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Farah El-Jayyousi Marilyn HaigH Staff Writer At Women’s Poetry Night in March, senior Farah El-Jayyousi stepped up to the microphone, opened her blue-lipstickcoated mouth and told the world to pronounce her name correctly.

Just because two of the letters in Farah’s name (the rolled “r” and an “h” deep from the back of the throat) don’t exist in English, doesn’t mean they can be ignored. Her name is an essential part of her identity as an Palestinian and white womyn, El-Jayyousi said.

“Untitled #1,” the first poem she ever wrote, is a response to a news story that said Palestinian culture doesn’t exist. “(They said) it was like this manufactured

Bruno VernascHi Sports Editor J’den Cox seemed to bounce back quickly after dropping his semifinal bout at the NCAA national championships.

Despite getting upset by Ohio State’s Kyle Snyder and consequently losing hopes for both a repeat individual title and a first-ever program title, the Missouri wrestling team’s leader kept his head up and went on with it.

“Not winning a national championship is not going to make me a failure,” Cox said following his match. “Not having fun loving what I’m doing makes me a failure.”

It seems like Cox is always in good spirits, even with something as heartbreaking as finishing No. 5 individually and No. 4 as a team, although both figures were expected to be “No. 1s.”

The charismatic Columbia native may have lost his chance to become Tiger Style’s first four-time national champion, but in his eyes, that brings no sense of despondency.

“I didn’t have the tournament that I wanted, but I can’t say that I’m disappointed,” Cox said. “I don’t really even believe in disappointment, I don’t think it’s a real thing. I just think there’s a want for more — more to be done or something different to be done. There’s too little time to stay sad or down about something, so I just don’t even make it a point. It’s just move on and get better and do more. I think that goes for everything in life.”

Last year’s 197-pound national champion is firm in this belief,

culture or something,” she said. “Which was ridiculous, and I was like, ‘Um, excuse you. This is … a huge part of my identity.’”

Writing and performing poetry on campus is just one way El-Jayyousi makes her voice heard at MU. Her friend senior Ashley Wineland said El-Jayyousi’s voice is strong and powerful, but compassionate.

“In the issues that she cares about, she’s fearless,” Wineland said. “While she is fighting for the rights of herself and the rights of others, she’s one of the most compassionate and thoughtful people that I think I’ve ever met.”

Friend and fellow poet Naomi Daugherty still remembers the first time she heard El-Jayyousi perform. She said El-Jayyousi uses poetry to claim and share her story. emphasizing “everything in life.”

Cox has fully lost hearing in his left ear due to a hereditary issue — something that would slow most people, much more athletes, down, even halting their hopes and dreams.

Not this guy, though.

Cox has continued to not only dominate in his sport, but also find the time to excel off the mat He’s also a talented bass guitarist and singer.

The wrestling mat isn’t the only place Cox performs; he’s sung the national anthem at Mizzou sporting events, along with performing live shows.

Between school, wrestling and music, most accomplished collegiate athletes would find it hard to find the time to do much else.

Not this guy.

Cox volunteers to help with children in the community and from it, has developed a number of unique relationships.

“I don't want to be valued as a wrestler,” Cox said. “I want to be valued as a person.

I enjoy people that care about my wrestling and all that, but if that’s all that people see in me, then I think that’s lacking on my part.

That means I’m not doing something right.”

Most notably, he has become good friends with Brayden Deaver, a 7-year-old boy that is deaf who he met last year.

Brayden, who also wants to become a wrestler, tends to go to the majority of Cox’s wrestling meets with his parents, always cheering his pal on loudly.

Although many may see the duo’s relationship as one-sided, Cox insists it’s special.

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“She politicizes the personal,” Daugherty said. “Speaking to how politicized her personal experiences are, she gives voice to marginalized individuals in that audience who have been looking for that language, who have been looking for that representation of their story.”

El-Jayyousi is involved in the Muslim Student Organization because it provides a safe space for Muslim students and combats stereotypes, she said. She served as public relations chairwomyn her sophomore year and became president the next semester, a position she held for all of junior year, too.

But that’s not the only organization she has led.

El-Jayyousi was diagnosed with thyroid cancer at the end of her freshman year of college. There weren’t a lot of opportunities to talk about her illness with other people her own age, she said.

In March 2014, she started the organization Chronically Awesome, a group on campus for students with chronic and invisible illnesses.

Chronically Awesome has taught El-Jayyousi how to think outside the box in terms of organizing and accessibility, she said. Since many of the group members have chronic or invisible illnesses, she takes creative approaches to holding meetings, like holding a meeting over Twitter or sharing executive positions if the commitment is too large.

El-Jayyousi will graduate in May with a double major in women’s and gender studies and psychology. She hopes to find a job in community organizing, working oneon-one to mobilize others towards solving social justice issues.

Eventually, she said she would like to work with people who have chronic illnesses.

Wineland can’t remember exactly when she met El-Jayyousi, but she said she

knows it was at the Women’s Center, where Wineland works as a student staffer.

“She’s just like a part of the Women’s Center because she’s there so much,” Wineland said. “She comes in and she studies and hangs out … we have great discussions.”

They talk about social justice issues and things that are happening around the world, Wineland said.

Seniors Soumaya Necibi and Tahura Lodhi grew up with El-Jayyousi, who is originally from Columbia. They said she has experienced more than most people their age have and that she has become more open with her opinions.

“If she needs to make a change, she’ll make it happen,” Necibi said. “That’s something that has changed in her and it’s definitely a positive change.”

Not all of El-Jayyousi’s involvement is through formal campus organizations.

About a month ago, El-Jayyousi received national attention for a letter to the editor in The Maneater protesting the screening of “American Sniper” on campus.

On April 21, she and her father, Jalal El-Jayyousi, hosted a “teach-in” on Palestine with MU Socialists and the Peace Studies department. She helped compile a flyer listing resources like documentaries and books.

Right now, she’s leading a petition to allow students to rent caps and gowns instead of paying the set $74.99 fee for the required cap and gown for graduation.

El-Jayyousi encourages change in a wide range of issues, but the breadth of her roster doesn’t lessen its depth.

“You know how some people, you have to teach creativity, you have to teach mobilization, you have to teach justice,” Daugherty said. “For Farah, those things are inherent. For Farah, all those things are the marrow of her bone.”

J’den Cox “I know people say that he worships me or whatever, but no, it’s a real friendship,” he said. “It’s not a ‘One person’s up here and the other’s down here and they just hang out.’ No, we’re at the same level. It’s not like any other relationship I really have. It’s really cool just to hang out with him and have somebody that looks up to you and you admire him, too. I hope to continue to be his friend for a long time.”

Cox, who said he wants to “slow down and relax” after graduation, also has big goals to become a motivational speaker. He’s been practicing this plenty, most recently traveling to St. Louis to inspire a collegiate

rugby team.

With two years of eligibility remaining, the jack-of-all-trades is looking nowhere but up.

Despite an undefeated regular season and accolades galore, the Tigers have yet to secure a team national championship. Cox, who will become the undisputed leader of the pack next season, will seek to accomplish just that.

“My goals haven’t changed (after not being able to win four straight),” he said.

“One dream may not be able to come true, but still, another is born. I’m just going to wake up and go after the one that’s in front of me.”

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Naomi Daugherty ElizabEth loutfi Student Organizations Editor Senior Naomi Daugherty always has a poem memorized and ready to share at any moment. If she has one on her chest, she can’t sleep until she gets at least part of it out.

Daugherty’s existence is poetry.

“Poetry is the reason I can make sense of a very complex and hurting world,” she said.

She wrote her first poem when she was 8 years old.

“It was because my brother told on me.

It really upset me,” she laughed. “And I remember it was called ‘betrayed.’ It was in my first diary — I still have it. And it was written in orange marker.”

Her favorite line she has ever written came from her pondering how compassion feels like the marrow of her bones: “If love

GEorGE robErson Staff Writer A former Panhellenic Association president, a loud and proud social justice activist and an English major from a conservative St. Louis suburb walk into a bar.

They're all Kayley Weinberg.

This is the first semester Weinberg didn’t hold any leadership positions. The super-involved senior is also involved in Greek Allies, the Proud Tigers mentorship program, Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority and has served as a Summer Welcome leader.

“For me, it was about finding the few things that I’m really passionate about and really jumping into those,” Weinberg said.

"And also finding ways that my different passions could interact. Greek Allies is a good example of my passion for social justice, and specifically LGBTQ issues, and my passion for the Greek community."

If you think those passions are a bit at odds, you aren’t alone. But that’s the mindset Weinberg’s involvement on campus has worked to break down, LGBTQ Resource Center coordinator Struby Struble said. “(Kayley) has been a really great true, honest, open version of herself,” Struble said. "She was out as PHA president and as a Summer Welcome leader, and that representation of a successful, out queer person does so much for breaking down stereotypes of our community, validating and legitimizing the identities of LGBT students who aren’t necessarily only involved in the LGBT center. And it really shows the breadth of our community and helps be a representation to people that we’re all across this campus doing important work."

Weinberg said she has seen herself change in her four years at MU, especially since coming out two years ago.

"I’m very different,” she said. "I’m much

is all I’ve got to give, then I know that I am powerful.”

She has performed her work across the country, including in Nevada, Minnesota, Indiana, Arizona and Illinois.

As a freshman, Daugherty lived in Johnston Hall, where she was in hall government. She was a part of Mizzou Change Today, Dream Outside the Box and Indie Poets. During her sophomore year, she started her own organization called SPEAK Community Theater.

She said it has been a long-running joke that she is an “honorary” staff member of the Women’s Center all four years.

“I exist in that space so deeply,” she said. “That is my home and definitely the place on this campus that I feel the safest.

If we could pick where we could have our graduation, I would say the Women’s Center.”

Daugherty’s voice can also be heard more confident in my own skin than I was.

I feel more Kayley. I have a better sense of who I am, who I want to continue to be and also who I want to surround myself with.

That’s something that has changed a lot."

She said coming into school, the only thing she was sure of was that she wanted to be involved.

"Some people know exactly what they want to do right when they get here, exactly which communities they want to help,” Weinberg said. "For me, I didn’t really know.

I just knew I wanted to make a difference and be involved directly in planning things and enacting thing."

Her advice to younger students wanting to make a difference is simple: “Jump right in.”

“If they’re interested in something, even if they’re nervous … go for it,” Weinberg said. “I would tell them to push themselves out of their comfort zone. My freshman year consisted of diving head-first, which left me pretty overwhelmed, but I think it was good because I got to do things I figured out I wasn’t passionate about and then do things I found a passion for.”

After graduating this semester, Weinberg will work for Sigma Sigma Sigma as a traveling consultant in the northeast region.

She expects to return to MU, however, to get her teaching certificate in high school English.

“I will be really sad (to leave),” Weinberg said. "It hasn’t really hit me yet. I think when people keep saying, ‘three weeks until graduation,’ it’s like, ‘that can’t be me.’ I think it’ll be really weird, but I think knowing I’ll be coming back makes it a little less difficult to leave. I’m going to be really sad to leave the community I’ve built here.

It’s kind of scary."

Weinberg’s favorite memories of her time here are the friends she’s made and the community she’s built.

“It really started to take form after I was a Summer Welcome leader,” she said. “That’s

across this campus, but her words this year had more urgency.

It was Aug. 9, 2014, and Michael Brown had just been killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Daugherty, December 2014 graduates Ashley Bland and Kailynd Beck were sitting in Daugherty’s house when the news of his death broke.

“I think it was a mixture of having our knowledge and experience of having existed in a world where we knew we were never meant to survive for so long — and then seeing this black body, this black life, that didn’t survive … and deciding that we needed to do something,” she said.

MU4MikeBrown, the student-led movement responsible for numerous public demonstrations, was born that day.

Daugherty and her collaborators emailed a bunch of campus leaders and student organizations that celebrated people of color and asked them to be on board, Daugherty said.

"We were watching the news unfold via Twitter, and we all knew orgs that were planning things separately, so we said ' let's make this a collective,” Beck said in an email. “That way we could eliminate orgs trying to plan over one another and the reach would be more powerful."

Bland said it's not a true organization that it was formed it that way on purpose so people who were not involved in traditional, prominent campus groups would still be comfortable getting involved.

The movement’s first demonstration was a silent vigil in Speakers Circle in August.

“It was wild to believe that was this year,” Daugherty said. “It feels like a long time ago … but it also feels like it was yesterday.”

The movement encountered several obstacles on campus.

“Our administrators are racist,” she said.

“And they try to pacify the fact that they are.”

She referenced two different accounts, including when Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Cathy Scroggs said “yellow” lives matter at the MU4MikeBrown Demonstration in the MU Student Center

on Dec. 2 and when Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin joked that “something good came out of racism” at the race relations forum March 17.

She said they ran into problems with the media, as well. She was “misquoted for days,” and felt a lot of them forgot that they were reporting on such a sensitive topic: their lives.

“I had journalists begging me to cry on-camera after the non-indictment,” she said. “There was one journalist who stole my protest sign to use for her news station.”

However, she praised Ashley Jost, former higher education reporter for the Columbia Daily Tribune, for her sensitive reporting that acknowledged the movement’s historical context.

Jost, who is from North St. Louis County near Ferguson, met Daugherty in Speakers Circle in August at that initial demonstration.

“She definitely is one of the students who thinks about not only what she is saying, but why she is saying it,” Jost said.

“And you can tell when she’s talking about those issues that she’s personally invested in them.”

Daugherty said Jost always got the scoop before any other reporter.

“At the very beginning, I made it clear that I (didn’t) have an agenda, and so many people are unaware that that’s not the media’s role,” Jost said. “And trying to get over that hump with those students really wasn’t that big of an issue because they were all pretty media-savvy.”

Daugherty always loves to remind people that she graduates in May. She already has a job set up in New Orleans where she will be teaching ninth-grade English. She said her emphasis on education tends to be overlooked because of her involvement in race relations.

“The lens is race relations and the frame is access to education,” she said.

“I’m so excited to extract myself from this space, because I am so tired of being confined in an institution where my liberation feels compromised.”

Kayley Weinberg when I started to come out. That experience gave me a lot of confidence in myself and in my community. Being more involved in the social justice community has been good for me, and I grow every day because of the friends I’ve made in that community.

And to see the bravery and the activism on our campus for so many different issues has been really, really special. Being able to speak up about things and having people by my side who will support me and speak up with me has been my favorite experience."

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In an interview last July, Thompson told The Maneater that one of her main goals for the year was to work on public relations for GPC. Now that her first term as president is almost over, it’s clear that she did in fact manage to “start the ball rolling.”

“We actually created a new position this year, which is the director of communication,” Thompson said. “We used to have a director that was just for programming and publicity, so we split that position.”

