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April 1 , 2015

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Library unveils 3-D printing for students

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In closed event at School of Law, McCulloch speaks on Ferguson

GEORGE ROBERSON AND MICA SOELLNER Staff Writers The polarizing St. Louis County prosecuting attorney who handled the controversial Michael Brown case spoke to a group of law students and professors Tuesday night.

Bob McCulloch's speech, organized by the Missouri Association of Prosecuting Attorneys student chapter in Hulston Hall, was about the grand jury process in the Brown case. The event was only open to MU School of Law students and not members of the public or the press.

McCulloch said in a press conference after his speech that the audience asked tough questions and that it was a “great discussion.”

"I hope that (students) will have a greater understanding of the criminal justice system,” he said. “I hope they got a better understanding of how grand juries work and a better understanding of what went on in

NEWS MU Student Health Center is joining the Healthy Body Initiative.

this particular case. A lot of what was tossed out in the media just didn't happen.”

A group of about 20 protesters, organized by Occupy COMO, gathered outside Hulston Hall before the speech. Protesters criticized McCulloch’s divisive record as a prosecutor and the choice by organizers to make it open exclusively to law students. MU professor Sandy Davidson, who specializes in communications law, said she didn’t see any “red flags.”

“Just because it’s a public facility, doesn’t mean that it’s open to the public per say,” she said.

She said even though she gives lectures at a public university, they aren’t open to the public. The same rules applied to McCulloch’s speech, she said.

But Mid-Missouri Fellowship of Reconciliation Coordinator Jeff Stack said the situation still made him feel uneasy.

“I'm just concerned (and) saddened

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about the presence at the university of McCulloch, because it seems like it was handled in a secretive way,” he said. “There was little notice for the public to be involved and talk to him in a forum.”

Law School Dean Gary Myers said during the press conference following the speech why the event was open only to law students and faculty.

“This was a student-initiated and student-sponsored event,” Myers said. “We had a registration process and by the conclusion of that process, all the seats had been filled. It was designed primarily to be a law school event so that (McCulloch) could have that discussion and dialogue.”

MAPA Student Chapter President Ryan Nely said he extended an invitation to McCulloch and began planning the event a few weeks ago.

“I learned that our student body can ask really tough questions in a really respectful way,” Nely said.

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St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch speaks at a press conference Tuesday at Hulston Hall after speaking to MU School of Law students.

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Imagine having the option to print out anything from daily tools like a screwdriver or wrench to elaborate art sculptures.

Beginning April 2, you can. Ellis Library will house two 3-D printers for students to use, the culmination of a seven-month effort from sophomore Nick Bira, an engineering student who is head of the project.

On what type of items students will be able to print, Bira said that you are “basically limited only by your imagination.”

Print Anything at Mizzou, the 3-D printing program, is a play on words from the Print Anywhere service, Bira said. Prices for the program are yet to be finalized.

He said the printer will have endless academic applications. Students studying architecture will have the opportunity to print out miniatures of their building designs. Artists can print sculptures that would otherwise be too complicated to make on their own.

“If you’re an anatomy student and you’re studying for some bone test and you have to know all the bones in the hand, you could print out all the bones of the hand and you’d have a miniature hand model that you could have, well, in your hand, so to speak,” Bira said. “You could create all sorts of miniatures of anatomy bits to use or study with.”

Likewise, the printer will offer assistance in many other areas far beyond just academic purposes. Bira said the printer could be used for anything from creating a hammer to replacing a broken handlebar on your bike.

“It’s a tool,” he said. “It has a lot of different applications.”

Bira began the process to bring 3-D printing to students last semester.

While working on a 3-D printing project, Bira said he realized that most of the MU community cannot access this technology.

He said that although there is a larger 3-D printing lab in Lafferre Hall and a few others around campus, they are reserved for certain individuals or groups and none of them are available to the average student.

“All of these things really limit access to the technology,” Bira said. “I was reading stuff online about how other universities had access to 3-D printing and that really got me thinking, you know, ‘We should have this access. This is something that is rapidly becoming more relevant these days.’ And I thought it would

MOVE Student band Tidal Volume will bring the noise April 9 to Rose Music Hall.

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MU student Jake Sanders takes a goal kick during a MizzouRec soccer game Tuesday on Stankowski Field. Stankowski Field is home to many of Mizzou’s intramural sports.

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MU students celebrate Bach’s 330th birthday A ‘street piano’ will be available for anyone passing by to play during the event.

KARLEE RENKOSKI Reporter Various areas on MU campus will be filled with the melodious sound of Johann Sebastian Bach’s compositions April 3.

The 330th anniversary of Bach’s birth was March 21, and to celebrate the composer, the MidMissouri Collegiate Chapter of Music Teachers’ National Association decided to have surprise performances by music students throughout the day. The celebration will be capped off by the installment of a street piano near the Fine Arts Building.

MMCC advisor Paola Savvidou said Bach is the most influential figure in Western classical music.

“He played music in coffee shops, composed music for the church and for his children,” Savvidou said. “Playing music outside and sharing his genius seems like an appropriate celebration.”

This is the first time an MU event such as this has been done. The idea was adapted from the global celebration called “Bach in the Subways,” which has been observing Bach’s birthday since 2011.

Senior Haley Myers is the MMCC president and is responsible for planning part of this event.

“At an MMCC meeting in the fall, we were trying to decide how to celebrate the upcoming 330th birthday of J.S. Bach,” Myers said. “We were joking that it would be funny to do a Bach flash mob performance of some kind, but then the idea stuck because we liked the idea of playing to a wider audience than just music students and

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BodyU hopes to change body image A program offered through the Student Health Center aims to offer help for eating disorders and unhealthy body image.

RUTH SERVEN Staff Writer College is one of the major transitions after puberty that can

trigger unhealthy body image.

Researchers at Stanford University and Washington University in St. Louis have developed the Healthy Body Initiative as a way to help college students gain feedback on their habits and self-image and get help if necessary.

“There’s a whole spectrum of eating disorders,” said Ellen FitzsimmonsCraft, one of the postdoctoral fellows working on the program at Washington University. “Some people might be on one end or the other, but most people

fall somewhere in between.”

At MU, the Healthy Body Initiative program is called BodyU, and is offered out of the Student Health Center. Any undergraduate or graduate student can follow the link at BodyU to the Healthy Body Initiative and take the free survey.

To participate, students complete a brief online survey that determines the risk of unhealthy habits or eating disorders. Based on the

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Senate resolution to endorse Phillips dismissed WAVERLY COLVILLE Staff Writer The Missouri Students Association Senate mulled over whether or not MSA had the power to write endorsements for City Council candidates during the last full Senate meeting on March 18.

Senior Chad Phillips, the former Campus and Community Relations Committee chairman, announced his candidacy March 18 as a write-in for the First Ward seat for Columbia City Council.

Phillips is one of two MU students running in the April 7 election, along with senior Jake Loft.

Current CCRC chairman Syed Ejaz authored Resolution 54-35, which states that MSA formally endorses Phillips for the position, and proposed it to the full Senate.

After much debate, Ejaz eventually dismissed his own resolution, and there is

still no clear answer so, said Phillips, to whether or not who was present at MSA should write the last full Senate endorsements. meeting.

A resolution The MSA presented to the Bylaws present full Senate earlier no restrictions this semester by to candidacy former Operations endorsements committee chairman outside of MSA. Nick Schwartz was The disagreements tabled because between senators senators felt it too centered around closely resembled whether or not it was COURTESY OF CHAD PHILLIPS an endorsement for the right thing to do.

Portrait of Chad Phillips, candidate a slate in the most for City Council First Ward.

Several senators recent Residence spoke both in favor Halls Association of and against the resolution. presidential election.

Senator Abby Ivory-Ganja made a The main intention of Ejaz’s resolution speech in affirmation of the resolution. was to initiate conversation about whether or not MSA should endorse candidates.

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Sustain Mizzou will host

electronic-waste drive JEANNINE ANDERSON Staff Writer In 2009, Apple released the iPhone 3GS. That same year, about 438 million new electronic products were sold — twice the sales made in 1997. The sale of mobile devices alone grew nine times during that period, according to an Environmental Protection Agency report.

The EPA report stated that 2.37 million tons of electronics were discarded in 2009.

Of these electronics, only 25 percent were actually recycled.

But there is an alternative way to dispose of used electronic products. Sustain Mizzou is hosting an e-waste drive during Sustainability Week to collect these materials to be recycled. The drive is scheduled to take place April 8-10 on the north side of the MU Student Center.

Last year, Sustain Mizzou collected between 1,500 and 2,000 pounds of e-waste.

The drive will accept “anything with a cord or battery,” said Stan Fredrick, owner of [Mid-Mo Recycling. Fredrick’s recycling company is partnering up with Sustain Mizzou for this year’s drive. He said the only items that will not be accepted at the drive are CRT (cathoderay tube) TVs. Everything, from the plastic casings

to the glass screens, the copper wire to the gold plating on circuit boards and even the screws are recycled, Fredrick said.

Mid-MO Recycling will take the e-waste collected at the drive to its facility to be recycled.

Fredrick said the company recycles about 17 tons of e-waste each month. About 1-2 percent of the computers recycled through his facility are actually still useable.

Fredrick said most of the electronics at the facility are sent to Midwest Material Recovery in St. Louis, where they are finely shredded, sorted and recycled. Some of the items are torn down into components like circuit boards and power supplies.

However, Mid-MO Recycling has faced considerable decline over the years. Fredrick started this business in 2001 with six employees.

But today, he only has one.

“We are way down,” he said. “We were processing about 35 tons a month and now we are down to about 17 tons.”

In this business, there is not a lot of money to be made, Fredrick said. In fact, he said he does not make profits from the e-waste drive. To him, it’s just the right thing to do.

“We recycle everything, that’s the basis of what we do. Everything has a value,” he said. “I am Mr. Recycle.”

Recycling e-waste elsewhere In Missouri, the Manufacturer Responsibility and Consumer Convenience Equipment

Collection and Recovery Act was passed in 2008.

This law requires manufacturers to provide free recycling of their products to consumers at the product’s end of life, but it is up to the consumer to make the call.

Columbia still allows e-waste in the landfill, which means many people still throw their electronics away in the garbage.

The proportion of e-waste collected for recycling increased by 3 percent from 2006 to 2009, 25 percent of the amount of e-waste, by weight, increased by 9 percent. Used electronics make up about 1-2 percent of the solid waste stream in the U.S. According to a study by Toxics Link, an environmental advocacy group, 70 percent of heavy metals in U.S. landfills, like mercury and cadmium, come from electronic waste. E-waste also accounts for 40 percent of the lead found in landfills. These toxins are known to cause brain damage and cancer.

While commodity prices have gone down, the fees associated with processing old electronics have gone up. A fee is applied to all CRT TVs and monitors. Fredrick said he believes more people would recycle if it were free for consumers and profitable for the processors.

“There is not enough money in it to make money,” he said. “That is why there needs to be a system in place to compensate the recyclers for what they are doing.”

Farmers market connects students, food producers ALANA SAAD Staff Writer The distinct aroma of freshly baked pies permeates the air surrounding Lowry Mall.

