and extremely successful, so we moved listened to a lot of Etta James and on from there Sam Cooke. But then there was this MM: What kind of material do teenage-dream side of me that was you feel most comfortable writing in love with all of the ‘90s pop music. and singing about?

MM: What sort of sound does the CB: There’s probably a larger band wish to achieve? scope than I’ve explored in the past CB: It’s definitely evolving. that’s likely to come out eventually. I We’ve been love things people I WANTED TO continuously feel connected to, writing as a GET SOMETHING universal stuff band since like love, loss and REMINISCENT OF 1960S our debut. sexuality.

But We enjoy the ROCK HYSTERIA AND then, of course, foundation of HAVE AN ENVIRONMENT there’s just so early R&B and much to explore.

WHERE BOTH THE soul music, It’s definitely and we feel we CROWD AND BAND ARE reflective of what can kind of go you’re going JUST GOING CRAZY.” anywhere from through at any there. given time.

CLAIRY BROWNE MM: How MM: Name a Lead Vocalist did being song you sing in rooted in the shower or your Australia affect the band’s sound?

CB: Actually, it’s interesting. A car but never on stage.

CB: I definitely love to listen to lot of bands popular in Australia Frank Ocean in the shower. It’s so don’t reflect our style of music at all. beautiful, I think I had that album There’s a distinct indie-rock sound (Channel ORANGE) on loop for there. I think a lot of what we play months. is originally music from America. We MM: If you could invite three were able to grow up on music both people living or dead to join you in a international and from Australia. pre-show meal, who would it be?

MM: How did all nine of you come CB: My woman at the moment together to form the group?

CB: I had a vision to put together is Laverne Cox from “Orange is a big group so the live feeling would the New Black,” so she’s definitely be very raucous and hysterical. I there. I’ll say Etta James because wanted to get something reminiscent that’s definitely an interesting of 1960s rock hysteria and have combination. And then I guess an environment where both the Beyoncé because, well, I want her to crowd and band are just going crazy. be there. I don’t have a reason past So I gathered people I knew, some just getting her by me.

Hey, MOVErs! Give yourselves a round of applause — you survived not only syllabus week shenanigans, but, for many of you, your first week of college.

Now that you’ve (hopefully) figured out where all your classes are, identified which dining hall is the best (it’s Plaza — trust me), learned that life is expensive and laundry is hard and made tons of new friends, it’s time for the school year to begin in earnest.

Here are a few tips for making your first (or second, third, fourth, fifth…) year awesome: 1. Like I said, it’s no longer syllabus week. You can’t go out every night instead of studying and expect to do well. I recommend hitting up Mizzou’s hottest on-campus hangout: Club Ellis. It’s packed wall-to-wall with books and filled with people who can help you conduct research, locate books you need and wrangle the second-floor printers into submission. Students have been known to go hard at El Lib till the wee hours of the morning.

2. Explore your surroundings. Columbia is such an awesome city. It’s this little quirky-indie-hipsterartsy hub, smack-dab in the middle of Middle America. When you have some free time, wander downtown. Go window shopping. Support a local business by buying locally grown produce or art from a local artist. Find a new favorite downtown haunt.

Take a few hours just to stroll around and pretend you’re in your own Wes Anderson film.

3. There are a ton of nice, attractive, funny people on campus. You’ll probably become interested in some of them. (After all, you’re going to need someone with whom to go to all those nights at Club Ellis). But a piece of advice: don’t go out with people on your floor (or on the floor above you, or in your student orgs…). If you choose to date, don’t let it end badly — this campus is too damn small for making enemies and too darn Midwestern for impoliteness.

There’s no such thing as secret crushes, and there’s no such thing as “never seeing so-and-so again.”

People will know if you like someone — we’ve got how many journalists in this town? News travels fast — and you will see people again, even if you don’t want to.

4. Last but most certainly not least, enjoy the heck out of your time here. You’re only here for a few years, and while some days it’ll feel like forever, I promise you: This is such a short portion of your life.

Don’t waste it. Take advantage of this opportunity.

There are thousands of people who would kill to be in your shoes, studying at the University of Missouri.

But at the same time, don’t let yourself get burned out from hitting the books too hard. Take time to step back and enjoy it. Take way too many photos of you and your friends. Take your work seriously, but don’t take yourself seriously. Don’t be afraid to let your guard down and be a total goofball or a complete mess sometimes. You’re either in the middle of or just beginning one of the craziest, most challenging, most amazing, most thought-provoking times in your life. Don’t miss it sitting in front of a screen or hiding behind a book.

