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FACULTY BUYOUT

As 110 faculty prep to retire, administration sees chance for growth “This is a truly extraordinary opportunity for the university,” Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin said.

QUINN MALLOY Staff Writer

By the end of this academic year, 110 tenured faculty will lock up their offices for the last time and retire from MU, university officials told The Maneater.

Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin announced in September 2014 that MU would offer a voluntary separation plan to faculty who are over the age of 62

by Aug. 31, 2015. The plan would award 150 percent of a year’s salary, capped at $200,000, to those who agreed to retire at the end of the academic year. Of the 261 qualified faculty, 110 accepted the offer.

Loftin called the turnover, the magnitude of which is rare, a “truly extraordinary opportunity” for the university.

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MU students watch a performer at the Let's Get Loud Drag Show on April 4 at Memorial Union.

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All April long, students show pride Staff Writer

Resource Center, the Sexual Health Advocate Peer Education program is promoting another meaning for the month of April: STI Awareness Month.

At Friday’s “Let’s Get Loud Drag Show,” held in the Memorial Union, SHAPE representatives provided resources, products and awareness of sexual health.

"We were invited here by the LGBTQ Resource Center just to give out free condoms and other free products like oral dams and female condoms, and promote sexual health safety," SHAPE representative Hannah Dismer said.

SHAPE also promoted its “Get Yourself Tested” event, to be held April 15. Testing is free and confidential and includes free tank tops while supplies last. The event goes from 10

NEWS Lt. Bruce Britt, who died in University Village collapse, will be honored.

Missouri legislator targets gender-neutral bathrooms with bills House Bills 1338 and 1339 would limit funding for gender-neutral environments.

JENNIFER PROHOV Staff Writer Legislation has been introduced into the Missouri House that would eliminate state funding for any institution that implements a gender-neutral environment or multiuse unisex bathroom facilities.

House Bills 1338 and 1339 were introduced

by Rep. Jeff Pogue, R-Salem, on March 12 and have created controversy throughout the state. Many feel that the bills are discriminatory against the LGBT community, while supporters believe they are maintaining state cultural standards.

MOVE A market for three seasons: April 4 saw the first farmers market of 2015.

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Pride Month has returned to the MU campus and will feature 37 events throughout the month of April.

"Pride Month is traditionally celebrated in June in the United States, but because students are gone, we celebrate it on campus in April," LGBTQ Resource Center Coordinator Struby Struble said.

Pride Month is held in June to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan. Viewed as the tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn rose up against repeated harassment and persecution in the LGBT community from police officers.

President Bill Clinton issued

Proclamation No. 7316 on June 2, 2000, marking the entire month of June as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.

The month has since expanded to include all facets of the LGBT community over the last 15 years.

On campus, the LGBTQ Resource Center has partnered with dozens of organizations across campus, including the Triangle Coalition, the Women’s Center, the Multicultural Center and the Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative.

"We're really proud of all the collaboration and variety of events we're able to offer and help with," Struble said.

Throughout the month, students are encouraged to share photos of themselves showing their pride with the hashtag #onwednesdayswewearpride or #wearpridewednesdays.

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SPORTS August will reveal a Mizzou D-line rebuilt from the ground up.

SPORTS Junior guard Deuce Bello will graduate and leave Tiger basketball.

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City Council

Theatre professor Ruffin nabs First Ward seat The Rev. Clyde Ruffin took the First Ward with 327 votes Tuesday.

RUTH SERVEN AND MAGGIE STANWOOD of The Maneater staff Columbia City Council gained two new faces and maintained the presence of a member during elections Tuesday.

Columbia residents voted for candidates in the First Ward, Second Ward and Sixth Ward. Two propositions on the ballot to improve city infrastructure were also approved by voters.

First Ward, which encompasses much of MU’s campus, was open after former councilwoman Ginny Chadwick resigned.

Rev. Clyde Ruffin won the First Ward race with 327 votes, according to the Boone County Clerk’s office.

John Clark received 203, followed by Rob Stewart with 227, Rob Rasmussen with 182, Dan Rader with 182 and Sal Nuccio with 43. Nuccio withdrew from the race Monday night in a Facebook post.

There are 9,174 voters registered in the First Ward, according to the Boone County Clerk’s Office.

In April 2014, Chadwick won the seat with 525 out of only 777 votes cast.

Ruffin is a pastor at the Second Missionary Baptist Church and is a theatre professor at MU. He began work at MU in 1982.

During a council candidate forum March 12, Ruffin addressed issues facing students, such as housing.

“Economic development ties into affordable housing because it helps home buyers be able to afford housing,” Ruffin said, according to a March 18 Maneater article.

In 2012, Ruffin received the President’s Community Engagement Award, according to a April 3, 2012 Maneater article. The award is given to those who are “engaged in exemplary community engagement activities such as volunteerism,” according to the UM System’s website for the President’s Award for Faculty Engagement.

Ruffin has also received the Martin Luther King Community Service Award in 2004, MLK Dream Foundation’s “Man of the Year” in 2006, MU FacultyAlumni Award and the Chancellor’s Award for

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Portrait of Lt. Bruce Britt, a 23-year veteran of the Columbia Fire Department.

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Lt. Bruce Britt to be honored with award Bruce died while helping residents evacuate University Village Apartments during a structural collapse in 2014.

HAILEY STOLZE Staff Writer Lt. Bruce Britt spent almost half his life as a Columbia fireman.

After growing up in Williamsville, Illinois, he began work at the Williamsville Volunteer Fire Department, according to the Heroes

Memorial Foundation. He became a lieutenant for the Columbia Fire Department in the early 1990s.

Britt died while responding to the Feb. 22, 2014, structural collapse at University Village Apartments.

He helped evacuate 18 residents, all MU graduate students and their families. Yet, before he could safely make it out, a second-story walkway he was standing on collapsed. Britt was pronounced dead at University Hospital from his injuries sustained on the scene.

No residents were injured, according to a statement released that day by Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin.

“My heart is heavy this morning as my deepest condolences go to the

family of the brave City of Columbia firefighter who was fatally injured in the line of duty helping keep the residents of University Village Apartments safe,” Loftin said in a second statement.

Britt was the first Columbia firefighter to die in the line of duty since 1986. In recognition of his 23 years of service to Columbia and his sacrifice, the Boone County Republicans Central Committee will honor his service April 10 during its annual Lincoln Day Banquet with the 2015 Dr. Edward H. Robb Award.

"This annual award recognizes public employees who represent the

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MSA BUDGET

First Ward Senators defend MSA chair pay, Craft Studio Nine candidates ran for the First Ward seat on City Council, a district that includes MU’s campus.

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Extra money in the MSA budget will go to smaller organizations and Senate Speaker Kevin Carr pushes for higher chair pay in the 2016 MSA budget.

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Several Missouri Students Association senators have addressed two primary concerns with the 201516 proposed budget for MSA. They have requested the return of salaries for MSA Senate committee chairs and challenged the proposed major

funding cuts to the MSA/GPC Craft Studio.

Senate Chair Pay The push for reinstating salaries for the MSA Senate committee chairs is not new. After a failed attempt to pay chairs last year, the chairs want to work toward the same goal this year.

Chair pay was cut in fiscal year 2013 under former MSA President Xavier Billingsley, his vice president Helena Kooi, and former Senate Speaker Jacob Sloan because of a large cut to the overall MSA budget, current Budget Committee chairman Bill Vega said.

The proposed budget would pay chairs $7.75 per hour for 1.6 hours per week for 32 weeks, which is only

half of their required three office hours. This does not include outside work and meetings. In total, each chair would make $396.80 for the year, totaling $2,380.80.

The chairs cannot be paid a stipend, Senate Speaker Kevin Carr said. They must be paid an hourly wage, so if a chair leaves mid-semester, they can still get the money they earned.

Carr said he believes the return of chairs’ salaries will create an incentive for them to do a better job.

“We’re losing good talent,” he said. “It’s hard to put in the work that’s required for a part-time job into something that you’re not being rewarded for.”

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Phase I indicators: The amount of competitive federal research funding Number of faculty in National Academies Number of faculty awards and fellowships The number of scholarly citations earned by faculty

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Mass faculty turnover opens window for AAU growth, administrators say Phase II indicators: The amount of U.S. Department of Agriculture, state and industrial research funding The number of doctoral degrees awarded annually The number of postdoctoral students The strength of the undergraduate education Source: Association of American Universities

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He said normally about 11 or 12 tenured faculty retire each year.

“That is a chance to renew our faculty, to bring extraordinary faculty to the university that will not simply replace those who are here but compliment other senior hires we’re making right now,” Loftin said during a March 18 press conference. “(New faculty hires will) adapt this university fully for the future in terms of the opportunities we have in formal education and research.”

The heft of the turnover will be felt most in the colleges of Arts and Science; Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources; and Education. These colleges will lose 42, 15 and 14 faculty members, respectively.

Arts and Science: Blazing a new trail Some administrators view the exodus of 110 faculty as an opportunity to free up funds for new initiatives.

Michael O’Brien, dean of the College of Arts and Science, said he isn’t just looking for faculty who can backfill old roles when making new hires. Rather, he’s looking for people who can help boost the university’s standing in the Association of American Universities, a group of 62 of the most prestigious research universities in the U.S. and Canada.

The AAU uses eight indicators — seven of which judge performance based on statistics — to determine how

Quantifying the quality of education The Association of American Universities, a group of 62 elite research universities, uses eight indicators to measure a university’s education and research quality. Phase I indicators are used as primary measurements while Phase II indicators are used as “additional important calibrations” of a university’s programs.

Phase 1 Indicators

Phase 2 Indicators

Number of faculty in National Academies

The amount of U.S. Department of Agriculture, state and industrial research funding

The amount of competitive federal research funding

The number of doctoral degrees awarded annually

Number of faculty awards and fellowships

The number of postdoctoral students

The number of scholarly citations earned by faculty

The strength of the undergraduate education

Source: Association of American Universities universities rank within their system. O’Brien said MU is currently at the “bottom of the barrel” in many of the AAU’s quantitative categories. He pointed to the fact that MU only has six faculty who are members of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the leading associations of “distinguished scholars” in the country.

O’Brien said while MU is trying to improve its standing in areas like faculty citations, it is not catching up quickly enough.

MU has been successful in

A rare exodus Partly due to a faculty “buyout” offer, a record number of MU faculty are retiring this year — around ten times the normal number.

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Human Environmental Sciences

Fewer than 10

Journalism

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Law

Fewer than 10

Medicine

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Nursing

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Veterinary Medicine

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its effort to try to improve its standing with the AAU in some cases, O’Brien said, like when Professor of Chemistry and Radiology M. Frederick Hawthorne was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Barack Obama in 2012. However, O’Brien said, MU is not catching up quickly enough in categories like faculty citations.

“We’re getting better, but so is everybody else at a higher rate,” he said.

Only one indicator, the strength of the undergraduate education, is based on qualitative measures rather than quantitative ones. MU performs well in this category, O’Brien said — so well that he credits the good rating of the undergraduate program as the reason MU hasn’t been kicked out of the AAU. “If it were just (judged) on the numbers, we’d have been gone 30 years ago … but we’re still here,” he said.

O’Brien said he’s also prioritizing new hires that can contribute to MU’s reputation for quality undergraduate education. He said getting undergraduates involved in research will keep MU at the forefront of progressive education.

“Getting kids involved in research — student undergrads, not just grads — is immensely important,” O’Brien said.

“I wouldn’t hire somebody, whether it was in theater or in physics, who doesn’t want undergrads in his or her lab or in the theater.”

CAFNR: A more constrained plan CAFNR Dean Thomas Payne said he has different concerns.

He is primarily focused on filling the roles left vacant by the 15 retiring faculty members.

Currently, Payne and administrators are conducting internal analysis in order to determine which roles need to be filled through hiring, he said.

The college will not be able to replace all of the faculty it loses due to lack of funding. Payne will not be giving preference to tenure-track faculty over nontenure-track ones in the hiring process, he said he is just trying to “fill critical positions.”

Payne said he is also going to put some of the revenue created by retirees aside for merit-based raises for current faculty and staff.