Although Thompson said she is “extremely satisfied” with what her team has been able to accomplish in a year, she still plans to focus on improving public relations even more during her next term.

“We are excited to have someone specifically working on Twitter and Facebook, making those events and getting the word out,” Thompson said.

“We are going to be really working hard on doing things digitally (in order to make) sure we’re hitting all the different places that we can catch people.”

Hallie Thompson AlAnA SAAd Staff Writer Graduate Professional Council President Hallie Thompson has a problem.

“I have this problem where I really care about a lot of things and it’s hard to balance between caring about so many things,” she said.

In addition to her recent re-election as GPC president, Thompson found herself one step closer to her dream of feeding the world.

Thompson, a fourth-year doctoral student in plant sciences, has been analyzing a dataset that suggests her research on the response of corn’s adult root systems to drought conditions will eventually enable farmers to grow better, more plentiful crops.

In addition to conducting three different research projects, Thompson has spent the past year leading GPC in the direction of innovation, progress and advocacy on both a local and national level.

Recently, Thompson and the GPC

Stevie MyerS Staff Writer Senior Kelsey Burns’ home on campus is the Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention Center.

Burns holds the position of Presentation Coordinator for RSVP Peer Educators, a program that trains students on sexual assault issues. She is also a teaching assistant for the Peer Educators training course. She said she holds these positions very close to her.

During her very first weekend on campus as a freshman, Burns said, she was sexually assaulted. Following the incident, Burns said she became frustrated because her year became more difficult.

“I wasn’t involved in anything my freshman year because I had to work through my own struggling and I had to figure out how to best take care of myself,” Burns said. “And I wasn’t doing that, I was doing the opposite of that. I was doing everything that wasn’t good for me.”

Burns ultimately decided to get involved with the RSVP Educators after listening to a presentation given by one of the members.

“I just thought, ‘Wait, there’s a whole center for this,’” Burns said. “‘People are saying that this isn’t OK. I thought that what happened to me wasn’t OK, but there’s a whole center dedicated to educating the campus about how this isn’t OK. I need to know more about this.’”

surveyed graduate students about their specific needs. The results are expected soon, and Thompson said she hopes to use those results to advocate for graduate students, from getting better student housing to improving the nighttime bus routes.

Campaigning for students In November, Thompson directed the 28th annual National Association of Graduate-Professional Students Conference, where she was elected as the director of Legislative Affairs.

“It’s a challenge,” Thompson said. “I’m in charge of coordinating fly-in events at Washington D.C., submitting responses to letters and different legislation and advocating GPC’s platform nationally on the Hill.”

Thompson has also spent much of her time as president advocating for GradsHaveDebt2, a national campaign aimed at educating students on the loan problem in the U.S. One year after subsidized loans were taken away from graduate professional Her involvement doesn’t stop with the RSVP Center.

Including work at the Psychological Services Clinic, Burns also currently serves as a Proud Tigers Mentor and Safe Space Trainer at the LGBTQ Resource Center. She was an organizer for Take Back the Night and even finds time to participate in a few dance groups on campus. Burns was recently named a recipient of the 2015 Mizzou ’39 Award.

But Burns isn’t involved just to build a resume. She said working at the RSVP Center and being able to participate in something she cares about is much more important.

“Honestly, it doesn’t look that great to put all the different stuff that I do on my resume because it kind of freaks a lot of people out,” Burns said. “I think it’s a lot easier to sell yourself and a lot easier to grow and become better in your field or area if you’re doing something that you really, really care about and relating it to the work you want to do.”

Kayla Jackson, a graduate assistant at the RSVP Center, said Burns is a great advocate for sexual violence prevention work.

“She has done great things in the RSVP Center as an educator, and I'm sure that her social justice lens will be a helpful addition in her future careers,” Jackson said.

Burns said that even when she is feeling frustrated and discouraged at the end of the day, her passion for these issues always draws her back in.

students, current GPC Director of National Affairs Jesse Kremenak founded GradsHaveDebt2 in 2013.

“It turns out that 77 percent of the profit that’s made off of loans issued for the 2014-15 school year is made off of graduate professional students — even though we account for 13 percent of the borrowing population,” Kremenak said.

Since its launch less than two years ago, GradsHaveDebt2 has been highlighted in Time, The Atlantic, Smithsonian and POLITICO — achievements Kremenak directly credits to Thompson.

“I know that if it wasn’t for her support and her lubricating everything and ensuring that we could actually do these things, we wouldn’t have had these big accomplishments,” Kremenak said.

“We’ve been able to develop a culture of setting those outlandish goals and having the groundwork and the support to actually be able to accomplish that.”

Improving public relations Kremenak also said that Thompson has made GPC more transparent to her

Moving forward at MU Thompson said the continuity of her presidency will put her at an advantage in regards to efficiency because she will already have a rapport with all the administration and faculty.

Despite her excitement to continue onto her second term as GPC president, Thompson has not forgotten why she is here at MU. In fact, she said she plans on stepping down from many of the committees she’s involved with on campus in order to focus more on her research, which she said has been going “very well.”

As a scientist, Thompson said she naturally loves the tiny details involved with being GPC president as well as the personal growth that comes with leadership roles.

“I think having a year under my belt as president and being able to really experience what it’s like to succeed, to fail and to have ‘meh’ moments is all a learning process,” she said. “You figure out where you fit in and where your strengths are. I’ve learned quite a bit about myself, and that’s a success in itself.”

Kelsey Burns “I love it,” Burns said. “This is absolutely what I want to do with my life. I can’t imagine spending my time doing anything else other than sitting in the basement of the Student Center all day, working on this stuff and talking to people about it and having courageous conversations with people constantly.”

Burns said that having these difficult

dialogues with people and watching them grow is part of what she loves so much.

“Through that, I myself grow and that will make me better in whatever I decide to do in my life,” Burns said. “I think it’s so invaluable how important that is; to be involved in something you’re passionate about.”

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MIZZOU IN REVIEW Molly Duffy Long Reads Editor Ben Bolin wants to know how you’d defeat a Balrog.

It’s the first question on Bolin’s application for next year’s Academic Affairs committee chairperson. As the outgoing Senate speaker for the Missouri Students Association, hiring next year’s chairpersons was one of Bolin’s final responsibilities. In interviews, Bolin asked about surviving the Oregon Trail and which American founding father they found the most inspirational, and invited applicants to draw a picture of their perfect MSA executive slate.

The challenge of facing a balrog, the creature shrouded in darkness and fire that Gandalf faces in the first book of J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Lord of Rings," speaks to initiative, passion, innovative thinking and team-building skills. Bolin hoped the answer would reveal the character of applicants and help him find the right people to lead MSA after he graduates.

Bolin is known for his dedication to MSA. His most obvious contributions have been fixing, simplifying and streamlining the MSA Bylaws and processes of student government. But he’s also made MSA a welcoming place for prospective members and more accessible to the student body as a whole. When he finished his term as Senate speaker in March, he closed a four-year career in MSA that transformed the organization into a more legitimate, transparent and functional government.

“He’s just a really inspiring leader because he is so motivated,” said McKenzie Kramer (formerly Morris), who served as Senate speaker the year before Bolin. “He makes you want to be a part of what he’s doing, and so I think even though his personality is more of a high-powered, high-energy leader, he makes you want to be as motivated as he is.”

When Bolin arrived on campus in the fall 2011, he planned on studying physics and practicing ballroom dance on the side. He wanted to challenge himself, but

he had no intention of doing that through student government. But he fell in love with the energy of the MSA leaders at an introductory meeting that a few of his Schurz Hall floormates dragged him to for the free pizza.

He found his place in the MSA Operations Committee, where he was a freshman senator who routinely wore a full suit to committee meetings. During one Senate meeting, he remembers taking five pieces of legislation to the floor, all of which fixed seemingly minor grammatical and wording errors in the bylaws.

“People were like, ‘Oh my god, Ben,’” Bolin said. “I was so obsessed with rules — they have to be perfect and they also have to be absolute. And it really kind of made me sort of a point man for MSA. People would come to me whenever they had changes in the rules.”

Bolin said people assumed he had always been a straight-laced, down-tobusiness kind of guy. Although Bolin has always been interested in the rules, it started as a form of rebellion.

“There’s pictures of me — that I will not release — of me with a moustache and long hair and shirts that say, like, ‘Rebel’ across the front and this giant dragon on the back, embroidered,” Bolin said. “It’s pretty sweet.”

In Operations, Bolin went from rebelling against the rules to learning as much as he could about them. He said he saw that as a chance to “fight them from the inside.” When the Operations chairman position opened during his first semester, he applied for the job but wasn’t chosen — looking back, he said he wasn’t developed yet as a leader.

The following March he was hired as Operations chairman.

Bolin was planning to overhaul the bylaws and constitution. He eventually passed major changes to both, getting rid of language that was obsolete or outdated.

Ben Vega, last year’s Academic Affairs chairman, said that he and his brother Bill, who serves as the Budget chairman, can’t read many MSA documents without hearing Bolin’s voice.

Ben Bolin “They’re written in a particularly Bolin way,” Ben Vega said. “And if you know Bolin and you’ve heard him, you can just recognize that this is Ben Bolin talking to you on this piece of paper.”

Bolin also set his sights on legitimizing the election process for MSA senators.

Senate had been chastised for replacing leaving senators internally — creating a sort of “boys club,” Bolin said. Instead of electing academic college seats in the fall, MSA now elects during the spring and the fall semesters, allowing for student elections, not other senators, to fill vacant seats.

During his time in MSA, Bolin was also founding and running a company, Imagine Labs LLC, which won the Missouri Energy Initiative award in 2014. He was also learning Japanese.

“Japanese is hard, physics is hard, student government is hard. I’m pretty

sure I’m a glutton for punishment,” Bolin said, laughing. “If you don’t challenge yourself, then you don’t grow. A goldfish grows to the size of its aquarium, so why not expand your aquarium? Why not put a whole bunch of castles in it and then try to swim around it really quickly? That’s a weird illustration, but (it’s about) testing yourself, finding your limits.”

Bolin is graduating this year with a degree in physics. Never one to lose momentum, he will start a new challenge the Monday after graduation weekend — working toward a degree in patent law from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Bolin said to defeat any enemy — outdated bylaws, convoluted procedures, a lack of transparency, a balrog — preparation is key. He said defeating a balrog, metaphorical or not, “takes a little creativity and a team of immense skill.”

Organizations Dun li Staff Writer The following organizations are not placed in any particular order.

1. Delta Xi Nu Multicultural Sorority, Inc. Still relatively small in size compared to other chapters of the Greek community, Delta Xi Nu has already made an impact on MU’s campus. As a sorority committed to multiculturalism, the eight founding sisters envisioned inclusivity and diversity. In this past school year, DXN took action in gaining more visibility on campus through collaboration with other organizations in the community.

During Women’s History Month, DXN hosted the Respect HER. festival with Rainbow House and True North, showcasing the resources they have on campus; in addition, DXN also actively engaged with the Multicultural Center, Mizzou Association of Latin American Students and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., among others. Continuing to be a space for women to celebrate their identity and be included in all aspects of Greek Life, DXN shows great promise in fulfilling its purpose.

2. Mizzou Alternative Breaks Sending nearly 1,500 students on 130 trips this year, Mizzou Alternative Breaks is now growing exponentially beyond wild expectations, improving from 850 students on 69 trips last year.

Currently, MAB is the second largest “alternative break” program in the country, and it is their aspiration to be the largest soon.

Devising plans for spending breaks during and between semesters, MAB came up with a new feature this year to further the program’s flexibility: weekend trips. MAB also developed relationships with other organizations; in a partnership with MU Extension, MAB has sent or will send 26 trips to locations within the state of Missouri.

Working diligently to meet the students’ needs, MAB has continued to make progress in its rapid emergence.

3. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. The Alpha Men from the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Zeta Alpha Chapter, strive to be drivers for change, while earning the respect of the campus community through delivering dedicated service, Alpha Phi Alpha President Justin Cutts said. This year, the calendar-marker event known as the Alpha Week proved successful in its unfolding. The Alphas also gave away more than $7,000 in scholarships for Miss Black and Gold Scholarship Pageant and Clarence B. Wine oratorical competitions. The Alphas were also able to sponsor banners for Hickman High School’s Black History Month through their annual chapter fundraiser, The Throw Back. Their increased visibility comes in various forms with a focus on media content spreading their name across the campus. In their endeavors to serve and improve the campus community, the Alphas have essentially embraced their aims: Manly Deeds, Scholarship and Love For All Mankind.

4. MizzouThon As one of the most active student organizations on campus, the newly christened MizzouThon (formerly MU Dance Marathon) continued its record-breaking streak this year on campus; at its annual 13.1-hour main event, MizzouThon had more than 900 dancers registered, raising a grand total of $201,322.68 for the MU Women’s and Children’s Hospital to renovate its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

With a $1 million pledge set forth for the next five years, MizzouThon made steady progress on its promise. Assuming a creative approach to raising awareness in year-long events, MizzouThon was able to reinvent itself this year, beyond just its name change.

5. Mizzou Student Veterans Association Aimed at bringing awareness to all matters relating to student veterans and ensuring a smooth transition to and from military service, the MSVA succeeded in upholding the values of service leadership and commitment to education. Through various events offering support for veterans on campus, such as the Patriot Day BBQ and “I Support Mizzou Veterans” fundraiser, the MSVA made promising progress in connecting veterans with students and families involved with military; in addition, the MSVA serves as a home for many student veterans on campus.

This Year’s Top 5 Race Relations Forums

Quinn malloy Staff Writer The following race relations forums are not placed in any particular order.

On Nov. 24, 2014, a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, decided not to indict officer Darren Wilson for shooting and killing 18-year-old Michael Brown. Brown’s death in August of that year led to much unrest around the nation.

At MU, incensed students banded together to form MU4MikeBrown. Events held by this organization and others, combined with growing tension nationwide, prompted administrators to hold a series of forums on campus.

The following race relation forums are not placed in any particular order.

1. Ferguson Listening Session, December 1 Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin hosted a Ferguson Listening Forum on Dec. 1 in Memorial Union after students expressed their frustration that administration had yet to address campus race relations. The event featured students’ impassioned pleas for a proactive administrative response to growing racial tension on campus as opposed to a reactive one. Overall, administrators said they were moved by students’ stories.

Loftin released a statement the following morning, in which he vowed to continue listening and create action plans based on student feedback.

2. Snowed in Another open forum was scheduled for Feb. 16, but it was canceled when campus was closed due to snow. Administrators initially postponed the race relations forum, but it was eventually canceled after administrators claimed they could not find a suitable space to hold the forum at a later date.