(Oh, and read MOVE. That’s the best piece of advice I can give you.)

Until next time, MOVErs.

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For those who think rock and roll is dead: Take one listen to Clairy Browne and the Bangin’ Rackettes to be proven wrong. A nine-piece group from Australia, the group came to the public’s view after buzz over their debut album Baby Caught the Bus, released in the U.S. in 2013.

Led by the magnificently strong lead vocalist Clairy Browne, whose pipes bring to mind fellow bellowing and beautiful vocalists Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine and Amy Winehouse, the group presents a nostalgic retro-soul sound matched with layers of ‘90s pop and ‘50s doowop.

In anticipation for their Sept.

8 Blue Note appearance, MOVE chatted with Browne about her early musical loves, singing Frank Ocean in the shower and live chemistry.

MOVE Magazine: How did you develop your style of singing?

Clairy Browne: It’s something that just came naturally for me. I had a lot of musical influences while growing up, and continued gaining more influence that helped shape my style of singing.

MM: When you first fell in love with music, which musicians did you idolize?

CB: When I was three years old, my parents took me to see Stevie Wonder. My memory is vague, but

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absorbs the cost of dry cleaning and the store returns the suit to the client free of charge.

If a client doesn’t want to undergo the consignment process, Gilpin offers two other options. He’ll either buy the suit outright and give the customer cash for it, or he’ll give the client double that amount plus a dollar in store credit.

In either case, Gilpin said he likes his clients to understand the process. He has the suit dry-cleaned, preps it for display and prices it, taking pride in being forthright.

“I don’t want (a client) to think I’m trying to buy a suit from (him) for $2 and sell it for $102,” Gilpin says. “That’s not the way we like to do it. We’re very upfront.”

Consignment suits make

up what Gilpin estimates to be Gilpin is to swing by Alley A. one percent of his inventory, Gilpin decided not to have a in part because he doesn’t telephone in his store because consign suits unless they’re he believes suit buying to be worth over $1,000, but also a personal process. He also because Gilpin simply doesn’t realizes that the majority of encounter many consignment men don’t understand how clients anymore. He thinks suits are supposed to fit, and it’s a sign of changing times. he wants to educate them.

“I think it’s a faster-paced “It’s like, my crystal ball broke, world,” he says. “Nobody wants I can’t tell what size you are,” to wait 90 days to come back to Gilpin says. “You need to be in the store and get their money.” (the store). Guys should feel free Gilpin says he thinks of his to come in and play dress up. We store as having a classy, traditional can play dress up all day long.”

Gilpin likes to make sure aesthetic. He’s proud of the range and high quality of his inventory his customers will be happy — he says it’s “kind of like Ralph with the clothes they buy, Lauren threw up in the store.” as he has no return policy.

But The Dapper Don also has “Men are a lot like women a distinctly charming vibe. This in that they buy things a size is no national chain or hipster small hoping to fit into them haven. It’s an old school mom- — it never works,” he says. “I and-pop shop that Gilpin runs have a habit of talking guys with his mother and their golden out of purchases. I don’t want retriever. The store doesn’t people leaving the store looking have a telephone or email bad, (for their own sake) and address; the only way to contact for the reputation of the store.”

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Segall ballad, “The Singer” proves to be a wonderful touch.

Fear not, Segall traditionalists.

Not counting his cornerstone classics “Finger” (2010) and “I Bought My Eyes” (2012, with Ty Segall Band), “Manipulator” offers unimaginably wild slamdancing salutes that may be his best yet, with the protopunk “Susie Thumb” and “It’s Over” hefty on punk energy and maniacal guitar work.

The album overflows with the corrosively acidic hard rock Segall was raised on, but he still plays cleaner, more melodic songs. Everything seems to be an experiment gone well for the San Fran punk savior.

Segall pulls every conceivable maneuver on what once was a fuzz-filled flood of simple chord progressions with the technicality of someone playing as consistently as he does.

Opening with a poppy organ over steady drumming, the wailing, soothing guitar beauty begins early on the title track, as Segall trades sharp screams for a high-pitched sigh and even some soul-style “ooohs.”

