Volume 81 Issue 27

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Letter from editor:

Embrace CoMo’s music Dear MOVErs and shakers,

I present to you MOVE’s Music Issue! Cue the air horns and trumpets and general fanfare.

Music is all around us in Columbia. You can turn the corner and hear a tune floating through the air.

On a sunny afternoon, you can walk down Ninth Street and see Raven Wolf C. Felton Jennings II performing outside of Lakota Coffee. The next minute, you’ll see a packed playbill for Rose Music Hall. You could even do some shopping and pick up a record or five from Slackers. That night, you have the option of catching a local band like A Simple Exchange at The Bridge or a national act like Iron and Wine at The Blue Note. Or, if you feel like picking up the microphone yourself, you can head over to Eastside Tavern for karaoke.

You can read about all these people and places in here.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a casual listener or a music junkie, a tone-deaf dancer or a multi-instrumental virtuoso; there’s something for you and you and you in CoMo. With that, happy reading and listening,

Taylor Ysteboe

What’s to come...

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Rockin’ records Vinyl is alive and thriving downtown

Chef Noriega Student rapper introduced to music at young age

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Raven Wolf Street musician plays over a dozen instruments

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What’s your go-to karaoke song?

Nikki McNair, sophomore “‘Lip Gloss’ by Lil Mama. It's got a fun beat and brings me back to the middle school days, and it's fun to be silly like that every once in a while.”

Melody Man, senior “Anything Taylor Swift.”

Nathan Snodgrass, freshman “Usually something by Lil Jon, anything by Lil Jon. ‘Get Low.’ Sings ‘To the windowwwww, to the wall!’”

Danielle Senkerik, sophomore

Cady Lowery, freshman

“‘Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey because it’s a classic, and everyone else will sing along too.”

“‘If I Could Turn Back Time’ by Cher.”

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Photo of band A Simple Exchange.

Swipe right on A Simple Exchange HUONG TRUONG Reporter A right swipe of fate allowed two young musicians to meet one another and form a band that embodies the soul of Americana folk within the harmonies of both its member’s voices and instruments.

In December 2013, MU senior Morgan Manson was using Tinder when a photo of Lucas Dierker popped up. After viewing Dierker’s profile and seeing that he was a musician too, she swiped right and thus began their musical journey as a duo.

Manson and Dierker first met face-to-face in a Target parking lot to talk before sitting down and singing the song “Poison and Wine,” originally by The Civil Wars.

Enthralled by their harmony created in song, the pair continued sharing more music, covers and originals. Within a week of meeting one another, the duo appeared on stage playing their first show at Gunter Hans in Columbia.

When Dierker met Manson, he was already collaborating with drummer and friend Ethan Sellers, also current MU senior. Sellers agreed

to join the group and the trio found violist and backup singer Catherine Sandstedt.

Following a few jam sessions and playing around with their sounds, the foursome decided to create a real band. They wanted to be “something simple,” which reflected their music style. With the magic of Dierker’s and Manson’s vocals and Sellers and Sandstedt’s instrumental talents, A Simple Exchange took on the music scene in CoMo. With a blend of Americana folk, beachvibe pop, The Civil Wars and a dash of John Mayer, A Simple Exchange can be described as a transparent, harmonious indie-folk band with a homely, joyful spirit. Their diverse influences bring a variety of music genres in their songs. What sets them apart are the ever-constant harmonies created by Dierker and Manson.

“I tell people that my voice is good enough, but standing on its own, it’s not out-of-thisworld good,” Dierker says in an email. “It’s my lyrics that I take pride in.”

A Simple Exchange’s lyrics are the core of their inspiration and motivation. Beginning a song, Dierker messes with his acoustic guitar until he finds a theme and lyrics that speak to

him. Next, he shows Manson his work, and she adds in her point of view. They toss ideas back and forth until both are satisfied. Then, they let Sellers and Sandstedt listen to the piece, allowing them to add in their parts for drums and viola, respectively.

From there, the band plays it over, finetuning and figuring out what sounds best.

Throughout the compartmentalized writing process, the lyrics and the harmony of vocals drive the decisions of each member.

A Simple Exchange played its first show as a quartet at The Bridge in CoMo in May 2014.

“It was a little nerve-wracking because we had a big crowd, and we were pretty new to the mechanics of how things work on stage,” Dierker says in an email.

Once they got on stage and the sound was straightened out, “it just came down to focusing on the moment and trying to have fun with the crowd,” Dierker says.

Since then, the band has been named a top-ten band in the yearly Best of Columbia competition put on by Inside Columbia magazine. With its gradual success in music, the band hopes to make it through the enormity of the music industry.

“All the noise out there makes it harder to be heard,” Dierker says.

Looking into the future of its career, A Simple Exchange and their audience have a lot to look forward to.

In May, the band will head to Nashville as a regional act for callbacks for The Extreme Tour, an event that combines music and extreme sports in an effort to connect at-risk youth with resources aimed at creating a successful life.

In June, the band is dropping its single “Something More,” a song written by Dierker a few years back and rearranged to fit the band. The members are currently working on recording new music to release an EP or an album while also planning on touring outside of Missouri soon. A Simple Exchange intends to move to Austin, Texas, by the end of year to take a shot at music in the city's buzzing scene.

Unity, in music and in ambition, allows A Simple Exchange to continue to thrive, Manson says. Even with the band’s growing success, it remains focused on one simple goal.

“Singing is such an emotional experience," Manson says. "I want my lyrics to speak to the heart of someone."

Managers and artists bond over common goal MADDI DOERING Reporter A lamppost bears a concert bill for The Rollups at The Bridge. The middle of Speakers Circle is where a chalk drawing promotes the release of Ray Wild’s debut EP. These promotions and concerts are no accidents — they are planned by Greenlight Management.

Like the bands it represent, Greenlight is a student-run organization.

On the management side

Greenlight was started by four MU students as a way to manage several artists around the Columbia area. The students met through common ground and interest in the music world, and they formed the idea for the company.

The group is composed of Caroline Hall, Lindsey Ralls, Spencer Westphalen and Ethan Wilson.

“There’s a general set of responsibilities throughout Greenlight, but everyone has their strengths and weaknesses or areas of focus,” Wilson says. “I’m more creative than I am business so I tend to stick to things like graphic design, creative direction or networking among other things.”

When a member of Greenlight hears a new artist that the group may want to manage, the

four discuss the possibility together, regardless of sound.

“Greenlight Management has a focus on music within the sphere of rock-alternative with the exception of Rachel Mallin who has a sort of indie-pop vibe,” Wilson says.

Greenlight manages Ray Wild, Dangerfield and The Rollups. The company also works alongside solo artists like Mallin.

For the bands it manages, Greenlight also books gigs and designs and sells merchandise.

Wilson says that he hopes that “all music entities can co-exist within that dynamic wherever Greenlight and its individual members end up in the future.”

“They believe in us just as much, if not more, than we believe in ourselves,” Hipchen says. “They are all very driven and motivated.

Saying they’re intense is an understatement.

It's very obvious that they care, and they don’t have to say it.”

With Greenlight's help, Ray Wild bassist Ari Shellist says, the band is just getting started.

“We are finally getting a small following of dedicated fans in Columbia,” Shellist says. “We bring our own individuality to everything we do. Ray Wild is a tribe. We’re just an honest

group of guys who like to rock the hell out on stage. We connect with the audiences we play for and it doesn’t stop until we get off the stage.”

Greenlight plans for Ray Wild to hit the road this summer and to tour as much as they can before the new school year starts. They are also working on a new single.

“It’s become pretty apparent recently that the best way for us to achieve our goals is to work together and spread the love and message of Ray Wild,” Shellist says.

On the band side

The bands of Greenlight all joined in different ways.

“We got signed with Greenlight when we toured with Dangerfield, another band they represent,” Ray Wild drummer Tom Hipchen says. “They asked us to sign after the tour.

They have booked countless shows and interviews. They handle a ton of press-related stuff. They’re really good at promotion, and they’re just fun to be around.”

Greenlight Management represents a close-knit community between the individuals of the management team and the artists, bound by a common interest and career goal.

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Hey you! Do you love jamming to Beyoncé at 2 a.m.? Do you get yelled at by your roommates for singing too loudly in the shower?

Find a new way to express your inner diva with this list of open mics and karaoke in town. Get out, get down and meet some fellow music lovers in the process.

Slackers Located on East Broadway is Slackers, a chain record store that calls Columbia home. MU graduate Kurt Jellinek opened the shop in 1993. Since then, it has expanded to Jefferson City as well as eight locations in the St. Louis area.

Store manager Ted Sharp describes Slackers as “a one-stop ‘everything store’ for entertainment media and nerdy things.”

The store offers a variety of records, both new and used.

“We carry everything from modern radio pop to underground punk, metal, electronic and indie rock,” Sharp says.

However, what makes the store unique is its trade-in program.

“We are the only place in town where you can trade vinyl records for video games/CDs/movies, and vice versa,” Sharp says.

Slackers will be joining in Record Store Day festivities April 18 with exclusive releases, 50 percent off all T-shirts, buy-twoget-one-free on pre-owned CDs, free pizza and live music from bands like Jack Grelle, Graham Kennedy and Kovusari.

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“We specialize in everything,” Hunsaker says. “We have used records that are in fantastic condition. We have new releases from as recently as this past week. We want to hit all budgets and all aspects from college students who may only be able to spend $17 to someone a little older who can spend around $50. We try to accommodate any and all anyone in between.”

The store is excited to participate in upcoming Record Store Day. “We want to have as many Record Store Day titles as we possibly can,” Hunsaker says.

The store will also have performances from Ruth Acuff and William Elliott Whitmore.

hitt records Located on Hitt Street is the aptly named Hitt Records. Taylor Bacon and Kyle Cook opened the store in September of 2012 after seeing a lack of quality record shops in the area.

One of the first things that sticks out about this store is its hours, or lack thereof. The store is open Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Friday evenings, Cook says.

“Our short hours are intentional,” he says. “It's important to have a great selection of music for a town as diverse as Columbia, but it's never been in our opinion that we needed to be open every day. It's not like it's a pharmacy, even though some people may feel that way. It gives folks a chance to pause and actually listen to their finds, and gives us a chance to take a break and not burn out. We don't technically do this for a living. That is probably what makes our business most unique — the lack of high-profit motive and a nearly non-existent payroll.”

Despite only being open four days a week, Hitt Records is holding its own against fellow record shops.

“Columbia seems to have a healthy record supply again, but we still strive to carry unique and ‘fringe’ genres like experimental, electronic, ambient, drone, underground rap, rock and folk, world music, etc.,” Cook says. “We try to cover every base we can think of.”

The store has a unique vibe, with a “Free box” and a “Wall of Fame” featuring funny album covers.

Cook describes it as “a small and unique attic full of quality & intriguing records.”

The store will celebrate Record Store Day with nearly 100 special releases, free local food, store-wide sales, live music on the roof and a Punt, Pass & Kick competition.

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A memorable experience from any concert venue Trying to find something to do? Downtown Columbia has a plethora of music venues for you to check out. There are a wide variety of music venues, each with their own claim to fame, for you to check out here.

DALVIN PARKER Reporter

The Blue Note Columbia's most well-known concert venue is located on North Ninth Street It’s been around since the 1980s and moved to its current location in 1991. The Blue Note has a general occupancy of 835.

The Blue Note tries to create a fun, comfortable and memorable atmosphere for its patrons. It is known to book a wide variety of musical acts covering almost every genre of music known to man. You don’t have to worry about diversifying your music taste on your own, The Blue Note will help you out with that.

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MU student Dan Flood browses music April 10 at Hitt Records.

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vinyl renaissance CoMo welcomed a new record store, Vinyl Renaissance, on Nov. 1. The store has two other locations in Kansas City, Missouri, and Overland Park, Kansas. With the help of manager Nich Soha, previous manager of Streetside Records, the store chose Tenth Street in downtown CoMo as its third location.

Employee Jeremy Hunsaker, who is in charge of the store’s social media, describes the shop as “a full-service audio and visual entertainment store.”

Hunsaker says that it has everything you need for both digital and vinyl music.