3. Open forum, March 18 Anger was the overtone of this forum. Students criticized administrators’ lack of action since December’s listening session.

Faculty Council established a committee on race relations, but it hasn’t held its first meeting by this time. Students seemed to key in on and criticize MU’s lack of diversity. Loftin said that there are “far too few faculty of color” at MU after pointing out that fewer than 10 of the school’s 2,000 faculty members are Hispanic. Since this forum, MU has published a transparency website with the goal of sharing information about progress on initiatives to improve campus climate.

4. Call to Action Progress Report, April 29 Conservation Auditorium was barely half full when Loftin began his presentation April 29. Roughly 30 minutes of the hour-and-a-half-long Call to Action Progress Report forum was dedicated to presenting how administrators have responded to student requests. Administrators from various departments talked through PowerPoint slides, highlighting several steps they’ve taken to improve race relations on campus, including discontinuing the university’s One Mizzou marketing slogan and making more efforts to recruit marginalized students from the “inner city.” After administrators were finished with their presentation, student queued up to ask questions on either side of the auditorium. Student after student challenged administrators on their presentation. They approached the mic with pages of feedback and powerful or insightful comments were met with snaps. The administration went to great effort to directly address student requests, but only one thing was clear by the end of the night: There is still much to be done.

5. Next forum: TBD? It is currently unclear whether another forum will take place during the summer or fall semesters. One student at the March forum suggested that forums not only continue but extend to other areas of campus, specifically to Greektown. However, Loftin did not allude to a future forum during April’s meeting.

Sports Fails

Jason loWenTHal Assistant Sports Editor The following sports fails are not placed in any particular order.

1. Football loses to Indiana, blown out by Georgia Missouri may have finished the season with a second consecutive division title in hand, but the season had its rough patches. It’s hard to forget about giving up nearly 500 yards and losing to a lowly Indiana team on parents’ weekend. The loss ended any national championship hopes and made Mizzou the laughingstock of the Southeastern Conference. It wouldn’t get any better when the Tigers returned home two weeks later. The Georgia Bulldogs steamrolled Mizzou at Faurot Field by a score of 34-0, the first shutout since 2002. Oh, and the game was on national television. Many Mizzou fans thought the Tigers had the game in hand when it was announced that Bulldogs’ Heisman Trophy candidate tailback Todd Gurley was suspended for a violation of NCAA rules. Yet, their hopes were extinguished when Bulldog freshman Nick Chubb rushed 38 times for 143 yards and one touchdown.

2. Men’s basketball smacked by Kentucky in Lexington Mizzou’s 49-point loss to Kentucky at Rupp Arena symbolized an entire season of embarrassment (see, fittingly, “Biggest Embarrassment” in this section). The Tigers were actually playing solid basketball heading into the matchup with the top-ranked Wildcats. They went down to the wire against Illinois, Oklahoma State and Auburn, and had beaten Lipscomb and Louisiana State, but the Tigers were completely overmatched by Kentucky. The bigger, moreathletic Wildcats limited the Tigers to just 27 percent from the field in the 86-37 victory. It was Mizzou’s fewest points scored in a game since 1950 in a 41-36 loss to Oklahoma and its largest margin of defeat since an 111-56 loss to Kansas State in 1998. The Tigers’ leading scorer, Johnathan Williams III, shot 1-for-13 and finished with a mere three points in the loss.

3. J-Three departs After a 9-23 season in which there were few bright spots, most Mizzou fans started looking forward to next season with a more mature and developed team. They would receive one more jolt of disappointment when leading scorer Johnathan Williams III announced his plans to transfer. Williams, a four-star prospect from Memphis, Tennessee, originally chose the Tigers over Tennessee, Georgetown and Michigan State, among others, and was the top signing in Mizzou’s 2013 recruiting class. He led the Tigers with 11.9 points per game, 7.1 rebounds per game and 0.6 blocks per game.

According to remarks from his father, Williams didn’t have strong relationships or chemistry with his teammates at Mizzou. Williams’ transfer did come with a restriction, however, as J3 will not be allowed to go to schools in the SEC, Big 12 Conference, Illinois or Arizona (schools on Mizzou’s 2016-17 schedule). He’ll be taking a year off next season, with two years of eligibility remaining.

4. Volleyball takes major step back Mizzou volleyball went on an unprecedented run in 2013. The Tigers rolled through the SEC, put together the first undefeated regular season in conference history and broke numerous school records.

With 11 total returning players, including two All-Americans and five starters, Tiger coach Wayne Kreklow seemed to have assembled a team poised to defend its SEC title. However, Missouri would take a major step back this season, finishing 16-17 overall, 7-11 in conference play, failing to qualify for the NCAA tournament. A 2-6 mid-season stretch and a 1-4 mark in their final five matches did the Tigers in.

5. Wrestling can’t finish at nationals Mizzou’s wrestling team plowed through the competition, finishing the regular season with an undefeated record and a Mid-American Conference Championship title. They seemed invincible heading into NCAA Championships. Held at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, the Tigers took the stage in front of what was essentially a home crowd.

Although six Tigers placed individually at nationals, including Drake Houdashelt’s first-place finish, they could not hold up the title they had been fighting for all year: the team title. Instead, the Tigers had to settle for a fourth-place finish, with Ohio State winning it all.

Memorable Moments

HannaH Black Staff Writer The following memorable moments are not placed in any particular order.

1. Coffin protest In a school year filled with many student demonstrations, the image of makeshift coffins on the Francis Quadrangle is hard to forget. The coffins were painted black, white, red, brown and yellow to represent people of all skin colors who are victims of injustice. A social justice initiative made up of MU students called “Wage Peace” held the demonstration Dec. 11, 2014, to protest racial discrimination and police brutality. During the march from the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center to the Quad, members carried makeshift coffins on their shoulders.

Students also carried posters reading “Wage Peace” and chanted the civil rights movement anthem “We Shall Overcome” on their march across campus.

2. The Vagina Monologues expand for 2015 The 14th annual MU Vagina Monologues celebrated its success in past years with two shows at 2 and 7 p.m. Feb. 15 at Missouri Theatre. Junior Adrienne Donica, a performer in the show, told The Maneater in February that having two shows was a great change because it meant more exposure within the community and more money could be raised for Columbiabased organizations, such as True North and The L.E.A.D. Institute, that exist to aid women facing domestic and sexual violence. Adapted from a book by Eve Ensler, the sketches are intended to raise awareness about issues facing the female community, such as sexism and sexual assault.

3. Jane Goodall brings ‘hope’ to Mizzou Arena World-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall didn’t disappoint when she visited campus in September 2014. At 80 years old, she sold out Mizzou Arena and inspired the audience with tales of her fieldwork with chimpanzees in Tanzania. She credited her life and career to her mother who encouraged her passion for working with animals. Yet, her talk that night was not about her research, but rather a message to fight for the environment. She also brought with her a message of hope.

“My greatest reason for hope is the young people,” Goodall said.

“When the young people take action in the things they care about, good things happen.”

4. Laverne Cox comes to MU Advocate and “Orange is the New Black” actress Laverne Cox visited campus Oct. 6, 2014, and spoke to a sold-out crowd in Missouri Theatre. Cox is the first African-American transgender woman to produce her own television show, “TRANSform Me.” She spoke about growing up and becoming proud of her transgender identity in Mobile, Alabama, a place that wasn’t always OK with her true self. She also touched on issues such as violence against the transgender community. Cox told the audience to love and accept one another, saying, “You can’t tell someone who they are. Let them tell you who they are.”

5. MSA Elections produced record turnout The highest voter turnout in history helped elected Missouri Students Association President Payton Head and Vice President Brenda Smith-Lezama. All in all, 7,075 students voted in the 2014 MSA election and the pair’s slate, Ignite Mizzou, was elected by more than 1,000 votes. In last year’s election, only 5,387 votes were cast. The increase in turnout can be credited to Smith-Lezama told The Maneater in November that she and Head campaigned until the polls were officially closed.

Determined to get every vote possible, Smith-Lezama said she thought it was incredible to have won by such a large of a margin.

Concerts

Taylor ysTeBoe anD elana Williams of The Maneater staff The following concerts are not placed in any particular order.

1. The Avett Brothers This was my first time at Roots N Blues N BBQ but my second time seeing The Avett Brothers. Needless to say, I’ve been a fan for awhile. Because, let’s be honest, if you throw together some bearded Southern gents with a knack for the banjo and stories, I’m in love. The Roots N Blues experience of The Avett Brothers made my feet stomp and my heart flutter.

They played the classics, like “I and Love and You,” from their album of the same name, but they also sang the gospel tune “In The Garden” and a cover of “Jump in the Line.” My favorite, though, came third in the set, the sweet “Laundry Room.”

What was so memorable about this performance was how easily the Avetts can sing an energetic song like “Kick Drum Heart” and then switch to the somber yet lovely “Murder in the City.” That, my friends, is how The Avett Brothers roll.

2. Walk the Moon The Reading Day concert with Walk the Moon in December at The Missouri Theatre was undoubtedly the wildest show that I’ve been to. There was clapping and jumping and dancing and shouting and singing, and that’s not even to mention what the Ohio quartet did. All in all, it was a breathless, jampacked set that drew heavily from their latest album, “Talking Is Hard,” but also spotlighted the gems that helped them reach fame, like “Tightrope” and “Anna Sun." And it wasn’t like Walk the Moon was singing at us. Rather, they sang with us, like we were all friends by the end of that fun-filled night.

3. Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors Tennessee will always have my heart, so I was a goner when Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors made their first appearance at The Blue Note in April. This Tennessee group was thoughtful in the songs they played and personal in the stories they told.

Holcomb commanded the stage equipped with his guitar and, for some songs, a harmonica. In between songs that spanned the band’s early years to 2015’s “Medicine,” Holcomb would offer a charming anecdote about his daughter Emmylou or about his wife and fellow singer Ellie. The most magical moment of the night was when his backing band left the stage, and he unplugged his guitar and stood less than arms-length away from me to sing “Tennessee.” No matter the geography, music and Drew Holcomb will have a home in my heart.

4. Foster The People These rockers of “Pumped Up Kicks” fame pumped up the crowd with their alt genius at one of The Blue Note’s segments of 9th Street Summerfest last October. The street was packed and provided a nice early-semester break from the venue’s interior which, although gorgeous, can get a bit stuffy with crowds. The band’s opener was Soko, a quirky, uber-cute solo chick with an awesome voice. She brought her A-game, and I gave her my money afterward. As for Foster The People?

They definitely didn’t disappoint live, and the outdoor stage did not faze them. The show was a major highlight of my first semester and why I committed to going to as many shows as possible for the remainder of the year.

5. Machine Gun Kelly MOVE isn’t just into alternative/folk/rock, we swear!

Machine Gun Kelly played at The Blue Note about a week after Foster the People did, and he put on an amazing show. Everyone’s favorite skinny white boy from Cleveland, Ohio, put on the most high-energy, exciting and moving performance I saw all year. Between never missing a beat, crowd-surfing and scaling the balcony, MGK took time to talk about the struggles he faced growing up. He was surprisingly inspiring, and boy, did I gobble it up; he told us to be ourselves, to work hard and to never stop trying. I probably cried. He also lit a blunt on stage and lots of girls took their shirts off. Like I said, inspiring.

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Participants light candles in remembrance of earthquake victims in Nepal on Friday at Speakers Circle.

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Students fundraise for Nepal victims Many Nepalese students’ families have been directly affected by the earthquake.

MAddi dOeriNg Staff Writer On April 25, a massive earthquake struck Nepal, killing over 7,000 people.

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decided to help. Nepalese exchange students Raghav Poudyal, Suman Gurung and Saroj Dhital have started to raise funds for victims of the earthquake and raise awareness on MU’s campus in hopes of making a difference.

On May 1, the three held a candlelight vigil in commemoration of those who lost their lives or are suffering in Nepal.

To raise funds for the disaster, Poudyal said the organization will

table at the MU Student Center to collect monetary donations until next Wednesday. They also plan on hosting cultural programs to bring the Nepalese community together, he said.

The money donated will be sent to humanitarian organizations that provide food, shelter and medicine for victims of the earthquake.

Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, along with other neurodegenerative aging and diseases, could potentially be prevented by simple dietary measures, MU School of Medicine researchers found in March.

A research team, led by Zezang Gu, associate professor of pathology and anatomical sciences, experimented with aged garlic extract and documented its effects on the brain’s immune cells in the presence of stress. Brain-damaging stressors could be pollution, brain injury, alcohol consumption or the aging process.

Other studies on garlic have focused mainly on the sulfuric component of the nutrient, which gives its potent taste and smell, as a source of an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent. Gu’s research focuses on the preservative responses from a carbohydrate derivative of arginine amino acid from garlic called FruArg. The report was published in the peer-reviewed online publication, PLOS ONE.

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Since April 12, Ria Knapp has lived in a hotel room. On April 8, she and seven other residents of The Domain apartments, located on East Stadium Boulevard, were told that they would have to relocate due to structural damages in their

her three roommates and four residents of another unit were told that the cracks were due to structural issues in building 8.

They would have to move out of their units immediately so that the damages could be repaired.

“It totally changed everything,” Knapp said. “We had to pack up and move out April

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apartments. Knapp packed up clothes and necessities, loaded the rest of her belongings into a storage container, and moved into the Holiday Inn and Suites.

Knapp said that she had been noticing cracks appearing in hallways and had heard other residents talking about cracks appearing in walls and doorways. On April 8, Knapp,

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MaddiE foStEr Staff Writer Missouri alumnus Timothy Blair recently donated $1 million to the journalism school. The money is intended to support education and research about how journalists cover LGBT issues.

Blair said he spent the past two to three years discussing potential donation ideas with MU development.

“I was looking at items of interest that I felt a certain passion about,” he said. “As we narrowed it down, the issue of the connection between democracy and journalism became something that I was particularly interested in.”

Blair said that he left the donation relatively openended in terms of how it is to be spent so as to not limit the ideas of those passionate about the issue.

The donation is an estate gift, which means it will not be available for use until Blair’s death.

It will presumably be awhile before administrators can use the money, given that Blair is 63.

However, administrators have already begun brainstorming possible uses for it.

"The LGBTQ community isn't often incorporated into the daily fabric of local news,” said T.J. Thompson, president of the MU chapter of NLGJA. “Many media outlets use wire services and only localize their coverage when an LGBTQ issue seeps into the national consciousness. As such, Blair's generosity could foster and support proportionate and sustained local LGBT coverage through grants, contests and scholarships.”

Currently, journalism students are required to take a cross-cultural journalism class in which they learn about LGBT issues among other things. One of the focuses of the class is realizing that the LGBT community is a part of the greater community and is impacted by many of the same issues as everyone else.