It doesn’t take long until word gets out that Barbara Nobis, or Grandma Barb, arrived at the Mizzou Farmer’s Market. Students quickly begin crowding around the booth where Grandma Barb happily shares her famous homemade goods with her “sugars.”

Last spring, Grandma Barb said tears were brought to her eyes when a student thanked her for helping him get through college with the reliable taste of her homemade goods.

Students, faculty and staff can find local food vendors like Grandma Barb at the first Mizzou Farmer’s Market of the season between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on April 9.

The Environmental Leadership Office hosts a farmers market on campus about three times each semester, during which MU students, faculty and staff can develop one-on-one relationships with farmers and learn how eating locally can benefit the environment.

ELO advisor Amy Eultgen said while there are many economical benefits of supporting local farmers markets, eating locally may also have a direct impact on individual carbon footprints.

“Knowing that (your food) didn’t travel too far to get to you is a huge part of sustainability,” she said. “Sometimes our (food) is grown out of the country . . . which might take a lot of fossil fuels to get to us.”

Eultgen said the opportunity for consumers to meet the farmer who grows their food is another benefit of buying from local farmers markets.

“Not only does it support the local economy, it gives people a chance to figure out where their food is grown,” she said.

“When you shop local — whether that be at a farmers market or some sort of established place — you get to know your farmer, which is really cool because then you can talk to that person about how it was grown if you have questions.”

Grandma Barb’s Pieshas been a vendor at the MU farmers markets since they first began a few years ago.

“It’s so much different than going to a grocery store and getting food (because) you feel like nobody even knows you,” she said.

“Farmers markets give you more of a one-onone basis.”

Grandma Barb said her home-baked goods do not include any preservatives. She said it’s the natural freshness that keeps her customers coming back every farmer’s market both on campus and in Columbia.

“When you come to a farmers market,

you know that the product has been picked within the last day probably, two days at the most,” she said. “It is much fresher.”

Eultgen said consumers should take advantage of the unique one-on-one basis farmers markets can provide so they can ask their farmers not only where, but how their food was made.

Some students at the market are not there to buy, but are farmers themselves. Tigers for Community Agriculture is a vegetable growing project at MU that partners with Bradford Research Farm to provide a “handson learning environment for students interested in sustainable agriculture.”

Vegetables grown by TCA are also sold at the Mizzou Farmer’s Market.

“The students who are out picking vegetables . . . are at the farmers markets so you can ask them directly how they picked it or how farming was,” sophomore and ELO ambassador Mackenzie Mock said. “I think that’s a really cool aspect.”

Other vendors participating in this year’s farmer’s market include Missouri Legacy Beef, Honey Creek Farm and Fretboard Coffee.

Eultgen said she hopes the farmer’s markets will encourage more people on campus to learn that the opportunity to purchase local food is [readily available in the community.

THE MANEATER | SUSTAINABILITY WEEK | APRIL 1, 2015

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endocrine disruption MU professor Susan Nagel’s team is exploring how hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” might be adding endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) to water supplies.

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The third approach was a lab study that exposed animals to these chemicals. Nagel said the team mixed the chemicals into the animals’ drinking water. She also said they are in the process of analyzing the results on the reproductive health systems of these animals.

Erma Drobnis, team member and assistant professional practice professor for women’s health, said that wastewater mainly impacts reproductive health, especially estrogen and sperm.

“We found that when pregnant mice were given water containing

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these contaminants, the sons born from the pregnancy had abnormal reproductive characteristics, including low sperm counts, compared to mice whose mothers received normal water,” she said.

Drobnis said that the team has not conducted studies on how wastewater will affect pregnant women living near fracking sites or people exposed to the contaminants.

She said the team hopes to do a study in the future.

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As friction and controversy continue to surround the industry of natural gas hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, an MU research team is investigating the link between fracking activity and hormone disruption.

Susan Nagel, associate professor of women’s health, is leading the team of MU graduate students and professors to study how natural gas drilling may impact local water supplies. The team recently published evidence of endocrinedisrupting chemicals, which affect hormone function, making their way into local water supplies following drilling-related incidents.

Hydraulic fracking is a process that starts with drilling a hole thousands of feet in the ground and injecting millions of gallons of water and chemicals into the hole. Nagel said the outcome is a fracture in the rock layers, which releases the trapped natural gas from under the ground.

Recently, President Barack Obama anounced new regulationsrfor hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, on public land. The new rules, slated to take effect midJune, require safer drilling methods in about 100,000 oil and gas wells currently in public lands.

Proponents of regulations argue that fracking has harmful effects on the environment and local water supplies, while natural gas producers say the new rules will add burdensome costs.

Graduate student Chris Kassotis, a researcher on Nagel’s team said that one of the biggest advantages to fracking is the impact it has on traditional oil and natural gas consumption.

“The benefits are that it allows oil and gas production within the U.S. in areas where production was not previously possible,” he said.

“This greatly expanded natural gas production and has helped transition the U.S. away from coal as a primary energy source and the increased oil yield has helped reduce foreign imports and has contributed to the decline in prices.”

The American Petroleum Institute lists several ways to create safe drilling sites, such as placing liners and rubber composite mats

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under well pads and rigs, creating storage tanks with secondary containment measures and better controlling any potential runoff.

Without these measures in place, Nagel said waste runoff could pollute the surface and underground water near these sites.

“It is injecting lots of chemicals that we know have adverse health effects into the ground, which generates a whole lot of wastewater which needs to be dealt with,” she said.

Kassotis said he believes more research on treating wastewater should take place to deal with water quality issues.

“Issues that require large volumes of water and have relatively few current methods to treat the wastewater are going to become much more important in the next few years,” he said.

According to a report from the Virginia Community College system, it is possible to treat wastewater, but there is still a possibility that it will remain contaminated.

“Satisfactory disposal of wastewater, whether by surface, subsurface methods or dilution, is dependent on its treatment prior to disposal,” according to the VCCS report. “Adequate treatment is necessary to prevent contamination of receiving waters to a degree which might interfere with their best or intended use, whether it be for water supply, recreation, or any other required purpose.”

Nagel and her team have been looking into the consequences of wastewater through their research.

She said they have taken three different approaches while trying to find out how the contaminated water affects humans.

The first approach was a field study in Colorado, where the team found endocrine-disrupting activities were two to three times higher in ground and surface water at places that have wastewater versus sites that did not have any wastewater.

The second approach was a laboratory study where the researchers looked at the chemicals involved in the fracking process.

Nagel said the team tested 24 chemicals known to have endocrinedisrupting qualities.

“We’ve seen that almost all of these can disrupt at least one type of hormone in the body,” she said.

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the environmental and hormonal impact. However, Kassotis said he thinks that giving the students more information will get them to pay more attention.

“While few direct health assessments have been made, our results and several studies and reports have shown that people living nearby these operations may experience increased adverse health effects,” he said. “I think when you talk to people about direct impacts on their health, they tend to listen.”

April 6 - April 10

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lKick-Off Rally from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Student Center. Students can enter to win a new trek bike.

lMU Green Tour of MU’s energy efficient buildings will begin at 3:30 p.m. at Speakers Circle. The tour will take about an hour.

lRecycle Mountain, four tons of recyclable materials thrown away every day, will be on display from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Speakers Circle.

lEco-Chella from 7 to 10 p.m. in Peace Park. Madelyniris, A Simple Exchange and Ray Wild will perform. The event is free to everyone.

lScreening of “The Island President” at 7 p.m. in Jesse Wrench Auditorium, followed by a discussion about the film.

lMU Farmer’s Market will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Lowry Mall. Students can purchase local foods from farmers and Tigers for Community Agriculture.

lDashboard Blackout Dance Party will take place from 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. at Traditions Plaza. Students can win prizes and learn about energy reduction.

lTrivia Night will be from 7 to 9 p.m. in The Shack.

lEcofeminism Discussion will take place from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the Multicultural Center.

lElectronic Waste Drive (Day 3)

Source: Environmental Leadership Office

lElectronic Waste Drive will be from noon to 3 p.m. on Carnahan Quad.

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be really good for all Mizzou students to be able to use one.”

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Continued from page 1 “It's important to remember this is one part of an ongoing conversation we've been having for the past year and that we're going to keep having.”

Law student Samantha Green live-tweeted the event using #MUMcCulloch in an effort to make the information available to as many interested people as possible.

"I think all things considered it went really well,” Green said. “I was excited to hear

McCulloch's view, as a prosecutor, but I walked away feeling like we didn't address much during the event. He didn't answer questions directly and I didn't have my concerns and questions discussed. But being able to watch the law school community interact and react was valuable."

McCulloch said he received criticism as a result of the failure of the grand jury to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.

"I don't understand the criticism that I gave the grand jury too much information,” McCulloch said. “I don't

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Bira said not much happened.

“It wasn’t until over winter break that they notified me that I was receiving funding for that,” he said. “So we’ve been working on it ever since.”

A launch party for Print Anything at Mizzou will be held at 1 p.m. on April 2 in Ellis Library. Students will be able to learn more about how to place a print request and staff will begin accepting orders.

For the people attending the event, Bira said they can expect a few free giveaway prints and discounts.

Greg Emanuel, manager of the Engineering Laboratory in the College of Engineering, has been working with Bira on the project for several months now.

With plans already in action to offer the printing solely to students within the College of Engineering, Emanuel said he thought Bira’s idea to offer the service to all of campus was a great idea.

“He came with his idea about wanting to do this for campus and I just thought, ‘Well, okay.

This is great. This would be

a great opportunity to have a student present an idea and taking the initiative to present an idea and follow through with it,’” Emanuel said. “He did all the work to present the idea to the IIF.” The students running the program will deal with everything from deciding pricing, figuring out the best way to advertise and market, setting the schedules and choosing the process for dayto-day activity. Emanuel said his main role in the initiative is to act as a sponsor for the project.

“From my experience and from my perspective with the large 3-D printing lab, I was able to give him tools to think about, maybe some ways to approach it and how to help him set the scope of this project,” Emanuel said.

Along with answering questions and offering overall guidance, Emanuel said he will also manage the profit aspect of the project.

“I think the important thing, kind of what I keep telling Nick,

is I’m here to provide guidance and generally what I do is give them maybe some overall direction or a scope and I usually end everything with, ‘You make the decision,’” Emanuel said. “This is a student-run organization, it was thought up by a student and it’s being initiated by students.”

The 3-D printing services are students from all areas across campus, such as the College of Business and the School of Journalism.

“I think that’s a key part to this is that it’s truly a student organization and it’s not just comprised of engineering students,” Emanuel said.

“Hopefully it turns out to be an inaugural year.”

Emanuel said he hopes to see the service expand in the future.

“Right now, they can only offer this to the MU campus for the staff and students, but hopefully it gets to a point to where it can extend,” Emanuel said. “Hopefully it takes off.”

understand how you can give a decision-maker too much information. If I'm trying to make a decision, I want as much information as I can get."

McCulloch said the students he spoke to tonight wanted to know what he was doing to “avoid issues like this” in the future.

“We need to communicate with the public a lot more than we did,” he said. “Prosecutors need to get out more and explain the process and the system."