The store has a broad music selection spanning multiple genres and formats.

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Formerly Mojo’s, Rose Music Hall got its new name from a local writer and musician, who is also the namesake of the nearby park Forrest Rose, due to his influence on CoMo’s music scene. You may or may not know that Rose Music Hall and The Blue Note are closely intertwined as both have the same owner and generally coordinate together.

Rose Music Hall is a smaller venue compared to its counterpart, with a capacity of only 200.

Generally, Rose Music Hall tries to create a similar atmosphere as The Blue Note by also booking a wide variety of musical acts for its performances.

The Bridge Stationed at East Walnut Street, this gem has been around for roughly four years.

Generally, it sees between 50 to 200 customers during a performance.

The Bridge tries to create a comfortable atmosphere while also having great acoustics for the performances, which ties into its motto, “A venue built by musicians for musicians.” For that reason it tries to book the best acts it can find, so there is a great variety of performances.

Another tidbit about this venue is that you can stream live shows from its website, for those who wanted to attend but couldn’t.

Additionally, The Bridge has a playlist on its website that has songs from upcoming acts so you can familiarize yourself.

Every Monday, Rose Music Hall hosts an eclectic group of storytellers and musicians who take turns claiming the stage.

Each artist signs up in advance via the group’s Facebook page and then receives a 15-minute slot to do whatever they want. Join the club if you want to be part of a unique, new tradition full to the brim with the heart and soul of mid-Missouri. Come and watch if you want to get in on the free music, good food and a great mix of people.

The Bridge The Bridge has an open mic night every Tuesday. Sign up is at the venue from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., and any type of performer is welcome. The show starts around 8 p.m. (depending on the night) with no cover charge. Are you sensing a trend here? Here, artists get 20 minutes to perform, and open mic nights are known to go pretty late (we’re talking past midnight here, guys).

Eastside Tavern Okay, so maybe open mics are too intimidating for you. Why not get your feet wet with a little karaoke instead? Everyone’s drunk and your friends are the only ones listening; it’s the perfect place to hone your skills for The Bridge or Rose Music Hall in the future! What makes Eastside so special? Well, every Thursday night, the dive bar of The District hosts a karaoke sesh starting around 8:30 p.m., and it goes until close. Eastside offers a chill, geeked-out environment where anyone can feel comfortable singing their heart out.

Cafe Berlin This is another small venue here in CoMo as general performance attendance is around 25-150 people, depending on who is performing.

Cafe Berlin’s goal is to serve the most affordable drinks in CoMo and to do its best to bring great music acts that are affordable for every demographic. Cafe Berlin has become more known to host more indie type of bands and performers such as DESTRUCTION UNIT, The Gooch Palms and Jack Grelle. So, if you are in the market to listen to some country, bluegrass, alternative, lo-fi or even punk music, Cafe Berlin is the place to go.

Roxy’s The self-proclaimed “partiest bar in CoMo” is located on East Broadway in downtown Columbia. After its Monday trivia nights, it’s a music-palooza. Roxy’s has a wide variety of acts covering many different music genres and it tries to create a party-like environment for its customers.

MICHAEL CALI | SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

MU engineering student Amanda Prescott participates in karaoke at Eastside Tavern.

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‘Wake Up’ aims to catalyze action on suicide in U.S. Students turn the lens on mental illness, self-harm and suicide.

MICA SOELLNER Staff Writer

After senior Alex Lindley lost a close friend to suicide, he vowed to make something positive of the tragedy.

Lindley and his fellow members of the Mizzou Suicide Prevention Coalition decided to produce a documentary film that provides a deeper understanding of mental illness, selfharm and suicide.

“We’re basically looking for a better way to deal with the loss and promote some sort of social change,” Lindley said. “He was the last person you would expect to take his own life. He was bright and popular with a great future ahead of him and no one saw it coming.

People need to understand that suicide doesn’t discriminate. It’s about starting the conversation

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A cyclist uses the sidewalk on Ninth Street in Columbia. The Columbia Police Department recently announced that officers will issue tickets to cyclists and pedestrians who violate sidewalk safety rules.

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The Columbia Police Department announced officers will begin to issue citations to cyclists and pedestrians for related violations in the downtown business district area of Columbia.

Possible ticket-worthy offenses include failing to obey a crosswalk signal, not crossing at a crosswalk, riding a bike on the sidewalk, failing to obey traffic signs either as a cyclist or motorist, and parking or stopping on a crosswalk.

During the first week of April,

pedestrians safe,” Godon said. “There are several studies stating that riding on a sidewalk is several times more dangerous than compared to a typical street without cycling facilities.”

Godon said in addition to Columbia’s ordinance against bicyclists riding on sidewalks, state law prohibits the action as well.

“Unfortunately, what many people do not know is that there are limitations for riding a bicycle on a sidewalk in a business district both in the Missouri State Statutes and City of Columbia Code of Ordinances,” Godon said. “So essentially this is a state law, as well as a city ordinance — most states have similar statutes in place.”

Godon said she sees no difference in the way traffic laws should be applied

NEWS Clyde Ruffin will do the same work he always has — just now from City Hall.

Expansion of the program could include additional locations around campus.

HAILEY STOLZE Staff Writer Expanding the Environmental Leadership Office’s Bike Share program is one of the goals of the 2015-16 Residence Halls Association President Billy Donley and Vice President Rachel Thomas.

Currently, the Bike Share program is only located in the MU Student Center. Twenty bikes are available for students to check out with a valid MU student ID for a maximum of one day. The program has well over 1,000 users, Environmental Leadership Office

NEWS MFA student Marni Gable invents her own ancestry using ceramics.

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CPD initiated a warning phase on these issues of pedestrian safety and handed out flyers with common violations listed.

CPD hopes to raise citizen awareness of the issue with the campaign, according to a news release.

CPD Public Information Officer Bryana Maupin said the campaign is a way to ensure citizen safety.

“The enforcement is a friendly reminder of the rules of the road,” she said. “To ensure pedestrian and cyclist safety, it's imperative everyone is aware of the ordinances and follows the ordinances as set out.”

Janet Godon, the GetAbout planner and community outreach coordinator, said the ordinances are important to public safety.

“I think it serves a definite purpose in keeping both cyclists and

Bike Share expansion eyed by incoming RHA officials

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The rules will help pedestrians, motorists and bicyclists feel safer, Columbia police said.

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MOVE Count your chickens: Wing delivery has arrived downtown at Wingin Out.

SPORTS Kim Anderson details a six-part plan to improve Missouri basketball.

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RHA turns eye to fixing laundry KARLEE RENKOSKI Staff Writer The Residence Halls Association recently conducted a survey of all hall residents about the current state of laundry facilities. Of the 174 residents who responded, 51 percent were dissatisfied with residence hall laundry, 31 percent were somewhat dissatisfied, 17 percent were neutral and one percent were satisfied.

Freshman Marin Meiners, a resident of Hudson Hall, said the hall’s laundry facilities, which are provided

by Jetz, need to be reevaluated due to the many issues students face.

“You have to pay a lot for it, many of them are broken, don’t wash well or take forever to dry,” Meiners said. “It’s a hassle to set aside two hours to do my laundry.”

Freshman Katie Travelstead said the dryers cause the biggest problems in Excellence Hall.

“My clothes are never dry,” Travelstead said. “I would be saving more money and time by not having to dry twice every time I do laundry.”

In an April 6 Facebook post, current RHA President Steven Chaffin announced RHA’s efforts and views about the laundry problem.

Survey results said most students blamed the dryers, but problems with machines being out of order, not having enough machines and problems specifically with using the washers were all noted. Included in the survey was also a question about the online laundry ZOUtorial, which 85 percent of respondents said they watched prior to or while taking the survey.

“We knew that if we didn’t include (ZOUtorial) in the survey that would be a really easy way for the department to say, ‘We have these resources available and people aren’t using them,’” Chaffin said. “I think that is an encouraging outcome, because that says the majority of students have watched this video and they are still having these issues.”

The survey passed all of the requirements, and Chaffin said they can “trust these results.”

“We wanted to make sure we weren’t conducting a survey that was just going to give us results we wanted to hear,” Chaffin said. “We wanted to make sure that if there really isn’t an issue then that’s what the survey says, but it does say that overwhelmingly students are against it.”

Students started having problems with the residence hall laundry facilities a few years ago. Part of this could have been caused by removing top-loading washers and replacing them with front-loading ones.

A survey was taken about a year ago, Chaffin said, but after an in-committee discussion about students having issues with the washers and dryers, it stopped there.

“That survey was about, ‘Do we have problems?’”

Chaffin said. “This is about ‘We know we have problems,’ and let’s bring these concerns to Residential Life after we’ve done our research, reached out to other universities and have a solid argument.”

In addition to the survey, RHA plans to have a day where ResLife administrators, hall coordinators and other staff members do laundry in the residence halls so they can see the results for themselves.

“We think that this a fun, educational way to connect the students and staff views on this issue,” Chaffin said.

“It’s easy to say, ‘The students just don’t know how to do laundry,’ and the staff don’t really understand what the issue is.”

Chaffin said in the Facebook post that students are overwhelmingly in favor of a change.

“For the short time I have left in office, I am committed to working with our Residential Living Committee so that we can make meaningful but realistic recommendations to the Department of Residential

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Portrait of the Rev. Clyde Ruffin.

CITy Council

Ruffin takes the First Ward

RUTH SERVEN Staff Writer

Often an outsider in many community decisions, newly elected First Ward councilman the Rev. Clyde Ruffin said he is ready to make a difference from the inside of City Hall.

Ruffin grew up in Kansas City and taught at Washington University in St. Louis before joining the faculty of the MU Department of Theatre in 1983.

“I love the city,” Ruffin said. “When I first moved to Columbia, ‘I was like, where am I?’ I was unimpressed. But over the past 30 years, I have come to love Columbia and I’m excited to make a difference here.”

Ruffin is about to retire from MU. He has written and directed acclaimed plays and organized the Black Theatre Workshop, now known as the World Theatre Workshop, which allows city residents opportunities to participate in university plays. He has been the senior pastor of the Second Missionary Baptist Church since 2003.

Ruffin said he sees his many vocations and passions as working together for the good of the overall community; each one makes him a more complete person. He said he hopes to bring his many experiences to the council and come into contact with more people in the community.

“The flock just got a little bit bigger,”

he said, retelling a comment a congregant made, and laughed.

Ruffin faces a packed spring agenda with the potential demolition and redevelopment of Shakespeare’s Pizza, zoning propositions and other proposed downtown development.

Ruffin said he is working on understanding the avalanche of issues and requests that began filling his inbox immediately after the election, but he said his immediate philosophical goal is connecting with residents.

“I have the responsibility of presence,” Ruffin said. “I want to connect with individuals who work here and residents

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MU students work Tuesday at the Futures Lab in the Reynolds Journalism Institute.

School of journalism

New dean plans innovative future for J-school TAYLOR BLATCHFORD Staff Writer David Kurpius was watching Louisiana State University play in the NCAA March Madness tournament Thursday, March 19 when he got an email from Provost Garnett Stokes asking to talk about the dean position at the Missouri School of Journalism.

LSU lost to North Carolina State University 66-65 in the first round, but

after a long weekend of waiting, Stokes offered Kurpius the position over the phone Monday, March 23, evening.

Kurpius, currently associate vice chancellor for enrollment management at LSU, will take office at MU as the new dean July 1. He said he plans to keep MU’s position as the No. 1 journalism school in the country, as named by the Radio Television Digital News Association in December 2014.

“If you stay where you are, you’re falling behind, so we need to keep climbing and

keep moving and pushing forward, and we need to be interesting,” Kurpius said.

MU has faculty, resources and opportunities that are not found at every journalism school, Kurpius said.

“It’s an honor to be selected to serve as dean, and I see opportunities to help the school move forward and work with some really great people, including students, to make it an even better place,” he said.

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Graduate student Marni Gable creates her own ancestry through ceramics

Gable, who was adopted, strives to discover her own heritage and bring together the stories of all humanity through her large clay sculptures.

JARED KAUFMAN Staff Writer The artist stands next to a dark ceramic horse that’s nearly as tall as she is. The form is realistic, but the horse’s neck is an earthy blue. Now, she paints white circles over it.