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While most children were still learning to read, 8-year-old Eric Cartwright stood in his mom’s kitchen, making eclairs.

Now, as the executive chef for MU Campus Dining Services, he cooks in a much more professional kitchen — the Culinary Development Kitchen, hidden behind an inconspicuous set of brown double doors in Sabai. Cartwright has been the executive chef for the past nine years and is the first to hold that position.

Cartwright has always enjoyed cooking, which is why he spoke with a recruiter at Johnson and Wales

University, which has a culinary program, when a high school teacher assigned the students a project to interview a person in a career field they were interested in.

“I left there saying, 'This is it! This is what I want to do!’” Cartwright said.

“Then I got my first job in a restaurant, I was 15 or 16, busing tables and washing dishes, and I've never looked back.”

Right after high school, Cartwright went to Johnson and Wales for two years of formal culinary school. All the while, he was working in restaurants. He said he learned just as much from working in restaurants as he did in school.

“What culinary school, much like any formal education, gives you is the textbook knowledge behind it,”

Cartwright said. “The actual work gives you the application of it. Doing both of those allowed me to advance through the career path quicker than had I just gone to school or just worked.”

As of now, Cartwright has been cooking professionally for 23 years. Prior to working at MU, he worked in private restaurants, country clubs and fine dining. But once he entered the collegiate dining scene, he “fell in love with it.”

“We can constantly create – that’s where the excitement comes in as a chef,” Cartwright said. “As you go around campus we've got 20-some locations, no two of which are the same, versus being

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Bill seeks security for sexual assault survivors PaigE LaLain Staff Writer A bill introduced in the state Senate on Jan. 27 is making progress within the General Assembly in an attempt to alter the script on sexual assault and stalking. Senate Bill 321 aims to enact 14 new sections relating to court orders of protection and the prohibition of contact between sexual offenders and corresponding victims of sexual assault.

In order to do this, the bill modified definitions of stalking and sexual assault. Assault is defined in the bill’s text as “purposely or knowingly placing or attempting to place another in fear of physical harm,” something that has been the subject of many discussions on

college campuses recently. Rather than the previous definition, the updated version is more broad and encompasses all instances of assault without consent.

“We quickly realized that the state currently issues orders of protection only for victims of stalking and domestic violence, but not victims of sexual assault, which are some of the people who are most in need of protection,” said Richard Germinder, legislative staff member for the office of Sen. Dan Hegeman, R-Cosby, who is the current bill sponsor. “We found that expanding orders of protection was actually more effective and would be easier for prosecutors to use in protecting victims of sexual assault.”

In addition to setting out courses

of action for sexual assault victims, the bill also delves into the issue of stalking, which is explained in the text as any instance in which “any person purposely (and repeatedly) engages in an unwanted course of conduct that causes alarm to another person, or a person who resides together in the same household with the person seeking the order of protection when it is reasonable in that person’s situation to have been alarmed by the conduct.”

Repeated, in this context, means two or more incidents providing evidence of continued, purposeful, unwanted communication or contact.

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Legislation to punish those using others’ IDs Individuals can purchase a new ID in Columbia for just $11.

MaDDI DoerIng Staff Writer Fifty-one percent of underage college students thought obtaining alcohol was “very easy” and 18 percent had obtained alcohol with a fake ID, according to a study by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

Increasingly, rather than purchasing fake IDs, students are borrowing real IDs from of-age friends, who then purchase a new ID for a small fee, Rep. Mike Kelley, R-Jefferson City, said.

Currently, an individual caught possessing a fake ID would be given a misdemeanor punishable by a $500 fine and have the ID confiscated.

However, current laws are only applicable for those with fake IDs, not for those using someone else’s valid ID. In order to “keep up with the times,” Kelley introduced House Bill 294, which would extend punishment to individuals who falsely identify themselves as another person to a law enforcement officer with someone else’s ID. “I can imagine that hopefully this will bring more people to school for the right reasons, rather than for partying,” Kelley said.

A new ID in Columbia costs $11, according to the

Department of Motor Vehicles’ website. To obtain a new Class A, B or C Missouri driver’s license in Columbia, one could pay $22.50 for a three-year version, or $25 for a six-year version, it states.

MU junior Kathrynne Black said she supports the punishment being increased.

“I don't think anyone should be able to have someone else's identification information,” Black said. “I know I would be upset if I knew that people were using my information to do anything, especially if it involves breaking the law.”

MU Police Department spokesman Capt. Brian Weimer said if the bill passed, MUPD would enforce the law, just like any other crime.

“If officers observe the

crime they will take action,” Weimer said. “It is the police department’s job to enforce the law and we will do so as written by the regulators.”

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April 14 and will now move on to the Missouri General Assembly.

House Bill 44, introduced by state Rep. Stephen Webber, D-Columbia, is a bill with similar intent. The bill was referred to a second committee, the Select Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations, on April 28.

LeVota sponsored SB 144 because he said he felt he had a duty to his daughters.

“I was inspired by the persistence of Rep. Stephen Webber on this issue,” he said in an email. “But most importantly, I have two daughters and I believe they should be paid as fairly as any other Missourian.”

He said he thinks the pay gap can effectively be addressed by the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

“The problem is that women make 78 percent of what men make in our state,” he said. “Our Department of Labor should help employees with guidelines to improve pay equality. Senate Bill 144 would help with this issue.”

The Missouri Chamber of Commerce did not respond to requests for comment.

The Women’s Foundation said they’re hopeful of the change these bills could create.

“The movement of these bills represents great progress for the Women’s Foundation’s public policy agenda in addressing the fact that women in Missouri make only 71 cents to the dollar men make,” a news release stated.

Wendy Doyle, the president and CEO of the Women’s Foundation, said she was glad to

see HB 44 move further in the General Assembly.

“We’re now one step closer to enacting a smart policy solution which will address the gender pay gap and positively impact the lives of Missouri women as well as our economy,” she said in a news release.

MU junior Jessie Martin said she thinks it’s time men and women are rewarded the same for the same work.

“I think that men and women should be paid equally, as long as the job title and work they’re doing is equal,” she said. “If men and women are holding the same position with the same job description but not getting paid equally, then yes, the bill is a good idea.”

Webber said he sees these

bills as an opportunity to create common-sense legislation.

“By working together, we have created the opportunity to pass a straightforward policy solution aimed at improving the lives of Missouri women, their families and our economy,” he said in a news release. “The gender wage gap affects us all and with bipartisan support we will begin to close it.”

LeVota said he considers these bills a step forward for Missouri.

“My hope is the we can pass Senate Bill 144 and the Department of Labor will identify pay equality guidelines for Missouri businesses,” he said. “It can be a first step to create gender pay equality.”

license is certification enough.”

Yesis graduated from MU last semester with a degree in electrical engineering and is helping to restart the club. He explained that from a technical perspective, ham radio is similar to other communication systems.

“Your cell phone is just a radio,” Yesis said. “The only difference is that it talks a very short range to a tower that’s a couple hundred meters from here, and that tower is connected to wires, which route your signal wherever you want it to go. Ham radio is no different.

It’s just that you’re not connecting something that’s going to relay over wires. You’re connecting through air, through space.”

Phil Gresham, the club president, holds an “Amateur Extra” class license, the most advanced available. He was the driving force behind the club’s revival.

“Our goal in restarting the club was to try to advocate for and inspire students to join into amateur radio and be part of that community, and to build it up,” Gresham said.

Gresham’s personal interest in ham radios began with his

grandfather, who became a licensed ham radio operator while in seminary school. When Gresham was 12 years old, he earned a license of his own. Gresham said that earning a license at a young age is not as difficult as it may seem.

“It doesn’t really require that much math; it’s a great way to get into science, technology and the STEM fields for people who are not necessarily going to go and become electrical or computer engineers,” Gresham said.

Gresham stressed that ham radio is not only for engineers. In fact, his degree is in fine arts, and he’s currently in MU’s graduate program in printmaking.

“So much of it is accessible to anybody,” Gresham said. “It jumps across all fields.”

David Larsen, the club’s faculty adviser, is a forestry professor who was active in MU’s ham radio club as a student in the ’70s. He said the club has never had a large number of members, but there are always interested students.

“People are curious, and they live in an area where they don’t have access to other hams,” Larsen said. “So they come to campus and

they want to learn about it.”

Two faculty members are now involved in club leadership – an adviser and a trustee. Larsen explained that having both faculty members play active roles will help prevent the problem that caused the previous club to disappear.

“Students change, but faculty also change,” he said. “There was one adviser, and he left the university and didn’t pass (the club) on to anybody else. We’re just trying to set it up so there’s some continuity. People come and go. So you want to have at least one person who can pass it on to the new person that comes.”

Dale Musser, the director of the IT program and an associate teaching professor in the Computer Science Department, is the trustee for the group. He explained that according to the Federal Communications Commission rules, the trustee cannot run the organization; the trustee has separate responsibilities.

“I basically have the equipment,” Musser said. “Because Lafferre Hall is undergoing renovation, which is where we were going to have the club station, that space is going to get destroyed. In the

meantime, when students want to get on the air, they get the equipment from me, and they go set it up somewhere.”

As the trustee, besides storing the equipment, Musser is also responsible for securing a license from the FCC to operate the radios. Originally, the club was given a random call sign, a set of letters denoting the identity of a licensed operator. But he applied for a custom call sign, and selected W0ZOU. The club’s next major scheduled activity is participating in Field Day, a national emergency preparedness event organized by the American Radio Relay League, the largest ham radio advocacy group in the country.

“Basically, you take your entire emergency radio set and set it up in a park,” Gresham said.

“Everybody tries to make as many contacts as far as they can. And we award ourselves points.”

The MU club is joining with the city club for the event, which will take place beginning at 1 p.m.

June 27 at Rock Bridge Park and runs for the rest of the weekend.

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hearing for the bill has not yet be scheduled. If passed, the bill will become effective Aug. 28.

Bill would require gender pay guidelines for businesses JennIfer Prohov Staff Writer The Missouri General Assembly is beginning to move forward on bills aimed at creating equal pay in Missouri, a state ranked 24th by the American Association of University Women in equal pay for full-time workers.

Currently, according to MU’s Institute of Public Policy and the Women’s Foundation, women working full-time in Missouri earn only $0.71 for each dollar a man earns for the same work.

Senate Bill 144, introduced by state Sen. Paul Levota, D-Independence, aims to create gender pay equality guidelines for Missouri businesses. The bill was voted ‘do pass’ out of committee

Amateur Radio Club returns to Mizzou after 10 years JareD KaufMan Staff Writer For some people, the term “ham radio” conjures up mental images of a grandpa in a dark basement, fiddling with knobs, trying to pick up a staticky signal. The Mizzou Amateur Radio Club is back from a decade-long hiatus and hopes to change that perception.

“A large chunk of what I can do on the Internet, I can do while the power’s out (with amateur radios),” club member Justin Yesis said. “I can talk to space, to China or just about anybody I want to from a car battery in my office.”

The club existed at MU until it fizzled out in the early 2000s. Now, the club has been revived, owns new equipment and is planning several events to get students involved in using amateur, or ham, radios.

“Ham radio is the hobby of playing with radio waves, at its essence,” Yesis said. “What that means for most people is, ‘I can talk to people all over the world for fun.’ It also means we can build our own radios and not have the government certify them. Our

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“We have been talking to groups and organizations working in rural parts of Nepal,” Dhital said. “We’ll channel the raised funds to these organizations so we have more control over where the funds go.”

The Nepalese Student Association would like to extend fundraising efforts to the city of Columbia, Dhital said. They are

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Continued from page 1 The tests involved microglial cells, immune cells in the brain and spinal cord that are the first line of defense in the central nervous system, according to the news release the MU School of Medicine posted March 26. They respond to an injury or stress and are able to multiply quickly. However, the response increases the levels of their emitted nitric oxide, which can lead to cell damage and stimulates neurodegeneration.

For those with no background in technical biological jargon, here’s a layperson’s perspective. Many things cause stress in the body, including eating, exercise and disease. This causes the microglial cells in the brain to react and possibly overoxidate and cause damage. This study shows that garlic extract and FruArg can reduce the number of oxygen species produced and reduce the stress level. The hypothesis,

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12, and the week before we spent in meetings with the management. It was really stressful trying to barter concessions while still trying to do school.”

Other residents of building 8 are safe, The Domain spokesperson Mark Evans said. Evans said the damages were caused by settling in the building’s foundation.

“We’ve done safety checks and made sure only building 8 was affected,” Evans said. “The damage was due to settling. City engineers have assured us that it’s stopped, and now we can make repairs and restore it to what it was before.”

Evans emphasized that all other buildings on the property have been deemed safe by city engineers, and settling should

currently working to get a fundraiser permit from the city.

Many of the Nepalese students’ families were affected by the earthquake, Dhital said.

“We all have families and friends back home still,” Dhital said. “A lot of Mizzou Nepali students’ relatives have lost their homes. Some of them have lost their lives and almost all of them are traumatized.

This event has affected us all as we are constantly worried about (the) situation back home and its really hard to focus on our studies.

But we’re staying strong and doing the best we can do to support the victims.”

Raghav was one of the students whose family was affected by the earthquake.

“My father and mother had to sleep outside on the streets for six nights,” Raghav said. “We were lucky in that our house was not destroyed but a few of my extended family have lost their homes. Over the last week, this is what I have been through — I was shocked, I was frightened, I became hopeful and

now I am determined.”

In addition to their efforts to provide relief, the students hope to spread knowledge of Nepalese culture.

“We have realized that we have not done much in terms of promoting our culture and diversity here at Mizzou,” Raghav said. “We want to organize programs that showcase our traditional dances, songs and other arts. We want to familiarize people with Nepalese cuisines. We hope that programs like these will help us to reach out to

those who don’t know much about

then, is that if the stress can be reduced, something can be done about the onset of stress-related diseases in the brain and elsewhere.

Grace Sun, MU professor of biochemistry with a focus in oxidative stress, provided the team with the microglial cells.

“We used immortalized microglial cells and isolated them for testing,” Sun said. “We are very happy with these cells.”

The team put the cells in a culture dish and simulated stress by adding an endotoxin called lipopolysaccharide. This activated the microglia’s production of reactive oxygen species, a natural response as part of the body’s redox system, a biological system of reduction and oxidation to maintain homeostasis, or balance, in the cells. Aged garlic extract and FruArg compounds were then added and tracked to see what proteins of the stressed system were changed through mapping the molecular pathways.

“We are expecting FruArg and aged garlic extract to help manage the redox systems,” Gu said.