This event came two weeks after Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin held another in a series

of race relations forums in an effort to further dialogue about race.

Carl Kenney, a pastor at Bethel Baptist Church and adjunct journalism professor, said the decision to invite McCulloch was inconsiderate to students who have been frustrated with the MU administration.

“I think allowing McCulloch to come here is bad timing and there is no justification for the law school to be allowed to have him come for the life of this university,” Kenney said. “It follows a community conversation about race on this

campus, and for the chancellor to allow this to happen shows a disregard for what happened last week. If the attempt of the event last week was to create an olive branch, this destroyed all of that.”

McCulloch responded to protesters by supporting their right to discuss the issues.

“I’ve always encouraged people to speak their mind and if they want to protest, you should get your views going, but allow it for a way to let others do the same thing,” McCulloch said. “It’s a good idea to have this discussion and see where things go.”

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2015 graduates to walk in new gowns Due to the change in gowns, students must purchase a Grad Pack for $74.99.

HAILEY STOLZE Staff Writer This spring, MU graduates will become the first class to walk with MU insignia on their gowns.

The gowns are black with “MU” embroidered in gold. Both bachelor’s and master’s gowns are changing.

This change means students must purchase caps and gowns through the Mizzou Store. They therefore must purchase a Grad Pack, which comes with a cap, the new gown, tassel, a T-shirt and a one-year membership to Mizzou Alumni Association. The package costs $74.99.

The Mizzou Store held a graduation fair in March, where it received many positive responses to the pack, Mizzou Store spokesperson Michelle Froese said.

Along with students liking the new designs, alumni also sent social media messages stating they wished they had the MU insignia when they graduated, Froese said.

Senior Sara Driscoll, a former Maneater staffer, bought her Grad Pack a couple of weeks ago. She said

the package is “grossly overpriced.”

“Although it does look nice, I don’t think that it should be required for (graduates) to get the newly embroidered cap and gown … I have friends who already had cap and gowns ready to borrow and ready to wear, and the fact that we can no longer do that is pretty upsetting,” Driscoll said.

The only graduation pieces students are able to purchase on their own are additional tassels.

Students often graduate with two tassels, as different colors represent different majors for undergraduates.

Students graduating with masters’ degrees, however, all receive black tassels. The hoods on their gowns are instead colorcoded.

In order to embroider the gowns, MU now works with a different company: Oak Hall Cap and Gown.

The change in companies spurred from issues with the former regalia vendor, as shipments were often late and the gowns were poor quality, Froese said. Once they started searching for a new vendor, she said they thought Oak Hall’s gown examples were of superior quality and showcased MU better.

Senior Sarah Harmening said she’s not looking forward to paying for the new gowns.

“I don’t know why it’s so expensive, that’s my biggest thing … We’re only wearing it for the ceremony and pictures,” she said.

Harmening said she thinks MU should rent graduation caps and gowns to student to save them from spending unnecessary money.

Froese said the change to custom regalia provided an opportunity to showcase MU. This is important, she said, as students will be able to remember their graduation ceremony, wearing the MU regalia,

the number of students aware of these resources is key to preventing instances of selfharm and suicide if help is sought soon enough.

Nationally, the second leading cause of death for college students is suicide, said Christy Hutton, coordinator for MU Couseling Center Programming and Communications Additionally, 86 percent of students who die by suicide had never been to their college counseling center.

“Only about a quarter of students on campuses know that these counseling centers exist,” Hutton said.

For MU students, mental health resources have been made available by and through the university at a variety of locations. The MU Counseling Center serves as the primary student behavioral health outlet, with consultations and treatment for illnesses ranging from depression and anxiety to eating disorders.

“The counseling center offers group and individual counseling, but we also offer consultations,” Hutton said. “Through these consultations, if a student or parent is worried about the well being of a student, we are able to talk through that with them over the phone or in person.”

The Counseling Center, in addition to scheduled group and

individual therapy and consults, offers 24-hour crisis resources seven days a week.

If a student is “in crisis,” which Hutton said is a situation in which the student is unable to cope on their own, counseling is available in person or over the phone during business hours, as well as over the phone after closing time through a counseling hotline Hutton said licensed mental health professionals always staff the Counseling Center’s after-hours line.

“Writing stories like this allows students to access us, which makes them more likely to recover,” Hutton said. “For somebody having a hard time, no matter the time of day or day of the week, call our phone number.”

MU’s resources extend beyond treatment and counseling and into awareness, prevention and destigmatization. Hutton said the Counseling Center hosts live suicide prevention training seminars in which students and faculty participate in roleplaying activities and become better versed in working through more difficult conversations.

The Counseling Center also offers a more complete program titled “RESPOND: Partnering for Campus Mental Health.”

“RESPOND allows us to teach students and staff about mental

for years to come.

“Coming off of the 175th anniversary, they were looking at strengthening that sense of celebration and tradition,” Froese said.

Senior Frank Klockenga said he agrees with Froese’s theory.

Klockenga said Grad Packs are worth the money, as graduation

is the biggest accomplishment he’s reached. He said he’s willing to purchase whatever gown is necessary for the ceremony.

“I had to buy my own cap and gown in high school because I didn’t have too much support from my parents,” Klockenga said. “And I still have it in my closet.”

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MU students speak with an employee at the cap and gown graduation booth Tuesday at the MU Student Center.

MU Counseling Center offers help for those in crisis Help through the Counseling Center is available 24/7.

PAIGE LALAIN Staff Writer “Crying, frustrated and upset, the following thoughts ran through my mind: ‘Why won’t they just let me be their friend?’ ‘Why can’t I just be normal?’ I hated who I was, and who I was was never going to be good enough to be accepted.”

Have you experienced these feelings? MU offers help for those struggling with mental illnesses.

When junior Kevin Carr was in middle school, his homeroom teacher asked him how he was doing.

“Today would be better if I were dead,” Carr responded. He was not removed from class, or sent to the nurse’s office.

Instead, the teacher sighed and moved on to the next student.

“I don’t blame that teacher personally, but her reaction in hindsight raises questions and concerns for what efforts were in place to identify students who were mentally struggling,” Carr said.

Though the number of mental health resources on university campuses like MU is abundant,

illness and is offered once a semester, or more when we have student groups who will sponsor it,” Hutton said. “We also offer this about five times a year for faculty.”

Also offering mental health and wellness services is the MU Student Health Center, which has a behavioral health division for students to utilize. For students wishing to de-stress, Student Health also holds weekly “Mindful Yoga for Stress Management” in the lower level of the St. Thomas More Newman Center on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays.

“Mindful yoga is about practicing with awareness of physical sensations, breathing, emotions and thoughts from moment to moment with unconditional acceptance,” according to a statement on the Student Health Center webpage.

“If yoga is practiced regularly you will notice many benefits to your physical and mental health.

Many people experience greater serenity about life in general after consistent yoga practice.”

Student groups are also at work to raise awareness about mental illness. Active Minds Mizzou, as well as the Mizzou Suicide Prevention Coalition, are two examples of groups focused on decreasing stigma and have numerous ways to get involved.

A web-based training session is available online at www.moasklistenrefer.org for individuals looking to train themselves in proper handling and care in discussions or interventions with people exhibiting signs of depression and a possibility of suicide or self-harm.

The training session, Ask Listen Refer, is an online program that explains to users the risk factors and warning signs of suicide and offers a 15 to 20-minute tutorial on talking to at-risk individuals as well as how to seek and acquire help.

Another a web-based suicide prevention service, Missouri Suicide Prevention Resources, is “an online network committed to suicide prevention on Missouri’s public higher education campuses,” as stated on the Department of Student Life suicide prevention resources webpage.

Help from outside sources is important, but often times, the most therapeutic breakthroughs come from recognizing your own ability to cope and to succeed, Carr said.

“To everyone who has mentally struggled, I implore you: Recognize the undeniable truth that you have inherent self-worth, for your own actions can make this world a better place,” he said.

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“I think we do have the power to make endorsements,” Ivory-Ganja said. “We should have a productive discussion about who we should endorse for each position. It needs to be looked at by a caseby-case basis, but having those conversations will create stronger

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student’s answers, the program offers several different selfimprovement tools to encourage positive body image, good nutrition and healthy eating.

Grace Monterubio, a doctoral student from Washington University working with the program, said the program is not just for students who think they have disordered thinking. She and Fitzsimmons-Craft said they would like healthy students to also take the survey, so the program can encourage and reinforce existing positive behaviors.

“Ideally, we’d like to screen everyone on a college campus,” Monterubio said. “Then the program could help those who are doing well and those who could use some additional support, and reinforce staying healthy in a college environment.”

Monterubio and FitzsimmonsCraft both became interested in eating disorders and body image issues while in college.

“I saw how common and detrimental negative thoughts were for my peers,” Monterubio said. “I got really interested in body positivity, and wanted to promote overall health and wellness for everyone.”

Fitzsimmons-Craft said she was discouraged by common fears and negative thoughts about food and bodies among her friends and classmates in college.

“It was really sad to me how normative that was,” Fitzsimmons-Craft said. “I became really excited by the chance to change the culture of health, from a culture of poor body image and negativity, into something healthier for everyone.”

Fitzsimmons-Craft explained that it’s important for every person to have an understanding of their own body image, eating and exercise, which makes it easier to maintain that health.

“In college, when your whole environment changes and you’re not living with your family and you’re not around your old friends — when everything changes like that, it can be hard to know if what you’re eating or doing is normal,” she said.

Fitzsimmons-Craft said she hopes to expand the program to more campuses and schools. For now, she encourages every MU student to take the survey.

“I think we can offer every person something helpful and something that will make them feel better,” she said. “Plus, it’s free. Why not take it?”

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Senator Amy Wasowicz, who serves on the CCRC, disagreed.

She mentioned that if Phillips lost the election, it might hurt MSA’s relationship with City Council.

“Passing a resolution wasn’t worth jeopardizing the relationship that we’ve worked so hard to build with City Council,” Wasowicz said.

“I wanted to get that across to other committees that don’t work

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professors.”

Not only is she coordinating some of the details, but she is also performing as a pianist on campus.

“I think the most exciting thing about this event is that it is a rare coming together of people to celebrate and perpetuate the work of one exceptional composer,” Myers said.

The surprise instrumental and vocal performances will

as closely with City Council and don’t quite realize the impact that this could have.”

Phillips himself had almost nothing to do with the resolution that bore his name. He said Ejaz came to him with the idea to use his campaign to start the conversation.

“Syed just viewed it as an opportunity to have this discussion with me being directly related to MSA and running for be in a variety of locations, including Memorial Union, Speakers Circle and Lowry Mall.

In addition to various solo and ensemble performances, the event will introduce the School of Music’s new street piano.

Lucy Urlacher is a piano technician at MU, as well as a member of the Columbia Piano Technicians Guild. She was a key figure in creating the street piano idea and is in charge of preparing it for the event.

“Last fall the Columbia PTG thought it would be neat to have a street piano,” Urlacher said.

office,” Phillips said. “I think Syed saw it as if there was ever a time where we should be talking (about endorsements), it should be now.”

During full Senate, MSA adviser Farouk Aregbe also spoke out against the resolution. He suggested students take action instead by actively spreading awareness of Phillips’ campaign instead of passing a resolution.