Graduate student Marni Gable, a ceramicist, has a studio tucked in the corner of the basement of the Hitt Street Studio. She sometimes spends nearly 60 hours a week here.

Her basement creative space is filled with large ceramic sculptures and shelves of the paints, glazes, kiln equipment and clay that make her creations possible.

Prior to starting graduate school, Gable taught high school art for several years. She enjoyed being a teacher, she said, but spent so much time focusing on meeting student needs that she couldn’t create her own art.

“When you’re a teacher, your work is your students,” Gable said. “You miss that making.

You don’t have time. I turned 50 this year. If (grad school) is going to happen, it better happen now, because it’s probably never going to happen if I don’t. And it’s been great.

I’ve had three years of slaving away in a basement, but my work has changed, and the way I think about life has changed, and I’m glad I did it.”

The surfaces of her largescale works are dark and rough, but are covered with many layers of vibrantly colored designs. These designs, she said, help her discover her personal history.

Gable was adopted when she was six weeks old. When she was 42, she reconnected with her birth mother. Her birth father had died, and she couldn’t find information about his side of the family. She then found out that her grandmother was adopted, too; a brick wall, Gable said.

Then she found out that her great-grandfather had fought in the Civil War but he defected, stole somebody else’s dog tags and went by that name for the rest of his life. Another brick wall.

As Gable’s family could not link her to her heritage, she began using ceramics to shape it herself.

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Marni Gable holds her work Tuesday at her studio on Hitt St. Gable's gallery show opens next week at the Bingham Gallery on campus.

“This whole body of work is (Big Bang),” Gable said. “Going about our ancestry as human way back, ancestry-wise, trees beings and also specifically our and stones and people were all ancestry as far as what culture created from the same thing. we identify with,” she said. “So We’re all stardust. So I make being able to manufacture that these amorphous sort of for yourself and create your unidentifiable shapes, thinking own identity is an interesting that I’m trying to tie together thought.” the elements of everything in Although Gable could have the world.” her DNA tested to figure out Gable’s pieces are decorated her exact ethnic heritage, she whimsically, with colorful said she hasn’t done this — she tribal- and African-inspired doesn’t feel the need to know designs, depictions of artifacts for sure. of modern pop culture and “The reason universal I haven’t is scenes that I JUST WANT because maybe many people that’s not what’s PEOPLE TO FEEL experience. i m p o r t a n t ,” “For me, WHATEVER THEY she said. “It’s the imagery the stories that on these FEEL. EXPERIENCE you’re missing. pieces tell IT, AND IF THEY It’s that link stories,” RELATE TO IT, THAT’S G a b l e to a way of life that maybe WONDERFUL, AND IF said. “So it just knowing gives your THEY DON’T, THERE’S i m a g i n at i o n that you are from northern some room SOMETHING THEYY Europe doesn’t to play about WILL. THAT’S THE really tell you.” where you WAY ART IS.” To find these came from stories, Gable and what MARNI GABLE is going back those people graduate student in the human were like and t i m e l i n e , what they far beyond did.”

20th- centur y European Gable shares her studio space immigration. with Leah Bowring, another “I feel like I’ve gone back far ceramic artist pursuing a enough to a tribal era that we master of fine arts in ceramics. all can relate to,” Gable said.

Bowring’s pottery mainly “I’m drawing as far back as I can consists of white sculptural go to try to include everybody.” vessel forms of all shapes and Some of Gable’s pieces sizes. They are thin, lightweight resemble Native American and flowing, which Bowring totems. The abstract-seeming said represents the feeling she shapes of these totems, she experiences while running long explained, are a combination distances. of human figures and stone and The aesthetic of Bowring’s tree forms. ceramics sharply contrasts that “It’s sort of the idea of the of Gable’s. Despite this, the

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two work very well together, Bowring said.

“We have very different ideas of what we want our work to be, but what makes it work well is just our general excitement for art and all the ideas that can exist,” she said. “We’re both extremely excitable and enthusiastic about each other’s work and about art continuing in the world.”

The two shared studio space during their first year of the three-year MFA program. The next year, they were apart, but returned to sharing space this year. Bowring said she missed her “Marni time.”

“Marni is my best friend in town,” she said. “I’m very happy to have her. We’ve both gone through some hard times in our work, and we’ve been there for each other, as melodramatic as that sounds.”

Bowring said that Gable is constantly questioning, rethinking and looking for alternatives, and this heavy thinking is released through her ceramics.

“Her brain is always trying to solve something, so I think that shows in her work, with all the layers of questions and stories and narratives and things that have united us as human beings since the beginning of time,” Bowring said. “In the end, anything personal is also universal because we’re all the same in a lot more ways than we’re different.”

It is the instructors in the art department that help turn these abstract ideas into tangible objects.

Gable receives guidance from Joe Pintz, an assistant professor of art who mainly focuses on ceramics. He said

for graduate-level students, he takes on a mentoring role and helps them to align their intentions for the meaning of their work with what they’re physically creating.

He also advises graduate students on potential colors and glaze recipes to use, as well as firing and assembly techniques.

“Those are things that I work with the grads one-onone with, because they each have very different needs and projects that they’re working on,” Pintz said. “So I try and tailor my information to each one of them. I meet with them individually as well as a group to give them that custom mentoring that they need. In the case of Marni, she had a strong interest in the figure and wanted to pursue that and really dig deep into that.”

Gable’s upcoming MFA thesis show, aptly entitled “Artifacts of an Invented Ancestry,” will run from April 20 to May 1 at the George Caleb Bingham Gallery.

Gable said she encourages everyone to check out her show and attend the closing reception at 4 p.m. April 30, but she won’t say what she wants the takeaways to be.

While some artists specify the emotions their art is designed to evoke, Gable is hesitant to tell anybody what to feel.

“I think you’re going to identify with a piece of art or you’re not,” she said. “I just want people to feel whatever they feel. Experience it, and if they relate to it, that’s wonderful, and if they don’t, there’s something they will.

That’s the way art is.”

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MU celebrates this year’s Kemper Fellows Berkley Hudson, Trisha Strauch, Rachel Harper, Elisa Glick and Nicole Monnier presented with $10,000 awards.

PAIGE LALAIN Staff Writer For 25 years, MU has made a point of recognizing and awarding excellence demonstrated by our educators.

Celebrating its 25th year anniversary, the William T. Kemper Fellowships for Teaching Excellence recognized five MU professors for their outstanding performance in their fields.

Since its inception in the spring 1991, 175 MU professors have been honored with the award. To be eligible, nominees must be full-time faculty members who have completed a minimum of three years in a tenure track or non-tenure track position at MU. The 2015 fellows include Berkley Hudson, School of Journalism associate professor; Nicole Monnier, associate professor of Russian and German studies; Trista Strauch, School of Natural Resources assistant teaching professor; Rachel Harper, director of the MU Writing Center; and Elisa Glick, associate professor of women’s

and gender studies.

Each spring, new Kemper Fellows are interrupted during classes and are presented with a $10,000 stipend to spend as they wish. The award is presented by Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin and executives from Commerce Bank, who serve as trustees for the William T. Kemper Foundation.

“Kemper Fellows have commented on how the awards enhance faculty morale, reward the important role of teaching in higher education and demonstrate the beneficial relationship between private gifts and the University,” according to the award’s website.

Each class of Kemper Fellows receives an invitation to a May awards ceremony recognizing teaching excellence. This year, recipients are invited to a celebration on May 5.

Nominations are completed by faculty colleagues, depar tments, schools/ colleges or recognized campus organizations.

“As a former student at MU, I benefited from having tremendous teachers (some of them Kemper Fellows) that inspired me to teach at the college level,” Strauch said in an email. “I am so grateful to have the opportunity to work with students each day, and hopefully inspire some of them as I was previously inspired. I am very humbled to have been nominated and ultimately selected, for this fantastic recognition.”

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“Enforcement really should be ongoing — just as other traffic laws are enforced,” she said.

Godon said she does not think that riding in the street is unsafe for cyclists.

“A bicycle is considered a

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about suicide.”

The student group’s production, “Wake Up: A Documentary Film,” aims to encourage audiences to become conscious about the negative effects of suicide.

Suicide is currently the second leading cause of death for people of ages 10 to 24 years old in the United States, according to data from the Missouri Institute of Mental Health. Missouri rates of suicide are 15.9 per 100,000 people in 2012, which is higher than the national average of 13 per 100,000 people.

“It seems to be gaining momentum now,” Lindley said. “It just seems like the perfect time to try and produce this. With mentions

THE MANEATER | NEWS | APRIL 15, 2015 vehicle and the safest place for a person riding a bicycle is on the street,” she said. “A cyclist has both the right to ride in the street as well as a responsibility to follow the rules of the road.”

MU Environmental Leadership Office Advisor Amy Eultgen said she also thinks cyclists should avoid sidewalks.

“I would advise cyclists to not use the sidewalks,” Eultgen said.

“There is much foot traffic on the sidewalk and navigating around

pedestrians can be dangerous.”

Eultgen also said the roads can be safe for cyclists, as long they work with motorists.

“With the appropriate symbiotic relationship between cyclists and motor vehicles, it is not dangerous,” Eultgen said. “There are many resources and groups in town who have identified which streets are more bike-friendly than others.”

Eultgen said cyclists should educate themselves to be aware

of (suicide) in Oscar acceptance speeches and the loss of the state auditor, certain circumstances are falling into place. I think if it is done right, we can make a difference.”

Tom Schweich, the Missouri state auditor, took his own life in February, bringing additional attention to the issue.

MSPC aims to raise awareness and funds to “help connect MU students to resources for suicide prevention on the campus,” according to the MSPC website.

Lindley said the MSPC is an “excellent opportunity for passionate students to get involved.”

“Right now, the main priority is to spread the word,” Lindley said.

“Get people talking about suicide.”

“Wake Up” began filming in March and is currently in production.

“After our production is released,

we’re going to try and get it picked up by mental health organizations,” Lindley said. “Hopefully, spread it to other universities across the nation, include public speaking, and try to get as many people to be aware as possible, talk about suicidal warning signs and start the conversation about it.

Suicide can no longer be swept under the rug, Lindley said.

“A lot of people think it’s awkward or uncomfortable to talk about, but the prevalence is so high, that maybe if they see a film put on by a group of college kids, it would encourage a lot of people to start opening up,” Lindley said. “Mental health is not something that can be ignored.”

Donations can be made to support the efforts of “Wake Up” on its website.

of potential hazards in the street, as well as motorists.

“Cyclists should educate themselves on various aspects of riding on the street with motor vehicles, such as watching for the ‘door zone,’ or approximately three feet from a parked car,” Eultgen said. “In the same vein, motor vehicles should take caution when entering traffic again from being parked, such as using a blinker and looking for not only other motor vehicles, but

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Photos of production behind the scenes of “Wake Up: A Documentary Film,” which aims to educate audiences about suicide prevention.

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also cyclists.”

Eultgen pointed out, however, that with the citations there needs to be an explanation.

“I hope that with the ticketing there is an additional education piece on what to do instead,” Eultgen said. “For example, you cannot simply tell a child not to take things out of another child’s hand without asking and then be done with the conversation; you need to explain what sharing is and how to do it.”

adviser Amy Eultgen said.

Donley and Thomas said they would like to see the program expanded either to all residence halls or to main locations on the far ends of campus, in order to provide easy accessibility to anyone who lives on campus. Main locations could include Bingham Commons, Pershing Hall, an area near Mark Twain and McDavid residence halls and an area near Pavilion at Dobbs, Donley said.

“By the time that (students) do get to the Student Center, they’re already halfway to their class or they’re already at their class, so we want to give them more incentive to use the program,” Thomas said.

The first step is to gauge student interest. Donley and Thomas are meeting next week with ELO to develop a survey to send out to students, Thomas said. If the majority of students are interested in the program’s expansion, the next step would be to develop a more detailed plan as to how to accomplish their goals.

“Improvement-wise, we would obviously have to purchase more bikes,” Eultgen said. “There would just be a lot to discuss on where those would be housed, who would be looking over those as far as the checkout progress and what kind of partnership we would need for that. There’s just a lot of things to work out.”

