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Proposed budget cuts One Mizzou GEORGE ROBERSON Staff Writer

build championship programs. Not just winning teams, but championship programs that are good every year.”

But he also acknowledged that it will be difficult to improve an athletic department that has already had so much recent success.

“Gosh darnit, did you have to be that good?” he asked Alden with a smile.

“This is not a fixer-upper. The job that Mike has done here in 17 years, it has been tremendous. The challenge is, how do you take something where Mike has set the bar so high and continue to push it?”

One Mizzou’s funding was cut in the first draft of the Missouri Students Association budget, which arrived in committee March 3.

The budget, which was put together by MSA Vice President Brenda Smith-Lezama and Budget Chairman Bill Vega, will reach full Senate on March 18 after it passes through Budget Committee. The majority of the increases related to salaries while there were cuts to services and activities across the board.

One Mizzou's $1,000 budget from fiscal year 2015 was removed in the new budgetary year. Smith-Lezama said this was because the program lost its focus and outlived its usefulness.

One Mizzou was founded in February 2011 after two racially charged incidents. The student-led diversity initiative hosted a One Mizzou week in November 2012, during which Maya Angelou spoke at Missouri Theatre.

The initiative was later criticized for failing to live up to its expectations and largely fizzling out due to what MSA President Payton Head called “a lack of vision” in a Nov. 18, 2014 Maneater article.

Smith-Lezama said the cut to One Mizzou was thought about early on in the process.

"One Mizzou was intended to be something that would change the atmosphere here on campus. However, we believe that it really hasn't fulfilled its potential,” she said.

“Especially after the events ... relating to Mike Brown and the protests and the open forum that we had, we realized that the student body does not believe in One Mizzou. The student body no longer believes it's beneficial, so ... it's not something that we need to keep around. I've spoken to Chancellor (R. Bowen) Loftin, Dr. (Cathy) Scroggs, Noor (Azizan-Gardner), Young (Kwon) from Four Front, and we've all reached the same conclusion: We're going to pull back on (One Mizzou)."

Overall allocations were $35,892 less in this proposal than in the budget that passed last year, with many departments and auxiliaries taking cuts.

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Mack Rhoades speaks at a press conference Tuesday at the MU Student Center in Columbia. Rhoades will replace Mike Alden as the Missouri athletic director in late April.

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A ‘destination job’ for Rhoades MICHAEL NATELLI Assistant Sports Editor “Amy comes walking into our home office and asks, ‘Mack, have you done the taxes?’”

In case you were wondering along with his wife, Mack Rhoades has not done his taxes. But cut him some slack.

He’ll get to it.

He’s had kind of a busy week.

Rhoades was introduced as Missouri’s new athletic director on Tuesday. After spending five and half years at the University of Houston, he will take over for Mike Alden, who had been at the helm of Mizzou Athletics for 17 years.

Rhoades was known at Houston for his ability to raise funds and to hire championship-caliber coaches. In his five-plus years, Houston constructed the $120 million TDECU Stadium as well as a $25 million basketball practice facility. Rhoades was also responsible for hiring basketball coach Kelvin Sampson and football coach Tom Watson, both of whom have championships to their names.

Rhoades’ message was plain and simple: He wants to take Missouri to the next level. “(Winning) is extremely important,” Rhoades said. “That’s part of the reason why we do this. We want to

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Administration seeks plan of action to address race relations

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The U.S. Department of Justice’s March 4 report revealed callousness and racial biases on the part of the Ferguson Police Department in emails discussing African-American

Black Collegians. “I’m not surprised by the results of the investigation.

It’s not shocking anymore; it’s more hurtful.”

While the Justice Department’s findings troubled her personally, Mottley said she is more focused on what she can do for students at MU. “There’s only so much we can

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do from here that can positively affect Ferguson,” she said. “If I can do things as an individual to help Ferguson, I will. But as a leader of the black student government here, I need to make sure that students feel comfortable here.”

Following a December listening session related to the events in

NEWS MU kicked off its participation in the “It’s On Us” campaign last week.

Ferguson, MU administrators called on student leaders from various organizations to discuss a plan of action for addressing race relations on campus and changing the campus climate. Students suggested stronger dialogue on race, and administrators

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citizens of its community. The report cited insensitive comments and caricatures made by Ferguson officials, including an email which depicted President Barack Obama as a chimpanzee.

“Honestly, it’s just blow after blow after blow,” said senior LeChae Mottley, president of the Legion of

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Members of the Residence Hall Association attend the annual RHA Ball on March 6 hosted at Memorial Union in Columbia. Billy Donley and Rachel Thomas were announced as the new RHA President and Vice President.

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Students tackle world hunger ESTHER SEAWELL Staff Writer Former Chancellor Brady Deaton found his lifelong passion for fighting world hunger issues when he participated in 4-H clubs as a child.

He joined the Peace Corps in 1962 and taught vocational agriculture to high school students in Nan, Thailand. The experience strengthened the then 20-year-old’s interest in international affairs, which he carried into his 24-year career at MU. Even after retiring from MU in December 2013, Deaton continues to inspire students, faculty and staff to help address world hunger through the Brady and Anne Deaton Institute for University Leadership and International Development. Its main goals are to strengthen the leadership roles of universities that work in international development, Deaton said in an email.

“Certainly, a principal goal that remains is to strengthen the role of the University of Missouri in contributing to food and health security and reducing poverty in low income countries,” he said. “To particularly demonstrate the multiand interdisciplinary dimensions that draws on MU strength and which are so vitally needed in the food security and health dimensions.”

Involving students While its mission remains the same, Deaton said the institute has remodeled itself to form better connections with undergraduates interested in international affairs.

Sophomore Maria Kalaitzandonakes,

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RHA finds new ‘Heart’ in Donley/Thomas WAVERLY COLVILLE Staff Writer Billy Donley and Rachel Thomas are the fresh faces of the Residence Halls Association.

The two freshmen were announced victorious as the new RHA president and vice president, respectively, at the RHA Ball on March 6.

The slate received 495 votes, while the opposing slate, which consisted of current RHA President Steven Chaffin and freshman Nina Ruhe, collected a total of 274 votes.

Chaffin and RHA Vice President Brooke Wiggins won with 378

votes, or 58 percent of the students who voted in the 2014 election.

The Donley/Thomas slate’s platform, “Heart Mizzou,” comprised four pillars: outreach, sustainability, foundation and service. They said they hope to develop a more approachable relationship with residents, increase sustainability efforts in the residence halls, reform the internal functions of RHA and promote service and leadership opportunities.

Thomas’s vice presidential emphasis will be on service. She said she looks forward to providing service opportunities to residents

next year and wants to emphasize advocacy.

“Service isn’t just about raising money for charitable organizations, although that’s important,” Thomas said.

They want to start a new program with the Missouri Students Association and the Legion of Black Collegians called Tiger’s Leadership Initiative, which will be a leadership conference aimed at first-year students.

During their leadership, they said, they hope to attend every hall government meeting at least

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Student body diversity scrutinized HAILEY STOLZE Staff Writer As dialogue over race relations and diversity on campus re-intensifies, some students say a major point of contention is the makeup of the student body itself.

Senior Mauria Tomlin said while she believes MU does have some racial diversity, it has a long way to go before it’s diverse enough to be comfortable.

“I’m still the only AfricanAmerican girl in my class

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MU students attend a biology lecture Monday at Anheuser-Busch Natural Resources Building.

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Godwin leads project for new telescope During her career with NASA, Godwin participated in four different missions into space.

STEVIE MYERS Staff Writer For Linda Godwin, getting into a space shuttle is a lot like getting into a car.

“In general, nobody thinks that anything is going to happen on their launch day,” she said. “Like when you get in a car, you don’t think, ‘Well, I know in Missouri there’s going to be a lot of car wrecks today.’

You don’t go in thinking, ‘It’s probably going to happen to me.’ You just don’t think it’s going to.”

Godwin, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been on four different missions into space through the NASA astronaut program.

She said she first applied to become an astronaut during graduate school while she was working towards her doctorate in physics at MU. When Godwin applied, NASA had just began actively recruiting women for the space shuttle program. Since recruiters were looking for applicants with backgrounds in areas such as science, engineering, medicine and technology, Godwin said she felt she definitely had the qualifications to apply for the program — and be slightly competitive.

Although she did not get selected at first, Godwin said she was offered another position.

“Later, they had another selection for the astronaut program, and that year I applied and got an interview in Houston at the Johnson Space Center,” Godwin said. “While they didn’t offer me the astronaut job at that time, they did offer me a job to come down and work for them, so I definitely took that offer out of grad school, then got in a later class of astronauts while I was down there.”

It wasn’t until five years after she began working for NASA that Godwin said she finally got accepted into the astronaut program.

Before this, Godwin worked for an area in the shuttle program.

“I supported the earlier days of the shuttle program from what we call the ‘payloads area,’” she said. “All the systems on the shuttle were divided up into a whole different group of names, but our area was the stuff that changed out every mission that was different.”

Overall, each of Godwin’s four flight missions have included very different tasks.

For her first flight, the mission was to deploy an astronomical obser vator y looking at gamma rays.

In later missions, Godwin worked on flights that docked with the Russian Space Station and also the International Space Station. These missions normally involved bringing and returning crew and supplying hardware.

Between flight missions, Godwin said she stayed very busy working on other aspects of the program.

“During the time in between, we’d have training in the simulator or with robotics because there was a shuttle robotic arm and in the water tank training to do spacewalks and things,” Godwin said.

“We did that kind of training interspersed all the time, but usually, we’d get back from the mission and they’d give us a technical assignment in the office we’d do for a while and wait to be reassigned."

Godwin said she took the risks of shuttle flight more into consideration after her first few missions.

“If you don’t think about what could go wrong, then you’re not really understanding what you’re doing,” she said.

“I think that when you’re in it, there’s a sense of, you know, you’re focused, you’ve waited to do it for a long time. Particularly the first time or two, but then later on, there are the thoughts of risk versus gain with doing it again.”

Lanika Ruzhitskaya, director of the Science Outreach Center at Saint Francis University in Pennsylvania, said she’s known Godwin for close to eight years.

Godwin took over the Astronomy 1010 course from Ruzhitskaya when she began teaching at MU. Ruzhitskaya said she and Godwin frequently worked together through this process and often discussed how the students learn in the class.

“She was very interested in

how to help students and how to get them excited and how to get them to understand,” Ruzhitskaya said. “She’s very much interested in helping students and showing them how to achieve their best in her courses.”

Ruzhitskaya also said that Godwin is very active in other aspects of the physics department. When students visited from other schools, Ruzhitskaya said Godwin was always there to help.

“In the observatory, Linda was always helping,” she said.

“Anytime we had students come from even high school, middle school or even the little ones, Linda was always helping anytime she could. We’d tell her we had a group of kids coming and she would be there, quite frequently actually. She was great.”

Godwin “took the initiative” to begin working with students to add another telescope to the dome on the roof of the Physics Building, Ruzhitskaya said.

The new telescope will give students in upper-level physics and astronomy courses the opportunity to collect data through new computer programs that the older telescope is not compatible with. The project should be completed by the beginning of this summer.

“She’s working with students, and that’s just something that she does,” Ruzhitskaya said.

“She really puts her trust in students, and she works with them to do things. Instead of getting an extensive specialist or anything, she really thinks

that it’s important for students to learn and work with her to really help them. She’s just that kind of person.”

Ruzhitskaya said Godwin is a good friend as well.

“It’s just so impressive how somebody who has their own family and their own worries finds time to come and help a friend,” Ruzhitskaya said.

“That’s just the kind of person she is. She really puts the people around her first, and she’s always thinking about how to help them.”

Godwin said choosing which mission was the best or most memorable is like choosing between your own children.

However, she said that there is always something to be said about the first flight into space.

“You don’t know what it’s going to be like to get up there and orbit around the Earth,” Godwin said. “So just getting up there and getting to see that for the first time and seeing how to do just daily stuff. I mean, not big things, but just living each day with everything floating around and finding that out.”

Godwin said she found very memorable moments in each of her missions because they were all very different and unique.

“The first time, I really enjoyed being the operator of the robotic arm, but then on my second trip, we had to document a lot of what we saw going on on Earth, so there was a lot of window time,” Godwin said. “Then I got to see both the Russian and International Space Stations, so those were all definitely highlights.”

have been mixed feelings on the need to pass the bill.

Sen. David Pearce, R-Warrensburg, said similar bills have been proposed and failed in Missouri before.

“It’s a very important safety issue,” he said. “We actually passed a bill four or five years ago that prohibited texting and driving for those under 21 years old. We had comments from people asking why not everyone was included in the law. So it’s been a goal of ours to increase the number of people following it.”

Pearce said the bill will be incredibly helpful. “ We have to start somewhere,” he said. “Driving and typing is unacceptable.

When you are texting and driving, you are 23 times more likely to be involved in an accident. It is more dangerous than drunk driving.”

Pearce said when people text and drive they’re not only putting themselves at risk, but also those around them.

“Safety trumps everything,” he said. “If someone is only hurting themselves, it’s something, but when there are other people at risk, that’s a different story.”

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, driving a vehicle while texting can be six times more dangerous than driving while intoxicated.

Another report by NHTSA

states that (driver distraction was the cause of 18 percent of all fatal car crashes in 2012.) In addition, 11 percent of drivers 18-23 years old who were involved in a vehicle accident admitted that they were texting when the accident occurred.

“Sometimes there are emergencies and people need to get ahold of others,” freshman Stephanie Sandoval said. “It would be unjust for someone to get a ticket because of an emergency call. I definitely think it would decrease the number of accidents that happen each year.”

The bill tells people what they already know, Sandoval said.

“People just need to be

responsible and use their head,” she said. “We all know texting and driving can lead to accidents. We don’t need a bill to tell us that.”

The bill is needed, MU junior Chris Williams said. “(I’m) conflicted,” he said.

“Texting is distracting, but I would be upset if I got a ticket for it. There is a need for it, though.”

Missouri resident Alexis McColpin said she has a different view on the issue.

“That’s reasonable, because adults are fallible too,” McColpin said. “It’s not like once you turn 21, you are immune to getting in an accident.”

Senate Bill 3 aims to ban texting and driving for those over 21 The bill is sponsored by state Sen. David Pearce of Warrensburg.