Phillips said he hopes this resolution will continue to inspire “A street piano is a decorated piano that lives outside for the summer for anyone passing by to play.”

The donated upright street piano is to be painted this week by MU art student Samantha Edwards. It will be located outside of the Fine Arts Building on Lowry Mall across from Ellis Library. Anyone who wishes to play can and it will include a highlight performance that afternoon.

“I expect that some people will hear Bach’s music that never heard it before,” Urlacher

important conversations about the MSA Senate’s power in the future.

“It was a good discussion and hopefully something we can implement in the future because as former CCRC chair it would’ve been huge to have endorsed a candidate,” Phillips said. “That motivates candidates to really take a look at the student body and show us the attention we deserve as a percentage of the population.” said. “Others will know his music and be pleased to have a spontaneous encounter with it … Hopefully many people will come away saying, ‘The piano is a really neat instrument. I would like to play piano.’”

Savvidou said she thinks the collaboration of various music departments, organizations and students is exciting.

“Collaboration between the arts is crucial in our day and time,” she said. “It is an honor for us to join a worldwide event celebrating (Bach’s) legacy and music.”

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Let’s help improve Greektown must welcome our library MU lacks world-class library facilities, and the proposed fee would be a great step toward fixing that.

JALEN MOSBY

We have the nice Rec. We have top colleges in multiple fields. We have new residence halls sprouting up and constant campus beautification projects happening.

What we don’t have is a cutting-edge library. Some say that the libraries on a college campus tell a lot about what the college stands for, and if one was to look at our beloved Ellis Library, they might not think we were a leading institution.

Shabby is a good word to describe the current state of Ellis’ interior. It can definitely be improved and made more efficient. The plans to renovate one of the most-used spaces on campus is a great move for MU to make, even if it is at the cost of students.

Plans have been made to propose a library fee for students in the coming years in very small amounts to fund the renovations. Students have to foot the bill of this costly renovation project because there is virtually nowhere else to pull the money from.

If the plan passes and is accepted by the students through voting in November, students in coming semesters will have to pay $5 more per credit hour. The $5 will increase by $2 each year until the end of the funding timeline, which is planned to be in 2022. The multimillion-dollar renovation will bring new study rooms to students as well as media labs and other useful resources to make students’ experiences great. It won’t apply to just Ellis, but all libraries on the MU campus.

When you tour MU for the first time, the MizzouRec facility is the climax of the tour because of how nice and advanced it is. It should be the same way for our libraries. As an educational institution, we should all be concerned about how accessible new scholarly articles and technologies are to us.

While MU is known all over the world for having a highranking journalism school and medical school, on lists comparing libraries, we don’t come close to the top. It’s not to say that we don’t have amazing resources through databases and journals at our fingertips, but as an overall experience, we could definitely do better.

Students should be willing to make a sacrifice in order to better our campus community and enhance our library system. Students’ voices can be heard when they vote yes or no to the plan.

When you’re in Ellis now, there are cords along the floors, small study spaces with chairs and tables that wobble.

Bookmark Café is one of the least talked about eateries on campus and many students don’t know how to navigate through the library on their own.

The updated library will be a place for students to enjoy and actually want to spend time. There will be 24-hour study spaces and a brand new Digital Media Lab one the first floor of Ellis where students can create digital media content.

Since students are paying for much of the transformation of the library, we should be voicing our opinions on what we want to see out of the final project and how we plan to use the resources. Students know what is best for students, and we should be fully active in deciding how our money is spent.

Take the time to think about and research how other institutions around the country have revamped their libraries and made them more practical and usable. It is a known fact that MU is behind in library innovations and resources, and that is not okay. With a new, modern, easily accessible library, MU will be a powerhouse that continues attracting students and scholars from every corner of the world.

students with disabilities

Many fraternity and sorority houses at MU lack overall accessibility for people with physical disabilities, as reported in The Maneater’s latest Long Read. Some houses lack accessible entrances, bathrooms and bedrooms on the first floor and elevators. While some houses do have these accessible features, the majority of Greek houses lack at least one or more of these aspects.

The Maneater measured the accessibility of houses using five factors: an accessible front entrance, an accessible side entrance, a first-floor bathroom, a first-floor bedroom and an elevator. Of the 34 Greek houses we examined, only three (Beta Theta Pi, Pi Kappa Alpha and Sigma Sigma Sigma) had all of these features. Nine Greek houses reported that they do not have any accessible entrances to their houses. If you use a wheelchair and are interested in joining Acacia, Alpha Gamma Sigma, Delta Chi, Kappa Alpha Order, Kappa Sigma, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Theta Chi, Gamma Phi Beta or Alpha Phi, you literally won’t be able to get in the door.

Technically, fraternity and sorority houses aren’t required to have these accessibility features because, as a private club, they are exempted from the guidelines detailed in the Americans with Disabilities Act. So while the MU Student Center is legally required to be accessible to people of all abilities, the rules change once you cross Tiger Avenue. In Greektown, it’s up to individual, private chapters whether to make accessibility a priority.

Accessibility does not seem to

be a priority for many chapters.

This should be an issue on the minds of every Greek leader.

When some students with disabilities encounter difficulty just entering a Greek house — whether they are interested in joining a chapter or attending an event — they can feel unwelcome and ostracized. We should all be striving for inclusivity.

But we know fixing these issues isn’t a simple task. Greek chapters are businesses, and making a house ADA-compliant is expensive, especially when you aren’t legally obligated to make renovations. Delta Upsilon’s new house is currently under construction and will be 100 percent ADA-compliant — and the ramps and elevator being installed cost upwards of $145,000. Renovating or rebuilding Greek chapters’ houses come at a heavy cost for these chapters, and, contrary to popular belief, not all chapters are swimming in money.

Even if students who belong to these chapters push for these updates, they have to go through a their house corporation boards.

The board can deny their requests to renovate the house for any reason, including an interest in upholding the traditional structure of the house. But some house corporation boards (like Chi Omega’s) have seen past the nostalgia alumni have for their house and instead prioritized the needs of current chapters — and those needs include accessibility.

We realize it’s unrealistic to call on all Greek chapters to make major renovations right now — there are many factors to consider and obstacles in the way of swift changes. But we do need

a continuous, comprehensive discussion about the lack of accessibility in Greektown and in chapter houses. And while changes are time-consuming and costly, chapters should start working toward them now.

The system in place for inaccessible chapters — temporarily renting an aluminum ramp whenever a student with a physical disability shows up for recruitment — is embarrassing.

This short-term fix sends a message to those students that they, too, are temporary. To be truly inclusive and welcoming to all students, chapters need to proactively and permanently invest in things like ramps and first-floor bedrooms.

Greek chapters, the MU Office of Greek Life and the Missouri Students Association need to be having active discussions with one another about how best to fix this problem.

To start, students can report poor sidewalk conditions in Greektown to the City of Columbia. The sidewalks throughout Greektown can pose a threat to people with physical disabilities — navigating the broken portions of sidewalk in a wheelchair has resulted in accidents. While this is an issue for the city, students can pressure the city to make repairs.

We realize that it will take a lot to make Greektown completely accessible. We know it will take time and money. But we also know that a group of MU students is being shut out of one of MU’s largest and most prominent communities. And that door needs to be opened.

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Accessibility in Greektown

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In August, freshman Scarlett Hunter hit a bump in the road no one had prepared for.

It was the first day of formal sorority recruitment, and Scarlett was one of 1,987 women combatting the Missouri humidity in search of the perfect Greek chapter.

Everything was going well — someone had given her a ride to the Missouri Theatre on a golf cart and even gave Scarlett her number in case she needed a ride again the next day.

Scarlett visited half of the sorority houses throughout the day and headed home to Dogwood.

Scarlett, who uses a wheelchair, texted the woman with the golf cart the next morning to ask for a ride. “We’re not using the golf carts for that now,” she responded. “You’re just gonna have to take yourself over there.”

Scarlett called her Panhellenic Recruitment Counselor (“Pi Chi”) Carolyn Welter for help.

Welter met Scarlett at Dogwood and walked her to Greektown for the second day of recruitment. When Scarlett arrived, she said she saw a girl on crutches getting a ride on one of the golf carts.

“They lied to me and it really upset me,” Scarlett said. “I was like, ‘You’re the leaders, you’re supposed to be an example.’”

Later that morning, Scarlett’s wheelchair hit an elevated, uneven piece of the sidewalk and toppled over, leaving Scarlett lying on the pavement. Welter helped Scarlett get back in her chair, but the unwanted exposure left Scarlett embarrassed and vulnerable.

For many students, coming to MU is a new chapter of their lives. Socially, that’s often literal — more than a quarter of students belong to a Greek chapter. For women, formal sorority recruitment (informally known as rush) takes place during the week before the first day of the fall semester. Women visit Panhellenic Association chapters to talk to current members and learn about each chapter in hopes of finding their ideal sorority. For Scarlett — and for many incoming freshmen — recruitment was her first taste of college.

Scarlett was inspired to join a sorority after family members and high school counselors convinced her it would be a great experience.

She has used a wheelchair for most of her life — a car accident left her with a spinal cord injury when she was 4 years old. Having no idea how formal recruitment was going to

be, Scarlett went into it with an open mind. It didn’t take long for her to come face-to-face with the obstacles Greektown has for students with physical disabilities.

Students were prohibited from using the streets during recruitment, despite the poor conditions of the sidewalk. And after she fell out of her wheelchair, Scarlett constantly watched the sidewalk out of fear the incident would repeat itself.

But her problems weren’t confined to the sidewalks: Getting in and out of 15 sorority houses also proved to be a challenge. As her Pi Chi, Welter said she helped Scarlett get to and from each house in time and worked to “make her feel like every other woman.” But the inaccessibility of some houses meant Scarlett was often forced to use different entrances from the other women.

“Everyone wants to get in through the front door,” Scarlett said. “Who wants to get in from around the back? I want to be normal.”

While most houses had either a ramp leading up to the front door or an accessible side or back entrance, two houses had to rent a temporary aluminum ramp from Columbia’s Services for Independent Living. Scarlett said the ramps weren’t efficient and still made it challenging for her to get into the houses.

“It just made me realize that not everywhere will be accessible for me,” she said. “And it just kind of hit me like, ‘Scarlett, you’re not going to be able to do everything in life you’re going to want to do because everything is not going to be the way you need it.’”

Looking back, Scarlett said her fall on the sidewalk was the first of many instances that pushed her to drop out of recruitment. After two days, it was obvious that Greektown was inaccessible for her.

Not wanting to offend, Scarlett said she never told anyone in Greek Life the truth about her “stressful, eye-opening and frustrating” experience. Instead, she told Welter that she dropped out because she wanted to dedicate all her time to schoolwork.

Scarlett never expected the accessibility of Greektown to be as poor as it is because she assumed it would be as accessible as MU’s campus. But the rules are different on the other side of Tiger Avenue: Sorority and fraternity houses are not

are greek chapters private clubs? under the americans with disabilities act, greek chapters are exempt as private clubs.