Survey results will help them determine how many more bikes to purchase and where to put them, Eultgen said.

Thomas said ELO would also need to hire more employees, which warrants additional funding.

The Missouri Students Association has given the Bike Share

program $1,350 for student salaries and $1,250 for supplies, a total of $2,600, over the last three fiscal years.

ELO will be unable to request more money from MSA until June of 2016 since MSA Senate has already passed the budget for the 2015 fiscal year. If they wanted to receive more funding this year, they would have to submit a proposal and justify the increase during a meeting, MSA Budget chairman Bill Vega said.

“We’ve been having to prioritize (MSA’s funds) recently because we haven’t had any excess amount of revenue just laying around,” he said.

“So, depending on how much of a priority it is and how much RHA is backing them, then it might help.”

Donley said he hopes this expansion could potentially reduce the amount of students on the road.

“Students who live in the residence halls, I know that they’re not driving (to class) anyway,” he said. “But with the expansion of the Bike Share program … then I would hope to see less driving from the off-campus students (while they’re) on campus.”

Eultgen said she hopes this possible expansion will encourage students to use bikes not only on campus, but throughout the Columbia area.

“It can open their eyes on how they can commute around town,” she said. “Columbia is a really good city for cycling.”

Along with the positive environmental effects stemming from fewer cars on the road, Thomas said students who utilize the Bike Share program could see health benefits, as well.

“It’ll also promote a lot of good physical activity, and it will also start, hopefully, a habit for a lot of people on the college campus that they can take with them in their life afterwards,” Thomas said.

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Kurpius said one of his highest priorities as dean is diversifying the student and faculty bodies in the journalism school, and that he sees diversity as an ongoing conversation and set of experiences across a broad spectrum. He said he saw the potential to increase diversity within LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication, and he worked to build relationships and helped students see opportunities for themselves.

“When I came to LSU, I was excited when I had a single student of color in my class,” Kurpius said.

“Today, the Association of Black Communicators is one of the strongest student organizations (on LSU’s campus). I’ve seen lots of students of color in my classes, around campus and around the school, and it’s fun to see and exciting to interact with them.”

Kurpius said he sees diversity as including not only race and ethnicity, but also religion, sexual orientation, gender, political affiliation and economic status. He believes that improving diversity is essential for students of all backgrounds.

“It’s important not just for minority students who are coming in, but for non-minority students who are coming in or already there to have that more diverse and worldly atmosphere in which to learn and understand each other and have important conversations and discussions,” he said.

Kurpius said he wants to focus on innovation and entrepreneurship in the journalism school by creating opportunities for students to experiment in new areas of media.

He said he’s started conversations with multiple people around the country, including Richard Gingras, the head of news and social projects at Google, about how they see news content. He said he hopes to bring people to MU and send groups out to examine the ways media organizations are innovating to create the culture of being on the cutting edge and to start discussions.

“That’s what’s going to help us alter the curriculum in ways that we find necessary, to think about new ways to engage and encourage students and to build relationships with organizations where students can get internships,” he said. “We may get people who want to take a break from the industry and come work with us.”

Kurpius is also focusing on new programs, such as the documentary journalism department opening this fall. Stacey Woelfel, an associate professor and director of the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism, said that he hopes to apply the Missouri Method approach to teaching the documentary process through multiple projects in the field and a “massive” senior project.

Woelfel said Kurpius has already shown a strong interest in the program and is committed to making it “world-class.”

“I’m excited to sit down with him once he arrives on campus, go over our mission in detail with him and work out a multi-year plan to grow and build the program

to be another gem in Missouri’s crown of journalism education achievements,” Woelfel said in an email. “Since we have similar professional backgrounds, we already speak the same ‘language,’ so there’s a rapport already in place that should ease us into a very comfortable working relationship immediately.”

Dean Mills, the outgoing dean, said Kurpius has a combination of professional experience and good academic credentials, both of which are important to lead the school. He said he hopes to see the school continue to innovate and be “at the top of its game” in the future, crediting the real-world opportunities for students as the reason for its success.

“Even if the faculty didn’t want to learn new things in order to teach the students, they have to because they’re operating a television station, or a newspaper, or magazine or student ad agencies,” Mills said. “The Missouri Method makes us learn new things even if we wouldn’t want to. It’s as if we have no choice but to innovate.”

Students are important to Kurpius, and even in an administrative position, he plans to connect with students and find ways to be involved with them, he said. When he was announced as dean, many former students contacted him to tell him how he had pushed them in class and impacted them.

“It was really heartwarming and I love that connection, that longterm connection to students and mentoring them through careers and helping them succeed,” he said.

“It’s humbling to hear some of the stories, and it’s exciting that I’ve played a small role in their lives and their development.”

Kurpius visited campus Feb. 17 for an open forum with students and faculty. During the forum, he said he is not an expert in strategic communication, but strategic communication chairwoman Margaret Duffy said she believes Kurpius is committed to the department.

“He’s well aware that we (account for) half the undergraduates of the J-school, and he clearly recognizes that we should be getting more resources,” she said. “I’m very confident that we’ll be able to work very effectively with him.”

Duffy said her goals for the department are to continue to stay at the forefront of strategic communication and address diversity of both students and faculty. She said Kurpius should focus initially on understanding similarities and differences among the school’s departments.

“We are the first and best school of journalism in the world, and we need to make sure that we’re getting resources and allocating resources appropriately so that we can continue to be the best and continue to improve over time,” Duffy said.

Kurpius said he looks forward to arriving on campus and building relationships with faculty and students.

“It’s a great university with a fantastic school of journalism and wonderful people, and I can’t wait to get there and become part of that culture and do good work,” he said.

“I’m just very excited.”

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Later in an interview, Chaffin added that the problems students face with laundry facilities require a professional and knowledgeable tactic.

“RHA is advocating for students on one of the most simple yet frustrating problems that residents are facing and have faced in the past few years,” Chaffin said. “We are trying to go at it the most informed, professional way as possible, because I think that is what has been lacking in previous years.”

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who are passionate about the ward.”

Ruffin said his interest in city government began when he worked on the restoration of the Blind Boone Home and the installation of a headstone for James T. Scott. Scott, a member of the Second Missionary Baptist Church, was lynched in 1923 and his remains lay in an unmarked grave until Ruffin and other community members lobbied to mark his grave and give him a memorial service in 2011. The Blind Boone home, next door to Ruffin’s church, was the residence of

Chaffin said he suggested reducing the amount students are charged per cycle, or adding it as a student fee, instead of getting entirely new machines.

“I think the most prominent solution, from my point of view, would be the way we charge for it,” Chaffin said. “That’s something I think can be changed over the summer. We’ll have a new term and that’ll be a lot easier than breaking a contract with Jetz next year.”

Chaffin said he plans on working and sharing opinions with the Residential Living Committee to draft a resolution containing specifically what they want the department to do.

“Once we have that resolution

together, I am going to go to MSA president (Payton Head) and the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs (Cathy Scroggs) and see if we can get those signatures on there,” Chaffin said.

He said he hopes to obtain a variety of signatures to back up the resolution, because he believes the vast majority of the community wants to see change.

“I am very hopeful that in the next (few) days we can have that all ready to go,” Chaffin said. “I would like on the last day of my term, at the very latest, to be able to have a resolution passed, signed … and taken to Residential Life to make some beneficial changes.”

accomplished pianist John William Boone and has fallen into disrepair. Ruffin chairs the J.W. Blind Boone Heritage Foundation Board, which has been trying to fully restore the home since 2010.

“The campaign piqued my interest in city government, to see how decisions are made, who makes them and how money gets used,” Ruffin said.

Now, after being elected to represent the First Ward, Ruffin said he is excited to advocate for the same issues and concerns of his ward, but with better access to information.

“It’s the same work I’ve always done, but now I’m on the other side of the table,” he

said. “I’ll have a more complete vision and understanding of how decisions are made.”

Ruffin said he hopes to bring his diverse experience in theater, the pulpit and the classroom to council meetings.

He said he hopes to live out his life motto in the council seat and would offer the same advice to any resident hoping to get involved in Columbia and their community.

“You always seek to live a complete life that encompasses close relationships, meaningful work, service and faith,” he said. “If you can do those things, I think you’ll be fulfilled and make a real difference.”

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Start acting, not just listening MU Police are investigating a series of anti-Semitic messages drawn in a stairwell at Mark Twain residence hall on April 9 and 10. Swastikas, triangles and the word “heil” were drawn in with what appeared to be charcoal in the northwestern stairwell of the building.

In response, the Department of Residential Life posted flyers to notify residents of the incidents, and Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin issued a statement condemning the offensive message and vowing to discipline the perpetrator. Various members of the campus community have also decried the incidents as “hateful” and “threatening.”

These acts of discrimination are absolutely disgraceful, and like Loftin said in his statement, “unworthy of this institution and its values.” We’ve heard those words before, but we have yet to see some concrete solutions coming from the administration.

ResLife’s response to the incidents was well-executed. The staff at Mark Twain residence hall immediately reported both incidents to MUPD and submitted bias reports, and held meetings to address residents’ concerns and make them feel safe.

The department has already done so much to promote diversity, such as introducing gender-neutral housing and bathrooms, and encouraging freshman interest groups to attend cultural events on campus.

There’s always more room for improvement, though, as evidenced by this weekend’s incidents, and the impetus falls on all of us to prevent such heinous events from recurring in the residence halls and on campus.

ResLife administrators should place greater emphasis on expanding their residents’ critical perspectives. This improvement could come in the form of

a mandatory cultural training session or creating new multicultural events, just to list a couple of ideas.

Cultural competency should not focus on just one department of the university, but extend across the entire campus.

The most comprehensive and longterm solution to combat ignorance and insensitivity would be to create a new cultural competency course requirement for all students to complete before receiving their MU diploma. The idea is not news to administrators; students have repeatedly advocated for this in forums and meetings. Faculty Council and administration have thus far resisted.

But listen: Students want this. This would make a difference. How clear must it be made?

Such a plan could be implemented in many ways that are cost-efficient. For an example, students could be presented the option to choose from existing courses required to receive the Multicultural Certificate to fulfill their new obligation to educate themselves.

When thinking about these solutions, administrators should aspire to give students a better understanding of what it means to be a student on this campus.

These solutions should challenge students to expand their horizons and how they perceive cultures and backgrounds that are different from their own. It’s not indoctrination — it’s critical thinking; it’s intellect with empathy.

To accomplish this goal, there must be a place in which students who are reluctant to participate and step out of their comfort zones are encouraged to challenge their own viewpoints.

But we’ve already said this. We’ve already highlighted these points and countless others, but we are unfortunately here again. If these kinds of transgressions continue and nothing changes, we will say

it again and again until the administration finally decides to give the students of MU what they deserve.

We’ve seen what happens when the administration loses its focus on actively promoting diversity around campus.

One Mizzou was a program that had the potential to create a campus-wide change in the way students think about diversity and acceptance. The initiative was created under the supervision of then-Chancellor Brady Deaton and thenMissouri Students Association President Eric Woods after vandalism appeared outside of the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center in 2010 and Hatch Hall in 2011.

“Let me just say that for me, as chancellor of the university, this truly is the proudest moment that I have had,” Deaton said in a story about the unveiling of One Mizzou in April 2011.

Instead, the movement came to a screeching halt this year and MSA decided to cut all of their funding put toward the program for the 2015-16 budget.

Faculty and administrators, the time has long passed for just forums and listening sessions. The time has passed for inaction. If we want to see a clear, distinct change on our campus, we need to see you take action, and it needs to happen now.

This school year has been a momentous one because of the volume of students speaking out for change, but the year will ultimately be defined by the action taken by the university to catalyze this change. When the current group of brave, passionate student activists have long graduated and left campus, how will their work be preserved? It must be done through concrete action, and just like the signs protesters left after last month’s Greektown march, it begins at the chancellor’s doorstep.

diversity

Hong Kong and China are not synonymous LORETTA LEE

As an international student, one of the most frequent questions I was asked when I got to campus was usually, “Where are you from?” and my first response to them was always, “I am from Hong Kong.”