Education: Buying time College of Education Dean Daniel Clay said he feels constrained by time as well as money.

Clay said he plans to rehire about half of the 14 faculty members set to retire from the college at the end of the year.

Some of the faculty who are retiring will return to finish research, while others will return to teach a class or two, Clay said.

The returning faculty will not be in violation of the buyout plan’s parameters as long as

they are re-employed on a parttime basis, which the statutes define as 70 percent or fewer hours compared to full-time employment.

The move will buy Clay time to prioritize hiring searches and make sure they find the right candidates.

As Clay considers new hires, he said his goal is to find people who will enhance key areas of the college’s strategic plan, which are to improve the quality of academic programs and research, to create and sustain a positive and productive work environment and to increase the cultural and international competency of faculty, staff and students.

“We think of those things whenever we make a decision to spend money,” Clay said. “We say, ‘Is spending this money going to move the needle on one or more of those things?’ If the answer is no, we won’t do it.”

Saving for a “common good” The colleges will contribute a portion of the revenue freed up by the retirees to the MU Strategic Operating Plan, which O’Brien called a “common good” fund.

The plan calls for every department, except scholarships and campus safety, to reallocate 2 percent of its general operating funds every year until fiscal year 2018. These funds will be used primarily to “enhance (MU’s) academic stature as measured by publicly made available metrics, including those of the AAU,” according to the MUSOP website.

“We made that offer because we realized that the campus didn’t have any ability to look down the line and say, ‘There’s a great initiative over there if we only had the funding,’” O’Brien said.

The plan, which is in the second year of its five-year schedule, will have generated approximately $300 million for the university by fiscal year 2018, O’Brien said.

Clay said he’s excited by the opportunity for growth a turnover this large allows.

“This is a win-win situation for faculty who are interested in moving on to the next phase of their life and staying engaged in the university in a ways that they’d still like to,” Clay said.

“And it also provides us as deans and as a campus an opportunity to re-evaluate how we use our resources and to invest them wisely.”

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make the press self-sustaining one day. MU still pays the $400,000 subsidy, an amount that Rosenbaum said is common for university presses.

“I expect it will be several years before the changes we’re making today will be fully reflected in our finances,” he said. “Nevertheless, I’d like to see a significant reduction in our reliance on funding from MU in the next five years.”

Quick turnarounds are rare in the publishing industry, so climbing out of debt takes time, Rosenbaum said. He said the administration is supportive of his goals and is giving him the time to repair the damage.

The transfer in ownership was a “smart, healthy move,” Rosenbaum said, and has helped the press improve its ties with MU by presenting itself as a one-stop publishing shop for various departments and colleges.

MU faculty also have greater

representation on the press’ board as well, Rosenbaum said.

“We are looking closely at MU’s mission and making changes,” he said.

Those changes include expanding the areas of interest for the press. Historically, the press has focused on Missouri, history, journalism and literary criticism, political science and political philosophy.

Now, the press has titles related to organizational studies, which are part of a series with the MU’s Center for the Study of Organizational Change.

“Publishing titles in this area both plays to a particular strength here at MU but has a national audience,” Rosenbaum said.

“Likewise, we’ve begun reviewing titles for a program in human and animal bioethics. This publishing program will also have significant national appeal but should appeal and be most relevant to important land-grant schools like MU.” With a background in commercial publishing, Rosenbaum is experienced in running a profitable publisher. However, he finds his new position more fulfilling, as he serves a mission not centered around netting a profit. Under his guidance, the UM Press has adopted tools to measure financial implications of publishing a book.

“We don’t want to be in the business of losing money,” he said. “(The goal is to) break even.”

Rosenbaum said he has seen progress, but the publishing industry is about the long-term, not next quarter’s profits.

“It takes time to show results,” he said.

individual without his or her explicit permission.

The Equity Office said in a pamphlet that “threatening, frightening or intimidating in such a way that causes emotional stress” is a direct violation of Missouri state law as well as the MU Student Code of Conduct.

Students who commit acts of cyberbullying from campus computers or while utilizing the campus wireless network will also be held in violation of MU’s Acceptable Use Policy.

For MU students struggling with harassment in any form, the Equity Office advises that victims should decide whether or not to respond, document all communications for evidence and report instances of abuse to MUPD, the Department of Residential Life or the Office of Student Conduct.

Additionally, the MU Counseling Center and 24-hour Crisis Hotline are always available to help students in need of emotional support or guidance.

Copy Chief A fundraising campaign through the University of Missouri Press hopes to raise $40,000 to digitize books related to Missouri or by Missouri authors.

The Missouri Essential catalog, the focus of the fundraising effort, includes Mark Twain’s works, books about former President Harry S. Truman and the six-volume History of Missouri. UM Press Director David Rosenbaum said digitizing these titles will bring them to “a new generation of readers.”

The campaign has raised 56 percent of the goal, almost $23,000, as of April 5. The funds raised will go toward the intensive digitizing process.

“It’s easily a hundred hours of work, and that assumes everything goes smoothly,” Rosenbaum said.

The process begins with scanning each page into the computer. Next, the characters on the page have to be recognized as letters instead of images. Then, each book is re-edited to ensure that nothing was lost in translation.

State Historical Society Director Gary Kremer said he is pleased with the launch of this campaign, and he sees it as a way to introduce more people to the state’s history.

“It seeks to identify important, or ‘essential,’ older works that would help any reader come to a greater understanding of the complexity of Missouri over time,” Kremer said in an email.

The Missouri Essential Campaign is just one example of how the UM Press is adjusting to the changing world of publishing. Rosenbaum

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The Faculty Council holds a meeting on Oct. 25, 2012, at Memorial Union. A main topic of discussion was the UM Press Advisory Committee’s first meeting.

said many UM Press titles are available on various platforms. For all new books, the press creates a digital and print copy, a policy that started in 2012. The campaign will also allow all titles produced before 2012 to be digitized.

Despite the increased digital trend, Rosenbaum said, there is still more demand for print copies of scholarly works. Print makes up 80 percent of the press’ market, he said.

The backlist of books published anytime before 2013 contains over 1,000 titles, Rosenbaum said. He said 400 to 500 of these titles are about Missouri.

“These are classics that will be made more readily available to readers who seek to explore our state’s rich cultural heritage,” Kremer said.

President Tim Wolfe withdrew the $400,000 annual subsidy, according to previous Maneater reporting. The press could not sustain itself and had to shut down.

The announcement of the closure sparked debate in Faculty Council meetings and the “Save the University of Missouri Press” Facebook page, which accrued over 2,700 likes. In response to the controversy, the ownership of the press transferred to MU. Rosenbaum, who had worked in the publishing industry for 16 years, was hired as director of the press in November 2013.

“The damage done in 2012 was significant,” Rosenbaum said. “We had to build ourselves back up. We are not quite at that (pre-2012) level.”

Damage control The press, founded in 1958, was almost closed in May 2012 when UM

A sustainable future Rosenbaum said the press has been improving, and he hopes to

intimidation and harassment, the bill, originally introduced by Rep. Sue Allen, R-St. Louis, requests that schools include three specific components in their policies; a statement requiring all district employees to report any instance of bullying, procedures for reporting and “prompt investigation” of bullying, and a statement regarding the way the schools’ policies will be publicized.

These policies must be reviewed annually for compliance with state and federal law.

“Essentially, (the bill) requires school districts to have a specific process in place for how to handle bullying based on increased communication of what their policy is,” Allen said. “A school can have their own policy, but that policy needs to be distributed to parents, students and other school officials and reviewed yearly.”

Allen said the bill is designed to treat every student equally.

“Bullying is a big problem,” Allen said. “Some schools have policies, others don’t. There are schools at which parents and kids are told they have policies, but those policies are either not working or implemented and are not protecting the kids. So, this is really kind of a direction for how communication is to be had

regarding bullying within schools.”

An updated version of older legislation, HB 458 includes specific regulations to prevent and to remedy instances of “cyberbullying.”

Cyberbullying is defined in the act as “transmission of a communication including, but not limited to, a message, text, sound, or image by means of an electronic device.”

Bullying and harassment do not cease to exist after elementary, middle and high school. In university, workplace and other realworld environments, other ways of intimidation replace hair-pulling on the playground and sophomoric name-calling.

At MU, the University Equity Office works to promote awareness and to provide information for handling instances of bullying or harassment on campus. The office’s program, “Show Me Respect: Promoting Civility at the University of Missouri,” offers tips for thwarting cyberbullying, harassment and stalking.

Cyberbullying as defined in “Show Me Respect” exists in varying types, ranging from denigrating or putting someone down by posting or sending compromising material about an individual to others, to outing or posting or sending private information about an

Missouri House introduces updated anti-bullying legislation Cyberbullying, communication of policies addressed in the new bills.

PAIGE LALAIN Staff Writer In 2007, the Missouri House passed legislation that required all public schools in the state to draft and implement an anti-bullying policy by Sept. 1 of that year.

Now, House Bill 458, designed to repeal and replace the old legislation, aims to increase restrictions placed on bullying by requiring that schools create and distribute an updated anti-bullying policy within schools’ student handbooks that must include a set of governmentmandated regulations for how the school is to report and intervene in instances of bullying.

Bullying, defined in the bill as “intimidation or harassment that causes a reasonable student to fear his or her physical safety or property” or that significantly interferes with educational performance or opportunities “without exception,” is to be prohibited by students on school property, at any school function or on any school buses.

In order to effectively outlaw this

BANISH BULLYING 28 percent of students in the U.S. in grades six through 12 experienced bullying

Missouri lawmakers have introduced greater measures Unwanted aggressive behavior, observed or perceived power imbalance and repetition of behaviors or high likelihood of repetition.

When bystanders intervene, bullying stops within 10 seconds, 57 percent of the time

70.6 percent of young

Between 1 in 3 and 1 in 4

students say they have seen bullying in their schools

20 percent of students in the U.S. in grades nine through 12 experienced bullying

9 percent of students in grades six through 12 experienced cyberbullying

students in the U.S. say they have been bullied in school

15 percent of high school students were electronically bullied in the last year

55.2 percent of

LGBT students experienced cyberbullying

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Other events taking place are Pride Prom on the evening of April 11 in the Mark Twain Ballroom of Memorial Union.

Guests are encouraged to wear

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Queer Monologues is April 25 in Jesse Wrench Auditorium.

Pride Parade is at noon on April 29, beginning at the fountain outside of The Shack and marching across campus.

Additionally, an open Safe Space Training  session is available from 6-8 p.m. on

April 13 in the LGBTQ Resource Center, and Catalyst Award nominations are due April 17.

Catalyst awards are given out at the end-of-the-year reception and awards ceremony to celebrate those who speak up, out and on behalf of the LGBT community.

This year's keynote speaker is Robyn Ochs, editor of Bi Women

Quarterly, the 42-country anthology Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World and RECOGNIZE: The Voices of Bisexual Men. Ochs will be speaking at 6 p.m. on April 29 in Stotler Lounge in addition to hosting a lunch discussion on middle sexualities at 12:30 p.m. on April 30 in the LGBTQ Resource Center.

Pride Month ends with the return of Take Back the Night March at 7 p.m. on April 30.

The Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention Center is hosting the event, which is returning after a five-year hiatus. It aims to empower survivors and provide urgency to end sexual violence on campus.

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Carrie Duncan digs through history of Middle East JARED KAUFMAN Staff Writer At 16 years old, she already knew she wanted to be a biblical archaeologist.

Now, assistant professor of religious studies Carrie Duncan spends her summers working on three different archaeological projects, or digs, across the country of Jordan.

In her teenage years, she started reading issues of a magazine about biblical archaeology and began receiving college pamphlets in the mail.

In a process she described as “frighteningly arbitrary,” she began throwing away pamphlets that didn’t meet certain requirements — the college had to have archaeology programs, couldn’t have too many students, must be in the right geographic area. She then went back to those archaeology magazines, which featured articles written by university faculty.

She found an article written by a professor at Tufts University in Massachusetts, a college that met all her requirements.