Members excerise a high degree of control over club operations

the membership selection process is highly selective

substantial membership fees are charged

the entity is operated on a nonprofit basis the club was not founded specifically to avoid compliance with federal civil rights laws

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Greek chapters with houses were asked to describe their house's accessibility based on five metrics: an accessible front door, accessible side entrances, first-floor bathrooms, first-floor bedrooms and elevators.

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While some fraternity and sorority houses have been updated, many remain inaccessible to students with physical disabilities.

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Source: Chapter presidents and members university property. Although the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed in 1990 to prohibit “discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, transportation, public accommodation, communications, and governmental activities,” privately owned and independently developed Greektown is exempted, as fraternity and sorority houses are considered private clubs under Title III of the ADA. For MU’s ADA compliance manager Amber Cheek, the private club exemption brews frustration. Cheek, who graduated from MU’s School of Law, said MU is not responsible for funding or making Greektown more accomodating. Instead, she makes herself available to fraternity and sorority members as a resource for ADA education.

“Just because (sororities and fraternities) fall under an exception in the ADA doesn’t mean they shouldn’t plan to make things accessible,” Cheek said. “I think that with awareness, they might decide to plan (for) accessibility.”

The Missouri Students Association’s Campus and Community Relations Committee has also taken note of the lack of accessibility in Greektown. Senior Chad Phillips, who resigned as CCRC chairman in early February and is now a candidate for City Council, said in late January that the first step to finding a solution to the inaccessibility of Greektown is spreading awareness.

“We need to say, ‘Hey, there’s people that want to be in your house, but they can’t because you don’t have a ramp,’” Phillips said.

“There’s no denying it and there’s no argument against it. It’s just one of those things that should have happened a long time ago.”

The city of Columbia is also a player. Unlike some college campuses, MU does not own all the streets and sidewalks in Greektown. Adam Kruse, the City of Columbia’s assistant city counselor and ADA coordinator, said he has not personally heard of any complaints regarding the sidewalks or streets of Greektown.

BEN KOTHE // GRAPHICS MANAGER “If the city knows about a dangerous condition on a sidewalk, then responsibilities kick in and we need to fix the dangerous condition,” Kruse said.

When students with disabilities participate in recruitment, some sororities and fraternities have to compensate for their houses’ poor accessibility by renting aluminum ramps. This short-term solution is confusing for inclusivity advocates like Cheek because students with disabilities who successfully participate need permanent access to their houses.

Kathleen Duffy, Greek Life’s recruitment specialist, said in an email that Greek Life does not collect information about participants’ disabilities. Welter said that to her knowledge, Scarlett is the only woman to go through formal recruitment in a wheelchair in the past few years. Scarlett’s situation is one “a lot of people don’t encounter,” Welter said.

Scarlett said she was undeterred by the assumption that people with disabilities — people like her — don't go through recruitment.

“Just because someone has a disability doesn’t mean they’re not going to do it,” she said. “There are some people that are determined. … The reason we don’t do it is because you have shitty houses that we can’t get through. It’s not that we’re incapable of doing it, it’s that you’re incapable of letting us do it.”

Greek leaders have worked to make recruitment more accessible in some regards.

In 2012 and 2013, Angela Branson, who is the coordinator of deaf services at the MU Disability Service Office, was a sign language interpreter for students during recruitment. She said Greek Life and chapters’ upper administrations have tried to be as accommodating as possible to students.

In her two years interpreting during recruitment, Branson said she’s seen students have both positive and negative experiences with Greek Life. One of Branson’s students left her chapter after two years because she

felt mistreated by other members, while another felt welcomed by her chapter.

“Currently, I have a student who is in a chapter … and she’s doing fabulous,” Branson said. “She’s a great leader. She’s on all these boards and she’s flourishing. But, she’s the exception to the rule, I would say.”

Unfortunately, Scarlett didn’t feel like people truly believed she could successfully participate in recruitment. They just figured she could try.

“They help people with disabilities for (philanthropy), so why wouldn’t they not want them in their sorority?” she said. “Sometimes I feel like they’d do it charity-wise. Not because they want you there but because they want to be like, ‘Look at us, we have someone with a disability.’”

Both Cheek and Branson have noticed that most students simply self-select out of the recruitment process all together.

“I think a lot of times students go to Greek organizations because they’re looking for a place to belong, especially on a campus with 30,000-plus people,” Branson said. “You’re looking for your niche and comfort zone.

I think we’ve had a lot of students try to find that niche with the Greek community and then they just think, ‘Why fight another battle?’”

But making a house ADA-compliant isn’t simple. Chapters must raise funds for renovations, and they are required to have the renovation approved by their individual house corporation board. Typically, the board is a corporate entity responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of their house; it controls the budget, strategic plan, replacements and all initiatives concerning physical structure and the land.

Abigail O’Sullivan currently serves on the House Corporation Board of Chi Omega — a sorority whose house was recently rebuilt and is now 100 percent ADA-compliant. While she said the benefits of the new, accessible house

have been “extraordinarily wonderful,” she understands why other houses aren’t so eager to renovate.

“A lot of the Greektown houses are very historic and older — ours was, too,” O’Sullivan said. “We did have some alumni that were very upset because we were taking down a very historic, beautiful, old home … But when you start comparing safety, accessibility, cost of an old home . . . we decided that it was time to instead of going historic, look at what we can do to actually meet the chapter’s needs.”

Not all Greek houses are stuck in their original blueprint. Many houses have made major renovations or rebuilt to become more accessible. For instance, Delta Upsilon’s new house currently under construction at the corner of Tiger Avenue and Rollins Street will

be 100 percent ADA-compliant. why it’s important that if fraternities and Cheek said it’s only a matter of time sororities want to make the move to become until most Greek houses become more ADA- more inclusive, they have to think about it compliant. holistically.”

“What a lot of people don’t know is the While Cheek said she would never think any International Building Code, the code pretty fraternity or sorority would want to exclude a much all architects use, now integrates a lot person with a disability, there has to be a of the ADA standards,” Cheek said. “So it’s broader understanding in order for the Greek very likely that when these fraternities and culture to change. If houses in Greektown sororities go in for a major renovation, the collectively make accommodations more architect they hire will be using the IBC and accessible, she said, will automatically include the equal opportunity these things.” of recruitment would While Cheek advises “The reason we bring a new kind of that every chapter’s don’t do it is because diversity to Greek Life main architectural — adding an extra priority should be you have shitty layer of richness to ensuring an accessible houses that we can’t the community. main entrance to their “Disability is house, she recognizes the get through. It’s not just another form importance of baby steps. that we’re incapable of diversity,” Cheek “Greek architecture said. “People with is all about this really of doing it, it’s that disabilities are really impressive entrance with you’re incapable of creative with problem columns and steps going solving and bring up to it,” she said. “I think letting us do it.” enormous insights (as in order to ensure that Scarlett Hunter at least rush is accessible, well as) an interesting every fraternity and way to look at the sorority should look into world.” buying that aluminum ramp if they have those Scarlett said she felt pushed away by the steps.”

Greek community. She felt discriminated Cheek said accessibility features make life against because of her disability — she easier for everyone. was sent to side entrances, couldn’t safely “They help dudes who go off on adventures navigate the sidewalks and generally did not on spring break and come back on crutches, feel she was treated fairly — and she regrets and they help people unloading and bringing participating in formal recruitment at all. in furniture for moving in,” she said.

“I was depressed for the first couple months “Every building should have a ramp just for of college,” Scarlett said. “I was just like, ‘Do I practicality — even if you don’t fall under the even need to be here?’ Is this for me? Because ADA.” if it’s not going to be built for me, then do I While an accessible entrance really need to be here that bad?”

This experience was before classes even is a great feature, it isn’t a comprehensive started, and it shaped Scarlett’s idea of what solution. Even if a person in a wheelchair is MU was going to be like. She went into able to get through the front door, he or she recruitment hoping to find friends. Instead, may not be able to fully participate in all of she’s never heard from the students she met the Greek events.

“It’s not easy,” Cheek said. “To be truly during recruitment. She wanted to find her inclusive, it takes more than just the physical place on campus. Instead, she felt ostracized. side of it. You don’t want people with When asked if she was able to take anything disabilities joining a fraternity or sorority away from her experience, Scarlett’s reply was because they can now get in the door and immediate.

“I got a couple of T-shirts,” she said. then not having an equal experience. That’s

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An obstructed section of sidewalk on Rollins Street on Tuesday. This section is similar to many sidewalks in Greektown, which are difficult to maneuver for people in wheelchairs and with limited mobility.

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Tidal Volume still making waves after high school St. Louis-born band Tidal Volume will play at Rose Music Hall on April 9.

TAYLOR YSTEBOE MOVE Editor When the members of St. Louis-bred and pop-infused Tidal Volume began college, they thought their band had seen its last day. As a project that started

in high school, they figured that they had their fun and, besides, college is a lot of work.

But then they remembered.

They remembered that being in a band is their best creative outlet. They remembered the bands that they still like from middle school, like Weezer and The Plain White T’s. And they remembered that being in a band is what they love.

Before they were Tidal Volume, though, the quintet was a brotherly duo. Singer and

guitarist Zach and drummer Matt Sullentrup grew up playing music together. When Zach was a junior and Matt a freshman, they expanded their band to include bassist Andrew Scherping for their high school’s Battle of the Bands. “(The high school) needed an extra band to play because they needed four bands for the school to consider it a battle,” Zach says. “Otherwise, it would have had to have been a showcase because three isn’t

enough for a battle, apparently.

So these seniors came to Andrew and I, and they were like, ‘Hey we wanna do this battle. Wanna start a band to play in it?’ And we were like, ‘Uh, okay.’ So I’ve been writing songs, and my brother and I have been working on those songs, and Andrew hopped in and learned them really quick.

We threw together a show and got second place out of four.”

They later added keyboardist Will Minard and guitarist Chris

Jansson.

“We all met really naturally,” Zach says. “It was a really organic thing where we were all friends and decided to start a band together. It’s a thing we always wanted to do and we never had the opportunity really and had never really found the people and then we were all just together and were like, ‘Hey, let’s do it,’ so we did and haven’t looked back since.”

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Get outside and take a hike in Columbia Happy Trails A closer look at the great hiking trails near and far from Columbia.

JESSICA DENNIS Reporter “What should we do today?”

Last month, my friends and I often found ourselves wondering what exactly we would do on the weekends.

When it’s winter in Columbia, staying in and away from the snow usually seems like the best option. While I don’t have any advice on how to make winter less miserable, I can help

make spring even better.

As the weather warms and cabin fever is at an all-time high, nothing could be better than getting some exercise in the sun. Surprisingly, Columbia and the surrounding Missouri wilderness offers up plenty of hiking trails inside nature parks.

Whether you’re just looking to get some fresh air around CoMo or make a weekend out of it in one of Missouri’s more intense parks, it’s safe to say that you have many options.

Rock Bridge Memorial State Park, a short drive south of Columbia, offers a range of trails that could easily suit any intensity level. For those less adventurous, there is a loop trail that is made of wooden

planks and takes hikers up and down the sides of the rocks — there’s even part of the trail that swoops down into Devil’s Icebox, a cave that opens back up mid-April. However, if a challenge is what you seek, there are numerous opportunities to go off the wooden path and onto the 20-plus miles of more rugged trails.