MICA SOELLNER Staff Writer Although it can be difficult to pull away from our virtual lives, a new Missouri bill up for debate hopes to accomplish that while behind the wheel.

Senate Bill 3, currently filed in the Missouri Senate, would count texting and driving as a moving violation for people of all ages, not just those under 21 years old. Despite its goals to increase road safety, there

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Dakota Downey helps another student take the "It's On Us" pledge March 5 at the MU Student Center in Columbia.

MU signs on to take ‘It’s On Us’ pledge ‘It’s On Us,’ the national campaign for sexual assault prevention, will branch off of ‘Enough is Enough.’

WAVERLY COLVILLE Staff Writer MU has signed on to the national “It’s On Us” campaign under Missouri Students Association President Payton Head’s leadership.

“It’s On Us” is a sexual assault prevention initiative headed

by President Barack Obama specifically aimed at college campuses. The White House sent guidance to every college that receives federal funding and created the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault to help develop methods on how to respond and prevent sexual assault, according to its website.

MSA decided to end “Enough is Enough,” the sexual assault campaign from last year headed by former MSA President Kelsey Haberberger and former Vice President Matt McKeown. They immediately switched to “It’s On Us” instead of making a slow transition to avoid any confusion among students.

“When I got into office, it seemed like ‘Enough is Enough’ was fizzling out and needed a recharge,” Head said. “We learned of the ‘It’s On Us’ campaign and I thought it would be a great

pledge for Mizzou to take. They’re similar campaigns but ‘Enough is Enough’ served its purpose. It’s a new semester and a new year, so we are looking to brand this campaign as ‘It’s On Us’ that has national guidelines.”

They hope that by joining a national campaign, MU will become a part of a culture change instead of just focusing on this campus.

“If you want to make a change culturally, you have to hope for solidarity,” Director of Student Services Samantha Franks said.

“To be a part of the national campaign, we are joining in on something that’s trying to change the culture of the country.

We’re not only trying to protect ourselves as Mizzou students, but as citizens of the world.”

MU is joining 200 other schools across the country that have adopted “It’s On Us.” A national campaign will bring increased name recognition and nationwide support, campaign coordinator Katherine Harbinson said.

“We need to be standing in solidarity with everyone else who’s signed the pledge,” she said. “As a large institution, it’s something we have a responsibility to stand with.”

When she and Franks brought the idea to Head and the rest of the executive cabinet, everyone was supportive, Harbinson said.

“This speaks volumes as to the kind of people we have in this community,” she said. “It says a lot that we have people who care and are willing to stand up for something and we have people

who are so passionate about the work that they’re doing.”

Harbinson worked with Franks to plan the kickoff event, which was held in the MU Student Center on March 5.

At the event, there were laptops stationed around the student center to recruit students to take the pledge. Speeches were given by Head and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Cathy Scroggs.

There were resource tables from the MU Counseling Center and the Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention Center also present.

Franks is also working on creating posters, buttons, shirts and other visible ways to publicize the campaign. She said she hopes to put posters in the residence halls next semester so freshmen will know immediately about this campaign. She said by knowing about the available resources, people can better educate themselves on sexual assault prevention and awareness.

“We want to make this campaign really visual so even if you don’t attend a program, you’ll know about it and see it everywhere,” Franks said.

In the upcoming months and next semester, “It’s On Us” will be hosting more education-based events.

At an institution of higher learning, when students take the pledge they’re taking the initiative to learn about this issue, Head said.

“The biggest thing is realizing it’s on them,” he said. “It’s on all of us to make sure we have a safe

campus for all genders here.”

Harbinson and Franks are planning future events as part of this campaign. So far, they have planned to have “It’s On Us” host a Title IX panel sometime in April for sexual assault awareness month. This panel will discuss what Title IX is, how to use the Title IX Office and information about sexual assault.

On April 18, the campaign is hosting a conference with student leaders across the state to discuss different methods of preventing sexual assault and brainstorming ideas. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., will give a speech that will be open to the entire campus.

Even though MSA is spearheading the initiative, Head said it will collaborate with many student organizations and administrators to emphasize that the initiative is campus-wide, not just run by one group of students.

Students need to know the entire school at every level is involved, from athletes to Greek Life to Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin, Head said. MSA will also maintain a close relationship with the RSVP Center in many of its endeavors.

“We’ve worked with administrators to make sure we have a campaign that reaches out uniformly to everyone,” Franks said. “Not only having campus culture, but having the administration that supports the campus culture is really important to us.”

The Green Dot program, a tool used to train students on how to be an active bystander in

situations where there is a victim of assault, harassment or sexual violence, will also play a huge role in this campaign.

“It’s On Us” hopes to promote this program to help students incorporate active prevention into their everyday lives. This will help stress the importance that it is everyone’s responsibility to create a safer campus, Harbinson said.

One of Head’s goals is for MU to become an example for other schools in sexual assault prevention.

“It’s time for Mizzou to stop following behind and try to see what other schools are doing and create our own initiative and programs we feel passionately about,” Head said. “Other schools will probably sign on soon and will be looking to Mizzou as a model in how to adopt it and how to sustain it.”

Ideally, in the future, a need for prevention and awareness programs will cease to exist, Head said.

“There are so many wellintentioned people and people with good hearts who truly care about making this campus safer for all identities,” he said. “There’s so many people who express their support and want to get involved.

Many of us know somebody who’s been a victim. One day I would love to get to a point where this wasn’t a thing at all.”

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Continued from page 1 "We always asked (the departments and auxiliaries), 'If you had to cut something, what would you cut?'" Smith-Lezama said.

"That made it easier when it came to reallocating funds."

She said one of the first things to go was funding for banquets and parties. She also said meetings between her and Vega and the different departments went well.

Smith-Lezama and Vega said they worked closer than the executive and legislative branches had in previous years.

"We worked very closely together," Vega said. "I know on one Sunday, we spent five hours together cranking it out right at the end."

Department cuts

Vega announced in Budget committee on Tuesday that Student Legal Services decided to cut the

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At the beginning of his press conference, Rhoades asked Alden and his wife, Rockie, to stand up. He led a round of applause to celebrate Alden’s accomplishments in the position he’ll take over in late April.

“It was important for me that Mike is here so that this group of people here could give him a round of applause and thank him for this university,” Rhoades said.

While Alden himself did not take the microphone on Tuesday, he

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said they will re-evaluate existing diversity programs. Faculty Council has since formed a committee on race relations.

The administration held public forums to discuss with the ideas and issues surrounding race relations in the aftermath of the events in Ferguson with students. In the administration’s December forum officials like Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin were criticized for being too “reactive” in their response to students’ concerns. Loftin issued a statement the following day, vowing to continue discussions about the issue and hold more forums.

But there has not been another forum since. A forum was scheduled for Feb. 16 but was postponed when the university closed due to snow.

Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Cathy Scroggs said the February forum was canceled a week later after administrators couldn’t fine a new venue for the event. The administration will hold forums on March 17 and sometime in April, she said.

Scroggs said students and student leaders alike have come to her office regularly to discuss issues they are facing.

She said she met with Mottley on March 7 and with the Association of Black Graduate and Professional Students representatives on March 10. She said events in Ferguson have served as the catalyst for more serious discussions among

part-time position of night lawyer, freeing up at least $5,850. The change to the budget means that some funds which would previously have been cut will be restored. The committee discussed restoring funds to the MSA/GPC Box Office, Black Programming and STRIPES, among others.

Some of the largest cuts went to departments, which brought in revenue with the expectation that they could earn at least some of that money back. Fall Welcome's allocation, which holds events at the beginning of the school year, dropped by $3,500.

"I think that the cuts we made are not going to be detrimental to anyone," Smith-Lezama said. "We made sure if we were cutting that it would be from somewhere that could be able to recoup those costs.

Pretty much everyone received a little bit of a cut. It was across the board. I don't think there were any major changes."

Speakers received a $2,000 cut, College Music received a $812 cut

and Films received a $740 cut.

Smith-Lezama said the Department of Student Activities was trying to do more large events to attract more paying customers.

"The way that the new exec of DSA is thinking is that they want to bring in big names, big attractions, big draws," Smith-Lezama said.

"They're not just thinking of Columbia. They want to make sure they're pleasing our students, but at the same time, they're looking at acts that can attract people from St. Louis and Kansas City and make sure we're bringing in the top dollar possible."

Part of getting that top dollar is a relationship with Mizzou Arena, which Smith-Lezama said Director of Student Activities Maiya Putman is building.

"That's going to be incredibly beneficial because we're going to be able to house those bigger names," Smith-Lezama said. "We can't bring in one of the most popular acts and put them in the Missouri Theatre. But having the ability to do

a full-arena show or half-arena show would be really beneficial and is going to help the department grow."

New Services were cut to zero because the Department of Student Services wanted to focus on bettering its existing services, Smith-Lezama said.

The weeks worked for executive salaries were uniformly brought down from 36 to 32, the number of weeks in an MU academic year. Overall, executive salaries dropped more than $2,000, as two department directors decided to forgo summer hours and therefore summer pay.

The vice president's number of paid hours in the fall were also increased from six to 10.

"We all think that in the fall, yes, the vice president has a little less to do because the budget season is over," Vega said. "But her time is still very valuable. It was cut last year ... essentially on a whim. (This raise) is essentially a put back. Six hours was a gross underestimate of the time

spent by her, and we thought 10 was much more reasonable."

Senate committee chairpersons will be receiving a stipend of just less than $400 each. The Senate's budget, however, was cut by $650.

The Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention Center, which last year was included in the MSA budget, is now part of the Department of Student Life. The more than $24,000 in funds that was freed up went to fund onethird of Campus Activities Associate Director Kathy Murray's salary, for which MSA is responsible.

Senators will vote for final approval of the budget April 8.

"We will continue to analyze through the committee, and hopefully we'll attract more senators to come in and get a few more voices heard," Vega said. "There will be three consecutive weeks dedicated to passing the budget. I don't anticipate a lot of changes. If anything, there will be maybe small tweaks. What we're trying to do is get fresh eyes on this."

offered similarly flattering words of his successor in a statement.

“He’s terrific,” Alden said. “He’s got a high motor and he’s got great integrity. You have to outwork your competition, particularly in this league, and he has all those characteristics.”

Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin said that while consulting Alden about potential replacements, he gave Rhoades the highest remarks of all candidates.

But the sentiment and celebration of Rhoades’ arrival will be short-lived. When he gets going full-time in the coming weeks, he wants to hit the ground running.

“I’m not a real patient person; I want to get moving,” Rhoades said.

“I want us to get things done and I want us to get things done in a hurry.”

Rhoades said that he doesn’t have anything he feels needs immediate addressing, and that he hasn’t yet had time to fully evaluate the details of how things work. He plans on making multiple trips to Missouri even prior to his late-April start date to get a head start on meeting with coaches and each member of his staff.

But Rhoades said he won’t be looking to clear house for the sake of having a handpicked staff, as

is often the way things go with a changing of the guard.

“The challenge for me is to not just go put my hands on everything,” Rhoades said. “We’re not going to change just to change. If we’re going to change, it’s to get better.”

Rhoades cautioned that, despite his aggressive passion for winning, his first priority will be staying within NCAA rules and doing things “the right way.”

“The one thing we will never compromise is integrity and compliance,” Rhoades said. “It’s hard to win, but we’re going to win and we’re going to do it the right way. I have zero tolerance for any

misconduct in terms of rules. You can do both — you can win and you can do it the right way. This program has done it.”

The 49-year-old Rhoades concluded by saying he hopes this Missouri “destination job” is the final stop in his career.

“It was going to take something special for us to leave (Houston), truly,” he said. “This place is special. Amy and I and the three girls are moving here to Columbia, Missouri with the idea that this is the last job.”

campus leaders.

One of the most pressing requests students made, Mottley said, was for the creation of an “intergroup dialogue course.” Having students discuss issues surrounding race relations in smaller groups might allow for more productive, educational conversation, she added.

“You don’t get to have difficult discussions in diversity lecture courses,” Mottley said. “Difficult discussions usually lead to actual learning.”

A re-evaluation of how MU recruits under-represented students was also requested by this group of students, Mottley said.

Administrators are also reassessing how diversity is presented during Summer Welcome and remodeled the diversity training program for its leaders, Scroggs said.

“I think that the Ferguson issue really brings (race relations) to the fore and it forces us to talk about it in a much broader context with a lot more people engaged in the conversation,” Scroggs said. “That’s what happens on a college campus; this is a place where ideas and issues are discussed all the time. That’s not a bad thing.”

MU Chief Diversity Officer Noor Azizan-Gardner has been a leading voice in the administration’s approach to race relations on campus. Azizan-Gardner said she agrees that events in Ferguson and students’ reactions to those events have forced administrators to take a closer look at what race relations are at MU. Azizan-Gardner will meet with

associate professor of journalism Berkley Hudson, who is heading Faculty Council’s race relations committee, and Faculty Council Chairman Craig Roberts during the week of March 9 to discuss the role the new committee is expected to play, she said.

“The university is a microcosm of the state and the nation,” AzizanGardner said. “Race relations has always been a fact of life for our country since its inception. The events in Ferguson, New York and California have intensified this continuing need for us to continue our work with race relations.”

Scroggs said while she believes public dialogue is an effective way to tackle difficult community issues, she acknowledged there are shortcomings.

“When you have these big public dialogues, most of the people there are interested in what’s being discussed,” she said. “You feel some days like you’re preaching to the choir. How do you get to the people that really need the message the most?”

Many members of the MU community are trying to answer that question, Azizan-Gardner said.

“Forums and discussions are just the beginning,” she said. “Many on this campus are discussing ways to create opportunities and spaces for more interactions in many different contexts — the classroom, labs, residence halls, the Greek system, extracurricular activities, study abroad, service learning and many more.”

The Chancellor’s Diversity

Initiative, led by Azizan-Gardner, is focused on integrating diversity and inclusion throughout campus and reflecting diversity in MU’s curriculum, recruitment and scholarly products, she said.

She said the Chancellor’s Committee on Diversity Enhancement is revamping its Difficult Dialogues Program with more interactive theater and a renewed push for facilitatory workshops. The committee has developed a tip sheet on its website

to help spark and guide discussions about race relations on campus.