“I picked a name in a magazine of a lady who had written an article about archaeology, and decided that she would be my adviser,” she said. “So my dad and I went on a road trip, and I walked into her office and said, ‘Hi, I’d like to be an archaeologist.’

Then, I was 17. She said, ‘Great!

Come here, and we’ll do that.’”

Duncan did end up enrolling at Tufts and majoring in archaeology, with that professor as her adviser and mentor.

That professor, Jodi Magness, is now the Kenan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. “(Jodi) has literally run my life since I was 17,” Duncan said.

Duncan speaks highly of Magness, but the feeling is mutual.

“This is kind of like asking a proud parent to talk about their kid,” Magness said. “Carrie is amazing. You don’t get to where she is today if you’re not smart, hard-working, dedicated.”

Duncan’s work today Duncan brings students to her digs every other year. During the years Duncan is not leading students, she works as a senior staff member on two other digs.

One of these is called the Petra North Ridge Project, and it involves searching for houses of normal people who lived in the now-famous ancient city in the fourth century.

“Petra is an interesting case,” Duncan said. “The focus for a really long time has been on the fabulous monumental remains there. Those are the famous facades of Petra that appear in ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.’ That’s what people think of when they think of Petra.”

The builders of those remains were the nomadic Nabatean people, who financed the construction through their monopoly control of the landbased spice trade. Duncan said that this fact, coupled with ancient documents about the Nabateans, had given previous archaeologists the wrong idea.

“It was actually standard scholarly thought to think that the Nabateans didn’t build any houses,” Duncan said. “People hadn’t excavated any smallscale, ‘regular-people’ dwellings, because so much of the attention and focus was on these really big, exciting, sexy finds.”

That’s where Duncan and her team come in. Previous archaeological teams have made major finds in terms of churches in the area, but Duncan’s team wants to find the oftenoverlooked houses of average churchgoers.

But they have a slight problem — they are finding houses from the time right before their period of interest.

A major earthquake in A.D. 363 destroyed many buildings in the area. Duncan described it as a “watershed” event in the historical timeline.

“We were hoping to find structures that were built after the 363 earthquake, and we kept finding the ones that had been destroyed in the 363 earthquake — structures that dated from the second, the third and early fourth centuries, rather than the late fourth and fifth century,” she said.

You can’t always control what you find, Duncan said. She explained that archaeologists have goals and research agendas, but those only go so far.

“At the end of the day, you very rarely know what’s under the dirt before you start getting into it,” Duncan said. “Whatever you find, you have to dig responsibly and publish it and learn what you can from it, even if it’s not at all what you originally intended to investigate. That’s one of the ethical responsibilities archaeologists have.”

Student trips Every other summer, Duncan brings a group of MU students along to her archaeological digs in Jordan. The next trip is this summer. Students will join Duncan in excavating the Roman fortress at Ayn Gharandal, a dig at which Duncan is the assistant director.

Fifth-year senior Gabryel McBaine traveled to Jordan in 2013 and worked on digging out the rooms of the officers’ quarters. Her group found the bases of a stone archway inside the room.

She explained that the time and effort needed to install indoor archways signifies the importance of the area.

“I had never been on a dig before; I did not know what to expect,” McBaine said. “So I

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Professor Carrie Duncan stands between two sifters at the Ayn Gharandal archaeological site in Jordan. Duncan is the assistant director of the project and leads student trips every other year.

learned very quickly that it has to do with a lot of hard labor, but at the same time, there’s also a lot of delicate work. It involves a lot of teamwork, and if you don’t work well with your team, then the dig itself does not work.”

McBaine, who is now a quadruple major — classical humanities, art, art education and archaeology — was not an archaeology major before going to Jordan with Duncan.

“I had the classics major at the time and had been to Greece and seen archaeology digs,” McBaine said. “So I was very interested in it. And when I came back is when I signed up for my archaeology major. I absolutely fell in love with it.”

Duncan runs a field school at the site to teach students the basics because, like McBaine, not everybody who goes on the program is an archaeology major.

“Students don’t even need to know anything about the ancient world,” Duncan said.

“We teach everybody everything that they need, so they need no background or prior experience.”

McBaine plans to return to the dig this summer. She said she has never felt unsafe in Jordan.

“When you go to the Middle East in general, everyone says, ‘Oh my gosh, you’re a woman, you’re blonde, that’s going to be a problem,’” McBaine said. “It’s not. We did not have any issues at any point of feeling threatened by anything.”

Duncan explained that by learning about other cultures in hands-on ways, students learn more about themselves and can begin to think critically about their world. “(Students) realize that their view of the world and of politics and of international relations is so highly predicated on their own social position, and that other people can think very differently about some of these issues,” Duncan said. “That who you are is controlled to such a high degree by where you lucked into being born or raised or educated. There’s a large degree of culture shock that goes on for our students.”

Research findings Even though Duncan’s past teams at Petra in Jordan have not found exactly what they were looking for, they were still able to draw valuable conclusions about the lives of ancient people.

“The houses we’ve found belonged to people who were not dirt-poor, but certainly not part of the city’s elite,” Duncan said.

“The artisan class or merchants.

People who had some capital that they could invest and display, but not a lot. These were people that shopped at IKEA, not at Crate & Barrel. But also not people who shopped at Goodwill.”

Another archaeological team had already found “the Crate & Barrel crowd.” While one of those houses may have marble inside, Duncan said, the houses her team found would use white stucco that was painted to look like marble, in an attempt to show off to their neighbors.

“They’re imitating the style that was the height of fashion,” she said. “But they’re using materials that are within their means, which is really interesting to us. You can make modern parallels about the fashion world.

In some ways, people haven’t changed a whole lot.”

Following her mentor’s footsteps Duncan said it was an “accident” that she ended up teaching religious studies specifically, but she said that choice was based on sound career advice from her mentor.

“One of the other things that Jodi (Magness) said to me when I was 17 was, ‘I’m really glad that you want to be an archaeologist.

You’ll never get a job. But what you can do is be trained in a related field that will give you a job, and then you can be an archaeologist for your research with the grant money you can get,’” Duncan said.

Following this suggestion, Duncan eventually joined Magness at UNC to earn a doctorate degree in the religious

studies department. Duncan explained that the connection between studying the religious texts and her archaeological work enhances both realms.

“By being able to put material evidence — stuff that archaeologists have found in excavations — in conversation with the texts, we get a much more nuanced, complicated version of how the ancient world might have looked,” Duncan said.

In the meantime, Magness still stands by the advice she gave Duncan many years ago.

“The fact of the matter is that a vast majority of undergraduates won’t go on to a career in whatever it is that they majored in; they’ll go on to another career,” Magness said.

Therefore, Magness urges students to select a major they’re interested in. She said that the undergraduate level is the only time in a person’s academic life where they can truly study anything they want, and she encourages students to take advantage of that opportunity.

“Choose a major not on the basis of ‘is this going to earn me money when I get out,’ which it won’t, by the way,” she said. “So choose an undergraduate major that you love, and if you love it, you will do well at it. And if you do well at it, you’ll get good grades and you’ll write good papers and get all the skills. And you will then be well-equipped for whatever you go onto after that.”

The truth, Magness said, is that society does not need many archaeologists or professors of religious studies, but those professions are still necessary.

“What makes life interesting and worth living is living in a diverse society,” Magness said.

“We don’t need large numbers of people who do these things, but they are necessary if we live in any kind of enlightened, educated world where people have some sort of intellectual curiosity.”

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State legislator scrutinizes gender neutrality Continued from page 1 The bills came on the heels of MU’s announcements that the Department of Residential Life would be creating genderneutral housing in College Avenue for the 2015-16 academic school year, and that the new residence hall, Gateway, would have multiuse unisex bathrooms.

“HB 1338 is not designed to be discriminatory,” Pogue said in a news release. “It is meant to protect the dignity of all citizens of Missouri and visitors to this state.”

Pogue said he feels that cultural standards remain based on the male and female sexes and not gender identification, and therefore public facilities should reflect this.

“The culture, not just of Missouri but of the United States as a society since implementation of public restrooms, has been that men (males) and women (females) have separate public restroom facilities,” he said. “HB 1338 simply states that this should continue to be the norm, and that any single-use restroom facility may be marked as unisex.”

Pogue continues on in the on campus, and that using release to cite the support bathrooms was one of the most of Amnesty International, common places this occurred.” a prominent human rights Minor found that ResLife advocacy group, in this type of could implement genderseparation. neutral housing and multiuse “It should be noted that unisex bathrooms due to recent A mne st y Inter n at ion al developments in residence includes gender-segregated halls. toilet facilities among its list “While ResLife had been of recommendations to protect exploring the feasibility of the safety of girls in school,” gender-neutral housing at MU Pogue said. “This thought can as an additional option for easily be expanded to restroom many years, the joint resolution facilities by student outside of g o v e r n ments THE GENERAL school.” at MU ASSEMBLY Director (2011) and of ResLife SHOULD BE THE the addition Frankie Minor ONLY AND SOLE PART of ‘gender said MU’s i d e n t i t y OF GOVERNMENT TO and gender decision to add gender-neutral expression’ to MAKE THIS CALL — housing and MU nonEITHER BY ENACTING the m u l t i u s e discrimination u n i s e x A LAW OR DRAFTING s t a t e m e n t bathrooms was (2014), along A RESOLUTION TO to maintain w ith the GO BEFORE THE the safety of design of a its students. new residence TAXPAYING VOTERS “Residential hall (Gateway), TO DECIDE.” Life’s mission allowed a statement f e a s i b l e i n c l u d e s strategy to be JEFF POGUE providing developed and Missouri representative safe, secure implemented,” and inclusive Minor said. living and T h e learning communities for addition of this housing fills students,” Minor said. “Campus a need that Minor said he has climate studies at MU showed been handling for years. that transgender students “Residential Life has been reported the highest level of accommodating students who harassment and intimidation identify as transgender or of any underrepresented group gender non-conforming on

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Gateway Hall, which is under construction, as viewed from Responsibility Hall on Jan. 27. All bathrooms at the new residence hall will be “gender-flexible.”

an individual basis for many years,” Minor said. “Genderneutral housing and/or unisex restrooms will provide additional options for these and other students who desire this type of accommodation.”

Minor also detailed how gender-neutral housing will meet the needs of students beyond the LGBT community as well.

“We have received requests in the past from siblings, other relatives or even close friends of different genders/sexes who wanted to live together on campus,” Minor said.

Minor also said despite this bill’s threat of removing funding, it could not be applied to MU because ResLife does not use state funds.

“Residential Life does not receive any institutional or state funding,” Minor said. “We are a self-supporting, auxiliary operation with over 90 percent of our revenue coming from room rates paid by students.

The remaining revenue comes from other sources such as summer camps/conferences, vending, contract processing fees, etc.”

The MU LGBTQ Resource Center would not comment on the legislation, as it is pending.

Pogue said the aim of these bill is to create consistency for citizens by developing a statewide standard.

“I believe that if the state of Missouri were to change a social norm of this magnitude,

it should be held consistent across the state, and the General Assembly should be the only and sole part of government to make this call — either by enacting a law or drafting a resolution to go before the taxpaying voters to decide,” Pogue said. “This issue should be a state standard, not a mystery to privacy rights, business rights, freedom or security.”

Kyle Piccola, Senior Field Organizer for PROMO, a Kansas City region Missouri organization that advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality, feels that the legislation is part of a growing trend of anti-LGBT bills across the country.

“Unfortunately, there is a trend across the country of antiLGBT bills being introduced,” Piccola said. “Missouri alone has eight, and Texas has the most with 20. As the LGBT community garners more and more support for issues, such as employment protections and relationship recognition, some legislators feel the need to try and stall that progress.”

However, Piccola said he feels that Pogue’s bills will not make it very far through the General Assembly.

“Typically, bills that are introduced so late in session are not a priority and generally do not make it very far,” Piccola said. “PROMO will be monitoring these bills to make sure they don't see movement.”

Piccola said he believes the bills will harm the entire community, not just the transgender individuals they target.