Twelve miles north of Columbia is the The Pinnacles, an area of 250-million-yearold rock formations. The trail is about two miles round-trip and climbs up the limestone Pinnacles. On a sunny day, the best view is here. For more of a challenge, explore the off-trail

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‘Carrie+Lowell’ is transcendent BRUNO VERNASCHI Associate Editor Eleven tracks of pure, heartwrenching gold.

Those are the only words I can conjure up for such an album like “Carrie & Lowell,” Sufjan Stevens’ latest masterpiece. Beautiful tunes backed by dark, haunting lyrics are what make this album so incredibly sublime.

More than a decade after capturing my ears and heart with his landmark 2004 album, “Illinois,” Stevens did the impossible and produced one of the most powerful works of art I have ever come across.

It is nearly impossible to fully appreciate “Carrie & Lowell” without understanding its backstory.

The record is properly titled after Stevens’ mother and stepfather, who appear on the cover. Stevens and his siblings grew up in Michigan with his father and stepmother as his mother, Carrie, abandoned the family when he was one year old. She suffered from bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and alcoholism, and appeared in his life sporadically. She met Lowell Brams, who worked in a bookstore in Eugene, Oregon, and they were married for five years.

Stevens credits Brams with turning him on to music, along with being his biggest fatherly figure. He remains close to him today, as Brams is now the director of Asthmatic Kitty, Stevens’ record company.

These songs focus on Stevens’ relationship with the pair, along with his struggle to deal with the loss of Carrie, who died in 2012 of stomach cancer. “(‘Carrie & Lowell’ was) something

that was necessary for me to do in the wake of my mother’s death — to pursue a sense of peace and serenity in spite of suffering,” Stevens says in an interview with Pitchfork. “It’s not really trying to say anything new, or prove anything, or innovate. It feels artless, which is a good thing. This is not my art project; this is my life.”

He touches on drug abuse, suicide, religion and regret as he takes the listener into his own harrowing world filled with grief. From start to end, this album is genius.

Stevens kicks it off with the delicate string melody of “Death with Dignity.”

In it, he lays out his true feelings about his mother and the situation he had been dealt through his signature gentle voice.

“I don’t know where to begin,” he says. “I lost my strength completely.” He makes the sort of pain he is in clear and sets the scene for the type of tracks that will follow. A powerful keyboard transition leads us into, “I forgive you, mother / I can hear you and I long to be near you / But every road leads to an end.”

Although I’m crazy about the following track, “Should Have Known Better,” (and the whole album, in case you can’t yet tell), which is one of two singles, no song is quite as melancholy as “Fourth of July.” The goal of the song, it seems, is for Stevens to convey a hypothetical conversation with his dying mother, which changes speaker from stanza to stanza. The devastating back-and-forth is filled with terms of endearment like, “Did you get enough love, my little dove? / Why do you cry? / I’m sorry I left / But it was for the best,” in one stanza, alluding that his mother is speaking, followed by, “The hospital asked, ‘Should the body be cast?’ / Before

I say goodbye / My star in the sky.” This poetic masterpiece is one to make me miss my own mother, and I saw her yesterday.

“No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross” is, in my opinion, the greatest song on the record — one that could very well blow 2004’s “Chicago” out of the water. The release of this track as a single is perfect.

It’s a big reason why I was so intrigued by the album and its story when my friends insisted I listen to it last month. This is a difficult piece to interpret and then form into words, because it is so intense and consequential. In it, Stevens talks about his drug abuse following the death of his mother, as he says, “I search for the capsule I lost” and that he’s “chasing the dragon.”

When I first got my hands on the single, Stevens caught me off-guard by saying, “Fuck me, I’m falling apart” towards the end. I didn’t think the line, or at least the way it was delivered, was fitting to the song. However, after way too many listens, I now see its importance, and I strongly feel it’s the most important part of the whole song and maybe the whole album. It is when Stevens is realizing and accepting that he is killing himself through his drug abuse and the way he is dealing with his demons, and the wording is nothing short of perfect.

In a Pitchfork interview, Stevens says, “In lieu of (Carrie’s) death, I felt a desire to be with her, so I felt like abusing drugs and alcohol and fucking around a lot and becoming reckless and hazardous was my way of being intimate with her.”

This painful album is truly more than just a collection of songs. It’s a message told through the suffering of one of the most brilliant artists of our generation.

PASS THE POPCORN

‘It Follows’ convinces you that chastity is worth it CALEB BISHOP

Every once in a while, a horror movie comes along that crawls under your skin and buries itself so deep you can’t seem to get rid of it. “It Follows” has achieved that with me, and it’s the reason that I’m sitting in my room with the covers pulled over my head and the door locked on a sunny spring day.

In “It Follows,” we follow Jay, played by the spectacular Maika Monroe, who is a seemingly stereotypical teenage girl in the Detroit area. After a date and a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, it turns out that she now has a STD: a Sexually Transmitted Demon (or monster or curse or really any creepy supernatural being, but for the sake of the acronym, it’s a demon). She is now faced with a choice: Does she simply run away from it or does she attempt to pass it on to someone else?

I fully recognize that this premise sounds a little dumb and could be perceived as utterly ridiculous, but it makes for an interesting cautionary tale about flippant teen sex. It is masterfully directed to show how the gradual loss of innocence pulls the characters into progressively darker psychological states, emphasizing the negative effects that casual sex has.

The performances in this movie are great, especially considering that this is a horror film. Given that the genre is generally full of over-the-top and stupid characters, it is refreshing that the friends in “It Follows” feel like real people who make (for the most part) rational decisions given their situation. Maika Monroe is particularly great, and after “It Follows” and her performance in “The Guest,” I’m excited to see where her career goes from here.

This is the first David Robert Mitchell film that I’ve seen, but I want to watch everything he makes from now on. Not a single shot is wasted, and every single one is masterfully framed to make the movie feel simultaneously claustrophobic, artistic and, above all, creepy. A few 360-degree pans are the highlight of the cinematography.

So, is it scary?

Yes. I refuse to get close to anyone that I pass on the street today. I flinch every time I hear a knock on the door. I can’t sit still, and I only feel safe under my covers.

“It Follows” reduced me to a 5-year-old.

I know my way around horror movies at this point. Sure, the first “Paranormal Activity” got to me the first time I saw it.

“Insidious” wasn’t terribly scary. “Sinister” had its moments that stuck with me. I don’t say this lightly, but I’m fairly certain that “It Follows” is the scariest movie that I have ever seen.

It doesn’t try to gross you out or bring in any sort of shock factor outside of some graphic nudity (none in a sexual context), but rather, it just manages to be incredibly

unnerving, particularly in the first half.

Since the monster can take the shape of anyone, it could be literally any person that enters the frame, and some are more obvious than others. Sometimes it’s a naked lady or a giant man, but other times it’s just a student, a little boy or even a family member. “It Follows” never lets you feel that you’re safe, and even if nothing is on the screen, you feel this malicious presence in immediate proximity.

Sure, there are a few logical inconsistencies, but when you’re viewing a movie about an entity that you know profoundly little about, these are forgivable.

Overall, “It Follows” is not only one of the best horror movies that I’ve ever seen but also one of the scariest. The cinematography and performances make what could have been a silly movie an incredibly important one for horror fans.

Its relevance for today’s culture of one night stands and casual sex cannot be understated, and the ambiguity of the ending was perfect. If I wasn’t fully convinced to wait until marriage before I saw this sure-to-be cult hit, I most definitely am now.

Pass the Popcorn if: You’re okay with not getting much sleep that night. You have even the slightest interest in horror movies. You can (the release has been finicky; I saw it in Texas). You’re trying to curb a lust problem.

Pass it Up if: You’re under 17. You have a test the morning after. You have to stay in a room alone. You don’t like looking at Maika Monroe (which is ridiculous).

Single Girl Diaries: Eurotrip

Decoding my Londonisms ELLISE VERHEYEN

So I’ve been abroad for roughly two and a half months at this point. With all that time in London under my belt, I’ve picked up on quite a few Londonisms. (I just made that word up. Go with it.) Therefore, I thought I’d share the lesser-known aspects of living in a city with 13,614,409 other people.

First, you must understand that while London is a colorful city full of life and diversity, the people here are remarkably more reserved as opposed to their American counterparts. You don’t often have strangers coming up to you to share their life stories or open up the way many would in an American city.

You can test the waters with someone by mentioning the weather. If they disagree with whatever bold statement you made about the day’s cloud cover, it’s game over. Stop talking. Wait for the next train. If they concur, you could have yourself a lovely conversation.

However, that conversation will end abruptly as soon as you hop onto the Tube. London Law Number One: Never talk on the Tube. Forgot your headphones at home? Too freaking bad. You’re stuck reading the Tube map for the next 20 minutes. And eye contact? What kind of monster are you? How dare you accidentally look at someone at the same time they look at you? (Slight exaggeration. You won’t get beaten up, but you get the picture.)

Now we all know that the Brits are crazy and drive on the incorrect side of the road, but that begs the question of what side of the pavement (i.e., sidewalk) are you supposed to walk on? The answer is not as simple as one would expect. I just assumed you’d follow the rules of the road. However, the pavement is fair game. You walk on whichever side your little heart desires and face the repercussions of playing chicken with the mother assertively pushing a buggy.

If you’ve ever been on an escalator, you can relate to the slight thrill of not having to actually walk up the stairs. (The same goes for lifts (i.e., elevators).)

However, what I’ve learned during my short time in the UK is that, while the pavement has no rules, the escalators are very particular about which side is used for standing versus walking. If you happen to stand, even if unintentionally, near the middle or left side of the escalator, you can fully expect to get body checked, yelled at and/or lose a limb. The left is for the rushing Londoners who are in a hurry to get everywhere, and if you cross them, you’ll regret it.

Londoners aren’t all this hostile. For the most part, they are extremely kind-hearted and warm people. Just don’t slow them down or ask too many questions.

One of the better Londonisms is tea. I know, tea and crumpets. So cliché. But you guys, tea here is amazing. It’s also taken very seriously. Anytime someone enters the studio I intern at, we offer tea.

It’s almost considered rude to reject the tea. And there is a certain way to make tea and, if done incorrectly, the British man in the office will judge you until the end of time.

Words and phrases of the Londoners are something I wish we, as Americans, could pick up without sounding like idiots. Calling each other “mate” just doesn’t have the same je ne sais quoi as it does here.

Also, the British like to say, “All right?” as a way of asking, “How are you?” For the first three weeks, I was convinced people thought I was depressed. Rather, they were just saying, “What’s up?”

So with only a month left, I’ve made it my goal to master as many of these Londonisms as possible. I’ve already become extremely aggressive when it comes to transport and getting around the city. It’s a dog-eatdog world out here and one must always remember to “Mind the Gap.”

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Railroad, MKT meets up with several other long trails around Columbia, including the historic Katy Trail State Park. MKT is for the less-conditioned hikers, featuring just under nine miles of mostly paved running and walking trails. There are several places in downtown Columbia to catch the trail, like at Flat Branch Park or near Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial at Battle Garden off of Stadium.