He keeps the psychedelic groove going into the album’s standout track, “Tall Man Skinny Lady,” and combines a funky drum with an acoustic lead riff and scorching sounds of feedback that lead into a melting pot of lavishly danceable punk rock.

Through “Tall Man,” Segall shows “lo-fi or die” underground garage rock believers his hooks can be as manipulatively enticing as his sludgy, distorted bangers, and that element to his sound is why he’s king.

From there, all seventeen tracks off the double album compliment while competing with each other. Segall holds a consistent, breathlessly furious energy, only changing the fuzz level and era of style.

“Manipulator ” without question holds the fewest of forgetful tunes compared to any of his past work. Ty Segall has yet again pushed through any possible pigeonholing by critics and fans alike, and has found a way to channel each element of rock that makes him the musician he is.

there were some chunks of unblended fruit — if you can’t stand that, ensure they blend your smoothie well. Although the nutritional value is not listed, the website states that all Blenders smoothies are made completely from scratch without purees, powdered mixes, syrups or ice. A 16-ounce smoothie costs $3.95, making it the cheapest of the three, perfect

for broke college students or anyone trying to save a buck.

Blenders is doing it all right, and with a large and diverse menu, they have a smoothie for just about everyone.

The runner up is Red Mango, a franchise that may be known first for its frozen yogurt but still serves up a sweet smoothie.

The Strawberry Sonata, made with strawberry, banana and an apple-orange juice blend, tastes as good as its name sounds.

It melted quickly in the hot weather because of its thinner consistency, but this 16-ounce

For those who may be worried about the quality of the suits Gilpin takes in, he has developed an admirable and unique vetting process meant to allay the fears of nervous customers.

“I’m not going to accept anything that I wouldn’t want to buy myself,” Gilpin says. “I smell the suits. We take stuff from smoking homes; maybe it’ll have a strong animal scent that we might not be able to get out.”

Gilpin grew up in formal wear. As a boy in Ashland, in the ‘60s, he wore a suit to church on Sundays. In his first job as a healthcare administrator, he made a good salary, but said he had to dress like he was making twice what they paid him.

“I was going broke buying suits,” he says.

So Gilpin and a couple of his friends collected all of their suits and opened up a consignment store in Madison, Wisconsin, called It Suits

You. The store remained open for eight years before Gilpin moved back home to Missouri and opened up a consignment store in Jefferson City. That store will celebrate its twoyear anniversary this January.

Gilpin came to Columbia because he wanted to help students at MU as well as the community as a whole.

“Our business model is a lot about giving back,” he says. “The first year in Jeff City, we gave $4,100 to charitable organizations in the community, and we’re doing the same things (in Columbia).”

Gilpin said he thinks giving back to the Columbia community is of immense importance.

As for his opinion on the value of a nice suit, he defers to the wisdom of Coco Chanel, paraphrasing, “Dress shabbily and they remember the suit; dress impeccably and they remember the man.”

smoothie is kosher, gluten free and only 160 calories. A 16-ounce smoothie at Red Mango also only costs around $4.20, giving it the secondlowest price out of the three.

Main Squeeze comes in last place in multiple categories, primarily in taste. The Strawberry Manilow, made with orange, strawberry and banana, lacked the sweetness that makes smoothies irresistible, but did have a great consistency that was thick but still fully blended.

The nutritional value is not listed on their website, but

their smoothies are organic and made with 100 percent fruit.

Unfortunately, the smoothie, while healthy, does not have an impressive or delectable taste and is the most expensive at $5.50 for a 16-ounce smoothie.

These smoothies are ranked in order by taste, nutritional value and cost — but each brings something special to the table. Next time you are walking around campus in this smoldering weather, check out the place that sounds right for you and grab a smoothie to cool down.

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Missouri Tigers quarterback Maty Mauk (7) hands the ball off to running back Russell Hansbrough (32) in the first half. Hansbrough rushed for a net of 126 yards in Saturday’s game against the Jackrabbits.

TIGER TRACKER PLAYER TO WATCH Toledo Rockets Sophomore running back Kareem Hunt Replacing the the greatest player in program history is no easy task, but that’s what Rockets running back Kareem Hunt has been tasked with by stepping in former running back David Fluellen’s shoes. Hunt has already shown he has what it takes (136 yards and two touchdowns in Week 1) and is always a big play threat.