Yes, Hong Kong is a small city in China.

Yes, we are a part of China. So why do I not just answer, “I am from China?"

I think most Hong Kong locals understand where I am coming from, but I think that it is not something everyone knows about.

Hong Kong was once a British colony.

Hong Kong was ruled by the British Empire, and that explains why our road and building structures are very similar to Britain’s nowadays. After 1997, the sovereignty of Hong Kong was returned to China. But Hong Kong benefited from the British Empire, inheriting the higher

quality of education for its people and the anti-corruption effort in the police force.

Lately in Hong Kong, lots of anger and grievance are flowing among locals.

More and more people from mainland China came to Hong Kong for vacation, shopping, for official imported goods, or even came to Hong Kong to give birth to their babies, as I mentioned last week.

Hong Kong has a different constitutional principle, called “one country, two systems,” which allows Hong Kong and Macau to retain their own capitalist economic and political systems, unlike in China, making life very different for Hong Kong residents than mainland Chinese residents.

The anger and grievance of Hong Kong people, however, came from the immersion of the different culture that was brought with some people from mainland China. Hong Kong people were faced with challenges like people cutting in lines, littering or even public urination and defecation.

The “Umbrella Revolution” that was first started in Hong Kong September 2014 was one of the reactions to the influx

of mainlanders to Hong Kong. As the China's National People's Congress has announced that there will be restrictions on the election of Hong Kong's next chief executive in 2017, Hong Kong people fear that the “one country, two systems” will soon be disbanded if the Chinese government takes all control of Hong Kong.

There are feuds on the Internet about the disputes between Hong Kong and mainland China. Hong Kong people are not happy about the way that mainlanders do not respect Hong Kong’s culture. Even though Hong Kong is a part of China, Hong Kong people referred themselves as being from Hong Kong instead of China. I am sure this behavior can only be reflected some, not all, mainlanders, but it is enough to understand why Hong Kong people hate accepting mainland Chinese coming to Hong Kong.

So, next time you go travel overseas, remember that your behavior does not just reflect yourself but also the people where you come from. It is better to leave a good memory of your people than a bad impression to people overseas.

campus issues

Educate yourself this Pride month JALEN MOSBY

It’s LGBT Pride Month on campus. This month is a time for members of the community to celebrate themselves and others as we continue to break down walls as a nation and campus that hinder us from being a truly free country. There are tons of events happening around campus for students to attend and ongoing hashtags that show just how proud and happy MU students are to be who they are, regardless of sexuality or orientation.

At this point in history, there are 37 states with legal same-sex marriage. Considering that one decade ago same-sex marriage was not legal in any state, this is major progress. More LGBT couples are getting married than ever before, and many are starting families and living happily. With so much progress, it is easy for us to forget that there is still work to be done. Legislation in our state as well as others have been working to halt and change the progress that we have made to welcome people of all gender identities and sexual orientation.

In a recent editorial by The Maneater, the editorial board admonished a Missouri state representative who introduced a bill that wanted to stop state funding for any institution that had gender-neutral bathrooms or unisex multiuse services.

To propose a bill like this one is taking us back years into a time where being discriminatory and sexist was OK. We are a progressive campus that is implementing gender-neutral housing in the next school year, because at this point, it is the best thing for our growing campus.

President Barack Obama broke news April 8 when his administration announced that his administration would be joining the fight to end conversion therapies on LGBT youth. These therapies are supposed to be sessions and practices that try to get individuals who identify as LGBT to change their sexual orientation or gender identity to one that society deems “normal.”

These therapies allow professionals to make thousands of dollars on trying to alter the way people naturally are and who they naturally are attracted to.

Many times the people going through the therapy are participating because someone of authority is making them, not because they want to. There have been many cases of suicide that linked to therapies like these, which the president wants to put a stop to on a state level, according to The New York Times.

It is great that we have a president who has continuously been in support of the LGBT community and continues to exercise his power to do what is best for the millions of people who belong to this community.

To combat this step in the wrong direction made by one of our own representatives, students should continue expressing themselves this month and be proud of who they are and what they believe in. We should all also be in support of laws that plan to make life and America better for transgender or queer people.

Cisgender people need to join the fight and demand rights and equal treatment for the large population of LGBT people on our campus, but also in all environments around the world. We do have a lot more support in America than other countries, but there are still things to work on.

It should be everyone’s concern to challenge the thinking of the representative who wants to remove gender-neutral spaces and hinder us from being a progressive state and nation.

Though MU’s pride month is well underway, there are still events and ways to educate yourself. Events can be found on the StuffToDo website as well as the LGBTQ Resource Center website. Topics like respectability politics in the LGBT community and bisexuality will be discussed at the events in the latter half of the month, along with many other insightful matters.

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THE MANEATER | OPINION | APRIL 15, 2015 Self-Help

Learn how to treat yourself Instead of drowning your problems in fatty food and alcohol, try some healthy alternative methods.

JORDAN SMITH

Once in a while, when the going gets tough and the tough (that’s you) get going, it’s nice to take a step back, appreciate the work you’ve done and decide that you need to celebrate.

The problem is, most of us indulge in things that are, well, indulgent. We eat a massive quantity of rich, sickly sweet food. We drink more alcohol than we normally would. We go for the venti at Starbucks instead of the grande, even though we know we’ll struggle to finish it.

While it’s not a bad thing to go a little over the top once every now and then, ask yourself how you’ll feel after you treat yourself. If you’re like me and your indulgence routine typically consists of inhaling an entire box of Cheez-Its (which you don’t even particularly like) followed by a night in, snuggled up to a heating pad asking the universe why your stomach wasn’t made out of titanium, you probably won’t be feeling your best.

Treat yourself after a workout. People are actually more likely to eat an excess of food after a good workout than if they spent a day sitting on the couch. Not because they’ve burned off all of their energy and are replenishing it, but because their mind tells them that their stomachs must compensate for the work they just did. In reality, we typically don’t burn off as much as we think. Despite what we’ve been conditioned to think, exercise machines at the gym do not provide accurate “calories burned” numbers. Even if you’ve entered in your height and weight to the machine, it doesn’t know your body type, what you’ve eaten that day and a number of other factors that can affect the way your body uses energy. So instead of treating yourself with more food than normal after your workout, try treating yourself to a healthy meal out with some friends, or with something that isn’t food at all, such as a facial or a massage.

Treat yourself after a test: Tests suck. You’ve likely stayed up half the night trying to stuff your brain with things you frankly could not care less about, and then spent an hour regurgitating it all. Sometimes it’s nice to have an incentive waiting for us at the end of a stressful situation, so once your exam is over, take a nap. Get your nails done. Go for a hike. Bake a cake. Eat that cake. Go out for drinks with your friends (and then find a responsible ride home).

Treat yourself with things that aren’t food: The word “indulgence” generally brings up thoughts of rich, decadent foods. While it’s nice to reward yourself with a bowl of ice cream, it’s also good to keep in mind that food is nourishment for your body, not a prize. So try treating yourself with other things like a movie with friends or that sweater you’ve been dying to buy.

Treat yourself with good food: It’s easy to constitute binging on two bags of Goldfish crackers as rewarding yourself. But how do you feel after the binge? Probably not so hot. If you’re going to indulge with food, indulge with something amazing. Try a new gelato place, or a gourmet donut shop! Go out to a fancy dinner with your closest friends and pay $7 for raspberry lemonade that you definitely don’t need.

As always, don’t forget to treat yo’self.

politics

Abortion policy lacks clarity LILY CUSACK

The case on abortion has been a popular topic in the political sector this past week. On April 7, Kansas became the first state to outlaw the safest and most common way of abortion in second-trimester pregnancies. The law, Senate Bill 95, prohibits the use of the dilation and evacuation method, which involves dilating the cervix and removing the fetus, according to The New York Times.

Abortions in Kansas have previously been allowed up to 22 weeks into the pregnancy, but this bill would ban abortions as soon as 14 weeks. The procedure, which is referred to as a “dismemberment abortion” in the bill, could force doctors to resort to less safe measures. The bill goes into effect July 1 and allows an exception for women who are in serious danger resulting from their pregnancy.

This is not a new and unexpected proposition from Kansas. Since Gov. Sam Brownback took office in 2011, more than 20 measures to outlaw different abortion methods have been enacted, according to NBC News.

Some examples include restricting insurance companies from covering abortions, defining life from the time of fertilization and forcing women who need abortions to undergo many timeconsuming steps, such as ultrasounds and listening to medically inaccurate lectures. A similar bill was passed in Oklahoma last Wednesday and is awaiting the governor’s signature, and

bills such as this one are pending in South Carolina — and Missouri.

This new bill is dangerous in many respects. First, it eliminates the possibility for women who could not get an abortion in the first trimester, for whatever reason, to get an abortion at all. This method of abortion is only used in 8 to 9 percent of cases nationwide because nearly 90 percent of abortions are completed within the first-trimester. However, the method has been proven to be quite safe, and only 0.3 percent of abortions result in serious complications, according to Women’s Health Advice. Despite these statistics, legislators nationwide in 2015 have already imposed more than 300 restrictions.

Perhaps more importantly, this bill fails to take into account those that need an abortion because of rape or incest. The only exception that it takes into account is cases that physically harm the woman. Each year, about 10,000 to 15,000 abortions are from pregnancies attributed to incest or rape.

This is a major issue that the government is ignoring, and bills such as the one in Kansas are only further aggravating the situation. It’s completely invalidating the experiences of these women and their right to receive a legal abortion.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, also faced mixed reviews when he announced his stance on abortion April 7, which happened to be his first full day as a 2016 presidential candidate.

Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz engaged Paul in debate on whether he supports exemptions from restricting abortions. According to Bloomberg, Paul responded by saying,

“Why don’t we ask the DNC: Is it OK to kill a seven-pound baby in the uterus?”

Paul has been celebrated as being one of the few Republicans to actually voice his opinions on abortion. These remarks have forced Americans to consider an uneasy topic of discussion: the legality of abortion near the end of a pregnancy. Polling data from Gallup has reported that Americans become less comfortable with abortions that occur further along in the pregnancy.

Nevertheless, Paul should not be hailed as the hero that some media outlets are making him out to be.

Although he has opened the discussion on the legality of abortions within the governmental sector, which should be considered a large stepping stone, his views are still not clear. He is not taking a definitive position on either side; rather, he is treading lightly around the subject by asking the questioner another question, a tactic that has been used by Republicans as long as this subject has been contested. If the government is going to get anywhere with determining how the country should proceed with the stance on abortions, officials need to clearly discuss it out in the open instead of hiding their views in fear of not receiving enough support.

The debate on abortion is yet again receiving a lot of media coverage, yet the country is far from resolving the issue. The country, as a whole, needs to have debates and open disagreements on the subject instead of officials passing unjust laws and shielding themselves from public humiliation. We may be making some headway into the situation, but we need to dive deeper to uncover the true nature surrounding the debate on abortion.

relationship advice

Don’t complain about being single BRITTANY EMOND

When you’re surrounded by lovey-dovey couples that just can’t get enough of each other, you may find yourself thinking, “I guess I’ll just be forever alone.” Newsflash: you won’t. And complaining about it isn’t going to help anything either. So without further ado, here are the reasons why complaining about being single is pointless and counterproductive.

1. You don’t need another person to complete you. You’re your own person. It’s important to know that you shouldn’t love anyone more than you love yourself. In fact, if you don’t love yourself, then you’re even less likely to find someone and develop a relationship with them.

You come first, and it’ll be hard for you to let someone love you when you can’t even let yourself do that.

Being single and confident can often times be better than needing another person to complete your life.

2. The right person hasn’t come along yet. Although it’s true

that there are millions of fish in the sea, you just haven’t found the right one. Obviously, this isn’t your fault. Often times, people blame themselves for not finding someone they feel connected to. Just because you haven’t found the right person for you, doesn’t mean they’re not out there.

3. You don’t want to settle for less than you deserve. I see people all the time in relationships that they shouldn’t be in. They get treated badly, they’re unhappy, and they could do much better for themselves than be in a relationship like that. However, they stay in it because they’d rather be with someone than be alone. Settling defeats the purpose of a relationship — it brings you down instead of up.