“Everyone, including gay and transgender people, cares about privacy and safety in the bathroom,” he said. “The facts prove that nondiscrimination protections drive down public safety concerns. Allowing all people to use the appropriate bathroom is the safest public policy position. There are 14 cities in Missouri and hundreds in the country that have these protections and there has not been one negative experience.”

Piccola also said genderneutral facilities allow parents more access to care for their children.

“Gender-neutral facilities have a lot of benefits to the community,” Piccola said. “A lot of times there are not changing stations in the men’s restroom, so it's hard for a dad to change a diaper. Family restrooms are gender-neutral, and any parent will tell you how beneficial those are.”

Piccola said he is disappointed

by Pogue’s legislation.

“The nature of the language is in line with attacks we see on the transgender community,” Piccola said. “It is certainly disheartening to see those sentiments and attacks pop up in the Missouri legislature.”

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Greek Week strives to surpass last year’s success KARLEE RENKOSKI Staff Writer Every April, MU’s fraternities and sororities participate in a threeweek period known as Greek Week.

During this time, students celebrate the values of Greek Life by holding a variety of events that aim to benefit local and national organizations.

This year’s Greek Week will begin at 2 p.m. April 12 with a kick-off barbecue and a game of campuswide capture the flag.

Junior Jamie Stanley is an events leader on the Greek Week Steering Committee. She said she and her fellow committee members have been working hard to ensure these weeks in April are ones to remember.

“Greek Week is the entire Greek community coming together to serve, unite and celebrate being a Greek student at Mizzou,” Stanley said. “It's not just about celebrating

your own letters but recognizing the diversity and also the similarities that we all, as Greek students, share.”

Greek Week traditionally consists of a blood drive, intramural sports, “Fling” and special events, such as Trivia Night. All of the MU Greek chapters are paired together to participate in the various events.

“We had a hybrid-random pairing system, which allowed for the chapters to still have a say while also randomizing the pairings,” Stanley said. Each pairing is scored throughout Greek Week, and points are gained by participation, following the rules and the records received during games. However, points can also be deducted during events; these guidelines are stated in the Greek Week 2015 Rulebook.

For 2015, the Events Committee has added a few new activities for Greek students to compete in

Events: Greek Week

Sunday, April 12

Kick-off event: 2 p.m. at Carnahan Quadrangle

Thursday, April 16

Tuesday, April 14 Thursday, April 16

Mizzou Spring Blood Drive: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at MU Student Recreation Complex

Friday, April 17

Wednesday, April 15 Trivia Night: 6 p.m. at Harpo’s

Saturday, April 18

Special Olympics: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Food donation collection: Flag Football: 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Rock Bridge High School 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Stankowski Field Soccer: 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. outside MU Student Center at Stankowski Field Dodgeball: 11:15 p.m. to 1:15 a.m.

Basketball: 5 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. at MizzouRec at MizzouRec

Sunday, April 19 Volleyball: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at MizzouRec

Monday, April 20 Wednesday, April 22 Fling: 6 p.m. at Missouri Theatre Profit-share

Sunday, April 26 Announcements: at 8 p.m. in Traditions Plaza

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against one another.

“This year we’ve added a fifth sport: dodgeball,” Stanley said.

“The community seems extremely excited for this addition, as are we.

As for the kick-off event, we’ve added in capture the flag, which will take place in the morning across campus.”

In addition to the intramural sports, Fling, a show including skits, videos and other performances, is also an aspect in which groupings can receive points. Fling will begin at 6 p.m. for three consecutive days, April 20 through April 22, at the Missouri Theatre.

The blood drive will be held from April 14 through April 16 in the MU Student Recreation Complex.

Junior Emily Lewis, who is on the Blood Drive Committee, has been working with an American Red Cross representative to finalize the blood drive’s details.

“The rule actually states that you must have 20 percent of your grouping volunteer to work the blood drive,” Lewis said in an email.

“We ask that to help keep everything running smoothly, given the size of the drive.” Lewis also agreed that the cooperation of Greek Life and the American Red Cross is extremely beneficial.

“Additionally, it is another way to incorporate service into Greek Week,” Lewis said. “Our goal is to collect 1,800 units.”

During last year’s Greek Week, MU fraternities and sororities raised over $70,000. This year, their goal is no less.

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Seniors Alexa Burtnett and Colleen McGovern, members of Sigma Kappa sorority, laugh during Greek Week Announcements on April 21, 2014, outside Jesse Hall.

Each Greek grouping must collect specific items in specific quantities for their chosen charities, and in some cases, volunteer their time.

The time spent and items collected during Greek Week will support many different charities. Some of these charities include, but are not limited to: Caring for Columbia, the Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri, Heart of Missouri CASA and Cedar Creek Therapeutic Riding Center.

Freshman Mary Cate Connell of Chi Omega said she is excited to cheer on her sisters and Greek pairings in the various competitions.

“Although I am not a part of any intramural teams, I cannot wait to support my sisters from the sidelines during sports games and be cheering them on during Fling,” she said.

Connell said she thinks it will be an exciting week participating in this tradition, but she also adds

that it is an important time for all fraternities and sororities. “I think Greek Week is vital to the Greek community, because I feel that sometimes we get so caught up in our own fraternity or sorority that we forget we are a part of something bigger,” Connell said.

“I think that Greek Week also gives us a chance to get to know members of our own sorority or fraternity.”

Stanley said planning Greek Week took a lot of work. However, she said the committee and Greek students alike are ready and waiting in expectation for the upcoming events.

“The most exciting aspect of Greek Week is watching all of the chapters’ hard work pay off throughout the events we hold,” Stanley said. “We are all extremely excited for this upcoming month.

The atmosphere during games, at Fling … there’s nothing quite like it.”

Mizzou Club Quidditch prepares for World Cup tournament EMILY TEOH Reporter All eyes are trained on the ball as it soars through the air. Players block each other as they try to catch it. Passing students turn to stare at the PVC pipes between the players’ legs, but the players are all oblivious.

The ball zips through one of three rings, and half the players cheer.

Mizzou’s Club Quidditch is for real.

Quidditch is a co-ed, full-contact sport from the popular “Harry Potter” series by J.K. Rowling.

The sport started in 2005, when a college in Vermont first invented the gameplay for Muggles, or nonmagical humans.

MU’s team, which currently comprises 23 students, has been running for a little more than four years. They have been training harder than Hermione Granger studied for the Ordinary Wizarding Level Examinations, in preparation for the U.S. Quidditch World Cup 8 on April 11 and 12 in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

They are like any other sports team — dedicated, competitive and united on and off the field. The only differences are the unorthodox origins of the game and the fact that these players have two passions in common instead of one: sports and “Harry Potter.”

The first World Cup tournament saw only seven teams. Today,

according to the U.S. Quidditch website, 80 teams compete for the World Cup. The live stream of the final match garners about 8,000 views.

The game incorporates elements of rugby, dodgeball, basketball, soccer and wrestling, according to the Mizzou Club Quidditch website.

Each team consists of seven players. Players must have a regulation broomstick between their legs at all times during official matches. The goal of the game is to score as many points as possible.

Teams score points when their three chasers throw the quaffle (a volleyball) through one of three hoops, which is guarded by a keeper.

Two beaters try to stop chasers by using bludgers (dodgeballs). If a player is hit by a bludger, they are out of play until they touch their own goalposts.

The game ends when a team’s seeker catches the snitch (a ball attached to a snitch runner), which is only released 18 minutes into a game.

Sophomore Jonathan Quattlebaum is the vice president of the team and plays as a chaser.

He said he enjoys playing Quidditch because it is inclusive.

“Everybody’s on the same plane,” Quattlebaum said. “It’s how well you can play and what you can do for the team. It’s so inclusive that everybody can play … It just comes down to what you’re willing to put in

and what you’ll get out of it.”

Freshman Gabrielle Pollard, another chaser, said the team is balanced.

“What I notice is that there’s a limitation on females versus males, even if it is co-ed, but this one, like Jon said, is a level playing field, so everyone has a fair chance and it just feels like what I put into it is worth it in the long run, and so that’s a really good feeling,” Pollard said.

The Quidditch team spends long periods of time together both in and out of training. They often eat together, have game nights or tease each other about which house other teammates belong to, a reference to the four houses of the wizarding school Hogwarts.

“Tim Leible (a member in charge of utilities) is a Hufflepuff,” Quattlebaum said, evoking laughter and agreement. “He’s in denial.”

Since Quidditch is a full-contact sport, the team has seen their share of injuries, ranging from regularly bruised legs to concussions. Senior Josh Ebbesmeyer, the president of the club and a keeper on the team, suffered a concussion several years ago, and another player has broken a tooth.

“We don’t have a lot of injuries, and if we do, they’re usually pretty minor,” Ebbesmeyer said.

“Everybody comes out of every tournament, if they played, feeling beaten up with all the bruises and the soreness and everything

following a weekend of playing a full-contact sport. But for the most part, we’ve avoided major injuries this year.”

Pollard said she joined Quidditch because it combined two things that she liked: Harry Potter and athletics. She said that it was these two factors that drew members to the Quidditch team, but that “they stay for the friendship and they stay for the fun of it.”

Members said they found out about the Quidditch team through friends or during their freshman orientation.

“All of us are such close friends,” Pollard said. “We hang out as much as possible. Quidditch has taken

over my life, and it’s definitely an amazing thing, and I don’t regret it, because I have all of the best friends that I could ask for and countless experiences that I wouldn’t change for my freshman year.” Both Pollard and Quattlebaum joined the team in the fall.

“This was within a month and a half of me joining the team, but I remember tweeting, ‘Joining the Quidditch team is by far the best decision I’ve made at Mizzou,’ and I completely stand by that statement,” Quattlebaum said. “It’s completely engulfed my life and everything that I do … It is just such a great feeling being part of a family like this.”

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Mizzou Quidditch Club players compete Feb. 28 at Hinkson Field.

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best in public service, and there is no greater sacrifice than that made by Britt," BCRCC chairman Rick Rowden said in a news release.

Nominations for the award could be made by the public, as well as employers and elected officials. The committee then voted on the recipient. Their political affiliation is not taken into account.

Rowden said the committee’s vote for Britt was unanimous.

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Outstanding Research and Creative Activity, according to the theatre department’s website.

Three First Ward candidates were MU students: senior Jake Loft, who received 46 votes, senior Chad Phillips and Nate Brown, who is

THE MANEATER | NEWS | APRIL 8, 2015 “In this particular occasion, it seemed to be without a doubt the direction to go to award someone who would do the greatest thing we all see, and that is to lay down their life to help someone else,” Rowden said. “It was really not ever in question to give that award to Britt.”

The award was originally created in memory of Boone County Presiding Commissioner Edward Robb, who died in 2011. “ We’re definitely the recipients of a legacy that was not only by Robb but also by Britt,” Rowden said. “This is just a small way of honoring

Lt. Britt and also to keep the memory alive for Edward Robb, as well.”

Edward’s wife, Rose Robb, said she supported the committee’s decision to honor Britt this year.

“Ed's family and I appreciate that the committee has chosen to recognize the late Lt. Bruce Britt,” Rose said in a news release. “Ed's entire career was in the public sector and he would be pleased to know that Lt. Britt's service, dedication and sacrifice to our community is being recognized in this manner.”

Britt’s widow, Leigh Britt,

said she was flattered Bruce Britt was selected to receive the award. She’ll be attending with their daughter, Stormy, to receive the award on his behalf, she said.

“It’s very meaningful to me to know that there are people in the community that appreciate his sacrifice,” Leigh Britt said. “The fact that he’s being remembered this way is very heartwarming to me.”

The Heroes Memorial Foundation’s memorial for Bruce Britt describes him as “a cowboy at heart, wearing boots and hat before he could walk.” It states “he had an

incredible, gentle spirit behind the rough exterior and was a fierce defender of family and friends.”

Columbia Po l i c e Department’s Training Division Capt. Lisa Todd worked with Bruce Britt during his time in Columbia. She said he was quiet at times, but was friendly and selfless.

“He was the kind of person who was willing to give you the shirt off his back,” Todd said.