Missouri Tigers Mauk came out of the gates firing against South Dakota State but lacked consistency throughout the game, failing to sustain drives later in the contest. If he cannot find success downfield, the Tigers defense could be stranded on the field.

PREDICTION While Toledo is no powerhouse program, the Rockets will still pose a challenge for a developing Missouri squad. Hunt and the Toledo’s other dynamic offensive weapons will keep this contest tight and tense throughout, but ultimately the Mizzou’s defense will step up in crunch time and secure the win for Gary Pinkel’s homecoming.

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Hansbrough confident as starter Offensive coordinator Henson on the running back: “The sky’s the limit for him.”

AARON REISS Sports Editor in

The most amazing play Mizzou’s season opening

victory against South Dakota State shouldn’t have happened.

Junior running back Russell Hansbrough took the handoff from sophomore quarterback Maty Mauk and stopped almost as soon as he got started. His pause allowed a South Dakota State lineman to run past him, further downfield.

Then Hansbrough shed a would-be tackler and spun the other way, to the eastern side of

Faurot Field. After he stiff-armed another Jackrabbit, Hansbrough ran to the pylon for a touchdown.

It was a 10-yard run that required a whole lot more leg-churning because of a miscommunication between Hansbrough and one of his roommates, junior center Evan Boehm.

When Boehm apologized,

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Volleyball replacing an ‘anchor’ with Keala “It’s evolving as we go,” coach Wayne Kreklow said.

WILL JARVIS Reporter Missouri coach Wayne Kreklow compared his former setter to a naval instrument.

Kreklow said that for four years, Molly Kreklow served as an “anchor” at setter for the Missouri volleyball team.

Following her graduation, that anchor has been lifted.

The Tigers are attempting to

replace the solid foundation that kept the team grounded, and sophomore Loxley Keala is hoping to be the next anchor.

Keala, who served as a defensive specialist her freshman season, played in all 36 matches, pulling 214 digs and tallying 26 points for Mizzou.

Despite her successes, Keala does not think she is immune to the difficulties that come with making a position change.

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Missouri Tigers setter Loxley Keala takes a breath between points during a game against Georgia, Oct. 18, 2013 at the Hearnes Center.

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Buckeye Beginnings Jason Lowenthal This week, No. 24 Missouri travels to the Glass Bowl to take on the Reporter Toledo Rockets. It marks a homecoming for both head coach Gary

Pinkel and quarterback Maty Mauk, and the Tigers will have their first road test of the season. Here’s a look back at Pinkel and Mauk’s history in the state of Ohio and their journeys to Missouri.

Pinkel is born in Akron, Ohio.

After receiving his bachelor’s degree in education from Kent State (Ohio) where he played as a tight end, Pinkel begins his work as a graduate assistant with the Golden Flashes.

Pinkel returns to Ohio as a wide receivers coach at Bowling Green State following one year as a tight ends coach at Washington. He stays at BGSU for two years before departing once again for Washington to take a similar position.

Nick Saban leaves Toledo after one season as head coach to become the defensive coordinator of the Cleveland Browns. The Rockets then introduce Pinkel as the 22nd head coach in team history.

Mauk is born in Kenton, Ohio.

Toledo finishes the season as one of only three undefeated teams in the nation, along with Nebraska and Florida. The Rockets compiled an 11-0-1 record, defeated Nevada 40-37 in the Las Vegas Bowl and ended the season ranked No. 24 in the final Associated Press poll. Pinkel is also awarded the Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year award.

Pinkel is inducted into the Kent State’s Varsity “K” Hall of Fame.

1952 1974 1977 1991 1994 1995 1997 2000 2007 2010 2011 2012 2013-14 Sept 6, 2014 In his final year at Toledo, Pinkel guides the Rockets to a 10-1 season and a third MAC West Division title in four years.

The season included a 24-6 victory before a crowd of more than 94,000 at Penn State.

Pinkel ends his career at Toledo as the winningest coach in program history with 73 victories. He is hired as Mizzou’s 31st head coach on Nov. 30.

Pinkel leads Mizzou to its most successful season in team history at 12-2. The Tigers finish the regular season atop the national rankings and are one win away from playing for the national title, but suffered a 38-17 loss to Oklahoma in the Big 12 Championship.

Mizzou captures its third Big 12 North division title in four seasons. The Tigers compiled a 40-14 overall record during that span.