Pathway analysis found that around 70 percent of the protein concentrations that changed were the same between aged garlic extract and FruArg and had an antioxidant property. With the help of FruArg and the extract, stressresponse systems may be controlled and reduce damage from too much oxidization, which is linked to Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative conditions.

“The conclusion becomes that a lot of the same proteins changed by the extract are changed by the FruArg,” said Michael Greenlief, director of the MU Proteomics Center. “That means FruArg seems to be changing the stress reaction systems and is a useful component in garlic.”

The next step is learning how to implement the research into a dietary recommendation, Gu said.

“If it all pans out, a garlic supplement could be a good thing,” Greenlief said.

Individuals and families affected by neurodegeneration, then, may soon find some control in their

increasingly devastating situations.

According to the Alzheimer’s Association website, every 67 seconds someone is diagnosed with the disease in the U.S. Alzheimer’s involves damage to the 100 billion nerve cells of the brain and interferes with connectivity, leading to increasing confusion and behavioral changes.

Each year, Parkinson’s disease, the damage of dopamine-producing cells in the brain, is diagnosed to 50,000 to 60,000 new cases, according to the National Parkinson Foundation website.

“What we are doing is really a public interest study,” Gu said.

Gu and his team are also encouraged by the unique structure and efficiency of their research plans.

“The exciting part is that we are using ‘systems biology,’ or looking across an entire line of proteins in the cells to find the more predominant actions of the compounds,” Gu said. “Previous studies looked for a single pathway under a defined hypothesis. Ours is a broader and

unbiased look into the interactions of multiple pathways.”

The “actions” Gu refers to are what is believed to have a healing effect, though Gu said there needs to be more research. According to Gu, this study is fundamental and has more opportunity for growth.

Future experimentation with aged garlic extract and FruArg may also be extended to other areas of the body as similar studies of immune responses. Gu and his colleagues intend to study the nutrient’s properties in relation to cancer, inflammation and diabetes among other conditions.

Much of the funding and support for the work, and future developments, comes from the National Institutes of Health. A grant from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicines, the Office of Dietary Supplements, and the National Cancer Institute assisted funding as well.

not continue.

“We are hopeful settling will not reoccur,” said John Simon, the building regulations supervisor for the Public Works Department.

“They’re in the process of making repairs over there to address the issue by pushing piers down to the bedrock to stabilize the foundation.”

Simon said the settling seems to have occurred from an issue when building the apartments but is not due to any larger geological issue.

The fill laid down beneath the foundation was not compressed properly, causing about three inches of settling beneath building 8 and the complex’s pool, and should be fixed by anchoring the

building to piers in the bedrock.

Residents should be able to return to their apartments by the middle of May, and construction on building eight will continue throughout the summer.

“We’re trying to accommodate everyone,” Evans said. “A main concern was studying during finals week, so we’re halting construction on Stop Day, and we’ll pick it back up when finals end. We want to make sure construction has a minimal impact.”

Knapp and the other residents have each been given their own rooms in the Holiday Inn and Suites on Stadium Boulevard and U.S. 63. Knapp said it’s now harder to spend time with her

roommates, who are some of her best friends.

They have been given food, transportation and laundry allowances, and refunded their rent for April through July. Knapp said she and the other residents had to fight for those concessions.

“We seemed like an afterthought,” Knapp said. “They had everything taken care of, they planned to fix the building, but I don’t think they planned a lot to help us.”

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Nepal.”

The student body has so far been receptive, Raghav said.

“I have been overwhelmed by the support from family and friends here,” Raghav said. “Although this catastrophe destroyed the lives of many, a lot of people have come together to help the affected. And that’s beautiful and very inspiring.”

Knapp

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Domain or its new owner, Campus Advantage, but she wonders if structural issues will become a common problem across Columbia.

“I’m sure this is just one more story of many,” Knapp said. “People throw up these buildings so fast and they cut corners, and students pay for that, again and again.

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Milham’s new project debuts at the Craft studio Maddie Foster Staff Writer “The story is told, of the people who love the land.” These words are the final phrases of the Hawaiian song “Kaulana Nā Pua,” also known as “Famous are the Flowers.” Artist Allison Milham’s most recent project is heavily influenced by this song, even using the English translation as its name.

Her two-week show at the Craft Studio opened Thursday, April 30. Milham, with a flower in her hair, played the ukulele and sang her project’s namesake song in Hawaiian.

Like the song, Milham’s installation is a battle cry for the movement against the general disrespect of Hawaiians and their land.

Milham has been interested in art since high school. She received her undergraduate degree from San Francisco State University, then attended graduate school at the University of Alabama, where she studied book arts. However, the Hawaiian influence did not appear until more recently.

Although Milham is Hawaiian on her mother’s side, she never truly grasped the struggles that go along with that until she was at a family reunion about five years ago and listened in on a late-night conversation between her mom, uncle and aunt.

“They talked about feeling ashamed and the pressure to assimilate into American culture,” Milham said. “That got me thinking about what I could do, living on the other side of the country in Florida. I wanted to help this movement and help share this story.”

From there, Milham learned more about Hawaii's history, particularly the fact that Hawaiians did not want to become a state. Native Hawaiians gathered thousands of signatures in protest to their annexation in what became known as The Kū‘ē Petitions.

“This was one of two petitions that were gathered,” Milham said. “Together they represent 99 percent of native Hawaiian population at the time. It’s because of these documents that the Treaty of Annexation didn’t pass through Congress.”

The U.S. annexed Hawaii anyway, but to this day, many native Hawaiians consider themselves an illegally occupied nation,

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Continued from page 3 This specification of the number of incidents within the bill illustrates the change from previous legislation. With this bill, two instances of unwanted contact or communication would allow for someone to file on behalf of a member of a household and to have the chance to order issues of protection, whereas before, the use of the word “repeatedly” was up for interpretation, Germinder said.

In 2012, 46 cases of rape and 396 cases of assault were reported within Boone County alone, according to a comprehensive county facts sheet released by the Missouri State Highway Patrol Statistical Analysis Center.

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not a U.S. state.

Milham’s first project inspired by this history was her thesis, Legacies of Liliuokalani. The project centered around the last queen of Hawaii, Queen Liliuokalani. The project included a record, allowing Milham to include her love of music as well.

“I’ve grown up playing piano and guitar and I also play a little bass, accordion, ukulele, and I sing,” Milham said. “I like to find ways to incorporate my love of art with my love of music.”

Milham wanted to continue this theme of Hawaiian history by creating a piece about the petitions. She was inspired by the work “Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red,” an installation in London that consists of 888,246 ceramic poppies, each representing a British soldier killed in war.

“I like the idea of visually representing the numbers as a way of honoring these ancestors who stood in opposition to annexation,” Milham said.

Her idea really took off at a workshop this summer, where she met Tamryn McDermott, president of the MU Fiber

Missouri, between 2011 and 2012, instances of rape increased by 3.6 percent, and in 2012, a total of 76 homicides were the result of domestic violence.

In 2012, reported forcible rape offenses totaled 1,510, making the occurrence of rape within the state of Missouri 25 people per every 100,000.

According to the Disaster Center, violent crime rates in Missouri increased a total of 5.89 percent in rapes reported in 2012 and 2013.

In order to combat these issues and to fight for proper victim security, the bill offers these victims of sexual assault or stalking the option of either of two forms of orders of protection: ex parte or full.

“Really, whether ex parte or full, these orders of protection are pieces of paper, and our police are really great with

Arts Club.

“This past summer Allison and I were studio assistants for Jo Stealey, who is the head of the fiber arts program at MU,” McDermott said. “She was teaching a workshop in sculptural papermaking at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. In that workshop, the three of us got to talking about different ideas, and Allison told us about this particular idea.

So over the course of the two-and-a-halfweek workshop, we came up with a plan.”

The plan was to create flowers out of overbeaten abaca. Milham plans to create a total of 21,000 flowers to represent 21,000 Hawaiians who signed the treaty.

The size of the flower correlates to the age group of the person when they signed the treaty.

The flowers were strung in groups of 24 to represent the 24 names in each column of the treaty.

“The strings of flowers almost look like vertebrae, which I like because the name of the petition, Kū‘ē, translates to ‘protest’ or to ‘stand tall,’” Milham said. “The first part of the word, Kū, means ‘spine.’”

Although Milham likes the stringed

dealing with these orders of protection if and when the piece of paper is not enough to keep assailants away,” said Vicki Kitchen, Safe Passage Domestic Violence Crisis Intervention Services legal advocate. “I know our coalition would love for legislators to help all of the shelters out.”

The ex parte order of protection is defined in Section A of the bill’s text as an order of protection issued by the court prior to the respondent’s notice of the petition or an opportunity to be heard. The full order of protection, alternatively, is issued following a hearing that took place on the record within which the respondent received notice of the proceedings and had an opportunity to be heard.

These protective orders act to restrain the respondent from either committing or threatening to commit various

appearance, she expects the presentation to vary from venue to venue, perhaps experimenting with magnetized flowers on gallery walls.

Over the course of this week, Milham produced about 1,000 flowers with the help of several of the art classes. However, MU was only phase one.

“This week was her first rendition, or execution, for this ongoing project,” Stealey said. “It’s marked her launching her cross-country tour and saga.”

Milham plans on continuing to travel and work with different groups, spreading the message of Hawaii and their long history of resistance.

She will be visiting her mom in Hawaii in two weeks and plans on also running a more informal workshop with some community members there.

Overall, Milham expects the project to take a year or two, but she is already thinking ahead to the finished product.

“I’d like for it to be permanently installed in Hawaii, perhaps wrapped around the statue of Queen Liliuokalani,” Milham said.

forms of abuse. These forms include, but are not limited to, domestic violence, sexual assault, molestation or disturbing the peace of the petitioner in any way should they be present within the state of Missouri.

Within 15 days following the filing of a petition, petitioners are granted a hearing wherein, if sufficient evidence is supplied and the respondent is unable to prove that his/her actions were justifiable by law, one form of the aforementioned orders of protection will be issued by the court.

These orders will be held valid within a court of law for 180 days to no longer than a year. However, renewals may be granted if the court finds that it is in the best interest of both parties.

“It’s important to remember that victims of sexual violence

experience the trauma in individual ways,” said Emily Truscott, communications director for the Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. “Some might report it to police, and some choose not to. Some may seek help from a counselor or other advocate, and some won’t.

Some may report it right away, and others, years later.”

The bill has cleared the Senate and now faces a select House committee. The executive judiciary session for SB 321 will take place within the House on May 5.

“As people who are victimized try to determine the best decision for them in their personal situations, it’s important that they have options, services and resources available to them,” Truscott said. “This law would provide just one more option.”

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in a restaurant where you're very structured and everything has a theme, and this is what we're always doing. One day we can be cooking Asian, the next day we're cooking Spanish, the next day it’s Southern American cuisine. It's ever-changing and evolving, and that's pretty cool.”

Cartwright said that to prepare to teach staff how to cook such a wide variety of food, he goes to workshops and seminars, talks with colleagues and reads extensively.

But he’s helped by the fact that, for the most part, the basic processes are the same no matter the recipe.

“As you start to delve into other cuisines, there's some specific things maybe you didn't know about that cuisine, but the concept behind it is all rooted in fundamental cooking,” Cartwright said. “If we're going to saute something, to saute is to saute is to saute. The fat may be different, the type of pan may be different, but to saute is to saute. So it's taking those fundamentals and applying them.”

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different from everyone else in society,” cross-cultural professor Earnest Perry said. “They are a part

university. In March, Cartwright won an American Culinary Federation gold medal, the highest award, and placed first in the National Association of College and University Food Services Midwest Regional Conference Culinary Challenge. This was his first gold medal and the only gold medal to have been won by a current CDS staff member. This summer, Cartwright will compete with five others on the national level.

about 25 years ago, nearly all food on campus was made from scratch.

About 15 years ago, labor shortages made that nearly impossible.

But in the nine years Cartwright has been executive chef, he has developed more fresh food options, including making fresh guacamole at Baja Grill twice a day, brining and breading the chicken at Mort’s by hand, smoking all the meats on site at Do Mundo’s and frying fresh donuts every morning at Infusion.

“And that's not just something you do overnight – it takes time,” Cartwright said. “We have to train staff, we have to develop the recipes, we have to develop the menus. And will we ever be to where we make 100 percent of things? No. And we don't necessarily need to be. But we've made huge strides.”

categories: recipe testing and menu development, staff training, product selection and working with food vendors, and helping with equipment selection and facility layout for new CDS operations.

However, Cartwright said he does surprisingly little cooking. His many duties keep him in his office most of the time. He said he’s only testing recipes in the kitchen about one or two days a week on average.

“I’d like to be in here all the time if I could, but other duties call,” Cartwright said. “When I cook, it’s either for development purposes or for training.”

Cartwright has implemented successful staff training programs to boost the culinary skill of all employees, not just the sous chefs.

Nancy Monteer, the associate director of Campus Dining Services, said that Cartwright’s teaching ability is one of his best traits.

“He will teach you things without you even knowing you’re being taught,” Monteer said. “He just has that way about him. He can show you something or tell you something and it’s sunk into your brain, just the way he does it. He relates very well to people. He’s never above anybody, he’s on their level.”

Cartwright’s expertise is also being recognized outside the

Monteer has been the associate director for the past two of the 16 years she’s worked at CDS. She said that having an executive chef has been very helpful in improving the department as whole.

“Eric has been able to take us to the next level by leading the sous chefs,” Monteer said. “Eric is the culinary guru of our department – he leads and guides and directs and works very closely with each of those sous chefs to raise the culinary skill of our full-time employees.

Under Eric’s direction, we’ve really come to focus on fresh and local products. We try to buy as much local as we can.”

Another of Cartwright’s major goals is returning the focus of CDS to more scratch cooking. He said

Julaine Kiehn, the director of Campus Dining Services, has been working for the department for nearly 28 years.

“When I first came here, we had six residential dining facilities, and they all served the same menu,” Kiehn said. “They were like cookie cutters of each other. And then we started to branch out to say, let’s offer our customers more by differentiating our products, by

giving areas of specialty to our various locations. And then we started having a need for who’s going to develop all this.”

That’s where Cartwright came in.

Kiehn said that the managers of the dining halls came to her saying that though the sous chefs had expertise, they needed an executive figure to unite and coordinate them. So she found one.

“It’s a difference of night and day in what we’re able to do,” Kiehn said of hiring Cartwright. “I don’t know how we’d be where we are without that culinary component. How could we have authentic Southeast Asian at Sabai without an executive chef to lead that? Where would we get that? Where would we get the expertise?”

That increased level of expertise is not going unnoticed. Students’ expectations have also risen, said Rollins assistant manager and sous chef Amy Smith.