The Lincoln Day Banquet will be at 5:30 p.m. at the Courtyard by Marriott. Tickets are available for $40.

pursuing a bachelor’s degree and is a Public Relations Manager at the Reynolds Journalism Institute, who got 138 votes. Phillips was a write-in candidate and received 35 votes. MU students combined had 219 votes.

Though First Ward affects students, they won’t vote, Loft said before the election.

“The fact is, students don’t vote,” Loft said. “It’s just unlikely that

they’ll come to the polls.”

Students should be invested in city issues, like Tobacco 21, bringing Uber to Columbia and decriminalizing marijuana, Loft said.

Second Ward candidate Michael Trapp was up for re-election against challenger Paul Love. Trapp won with 877 votes compared to Love’s 794.

Sixth Ward member Barbara

Hoppe left the council. Candidates Ryan Euliss and Elizabeth “Betsy” Peters ran for her position with Peters pulling ahead with 770 votes against to Euliss’ 735.

Two propositions were also voted on. Proposition One would increase electric costs 6 percent over a five-year period for electric customers to pay for Columbia Water and Light electric projects, according to the Columbia Missouri

Chamber of Commerce website. This proposition passed with 7,886 votes for “yes” and 3,601 votes for “no.”

Proposition Two would create a rate adjustment to address inadequate stormwater systems. Proposition Two also passed with 6,741 votes for “yes” opposed to 4,641 votes for “no.”

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THE MANEATER | NEWS | APRIL 8, 2015

MSA Senate to vote on budget tonight Continued from page 3 The return of salaries would also promote longevity in chairs’ terms. Committee chairs are drawn to executive positions with higher pay and do not stay in their committee as long.

An issue that the Senate consistently faces is lack of competitiveness for each position. Carr said he hopes that if pay were to return, competition would grow, increasing the effectiveness of the Senate.

“Right now, there are very few applications for chair positions or any position in Senate,” Carr said. “If we create a monetary growth opportunity for them, that will in theory create competition for different chair positions, which is great.

Competition is what we want because it drives people to be more productive and ambitious in their involvement in Senate.”

Last year, the initiative failed because the money to implement chair wages would be taken out of the funding for the Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention Center, an idea which was widely unpopular.

The RSVP Center was an

MSA/GPC auxiliary before it changed hands and became a part of the Department of Student Life.

Vega declined to comment regarding chair salaries; he said addressing this as an issue that affects him personally as the budget chairman would be a conflict of interest During a full Senate meeting March 18, the Senate passed Resolution 54-33 that supports chairs receiving a salary next year. The resolution does not state a specific amount but gets them closer to their goal of paying chairs, Carr said. The resolution passed with 28 votes in affirmation, four in negation and with five abstentions.

Defending the Craft Studio The Craft Studio is an MSA auxiliary whose funding was scaled back because of its increase in revenue last fiscal year.

The reason there was a reduction in funding for the Craft Studio was because its projected revenue for fiscal year 2015 to 2016 is $8,102, which is an increase. Vega and MSA Vice President Brenda SmithLezama said they wanted to allocate more funds to smaller organizations that couldn’t make

as much money on their own.

Craft Studio really becomes a “Our main focus was not only home for people. It’s a place the fact that they showed an where you can get your mind increase but also the potential off school and all your other that they can make revenue responsibilities and just relax. at all,” Vega said. “There are It’s important to people that very few organizations funded they have that creative outlet.”

by MSA that can make back Hanner said he wants to revenue. The make sure the Craft Studio Craft Studio COMPETITION IS has craft has enough WHAT WE WANT classes and funding to the crafts maintain BECAUSE IT they make to t h e i r DRIVES PEOPLE TO BE g r a d u a t e sell so they can bring in assistant MORE PRODUCTIVE large chunks who plays an AND AMBITIOUS IN of money, important THEIR INVOLVEMENT but other role in the organizations organization.

IN SENATE” don’t have Without a the same graduate capacity assistant, the KEVIN CARR for revenue studio would MSA senate speaker generations.” decrease Secretar y its classes, of Auxiliaries Chris Hanner is which would lead to a decrease working on increasing the Craft in revenue and services the Studio’s funding. He spoke space offers, Hanner said. against a proposal of decreasing They are unsure of how much the Craft Studio’s budget by money that will take, but they $2,000 during full Senate on will know at the April 8 full April 1. During the next full Senate meeting when the new Senate on April 8, he will push allocation is proposed, Hanner to increase their allocations. said.

“I don’t think the Craft Studio coordinator Kelsey Studio deserves the cuts they’re Hammond was unable to be currently at,” Hanner said. “The reached for comment.

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MSA BUDGET BREAKDOWN 3.11%

12.16% 5.86%

7.56%

Revenue from student activity fee 50 percent of GPC student activity fee Estimated transfers from external organizations

71.3%

The Missouri Students Association budget draft for fiscal year 2016 reaches an estimated $1.63 million. Fiscal year 2015’s budget totaled approximately $1.66 million.

Estimated carryover

4.59%

Estimated revenue from advent admission charges and other charges

13.75% 3.38% 7.8%

70.47%

Estimated carryover

5.52% 2.51%

2016 proposed Revenue

$1,628,625

$1,664,217 Operating expense/ Contingency

5.25%

2.74%

Operations 31.82%

30.87%

Department of Student Services Department of Student Activities

25.15% 4.12%

2015 costs

$1,664,217

Department of student Communications Executive, legislative, judicial

Estimated transfers from external organizations 50 percent of GPC student activity fee

Estimated revenue from event admission charges and other charges

2015 Revenue

Extra money found before break could possibly be added to the Craft Studio’s funding, but nothing is decided yet for sure, Vega said.

The RSVP Center’s move to Student Life freed up about $24,000. Then, Student Legal Services decided to eliminate their nighttime lawyer because of underutilization of the position. This allows another $6,000 more to be reallocated to other organizations.

Vega said these changes are not definite.

“Everything is still fluid at this point,” he said. “But we are looking to possibly give some back to the Craft Studio, (the Department of Student Services) or STRIPES. The goal for the injection of this extra money is to try to make it go the farthest. We’re trying to probably give chunks of money back to organizations who are on the smaller side and who can’t generate other funds.

We’re trying to stretch this $6,000 the farthest and get it in the best way it could possibly be spent.”

The budget is scheduled for approval by MSA Senate tonight and will need a twothirds vote to pass.

Revenue from student activity fee

Operating expense/ Contingency Operations

32.43% 31.33% 24.15% 4.09%

2016 proposed costs

$1,628,625

Department of Student Services Department of Student Activities Department of Student Communications Executive, legislative, judicial

Source: MSA budget draft for 2016, MSA Vice President Brenda Smith-Lezama, MSA BEN KOTHE // GRAPHICS MANAGER

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State legislation would advance transphobia The right to comfortably use a bathroom is essential.

We’re concerned that new legislation in the Missouri House would infringe upon this right for a group of Missourians who already face discrimination, vilification, harassment and violence: people who identify as transgender or gender non-conforming.

Last month, House Bills 1338 and 1339, two bills aiming to eliminate state funding for any public institutions that implement gender-neutral environments or multi-use unisex bathrooms, were introduced to the Missouri House by Rep. Jeff Pogue, R-Salem.

These bills came soon after the Department of Residential Life announced the addition of genderneutral housing in College Avenue for the 2015-16 school year. The new residence hall, Gateway, will feature gender-neutral bathrooms.

Pogue said in a news release that the goal of the bill is to uphold the cultural norms of Missouri and of the United States. He also claimed that keeping public restrooms gender-divided would help protect the safety of women, citing support from Amnesty International.

These bills and Pogue’s defense of these bills are both utterly ridiculous. While he claims that they are not intended to be discriminatory, the bills are, by definition “unfairly treating a person or group of people differently from other people or groups of people.” HB 1338 and 1339 directly alienate and isolate citizens who identify as transgender, portraying them as different and lesser than other citizens.

Pogue and other representatives from other states trying to pass similar legislation have said that allowing gender-neutral bathrooms in public places will make sexual assault significantly easier for predators. Aside from having no basis in evidence, these statements

promote an ill-educated view of rape culture, perpetuating the idea that we should be focused on preventing victims from being raped instead of preventing rapists from raping. A change in the gender designation of public restrooms is not going to have a profound effect on sexual assault statistics and implying that it will is irresponsible.

The closer we look, the less this bill seems like an actual, legitimate bill aimed at preventing gender-neutral bathrooms in public facilities. No, it seems more like a misguided attempt by Pogue to show his constituents that he’s being an active member of the House, fighting for the good ol’ days.

This legislation highlights the ongoing problems faced by people in our society who identify as LGBT. It’s just another step in the despicable pattern of demonization aimed at this community of people in our culture.

Everyone should be striving to end this pattern and for inclusivity for all people.

Gender-neutral bathrooms in public settings are a step in the right direction. Forcing transgender people to use a restroom based on the gender they were assigned at birth is a problematic practice that our society has been pursuing for a long time. Increasing access to genderneutral environments would help end this problem and would allow us to create a more inclusive, accepting environment for transgender people.

Bills like HB 1338 and 1339 promote a culture where transgender members of our society are left feeling isolated and unprotected. Pogue and legislators like him want to uphold 200-year-old societal norms that foster discrimination and transphobia. Instead of focusing on keeping the status quo, it’s time for us as a society to protect and promote the individual freedoms of our fellow people.

By the end of this academic year, 110 tenured faculty members will retire after taking advantage of the university’s voluntary separation offer. The program would allow tenured faculty ages 62 and older a onetime payment equal to 150 percent of their annual salary, capped at $200,000.

Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin said in a press conference that between 11 and 12 tenured faculty leave in a typical year. He called this year’s unusual rate of retirement an opportunity to “bring extraordinary faculty to the university that will not simply replace who are here but compliment other senior hires we’re making right now.”

We agree with the chancellor. We have the opportunity to grow and improve as a university, but only if we make more inclusive hiring decisions that would benefit the university as a whole, not just limited sections of campus.

Each college dean has his or her own idea for how the vacancies will be filled. The College of Arts and Science, for example, plans to prioritize recruiting faculty who can help boost MU’s standing within the Association of American Universities. Others, like the College of Education, are focused more on replacing the faculty they lost to the buyout.

We recognize that each school and college has its own set of needs and concerns to address, and that it is not realistic to employ one rigid set of hiring goals across the vast university community. However, we believe administrators should seriously consider some uniform themes, like enhancing diversity, in their hiring priorities and processes.

Hiring a more diverse group of new faculty is of

the utmost importance, especially given the recent discussions on race relations and campus climate. A diverse faculty body could not only help facilitate an internal culture change on campus but promote unique viewpoints and approaches to teaching and research.

This would help further the university’s missions of providing world-class education and propel research forward and become the ultimate measure of MU’s long-term success.

The university should also consider a wider range of factors that would ultimately suit the needs of our campus. Being recognized in the AAU gives MU and its research efforts a higher level of credibility and prestige, and it gives the university an upper hand when trying to attract more esteemed professors and researchers.

But the AAU indicators — which are more focused on faculty prestige, citations and research dollars than the quality of education — should not be the only measure used to guide administrators during this new and exciting time. Administrators should remember to quantify the success of this university by the quality of education and research at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

College of Arts and Science Dean Michael O’Brien told The Maneater that MU is currently in the “bottom of the barrel” in its AAU rankings. He said the only AAU indicator that has been strong enough to keep MU in this exclusive association is its undergraduate education. We urge administrators to embrace this strength and remember not to sacrifice it to compensate for MU’s weaknesses.

Faculty buyout is an opportunity but also a danger

DIVERSITY

Understanding the implications of the attack in Kenya Instead of ignoring and diminishing the attack, we need to be talking about it openly.

JALEN MOSBY

More than 100 people were killed in a terrorist attack at Garissa University in Kenya last week. Outside of the 147 people killed, about 700 others were injured as they ran to escape the gunfire.

The American media’s response was underwhelming to say the least. Some media outlets had coverage on the attack and who was behind it, but many failed to report on the issue. Reading and hearing about the attack made me think about how tragic the events must have been for students at the university.