Mauk officially commits to Mizzou in July as the nation’s No. 16 quarterback prospect out of Kenton (Ohio) High School.

Mauk finishes his prep career holding national records for passing yards (18,932), passing touchdowns (219), completions (1,353) and total offense (22,681). His senior season included 5,413 passing yards, 68 passing touchdowns, 1,768 rushing yards and 24 rushing touchdowns.

Mauk is redshirted by the team and does not play.

Pinkel becomes Mizzou’s winningest head coach in program history with a 41-31 victory over Oklahoma State in the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic.

The win is No. 102 in his career at Missouri, breaking the record previously held by legendary coach Don Faurot. Mauk plays an integral part during the season, stepping in when starting quarterback James Franklin goes down with an injury. He makes four starts, passing for 1,071 yards and 11 touchdowns and earns SEC All-Freshman accolades.

Missouri will take on Toledo in the second week of the season as Pinkel and Mauk make their returns to Ohio.

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Offensive line bonding after new additions Gatti and Hall had a combined two career starts entering the 2014 campaign.

ANDREW MCCULLOCH Staff Writer It’s been a while since Missouri offensive linemen Connor McGovern, Mitch Morse and Evan Boehm have missed a game. The trio have played 15, 26 and 27 consecutive games, respectively.

Steadiness is the name of the game along the offensive line. Morse, a senior captain at left tackle, started every game of the 2013 season. And Boehm, a junior center, has started every game since 2012.

But for two Mizzou offensive linemen, guards Mitch Hall and Anthony Gatti, the streak stands at one. While the junior and senior were both contributors to last season’s school record 12-win season, the two had a combined two career starts entering the 2014 campaign.

“It has been great for me,” Gatti said.

“Just being out there and playing with some of my best friends is awesome. Getting the rust out during camp and spring ball was good for me. Now we are just out there having fun and trying to dominate.”

The two new kids on the line set out on Saturday to prove their worth as

part of the revamped starting group.

“First game, we were trying to get out there and show everybody what we got,” Gatti said. “Of course, there are a lot of things to work on. There are always things you need to work on, which is part of the game, but just being able to get out there and play a little ball was awesome for me.”

Coach Gary Pinkel said he was pleased with his team’s performance in the trenches, but explained that the Tigers would have to improve in order to prolong drives and be more successful offensively.

“I think we got a little bit tired in certain parts of some drives and did not finish some plays,” Pinkel said. “But those are some things we can work on and get it done.

The big thing offensively is getting better on third downs, where we have not been as good but we are working very hard at.”

Missour i was just 3-11 on t h i rd - d o w n c o nv e r s i o n s .

All in all, the two newbies have been bonding well with their fellow starters and friends along the line and hope to continue growing the group‘s chemistry — and facial hair — all season long.

Boehm said that during Tiger Walk before South Dakota State, his father mistook Gatti for him — their shaved heads and scruffy beards eerily alike.

“We always hang out together,” Hall said. “And I feel like we are starting to mesh real well together and we just have to keep working together.”

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Unlimited snacks are a victory MITCHELL FORDE

Forward Taylor Grant starts the season off right Grant is already approaching her goal total from last season.

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Mizzou swimmer and Maneater columnist Mitchell Forde on unlimited snacks.

I have a lot of people to thank for helping me along my journey as a student-athlete. Shabazz Napier is one of them.

Yes, that Shabazz Napier.

After leading the University of Connecticut basketball team to a national title this past April, the Final Four Most Outstanding Player told media that “sometimes, there’s hungry nights where I’m not able to eat, but I still gotta play up to my capabilities.”

All student-athletes have been there before.

Napier spoke of a constant problem for athletes everywhere: replenishing the thousands of calories we burn in training every day.

For a swimmer like myself, this is especially difficult.

You may have heard of Michael Phelps’ 10,000-caloriea-day diet. During the hardest training of our season, I would wager I come close to matching that.

Hunger is a constant foe, but fighting it can get tricky for a college student on a budget. I frequently stuff myself at dinner, eating four or five plates of food until I feel ready to burst, but then find myself starving again a couple hours later. My choices then are to either spend money on more food or go to bed hungry, like Napier.

Just days after Napier complained about his hunger, the NCAA announced a game-changing new policy. They abolished limits on the amount of free snacks schools were allowed to offer student-athletes, effectively allowing student-athletes to eat as much food as they needed until dinnertime.