“I encourage every faculty, staff and student on campus to reach out to someone who is not like them,” Azizan-Gardner said. “Start the conversation so that we can break down stereotypes and barriers.

It starts always with building friendships. Say ‘hello’ to someone who looks different from you. Find out about each other. Learn to see the world from different lenses and perspectives.”

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Carley Eslick crowned 2015 Mizzou Idol KARLEE RENKOSKI Reporter After placing in the top five last year, sophomore Carley Eslick was named the sixth annual Mizzou Idol in February.

Eslick said she was excited and very surprised to win Mizzou Idol this year.

“I honestly was not expecting it at all,” she said. “I did it last year and made top five, but you know the competition was really tough, so I knew it was going to be that tough again. I was honored to be able to win this year.”

Unlike many of the other competitors this year, Eslick chose to play her own music instead of using karaoke tracks. Not only did she showcase her talent with the guitar as during last year’s competition, but she showed her piano skills this year.

“I actually took a big risk this year,” Eslick said. “This was the first time I had ever played piano in front of people on a stage and sang at the same time. I just tried to show all of my talents and put it all out there so everyone can see what I can do.”

Senior Chantel George, the 2014 winner of Mizzou Idol and a judge for this year’s competition, complimented Eslick on her performance and the risks it involved.

“I think she did her thing and really showcased her talent in the best way she could,” George said.

“She’s great at her instrument, and you could tell that she was confident when she performed her songs. It’s risky to play an instrument because you can’t really work the stage, but she got it in her own way.”

George also said Eslick’s vocal performance was “on point.”

“Not a pitch out of line, and her vocals were very pure,” George said.

“I could tell she, one, warmed up her voice well and, two, rehearsed and enjoyed performing.”

Music has been a part of Eslick’s life since her early childhood.

At a young age, she sang at her grandparents’ church and from seventh grade through high school was a part of the School of Rock in Kansas City.

Through School of Rock, she auditioned and made House Band, the elite group, and went on an AllStars Tour, traveling to various areas in the U.S. “School of Rock is what really got me into singing,” Eslick said. “When I was younger, I did so many things, but when I started School of Rock, it showed me just how talented I am in the music aspect. So I just veered towards that and dropped everything else on the way.”

Eslick said she prefers to sing blues-style songs. She enjoys mashups and creates covers in order to put unique spins on original songs.

She thought her song choice for Mizzou Idol was an element of her performance that set her apart.

“I did a mash-up between ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’ and ‘Harder

to Breathe,’” Eslick said about her performance. “They’re older songs, but everyone knows them, so that’s kind of why I chose them. I didn’t think anyone else would do it.”

Eslick has two goals when she sings and said she tries to incorporate them into aspects of every performance.

“I really enjoy changing up songs and making them new,” she said. “I like surprising people. They hear it one way for so long, so I like making it unique.”

In addition to adding a unique spin to common favorites, Eslick said she enjoys inserting herself into her music.

“It sounds cliché, but I like putting emotion into my music,” Eslick said.

“Some songs touch different people.

You might not know it every time, but when you hear music, you think of other memories related to that music, either with the words or with the song itself.”

Eslick said her mom has always been her biggest supporter.

“She’s pretty much my manager, or my ‘momager,'” Eslick said. “She picks a lot of my songs that I sing, knows exactly what’s in my vocal range and what will highlight the small things in my voice.”

Eslick’s mother, Dee Eslick, has been at every show and even followed her on tour to see her various gigs.

She said she is extremely proud of who her daughter has become and of her future plans.

“I feel she wants to use her talents to help people,” Dee Eslick

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2015 Mizzou Idol winner Carley Eslick poses for a portrait Monday .

said. “Besides her goal to become a doctor, she loves to be on stage and also feels that she can sometimes affect people’s lives in that way.”

Although she has plans to be a doctor, Eslick wants to continue doing music gigs on the side.

Mizzou Idol was one of those fun, less-stressful singing experiences for Eslick, and she said she was grateful for the chance to participate in it once again.

She said Mizzou Idol was a wonderful opportunity and one that other vocally talented students should be a part of during their

years at MU. “I loved it the past two years,” Eslick said. “Missouri Theatre is beautiful, and it’s so much fun because the audio and the sound there is so good. So it was nice to perform there.”

“2015 Mizzou Idol winner” is just another title Eslick will be able to add to her list of music accomplishments and exciting experiences. It is also one in which will aid her success in the future.

“It was a lot of fun and I met a lot of people,” Eslick said. “And I wouldn’t change it for the world.”

Columbia Public Schools also currently provides education opportunities on mental health for educators.

“We have regular professional development for our employees on a variety of issues, including suicide prevention," Baumstark said.

“We have psychologists as well as licensed counselors.”

Columbia Public Schools will also soon be receiving more funds to develop these programs further as a part of a tax in Boone County that voters approved in November 2012.

“Boone County recently passed a children’s mental health tax that will also help provide additional support

systems for students,” Baumstark said. “There is a board that has been established to help allocate funds and develop support systems for the community that schools and agencies can access.”

Schupp said some Missouri school districts are implementing programs to address mental health, but she wants to expand these programs to cover the entire state.

“While some districts have policies in place already, this bill ensures that the issue is addressed statewide, making sure resources to deal with suicide awareness and prevention are readily available to every school district,” Schupp said.

State Senate to consider suicide prevention in schools JENNIFER PROHOV Staff Writer A bill aimed at increasing suicide prevention programs in Missouri schools passed out of the Missouri State Senate Education Committee on March 4.

The bill would require schools to implement resources and programs to raise suicide awareness and prevention.

Sen. Jill Schupp, D-Creve Coeur, introduced Senate Bill 328 with the goal of lowering youth suicides in Missouri.

“Missouri has a higher youth suicide rate than the nation as a whole, and this legislation is being broadly supported because people are recognizing a problem that needs to be addressed,” Schupp said in an email.

A study conducted by the Missouri Institute of Mental Health found that suicide was the third leading cause of death for Missouri young adults ages 15 to 24. Overall, the suicide rate in Missouri is higher than the rate nationally.

Schupp said she hopes to see increased levels of education around mental health, particularly when it comes to educators by providing schools with the impetus to create these programs.

“This bill provides opportunities for educators and school personnel

to receive professional development in Missouri. The bill sets up a training in suicide awareness and framework for schools to use prevention,” Schupp said. to create better mental health The bill would create voluntary programs. training programs to teach “By using a model policy, or educators how to address mental creating its own policy, a school health as a part of their professional district will begin to engage in the development requirements. process of discussing and providing “Educators will learn to recognize learning opportunities around signs of a child or young person the issue of suicide awareness and who might be in distress and to prevention,” Schupp said. “As we intervene on that student’s behalf,” know, education can be the tool to Schupp said. provide change."

The bill grew out of a tragedy that Schupp has seen most school Schupp said she hopes to avenge. districts only address the issue “(The bill) was inspired by the retroactively, once they have father of a 17-year-old young experienced a suicide. With this bill, woman who committed suicide last she hopes that will no longer be the May,” she said. case.

Rick Cantor had lost his daughter, “School districts will become Avery, to suicide and approached better equipped to deal proactively Schupp to prevent others from with students who might need going through the same type of loss. support with mental health and Cantor is the president of Avery’s she Among the ages other of 15 toissues,” 24, suicide wassaid. the third-leading cause Angels Foundation, an organization Michelle Baumstark, director of founded to help prevent teenage community relations for Columbia suicide by providing educational Public Schools, said she understands programs to St. Louis area schools. the need for these programs and “He knows he will be dealing that Columbia already has similar with this unspeakable loss forever, ones in place. yet he is determined to make sure “In Columbia, we have a very he helps prevent other parents and comprehensive guidance and loved ones from experiencing this counseling program, increasing same pain,” Schupp said. “He wants mental health support for students to help stop death by suicide, with a and many resources in the particular focus on our youth.” community that we can access to To do this, Schupp decided to help students in need,” Baumstark focus on the education system said.

SUICIDE IN MISSOURI A new bill aims to increase education of suicide prevention in Missouri schools.

2011 Ratio of suicides to homicides

Ages for which suicide was the third-leading cause of death

2 to 1

15 to 24

More Missouri residents died by suicide than by driving-under-the-influence accidents, homicide and AIDS combined.

For over a decade, the Missouri suicide rate has been higher than the national rate.

2010 In 2010, Missouri had the 22nd highest suicide rate.

Source: Missouri Institute of Mental Health

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Grad student makes art out of history DUN LI Staff Writer Tamryn McDermott, a graduate student arriving at the end of her Master of Fine Arts program, stands ready to mount her thesis exhibition.

The exhibit will be on display from March 16 to April 2 in the George Caleb Bingham Gallery.

Assistant professor Chris Daniggelis, who serves on McDermott’s thesis committee, said her artwork “manifests the role of textbook, museum re-ordering of artifacts as a subject matter to be seriously considered as equal to the history it is meant to bring back to life.”

McDermott, however, was once deeply baffled by history; she came a long way to become the artist she is today.

Born in Fairfax, Virginia, McDermott moved overseas when she was in the fourth grade. She then lived with her family in Augsburg, Germany, for seven years.

McDermott spent her adolescence in a confluence of cultures, journeying around Europe with her footprints marked in Italy, Germany and the Netherlands.

“As a child, I traveled a lot,” McDermott said. “That kind of informed a lot of who I am and what I’m doing as an artist. The traveling experience in my younger years is a big part of me now.”

After moving back to the U.S. in her junior year of high school, she ended up attending the University of Virginia after graduation.

Uncertain of her major, she found

her inspiration in her art history class.

“I always had trouble understanding the chronology in history; it felt like a bunch of memorized dates and names I couldn't make connections between,” McDermott said. “When I studied art history, I could visualize history and chronology through art; analytically, it’s a great tool to comprehend history.”

The idea sparked McDermott’s intent to move to a more suitable institution for her artistic pursuit.

She eventually chose Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, where she obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Sculpture, followed by a Master in Art History.

“Philadelphia is a city thriving with art; it opened up new doors for a young artist,” she said. “I was living and breathing and eating and sleeping art, immersed in it.”

After that point, McDermott’s career has always revolved around art, including working as an art consultant and an art teacher in elementary school and high school.

With a well-rounded range of experiences, she eventually decided to go back to school at MU in 2012.

McDermott’s unique approach to art thrives on her ability to connect the past and present through a methodology of deconstruction and then reconstruction, her professor said.

“She has encyclopedic knowledge of the histories of Rome, enough so that she uses different historical depictions of a singular event to inform the materials, arrangement and form her artwork is to take,”

Daniggelis said.

McDermott’s grasp on historical representation of the Roman theme is visualized through materials such as silk, wax and paper with a seeded preservation of her own imaginative interpretations. The hollow, translucent silk bricks she utilizes to stand as a sculptural interpretation of historical reconstruction embody a greater purpose beyond mere presentation of craftsmanship — the material is harnessed to convey values and ideas.

“I use the materials themselves to speak my ideas, to assist me in communicating,” she said. “Silk is weightless, yet it bears the weight of history.”

A wide range of media, including video and photography, combined with museum methods of display, will be implemented in her installation to provide visual, textual and experiential means to yield the embedded values across all artwork.

“Time is involved in all of this — distance and connection,” McDermott said.

Her works of art were initially created under the motivation that through her efforts to forge a visualized affinity with history and a delicate balance between representations, viewers would actively engage in reshaping cognition of the rendered history in its transparency.

The contextualization of the objects proves imperative in her endeavor to perceive history through the fragmented fabric of the ancient city.

McDermott’s work, as well as her enthusiasm in art and creativity, have earned her praise among her

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Graduate student Tamryn McDermott poses for a portrait March 6 .

friends and colleagues. “(McDermott) does not compromise and the beauty in her work is equally strong, conceptually,” Daniggelis said. “She is a cornerstone of the MFA program, she has led the program since the day she arrived at MU, and it has been inspirational working with her.”

Billy George, also an MFA student in the program, said that his experience working with McDermott has been eye-opening and fruitful, and that her exhibit is a unique way to capitalize on archaeology and fine arts in the pursuit of an artistic goal. “(McDermott), across the board, strives for perfection,” George said.

“I’m excited for what’s happening for her in the future … I know that we are going to stay in contact.”

After she graduates in May, McDermott said she is determined to shift her creative focus to carving out a future for herself. Following the footsteps of her mother, who is also a fiber artist and an educator, McDermott intends to delve back into education.

“Working with my students gives me a boost of energy and inspiration to pass on knowledge, while discovering new talents,” she said. “I feel like it keeps me young. I enjoy acting as a mentor for young people.”

Student-led philanthropy sets high goal ‘for the kids’ NEETI BUTALA Staff Writer In February, MizzouThon announced its pledge to raise $1 million over the span of five years to benefit the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the MU Women’s and Children’s Hospital.

The money raised will go toward adding 10 specialty beds, bringing the total to 48 beds to the wing, which will be renamed “MizzouThon Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.”

Their biggest fundraiser of the year is this Saturday: a 13.1hour dance marathon beginning at noon Saturday in the Student Recreation Complex and ending at 1:00 a.m. Sunday. This year, the MizzouThon executive board rebranded the organization, changing the name from Mizzou Dance Marathon and switching the colors from black and blue to black and gold.

“Dancers are the main source of fundraising for MizzouThon, and we are excited to see them all at the main event,” Vice President of Marketing Kat Birkenbeuel said.

So far, MizzouThon has had about 860 people registered, which is the most the

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Participants dance at last year’s Mizzou Dance Marathon on March 8, 2014, at the MU Student Recreation Complex.

organization has ever had. Each student is placed onto one of the 20 teams of Miracle Kids — the pediatric patients MizzouThon partners up with.

Students who have registered and have raised $100 by noon Saturday will be able to dance in the main event, receive an event t-shirt, eat three meals, have snacks and more.

“Do’s” of the events include wearing comfortable clothes

and shoes; bringing a water bottle, deodorant, money to buy merchandise and snacks; and getting ready to have a blast.

The only “Don’t” of the event is sitting down.

“No sitting for the 13.1 hours,” Vice President of Communications Audrey Wilcox said. “This is symbolic that we are standing strong for all of the kids we benefit at the hospital.