Some said the attack was against people identified as Christian, while other students in attendance said they felt that the attack was random and the people killed were at random, according to BBC. I could not help but wonder what we as a campus would do if something like this were to happen at our school. We are a more developed country than Kenya and many other countries in Africa, but we are not better or worth more.

MU is a safe place with many resources and plans to avoid such catastrophic events like the one in Kenya, but do we discuss these problems happening around the world enough? Students just like us now can’t complete their courses to graduate because of the deeply terrifying decision to destroy made by one group of individuals.

Shouldn’t we at least feel something?

The students in Kenya who lost their lives for no reason were on their way to hopeful, bright futures.

Your religion should not be a basis for you to have that opportunity abruptly taken away from you, especially not at a place where you are there to better yourself and expand your mind.

I want MU to be a place where students can look at these events happening in far corners of the world and know they can talk about it. We have forums and events surrounding social justice and diversity, but we don’t talk about things unless they are directly affecting the campus or students on it.

We have an African population at MU, and they are being put in the difficult situation of having to grieve quietly because no one wants to talk about this. We can’t be choosy when it comes to which international issues we want to discuss and pay attention to. In order to fully understand the world we live in, we need active discussion.

As a university, I want to stand in solidarity with the victims and their families and all who were affected by this attack.

We are not immune to the evils of the world at MU, even though we rarely fall victim to them. The students in Kenya are just the like students here; they are not separate from us. As a leading institution that prides itself on diversity and equality, we should be holding out our hands to help our friends across the world.

Let us strive to make all campuses around the country and world safer places. Millions of students are on the trail to higher education so they can make better of themselves, and danger and violence should be the least of their worries. Some things are out of our control, but there are things we can all do to make sure the safety of students is upheld.

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THE MANEATER | OPINION | APRIL 8, 2015 Self-Help

You shouldn’t hate your body While you may be unsatisfied with some parts of your body, appreciate what you have for what it is.

JORDAN SMITH

Assuming you’re fortunate enough to have a healthy, functioning body that operates in a productive fashion, consider how lucky you are.

Sure, your thighs might jiggle when you walk. But at least you can walk. Maybe you think your brown eyes look muddy. At least you can see. You might have a lisp or a speech impediment. At least you can speak. So the next time you find yourself berating the body you were given, remind yourself of a few things: Your body is freaking cool: 1. The human eye is so sensitive that if the earth were flat, you could spot a candle flickering in the dark from nearly 30 miles away.

2. Nerve impulses travel to and from your brain at a top speed of 250 mph.

3. When you blush and your cheeks turn red, so does your stomach. That’s right; you have a bashful stomach.

4. The human brain can read up to 1,000 words per minute (although I doubt any of us have attempted to use that capability to its full potential).

5. When we’re in love, our brain releases the same chemicals released by amphetamine, leading to an increase in feelings of excitement and a loss of sleep and appetite.

6. Our muscles are much more powerful than we think; our bodies actually limit our true strength to keep our muscles and tendons from harm, but during an adrenaline rush this limitation seems to be lifted. Some people have been known to life cars or boulders off of themselves or others in a crisis.

7. A head of human hair is strong enough to support nearly 12 tons (I do not recommend trying this one at home).

8. Our tears are built differently depending on the reason we’re crying; when put under a microscope, tears from happiness, grief and onions are all distinguishable.

Your body can do things other people’s can’t: 1. Your body is yours. You will never be given another one. It is absolute.

2. There is no “ideal” shape. Although social media and magazines might have you believe that there is a perfect body type to push towards, there’s not. It’s OK to strive to be better for yourself, but it is not OK to strive to have exactly what someone else has. Because, sadly, you never will. People have always and will always have differing opinions on everything, especially when it comes to looks.

3. Aim to please yourself, not other people. At the end of the day, your opinion is the only one that matters in regards to your body.

Think of all that’s right with your body, not all that’s wrong with it.

Lastly, remember: You have a freakin’ body. Isn’t that just a miracle in itself?

Relationship advice

The problem with hookup culture Since when is feeling intimate, honest emotions about another human being a bad thing?

BRITTANY EMOND

NOTE: This column was inspired

by Lisa Wade and her seminar entitled “What College Students Really Think About Hooking Up” held last week on MU’s campus. For more information about Wade and this topic, please go to her website.

When we grew up, being in love was shown in such a good light. We’d see princess movies where true love was the solution to every problem.

We’d see superhero movies where after saving the world, the hero would always have love to count for his true happiness. Even bedtime stories gave us the chills and allowed us to believe that one day true love would come upon us, everything in our lives would be magic and we’d live our own happily ever after.

But that’s not what we pictured when we left for college. Our image of college wasn’t true love or magic or happily ever after. Our image of college was sex, partying, hookups and the perfect single life.

Our image of college was absolute

freedom. People went into college thinking that if they were doing these things, they were winning.

They were having the experience that we saw in “American Pie” or “Blue Mountain State.”

The first week of college, I can remember time after time girls telling me, “I had a boyfriend all through high school, and now I can’t wait to live the single life and just do college the right way.”

But what is the right way to do college? The truth is, there isn’t.

There’s only an image in everyone’s mind of what college should be. And because we have this image of what college should be, people are afraid of feeling anything.

Feelings have become something evil in our minds. We don’t call it “falling for someone” anymore. No, that would be too serious. We view falling for someone as something negative, so instead we call it “catching the feelings,” as if the feelings were some sort of flu that we’ve been infected with.

Many would expect that because of the lack of true feelings, people turn to the situation of “friends with benefits.” However, I wouldn’t consider “friends with benefits” a very common thing in college. Not because people aren’t hooking up outside of relationships … they are.

But how can we really consider it friends with benefits if the “friends” part is often non-existent and the benefits only come in the bedroom?

People hook up and then never talk to each other again. Even a simple “hey” in passing is almost frowned upon. It’s weird to think that two people can share something so intimate, yet the second it leaves the bedroom, it’s as if it never truly happened.

We’re all human, and it’s normal to feel something after sharing a night with another person.

However, this college life we have embraced makes us hide our feelings and makes us feel nothing. Physical pleasure has been made paramount to any kind of emotional happiness.

We always assume that it’s the other one who doesn’t want anything more. But many times, that assumption can be wrong. How can we know what someone else is feeling until we ask them openly and honestly? We can’t.

The reason we don’t ask and we don’t talk about our feelings honestly is because we’re all afraid.

We’re afraid to be an outlier to the college single life expectations.

We’re afraid of being rejected or ridiculed. We’re more afraid of being called “desperate” than anything else.

So instead of letting this whole college hookup culture define us, we can stop it by losing our fear.

We shouldn’t be afraid to feel something or even to say something to someone we feel something for.

This is something that can only be solved if we change it ourselves.

International Students

Would you prefer to live somewhere else?

Ask yourself: Does where you live really affect your overall happiness?

LORETTA LEE

Last month, U.S. federal agents discovered “birth tourism” rings in California. They found houses and complexes where pregnant Chinese women were waiting to give birth to their babies in order for their babies to be born as U.S. citizens.

This is not exactly shocking news to me. Being from Hong Kong, I am familiar with the fact that pregnant mainland Chinese women often come to Hong Kong to give birth to their babies. The reason of doing that is very similar to why they want to have their child born in America;

they want their children to enjoy the benefits of life and obtain a better living situation eventually.

A lot of pregnant mainland Chinese women go to Hong Kong with a visitor visa and give birth before the visa date expires. They do that because their child will be given free education for up to 12 years as a social welfare, according to the Hong Kong Education Bureau.

I cannot help but think about how desperate these Chinese parents must be to have their future generation born outside of mainland China. They are willing to pay millions of dollars in order for their babies to obtain a green card in the United States. Is it really that bad in China for them that they travel all the way to America while they were pregnant?

There are several reasons why they wanted to give birth to their child elsewhere: The one-child policy in China only allows them to give birth to one child without paying a

penalty, and the living situation is not good in many places in China.

I also recall seeing a report in 2013 on the living situations all around the world, called “the where-to-beborn index.” While China sits at No. 49 out of 80 countries, Hong Kong and the United States are ranked at 10th and 16th, respectively, and Switzerland is the No. 1 place to be born in. It is an interesting thought about how parents can now choose a place to give birth for their future generation. This says a lot about a country, its living standard and quality of life.

Does this mean people living in Switzerland are happier than people living elsewhere? Are you happy living here in the States?

How would you improve your life?

Would you choose to work hard and get out and live in another country? It is never too early or too late to think about the future of yourself or your later generation.

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MOVE

ZACH BAKER | PHOTO EDITOR

A customer shops with a vendor of homemade goods at the Columbia Farmers Market, located on Ash St., on Feb. 7, 2014.

community

Columbia Farmers Market worth the thyme The market opened back up for business April 4.

MARGAUX SCOTT Reporter As you walk among the stands at the Columbia Farmers Market, you can feel the sense of community and see the pride each vendor takes in their products.

Real farmers and artisans

bring healthy, locally grown products to sell to their community, and community members show up week after week, reusable bags in hand, to purchase local produce.

At the farmers market, you have the option to buy a variety of local products for affordable prices, and you help members of your community to boot.

Saturday was the market’s opening day, and it did not disappoint.

The Columbia Farmers Market has been around for 35 years and has grown to an

average of 80 members per year.

There were about 20 vendors present for spring’s opening day.

“It gets bigger in the summer, just grows and grows, but we will always be here,” Jeannie Nobis from Grandma Barb’s Pies says.

Their stand has been at the Columbia Farmers Market for nine years now, as well as other events around the city.

“It's extremely important to know where your food comes from,” market manager Corrina Rhea Smith says. “When

shopping at a farmers market, you have the opportunity to talk directly to the farmer that grew or raised your food. In addition, you are ensuring that 100 percent of your dollar goes back into the pocket of the farmer, compared to a grocery store where only an average of 16 cents on the dollar goes back to the farmer. The farmers market is a great weekly community event with food, music and friendly farmers.”

When it comes to the events the farmers market has to offer, there is something for everyone.

Vendors sell everything from eggs, meats and cheeses to baked goods, herbs, plants, flowers, handmade pottery and soaps.

With the help of a Specialty Crop grant, there will be a new children’s program at the market, The Good Food Detectives Club. There will be interactive activities as well as a take-home activity book, teaching kids about eating healthy and local. After participating in the activities,

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FILM

Sexual assault documentary to be a ‘wake up call’ “The Hunting Ground” critiques the handling of sexual assaults on college campuses.

MORGAN MAGID Staff Writer On April 30, Jameis Winston will patiently wait among family to hear which professional football team has selected him in the NFL draft.

That same day, the University of Kentucky and Mount San Jacinto College, among other schools, will be telling the story of Erika Kinsman, the former Florida State student who accused FSU quarterback

Winston of rape in 2012.

Kinsman is just one subject of the scathing new documentary “The Hunting Ground.” Oscarnominated director Kirby Dick constructs her story along with those of many other college-aged women who have experienced sexual violence while in school.

As April is National Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Ragtag Cinema is bringing this film to the Missouri Theatre on April 9 with help from True/ False Film Festival, the new Murray Center for Documentary Journalism and the Based on a True Story symposium.

Paul Sturtz, one of the “co-conspirators” of True/False, says his team saw the film at Sundance and immediately

grasped its relevance.

“I think it really brings to light a crisis in this country having to do with safety for women on campus,” he says.

“The film exposes a pattern of universities clamping down information about these sexual assaults. This film basically felt like a wake up call.”

The film forces audiences to address the horrific statistics about rape on college campuses and the lack of resources and support for victims, Sturtz says.

According to the film, 20 percent of women in college will be sexually assaulted.

The National Sexual Violence Resource Center says that 63 percent of rapes and sexual assaults are not even reported.

The movie captures the struggles that many sexual assault victims face through an unwavering scope. Victim blaming, discouraging students from reporting to the police and the disturbing prevalence of undisciplined serial offenders are some of the issues covered.

Also, in a True/False nature, the audience will Skype with director Kirby Dick and Colleen Coble, the director of the Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence.

“The issue itself requires a community-wide forum,” Sturtz says. “I don’t think you can bring in a film as charged as this one is and not have a big discussion afterwards about its local relevance.”