“I think the students’ palate has matured a little more than it used to be,” Smith said. “And they’re being able to see more. With Sabai, for example – the banh mi sandwich.

When I first started here, nobody would’ve known what a bahn mi sandwich was. Now they do. I think they’re more adventurous than they used to be too.”

of the overall picture in which the journalism is trying to present.”

Although these issues are currently being discussed, Perry thinks this money could lead to a deeper exploration. He believes the money will be best spent on

developing the curriculum and finding faculty with expertise in handling LGBT issues in journalism.

“The gift is meant to help us financially in doing a better job of teaching students how to cover communities that are different from

those that they come from.” Perry said. “When you’re out there as a journalist you want to tell those stories from the perspective of the people you're talking to, not the story that’s stereotypical.”

However the money is used, Blair

hopes it will inspire other schools to follow suit.

“Hopefully it’ll trigger other journalism schools and communication programs to look at this as an area of important study,” Blair said.

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efforts toward equal gender pay essential for Missouri Despite comprising 36 percent of Columbia’s leadership between the fiscal years 2009 to 2014, women only took home 30 percent of the income, according to payroll data from the City of Columbia Department of Information Services. The resulting gap has resulted in a total loss of $705,534 for women for those years.

While these figures are indeed startling, the statistics alone are unable to tell the full story of the gender pay gap in our city government.

The city of Columbia has made several steps in the right direction regarding the gender pay gap within the city government.

Although the gap has decreased in recent years, there is still work to be done.

In 2014, all five of the city’s highest paid employees were men. On a grander scale, men make up almost 75 percent of the top 50 highest paid employees in the last five years. Male department directors earn an average of $123,076 while female directors earn an average of $118,329.

There is a clear difference in pay between genders, but the gap is not always intentional, nor is it fundamentally sexist in nature. The existing trend indicates that women are more frequently directors of smaller departments that don’t generate their own revenue and, as a result, are constrained by a smaller budget. Contrarily,

larger departments that are not limited in this same capacity, such as the police department, have larger budgets and consequently their directors have bigger salaries.

Although a gender pay gap still exists in Columbia’s city government, visible efforts have reduced it. Changes in wages for city employees took effect, largely as a result of the efforts of City Manager Mike Matthes.

All jobs that had salaries less than the market minimum were given raises to at least this minimum.

In addition to the general 2 percent raise for all city employees, seven directors also received pay raises. Of these seven, four were women and three were men; the women received an average of 123 percent raises, and the men received an average of 111 percent.

In these efforts to increase the wages of all employees, the city government has made effective changes to lessen the gender pay gap. While the movement on this issue has been in the right direction, there is still work to be done – even within the city itself.

Examples of pay differences between men and women who work the same job need to be continually addressed. In conjunction with this aspect of the gap, we need to encourage women to participate

and obtain degrees in fields where they are underrepresented.

This same issue of gender pay disparities is simultaneously being addressed on the state level. A handful of legislators have put together House Bill 44 and the corresponding Senate Bill 144, which implore the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to create guidelines regarding gender pay equality. The guidelines would establish what gender pay equality is and why it occurs. Furthermore, the legislation would outline the benefits of having gender pay equality and the means in which it achieve it.

Just like the progress made in Columbia, the bill (if it passes) would be a big step in the right direction when it comes to addressing the issue of gender pay equality itself. Passing SB 144 would clearly establish a conversation on gender pay discrepancies on the state level, which is imperative.

However, the bill is just that: a step in the right direction. The road to fully addressing an issue as complex as gender pay equality is a lengthy one. Consequently, the path to achieving continued progress on this issue is comprised of a great many steps.

Still – the first step is always the hardest one.

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Baltimore protests are what the US needs LiLy CusaCk

The rioting and protests in Baltimore have garnered international attention this past week, and, surprisingly, this may be exactly what the U.S. needs right now.

The rioting has been centralized around the death of Freddie Gray on April 19 while in police custody. On May 1, state prosecutors ruled that they had a probable cause for bringing charges against the six police officers who arrested Gray. The state’s attorney Marilyn J. Mosby led the case and described how the officers took Gray on an intentional “rough ride,” an aggressive technique used to enforce bodily harm without actually touching the suspect, according to The New York Times.

It was found that Gray was not buckled, which is against department policies, and he repeatedly asked for a medic, which was ignored. Gray was rushed to the hospital after they arrived at the police station, but he died from spinal injuries a week later.

The most serious charges were brought against Officer Caesar R. Goodson Jr., who drove the car. He was charged with involuntary manslaughter and seconddegree murder. The bail for four of the officers was $350,000, and $250,000 for the other two. Records show that all six were released later that night.

Citizens started protesting soon after Gray was arrested and the police and state

department started to investigate his cause of death. Most of the protests have been quite peaceful. However, there has been some violence, most notably April 27, when police in riot gear were present at a protest organized by high school students.

The crowd started to get violent after police prevented them from leaving the area. Soon after, the National Guard was deployed to Baltimore, and a curfew was set for 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. while Gov. Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency.

The curfew has since been lifted, and the National Guard has begun to evacuate, but Hogan has said the state of emergency will still be in effect until the last soldier leaves the state.

The protests in Baltimore, and elsewhere in the U.S. these past months, have received a lot of press coverage, some good and some bad. This is just what our country needs right now. Police brutality and systematic discrimination have been rampant throughout the U.S. for a very long time. Yet it has never been addressed thoroughly because it wasn’t considered a pressing enough problem for the government. The deaths of civilians like Freddie Gray, Eric Garner and Michael Brown, though very tragic and heartbreaking, have produced necessary modifications in the police and governmental systems. People, especially higher ranking individuals in the government, are finally realizing the seriousness of this problem.

Now it’s Maryland’s turn to enact some much-needed change in their law enforcement system. Despite a quite diversified police force, the American Civil

Liberties Union of Maryland addressed some serious concerns in a report on police activities from 2010 to 2014 released in March. They found that 69 percent of people who died in police encounters were black, and 41 percent of people who died were unarmed. Those who were unarmed and black died in police encounters at 10 times the rate of those who were unarmed and white. Furthermore, Maryland has no centralized system to report and track these deaths by police.

The government in Maryland needs to take action regarding these eye-opening statistics. Hogan was going to sign numerous bills into effect that improved accountability of the police force, but he put them on hold to deal with the riots.

Hogan needs to pick up where he left off. This would be the best way to solve situations like this from happening in the future. He also needs to review, and possibly modify, bills that did not pass the first time through the government, such as a bill that improved the Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights that would allow greater freedom in questioning and disciplining officers relating to deaths of civilians.

The situation in Baltimore is not a happy one. It’s frightening and not at all ideal.

But it’s doing something beneficial for the nation. Civilians are putting their lives on the line to draw vital attention toward a systematic error in our government. The U.S. is finally starting to solve our race issue in a productive manner. All that’s left is for the government to realize how they need to change.

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Mother’s Day and Chinese culture Family is valued differently in the U.S. than in China.

Loretta Lee

Since Mother’s Day is coming up, I would like to talk to you all about the importance of family in Chinese culture. Although it is something that almost all Chinese can relate to, not enough people all around the world understand it.

Filial piety, known as Xiao Shun in Chinese, is the respect for one’s parents and ancestors; it is a concept that has existed for centuries. It is one of the most important values and ideologies that can shape a person’s life. My grandmother has been living with my family under the same roof for years — even before I was born. My parents knew that my grandmother would be living all alone once all four of her children got married. So when that happened, my parents asked my grandmother to live with us. Neither my parents nor any of our family members have complained about my grandmother living with us. In fact, she has become one of our closest family members.

What I have learned from when I first came to the United States is that Americans tend to spend their entire childhood anticipating the moment when they can grow up and leave their parents to live on their own. The U.S. has always embraced the idea of being independent and prized individuality. However, Americans need to be more exposed to filial piety and the importance of showing gratitude for the love and care given by the parents.

Another thing I have noticed since coming to the U.S. is the visibility of divorce. Back in Hong Kong (where I am from), the word "divorce" does not usually come up. It is an unusual and unfortunate thing to happen to a married couple. Not that married couples in Hong Kong do not encounter problems or rough patches, but whenever these appear, they work through it instead of quitting. This is also because of filial piety — family comes first in Chinese traditions.

Always be grateful to the ones who gave — it is an ideology that the Chinese live by. The parents who gave you life and looked after you from the beginning of your life deserve only the utmost, greatest love and respect from you, as parents certainly mean only the best for their children.

I remember a Chinese saying that asks: If one does not have piety toward one’s own parents, how can one be loyal toward friends, country or any other? Filial piety is such an important ideology in the Chinese culture, that it is the foundation for all other attitudes. It is one of the first things that were taught in elementary school that emphasizes the importance of family being.

I believe that life is a cycle. The way you are treating your parents will eventually become the way your children treat you in the future.

The U.S. has not picked up filial piety, which as such an assimilating value that promotes the ideas of loving one's parents — being respectful, polite, considerate, loyal, helpful, dutiful, and obedient. So think about what it truly means on Mother’s Day, just a gift will not settle it, but also the true appreciation from you toward your parent.

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THE MANEATER | OPINION | MAY 6, 2015 campus issues

2014-15: a retrospective in campus issues As the year draws to a close, let us look back and learn from our mistakes.

gracefully accept it. We watched as college students in North Carolina were killed because of their race and religious beliefs. We even saw our own school mentioned in “The Hunting Ground,” the movie about sexual assault and its dangers. More recently, we dealt with the disappointment and fear of how officials handled bomb threats and near-campus shootings.

All of these things can be viewed as bad for MU and for our country as a whole, but we should be using all of the lessons learned to our advantage so that next year is a better, more open-minded and overall progressive year on campus.

With all of the forums and events surrounding race relations and how to deal with racism itself that were held on campus, if you truly wanted to educate yourself on the topic, by now you should have. Although there were complaints on social media about how a forum won’t solve deep-rooted issues on our campus like privilege and bigotry, the forums were definitely a space for those lacking knowledge to go and learn.

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these forums need to be used in the coming year to help our campus be more inclusive and well rounded.

The film “The Hunting Ground” showed how sexual assaults affect victims and change their lives. It is heartbreaking to know that on a campus like ours, there are people being put into these situations and feeling like they have no one to talk to about it.

Let us use the film not as a mark of embarrassment or shame to our school but as a lesson learned. We need to make campus into an environment that is open enough to welcome these tragic stories with helping and generous arms.

We also need to use some of the methods introduced this year, like the “Its on Us” campaign, to make our campus safer. We can’t allow each other to sit back and watch bad things happen anymore.

When students took to the streets and the MU Student Center in organized, peaceful protests surrounding the Michael Brown shooting and other acts of police brutality this winter, social media blew up with negative and threatening comments. Students were

expressing themselves and fighting for what they believed in but were met with harsh criticism from fellow students.

It took the students to point this out to the chancellor for something to be done, and this is not OK. We need to go into the next school year knowing that, in times of volatility, people might get upset and decide to protest, and there is nothing wrong with this. What is wrong is judging and combatting what someone stands for just before it does not align with your own beliefs.

Next year should be better than this one. It’s not to say that this year was bad on anyone’s behalf, but honestly, there were mistakes made that cannot happen again. MU is full of people striving for the same thing: an education and life success. That should be the main concern of all of the members involved, not race or class or exerting power and privilege.

Here’s to learning from our mistakes and celebrating our successes this year as we go off this summer with the positivity of everything we learned.

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As the school year comes to a close and the MU student population drifts away back to Chicago and St. Louis and other parts of the country, there are a few things to take with you so that next year, MU will continue on the right path.

This year was definitely one of trying times. We had protests on campus about police brutality and saw how sides were taken and tempers flared.

We dealt with trying to educate the general population on the complexities of the LGBT community and how to

self help

A beginner’s guide to starting a steady workout routine Starting a workout routine can be difficult, but here are a few ways to get started. jordan smith

For some, exercise is therapeutic.

Cathartic. A way to let off steam and find inner peace. For the rest of us, exercise is the tenth ring of hell. The idea of intentional physical exertion makes us sweat so much that we might as well have just run a 5k — and frankly, that’s all the exercise we need. Nonetheless, exercise is such an important component to overall health. I’m not talking a weekly triathlon here; simply raising your heart rate a few times a day does wonders for your body.

Here are some tips for those of you who want to get into fitness but aren’t quite sure how.

Walk and bike: When you’re a

beginner, sometimes the gym can be intimidating. Start slowly by going on walks or bike rides in the morning, or take a lap around the block on your lunch break or between classes.

Go to classes for motivation: If you find yourself off to a slow start and can’t quite figure out what exactly to do with all those free weights, machines and ellipticals, go to a group class where trained instructors will take you through a routine that’s usually about an hour long. If you’re worried about the difficulty of the class, try spinning or Pilates. With both classes, you can go at your own pace, and typically the instructors will demonstrate a modified move specifically for beginners.

Start online: If you don’t want to pay for a gym membership or you’re not comfortable getting your sweat on in front of other people, check out online videos to begin with. There are tons of workouts you can do without leaving your house, like yoga, Zumba, Tae Bo and dance. Most of these don’t require any equipment either.

The mirrors are there for a reason: If you do decide to go to a gym, take

advantage of the mirrors (shockingly, their true purpose isn’t just to provide a pleasant backdrop for your gym selfie).

Watch yourself as you do different moves to make sure your form is correct, to avoid injury. If you’re not sure what proper form is supposed to look like, write down a list of the exercises you want to do before you head to the gym and look them up to see how to do them correctly.

Take a friend—and not a good one: It’s great to have a workout buddy — someone to push you to go just a little bit farther and make you sweat a little bit more than you would on your own. However, we both know that you’re way more likely to bail on your BFF than you would a casual acquaintance whose number you haven’t even gotten yet.

Try a colleague or someone who sits next to you in class whose name you weren’t entirely sure of until you looked over their shoulder to check what they wrote on their homework. When you first meet someone, you’re still trying to present your best self and act like you’re super polite, so you’re going to feel much more compelled to go work

out when you said you would.

Don’t go crazy: If you hit the gym super hard every day when you’re just starting to get into the exercise groove, you might burn out quickly.

Take a look at your schedule and choose a few days where you can commit a chunk of your time to working out. If you’re comfortable with this amount of exercise and think you can manage more, go for it!

Avoid plateauing: Our bodies respond well to variety, so mix it up once in a while with different moves or classes. Spicing up your workouts prevents injury and is helpful especially if weight loss is your ultimate goal.

Remember, exercise doesn’t come naturally to everyone. At first, you might absolutely hate the gym, but keep going. If you can push through the first few weeks, you’ll likely find yourself with more energy and a better outlook on working out. Even if the actual act of exercise isn’t your favorite, the feeling you get afterwards will keep you coming back for more.