This sounds hard, but the day is

so energizing, you won’t want to sit down.”

The grand total amount of money raised at this year’s MizzouThon dance marathon will be revealed during the final hour of the event, known as “Power Hour.”

“When the senior leadership team and the children’s hospital were discussing the options for a new pledge, the NICU seemed like a perfect choice, as most

of our Miracle Kids have been treated in the NICU,” Birkenbeuel said.

MizzouThon and other dance marathons across the U.S. are part of a program called the Children’s Miracle Network Hospital.

MizzouThon’s leadership team chose MU’s children’s hospital since it is the only CMN hospital in the Columbia area, and it is where their Miracle Kids go for treatment.

Wilcox said MizzouThon was started in 2008 because they believed that everyone has the right to be a kid, according to MizzouThon’s website. They originally raised only about $13,500 annually, but last year’s grand total was more than $175,000 in donations.

“MizzouThon is so much more than this pledge,” Vice President of Families Shelby McGhee said.

“Although our fundraising efforts are undoubtedly important, what makes the biggest impact on me is the relationships we get to build with our Miracle Families.

Learning their stories, playing with the kids, and giving them the chance to be more than just patients — this is what gives me motivation to serve.”

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once a semester, along with hall events if invited by the president and vice president of the hall. They also want to work with MSA to promote the “It’s On Us” campaign, a nationwide initiative for sexual assault prevention and awareness.

To make campus safer, their platform states they want to pursue the implementation of 24-hour desk attendants in the halls. Donley said they will be working with Residential Life on logistics. They also want to promote the app that alerts the local police of one’s location in case of an emergency.

They also hope to increase the bike share program and reduce energy usage by

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sometimes,” Tomlin said.

Director of Admissions Chuck May said minority enrollment has grown at MU over the past 10 years.

In fall 2014, white students accounted for about 70 percent of all students at MU, according to MU’s Institutional Research enrollment data. Since 2010, though, there has been about a 38 percent increase in all non-white, ethnic students, compared to a 5 percent increase of white, non-Hispanic students.

“We are delighted with the significant increase in student diversity that has occurred on campus for the last decade and we are always open to new strategies to enable us to enhance our efforts,” May said.

Guo Xiaoyu, chairman of the MU Chinese Students and Scholars Association and a doctoral student, said he believes MU has achieved much in diversity. Through various

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president of MU’s chapter of International Association of Students in Agriculture and Related Sciences (IAAS) and a member of Universities Fighting World Hunger (UFWH), is one of several undergraduates who are actively involved in MU organizations working to address world hunger.

She said student members of IAAS get together to learn about agriculture and related sciences, and they are offered opportunities to travel internationally and advocate for world hunger relief. Organizations like UFWH are focused on raising awareness and searching for solutions to hunger issues, Kalaitzandonakes said. She said UFWH also brings universities across the world together to

installing standby software in computer labs.

Within RHA, they will work to provide housing compensation for all of the executive board and create a new position, the director of diversity, who will work with Four Front, LBC, the LGBTQ Resource Center and other social justice groups about how they can work with RHA to make residence halls safer and more inclusive.

During the RHA ball, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies Jim Spain stressed the importance of RHA to the MU community and the impact it can have on its students.

“If we lose a student from MU, they’re most likely to leave after their first year than any other time,” Spain said. “Where are most of our first year students living? That’s you.

(You must) create an inclusive,

supportive environment and cohesive community that makes a student more likely to be successful. Your leadership can leave a legacy.”

Donley and Thomas said they hope their strong communication skills will help them in their transition to this important role.

“B eing approachable, understanding and able to form relationships with different organizations will be our greatest strength,” Donley said.

Chaffin, the outgoing RHA president and opposing candidate, agreed.

“They have a lot of energy and they’re very approachable,” Chaffin said. “They can really connect with students. They will be more able to get the pulse of the residents.”

Chaffin will help Donley transition into his role. Chaffin

offered words of advice to Donley and Thomas when they enter their new positions.

“You have to be adaptable,” Chaffin said. “Things never go the way you think they’re going to go. There’s always something thrown in your way so you have to adjust your vision according to how things go.

Thomas said she will also look to Chaffin and current Vice President Brooke Wiggins for support and advice when she takes office.

“They both have been such an inspiration to me,” Thomas said. “Steven has an incredibly hard work ethic and puts his 110 percent effort into everything. I’ll definitely go to him and Brooke about our ideas and initiatives. They gave me that fire inside myself to serve the residents.”

Together, Donley and

Thomas are looking forward to working with each other. As personal friends, they know they can work well together.

“Rachel and I are a tag team,” Donley said. “She’s so dedicated and put 110 percent into this campaign. There was never a single point where she wasn’t right beside me. I’m excited to have her by my side next year.”

RHA advisor Luke Gorham said he sees a lot of potential in Donley and Thomas and looks forward to working with them next year.

“They’re very passionate and their platform speaks to serving the campus community,” Gorham said. “They’re very approachable so I think they’ll be able to get in the ear of a lot of students and get them excited about RHA.”

events and activities MUCSSA puts on, Xiaoyu said students on campus are introduced to Chinese culture.

“Our culture events … enrich the diversity of the campus,” Xiaoyu said.

Assumptions are often made about minorities, Tomlin said.

She said this is one of the reasons she sometimes feels uncomfortable at MU. “I feel as if I’m always speaking for my race, especially for the fact that I’m on this ‘natural hair movement,’ as they call it,” Tomlin said. “I’m African American, and I’m a woman. I get kind of looked at and judged about certain things, because they have an expectation in their head … that I’m supposed to be some type of radical person and I’m always supposed to speak about black power.”

Tomlin said the Gaines/ Oldham Black Cultural Center embodies the idea that minorities don’t have to be alone. She finds it to be a safe space where she spends a significant amount of time.

Tomlin, however, said the

focus should not be on the number of minority students enrolled but the number of minority students who graduate. She had seven close girl friends her freshman year, and only one still attended MU by her sophomore year, she said.

“Diversity is great, but retention is better,” Tomlin said. “Yeah, we could admit more people and enroll more people that look like me into the university, but how many are staying? How many are graduating?”

MU junior Young Kwon is the co-chairwoman of Four Front Minority Student Leaders Council. She said the group has been speaking with the admissions office to increase diverse student recruitment.

However, she said she believes inclusion is the more important topic of conversation.

“There’s going to be a minority in any situation,” Kwon said. “But being inclusive and helping them into the group or helping them foster their academic or professional goals on this university — I

think that’s more important.”

Multicultural Center Co ord i n ator S te ph a n ie Hernandez Rivera said through various events, the Multicultural Center helps enhance diversity and inclusion on campus.

“If you’re somebody of (a minoritized) identity, it can feel hard to find your place and you can feel isolated,” Hernandez Rivera said. “Having a space like the Multicultural Center that promotes and supports identity exploration for all people is really important.”

According to the MU Equity Office’s website: “Diversity of ideas makes this institution, and the knowledge we create through research and disseminate through teaching, better and more vigorous …

Therefore, in order to make this institution better and more academically vigorous, men and women with various racialethnic backgrounds … need to be actively sought through the faculty hiring process.”

Tomlin also said having more racially diverse faculty members, including professors,

members on the Board of Curators and deans would help minorities feel more comfortable attending MU. “So many African-American people go to (historically black colleges and universities) because people there who are teaching their curriculum are, one, very well educated, and look like them,” Tomlin said.

“That’s just human nature. You want to be around people who make you feel comfortable.”

Nearly 72 percent of all tenured or tenure-track faculty members were white in fall 2014, according to MU’s Office of Institutional Research and Planning’s statistics.

However, there has been a 5.5 percent decrease in white faculty members and a 4.4 percent increase in non-White ethnic members since fall 2012.

“Differences are a part of life,” Tomlin said. “It’s never going to be the same. So why not encounter them now, while you can still kind of morph your ideas of life?”

discuss ideas and solutions. “(UFWH) uses universities as a ‘breeding ground’ for innovative ideas because they bring together experienced faculty, innovative student thinkers, and resources such as alumni and grants,” she said.

“Universities also provide a safe place to begin startups, try out new research and get a lot of different types of input.”

MU supported UFWH by sending Kalaitzandonakes, she said, and Breanne Brammer, another UFWH member, to the UFWH Summit at Auburn University in February.

MU has been chosen to host the 2016 UFWH Summit, she said.

While the summit will be a good way to showcase MU’s involvement in world hunger issues, Kalaitzandonakes said she would like to focus on recruiting more undergraduates for the various student organizations. She said the best

way to increase involvement is to educate more students on what they can do to help international issues. “(We need to look outside) of just the few majors people think would have students interested in hunger, and notice that all students want to help in some way,” she said. “To help educate our members and anyone else wanting to attend, we are hoping to bring unique speakers to campus … We hope to continue to help localize international issues and help bring together all the different groups already tackling hunger both locally and abroad.”

Addressing issues at home MU organizations like Sustain Mizzou are also involved in solving hunger issues in Columbia. Its Local Food for Local People (LFLP) project is aimed at improving food security in Columbia and supporting local farmers

through annual food drives, LFLP project leader Melissa Anderson said.

“People donate money, and then we take that money to purchase fresh food from local farmers, and then donate the fresh food to the food pantry throughout summer and fall as long as funds allow us to,” she said.

Anderson said the food drive collects money instead of nonperishable foods because there is a shortage of healthy food available to those who need it.

Buying food locally supports the Boone County farming market and decreases pollution from food transportation, she said.

This year’s food drive will take place from April 13-17. Anderson said raising awareness of the drive is key to the project’s success.

“We want students to donate, but we also want them to be aware of why their donations

help and where that money is going,” she said. “The more people who are aware of our cause and believe in what we are trying to do will just cause that week to be better overall.”

Deaton said working with these student organizations helps the institute in its mission and ensuring that world hunger issues continue to get attention in the future.

“A hallmark of the institute is to demonstrate that all dimensions are vital to fully realizing what is needed in target countries and populations, and to ensure that we do not create bigger problems that may plague us in the future,” Deaton said in an email. “We are in an exciting and formative stage and appreciate all the support we have been given. Faculty and students and administration help so much and give us the scope and latitude to explore creative approaches that will make a long-run difference.”

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Administration must place emphasis on promoting diversity After a December listening session regarding the events in Ferguson, MU administrators asked student leaders to help facilitate discussion and help create a plan to address race relations on campus.

Students suggested stronger dialogue and action on race, and requested the creation of an “intergroup dialogue course” that would promote discussions among students about race relations in a small classroom setting.

“You don’t get to have difficult discussions in diversity lecture courses,” said senior LeChae Mottley, president of the Legion of Black Collegians, in a Maneater article published in this issue. “Difficult discussions usually lead to actual learning.”

Similar ideas had been discussed by the university in the past. Angela Speck, Faculty Council’s Diversity Enhancement Committee chairwoman, told The Maneater that the council discussed — and voted down — a mandatory cultural competency course earlier this year for MU students because the council believed it was not a realistic goal. She said, “It’s not going to happen.”

MU officials have told The Maneater they started more serious discussions about race after the events on Ferguson. In addition to the open forum, administrators like Cathy Scroggs, vice chancellor for student affairs, have devoted much of their time listening to students’ concerns. Moreover, Summer Welcome coordinators have begun to rethink the way they train leaders on diversity, Scroggs said.

We believe the administration’s efforts are a step in the right direction, but MU could have done and should do more to promote diversity and tolerance on campus.

The recent suggestion for a dialogue course deserves serious consideration. MU currently offers a range of cultural studies, but much of the current curriculum lacks the environment necessary to foster constructive dialogue in small, open groups. As Scroggs said, college is a place where ideas and issues converge, and MU should make it its priority to promote this type of dialogue.

Such initiative shouldn’t just be limited to one class, though — it should permeate all curricula at MU. Instead of requiring all students to attend one class, MU could consider a new cultural competency requirement for graduation that would give students a variety of coursework. These courses could potentially encourage more students to become more open and receptive to different viewpoints during their time here.

We are also concerned that not enough students are participating in the programs that do exist, such as the Multicultural Certificate program. Only 800 students are voluntarily completing the program, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies Jim Spain said at the December forum. MU enrolled more than 27,000 undergraduates for fall 2014.

Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin said in a statement after the forum that he plans to continue dialogue and work to improve the campus climate. If we want to truly become

an inclusive campus, we need much more than a mere 3 percent of the undergraduate population taking time to become more culturally competent. And for that to happen, we believe the administration needs to dedicate more of its time and resources encouraging students to come out of their comfort zones and learn from other students.

Advisers could actively suggest students pursue this certificate, and should be encouraging students to enroll in classes promoting diversity on campus.

Remodeling diversity training for Summer Welcome Leaders reflects a forward-thinking attitude that should be extended to other parts of campus such as Tour Team or the Department of Residential Life. MU could expand the amount of diversity requirements among Freshman Interest Groups. While this won’t reach all of them, around 30 percent of freshmen living in residence halls enroll in FIGs each semester, according to the Department of Residential Life. More coursework in FIGs discussing race relations and diversity would help the university make students aware much earlier in their academic career.

As we move forward, students face the reality that even if administrators implement changes suggested by students, eliminating prejudices and hatred on campus will not happen overnight. But students have voiced their concerns and the university should wait no longer to take more meaningful action.

Now is the time to hear from administrators.

social justice

Racism has no place in police and government LILY CUSACK

On Wednesday, March 4, the U.S. Justice Department released two revealing documents surrounding the shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, that took place last year.

The first 86-page report was the department’s statement that they would not pursue civil rights charges against Officer Darren Wilson, who fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown last August. They claimed that there was not enough evidence to indict Wilson of any crime.

However, in the second 102-page report, the DOJ exposed the Ferguson police department and court system. The report pinned a plethora of allegations on the police force for committing biased and even violent acts of racism against the African-American population in the small town. It found that officers used excessive force on AfricanAmericans and violated their constitutional rights, often without a just cause. However, because of inefficient record keeping and oversight by higher officials, many illegal acts committed by police officers often went overlooked or unquestioned.

This systematic racism has more or less governed how the town has been run for the past few years. The Justice Department called on city officials to either make a drastic change in the way Ferguson handles its police

and court departments or face a federal civil rights lawsuit.