He says that he is trying

to get someone from the University of Missouri’s Title IX office to speak on the panel as well.

“I think it’s important for local administrators to get out ahead on the issue and to talk about how Title IX investigations are going to make a difference from here on out,” Sturtz says.

Tickets can be purchased at Ragtag Cinema prior to the show or at the theatre the night of for $10. The film is being held at 6 p.m. April 9 at Missouri Theatre, and it will be at Ragtag after April 10.

For every ticket purchased for the April 9 showing, a $1 donation will be made to the coalition.

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THE MANEATER | MOVE | APRIL 8, 2015

COURTESY OF GOOD TIME ENTERTAINMENT

Singer Drew Holcomb poses for a portrait.

Tennessee roots and an old soul make timeless sound were a decade ago, and, most and bassist Rich Brinsfield, this importantly, we know exactly album offers to heal and delight. what we want our records to “I guess the message behind sound and feel like.” this record is that we hope You can watch Holcomb’s our music finds a home in evolution people's ears unfold on and hearts,” stage on April Holcomb says.

I know for me, 11 at The Blue “I know for Note to hear music has been an me, music a variety of important medicine has been an songs from for all the joys important across his medicine for and tragedies in my catalogue. all the joys The old life, soundtracking and tragedies soul Holcomb in a way. I want this in my life, r e l e a s e d record to be the kind soundtracking “Medicine” in a way. I want in January. of record people this record to A m e r i c a n a listen to all the be the kind through and way through and of record through, this hopefully runs them people listen follow-up to to all the way 2013’s “Good through a gamut of through and Light” is an universal emotions.” hopefully runs honest-to-god them through collection of DREW HOLCOMB a gamut of heartfelt and musician universal conversational emotions.” songs. Along with wife and Over the course of 14 singer Ellie Holcomb, guitarist months, Holcomb wrote and keyboardist Nathan Dugger the songs for “Medicine” by

listening to friends and family members talk about their lives, which “created the palette (he) painted on.” Holcomb also says that he finds inspiration from books, movies and stories the band hears from fans.

Despite Holcomb’s evolution, and perhaps partly due to it, he still clings to his Tennessee roots. Both Memphis and Nashville hold a special place in his heart. Like he says in the song named after his home state, “it’s not just geography.”

“Memphis is a grittier, more hardworking family town, and its records over the years have more of a 'warts and all' attitude that we take a lot of cues from when we record,” Holcomb says.

“But the Nashville side is that we really focus on in the songs.

Nashville is a music town, but really it’s a song town, and we helm close to that as well.”

In support of “Medicine,” Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors launched a nationwide tour for the next few months. Despite playing so many shows, some even back to back, the band

varies the setlist each night to stay fresh and even throw in a cover occasionally.

“We usually want to take the audience up and down, not too many rock ‘n’ roll songs in a row or too many folky ballads, but they still have to transition well,” Holcomb says.

“When you have a new album out, all we want to do is play the new songs, but we have to remember that people like the old ones too, so it’s a good mix.

Setlist making is an art form in and of itself.”

From start to finish, Holcomb says that he expects the night to take the listener on a ride.

“It’s going to be a great night,” Holcomb says. “The opening band is Humming House, a great upbeat Americana band from Nashville. They will start the night off with a bang. Then we will come out and do our show, lots of new songs, old songs and rearranged songs. Our set is like a good roller coaster, lots of bursts of energy, but some good quiet moments too.”

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In the past 10 years, Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors has crept into our ears and souls, whether it be in the form of a Dick’s Sporting Goods commercial or on the countless tours that the band embarks on. Yet, one thing is certainly true: Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors is constantly evolving.

“The songwriting is more confident and vulnerable than it used to be,” Holcomb says in an email. “We are all much better musicians than we

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Your junior high fashion wasn’t so far off after all.

Columnist Elana Williams explores Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen’s acting/writing creds.

Nod to the ‘90s ‘Portlandia’ is Columbia, only Pacific-er

ELANA WILLIAMS Dear Netflix, I had heard lots of fairy tales about the Pacific Northwest before watching “Portlandia.” It’s a land of locally-grown everything, you can’t find a McDonald’s there, they ride bikes everywhere … you get the picture.

Sounds a lot like parts of Columbia, right? Walk two feet into Lucky’s Market and you’ll know what I’m talking about. Hell, move here from anywhere in the Midwest and you’ll know what I’m talking about. They actually have bike lanes here!

“Portlandia” is one of those sketch comedy shows, a genre I’m not usually the biggest fan of.

Sure, I watched Saturday Night Live like any good teenager, but I could see it quickly losing traction.

SNL’s problem is this: In a culture evolving more and more toward ‘in-your-face’ comedy, the inherent satire of sketch shows doesn’t mesh.

SNL tried really hard to become brash, and it’s failing miserably.

“Portlandia,” written and created by SNL alum Fred Armisen (irony? politics?) and SleaterKinney member Carrie Brownstein,

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Chokers, scrunchies and jelly sandals: my 12-yearold self ’s closet, or today’s trends? The answer is both. On campus and on the runway, fashion is getting a major #TBT all the way back to the ‘90s.

Designers such as Brandy Melville and stores like PacSun are using social media forums and retro filters to capture the essence of this new wave of ‘90s fashion. If you need some fashion inspiration, or fash-piration as I like to call it, check out those two Instagrams.

On campus, I’ve spotted plaid wrapped around the waist of denim shorts, but I have a feeling we will see even more nods to the ‘90s this spring.

Topanga Lawrence from “Boy Meets World” sported some high waisted shorts, and Joey Potter of “Dawson’s Creek” loved her solid, fitted tops.

‘90s chicks knew how to get a cute, comfortable fashion fix. Crop tops, skater skirts, knee socks and Converse are the perfect ode to the ensemble of the decade. Oversized plaid has worked its way into the closets of many, and the grunge look isn’t stopping there. Leather booties and acid wash denim complete the distressed, yet distinguished, look.

Baby doll dresses and Doc Martens are a pair as seamless as Rachel and Monica. Light and chic but still a little bit dressy, this look works in both solids and stripes. Toss a fabulous fringe bag on your shoulder, and you’ve got yourself a look that is both festival chic and classroom appropriate.

As for what’s trending on top, half topknots are in. I tried this in the mirror on Monday for about a half an hour, and it didn’t really work out. Maybe that’s because it was Monday, or maybe I am just iept at hairstyling. But I encourage you to try it and rock it. Most major magazines are wrapping up the hair on the heads of models and celebs, and it’s looking pretty chic.

There you have it. What’s old is new and what’s new is ‘90s, or something like that. Raid the closet of your former self to give your current self the ‘90s look. This look didn’t quite work when you were 12, but will definitely work now. I’m trying to track down the dozens of black chokers and funky scrunchies my adolescent self hoarded at home.

eating had to roam on before he died?

The one Modge-Podging silhouettes of birds onto everything to make it more “artsy”?

Its success stems from the writing, but it’d be unfair not to credit Armisen and Brownstein’s stellar acting performances, as well.

According to an article in The New Yorker, the two started off as friends. Armisen was a former punk band member and Brownstein a current one, so naturally, it was grunge at first sight.

A collaboration was inevitable, and the friendship between the two is only a multiplier when it comes to “Portlandia.” Something strange happens when a completely platonic couple plays a very romantic one: comedy genius. Their ranges, though, is what is truly stunning.

Brownstein had done little acting and no writing before “Portlandia,” and even in the first few episodes, is obviously 100 percent comfortable with the incredibly uncomfortable circumstances the sketch puts her in.

“Portlandia” is our home, Columbians. Embrace it. Find yourself in it. Find the people you hate. We’re all there. In this magical Netflix land that simultaneously exists in Oregon and Missouri.

Art is a mirror, Netflix.

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succeeds in embracing the subtlety that is sketch.

After all, how can you make fun of a crazy-liberal hippie-sphere and make them love it? Do the opposite of what big media does.

The show, if you’ve never seen it, features characters we’ve all seen around town.

There’s the bike activist who rides like a madman and creates bike lanes where there are none. All the while, he spurts Oregon state law about bikers’ rights.

Then there are the crazy feminist bookstore owners, both women played by Brownstein and Armisen.

In one scene, a man uses the bathroom (for paying customers only), and is then forced by the women to buy something.

Of course, when he tries to give them money and leave without change, one of the women says, “This is not a back alley hookerpimp transaction.” The man asks if he looks like a pimp (It’s Steve Buscemi, BTW). “When a man pulls out money away from a register, I have to wonder,” she retorts back.

This is the kind of dialogue that makes “Portlandia” golden. It doesn’t try to be a “laugh out loud” show. It simply tries to show us what we really look like.

Did I mention the whole scene takes place in the actual bookstore it was inspired by in Portland? The town’s mayor makes cameos as well, as the mayor’s assistant in “Portlandia.”

So which character are you, dear reader?

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Missouri Tigers linebacker Christian Williams (53) tackles fellow linebacker Brandon Lee (4) during practice April 7 at Faurot Field.

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A new ‘D-Line Zou’ preps to take the field BRUNO VERNASCHI Sports Editor Rickey Hatley donned a black and gold wristband with the words “Burn Your Boats” on it.

The phrase, which was introduced by Harold Brantley last year during a speech prior to taking on Texas A&M, has become a maxim for the Missouri Tigers’ defensive line.

“It means there’s no coming back,” Hatley explained. “Once you get across there, there’s no going back. You’re going to war.”

This is just the type of motto the illustrious “D-Line Zou” needs, especially in a season like the one that’s soon approaching.

Having lost its biggest production in Shane Ray and Markus Golden, the defensive line will be taken over by sophomores Marcus Loud and Charles Harris.

“We try not to look at it as being Shane and Markus,” Loud said of the new duo’s comparisons. “We’re Marcus and Charles. They have their own style, we have our own

style. We just gotta understand that together. We come to set our own (standard). We want our own thing, we don’t want to be remembered as being the next thing. We are ourselves.

We’re not worried about the hype, we’re not worried about anything.”

Loud battled with Hatley as Golden’s backup for the majority of last season, racking up just 14 tackles and 0.5 sacks in 13.2 snaps per game.

During the team’s first spring scrimmage this past weekend, however, Loud was

able to put up three tackles for loss and two sacks. A big factor of the change, according to him and his teammates, is a change in maturity.

“I’m putting myself more out there in the sense of trying to mature and becoming more of a student of the game,” Loud said.

“In the process of maturing, in the process of everything, I’m just constantly showing that I’m seeking improvement. I want to be great, and I want to be the next big player.”

The path to the starting lineup has been far from easy

for Loud.

Back in January, the 6-foot4-inch, 240-pound lineman tweeted, “I seen so many dead bodies in my life that death doesn’t really phase [sic] me.

But the body I saw today, is gonna be hard to get out my head.”

Growing up in Houston, Loud said that he had to deal with death almost on a daily basis.

“Growing up, my environment, my city, was not

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Del Rio shines as Tigers take series against Florida JASON LOWENTHAL Assistant Sports Editor Missouri baseball accomplished something they had not done in seven years. The Tigers (22-11, 8-4 Southeastern Conference) capped off a series win over No. 4 Florida (24-9, 6-6 SEC) with a 5-3 victory on Sunday to give the team its first series win against a top-five opponent since 2008.

Numerous players stood out over the weekend, but Alex Del Rio took center stage.

The freshman earned his first career start against the Gators on Friday and had a game-tying

single Sunday to help propel Mizzou to the series win. “(Del Rio) gives you pretty good at-bats,” Missouri coach Tim Jamieson said. “He doesn’t chase a lot of pitches, and he’s patient.”

Del Rio said he didn’t realize he would crack the starting lineup as the team’s designated hitter in the series opener until Jamieson posted the lineup card.

“This week, I heard some people talking, and then on Thursday, (Jamieson) told me that I wasn’t going to redshirt and to get ready to play,” Del Rio said.

Slotted eighth in the

batting order, Del Rio showed his patient approach after he worked deep counts in each of his first two at-bats Friday in a 5-1 loss, eventually drawing walks both times. He would later ground out to first for his only official at-bat of the game.