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Working while female

Taylor BlaTchford and Shannon Greenwood of The Maneater Staff

Women are underrepresented in city of Columbia leadership positions, and they are paid proportionately less. The issue isn’t clear cut, though — and city leadership is working to breach the gender gap.

Two years into John Blattel’s tenure as the city of Columbia’s director of finance, he was already making $2,000 more than his predecessor Lori Fleming.

Having held the position for 15 years, Fleming was making an annual salary of $118,712 when she stepped down, according to records obtained from the City of Columbia Department of Information Services. Blattel now takes home $123,502.

While women made up on average 36 percent of the city's leadership between fiscal years 2009 and 2014, they only took home 30 percent of the income according to payroll data from the city of Columbia. That gap translates to a total loss of $705,534.

The city's leadership is aware of this inequality and is taking strides to overcome it, and directors say the pay gap is more complicated than just outright discrimination.

Blattel said he was working more hours than Fleming had to become familiar with the department and the duties of the position. When he took the job in November 2010, he said he wanted to improve the department’s efficiency. Coming from a position as the city’s internal auditor, he wanted to change how tasks were assigned and completely redesigned the format of the city budget.

He negotiated his salary with the city manager when he was hired, Blattel said, and wasn’t aware of Fleming’s previous salary. He said he believes his certifications as a public accountant and fraud examiner, as well as more than 35 years of experience in government auditing, contributed to his salary much more than his gender did.

In fiscal year 2014, the city of Columbia's five highest-paid employees were all men, a trend consistent with the past six years of data. When that list is expanded, men make up almost 75 percent of Columbia's top-50 paid employees since 2009. From fiscal years 2009 to 2014, the top paid male employee took home on average $31,440 more than the top woman employee.

This disparity is exemplified in the city's leadership, where department directors are divvied more equally between men and women, but their pay is not. This year, male directors make an average of $123,076 and female directors make an average of $118,329.

During the years analyzed, a woman was in the top five most-paid city of Columbia directors only once. Comparatively, women made up 73 percent of the five least-paid department directors during that same six-year period.

Although these numbers seem stark, they don't paint an accurate picture of the wage gap that exists in Columbia. Instead, they are a starting place for understanding the full scope of gender inequality and how it still persists.

When Margrace Buckler began her job as the director of Human Resources in 1998, she was the city of Columbia's only female department director.

That lasted just a few months, until Stephanie Browning was hired on as the director of Health and Human Services.

"We were called the evil twins," Buckler said, laughing. "I guess because we were the girls and we conspired.”

Buckler said things have changed for women over the 17 years she's worked for the city, but the fact that Columbia is male-dominated has stayed the same. She suspects men are overrepresented because of the manual labor and utility-driven work that the city funds. Many women aren't qualified or simply don't want those types of jobs, which skews the gender diversity of Columbia's workforce. The inequity in pay for department directors follows a similar path.

That general rule has come from following precedent. Buckler said women have typically been in charge of smaller departments that don't generate their own revenue, so they are constrained by a smaller budget. Larger departments such as the police department aren't limited in this same capacity, and those departments tend to be led by

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AT THE "The historical thing is to look at the budget and don't pay OF any more than what the budget Between 2009 and 2014, only one woman made the was," Buckler said. "Where when SCOTT MACDONALD Graphic Designer top five highest-paid directors for the City of Columbia. it was a man coming into a role, they were more willing to negotiate no matter the budget.

1 2 3 5 4 That's changing, I will tell you 2009 that. In the past three or four WATER & LIGHT CITY MANAGER PUBLIC WORKS CITY COUNSELOR POLICE CHIEF years, that has changed a lot. $130,000 $151,270 $134,437 $135,541 $124,430 But it's still true, and we are still 4 1 2 3 5 operating in the constraints of where we came from."

2010 Those changes have come CITY COUNSELOR WATER & LIGHT PUBLIC WORKS CITY MANAGER POLICE CHIEF in part by City Manager Mike $124,430 $130,000 $134,437 $151,270 $135,541 Matthes, who was appointed in 1 2 3 5 4 2011.

One of his initiatives has 2011 been to implement a citywide CITY MANAGER CITY COUNSELOR WATER & LIGHT POLICE CHIEF PUBLIC WORKS $149,999 $124,430 $134,499 $135,541 $134,437 strategic plan outlining the city's mission and the direction 4 1 2 3 5 he wanted to take Columbia.

2012 The seven priorities detailed in the plan are customerCITY MANAGER PUBLIC WORKS CITY COUNSELOR WATER & LIGHT POLICE CHIEF $150,519 $134,957 $124,950 $135,019 $141,059 focused government, economic d e ve l o p m e n t , financial 1 2 3 5 4 health, growth management, 2013 health safety and well-being, infrastructure and, to Buckler's CITY MANAGER WATER & LIGHT PUBLIC WORKS POLICE CHIEF FINANCES $151,081 $135,581 $135,518 $146,621 $121,081 delight, workforce.

The objectives to improving 4 1 2 3 5 Columbia's workforce include 2014 "maintain(ing ) a total CITY MANAGER WATER & LIGHT PUBLIC WORKS POLICE CHIEF HUMAN RESOURCES compensation system that is $154,103 $138,293 $138,228 $149,327 $134,041 internally fair and externally SOURCE: City of Columbia Department of Information Services competitive" and "seek(ing) innovative ways to recognize job performance, capacity and to the minimum, and all employees received raises to leadership," according to the correct salaries after the 2008 recession. strategic plan. For Buckler, that means talking about “We’ve been realigning over the last two years, pay and benefits and nixing the culture that her changing our pay system to more accurately reflect department was only meant to get people into the the rest of the market so we can be more competitive system. and so it’s fair,” he said.

Matthes said to work toward these objectives, he Seven directors received salary increases from hired a consultant to analyze what Columbia was 2013 to 2014 above the standard 2 percent raise. Of paying each employee compared to the rest of the these seven, four were women and three were men; market. He said the jobs that were receiving less than the women received an average of 123 percent raises the market minimum have been given raises at least

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Now given more weight, Buckler said human resources has expanded from just an afterthought to a player in making big decisions.

"In a prior life, we'd go through the budget process, and if there was anything left, then we'd talk about employees," Buckler said. "Now we are doing that at the top."

Despite the steps taken to improve, the city of Columbia still allots more money and resources to larger departments, and in turn the men who run them. The problem that exists then is a lack of women in those positions.

"I'm terribly optimistic," City Counselor Nancy Thompson said. "I see more and more women at Mizzou in the advanced colleges seeking the advanced degrees."

Two years after Thompson replaced Fred Boeckmann, she continues to make less money than he ended his tenure making.

Thompson graduated from the UM-Kansas City Law School in 1985 with an interest in public service, and after working in private practice with her husband, she became the city counselor for the city of Gladstone. After hopping between other small municipalities working as a city attorney, Thompson came to Columbia in 2013 after Boeckmann announced his retirement.

Thus far in her tenure, Thompson said the statistics of Columbia's gender gap are in no way reflective of her experience. In fact, she's certain there is more to those numbers than taking them at face value.

"I don't think we can just talk about numbers without understanding how people progress into those positions, and then to look at that and say, ‘Were there other variables that kept women either from applying or from getting the position?’" Thompson said.

One variable that might be keeping women from the top paid positions, Average raise for men 11.46% Thompson said, is that women aren't obtaining the degrees necessary for those jobs. Especially considering Operations Manager 7.06% the trend of higher salaries for larger departments, this could offer some answers to why women aren't in those positions.

Director of Community Development 5.06% According to the city of Columbia's payroll database, the top five highest-paid director positions held 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% by men in 2014 were city Percent increase in salary, 2013-2014 manager, the police chief, the director of water and SOURCE: City of Columbia Department of Information Services light, the director of public works and the director of human resources. Three of those five positions — city engineers than there used to be. … In public works it manager, director of water and light and director used to be that no women would apply, and that has of human resources — require degrees in business, changed, so that’s a nice thing. We are moving the public administration or a closely related field. needle on the number of women that we’re able to Of students polled during the 2011-12 school year, a similar number of men and women reported they were hire because of that, although it’s still a big challenge studying business administration and management in fire and police.”

— 66,190 men to 64,405 women, according to the As a whole, Matthes said he thinks Columbia is National Center for Education Statistics. better off than most places when it comes to gender Matthes said these top five directors are basically in charge of the five biggest departments, and equity in city government. the fire, police, water and light and public works “I think we have something to be proud of when departments are all traditionally male-dominated. He you look at gender differences,” he said. “We’re not said he sees more women applying for positions in the there yet. … We have work left to do, but I know that traditionally male-dominated areas of the city.

“It’s getting better,” he said. “There are more female our pay scales have nothing to do with your gender.”

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The key to your entertainment

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“avengers”: Judah & the Lion to play in CoMo Nashville-based flawed but fun The band will bring honesty CaLeb bishoP

and simplicity to their May 7 Mizzou-A-Palooza performance.

Corin CesariC Staff Writer

In the interest of full disclosure, it should be noted that I have never so much as picked up a comic book in my life, so this review is coming from the basis of seeing the other movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and not from the lack of knowledge I have regarding how the events of this movie are supposed to go down according to the source material.

You can’t help but be in awe of what Marvel has been able to accomplish the last few years with their movies. Even though I tend to not love their work (outside of “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”), they’ve found a way to capture everyone’s imagination on film with high-flying heroes and villains, sarcasm and of course, destroying entire cities with no regard for human life. Say what you want about Marvel, they know how to make an entertaining film.

Here, Tony Stark and Bruce Banner have been working on a program that would protect Earth from alien invaders. It doesn’t go as planned, and now the program wants to kill everyone rather soon, which is problematic. It’s up to our team of nearly invincible superheroes to stop Stark’s creation.

I’ll start with what I didn’t like. For the sake of brevity, this will read like a list, but bear with me, I promise to end on a positive note.

The supporting cast of Beats, Adidas, Audi and John Deere got quite a bit of screen time, despite the fact that they all have the unfortunate characteristic of being inanimate

For some bands it’s all about fame, fortune and the craziness that accompanies the two, but Judah & the Lion seem to be striving for much bigger things.

“We just want to make music that people can grab onto and get hope

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from,” lead singer Judah Akers says.

“We want to influence people and be truthful while making a difference, versus trying to become famous.”

However, he does admit that both fame and fortune would be nice for his and the band’s finances.

The three-piece folk-pop band includes Akers, lead vocalist and guitarist; Brian Macdonald, mandolin player and backup vocalist; and Nate Zuercher, banjo player and backup vocalist.

The band formed while each member was majoring in their own musical niche at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee: Judah in music business, Brian as a mandolin major and Nate as a banjo major.

“We really connected on a relational level, and musically, we just kind of really hit it off,” Akers says.

The band members all have a wide variety of musical tastes from Queen to Frank Sinatra, but they have collaborated to create their own unique sound.

“We’re calling our genre folkpop, because we feel like it has the Americana folk feel, but also has the dance beat,” Akers says.

Judah & the Lion will be playing May 7, at the end of the year festival Mizzou-A-Palooza in Shakespeare’s parking lot. Mizzou-A-Palooza is free

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CoMo Girls Rock!: pride through performance PatriCk MCkenna Senior Staff Writer As summer approaches, Columbia’s adolescents will have a plethora of camp options to choose from. Some will attend workshops on how to improve their batting swing while others will learn to hone their crossover on the basketball court.

But for young girls between the ages of 12 and 14, CoMo Girls Rock! camp offers a haven for expressing themselves, their music and body positivity.

“The Girls Rock! camp does so much to help young girls see their self-worth and really pushes them to go outside their comfort zone,” says

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Farm to Table

There are a lot of fresh new ingredients at many local farmers markets. The possibilities for what to cook are endless, but here are some basic things I cooked up with my ingredients and some ideas for you all as you’re browsing the farmers market this summer. I’m going to separate them out by what you can purchase at the market and what you will need in addition to a few basic instructions. –Maddi Doering

RECIPE 1: Hot Bacon Caprese Salad This first recipe is something for those who really like tomatoes and bacon. It’s one of my personal favorites, so don’t be afraid to try it. The fresh ingredients add a unique and different flavor from store-bought products.

At the market: 2 1/2 pounds of heirloom tomatoes, about 16 ounces of fresh mozzarella cheese (if you can find it), half a cup of basil, 6 slices of bacon In the store: 3 tablespoons of red wine vinegar, 2 tablespoons of olive oil, 1/2 teaspoon of kosher salt, and 1/2 teaspoon of ground pepper To make this: Arrange the tomato and thinly sliced cheese on a serving platter placing basil in between. Chop the bacon and saute it on medium heat for 6 to 8 minutes.

Remove the crisp bacon from the stove and add in the oil and vinegar mixture. If you want, you can also add ground pepper and salt to this mixture and drizzle it on top of the tomato and cheese already on the serving platter.

RECIPE 3: vanilla pudding fruit Salad

RECIPE 2: ASPARAGUS-STUFFED CHICKEN ROLLS This second recipe is less ingredient-heavy, but a delicious eat. It may seem difficult to make, but it is actually rather easy and definitely worth the effort in the end.

At the market: 8 fresh asparagus spears, 2 boneless chicken breasts (5 ounces each), orange marmalade

This is by far one of the easiest recipes to go about making, but is also a great snack or small dessert to finish off the farmers market menu. One of the best places to use this recipe is when going on a picnic or just on a nice summer day as a cool snack.

At the market: 1 pound of strawberries, 3 sliced bananas, 1 pound of pineapple, 1 cup of blueberries

In the store: toothpicks, feta To make this: Cook each of the asparagus spears until slightly browning. Then, lay out the chicken onto a tray, place the feta, orange marmalade and asparagus in the middle. Fold the chicken toward the center from both the right and left sides to where it completely engulfs the other ingredients and place a toothpick through the top. Cook this on medium for 20 to 25 minutes.

In the store: 1 box of instant-made vanilla pudding To make this: The instructions for this recipe are rather simple. First cut up the fruits, then put them all in one bowl and mix it up. After mixing up the fruits in a separate bowl, make the instant mix of vanilla pudding, add in that bowl to the first and stir.

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So long, farewell, auf wiedershen, goodbye (Exhausted) Columnist Ellise Verheyen on her return to the States after an Irish adventure.

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After two days in my homeland, I’ve managed to muster just enough energy to move a total of 83 feet. I’m currently sitting on the floor of my parents’ bedroom bingewatching “Friends” while one of my two pregnant cats gives birth.

It’s so weird to be back home. It feels like I never left, as if the last four months of my life were just a crazy dream. But they weren’t, and boy, were those four months life-altering.