This report reveals how and why the situation in Ferguson escalated so rapidly.

It is apparent that the social backdrop in which this event took place was just waiting for something to happen that would make the social tensions explode. Ferguson was a ticking time bomb, and the Michael Brown shooting was the perfect ignition. In order to prevent another escalation like the one that just recently took place, Ferguson needs to revamp its police force and court system.

The Justice Department’s report discloses frightening statistics and horrifying racist tendencies that call for a new system.

The report found that a disproportionate number of African-Americans are being harassed and arrested by a predominantly white police force in Ferguson. According to The New York Times, with a population that is 67 percent black, African-Americans in Ferguson account for 93 percent of the town’s arrests, 90 percent of tickets given, 92 percent of cases with warrants and 88 percent of cases where a police officer uses force. A black motorist is proven to be twice as likely to be searched, even though searches of white motorists more often revealed drugs and contraband.

These facts are highly disappointing because they uncover acts of racism in a seemingly objective and unbiased government force. In one case that the report mentions, a man who was cooling off in his car after playing basketball in a public park in 2012, was accused of being a pedophile by an officer.

He was arrested at gunpoint and incriminated with eight charges after he asserted his constitutional right of not consenting to the officer’s wish to search his car.

One of the most surprising allegations that this report pointed out was how the police force is using people as sources of revenue. City officials encouraged the police department to target citizens, mainly AfricanAmericans, with tickets to increase the city’s revenue. The police officers would compete with each other to determine who could issue the most citations in a single stop. The city was using the mistakes of their citizens to increase its own moneymaking agenda. In one case that the report cited, a woman was originally charged $151 for two parking tickets. She was forced to pay $550, and nearly seven years later, she still owes $541.

The police force and court system are not only concerned with making money off of the original tickets; they want to make money from late fines and missed court appearances as well. For this reason, they make it very difficult for people to pay their fines and appear in court by sending out wrong court dates and being unclear about how much one owes or when they owe it.

Although the Justice Department may have found that Wilson should not be charged, Ferguson and its police force are far from innocent. The city has a lot to change to work as an orderly and just system. The present racism that has been found within the city’s governmental structure cannot be tolerated any longer. It is time for a change, and it needs to happen quickly.

diversity

Defining racial status with emoji LORETTA LEE

As you all might have heard, Apple announced its project that will feature more options of emoji for its users on its latest upgrade. I use emoji very often when texting friends and family. It is a fun way to express our feelings or to identify a subject with just one click of a cute little icon, instead of typing words and sentences.

For Apple’s new project, instead of having the usual emoji icons, which consist of human faces with one skin color, Apple is bringing multiracial icons to its new upgrade.

As Apple is planning to bring out more icons of people with different races, they are aiming to promote and increase its diversity. Am I the only one feeling something is wrong?

As a person of a diverse background, I really appreciate Apple’s effort in making this step. But I cannot help but think whether or not this is the right way to identify people of different races. Even though the intentions behind establishing more options for iPhone users when picking Emoji icons are good, this creates a bigger problem of defining racial statuses.

The new icons that Apple is planning to bring out consist of six different skin colors that include black and yellow, and there are also a few different hair colors as well. This idea does indeed create more options for any users who utilize emoji in their conversations. But it is certainly not the ideal way to identify people of different races.

Even though we can now choose emoji other than the usual “white” icons, we can only choose an icon that has a closer skin color to our subject. We can never really find an icon that has the exact same color as the subject we are identifying. No one fits perfectly with any of the skin colors on the new icons, and we cannot identify a person exactly right with only just an Emoji icon.

More importantly, shouldn’t this idea of having more emoji options be a generic and neutral choice? As I am looking at the icon with the “yellow” skin color, I can feel the fingers pointing at myself, and all the other people with an Asian background.

However, that icon definitely does not represent us and Asians should not be identified with that “yellow” icon. Not only does the “yellow” icon not fit the skin color of Asians, the icon is not even neutral. I am also skeptical about the other icons with different skin colors. Nobody can really fit in any of the color of the new emoji.

Instead of making the emoji more diverse and neutral, I think the icons are made less inclusive in a way.

I can only give credit for Apple’s efforts in trying to increase its diversity, but I think there are areas where it definitely has to improve, especially thinking about how we identify people with different racial backgrounds. I guess we can only know when the company finally carries out these new emoji.

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THE MANEATER | OPINION | MARCH 11, 2015 relationship advice

Campus Issues

When you fall MU’s diversity obsession is needed The problem this campus faces is not diversity in for a friend numbers, but in viewpoints.

BRITTANY EMOND JALEN MOSBY Love is hard. Falling for someone can be somewhat traumatic for people like me. What’s even scarier than falling for someone is falling for one of your best friends. You’re stuck between not wanting to ruin your friendship but wanting to see if it could actually lead to something great. The “head-over-heels can’t live without each other” part can be extremely worth it, but getting there is not as easy.

Stage 1: Becoming friends. He’s a cool guy. He makes you laugh, he’s smart, and he’s cute. Guys and girls can just be friends, right?

Stage 2: Hanging out a lot. You start to see him more and more. You always have fun together and have great conversations.

Hanging out in group settings is very common for you guys. You’re glad you have a good friend who’s there for you.

Stage 3: Your other friends start asking about him. “So, what’s going on with the two of you?” You’re completely caught off guard and confused. You wonder if he’s been talking about you to his guy friends, or if this friendship was more than you originally thought.

Stage 4: Acting weird around him.

You don’t want people thinking you guys are anything more than friends. You keep your distance and stop talking to him as much when you guys are together. It’s clear that he’s confused, but you’re much happier now that your friends aren’t nagging you about it.

Stage 5: Clearing the air. “We’re just friends, right?” Even though he may have gotten the hint that you weren’t interested just by the way you’ve been acting, you’re still bothered and want him to know that you really, really just want to be friends.

Stage 6: Considering it. Now that people have stopped talking about your friendship, you wonder what it actually would be like if you dated. You start imagining a perfect relationship. You dream about him at night.

You’re thinking, “Hmm, this could work.”

Stage 7: Changing your mind. “Why did I ever think this would ever work?” You’re afraid of ruining your friendship with him, and start looking for reasons not to date him. Stupid reasons, like “he wears too much cologne” or “he burps sometimes.”

Stage 8: He tells you he likes you. Despite your firm conversation about how you’re just friends, he tells you that he’s caught feelings.

You’re left confused with a ton of anxiety. You keep considering both ends and just wish you could stop.

Stage 9: Your friends influence you.

“ADMIT IT. You definitely like him,” your friends say. The more you think about it, you decide it’s worth the risk.

Stage 10: You hook up. Oops. Your first instinct is to regret it because he’s your best guy friend and that’s just weird. But the more you think about it, the happier you are.

Hooking up wasn’t a mistake for you.

Stage 11: The feelings are officially caught. You have a moment. It’s random, and you don’t expect it. But you have a moment where it just makes sense for you. You like him.

And as much as you don’t want to say it out loud, it feels good when you do.

Overall, it may seem scary at first. And yes, there is the big risk that you guys won’t work out in the end, and your friendship may be lost. But the emotional rollercoaster ride is worth it in the end.

“Why is Mizzou so obsessed with diversity?”

I heard a student say this while in the MU Student Center minding my own business and trying to be productive. OK, I was probably eavesdropping and not minding my own business, but still I heard the question while in the Student Center last week.

Mizzou is so obsessed with diversity because we know that there is a lack of diversity present at this university. Diversity, by definition, means the state of being diverse, having many things or a range of many different things. At first sight, it may look like we have many different people on campus, but when you look at the numbers, you will see what group of people dominates.

There is nothing wrong with our demographics at MU. There is something wrong, however, with people not taking the time to understand why a huge institution

like this one would be concerned with diversifying the population and introducing the student body to different kinds of people.

It is 2015 and Missouri, much like every other state in our country, is full of people who are trying to get a higher education despite their race, background and ethnicity. We have people from all around the world coming here to study and get an education that will be useful to them in whatever field they decide to go into.

When individuals are suspicious of why this school and its administrators are always putting on events to strengthen cultural connections and understandings, it’s probably a problem that they have because they have not taken time to make those connections.

Diversity and awareness are both worth the obsession. At this point in history, we should all be trying to break down barriers that have held us back for so long. Imagine where we would be as a society — not just in America, but globally — if at no point in history people were slain and shunned for their skin color and/or beliefs.

We should be glad that our school is one that respects and honors many cultures and experiences. The events and forums that never seem to end on our StuffToDo page are there for a reason. Not acknowledging the problems that face our generation is not going to help us solve them.

Racism still exists. Oppression still

exists. Sexism still exists. Luckily, we have great people working to educate the student populace about these issues so that we can, if at all possible, put a stop to them.

It’s important to point out the troubles that face many people on this campus, and I think our organizations and leaders are doing a pretty good job at it. I can’t even count the number of events I’ve seen advertised that had to do with repression or other evils that still haunt us today. All students should be using these events and discussions to their advantage to educate themselves on what life is like for other students.

Mizzou has no choice but to be obsessed with diversity, because, if it were to be ignored, there’s no telling what the energy would be like on campus. The events that deal with issues from racial oppression to sexual harassment are ways for students to let off steam as well as open their eyes and minds to what is going on around them today.

If you have a problem with our campus being concerned with the well-being of people who are not like you, no matter who you are or what you are, that is a problem you need to fix within yourself. Not everyone is going to be alike and no one deals with the same thing. We should all be open to hearing about how we can make everyone comfortable and at ease with themselves.

Self-Help

Don’t let the FOMO take over your life The fear of missing out can have a profound affect on your level of anxiety.

Here’s how to beat it.

JORDAN SMITH

We’ve all been there before: It’s a Friday night, you’re sitting around in your comfies watching your sixth consecutive episode of "Breaking Bad," about to rip open a bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos, when you decide to glance at your phone.

While checking your various social media accounts, you stumble upon a post that makes your previously relaxing “night in” seem completely embarrassing.

Whether it’s a picture of your old roommate posing with a group of cute guys at a party or a friend’s annoyingly vague tweet about having the "best night ever," the things you see on social media are bound to occasionally make you feel bad.

In the Internet world, a new acronym has been created that applies pretty directly to social media-related feelings: FOMO, or the Fear of Missing Out. FOMO is something that a

majority of adolescents and young adults feel fairly often, usually brought on by glancing at a status update by a friend who seems to be doing something incredibly exciting or entertaining. The fear of missing out isn’t just for those of us who choose to have the occasional night alone; it seems to have invaded the lives of people who have plans but, after looking at their Instagram or Facebook, are overwhelmed with regret for not choosing to do the thing that’s being posted about.

Social media users are being sucked out of the moment they should be enjoying and thrust into a spiral of jealousy and competition.

But why? Why do we care so much what other people are doing?

For some, social media is a way to stay connected with old friends, colleagues and family whose names and numbers would otherwise be forgotten. It is a tool used primarily for communication and networking.

But for others, especially the newest generation of adolescents born into an already technology-saturated world, the Internet can be a real source of anxiety and power. Some seek validation from the likes they get on their pictures. Others become paranoid when a friend doesn’t respond to a text but tweets something minutes later. This increasing fear of being left out is creating a new form of drama that people aren’t even aware of. So how do we stop it?

Don’t check your phone when you’re out: In today’s world, it’s understandable that sometimes, you need to keep up with important emails or phone calls. But when you’re out doing something with other people, do your best to avoid social media. This will help you to stay present in the moment you’re in and to make the people around you feel valued.

Realize that it’s okay to say no: Sadly, we can’t be in two places at once. Occasionally, you’re going to have to choose between one event and another, and that’s OK. It’s not worth running yourself ragged to attempt to make it to both things.

The people you turn down will most likely understand.

Give people your undivided attention: Simply making eye contact with people when they speak makes them feel heard and validated.

We all know the horrible feeling of trying to tell a friend something only to be greeted by the top of their head as they glance down at their phone.

Remind yourself that it’s probably not that great of a time: Although it’s cynical, remember that if your social media friends were really having so much fun, they probably wouldn’t be pausing to update you on their life every few minutes.

Have things to look forward to: Keeping yourself busy with friends and activities is a great way to feel satisfied and content with your life.

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WOMEN’S History Month MARILYN HAIGH

A space for the ladies A glass display case full of buttons with phrases like “Motherhood is optional” and “certified orgasmic” is mounted on the wall of MU’s Women’s Center.

It displays only a fraction of the buttons that have been made by the center throughout its fortyyear history.

On a typical afternoon in the Women’s Center, students are reading, doing their homework and socializing among plush chairs and well-stocked bookshelves.

Women’s Center Coordinator Theresa Eultgen said the relaxed, welcoming environment is part of what makes the center so successful.

Throughout March, the Women’s Center hosts events for Women’s History Month.

This year, events were planned to celebrate women’s history and bring attention to the progress still needed.

Over 20 campus organizations work together to sponsor events for Women’s History Month. The Women’s Center works with the Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Women, the organization that created it, in one of those partnerships.

Since its founding by the committee in 1975, the Women’s Center has hosted events throughout the year ranging from movie screenings to discussions to skills training. A strong history of passionate staff members and students built a base for outreach.

“There’s so much programming, and all the coordinators that came before me did an amazing job of keeping this place alive and represented,” Eultgen said. “Our student staff is definitely the heartbeat of the center.”

In an article from the 1975 edition of MU’s yearbook, “The Savitar,” Deborah Downs-Miers, then-director of the Women’s Center, said the center was created to provide three services to women on campus: counseling (in both individual and group settings), referrals to information (through a library and well-informed staff) and “programs of a wide variety on a regular and special basis.”

The center struggled from a lack of resources soon after it opened. Downs-Miers is quoted as saying that she was being paid less than one-seventh of the salary she deserved.

The Women’s Center has maintained its presence on campus through four physical moves, the beginning of countless new programs and multiple generations of students.

“We’re part of a bigger network (of) women that have come before us for so long and had to work with even less resources than we have now,” Eultgen said. “So that’s kind of our duty as women, to be able to pass that torch on and make sure that hopefully we’re not fighting for the same things in 40 years.”

MU WOMEN THROUGH THE YEARS Women’s History Month celebrates MU women’s achievements on campus since 1868.