Shabazz Napier, champion of the masses. Who would’ve thought?

Granted, no one has actually admitted that his comments had any effect on the new policy. In fact, according to a Forbes article published last April, the issue of whether to allow schools to provide student-athletes unlimited food was first brought up in 2012. But I find it hard to believe that these reforms being announced eight days after Napier’s complaints are a pure coincidence. It seems most likely that Napier’s comments helped expedite the decision.

Before the rule change, scholarship athletes could receive only one free meal from a training-table dining hall. It was also possible for athletes to receive money for the cost of campus dining plans. However, the majority of athletes were lucky to receive anything more than one free meal.

I, like most swimmers, was responsible for paying for all of my food.

Now, the Missouri Athletic Training Complex dining hall is open for unlimited “snacks” between 7:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Food is free in the dining hall between these times, and in addition, student-athletes can fill a to-go box. Then, from 4:30-7 p.m., dinner is served. Dinner still costs the same as last year, but this can be covered by a food scholarship.

Under the new rules, it is possible for me to eat two meals and take some snacks with me, all for free, every weekday. This saves me money that I would’ve spent on groceries or a meal plan. It also eliminates the need to decide between saving money and getting the food I need to perform at my best.

The new policy does not quite cover everything. I am still on my own to find food after dinner and on weekends when the MATC is not open. Still, it is a huge improvement, especially for student-athletes like me who are not on meal scholarship. I eat one more meal a day at the MATC, for free, than I did last year.

I realize that it is really the NCAA I have to thank for the rule change, not Napier. It’s just fun to think of Napier as the heroic activist behind the change. Regardless, unlimited snacks is a major victory for student-athletes.

Assistant Sports Editor Taylor Grant is on fire.

The senior forward for the Missouri soccer team has scored four of the team’s seven goals in their four games, including two against No. 13 West Virginia, putting her in good position to potentially make history by breaking the program’s singleseason goals record.

“She has incredible work ethic,” associate head coach Brian Dooley said. “She’s a serious soccer player who wants to win, and she’ll do what’s necessary to help her team.”

In her three seasons with the Tigers prior to this year, she scored a total of nine goals. Grant put rather simply how the young season has been so far: “fun.”

“We’re a bunch of different personalities, but it seems to come together pretty well,” Grant said of her team. “We can be on the field and be super competitive and walk

off and give each other a hug and goof around.”

Grant has been named co-captain of the squad, along with fellow seniors midfielder Kaysie Clark and goalkeeper McKenzie Sauerwein.

With the new title, along with the success of this season, the Texas native has quickly become a leader to the younger players.

“Taylor has been like a role model,” freshman forward Jessica Johnson said. “She’s been a great motivator and always helps out.”

Grant’s friendly personality has helped younger players adjust to the team.

“She’s very warm and has a nice laugh,” Johnson said. “She’s an awesome person and cares about the whole team.”

Johnson is adjusting to her new position as a forward. She previously played midfield and said she goes to Grant for advice.

Clark, who has been playing with Grant for the past three years, has provided two of four assists for Grant this season.

“On the field, I think we connect very well,” Clark said. “Since she’s a forward and I’m a midfielder, I try

to find her a lot. She’s really fast so I try to give her a lot of through balls.”

Not only does Grant hope to build on her own performance, but also to help the team improve overall.

Last year, the Tigers went 9-9-3.

Grant said she thinks they can do better this year.

She’s used to success, having won a national championship with her club team, the Dallas Texans, when she was a freshman in high school.

“We want to go all the way and win the SEC championship outright,” Grant said. “We just have to focus on the games coming up and play each one game by game.”

For the time being, the Tigers (3-1) can rally around Grant’s character.

“She’s an intense competitor,” Dooley said of Grant. “She does all of the dirty work up top — chasing down the ball and putting pressure on the other teams’ defenders.

It’s the example you want your freshmen to follow.”

Grant’s Hot Start Senior Taylor Grant has come out of the gates shooting and making plenty of goals for Mizzou soccer.

1 Goal

4 goals scored this season by Grant

shy of the total number of goals Grant scored last season

57% of the Tigers’ goals scored this season

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Hansbrough kept it cool and short, like he always does.

“Hey, you had to make me work a little bit more, and that’s fine,” Hansbrough told Boehm.