It’s better to be single than settle.

4. You’re enjoying time as an independent. You have a whole life ahead of you to settle down.

And even though it seems like so many people are getting married and having kids right after college, they’re not. This is also a good time to spend time with your friends.

Have fun, be someone’s wing-woman or man, or even have someone be yours! The memories you have with your friends are often times the ones you think of to get a good

laugh. Plus, you know who your bridesmaids, or groomsmen, will be if you eventually do get married.

5. You’re leaving everything to destiny. The Queen B from “Gossip Girl,” Blair Waldorf, once said: “Destiny is for losers. It’s just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen.” If you’re complaining about being single, you might be just letting things happen. How can you expect to meet someone and be with them if you never put yourself out there? If you spend all your free time watching Netflix, destiny will not happen. However, if you decide to put yourself out there and make yourself available, you’d be surprised what fate can really bring.

6. Your friends’ relationship problems are so dramatic you’re left wondering, “What’s the point?” Relationship drama can be, well, dramatic. People say things they don’t mean and hurt each other.

After sitting down and listening to these issues time and time again, it’s easy to remind yourself that those problems are ones you don’t have. Relationships aren’t always sunshine and rainbows. Being single can remind us that it’s better off without all of the stress.

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The key to your entertainment

MOVE

CLAIRE ROUNKLES | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Photo of the 7 Boned Wings Combo at Wingin Out on Tuesday. The new local restaurant is located at 916 E. Broadway.

community

New wing restaurant comes to Columbia CORIN CESARIC Staff Writer Pizza delivers, Chinese delivers, sub sandwiches even deliver, but now there is something else you can add to that list in CoMo, and that’s chicken wings.

Wingin Out is a new chicken wing restaurant that was first established in Champaign, Illinois, about three years ago and has now made its grand opening in Columbia.

The restaurant has been up and running since February, and general manager Blaine Ellis says business has been great and the community has responded well.

“We see the same faces in there quite a bit, so we know that we keep people coming back,” Ellis says.

You can find Wingin Out on E. Broadway in downtown Columbia,

in the space that previously housed SubZone.

Wingin Out intends to target college campuses since its first restaurant is located close to the University of Illinois campus, and the second one has landed at Mizzou.

“We definitely aim towards college kids,” Ellis says. “We want to take advantage of the student populations, and we deliver wings, which is a big thing, especially on campus.”

But it’s not just delivery; it’s latenight delivery.

“We are open until 2 a.m. during the week and 3 a.m. on Friday and Saturday,” Ellis says.

There’s a ton of places to get wings, so besides the late-night delivery and late hours, what else makes Wingin Out such a big deal?

“Well, all of our chicken is fresh

and not frozen,” Ellis says. “I know made spicy ranch. It’s always a a lot of other places are all frozen, favorite when people try the food and we cook our for the first time.” boned and our But if spicy WE WANT boneless at the does not lie among TO TAKE store. We bread your interests, our own wings ADVANTAGE OF honey barbecue is too, and you can a classic. definitely tell the THE STUDENT Bickford also difference.” says that people POPULATIONS, AND Wingin Out should expect a currently serves WE DELIVER WINGS, new sauce on the 16 different WHICH IS A BIG menu within the sauces for its next month or so. boned or boneless THING, ESPECIALLY Although wings. With 16 ON CAMPUS.” Wingin Out is options to choose known for their from, it can be BLAINE ELLIS fresh wings they a challenge to general manager also offer side decide what sauce items to pair with to lather your wings in. your meal.

“Kickin’ ranch is my favorite “We’re famous for our mac and sauce,” Marketing Director Josh cheese bites,” Bickford says. “They’re Bickford says. “It’s our own house just little fried nuggets of macaroni

“

and cheese, and they’re so good,” Keep Wingin Out in mind during football season, they’re anxiously awaiting it just like the rest of us.

“I know football is big in this town,” Ellis says. “The thing that goes great with football is some great wings.”

Ellis also says that they are considering purchasing TVs for the restaurant so that customers will be able to watch their favorite sports teams while chowing down.

Because of their location in the heart of downtown, Wingin Out is a favorable destination after a night out, and because of the delivery service, it is also convenient for those nights in. The delivery fee is $2.

“We want to give people what they want,” Ellis says.

FILM

Ragtag Ball to roar back in time for fundraiser The fundraiser will go toward renovating Willy Wilson Theater.

TAYLOR SANDERS Reporter Harkening back to a time when Buster Keaton dominated the box office and sound in film was on the horizon, Ragtag Cinema will host a 1920s-themed fundraising event called The Ragtag Ball on

April 18 at the Tiger Hotel. “ The 1920s are very significant to the film industry,” Ragtag Cinema’s Membership Coordinator Lindsay Yungbluth says. “Hollywood was establishing itself as a center for the motion picture industry, sound was becoming widely used in ‘talkies,’ the first Academy Awards took place in 1929.”

The Tiger Hotel was built in 1928, making it the perfect venue for The Ragtag Ball. “(The proceeds) will go

toward providing more comfortable seating and improved sight lines in our beloved Willy Wilson Theater,” Yungbluth says.

Willy Wilson Theater is the smaller of Ragtag Cinema’s two theaters.

Fundraisers like this are essential to the Ragtag Film Society, the nonprofit organization that runs Ragtag Cinema.

The Ragtag Ball begins at 8 p.m. and admission is $40.

“The ball will include dancing

to authentic ’20s music, an elegantly decorated ballroom (provided by Anne Tuckley Interior Design), cocktails that made the 1920s roar, and appetizers on silver trays,” Yungbluth says. “There will also be both live and silent auctions for rooms at the Tiger Hotel, so the winners of those auctions can stay there overnight after the ball. The rooms will feature gifts donated from great local business.”

These local businesses include Yoga Sol, Makes Scents,

Keeping Good Company, Alley A Realty, Brent Gardner Realty, Mid Missouri Electric, Roots N Blues N BBQ and DeSpain Cayce Dermatology Center and Medical Spa. The silent auction will last from the beginning of the event until 9:45 p.m. There will be eight king rooms available to bid on. At 9:45, the live auction will begin, featuring only two “glamorous suites,” Yungbluth says.

Tickets to the event are available on their website.

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THE MANEATER | MOVE | APRIL 15, 2015 PASS THE POPCORN

Single Girl Diaries

Distant dreamboats ‘Unfriended’ downplays and Build-A-Boys

(Wistful) Columnist Ellise Verheyen on interacting with handsome models and still maintaining composure.

ELLISE VERHEYEN

Have you ever fallen in love with a stranger? Maybe it was a stunning brunette on public transport, or the charming blond boy in class. Of course, you’d never do anything about it. (At least I wouldn’t.)

To give you a little insight into my life here in London, I work for a fashion photographer and his studio. He has a list of clients my friends would drool over, so it’s no surprise that modeling agencies send some of their finest over to our studios for castings.

Part of my job as an intern is to photograph these models.

I take basic headshots, let them act moody, vogue and then let them leave, never to see their pretty faces again. However, as a journalism student, I of course love to ask questions.

While some of you may have a few preconceptions that models are dull and lack personalities, I’ve discovered quite the opposite. For the most part, they are pursuing an education, love adventure and have a sense of humor.

Now to address my earlier query about falling in love with a stranger, I need you all to put yourself into my shoes. Imagine being told you have to spend 10 minutes with some of the most beautiful people in London and act like a functioning member of society. It’s not that easy.

Recently, I was sitting in the office when my boss gave me the nod to take photos of a model that had just walked in. I’d done this several times by now, but I was unprepared. This man. This man. If there were Build-A-Boy store, he’d be the one I’d choose.

He introduced himself with the most charming Essex accent and beautiful blue-green eyes. I was a goner. He had luscious brown hair, a chiseled jawline, just enough scruff and a flannel around his waist. My mind started playing “I Want You To Want Me” from the credits of “10 Things I Hate About You.” Things got even worse as his personality proved to be just as charming as his accent. He was polite, funny, intelligent and down-to-Earth. He was also the first model to acknowledge and act upon my “Zoolander” reference when I told him to give me his best Blue Steel. He did it better than Ben Stiller.

(Sorry, Ben.) But all too soon it ended, and I watched my dream man walk away.

And then.

About a month later, the photographer I work for was doing a shoot for a suit company and had chosen my Build-A-Boy as one of the models. When I found out, I was ecstatic. I would get to spend 10 hours on a set with him. In suits. And bowties.

I guess I could endure that.

And then.

They changed the date of the shoot to a day on which I had class. I was distraught. This average Joe of a model would be in my studio without me. To make matters worse, my class that day was a field trip. To a graveyard. A freaking graveyard.

(Granted, I saw Karl Marx and Malcolm McLaren’s graves, but still.)

I spent the entire day after sorting through photos and videos from the shoot. Needless to say, it was rough. To add to my pain, my co-worker told me that the model asked about me. Me. He mentioned that I was cool and was (apparently) concerned that I wasn’t there that day.

I missed my chance at happiness. (Okay, woah. That’s a little much. He could’ve asked for my number if I’d been there, but skipping class would’ve gotten me kicked out of England.)

So I did what any rational person would do in my situation: I emailed his agent so I could get his last name then followed him on social media.

This is the closest I’ve come to a successful interaction with any man since my arrival in Europe. While I expected to expand my horizons, I’m sad to report that my love life hasn’t taken flight. (Something I’m sure my father is thrilled about.)

However, it’s for the best. A transcontinental relationship sounds way too hard. I’ll get back to you once I manage a

gore, heightens suspense Columnist Caleb Bishop will think twice before using Skype now.

CALEB BISHOP

You wouldn’t have to search long to find a horror film that contains themes of sex and bullying. It was only a matter of time before those concepts found their way into the cyberspace, in the forms of cybersex and cyberbullying. In “Unfriended,” these concepts mix with the new idea of the cybernatural. (Originally, “Unfriended” was going to be titled “Cybernatural,” and I, for one, prefer the original title, but that’s beside the point.)

“Unfriended” is the story of six high school friends on a routine video call on a school night.

A “friend” of theirs, Laura Barns, committed suicide some time ago due to excessive bullying online resulting from an embarrassing video that, at least in the world of a high schooler, everyone saw. Now, on the anniversary of her death, her omnipotent virus-ghost-demon-monster thing is here to get revenge on all of them for what they did to her and one another.

“Unfriended” has the structure of essentially every teen slasher flick ever. It boasts “teens” played by actors that are most definitely not in high school, angst resulting in overtly malicious social behavior, and noises coming from adjacent rooms that should not under any circumstances be investigated alone but always are.

However, “Unfriended” is better than it has any right to be.

The only unique thing about this movie, and by far the coolest thing about it, is the fact that the entirety of the movie is filmed to look like one long take of a Mac computer screen. All of the events unfold on Skype, Facebook, LiveLeak, YouTube, Chatroulette or Spotify. This ends up making the film feel very claustrophobic and suspenseful, especially given that if they sign off of the Skype call, they die. This gimmick, along with a deceptively intelligent script that minimizes gore (for the most part) and maximizes suspense and story, lifts “Unfriended” above the slew of forgettable teen slasher flicks of recent years.

The second-best thing about this movie is that it’s only a measly 82 minutes long. This exceptionally short runtime prevents the movie from ever grinding to a halt. By keeping up the

breakneck speed of the plot, you don’t have to time to think about the continuity errors or anything deeper than instinctual logic.

Additionally, if the movie had been any longer, the computer gimmick might’ve lost its appeal.

Laura certainly didn’t mince words as she dwindled their numbers in increasingly creative and horrific ways, even if it never manages to be more than a little scary. (Disclaimer: I just saw “It Follows,” so maybe I don’t have the best gauge of “scary” at the moment.)

On the other hand, I was not a huge fan of the last few frames. I didn’t have a problem with the ending necessarily, but the last few seconds of the movie could have been handled more deftly to make “Unfriended” stick with you longer. Those final seconds undermined what could have been an incredibly powerful and lasting ending.

“We made a mistake, but we’re good people,” Blaire, the main character, begs to Laura (the virus-ghost-demon-monster).