Source: The Women’s History Month Committee BEN KOTHE // GRAPHICS MANAGER

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Advancing the status of MU women In 1992, the MU Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Women drafted a constitution beginning with the phrase “We, the women, hold these truths to be self-evident.”

In their declaration, the committee asserted its right to elect its leaders and extend membership to whomever on campus was interested.

The committee formed in 1973 after 250 institutions of higher learning in the U.S., including MU, were charged with gender-based discrimination in 1971.

The Women’s Equity Action League, a women’s rights organization, accused universities of gender discrimination in the workplace, according to a history of the Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Women written by graduate student Kris Lawson in 2002.

“It was a time when more women were starting to go into higher education and there were noticeable inequities,” said Jordan Hoyt, co-chairwoman of the committee. “A lot of those inequities are things that we’re still seeing today.”

After the charges were filed, professor and administrator Luverne Walton repeatedly asked then-Chancellor Herbert W. Schooling to form a committee to evaluate women’s roles on campus, according to Lawson’s report.

“It’s no secret there has been

discrimination,” Walton wrote.

After two years of discussion, the CSW was established in October 1973 with 12 members and Walton as chairwoman, to assess and make recommendations to the chancellor on the status of female students, professors and faculty.

During its first 10 years, the committee focused largely on equal salary and benefits for female teachers and administrators.

The committee focused the bulk of its efforts for the next 20 years on reducing sexual harassment on campus, a topic that was receiving little attention at the time.

It also recommended the creation of an advocacy office for women. In 1975, the Women’s Center opened in the basement of Gentry Hall.

In 1978, Barbara Uehling replaced Schooling after he retired, making her the third chancellor of MU and the first female chancellor.

In May 1980, the committee advised Uehling that the university write a definition for sexual harassment and develop a fixed policy against it. In the same report, the committee included a survey from students confirming the existence of sexual harassment on campus, according to Lawson’s history.

Through the ’90s, the committee continued to grow. CSW formed subcommittees to specialize in a variety of issues including salary disparities and retention rates.

In 2015, the committee is more active, Hoyt said.

“We took a step back a couple of years ago to reassess what we needed to focus on … We found that quite a few of those issues were the ones that we were addressing 40 years ago that hadn’t been resolved,” she said.

In 2011, an initiative called “Taking the Pulse of MU Women” surveyed students, professors and faculty to pinpoint the issues each group felt should be addressed. Many of the same issues kept coming up, like equal pay for women and more representation in leadership roles.

This year, the committee is working with the Arts & Science S IVE Status of Women Committee CH R A on a gender-based pay equity Y T SI R study for tenure-track E IV UN faculty that is expected E H FT to be completed in O Y May. It will be the first TES R OU significant study of its kind SC O T O at MU since the founding of the H P committee 42 years ago, Hoyt said.

THE MANEATER | SPECIAL | MARCH 11, 2015

Mizzou’s first 22

They were students, but they were only allowed to use the library during certain hours. They couldn’t attend lecture classes offered to men or go to chapel services.

They were the University of Missouri’s first female students.

In 1868, 22 women were admitted to MU’s Normal School, now the College of Education.

According to “School of the schoolmasters: A brief history of the College of Education” by Christopher Lucas, the MU president during that time, Daniel Read, believed women were naturally more inclined to be teachers than men, and he thought they should be given a university education.

Read called the decision “a very bold and hazardous measure.”

In 1870, Mary Louise Gillett of Hannibal, Missouri, became the first woman to graduate from MU. President Read wrote in an 1873 report that female students “did no matter of harm.” MU began accepting female students to the other programs in the university, with a few requirements.

“We very cautiously admitted them to some of the recitations and lectures in the University building … they were to be marched in good order, with at least two teachers, one in the front and the other in the rear of the column as guards,” he wrote in “School of the schoolmasters.”

Sarah Gentry Elston was one of the first women admitted to the university.

She wrote about attending chapel for the first time, “with Prof. (Erastus) Ripley at the head and Mrs. Ripley forming the rear guard.”

“We passed under the great columns … not to be seated,

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however, on the same floor as the men, but given a place in the gallery above,” she wrote in “School of schoolmasters.”

Professor Ripley ended his tenure as the dean of the Normal School and was replaced by Grace C. Bibb in 1878. She was MU’s first female dean, a position she held for five years.

Bibb believed it was important to give teachers a well-rounded education that would give them “a grasp of all of the conditions of the problem of education.”

In order to receive a comprehensive education, students (both male and female) had to take classes outside of the Normal School.

Today, the College of Education continues to honor Bibb through the Grace Bibb Society, an organization for donors to the college. The society meets at least once a year to attend lectures and embrace Bibb’s interactive teaching methods.

March 12

Women in the Arts Reception 4 p.m. Memorial Student Union Live music and a reception honor the artists featured this year.

Co-sponsored by the MSA/GPC Craft Studio.

Spa Night 6 p.m. Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center Celebrate Women’s History Month by receiving pampering and selfcare tips at the GOBCC. Sponsored by the GOBCC.

Love Your Body Photoshoot 7 p.m. MU Student Center A pin-up themed body positive photoshoot. Sponsored by Fluffy GRL.

March 13 Black Girls’ Lives Matter: Writing the History of Black Girlhood 3 p.m. Ellis Library MU alumna and assistant professor of history at Georgetown University Marcia Chatelain returns to campus to share her new book “South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration.”

March 14 Women’s Leadership Conference 8:30 a.m. Memorial Student Union The Women’s Leadership Conference is a place where women celebrate their accomplishments, network and contribute to furthering the success of women at MU. Registration is $15 and scholarships are available. Visit wlc.missouri.edu for more information. Co-sponsored

by Center for Leadership Development and Community Involvement.

March 15-18 Mizzou Black Women’s Initiative Week A week of celebration for the Mizzou Black Women’s Initiative, a leadership and mutual empowerment mentoring organization providing academic support, sisterhood and moral support to African American women on Mizzou’s campus. Sponsored by MBWI.

March 18 Women’s Poetry Night 6 p.m. MU Student Center A place for poets and spoken word artists from the community can share their words. This 19th annual event is sponsored by the Women’s History Month Committee, Women’s Center and the Department of Student Life.

Taking it to the classroom

The first Women’s Studies course was taught in 1971 through the Honors College as a response to student requests. It focused on the roles of women in society and was taught by several instructors, according to a 2010 Maneater article.

The program has taken many forms throughout its forty-year history.

“It’s grown and then shrunk and then grown again,” said Enid Schatz, associate professor of women’s and gender studies.

The number of classes increased as student interest grew. In 1980, Women’s Studies became an official program, according to a timeline from the Women’s Center.

A year after achieving full program status, Dorothy Haecker was named the first full-time director of the Women Studies Program in 1981.

Haecker came to MU after receiving a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Kansas in 1981.

In the 1985 edition of “The Savitar,” Haecker said the time she spent in California during the 1970s lead to her interest in activism. Haecker played a role in forming two of the first officially recognized women’s studies programs in the U.S. at Chico State University and San Francisco State University.

“She has earned a decidedly well-deserved reputation, as a teacher who motivates, inspires, challenges, respects and cares about the students in her class,” according to “The Savitar.”

In 2003, the program changed its name to Women’s and Gender Studies to reflect an increasing emphasis on studying the relationships among genders.

It became a department in the College of Arts and Science in 2007. The change allowed the department to offer more classes and bring academic diversity to the College of Arts and Science, according to a 2007 Maneater article.

Today, Women’s and Gender Studies students complete an interdisciplinary emphasis area or a minor in the subject. Many Women’s and Gender Studies classes fulfill general education or elective requirements.

Schatz said her students appreciate the critical lens the program gives them in understanding gender implications in the world.

“In general, there has been support from the administration,” Schatz said. “It’s seen as a valuable asset to Arts and Science (because) it provides students with a more diverse perspective on the world.”

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The Rollups release their self-titled debut album The Rollups are a Columbia-based band that is putting a funky twist on alternative rock.

CORIN CESARIC Staff Writer It’s a Thursday night at The Bridge, just a couple of hours before The Rollups’ release party for their self-titled debut

album, and I get the chance to talk with the band members about it.

The band is made up of four young guys, each from four different parts of the country, who are determined to make their mark. We all stood off to the side in The Bridge in sort of a huddle. On my left was guitarist Marshall Maxwell; next to him was bassist Emmitt Wright, then there was lead vocalist and guitarist Sam Jennings, and drummer Jon Belsheim was on my right.

The Rollups came about during what the guys describe as one fateful afternoon at Taco Bell. Although each band member knew at least one other person, they had never all met.

When they decided to grab a bite to eat together, the four of them were finally introduced and everything went from there.

Where did the name The Rollups come from? They have always been drawn to the blank names of some of their major influences — The

Beatles, The Who and the like.

So, as they were bouncing ideas around, they came up with “The Rollups.” They liked all of the different connotations of the name, which is one of the reasons they chose it.

“Ya know, you can ‘roll up’ to a party; Fruit Roll-Ups; tobacco cigarettes and, like, our hashtag on Twitter is #WeBeRollinUp,” Belsheim says.

At the band’s inception, each member had a different idea of what they wanted to accomplish and how they wanted to sound.

“Marshall was into Pink Floyd jamming, and Emmitt was into the technical, groovy, funky stuff,” Belsheim says.

“Sam was really into pretty songwriting, and I just wanted to play rock ‘n’ roll.”

The alternative rock group found a way to make everything come together (right now) on their debut album to project a ’60s vibe.

“Abbie” is an example of a pretty and soft tune, but to

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single girl diaries: Eurotrip

History, Monet and castles on German spring break

(Foreign Correspondent) Columnist Ellise Verheyen on her German adventure.

ELLISE VERHEYEN

In case you don’t follow my Instagram, I spent last week’s “spring break” in Germany.

Now, Germany is not the ideal place for a spring break if your idea of a break is sandy beaches and fields of tulips.

For my trip, it was just my friend Sophia and myself traveling to three major German cities over the course of eight days. With Berlin, Cologne and Munich to hit, there was no way we’d have enough time to experience everything. But we did get to plenty.

We began our journey Saturday morning by trying to catch a 6:30 a.m. train to the airport. However, this train station was a few Tube stops away and by the time we got to the gate, the employees said the train was on the opposite side of the platform and that we probably wouldn’t make it.

Naturally, we ran.

As the conductor man blew his whistle at us to signify the departure of the train, we ran harder and jumped on mere

seconds before the train pulled out of Victoria Station. That was probably the most dramatic moment of the trip. And we ended up at the airport with two hours to spare.

We arrived in Berlin in the late afternoon to discover our hostel was much more of a large hotel chain. We were also placed in different rooms.

Mine consisted of three guys and me. Sharing our little bathroom was awkward.

On our first full day in Berlin, we took advantage of a free walking tour that lasted two and a half hours or so. It was really interesting, but I quickly realized that Berlin is not really a place to take families for a happy vacation, as the majority of the tour (as well as sights in town) revolved around World

War II, Hitler, the Holocaust and the Berlin Wall.

Despite all that, the city is beautiful. On day two, Sophia and I traveled 40 minutes to the Berlin Zoo before making our way to the East Side Gallery, a part of the Berlin Wall converted into an outdoor artwork. Unfortunately, we underestimated the size of Berlin and the distance between the two sites. After a two and a half hour walk that included rain, hail, wind and a lot of silence, we finally made it to the gallery. Then we discovered a train station 300 yards away.

We took the train back.

Tuesday, we headed to Cologne for a short stopover in which we stayed at the greatest hostel ever. It was warm, friendly, small and was part

theater, part café and part bar.

Imagine Ragtag with a hostel upstairs.

During our short stay, we made some friends: Angel from Madrid and Tim from London.

Both guys were hilarious and added a little variety to our party of two. Unfortunately, we were only there two nights, so our crew of four was shortlived.

On Thursday, Sophia and I took a train to our final stop in Munich. We spent the first day there exploring and found ourselves at an art museum that held my favorite Monet of all time, so that was a pleasant surprise.

On day two, we traveled two hours to the Alps to see

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Pass the Popcorn

Enter the Blomkamp’s bucket of bolts hip hop (36 Chambers) CALEB BISHOP

TAYLOR YSTEBOE

I gave hip hop a serious chance for the first time with the Wu-Tang Clan.

Based on my short, dirty blonde hair, my small 5-foot-3-inch frame and my general pixie-like appearance, I don’t look like I would listen to rap. And, big surprise, I don’t.

But according to my research as an eavesdropper and by scanning the covers of magazines, I have inferred that rap is a popular genre. I investigated some more and discovered that the Wu-Tang Clan is a well-liked and admired hip-hop group from New York. From my in-depth Google searches and general Internet tomfoolery, I found out that their 1993 debut album, “Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers),” is a widely respected work, and it is even considered one of the best hip-hop albums of, wait for it, all time.

So, I decided to give it a spin. Because why not?

As a non-rap listener, here are some of my initial thoughts.

1. I really like the phrase “Do you think your Wu-Tang sword can defeat me?” The term “Wu-Tang” just makes me giggle in general, and all of the samplings from the ’80s martial-arts film “Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang” are gold, pure gold. Additionally, the cheesy clips pair well against the harsher lyrics.

2. There seem to be a lot of curse words. I am not used to so much profanity, but I’ll just leave it at that.

3. I appreciate the wide variety of the rappers in the Wu-Tang Clan. Even more so, I like their names. Like RZA and Ghostface Killah. Come on, those are some impressive names. On a side note, I noticed that when I Googled Wu-Tang Clan, one of the first results is a Wu-Tang Name Generator. So, from now on, I request to go by B-Loved Dreamer. Please and thank you.

4. Like the movie sampling, the addition of keys and drums juxtaposed against the gruff rap gives the tracks that little extra oomph. Take “Clan in da Front.”

The piano is simple and repetitive, almost trance-like, so we can focus on the gritty lyrics.

5. To my surprise, upon further inspection, the lyrics are rather clever, full of historical, pop culture and biblical references. In “Da Mystery of Chessboxin’,” U-God raps, “My hip hop will rock and shock the nation like the Emancipation Proclamation.” The same song contains references to Mariah Carey, Jacques Cousteau and Beetle Bailey. Each allusion is witty and fits in the lines, so bravo to you guys.