Normally, coaches’ blood would boil at the sight of a running back going east and west, not north and south. On Saturday?

“Nobody,” Hansbrough said.

Missouri coach Gary Pinkel called the play and the rest of Hansbrough’s 20-rush, 126yard performance Saturday just “a glimpse of what (Hansbrough) is capable of.”

He’ll have a chance to show a lot more as Mizzou’s new starting running back.

“We kind of expected that

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court the entire time,” Keala said. “You have to worry about the other five people that are on the court with you.”

Kaela was recruited out of high school as a setter, and she waited in the wings for her chance set for the Tigers. But the transition from high school ball to college is a big one — one that her teammates say she is hard at work preparing for.

“There are so many things that I was not aware of in high

THE MANEATER | SPORTS | SEPTEMBER 3, 2014 from him,” Pinkel said. “You saw the talent he is when that play broke down. He turned a threeyard loss into a touchdown.”

The flashy run was cool, and the 126 yards were big, but it’s the other number that sticks out to Hansbrough — the number he hadn’t seen before in college, or even in high school: 20. He said that the last time he ran the ball that many times in one game was “maybe in pee wee football.”

It’s a transition the running back will make this season. Pinkel said he wants Hansbrough to get approximately 20 carries every game. That’s far different from last season, when Hansbrough ran for 714 yards but had ten or more carries in just three games.

After playing sparingly as a true freshman and having the third-most carries for the Tigers

last season behind running back Henry Josey and quarterback James Franklin, Hansbrough said he is associating the increase in touches with more leadership responsibility.

He doesn’t speak much — when asked if wide receiver Darius White’s claim that Hansbrough is funny is valid,

school that I need to think about now,” she said. “It’s about watching the block on the other side or just paying attention to certain rotations. There’s just a lot more thinking involved.”

Kreklow compares his setters to quarterbacks in football, navigating the offense and everyone’s position on the court.

As “quarterback,” Keala will have to be aware of everything happening on both sides of the net, whether that be an opponent blocker coming towards the middle, or recognizing a weaker defensive player and setting the ball in order to expose that, all without losing a split second.

“The mental game is so important at the college level. You have no time to think and everything has to be instinctive,” Keala said.

Keala’s attitude will also set the tone for a Tigers team still searching for a true identity early in the season. The sophomore’s style is very different than Molly Kreklow’s, both in how she interacts with her teammates during and between points.

“It’s going to take some getting used to, not just for me, but also for my teammates,” Keala said. “Because I am different than Molly and we do have different styles.”

Keala’s position is not

Hansbrough said, “yeah, yeah, yeah.” But Hansbrough said he leads by example, hoping to model Josey’s work ethic.

“I’m going to just keep running harder,” Hansbrough said.

Hansbrough doesn’t have to learn much more of the playbook than he did last year, Missouri offensive coordinator

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Josh Henson said. Rather, Henson said, being Mizzou’s every down back is “in the details, more than anything.”

“It’s just doing things right, over and over again,” Henson said. “If Russell does that, talentwise, the sky’s the limit for him.”

HANSBROUGH’S 714 YARDS LAST SEASON MADE UP 19.6 OF THE TEAM’S TOTAL 3,635 RUSHING YARDS HANSBROUGH RAN FOR FOUR OF MIZZOU’S 35 RUSHING TOUCHDOWNS LAST SEASON

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entirely set in stone. Early on, Keala has shared time with freshman setter Ali Kreklow, playing a 6-2 offensive system, which allows both Keala and Ali Kreklow opportunities to set.

The competition is fierce but friendly in practice and matches, as both have made their own claims to whether they should be permanently split time or have a solid starting job.

“Loxley and Ali are two totally different setters and there’s adjusting for all of us,” senior Whitney Little said.

Due to injuries, it is also possible that Keala will spend time as an outside hitter.

Her athleticism and

competitive drive have led coach Wayne Kreklow to experiment using her at various positions around the court.

“Right now she’s actually hitting for us, so Lox is one of our best all-around players,” Wayne Kreklow said.

“We’re trying to figure out a way to utilize everything.”

Wayne Kreklow emphasized the process of solidifying the lineup, but said there is no set timetable to replace the All-American Molly Kreklow.

“We have a long way to go,” he said. “There are big shoes to fill and that’s not something that will happen overnight, but it’s evolving as we go.”

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