In the second game of the series, Del Rio appeared as a pinch hitter and flew out to midright field in his only at-bat. He would not be discouraged by his 0-for-2 start, however, as he bounced back in a big way in the series finale Sunday.

After a leadoff double in the fifth by Zach Lavy (2-for-3, 2B), Del Rio (1-for-2, RBI) stepped to the plate with one out and

the Tigers trailing 1-0. Mizzou had collected just three hits in the ballgame up to that point.

Del Rio smacked a 1-2 fastball up the middle, scoring Lavy and tying the game.

“When I got in the box, I was thinking mostly fastball,” Del Rio said. “(Gators starter Dane Dunning) served me up two fastballs and I was late, so I knew I needed to make an adjustment. Next pitch was a changeup low, but I was still looking for a fastball away and I was able to get around on it enough and stick it up the middle.”

Mizzou would go on to score four more runs in the fifth,

three on a home run by Ryan Howard, his second of the season, and the Tigers would never look back.

“I just wanted (Del Rio) to go out there and give us good at-bats,” Jamieson said. “The fact that he had a couple walks and base hit was a big lift for us.”

Tigers’ starting pitcher for game three, Peter Fairbanks (W, 4-3), had told Del Rio that his moment to shine was about to happen.

“They didn’t want the pressure situations they were in,” Fairbanks said. “I think

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Deuce Bello to leave Mizzou basketball The junior guard will graduate in May and pursue graduate studies elsewhere.

DANIEL WITT Staff Reporter Deuce Bello wore the No. 2 on the back of his jersey in his one season as a Tiger.

Now, he will be the second player to leave the program this offseason.

Bello intends to graduate from MU this spring, then move to another institution to pursue graduate studies, according to a news release Tuesday afternoon. The release stated that the Mizzou basketball program is “cooperatively helping Bello with his potential future options.”

Bello saw an average of 10.9 minutes on the floor this season for the Tigers, by far the least amount of playing time among the scholarship players on the team. In that time, the junior guard averaged 1.8 points, 1.1 rebounds and 0.4 assists to go along with 0.8 turnovers per game.

Once a 95th overall-rated ESPN recruit, Bello was the

54th-best prospect in the Class of 2011. He is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina, where he attended Westchester Country Day School.

Before coming to Columbia, Bello played a season at Baylor, where he saw the exact same amount of time on the floor as he did at Mizzou (10.9 minutes per game). Bello averaged 2.4 points per game his freshman season at Baylor, transferred after that season and sat out his sophomore year, due to NCAA transfer regulations.

On Dec. 30, 2014, Bello was suspended from the Mizzou team due to poor academics.

He sat out six games during the suspension. Altogether, Bello spent nine whole games on the bench this season.

Johnathan Williams III’s transfer was confirmed in the news release as well.

“We appreciate the character and competitiveness that Johnathan brought to our Mizzou program and we certainly wish him the best of luck in the future,” Missouri coach Kim Anderson said in the release. “Our Mizzou coaching staff will continue to build a foundation for championship basketball at our first-class institution."

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Missouri Tigers guard Deuce Bello (2) attempts a layup Jan. 29 at Mizzou Arena. Kentucky beat Missouri 69-53.

Houck leads ranked Tigers into Tennessee series Mizzou has surpassed last season’s overall win total (20) and SEC win total (six).

QUINN MALLOY Staff Writer Pitching against No. 4 Florida is no cakewalk.

The Gators’ .296 team batting average ranks fourth in the Southeastern Conference.

Their three-hole hitter, Harrison Bader, is third in the conference with eight home runs, while Josh Tobias’ .394 batting average is good for second.

Freshman Tanner Houck took a one-hitter into the eighth inning against the Gators on Saturday, befuddling batters

throughout. He held Bader hitless and struck out Tobias.

Houck was named SEC Pitcher of the Week for his efforts.

“The coach from Florida told me that’s the best stuff they’ve seen all year from anybody,” Missouri coach Tim Jamieson said. “He’s just that special.

Poise, confidence, he just fills up the strike zone.”

After the final out of Saturday’s game, Houck visited team trainers and had his arm wrapped in ice packs to reduce soreness. He then stepped out onto the concourse to meet his high school coaches. They had made the trek from Collinsville, Illinois, to see their homegrown phenom pitch. Houck said he was grateful to have had them there.

“I love them,” he said.

“They’re like a second family to me. They had my back all four years in high school, so having them follow me to college is a great feeling. Luckily, they made it down for a great outing.”

Houck has had plenty of great outings in his first year with the Tigers. Saturday’s lowered his ERA to 2.70, which ranks 14th in the SEC this season.

His teammate Zach Lavy said Houck’s been putting on a clinic with his performances on the mound this season. “(Houck’s) unreal,” Lavy said. “Days like this, it’s pretty fun to be out there on defense and watch him do his thing. It’s a lot of fun to watch.”

Houck has only allowed five walks this season, the secondfewest in the SEC, while pitching the second-most innings in the

conference with 56.2. He is also 11th in the SEC in strikeouts.

Jamieson lauded Houck’s arsenal, noting the variety of pitches the freshman can call upon in pressure situations.

“He just throws strikes and he’s got plus-plus stuff,” Jamieson said. “You’re talking about a guy who throws low to mid 90s and has tremendous movement on all his pitches.”

With the series win over now-No. 10 Florida this past weekend, the 22-11 (8-4 SEC) Tigers have pushed themselves into four of the major five top25 rankings. Collegiate Baseball has them at No. 16 in the nation, while the Coaches Poll has them at No. 23, Baseball America at No. 20 and D1Baseball.com at No. 19.

Mizzou is currently second in

the SEC East and has five wins over top-10 teams, including three over top-five teams, this year.

The Tigers surpassed both their overall win total (20) and SEC win total (six) from last season.

Jamieson said he isn’t taking anything for granted, though, pointing out the fact that the team still has challenging series against reigning national champion Vanderbilt and perennial contender Louisiana State to look forward to.

“There are no breaks in our league,” Jamieson said. “We still have to play two teams that have been ranked No. 1.”

Mizzou will travel to Knoxville this week for a threegame series with the Tennessee Volunteers. Game one will start at 6 p.m. Thursday.

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Why losing didn’t ruin my night in Madison WILL JARVIS I’ve never seen my best friend cry.

I should rephrase that. I had never seen my best friend cry.

That changed Monday night.

Sitting in the stairwell of his University of WisconsinMadison fraternity house, I tried to help him find positives.

The Badgers beat undefeated Kentucky. They won the Big Ten Championship. They made it to the national championship, for God’s sake.

He wanted to hear none of it.

Hands over his face, head on his knees, girlfriend in the other room not seeming to care too much, it all hit him. Winslow touched it. How did they blow a nine-point lead? Who the hell is Grayson Allen? It was all too much to comprehend.

He finally took his hands off

his face to reveal damp eyes.

I asked if he wanted to set some stuff on fire to ease the pain, but he politely declined.

Mikey was never the pyro type.

Another friend — who wasn’t really in the state of mind to make such a decision — offered up his clunker of a car to burn.

No, no, it’s okay.

Twenty minutes of nearsilence ensued. Besides the screams of incoherent fraternity brothers in the room next door and the faded chants from riots on State Street, the only sounds in that stairwell came from his heavy breathing.

Three hours earlier, the mere thought of that scene was unimaginable. After all, Kaminsky had just won the Naismith, Dekker was playing out of his mind, Nigel Hayes was shooting lights-out and the Badgers were about as likeable a team as there can be in major sports.

Wisconsin was the team of destiny, sent by Lord Bo Ryan to defeat the undefeated Wildcats en route to their first national championship in 74 years. Madison would implode in celebration, classes would be cancelled, Ian’s Pizza would be eaten and all would be right in the world.

But alas, all was not right in the world.

Writing this almost a day later, I can’t really remember specifics from the game. Maybe it’s because it was so hard to see the projector in a room full of more than 100 standing, cheering, rowdy Wisconsin students. Or maybe it’s because I don’t really want to remember the game.

Two images do stand out.

The touched ball — yes, it was touched — by Winslow and Tyus Jones’ unbelievable 3-pointer in the final minutes. Both cases started with the whole room

jumping up and down and ended with stunned silence.

Making our way back to his dorm, we encountered the drunken riots on State Street. Let me just say, there’s something oddly healing about watching inebriated adults climb light poles only to be dragged down and arrested.

Maybe we didn’t have it so bad after all. Maybe Mikey realized how lucky he was to have experienced that magical run.

Sports brought Mikey and me together, and it’s kept us together. Freshman year of high school, we met playing hockey. Freshman year of college, I drove 14 total hours to spend 12 hours in Madison.

Why? To watch sports with my best friend.

My other friend from Indiana asked to borrow a girl’s car to go to Indianapolis. Instead, he drove five more hours to come to Wisconsin. Why? To watch

sports with his best friends.

Sitting in Qdoba at 1 a.m., behind a belligerent couple making out, all the three of us could do was laugh. The tears were long gone, along with the game. The pain will last for Mikey, though. Maybe a couple days, maybe a couple months, but it will last. In that moment, though, with my best friends, mouth full of burrito on a Monday night 476 miles from my residence hall room, I had to sit back and appreciate the moment.

When I got back to Mizzou, everyone kept asking, “Was it worth it?” Was it worth spending 14 hours driving to see Wisconsin lose? I’ll put it this way: I got to skip class to watch a historic game with my best friends.

Yeah, it was worth it.

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the greatest thing in the world,” Loud said. “Every day, you saw a different dead body. You’d see it on the way to school, you’d see it probably at the school.

There was a lot of things that happened with guns, but at the same time, you would see it and you’d be numb to it after a while. When it comes down to it being one of your family members, it really starts to hit

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that the morale of the team is that we were in it, focused and wanted it.”

even harder, but at the same time you try to keep your head clear.”

Loud said he lost two of his brothers, Dwayne and Michael, as well as his father, Richard, to gun violence when he was young. Most recently, his cousin died after suffering a gunshot to the stomach.

Teammates have reached out to Loud and helped him get through these situations.

Loud said that a lot of what the on-field difficulties he had last season went back to his problems off the field.

“Some of the off-field stuff

I was dealing with last year was basically just family issues and just really trying to adjust to this system and trying to become more in tune with Mizzou instead of having these outside mentalities trying to collide and contradicting each other,” he said. “My playing time and everything that happened last year relied heavily on me. I had stuff that I was letting affect my on-field production. They did what they had to do and it opened up my eyes and made me realize that just because you’re here, you’re on scholarship, you’re this

player in this spot, nothing’s guaranteed. Anything can be taken from you in a moment.”

Sophomore Anthony Sherrils knows a thing or two about losing everything in an instant, although in a different manner.

The defensive back suffered a brain injury and was unable to run or have any physical contact for months, taking a medical redshirt.

“I learned that I’m extremely blessed,” Sherrils said. “I could barely walk, I couldn’t run. I didn’t know I was alive for a couple of days. So just taking everything as it is, every day’s a

blessing. Every day’s a blessing.”

With the big changes the team has suffered entering this season, the progress has been on an upward spiral, showing much more improvement than the defense during last weekend’s scrimmage.

“I don’t see nobody stopping us,” Harris said of the new defensive line. “I really don’t.

That’s two names in the making. It’s not that I don’t think nobody’s going to stop us, I know nobody’s going to stop us.”

Del Rio said that sticking to his approach has helped him out the most this season in practice, and it translated over to his at-bat against Dunning.

“It was great,” Del Rio said.

“He had two strikes on me, and I was looking for something

fast. I got it and found a hole.”

Perhaps even more importantly than getting Del Rio going, the Tigers moved one step closer to a berth in the NCAA tournament. Mizzou has not reached the tournament since the 2012 season. Prior to

the series against the Gators, Baseball America had the Tigers pegged as a No. 2 seed in the Stillwater, Oklahoma, regional, but a series win against a topfive opponent like Florida could bump the Tigers into conversation to host a regional

for the first time since 2007. “(The series win) is huge for us in terms of building a resume for the year,” Jamieson.

“To have a top-ten win is huge and (the team) is full of all the right thoughts right now.”

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