She simply replies, “Are you?”

No human being can tame the tongue.

Unfortunately, with the advent of the Internet, the difficulty of accomplishing this impossible feat has been exponentially amplified. Instead of having to think through what you say to someone’s face, we can now hide behind computer screens and keyboards, and anonymously mutilate people mercilessly on an incredibly visceral level.

“Unfriended” is a raw reminder that what we do online has just as many permanent implications as what we do in real life, and that there is a human being on the other end of the screen with thoughts and feelings of their own.

Originally, “Unfriended” was supposed to be released on MTV as a made-for-TV film, but ended up getting released in theaters. I’m glad they did this, because I most definitely would not have watched a movie made for MTV. Don’t focus on the poor marketing; “Unfriended” is a smart enough, unique enough and meaningful enough horror movie that makes for a heck of an 82-minute ride.

Pass the Popcorn if: You like horror movies that have a deeper significance than “don’t mess with the devil, or he will mess you up.” You like horror movies with a side of humor (it’s pretty funny, and I can’t decide if that was intentional or not). You’d like to see a game of “Never Have I Ever” with higher stakes than pride. This new and creative angle excites you.

Pass it up if: You haven’t seen “It Follows” yet. You’d prefer to watch it on a computer for the added scary factor. You’re completely unfamiliar with every aforementioned website in this review.

You try too hard to predict movies, because you may just get this one right.

M JOKE TIME “Knock, knock.”

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“To.” “To who?”

“To whom!”

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Teammates, family help grieving Harris “(The team) understood and knew where (Harris) was coming from,” coach Tim Jamieson said.

JASON LOWENTHAL Assistant Sports Editor Missouri baseball took home another series victory this past weekend, winning two of three games against Tennessee on the road. However, it was not just another pair of wins for Tigers freshman left fielder Trey Harris. He had dedicated the series against the Volunteers to his aunt Sherri, who died this past Friday.

“It was rough at first,” Harris said. “Friday night, during the national anthem, I was tearing up a little bit.”

Harris pointed to his fellow teammates as his main way of powering through his tragic circumstances last weekend. He said his teammates helped him focus on baseball alone.

“My teammates really helped me,” Harris said.

“Coming to the field, they would make me laugh. I really couldn’t pout about it and let it beat me up.”

Missouri coach Tim Jamieson also commended Harris’ teammates as well as others for helping Harris during this tragic situation.

“We have a family,” Jamieson said. “(The team) understood and knew where (Harris) was coming from. We had a lot of family there, outside of our team. All the moms and dads were there. Guys take care of each other during tough situations.”

Although Harris went just 1-for-12 in the series, he did contribute his fair share. The Powder Springs, Georgia, native scored a run and had a sacrifice bunt to help Mizzou secure its fourth consecutive Southeastern Conference East Division series victory. Harris said that being able to take two of three also helped ease his pain. “(The series win) meant the world,” he said. “It put the biggest smile on my face, my grandmother, uncle. Everybody who was hurting the whole week just got to smile a little bit and enjoy EVERYBODY our team winning and doing what TOOK IT we do.”

Harris, who ROUGH AT TIMES, said his family is BUT AS LONG AS his top priority, said the rest of WE HAVE EACH family took OTHER, NOTHING his the news hard, but stayed strong CAN BREAK US.” in support for one another.

“Everybody TREY HARRIS took it rough at MU freshman and left times, but as long as we have each fielder other, nothing can break us,” Harris said.

Harris is enjoying a standout season for Mizzou, which is poised to reach its first NCAA Tournament since 2012. The left fielder is batting .257 on the season with one home run and 15 RBIs. In Mizzou’s first conference series against Georgia on March 13-15, Harris belted his first career home run in his home state in front of a large group of family members at the game.

After his impressive start, Harris said he is committing the rest of the year to his aunt in memoriam.

“I’m trying to do everything I can to make my family proud so that just for a little bit, they can forget,” he said.

Although Harris said he and his aunt were not as close as he would have liked, he thinks dedicating the rest of his freshman season to her is the best way that he can repay her for touching his life.

“I do know that she knows I love her and miss her,” Harris said. “She knows I’m going to do everything to make her proud.”

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Missouri men’s basketball head coach Kim Anderson looks on during a game against Arkansas on Jan. 24 at Mizzou Arena.

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Anderson focusing on next season DANIEL WITT Staff Reporter Missouri men’s basketball head coach Kim Anderson used to be a big sports-talk radio guy. But as recently as this past winter, this all changed.

Early in the season, while driving to Kansas City, Anderson was tuned in, listening to radio hosts speak about fellow coaches Bill Self, Bruce Weber and Fred Hoiberg — the usual victims of criticism and appraisal. All of a sudden, they were talking about the man behind the wheel.

It was at that point when Anderson quit listening to sports-talk radio.

Anderson doesn’t read the newspaper much, either. His wife, Melissa, reads it and tells him if he should.

But he doesn’t need to see the headlines to know the significance of the Tigers’ past season.

On March 11, Anderson’s Tigers fell in the first round of the Southeastern Conference Tournament to South Carolina by the score of 63-54. This resulted in the 23rd loss for the team, the most season losses in Mizzou men’s basketball’s 109-year history.

“Anytime you have a season like this, you evaluate everything,” Anderson said. “You evaluate your entire program.”

Just over one year ago, the Missouri basketball commander-in-chief was in the polar opposite situation. Anderson had just won a Division II national championship with Central Missouri in a season when the Mules went 30-5.

But after a month of cycling the Katy Trail, on April 28, Anderson landed his “dream job” at his alma mater, the University of Missouri, where he tallied 1,289 points playing center for the Tigers from 1973-77.

“We really had to hurry recruiting,” Anderson said of last April. “We really had to sign some guys quick, and everything went pretty fast.”

Amid the excitement, Anderson recognized the condition of his inherited team. It was a team with seven newcomers, five of whom were

freshmen. His team’s inexperience became Anderson’s favorite explanation for his team’s unsuccessfulness.

“It’s hard when you’re young and you lose,” Anderson said. “It’s really hard when you go out there every day and we say, ‘If you do this, you’re going to win,’ then you don’t win.”

Anderson said he recently received a letter from a fan telling him to quit making excuses because of his team’s youth.

Anderson said, “Well, I’m sorry, whoever that guy was. We are young, so we do need to continue to develop our guys. We’ve done that. We’re doing that. Individual skill development is important.”

Although Anderson said the criticism by fans, sports-radio hosts and journalists is justified, it’s hard on him.

In Anderson’s 12 seasons as head coach at Central Missouri, he only had one losing season. That was his first year, when the Mules went 12-16. In the 1988-89 season, as an assistant coach at Baylor, the Bears went 5-22. But unlike the 2014-15 Tigers, Anderson was not the head man in charge.

“I’ve never had a year like this,” Anderson said. “It’s hard, but it’s hard because this is my school. You don’t ever want to let anyone down. But while it’s hard, it makes you more determined.”

Anderson met with local media April 7 and outlined six aspects for his team to improve on for next season: strength and conditioning, individual skill development, team chemistry, staff organization and efficiency, academic achievement and recruiting.

“This year has taught me a lot,” Anderson said. "It has brought some clarity to me as to what we need to do with this program moving forward.”

Anderson and his staff have already began the forward movement.

Following Mizzou’s elimination from the SEC Tournament, the team received two and a half weeks off, with spring break falling during that. Since then, the team has focused on individual skills, and has been lifting weights three

to four times per week.

Not all of last season’s Tigers can be found in the weight room, however.

Sophomore forward Johnathan Williams III, Mizzou’s leading scorer and rebounder, along with junior guard Deuce Bello, were announced as transfers in an April 7 news release.

“I’m smart enough to know that any time you have a season like we had, it’s tough,” Anderson said. “I don’t think that anyone else’s going to leave. But I know that they’re young guys, and people get into their ears.”

Barring any more departures, Mizzou will enter the 2015-16 season with five sophomores, one junior and one senior, to go along with Class of 2015 recruits Terrence Phillips, Kevin Puryear and Cullen Vanleer.

Anderson said he would like to add a transfer or graduate transfer into the mix, preferably a scoring wing, combo guard or big man.

“We need some experience,” he said.

“We’re still pretty young. I’m sorry to the guy (who wrote the letter), but I’m going to ride that pony as long as I can.”

In addition to recruiting, Anderson will spend the upcoming weeks trying to find a replacement for recently departed former assistant coach Tim Fuller and continuing to train his current team.

“You don’t sleep a lot,” Anderson said of his work load this spring.

As the spring transitions to summer, Anderson’s load doesn’t lessen. He knows what his team needs to work on this offseason: offense.

“I rode in here last year on that white horse saying, ‘We’re going to play defense.’ Then, we couldn’t score,” Anderson joked. “I think we’re going to work more on offense this summer.”

Mizzou averaged 60.5 points per game this past season, ranking the team 321st in the nation. And as much as Anderson focused on defense, the Tigers ended up 212th in the country, averaging 67.9 points allowed per game.

“It’s hard on coaches, it’s hard on fans, but it is what it is,” Anderson said.

“I’m not ashamed of anything.”

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Reasons to fall in love with the Royals DANIEL SCHMIDT

You know what the best part of this summer in Kansas City was supposed to be? The Rolling Stones coming to Arrowhead on June 26. (Quick shout out to Wayne Schmidt for anteing up for the tickets. Love you, Dad!) The Stones are the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band of all time, and this most assuredly will be their last stop in the great state of Missouri.

However, at the time of the writing of this piece, the Kansas City Royals are 7-0 after beating the crap out of the Minnesota Twins, 12-3, on Monday. That 7-0 record is the best in baseball. Dating back to last year, the Royals are 19-4 in their last 23 games. They haven’t lost to an American League team since Sept. 27, 2014. They are the first AL team ever to start 7-0 while winning all of their games by at least two runs.

In short, the Royals have started this year hotter than a Marisa Miller photo shoot. Clearly, the momentum from last year’s playoff run (and possibly the sting of that Game 7 loss) has carried over to this year’s Royals team, despite the losses of Billy Butler (perhaps this was more addition by subtraction), James Shields, and Nori Aoki.

The additions of Alex Rios and Kendry Morales have paid off to this point, and if they continue to hit, this Royals lineup could be one of the best in (at least) recent Royals history.

I’m as big a Cardinals fan as the next generic St. Louisan that goes to Mizzou and I’d like to encourage my fellow Cardinals fans to adopt the Royals as their second favorite team.

I’ve watched the majority of the Royals’ first seven games this season, and they couldn’t have a higher likability rating in my opinion. My biggest takeaway has without a doubt been the confidence these guys play with. You can see it in how they take the field, the way they take their at-bats and even in the way they interact in the dugouts.

Yes, it is very, very early in the season, and the last time the Royals started this hot (9-0 in 2003), they ended up 83-79 and in third place in the AL Central, missing the playoffs. These Royals are different than the Royals of years’ past, though. These Royals have established a winning culture in Kansas City that hasn’t been seen since Brett and the boys in the ’80s. They are coming off of backto-back winning seasons and one of the most memorable playoff runs in MLB history.

Adding even more fuel to the fire is how many experts predicted the Royals to finish no better than third in the Central. This organization has been dealing with doubters and haters since 1985. At this point, all that doubters can do is to motivate these Royals to be even better than they were last year. The 2014 World Series loss was not what the Royals wanted. The Royals may find, though, that you can’t always get what you want; sometimes you get what you need.

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Missouri Tigers second basewoman Natalie Fleming (7) runs during a game Sunday at University Field.

Missouri digs in near end of season THOMAS CUDA Reporter In the next 20 days, the Missouri softball team will play 16 games. The Tigers have three series and seven games to redeem their 8-7 conference record, good for eighth in the Southeastern Conference.

Two series, though, will test their fortitude to emerge victorious. The Tigers will face No. 3 Louisiana State in a little over a week and No. 2 Florida at the start of May. As the Tigers enter the homestretch of the season, they received a boost of confidence this past weekend by winning their first series (2-1) in five weeks against Mississippi State, much to the relief of the players.