Although MKT’s terrain may

not be rough, you can adjust your walking pace in order to make your hike more intense.

Finally, if it’s possible to make the trip, take a weekend and drive down to Mark Twain National Forest, about three hours southeast of Columbia.

The forest is broken down into several different land areas, but there are some beautiful hiking trails in every area. In the area closest to Columbia, the Houston/Rolla/Cedar

Creek Ranger district, there are more than 20 long trails for backpackers and day hikers alike. The creeks and rivers that can be seen from the tops of the little rolling hills are what make the forest a special place to hike. The site offers many campgrounds for weekend trippers, and its rural setting is perfect for those wanting to get away.

No matter your experience level, Missouri’s trails always

deliver. Whether you are looking to have a relaxing walk in the sunshine or break a sweat after scaling boulders, there’s always something for you to do in Missouri if you just take a look around. Hiking not for you? Well, it should be.

Just like the changing spring weather, college is the time to change yourself and find new things to do. Step out of your comfort zone, and take a hike!

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acts, a lot of the time they’re starting to really build a name for themselves and get well known. It’s cool because part of it is like, ‘Oh, my friend’s band is playing these cool shows,’ and part of it is just that we get to interact with these people that have a lot to tell us and offer us, and it’s a really good experience just getting to meet people and operate with people that can teach you something.”

On April 9, Tidal Volume will be playing with two fellow Mizzou bands, Ray Wild and Dangerfield, at Rose Music Hall. Tickets are $5.

“We want people to dance and to be goofy, and we will do the same,” Zach says. “You can expect a high-energy live show.

We’re never wanting to have a crazy artistic experience on stage. It’s all about throwing a party.”

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Particularly, the band still holds strong to bands they enjoyed in middle school. They are in no way ashamed of their middle school tastes, they say, because they have even had the opportunity to play for said bands.

“We got to open for the Plain White T’s two summers ago,” Zach says. “That was really awesome because that was a band that we grew up listening to and probably in a way have influenced our songs and our writing ... that was a band that we all liked in middle school, and ‘Hey There Delilah’ was huge when we were that age.”

Tidal Volume has also opened for bands like Jukebox the Ghost, The Mowgli’s and Tommy and the High Pilots.

“It’s cool to get to play with people who are one step ahead of where you are,” Zach says.

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Since forming in 2010, Tidal Volume has released two EPs and a single. They released their last EP, “Icing,” a pop driven work with brushstrokes of rock in June 2014. The band is currently writing and demoing new material for a future release but has not yet decided on the length.

Zach is the primary songwriter of the group, writing what he calls “modified fiction.”

“A lot of (the songs) are intentionally romanticized versions of real experiences to make them more broad so people can relate to them more,” Zach says. “When you get too specific sometimes, I think it’s hard for people to really relate their own experiences to it.

with Aaron McBaker at AMcB Studios. Zach says they enjoy recording with McBaker because the band is given a lot of creative freedom.

Though all five members hail from the same high school in St. Louis, each of them comes from different musical worlds.

“I’m into a mix of things,” Zach says. “I like hip hop, and I like indie rock, and I like mainstream rock, and I really like pop albums, too. Our keyboard player likes metal and folk music. My brother Matt is really into jazz and indie rock.

We all come from different places and we all meet in this weird middle ground — that’s where our sound is.”

Despite their varying musical tastes, they all share a love of Weezer and the ’80s.

“We never lose the different influences, and they all come together in a way that makes sense,” Zach says.

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When you write broadly and kind of change things ever so slightly but leave them intact, it makes it more relatable for people. A lot of the songs are based on real experiences; some of them are based on friends’ experiences. It’s all comin’ straight from the heart.”

After writing the songs, Zach brings his work to the band.

“It goes from like that form to the band form where it often gets shifted around a little bit, but the structure remains intact usually,” Zach says. “Usually it doesn’t shift too far from where it starts. We workshop it and go back and forth, and we talk about it and make sure it’s where we want it to be before we perform it. After we perform it, we’re like, ‘Okay, how can we do it better?’ And then that’s usually the version that gets recorded.”

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J-Flee: Williams III to transfer from Mizzou

Sophomore was Tigers’ leading scorer, rebounder DANIEL WITT Staff Writer Missouri fans can now anticipate the gold Nike Mizzou basketball jerseys with No. 3 on the back to be on clearance at the campus bookstore.

Sophomore forward Johnathan Williams III, arguably the current face of Mizzou basketball, is expected to transfer from Mizzou. He has already notified head coach Kim Anderson and asked to be released from his scholarship.

This past season, Williams lead the 9-23 Tigers with 11.9 points per game, 7.1 rebounds per game and 0.6 blocks per game.

But like the rest of the team, Williams wasn’t without his struggles. He had 22 more turnovers than any other Tiger, leading the team with 82 on the season at an average of 2.6 per game. Williams had the ninth-most turnovers in the Southeastern Conference.

Out of the 14 teams in the SEC, Williams would lead the team in turnovers on eight of them.

Williams, a four-star prospect out of Southwind High School in Memphis, Tennessee, and the prize of Mizzou’s 2013 recruiting class, chose Mizzou over offers from Tennessee, Georgetown and Michigan State, among others.

He chose Mizzou with Frank Haith and Tim Fuller in charge of the team. Both are gone from the program, following Fuller’s exit last week. Williams chose the Mizzou team that went 23-11 in the 201213 season, just one year off of being a 2-seed in the NCAA tournament.

Since Williams’ arrival in Columbia, the Tigers have gone 32-35.

Mizzou’s other four-star recruit in that class was Wes Clark, who hinted at Williams’ exit via Twitter Monday night and Tuesday throughout the day.

At 8:23 p.m. Monday night, Clark tweeted: “And the bad news begins.”

The next morning, at 10:22 a.m., he followed up with a tweet that read: “This might turn out to be a sad day.”

The announcement came less than two hours later, when CBS College Basketball Insider Gary Parrish released a statement from Williams’

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Missouri Tigers forward Johnathan Williams III (3) pulls down a rebound Jan. 29 at Mizzou Arena.

Williams’ intent to transfer was confirmed Tuesday by his father.

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Experience to be key for Tigers offensive line this season JASON LOWENTHAL Assistant Sports Editor Spring practice is underway, and Missouri head coach Gary Pinkel is already leaning on his returning seniors on the offensive end.

“We’re excited about having a group of guys coming back,” Pinkel said. “It’s nice to have that, but there’s an expectation level that goes with that.”

Although the Tigers lost key offensive weapons in receivers Bud Sasser, Jimmie Hunt and Darius White to graduation,

the return of an experienced offensive line, along with senior tailback Russell Hansbrough, offers signs of a promising season to come.

“I always talk to the seniors before break about how when we get back (for spring practice), I need their leadership, along with the coaches, to make sure our team does the right things to get better and have a great practice,” Pinkel said.

Mizzou is slated to start four seniors on the offensive line. Taylor Chappell, Mitch Hall, Evan Boehm and Connor McGovern are listed atop the

depth chart at their respective positions along the line, with sophomore Clay Rhoades set to begin the season as the starting right tackle. The three returnees in the middle of the offensive line — Hall, Boehm and McGovern — are especially excited for the offensive line this year, having played alongside one another for three years.

“It’s cool to see us building on top of each other,” Boehm said. “We have the trust in each other to talk and determine what we’re going to do and how we’re going to do things.”

Pinkel also raved about the benefit of having an experienced and talented offensive line.

“It really gives us the luxury to work on our backup guys,” he said. “We’re not forcing a young guy into playing right now.”

Although Boehm, a vocal member of Mizzou’s team last season, entertained the possibility of entering the NFL Draft, he said the decision to come back to Mizzou for his senior season was clear. Now, the Lee’s Summit, Missouri native is taking it all in.

“I was talking to (former offensive lineman Mitch Morse’s

father) Kevin Morse at the pro day here, and he said from the beginning of June to the bowl game, you blink twice and it’s over,” Boehm said. “It kind of hit me because I’ve started 40 consecutive football games here and I’ve (been) very blessed, but there’s still a lot that I want to do.”

A healthy Taylor Chappell will also provide an added boost to the offensive line this season.

After being set back by a handful of injuries early in his Mizzou career, Chappell is set to take a

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Chancellor Loftin to make fan experience a focus for new AD JASON LOWENTHAL Assistant Sports Editor The average attendance at Mizzou football games last season was 65,285, which was 10th in the Southeastern Conference. Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin would like new Athletic Director Mack Rhoades to improve that ranking.

Loftin spoke with reporters before spring break and said that he wants Rhoades to enhance the in-seat experience at sporting events, specifically at Faurot Field.

“I’ve asked Mack (Rhoades) to put that at a very high

priority,” Loftin said. “We need to make it very special to be in a seat (at Faurot Field) for three hours on a Saturday.”

Loftin hinted at the possibility of increasing the Wi-Fi capability at Faurot, as the lack of bandwidth during games was a widespread complaint among fans. During the press conference, Loftin discussed the challenges and expectation for Rhoades, who was announced as Mike Alden’s replacement on March 10 and will officially take the reins on April 27.

Although cell service at Faurot was improved in fall

2013, Loftin warmed to the idea that improved Wi-Fi at the stadium might be one way to better Mizzou’s attendance record at games. Loftin himself frequently appears at athletic events and often moves his way throughout the stands to speak with students and fans.

Mizzou expanded the capacity at Faurot before the start of last season, implementing another 6,000 seats to the upper level.

However, Mizzou’s attendance record, despite coming off a Southeastern Conference East Division title, remained low.

Loftin, who played a major

role in Rhoades’ selection, also discussed specific criteria that made Rhoades a highly-sought after replacement, including that he has experience with development of stadiums.

While serving as the athletic director at the University of Houston, Rhoades coordinated the construction of two stadiums. In addition to the need to improve the in-seat experience at Faurot, Mizzou is looking to build a new football facility to complement the Mizzou Athletics Training Complex, in order to attract potential recruits. “ We ’ve held that

(construction) back deliberately until a new athletic director got here,” Loftin said.

The chancellor also mentioned the need for Rhoades to become acclimated with the head coaches at Mizzou. This could potentially be a challenge for Rhoades, who was not hired from the “Mike Alden tree” of replacement candidates, as he lacks the luxury of having already worked in Mizzou’s athletic department.

Loftin said Rhoades now assumes the responsibility to help coaches get their programs to the next level.

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Missouri athletics prospers over spring break BRUNO VERNASCHI Sports Editor

While many students went on exotic vacations or sat on the couch during spring break, Missouri athletes were hard at work. From wrestling and swimming national championship appearances to women’s basketball’s postseason efforts and baseball’s tough matchups, the week was filled with highs and lows in Mizzou athletics.

Wrestling wavers at NCAAs Coming in as No. 1 in the country, the wrestling team took to St. Louis on a mission: to take home the program’s first ever national championship and the school’s first in over 50 years.

However, it wasn’t going to be easy.

Although 10 wrestlers were originally qualified, sophomore Zach Synon fell early, going 0-2 and collecting zero points for the team. In his wrestleback match, down with just seconds left, senior Johnny Eblen was called for a flagrant misconduct for headbutting his opponent and was disqualified from the tournament, costing the Tigers a four-point deduction.