Overall, I found “Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)” a cohesive and well-produced album. It came from a raw, throbbing state, and the group was able to channel their excitement and aggression into a rumbling album. It’s gritty. It’s fresh. It’s hardcore.

And I like it.

The purpose of this little experiment was to prove a point. I know I’m one to talk because I like to stick within my comfort zone, but I challenge you to venture away from your go-to tunes. If you listen to folk, try out metal. If rap is your cup of tea, give bedroom pop a go.

I’ll let you in on a little secret. Music is universal. We slapped on the word “genre” just to make sales easier.

So you can cross genre lines and discover that music is still music. Music still carries emotion behind its lyrics, and its beats still resonate within our hearts.

So, while “Wu-Tang slang’ll leave your headpiece hangin’,” you should experiment around, because there is always more to discover in the realm of music.

In the not-too-distant future, artificial intelligence has been assimilated into the police force in order to lower crime rates. These robots have no feelings, thoughts or emotions; they simply do what they are programmed to do — namely, enforce the law.

“Chappie” tells the story of one of those bots that gets a program uploaded into his hard drive that gives him consciousness like a human, and he has to be brought up like a child. The twist is that he’s been hijacked by criminals who want to use him to pull off a heist, but the scientist who made him is simultaneously trying to teach him to be an upright member of society.

No one does the dark, gritty science fiction film like Neill Blomkamp. If you’ve seen either of his first two films (“District 9” or “Elysium”), this film’s tone will feel familiar. Normally, sci-fi has a tendency to present a world with little to nothing in common with ours. However, Blomkamp has found a way to present outlandish concepts that feel not too far removed from our own world, especially because he deals with issues prevalent in our culture today. Also, his habit of presenting the premise at the beginning in the form of a newsreel is a great way to draw you into the world of the film, and the visuals are convincing as ever.

Sharlto Copley brings “Chappie” to life. The use of performance capture here is astounding, and

Copley’s performance is great.

Given that Chappie starts as a blank slate and can learn very fast, he essentially acts the entire maturing process of a human as a robot.

The members of the South African rap group Die Antwoord, Ninja and Yo-Landi Vissar, are two of the main characters, playing versions of themselves. By no means are they any good at acting, but their antics as gangsters were believable enough that you are never drawn out of the experience. Additionally, their music combined with Hans Zimmer’s score makes for an incredibly unique soundtrack.

Still, there were two big letdowns with “Chappie.”

First, Hugh Jackman has proved that he is a spectacular actor, but his mullet-sporting character here is poorly written. He is concerned because he does not believe that artificial intelligence can be trusted to make the right decision in the difficult moral situations that policemen face. This is an extremely reasonable concern to have in the world of “Chappie,” but Blomkamp gave up any credibility or interest we would have in this character’s beliefs by making him a complete psychopath. What could have been a great villain ended up being onedimensional.

Secondly, this is Blomkamp’s least focused movie to date. “District 9” dealt with the tough subject of apartheid, while “Elysium” handled health care and immigration.

“Elysium” got criticized for being overly preachy, so I understand why he toned it down with “Chappie,” but he toned it down too much. First, it’s an exploration of the nature vs. nurture debate. Simultaneously, it’s a metaphor for the Biblical story

of Adam, with his “Maker” telling him to not commit crimes because he knows what’s best, while Ninja tempts him with the lie of eternal life. Unfortunately, this metaphor falls apart in the last 30 minutes by turning into a statement on police brutality, revenge, forgiveness and comparisons between human and bot consciousness. This isn’t to say the ending is bad — it’s ridiculously entertaining — it just felt hollow compared to the first two-thirds of the film.

The character of Chappie is what drew me in to this movie. He is exceptionally likable and, somehow, adorable, and most of the movie felt like a heartfelt coming-of-age story for him (it?). You can’t help but relate on some level when he begs, “Why do humans do this?” when things start to get bad.

It could have benefitted from a more rationally written villain and picking one issue to focus on rather than five or six, but overall, “Chappie” still packs a punch.

“Chappie” may not be the director's best work to date, but Blomkamp has proven that he knows how to make a meaningful sci-fi film that both awes and moves.

Pass the Popcorn if: You like Blomkamp’s style.

Thoughtprovoking movies intrigue you. You are a psychologist. You’ve always wondered what Hugh Jackman would look like with a mullet.

Pass it up if: The thought of a human-sized robot acting like a child scares you. You think everything Blomkamp makes has to be as good as “District 9.” You can’t stand Die Antwoord (which is completely understandable). Product placement takes you out of a movie.

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counter it, they have other songs like “You Wouldn’t Understand,” which Wright described as his favorite on the album.

“It’s just a great song to open with,” he says. “This guitar solo just sounds like a screaming eagle. For me, there’s no better way to start an album. Like get

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the beautiful Neuschwanstein Castle. It was stunning.

Most of Germany felt very Americanized; flat, big city, etc. But when we arrived at the castle, everything felt very surreal, much more of what I expected from Germany.

Our final day was spent on a walking tour with the most hilarious Bavarian tour guide and we really got a feel for the city. We also discovered that it’s currently Starkbierfest (i.e.,

anyone else, the band says.

They want to make their own sound without mimicking anyone or selling out to the music industry.

“A lot of rock music now is extremely produced, and ours has a bit of a warmth of ’60s,” Maxwell says.

It’s evident that each of these young musicians are invested in a similar dream. They take their music seriously and aren’t planning to stop anytime soon.

This won’t be the last time you

hear about them either — they plan on starting their second album this summer.

You can check out their debut album, which is now available on Spotify and iTunes.

“Guys with guitars in a garage, just think back to the most basic forms of rock ‘n’ roll, and that’s us,” Wright says.

It’s a Thursday night at The Bridge, the crowd is buzzing, the lights are dimming, and it’s show time for The Rollups.

“strong beer fest” with 7-12 percent alcohol per drink), and that drinking a half-liter at 3 p.m. is not conducive to daytime sobriety.

In all, Germany was amazing.

I realized how ignorant I’ve been of the world around me. I realized how selfish it is to expect everyone to speak English. I realized that Bavarians do not consider themselves German. I realized that castles aren’t full of handsome princes to whisk you away into the sunset.

But I cannot begin to express my gratitude for having this experience. I’m one of the luckiest girls in the world.

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together and perfect their lyrics and song structure as best as possible before they hit the studio to work on the album.

Although they get inspiration from many different artists, they want to have their own unique sound, and that’s one thing they have been working toward.

“Before, we were playing like other people we like, but now we play like ourselves,” Belsheim says.

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ready, we hope you’re prepared.”

It seems like they have found the perfect synchronization to include all of their individual styles.

“The album we’re putting out is the first example of our sound — it’s kind of split between slower, nicer, prettier stuff,” Jennings says. “It’s groovy. It’s kind of mellow, very ’60s, and the rest is this kind of loose rock ‘n’ roll.”

The four-piece band decided last summer to sit down

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Missouri senior wrestler Mikey England competes March 8 at the Mid-American Conference Championships hosted last weekend at Hearnes Center. England qualified for the national tournament as the Tigers went on to win a third consecutive conference championship.

Wrestling

England, Missouri wrestling ready for NCAAs England: “We’re going to win the national title.”

QUINN MALLOY Staff Writer Senior Mikey England couldn’t sleep the Thursday before the Mid-American Conference Championships. It wasn’t because he was giddy or nervous, though. England was physically ill.

“(Thursday was) probably (one of the) top two worst nights of my life,” England said. “Then, I had to go and make weight. It made it really difficult. You just have to keep a positive mindset and do what you can.”

England still managed to do a lot. He came into the final day of the MAC Championships last Sunday having lost his quarterfinal match. He needed a miracle to qualify for the NCAA Championships in St. Louis. Specifically, he needed

Northern Illinois’ Shaun-Qae McMurtry to lose to Ohio’s Harrison Hightower.

His coaches told him that he still had a chance but England didn’t believe it could happen.

“I thought they were trying to make me feel better,” he said.

“All of a sudden, I had another match, and I was like, ‘Let’s do this.’”

The stage was set for a climactic match between England and McMurtry. The winner would claim the fourth and final MAC automatic bid in

the 165-pound weight class and take a trip to St. Louis for the NCAA Championships.

All it took was an early takedown.

England brought the Hearnes Center crowd to its feet when he drove McMurtry to the edge of the mat and slammed him to the floor for two points at the beginning of the match. McMurtry was unable to muster any sort of retaliation and lost by a 4-1 decision.

With the victory, England

took his place among the Tiger grapplers who automatically qualified for the NCAA Championships.

Missouri qualified wrestlers all 10 weight classes to cap off what was an extremely successful weekend for the top-ranked hosts.

In addition to winning the regular season title, the Tigers walked away with another conference championship at the tournament, the program’s fourth in as many years. This

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FOOTBALL

Adjusting to transitions, Missouri begins spring training The team is welcoming back new defensive coordinator Barry Odom.

BRUNO VERNASCHI Sports Editor Evan Boehm stormed out of the locker room, still wearing cleats and a sweaty headband. “Who took all the damn Gatorade?” he yelled as Maty Mauk followed him and they headed out of the stadium and across Providence Road to the Missouri Athletic Training Complex to grab some dinner.

Football is back.

It may just be the beginning of spring, but the Missouri football team is hard at work as the Tigers had their first practice of the year Tuesday afternoon. The team took the field without last year’s stars and veteran coaches. Yet, they welcomed a familiar face to the defense.

For a team with two consecutive division titles under its belt, Missouri coach Gary Pinkel foresees continued success.

“I don’t think there are changes,” he said. “We want to win a national championship and to do that, you’ve got to win a division championship

and you’ve got to win the league championship. That rule has never changed since we got here.”

Arguably one of the biggest changes during the offseason has been the departure of defensive coordinator Dave Steckel and the hiring of Barry Odom to fill his spot. Odom left the Memphis Tigers to return to Columbia, where he played in the late 1990s and later coached the safeties.

Steckel, who was at Mizzou for 14 years and manned the defense for five, announced his decision to take a job as head coach of Missouri State on Dec. 14, 2014.

Odom brought safeties

coach Ryan Walters with him from Memphis. Despite the different caliber teams, Pinkel said he hasn’t seen too many difficulties with the transition.

“Barry is easy because he’s been around us,” he said. “And I think, because Ryan was in the same secondary and worked with him in Memphis, they pretty much ran the defense kind of like we do. So the adjustment has been very easy and it’s nice to see those guys working hard.”

The senior players seem to agree and have already started to become accustomed to the team’s new additions.

It also helps that Odom was still with Missouri in 2011.

“The intensity, it’s been great,” senior safety Ian Simon said of his new defensive coordinator. “My freshman year here was his last year here being safety coach. I just miss that intensity, that fire, that passion; that he wants you to be great. He brought that to practice today.”

Walters, who played at Colorado, is only 29 years old.

Pinkel was 27 when he was hired as Washington’s wide receivers coach back in 1979, so he said he doesn’t see age as an issue.

“You understand he’s 29 and he’s a positions coach in the

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Mizzou’s path to the SEC Tourney title DANIEL WITT Staff Writer

Second Round: Ole Miss (6-seed)

Following a Mississippi State-Auburn matchup, the Missouri men’s basketball team (9-22, 3-15 Southeastern Conference) will play its first SEC tournament game against South Carolina (15-15, 6-12 SEC) on Wednesday.

Here is The Maneater’s scouting report for all of the Tigers’ potential matchups in the conference tournament.

Who’s hot:

Namon Wright, sophomore guard Last four games: 15 PPG 12-24 from three-point range (.500) .488 from the field

Who’s not:

Ryan Rosburg, junior forward Last four games: 4 points combined 1.8 rebounds per game 1-7 from the field (.143)

First Round:

South Carolina (11-seed)

Date/time: Wednesday, March 11, 8:30 p.m. (approx.)

The Tigers faced the Gamecocks in Columbia, South Carolina, on Feb. 10, falling 65-60. In addition, Mizzou lost its second-leading scorer, sophomore guard Wes Clark, in the contest when he dislocated his right elbow diving for a loose ball in the second half. In that game, the Tigers outshot the Gamecocks 42.3 percent to 36.5 percent, but Mizzou got the ball stolen from them 10 times, and turned the ball over on 15 occasions. However, the Tigers were without three guards in that loss. Freshmen Namon Wright, Montaque Gill-Caesar and Tramaine Isabell were all suspended at that time. This time around, all three are scheduled to be active, but the Gamecocks are still eightpoint favorites over the Tigers, according to ESPN. Probability of Mizzou win: not unlikely.

Watch out for: Sindarius Thornwell, sophomore guard 10.9 PPG, 4.9 RPG, 2.0 APG Scored 14 points and had six assists in previous win over Mizzou basketball.

Date/time: Thursday, March 12, 8:30 p.m. (approx.)

If Mizzou were to defeat South Carolina in the first round, then the Tigers would last another day to face the Ole Miss Rebels (20-11, 11-7 SEC) on Thursday. Missouri was embarrassed at home by the Rebels on Jan. 31, losing 67-47 in its worst loss at the Mizzou Arena all season.

The Rebels’ offensive would torment the Tigers, as they average 73 points per game (13 more than Mizzou). In addition, Ole Miss has three players who average more than 10 points per game; meanwhile, the Tigers have just one in sophomore forward Johnathan Williams III. Ole Miss is a 10-seed in the NCAA tournament in ESPN “Bracketologist” Joe Lunardi’s latest predictions.

Probability of Mizzou win: not likely.

Watch out for: Stefan Moody, junior guard 16.6 PPG, 3.5 RPG, 2.2 APG Fourth in SEC in scoring Scored 23 points in previous win over Mizzou

Third Round: Georgia (3-seed)

Date/time: Friday, March 13, 8:30 p.m. (approx.)

It’s unlikely, but if the 14-seeded Tigers were to win two games in Nashville, they would play the Georgia Bulldogs (20-10, 11-7 SEC), who will be fresh off a double-bye. The Bulldogs, a predicted nine-seed in March Madness, crushed Mizzou by 24 points just 12 days ago. The Tigers shot 28.6 percent and were outrebounded 47-30 in that game. UGA has five players averaging over 10 points per game on the season, and rank atop the SEC in rebounds per game at 38.

Probability of Mizzou win: very unlikely.