“It felt really good to get out here and get a win and get that series win,” sophomore catcher Kirsten Mack said. “We have Arkansas next weekend and

that’ll be a good series. It felt good because we were so close in those other series. It was one play, one out, and even one pitch that decided the series.

The way that it’s been going lately, it’s good that something finally broke our way.”

This series was important for Mizzou, as MSU was ranked No. 23 in RPI. The Bulldogs also defeated LSU by a score of 9-4 the only time they played them this season and had not been swept by any team this season.

Taking a series from them was “awesome,” sophomore pitcher Tori Finucane said. “It was exactly what this team needed.”

The Tigers have been preparing for this run for the past few weeks. In recent series against No. 11 Georgia and No. 7 Auburn, the Tigers won a game in each. The players found value in the way that they played and learned from

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those situations. Overall, they said they were content with taking home one and having a chance in the other two games of the Georgia series.

Having played against other top teams, Mizzou has hope it will be able to take on topranked squads coming up on its schedule including LSU and Florida.

“We’ve just gotta keep grinding,” junior outfielder Emily Crane said. “It’s starting to be the downhill side and this is when it is most important to be your best.”

Crane added that the team needs to use its next couple of games to prepare for Florida and Georgia.

Freshman producers are figuring out the mental toughness and preparation it takes to play in the SEC as well.

Despite having played some of the best teams in the country early on in the season during invitationals, the team has

struggled in conference play.

“We have to take everything game by game and pitch by pitch,” freshman third basewoman Amanda Sanchez said.

If they do this, she says that the Tigers will be fine.

The schedule is packed full of games in the last three weeks of the regular season, particularly due to a rescheduled doubleheader April 29 against Northern Iowa.

With a busy schedule in the next three weeks, the team will be playing more than they have all season.

Missouri’s opponents should see a motivated team over this pivotal stretch.

“If we can use these next few series to sharpen up, we can end our home series and see what we can do in the postseason,” Crane said.

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Portrait of rapper, photographer and business owner, junior Chef Noriega.

Chef Noriega plans for ‘longevity’ in hip hop The junior was first influenced by rock ‘n’ roll.

MORGAN MAGID Staff Writer Walking through the MU Student Center with a black windbreaker and a bright yellow hat, junior Chef Noriega does not carry himself like someone managing multiple businesses and a budding rap career.

Chef talks confidently about all of his ventures, which include rapping, a clothing line and photography company.

This confidence has created opportunities for Chef. Just recently at South by Southwest music festival, a performer at a show he was photographing didn’t show. Immediately, Chef whipped out a flash drive with 30 minutes of music and offered to jump in.

The man running the show asked if Chef had ever performed before and his response was simple.

“That’s not an issue. Just load me up and you’ll see.”

When Chef was a freshman in high school, he began to rap for the first time. However, this was not his first musical venture — Chef’s mother actively sang in the family’s church choir, and his father participated in a small funk/disco band with other members of the family.

“I've been pretty much involved with music in some kind of way since birth," Chef says.

Chef used to sing along in church even as a baby, his mother says.

It was Chef’s mother who also introduced him to one of his biggest musical influences: ’80s rock ‘n’ roll. That, not rap, was the first music Chef ever heard.

Sting is one of Chef’s mother’s favorite artists, and the sentiment has rubbed off on the rapper.

“I dream of making at least one song with Sting,” Chef says. “That’d be a very

fun collaboration.”

Other creative outlets were not far and few between from Chef growing up.

A hyperactive imagination peppered his childhood with many adventures featuring imaginary friends. Somewhere in the garage of Chef’s old home, 12 issues of his own comic book sit in a box. As he aged, Chef turned to YouTube, creating a page with dance videos and original short films.

Those videos were first shot on the digital camera Chef bought when he was in eighth grade with the money he’d saved up from golf caddying. Since the fifth grade, Chef had only taken photos on disposable cameras.

Chef now takes photos for other artists (such as the one who took him to SXSW) and does photography and editing for his company, Ctral Photography.

Hailing from the small Illinois suburb of Chicago Heights has deeply affected the rapper’s approach to both music and himself. The town sits about 30 miles south of the Windy City and has a population of about 30,000 people with a wide range of socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds.

Growing up, Chef was an inbetweener of sorts, he says, someone who simply couldn’t fit into a box.

“I feel that you either have to be street hard, turn-up or you're intellectual and a geek,” Chef says. “I like to party, I like to go crazy, I'm not a thug. I'm smart; I'm not a nerd.”

Chef says he wants his music to appeal to those suburban inbetweeners. Those who, like himself, don’t fit into traditional molds.

"Not everyone is born into those ‘hood areas’ anymore, it's more diverse everywhere,” Chef says. “And so for the people like myself who were exposed to a lot of different things growing up, that’s what my music is predominantly for. So they have a voice.”

Chef faced the same frustration in the music world as he was well-aware of the stereotypes that force hip-hop artists into

strict themes of criminality and partying.

"For a lot of my musical career I felt like I had to fit the mold (of what) most hiphop artists is, which is you gotta be hard, you gotta be street,” Chef says. “It wasn't until I started to get older and started to see people who I grew up with, who were in my same first grade class, trying to start selling serious drugs and trying to join different gangs and stuff like that, that then I was like, ‘Why? You know we were fortunate.’

“There are people that really have to sell drugs to pay bills and maintain their life situations and we'd never have to do that, so why would I want to portray something like that?” Chef says.

This realization acted almost as a cleanse for Chef’s music, allowing it to become more cohesive.

“It was a lot easier to not be selfconscious about it because I wasn't lying anymore,” Chef says. “It was more I'm just letting people know this is me. If you like it, you like it. If not, well not everybody likes everybody.”

Chef now says he makes his songs to better fit performing — his favorite part of music. He says it has made music that much more fun thanks to the interactions it creates on stage.

“You do all this work in the studios to help people understand your music, but the live performance is where people understand music,” Chef says. “It's where you can become someone's favorite artist.”

The first show Chef performed at took place his junior year of high school. And it didn’t go off without some hijinks.

Chef and some friends talked to a bar owner about wanting to perform back in 2011, claiming that they could get a 300-person crowd to the show.

“A lot of people were doing music at the time, but no one had done a show yet so I was like ‘I gotta make sure I'm the first,’” Chef says.

After the original date was canceled due to the club owner’s forgetfulness, the show was rescheduled for the day of the NBA Championships — something that “totally killed the (amount of) people that came out.”

“We had maybe six people in there after promising 200, so we were like, 'Yo, let's hurry up and get on stage,’” Chef says.

Worried that the owner might cut the power, Chef’s crew set up as quickly as possible. Shortly after, the power was indeed cut.

“We got as many songs in as we could, and it was a good experience to have,” Chef says laughing.

When it comes to making music, Chef does his best to produce everything by himself. Quizzy, a local producer, taught Chef how to make beats at the level he is at now.

One summer, the two produced an EP called “Cyberswaggin On Blue Heaven”.

“We spent a lot of long days in the studio,” Chef says. “Sometimes we’d sleep in his studios because we’d be working on stuff.”

On his most recent project, “Illumbia 2,” Chef mostly produced the beats himself, and he initially mixed and mastered the tracks himself. Now the project is in the hands of the producer KaCe, who is mixing it to give a professional sound.

“I want longevity for this project,” Chef says.

In his music, Chef has several standard facets including guitars and choruses for a powerful feel, and he incorporates drums and bass using an 808 now that he has an industry-level sound system.

His “secret ingredient,” however, is adding snare for a live stadium feel.

Chef also runs a clothing line known as Clan Clan, which is meant to represent “a family within families.”

“I made a family within families because growing up me and my family, we’re close now, but we weren’t close,” Chef says. “I was closer with my friends so my friends were my family.”

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Local musician Raven Wolf plays April 10 outside Lakota Coffee Company.

Spiritual jazz radiates from St. Louis-based traveling musician Raven Wolf C. Felton Jennings II plays 13 instruments and practices anywhere from seven to 17 hours a day to create spiritual jazz.

LAUREN LANGDON Reporter Street musician Raven Wolf C. Felton Jennings II taps his foot to the beat of his saxophone on the sidewalk. Cars driving down Ninth St. honk and wave at the performer as he howls, “How hooooow,” back at them. An old woman walking past greets him by name and gives him a hug. Switching to drums, he varies the tempo and volume, echoing the sounds down the street. Not a single person walks by without a smile, fist bump or wave from the musician.

Welcome to the “Magical Mystical Meditation Concert.”

Every Friday, he performs this concert outside of Lakota Coffee in downtown Columbia.

“He came to us about four or five years ago and asked to play out front,” Lakota Coffee General Manager Andrew Ducharme says. “He said he played jazz and blues. We said, ‘Yeah, we will see how it goes.’ The customers seem to really like it; we really like it.”

Since that time, Jennings hasn’t missed more than one Friday, Ducharme says.

“Some folks say that I am a fixture,” Jennings says. “They continue to say keep going. The community reaction to me has been positive and definitely encouraging and fortifying.”

Jennings’ debut album “Spiritual Jazz … On South 9th Street” was inspired by these weekly concerts and featured the “spiritual jazz” genre that Jennings performs. He says that a number of people have purchased the album and enjoyed it.

“Spiritual jazz is not humanly possible; it’s a healing sound,” Jennings says. “It’s my body and my understanding of music and creation all channeling at the same time all happening at the same moment, the same instance. It’s co-created. I channel music; I channel healing sound; that’s what spiritual jazz is.”

This spiritual jazz resonated with Columbia resident Nick Patton so much that for some years he came every Friday for several hours.

“Every time that I am here, I experience what he is doing,” Patton says. “I have felt relief from physical issues in the past, emotional sense of joy and upliftment. He is a very humble person, but I personally view him as on par with many of the modern-day saints. The dedication that he has to his practice and ethics that he stays so committed to, serving people through his focus and playing music, is definitely a good example that I have looked up to for a long time and served to be an inspiration for my own path.”

Jennings comes from a family of musicians. Growing up, Jennings

watched his older sister Lois play the flute and later learned that his uncle Wesley, who died before he was born, was a saxophone player.

“I think I got the vibes from (my uncle Wesley), I think hearing my sister ignited it; she showed me how to play a little bit and now here we are,” Jennings says.

Like his sister, the first instrument Jennings learned to play was the flute.

Although Jennings was never formally educated in music, he can now play 13 instruments. He says that he’s in the process of learning several more.

“When I say I play, I mean at a professional level,” Jennings says. “One where I can record with that instrument as opposed to, ‘Oh I can play, I can dabble.’ A lot of people say that, and I’m like, ‘No, this is legit, it’s bona fide.’”

Jennings changes among his many instruments during his street performances. Some of the songs he plays are borrowed from one of his five albums, but he says he is also inspired by the energy and spirit moving through and around him.

“There are vortexes near here, energy sources here,” Jennings says. “There’s one over there and a vortex here, which is the ground. I am in between the one that gives and the one that grounds, I don’t get tired."

Jennings performs at many locations around the St. Louis area including Vintage Vinyl and Soulard Farmers Market.

"I play seven to 17 hours a day just about every day in five different cities.

It was seven different cities so there’s a lot of windshield time that I drive 315,000 miles on my car.”

Jennings’ permanent residence of 16 years is in St. Louis as well, but recently there has been the threat of foreclosure.

Due to a harsh winter, which led to less performing days, an unexpected auto repair and other expenses, Jennings fell behind on payments. In order to raise the $11,300 required to reinstate his home loan, Jennings created a GoFundMe campaign on April 2, which closes April 17.

“This is not easy for me, it has taken so much of my inner strength, to share my appeal for your help and support,” Jennings wrote on his GoFundMe site.

“I have worked very hard, very long hours, to ‘get it done’ and not trouble my family and friends. This is, without exception, the most painful truth that I have ever had to make myself face, that I cannot do this by myself. I ask this of each of you in all of the communities that hold me dear to your heart.”

This financial hardship has not stopped Jennings from continuing to work on his music. Jennings plans to release five more albums in June or July of this year.

“The albums do and will continue to do what they have been crafted, guided and enspirited to do — heal,” Jennings says. “That is heal the world one heart at a time, cause it’s a hard thing, it’s a real thing, it’s spiritual jazz.”

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