Then, the seemingly impossible happened when previously undefeated sophomore J’den Cox and senior Alan Waters lost their respective semifinal matches.

The Tigers entered the last day of competition with only one wrestler left with a chance to win a title and their dream of winning a team championship handed to Ohio State.

It wasn’t all bleak for Mizzou, however, as senior Drake Houdashelt, who had come in fifth and sixth in previous tournaments, was able to bring an individual title back to Columbia, and five Tiger grapplers were named All-Americans, to help the Tigers finish fourth overall.

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Missouri Tigers wrestler J’den Cox attempts a takedown against Duke wrestler Conner Hartmann March 21 at Scottrade Center in St. Louis.

Baseball plays against top foe Still early in the season, the Missouri baseball team continued its successful start in College Station, Texas.

Despite losing two of the three games in the series to No. 2 Texas A&M, the Tigers were able to pull out their

Saturday game, winning 3-2.

This didn’t come without the help of sophomore Ryan Howard, who hit a defining eighth-inning RBI double to put Mizzou up and grab its sixth conference win of the season.

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Missouri Tigers forward Davionna Holmes (5) takes a shot March 1 at the Mizzou Arena in Columbia. Missouri beat Arkansas 57-41.

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appearance since 2003, when they reached the WNIT quarterfinals.

Three-point master Morgan Eye finished her career as one of the most successful Tigers in program history and was invited to the State Farm Slam Dunk and Three-Point Championship in Indianapolis, set for Thursday night.

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All-American honors.

Sam Tierney closed out his collegiate career as the most decorated swimmer in program history as a six-time firstteam and six-time honorable mention All-American.

On the women’s side, the Tigers earned seven All-American honors, finishing with a program-record 100 points.

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The Mizzou swimming and diving teams also found their share of success over the week, as the men grabbed 11th as a team and the women 14th at the NCAA Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina, to round up both of their best finishes in program history.

Setting 11 school records, the men’s team concluded the meet with five top-seven finishes and six individual

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Missouri Tigers outfielder Logan Pearson (32) swings at a pitch March 10 in Columbia.

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Never doubt Pitino or Tom Izzo in March DANIEL SCHMIDT

Like most people, I enjoy the unpredictability that comes with March Madness. That’s why I don’t listen to the talking heads when I’m filling out my bracket; they don’t know any more than you or I do.

There is certain criteria, though, that I do adhere to when filling out my bracket, and most of that comes from kenpom.com, which is run by Ken Pomeroy. Pomeroy, for the thousands of you reading this who don’t know, is basically

the college basketball version of Bill James, the famed baseball writer who popularized sabermetrics in baseball.

Basically, Pomeroy uses a bunch of higher math and algorithms to figure out who the best teams in the country are, even factoring in things such as luck.

I’m not the math whiz that I was back in the day (perfect score on the Bishop DuBourg math contest in sixth grade, no biggie), so I defer to Pomeroy and his graduate degree in atmospheric science when it comes to arithmetic.

According to Pomeroy (and everyone else, but that’s not the point), Virginia and Villanova were two of the top five teams in the country. He had Virginia as the No. 2 defensive team in

the land, while he had Villanova ranked as No. 4 in terms of offense. So, trusting in Pomeroy and his math, I put both teams in my Elite Eight with Villanova advancing to the Final Four.

You want to know what Pomeroy and I didn’t take into account though? COMMON BLEEPING SENSE. Yes, ‘Nova and Virginia had two of the best years in their programs’ histories (for goodness’ sake, ‘Nova was 32-2), but that doesn’t change the path they had in front of them in order to get to the Elite Eight and, ultimately, the Final Four. It doesn’t change the fact they would both have to go through Rick Bleeping Pitino and Tom “March” Izzo (it also doesn’t change the

fact that ‘Nova and coach Jay Wright simply hate the month of March).

Coming into this year’s tournament, Pitino had been to 10 Elite Eights in his last 19 seasons as a head coach.

That stat is actually beyond my ability to mentally comprehend.

HE GOES TO THE ELITE EIGHT EVERY OTHER YEAR. But no, no, no, they’re going to lose to the mighty Panthers of Northern Iowa in the second round, I told myself.

Then there’s Izzo, the “Wizzord,” the “Magician of March.” Until last year (when they lost in the Elite Eight), every four-year player who had played for Izzo at Michigan State had been to a Final Four — he’s been at Michigan State

for 20 years, by the way. But no, no, no, Virginia would be so motivated by last year’s tournament loss to Michigan State that this year, they would bounce Sparty in the second round. Wrong again, Mr. Schmidt.

My point is, folks, that everyone has their own way of filling out their bracket. I like to use stats and recent tournament history to support my picks. Other people pick based on which mascot could kill the other one. Regardless of how you pick, I want you to remember a few rules: Always Izzo.

Always Pitino.

Never ‘Nova.

And in the name of all that is holy, never, EVER kansas.

The gridiron

Face it, your bracket never stood a chance ANDREW MCCULLOCH With March winding down and the Final Four field set, the NCAA is ready to crown a champion.

But unless you’re a student, fan or alumnus of one of the four teams left standing, there’s only one thing that still matters: your bracket.

Two weeks ago, whenever the field was first announced, you were probably teeming with excitement. It was a chance for you to show off in front of your friends and win some easy

money in your office pool. But you had no idea how wrong you were.

Sure, there might be over 11 million other fans filling out brackets, and there might be one in nine quintillion odds that you fill out the perfect bracket, but you’re better than that. You’re smarter than those millions of others and you must know something no one else does.

You probably bought into some savvy, trendy upset picks in the first round. Maybe you believed in Stephen F. Austin’s three-point shooting or the hype surrounding Davidson’s young upstart group. Well if you did, then you were probably disappointed to see those teams

get blasted straight out of the gate.

That was a minor setback, but not the end of the world. At least you still have your Final Four picks intact, right?

Now, if you were really dead set on winning your office pool, you probably took a few risks and went with some unorthodox picks. Maybe you thought Baylor and SMU could squeak their way into the Elite Eight this year. Or maybe you thought Villanova and Iowa State would shock everyone by marching all the way to the Final Four.

Well, if you made those picks, you probably had a pretty traumatic weekend. Since none of your “expert picks” even

made it to the Sweet 16, you’re starting to look more like the village idiot than a basketball guru.

But it’s OK, you still have a shred of hope. Entering the Sweet 16 and the beginning of the tournament’s second weekend, you probably thought you still had a chance. You were able to justify your picks because you still had 10 or 11 teams left in the field.

But you probably didn’t see that the worst was yet to come.

It probably hurt pretty bad when North Carolina fell to Wisconsin. And it must have really stung when Wichita State dropped to Notre Dame.

And finally, when Gonzaga got blown out of the building by

Duke, you probably felt like the world was coming to an end.

At this point, your bracket is probably in the trash and most definitely busted. If you still have a chance at first in your office pool, congratulations for picking Kentucky, and enjoy your winnings. If you still have Duke, Wisconsin or Michigan State cutting down the nets, cross your fingers, because this could be a very ugly weekend for you.

And if your national champion is out of the field, then your bracket is busted.

Enjoy your year of humiliation and shame.

Next year, be smart — just pick Kentucky

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(Kim) Anderson and everybody at Missouri,” the elder Williams told CBSSports.com. “But he has asked for his release and will transfer. It’s official.”

According to his father, Williams has received many calls from coaches looking to

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offense. The junior received criticism last year for a lack of accuracy and forcing throws, but is expected to develop more this spring. Mauk completed 53.4 percent of his passes last season for 2,648 yards and 25 touchdowns.

“We have these 10, now nine, practices, and then we don’t approach our guys until” fall practice begins, Pinkel said. “Other sports have the opportunity to coach their guys all the time. We don’t have that opportunity. We can’t waste a day.”

At the beginning stages of spring practice, it is evident that the Tigers clearly have a long way to go to get back in football mode, but showed a promising start. The two-time defending Southeastern Conference East Division champions are on the right track.

“It’s a continuous effort to get better,” Pinkel said. “It’s working together. With a great work ethic, you’ve got a chance to improve.”

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major step this season.

“I’m feeling a lot better, especially my lower body,” Chappell said. “I feel like I’ve gotten a lot more comfortable with my lower body as far as quickness goes and that’s half the battle.”

Aside from the offensive line, Russell Hansbrough returns to the Tigers backfield.

Hansbrough led the Mizzou rushing attack last season with 205 carries for 1,084 yards and 10 touchdowns. Although the Tigers lost an All-SEC performer in tailback Marcus Murphy to graduation, Morgan Steward is set to return after missing all of last season due to a non-contact injury.

“Next man up,” Hansbrough said. “The next man has to be just as good as (Murphy) was.”

Maty Mauk will once again be the integral piece of the Tigers

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Mizzou, and Shane Rector, who left after his freshman season last May, as the transfers in the Kim Anderson era at Mizzou.

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Missouri Tigers senior linebacker Kentrell Brothers stretches with his teammates Tuesday in Columbia.

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tore his meniscus in September and played the entire season in a brace.

Williams will become the sixth former Tiger to transfer in the past three offseasons. He follows Cameron Biedscheid, who transferred in October

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the closing of the Title IX sexual assault case involving former Mizzou swimmer Sasha Menu Courey the same day as the press conference. Appearing in an “Outside the Lines” report by ESPN, the story brought national attention to the university and has been the subject of much controversy since.

“We have made extraordinary progress in the last year, but there is still more to do,” Loftin said. “You can’t be satisfied until (sexual assault) is totally gone.”

Loftin specifically described changes that must be made concerning the portrayal of athletes as the main perpetrators of sexual assault cases.

“Our head coaches have expectations for our players,” Loftin said. “They have taken that challenge on. I’m proud our coaches have made tough choices that have probably hurt our performance (on the field).”

The chancellor also described the future revenue outlook in terms of funds generated for the athletic department. Although he was obligated to not provide specific details, Loftin did say that the university will have an extensive gain in revenue from the August launch of ESPN’s SEC Network, which has prominently featured Mizzou athletic events on television.

“I think the revenue picture is bright for the athletic department,” Loftin said.

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However, while a certain priority will be placed on rendering the success of studentathletes both on and off the field, Loftin also hopes that Rhoades will be able to help studentathletes become more integrated with the rest of the student body.

He encouraged general students to go to games with friends in order to maintain a better attendance record, specifically at Faurot Field for football games, where Loftin mentioned the lack of sellouts this past season.

In addition, Loftin also addressed the need for providing resources to athletes to help them have the opportunity to succeed in their studies.

“We need to be very good about giving our student-athletes the access they need during their season to be competitive academically as well as athletically,” Loftin said. “The most important thing we can do is leave each student with a meaningful degree.

That’s the most valuable thing you can give to these individuals.

It’s something you can’t lose over time.”

Touching upon an area of major concern in the last few years, Loftin challenged Rhoades to take a major stance regarding Title IX concerns. The Columbia Police Department announced

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acquire the 6-foot-9-inch, 225pound forward, but does not know where he will take his talents next.

Williams will likely have to sit out next season in order to transfer and could use the year off to let his right knee heal. He

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