Watch out for: Marcus Thornton, senior forward 12.2 PPG, 7.0 RPG, 1.2 BPG

Fourth Round:

Most likely Arkansas (2-seed)

Date/time: Saturday, March 14, 2:30 p.m. (approx.)

Maybe the opposing teams forfeited, maybe Wilt Chamberlain returned from the dead and joined the Tigers, or maybe Mizzou is just simply playing good basketball. If the Tigers win three games, they will likely face the Arkansas Razorbacks (24-7, 13-5 SEC) in the tournament semifinals. Oddly enough, the Tigers actually have a chance of winning this game. Mizzou faced its newfound “rivals” twice this season — first

losing by one at home (via two Wes Clark missed free throws in the final seconds), and then losing by 15 in Fayetteville. But even in the second game, the Tigers hung on with the Razorbacks. It was a tied ballgame 12 minutes in, and despite a couple Arkansas runs, the two teams were fairly even. Mizzou shot 50 percent from the field that game, but it was the 20 turnovers that lost the game for the Tigers. The Razorbacks are a predicted fifthseeded team in the NCAA Tournament and rank 11th in the nation in scoring at 79 points per game. If the Tigers play defense like they did in their first matchup against Arkansas (60 points given up), then there is hope for this improbably Cinderella story to continue on.

Probability of Mizzou win: surprisingly not unlikely.

Watch out for: Bobby Portis, sophomore forward 17.8 PPG, 8.7 RPG, 1.5 BPG Fourth in SEC in rebounding Michael Qualls, junior guard 15.3 PPG, 5.5 APG Rashad Madden, senior guard 10.0 PPG, 4.8 APG Second in SEC in assist average

Fifth Round:

Likely Kentucky (1-seed) Date/time: Sunday, March 15, noon Well, there you have it. Mizzou has stunned the nation, and is in the championship game — one win away from an automatic NCAA tournament bid. And if the Tigers have already made it this far, it only makes sense that they would hand the Wildcats their first loss of the season, right?

Mizzou faced Kentucky (31-0, 18-0 SEC) twice this season. On Jan. 13, the Tigers were obliterated in Rupp Arena by 49 points. Sixteen days later, Mizzou put up a fight on its own home court, leading 17-16 13 minutes into the game. But the Tigers still lost by 16. Even when Kentucky is not at its best, the Wildcats are still a force to be reckoned with.

However, there is always the chance that a team like Louisiana State will knock off the Wildcats before they reach the finals. In that case, hey, Mizzou has already beaten LSU this season.

Probability of Mizzou win: “Anything is possible!”

-Kevin Garnett, 2008 Watch out for: the whole team, including its ballboys.

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Missouri Tigers senior wrestler Devin Mellon celebrates after winning his dual March 8 at the MidAmerican Conference Championships hosted at Hearnes Center.

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JORDAN KODNER | PHOTOGRAPHER

Missouri Tigers catcher Brett Bond swings at a pitch Tuesday at Taylor Stadium in Columbia.

Bats need to come around if Tigers hope to compete Jamieson: “There’s no question that this is a confident group of kids right now.”

QUINN MALLOY Staff Writer For years now, the Southeastern Conference has been the pinnacle of collegiate baseball. The conference has always produced some of Major League Baseball’s prize talents, including Frank Thomas, Rafael Palmeiro, Todd Helton, Tim Hudson and David Price. SEC teams have made an appearance in the College World Series in eight of the last 10 years.

Currently, five of the top 10 teams in the nation represent the SEC. If this year’s Missouri baseball team hopes to compete

in this storied conference, they’re going to need to start putting runs on the board.

Mizzou’s offense has been held to three runs or less in seven of the last ten games. That doesn’t bode well for the team as they head to Athens, Georgia, this Friday to play a weekend series against the Bulldogs, currently running a team ERA of 2.45.

Despite the daunting task ahead of them, players are optimistic.

“We all work really hard with (hitting coach Hunter Mense) on what we do well and try to stick with what we do well,” freshman catcher Brett Bond said. “I think we’re all figuring it out. There have been times when we’ve struggled, but I think throughout the season we’re going to get better and better and we still have a lot to show.”

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have relied on their pitching thus far. Coach Tim Jamieson took over as pitching coach for the Tigers this season, and he’s achieved spectacular results.

The team’s ERA of 1.98 is third in the SEC, behind Texas A&M with 1.62 and Tennessee with 1.69.

Jamieson said he’s cherished his new role and the success his staff is having.

“It’s been really positive for me,” Jamieson said. “It’s got me more day-to-day work with the players. I don’t like being CEO, and that’s sometimes what the head coach becomes. We’ve got some really gifted guys; it’s a good year to become the pitching coach because they’re making me look pretty smart right now.”

Missouri’s hitters have been grateful for what the pitching staff has been able to do this year. Junior shortstop Ryan

Howard is confident that the team’s offense will begin to produce similarly stellar results.

“If (the pitchers) can do half of what they’ve been doing, we’re going to be in every single game with a chance to win,” Howard said. “The bats are going to come around. I firmly believe that we’re going to start putting on more runs.”

Because their offense has been so stagnant thus far, the Tigers have had to rely on clutch hitting to pull out close games.

Five of Mizzou’s ten wins this year have been by one run. The Tigers only won five one-run games all of last year.

A large part of being able to win close games is having the confidence to believe you can do so, Bond said.

“We have guys on the team saying somehow we would’ve lost the close games last year,” Bond said. “This year, I think we

have a different mentality. This year, we’re going to compete and not give up. Never give up at-bats, never give up on the mound, be bulldogs out there and have fun.”

Jamieson said that the intent of having a weaker slate of opponents early in the year was to get off to a good start. In past years, the team has come out of the first couple weeks of the season with a losing record, and has felt like they were playing from behind the whole year. With the team’s record sitting at 10-4 after their first 14 games, Jamieson said he hopes the team can run with the success they’ve had and be a contender in the SEC this year.

“There’s no question that this is a confident group of kids right now,” Jamieson said. “The wins are a big part of that.”

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Missouri’s ‘three-headed monster’ dominates

JORDAN KODNER | PHOTOGRAPHER

Junior Austin Tribby pitches a ball at Taylor Stadium Tuesday against Truman State. Missouri won 10-1.

The trio of Williams, Tribby, and Schwaab has allowed a combined two runs this season through 22 combined appearances.

JASON LOWENTHAL Staff Writer Missouri junior closer Breckin Williams described a “three-headed monster” coming out of the Tiger bullpen. He’s not very far off.

Williams, along with junior Austin Tribby and senior Andrew Schwaab, have been untouchable to start the season. They're quietly turning some heads around college baseball and are climbing up draft boards.

“You’ve got three pretty experienced guys that have all pitched in the bullpen their

entire careers, and I think those three guys are leading it,” Missouri coach Tim Jamieson said.

With a 10-4 team record, the trio of Williams, Tribby, and Schwaab has allowed a combined two runs this season through 22 combined appearances and have been integral to Mizzou’s best start since 1985 (14-0).

Tribby attributed the earlyseason success to knowing the bullpen’s identity.

“We love what we’re doing and we take pride in what we’re doing,” he said. “We thrive in having passion for the game and being able to come into any situation and have the confidence to get the job done.”

Williams, on the other hand, mentioned confidence as the bullpen’s unifying quality.

“Between Tribby, Schwaab and I, we have a lot of belief in each other,” he said. “To have that three-headed monster with belief in one another

really brings things together at the end of games.”

Regardless, the trio has been lights-out thus far and is quickly becoming a steady power late in games. Williams is among the Southeastern Conference’s leaders in saves with five, and has recorded a decision in seven of his eight appearances (5 saves, 2 wins).

He has held opposing batters to a .129 batting average at the plate. Williams is also well on his way to breaking former closer Keaton Steele’s saves mark (9) from last season.

Meanwhile, Tribby has been just as impressive. The lanky southpaw has surrendered just one run in nine innings and is averaging nine strikeouts per nine innings pitched. With nine appearances, he currently leads the Tigers’ pitching staff in appearances.

Schwaab has also been excellent in a setup role. The right-hander has yet to allow a

run this season in 10.0 innings of work and has surrendered just two hits. He has also picked up a save in the process against Illinois-Chicago — the first of his career.

“We’ve got some really gifted guys and it’s a good group to become the pitching coach with,” said Jamieson, who took on the pitching coach role prior to this season. “They’re making me look pretty smart right now, but it’s really them.”

Although Williams, Tribby and Schwaab have been nearly unhittable, Jamieson said he would like to give other guys some opportunities to get game experience.

Fortunately, or unfortunately for the Tigers, they have been the beneficiary of solid starting pitching and have not gotten the chance to share the wealth in the bullpen. Schwaab and Williams both noted that they have complete confidence in the rest of the bullpen, despite the fact the younger pitchers haven’t gotten to the mound yet.

“It’s just a matter of time before we hand the ball to one of those guys,” Tribby said. “I

see every one of those guys working their tails off each day because they want the ball in a big situation.”

Williams said that he has seen tremendous growth in some of the team’s mid-week scrimmages.

“A lot of the young guys have had their velocity go up and they’re getting more confident in one another,” Williams said.

Some of the notable members of the Tigers’ bullpen contingency that have not yet seen time on the mound include freshman Bryce Montes de Oca, a powerful right-hander who was the 14th-round selection of the Chicago White Sox, as well as freshman Liam Carter, a highly touted recruit from Illinois. Tribby said he has told Montes de Oca and Carter, among others, to keep their arms loose.

“I’ve told some of the younger guys on the team awaiting their first outing as a Tiger to stay ready,” Tribby said. “The one time you’re not ready is the one time you’re going to get the ball.”

GETTING IT DONE LATE The “three-headed monster” of Breckin Williams, Austin Tribby, and Andrew Schwaab has been dominant this season. All three are among the SEC’s leading relief pitchers. —Bruno Vernaschi

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The GridIron

Cinderella is more important than the money ANDREW MCCULLOCH

Snow is melting, the sun is shining and spring is in the air. March is finally here, and Selection Sunday is right around the corner, where 68 teams will begin their march towards a national championship.

In the post-Super Bowl darkness of the sports calendar, the NCAA tournament is the light at the end of the tunnel.

The tournament is one of the biggest American sporting events today and it continues to grow in popularity year after year. But what if I told you it wasn’t because of the basketball?

Sure, the NCAA Tournament has provided some iconic and historic basketball moments. In 1966, Texas Western stunned America by toppling UCLA with the first ever all-black starting five to win the national title.

In 1979, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird squared off for the first time in what would become basketball’s most defining rivalry.

In 1983, Jim Valvano overcame terminal bone cancer to lead his North Carolina State team to a national championship and the greatest upset in tournament history. And in 2010, the Butler Bulldogs went on the most incredible run in tournament history, only to fall one shot shy of the ultimate prize.

These are all moments that every fan remembers and

cherishes, but ultimately it’s not what March Madness is about.

At the end of the day, all that really matters is the money. And there’s no room for Cinderella in the board room.

It’s not as romantic as you might like, but that’s the reality.

College sports are a big business.

An estimated 90 to 100 million dollars are legally bet on the NCAA tournament every year. But that doesn’t include the 50 million fans who will fill out brackets and participate in office pools this year. And it also doesn’t include the Federal Bureau of Intelligence’s estimate of $2.5 billion in illegal gambling on the tournament.

In total, it’s estimated that last year’s NCAA tournament was responsible for $12 billion worth of gambling worldwide,

according to R.J. Bell of Pregame.com. That’s $2 billion more than the Super Bowl, truly making March Madness the most popular and lucrative sporting event in the United States.

But bookies aren’t the only ones profiting from the madness. In 2011, CBS and Turner Sports offered the NCAA a 14-year, $10.8 billion contract for the broadcast rights to the tournament, making it the largest deal ever of its kind.

So what does all this mean?

It means that allegiance has shifted. The NCAA tournament is no longer about the basketball being played, but the money changing hands. It’s a sad reality, but the reality nonetheless.

But despite the greed, the stories remain. Money can’t erase

the memories of tournaments past. Texas Western, now University of Texas-El Paso, still owns a national championship 50 years later and that can’t be taken away.

And more importantly, it can’t stop the underdogs of the sport. With automatic bids going to every conference champion, the George Masons, Butlers and Florida Gulf Coasts of the sport will continue to have a spot at the table.

So this year, when the tournament rolls around, take a minute to appreciate the little guys who made it to the Big Dance. At least one of them is Cinderella, and if you’re too focused on your bracket, you might just miss the ball.

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Missouri Tigers football players practice Tuesday at Faurot Field.

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(Southeastern Conference),” Simon said. “ That says something.

That means something. It says a lot about him and who he is.”

Another adjustment for

the Tigers is going to be replacing outgoing key players, specifically Shane Ray, who is entering the National Football League Draft, and Markus Golden, who has graduated.

With these losses, Mizzou loses a large portion of its defensive productivity. Despite this, Pinkel thinks the team has plenty of support to

replace them.

“I think the other guys are going to do well,” he said.

“We’ve got some young guys out there who’ve got a lot of playing experience.”

That youth could be seen as a downfall to some, but Pinkel said his team isn’t going to worry about it because “it doesn’t matter.”

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year, the Tigers not only won

the team tournament, but posted a new all-time record for most team points at a MAC Championship with 139.5. Old Dominion finished second with 97.5 and Ohio followed with 85.5.

Senior Alan Waters, sophomore Zach Synon, senior Drake Houdashelt, sophomore J’den Cox and senior Devin Mellon were all MAC Champions in their respective weight classes.

“The bottom line is you come to play,” he said. “Your teammates have an expectation level that you’ve got to get yourself in the position to help them win.”

With the Black & Gold Game 37 days out, and with spring break on the horizon, the transformed team is looking to stay hard at work.

Waters was named the MAC Championship’s Outstanding Wrestler.

Coach Brian Smith said his wrestlers don’t care about individual accolades and that they wrestle as a team.

“We’ve worked together this offseason, this whole last part of January and we’ve gotten to get to know each other a little bit,” Boehm said. “Now, it’s time to compete. We got 14 days to get better and that’s our goal.

Everyone on the Missouri wrestling team is ready for St. Louis.

“Now that we’ve got 10 out of 10 (qualifiers), we’re going to win the national title,” England said.

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