As I mentioned last week, I spent four days traveling alone in Ireland after my program ended. I was nervous and antsy, mostly afraid I’d mess up and miss a flight. However, you’ll be happy to hear that I managed to last the entirety in one piece.

I started my trip in Galway, a city on the west coast. It’s a quaint, little city compared to the bustling metropolis of London, but I still managed to get lost trying to find a place to eat.

On my first (and only) full day in Galway, I wanted to see the Cliffs of Moher. They were the main motivation behind my trip to Ireland. I’ve wanted to see them for years, and yes, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” might have played into that. So I joined an all-day bus tour that was much busier than I’d expected.

We traveled all around the area, seeing castles, graves, fairy forts and finally, the cliffs. They were beyond anything I’d ever imagined. I don’t know what it is about sitting on the cliffside and staring into the distance, but wow. I highly suggest it. (Granted, you have to hop a concrete barrier to actually sit on the edge.)

While on my tour, I met another American studying abroad and traveling alone through

Ireland. Just when I was feeling good about myself, she tells me that she planned an 80-mile hike through the Highlands of Scotland. In five days. Alone.

After the cliffs, we made our way back to Galway, and I had a lovely night of relaxation in my hostel. I was in a room with six other beds, but both nights I spent in Galway, I had the room to myself.

Monday morning, I took the bus to Dublin all the way on the east coast. To put things into perspective, it takes two and a half hours to cross the country of Ireland. It takes me three and a half hours to get to Columbia from Branson.

Once in Dublin, I dropped my things at the hostel and headed into town for a walking tour of the city. It was so interesting to see the history of such a unique city. The guide, Conor with one “N,” was a part-time actor, so he was sure to give us a show.

While on the tour, I met two really cool Australians, one of whom was working in London. At the end of the tour, part of the group went to a pub for dinner. I got to meet some of the most fascinating people there that, had I been a chicken and left, I’d never have had the opportunity to get to know.

I was chatting with the Australian from London, and she mentioned her desire to go to Whelan’s Pub, featured in the movie “P.S. I Love You.” I was sold the moment she mentioned Gerard Butler. So later that night, I met up with the two at Whelan’s, and we had a great time simply talking about life, culture, music and more. We parted ways later that evening knowing we’d likely never meet again, but it was still so great to have the chance to meet extraordinary travelers.

The next day was my last. I shopped and went to the Guinness Storehouse before hopping on a plane to London Heathrow to spend 14 hours in the airport before 10 hours of flying home.

While I didn’t travel alone long, it was one of the greatest parts of my study abroad. The independence I felt being able to decide what to do and when to do it in a completely foreign place gave me the confidence I’ve needed in order to know that I’ll be alright on my own someday.

Bikes and Brews Dress to impress, take your bike and get tipsy this Wednesday in The District.

Bikes and Brews will start at 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 6, in downtown Columbia. The event is held by PedNet Coalition, whose mission is to create a comprehensive active transportation network, promote healthy lifestyles for all and engage the community through education and advocacy.

Many businesses in downtown are backing this event, such as CycleXtreme, 9th Street Public House, Flat Branch and Klunk Bicycles & Repair. Breweries including New Belgium, Rock Bridge and Logboat are also sponsoring this event.

The event will consist of 100 bikers riding through downtown and stopping at various locations for a microbrew sample. Additionally, a Tryathletics bike mechanic will be on route to provide support for those who may have vehicle trouble along the way.

Check in will be at 5:30 p.m. in front of CycleXtreme, and the event will end at 8 p.m. in front of 9th Street Public House.

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to all MU students who present their student ID. Judah & the Lion try and keep their music uncomplicated while still connecting with their audience. The main way they do

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Amanda Rainey, the CoMo Girls Rock! co-founder.

With the help of two friends, Rainey organized the first camp in Columbia in 2013.

“It’s a complete package of empowerment,” says MU Women’s Center Coordinator Theresa Eultgen, who taught a workshop at last year’s camp.

“They just get to do such great things with their bodies, brains and each other, in a supportive community.”

The basic structure of the Columbia camp is similar to the

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Ultron is far from a worthy foe.

Sure, he’s pretty cool, and the idea behind him is effective, but the execution was undermined by his inconsistent character development.

Depending on the scene, he’s a robotic Tony Stark, an angst-filled teenager, a psycho-killer or a fighter you don’t want to mess with. You never truly grasp the fact that he is designed with artificial intelligence to protect the earth, and his oddball sense of humor is completely unwelcome for this kind of villain.

Quicksilver is not nearly as cool as his “X-Men: Days of Future Past” counterpart. Aaron TaylorJohnson’s accent doesn’t cut it, and the humor Evan Peters brought to the other version was fun to see. It is funny that the guy who played Kick-Ass plays a “real” superhero in this film.

I have no clue what Thor was doing in this movie. His motivations and story arc never quite made sense to me. I don’t know if this is because there was footage that had to get cut, but it involves water spirits and I just got really confused.

(Spoilers) Ultron captures Black Widow. Her kidnapping is all Ultron has over the Avengers at this point. Presumably, given her importance, she would be incredibly well-guarded. With no indication of how he got up there, Bruce Banner (not even Hulk) just waltzes on in and frees her. How did Ultron let a wimpy human do that right under his nose? (End spoilers) Marvel needs to learn that not every movie needs a love story subplot. I won’t tell you who it is in this one, but it’s totally forced.

The scenes hold up okay because of the caliber of acting in them, but it’s just unnecessary and only adds

THE MANEATER | MOVE | MAY 6, 2015 this is through being honest.

“We really just keep it kind of simple and keep it about music and the truths that are going on in our life,” Akers says.

Even with the different opportunities that have arisen for the band, they still stay humble and take everything with a grain of salt.

“It’s just a nice confirmation

to what we are doing when we have opportunities that come up that seem a little bit bigger than what we are at the time,” Akers says of the band, which recently appeared on “The Late Show with David Letterman.”

The band is preparing this summer for its second album.

“Hopefully we’ll be releasing it sometime early next year,”

Akers says.

The band’s previous album “Kids These Days” and EP “Sweet Tennessee” both made it to the Billboard charts.

Akers says above all he hopes that through their music, “people would learn to not take life too seriously, but also learn that everyone is kind of struggling and going

through the same thing and even through all of that there is still hope to grab on to.”

And for the upcoming show here in Columbia? Well, there’s one main thing you cannot forget to bring.

“The dancing shoes are a must,” Akers says. “Come ready to participate.”

Girls Rock! camps that are now present worldwide, with camps offered in Oakland, California; Philadelphia; and Popkollo, Sweden, among other locations.

Between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. from June 8 to June 12 at the Columbia Area Career Center, campers will practice with the bands and instrument they are assigned, receive music lessons from volunteers and attend workshops that range from “Feminism 101” to discussions about body positivity.

Additionally, because the camp was founded on the principle of girls playing loud, rebellious rock music, they are treated to a “‘herstory’ lesson” on the history of the

genre/feminist movement, Riot Grrrl. (Riot Grrrl legend Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney provided guitar lessons at the first camp in Oregon in 2007).

“There’s such a disparity in who is told that they can rock and who can be in the background,” Eultgen says.

“These gender norms where women have to be pretty and sitting properly while playing something like the flute. Like, no! Get your hair messy, jump around the stage, let loose!”

On the last day of camp, each band of campers perform a set of their own material at a showcase, held at 2 p.m. June 13 at The Blue Note.

“On Monday, they’ll say, ‘Oh

my god, I’m playing bass and I’ve never touched a bass,’” Rainey says. “And then by Saturday, they are rocking out in front of hundreds of strangers. It’s just so amazing to see them feel empowered and gratified by seeing what they’re capable of.”

Rainey says they get the majority of their campers throug h word-of-mouth advertising. The number of campers has been around 20 each year so far, but Rainey reiterated that “we have big, long-term plans to keep the camp growing.”

On top of allowing a space for young girls to participate in the arts in a way most haven’t before, the CoMo Girls

Rock! camp stresses its goal of showing young girls their self-worth extends far past their appearance. A “Shout Out Wall” is available throughout the week, where girls can write positive messages of love and encouragement to each other.

“You can just tell a lot of the girls had been waiting for a place where they could say the kind of things we talk about,” Eultgen says. “They were so excited to express themselves and feel like they’re being heard. It’s just really nice to see the happiness these girls have when they can see their own greatness.”

a little bit of character background to one of them. This entire subplot could have been scrapped and the filmmakers could’ve used that time to tell me what the heck Thor was even doing.

OK, that’s enough of being critical. There are two crucial reasons that you should see this movie, and those are Hawkeye and Scarlet Witch. Hawkeye gets some great character development, and is as funny and awesome as we’ve ever seen him. He adds a very real human element to this movie, which is desperately needed. Newcomer Scarlet Witch has debatably the coolest super powers that we’ve seen to date, and she is a thrill to watch.

Hawkeye summed things up better than I ever could when he said, “The city is flying, we are fighting robots, and I have a bow and arrow. None of this makes any sense.” Sure, it’s not entirely cohesive, but Marvel delivers with an amazing cast, spectacular action and good humor that almost everyone in the family can enjoy.

The most disappointing thing is that “Age of Ultron” doesn’t really accomplish anything in the grander scheme of the Marvel Cinematic Universe outside of introducing a few new characters. In a shocking development, they’ve only opened the door for even more sequels.

Despite all of the negatives here, I can’t deny that this film entertained me greatly for its full runtime, and when a movie does that, it’s hard to criticize it too much. “Avengers: Age of Ultron” is far from the best movie you’ll ever see, but you won’t regret seeing the latest thing Marvel has offered up.

Pass the Popcorn if: Let’s be honest here, you were probably going to see this movie regardless of what I have to say about it. That being said, enjoy!

Pass it Up if: You’re dead set on going against the grain.

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Missouri junior shortstop Sami Fagan celebrates with her teammates Sunday in University Field. The Tigers beat the Florida Gators 3-2 in the eigth inning off a sacrfice fly to rightfield.

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With regular season ending, Missouri aims for WCWS Missouri will be taking on Mississippi State in the first round of the SEC tournament.

ThoMaS CUda Staff Writer No. 13 Missouri (38-13, 14-10 SEC) welcomed the No. 1 Florida Gators (49-5, 18-5 SEC) to Columbia last weekend and was able to sneak away with an extra-inning, walk-off win last Sunday afternoon.

The Tigers put up quite the fight in the other two games of the series, losing in the seventh inning in the first and putting the tying run at the plate after being down eight runs in the sixth. Mizzou was apt to deal with the SEC Pitcher of the Year, senior Lauren Haeger.

"I think our hitters did amazing against (Haeger),” junior outfielder Taylor Gadbois said. “I don't know how many times I would go to the bench to get a drink and have to run back out for another home run.”

Hae ger had been instrumental to the success of

the Gators this season, going 23-0, the first pitcher to reach that mark in NCAA history.

Although she did not take a loss this series, Missouri was able to jump on her early in games and knock her out.

Despite an impressive performance in the weekend series, the team’s RPI rating dropped one spot from No. 8 to No. 9. Even though the Tigers are one of the top teams in the country, they are in the middle of SEC standings.

Mizzou will open the SEC tournament in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, against Mississippi

State on May 6. The Bulldogs put up a solid series at University Field earlier this season, taking one of the three games from Missouri.

If the Tigers can win their first game, they will play another set of Tigers, Auburn, which came to Columbia earlier this season and won two games around the time Mizzou had hit a little bit of a slump.

Considering the SEC has nine of the top 25 teams in the RPI rankings, which is by far the most of any conference, the road does not get easier for Mizzou past the two first

games.

The SEC tournament will not be an easy competition, but last weekend’s outing gave Missouri coach Ehren Earleywine hope for the tournament.

“I don’t know if we’re as good as Florida, but we’re damn close,” Earleywine said.

“To me, that translates into, ‘We’re good enough to get to the College World Series.’”

The last two weekends of the season gave the Tigers the idea that they can beat anyone in the country on any given night.

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Tigers look to secure NCAA Tournament bid in critical series Mizzou prepares to face the No. 1 team in college baseball.

JaSon LoWenThaL Assistant Sports Editor After an 18-1 drubbing of Ole Miss on Saturday, Missouri sophomore shortstop Ryan Howard was asked about the team’s prior conference series against Vanderbilt, in which Mizzou was swept. It was the biggest series of the season to date for the Tigers, who were all knotted up with the Commodores at the top of the SEC East heading into the

series.

“Obviously (Vanderbilt) is a great club, but we didn’t play as well as we could have and we’ll probably see them again this year in the SEC tournament or after that,” Howard said.

“Hopefully we get another shot at them because I think we’ll beat them.”

The Tigers will have to wait at least a little while longer to get another shot at the 2014 College World Series champion, but they will face another toptier team in LSU this weekend in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. LSU (40-8, 16-7) is currently tied atop the SEC West with Texas A&M. “(LSU) is going to come

after us just like anyone else,” Tigers’ freshman designated hitter Shane Benes said. “Going into the tournament we’ve got to get more wins. We can’t be happy with what we’ve done so far.”

Coach Tim Jamieson said the atmosphere at LSU’s Alex Box Stadium will be unlike any other atmosphere the Tigers have faced this season.

“It’s going to be an incredible atmosphere, something these guys have not experienced in the SEC,” Jamieson said.

“There’s nothing like it. We’re looking to respond and we’re

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Missouri tigers catcher Brett Bond (5) slides into first base sunday at taylor stadium. Bond recently recovered from an injury and is back playing for the tigers.

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Missouri freshman catcher Brett Bond didn’t do anything special during his recovery time away from the baseball field after he suffered an ankle sprain April 9 against Tennessee during a collision at the plate.

Simply resting was all he needed.

“I got to take a break and relax for a little bit,” Bond said. “It’s been a long season and a grind. It was tough being patient and getting back in there, but I think I was just able to relax and that was nice.”

Bond, a major player of Missouri’s impressive freshman recruiting class coming into the season, has enjoyed a very successful first year as a Tiger.

In Southeastern Conference games, he sports the team’s highest batting average (.355) and leads the Tigers with three home runs and a .532 slugging percentage (minimum 50 at-bats). Bond has also been a steady force behind the plate for the Tigers, boasting the team’s second-highest fielding percentage (.993).

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to his early-season form after his big weekend against Ole Miss. Bond hit a couple of home runs in the Tigers’ trip to Corpus Christi, Texas, back in February and was instrumental in Mizzou getting off to its best start (10-1) since 1985, when the Tigers started 14-0.

With Bond back healthy, the Tigers offense received a much-needed boost against Ole Miss. In Mizzou’s series against Vanderbilt, with Bond still nursing the ankle sprain and not playing at 100 percent, the Tigers were outscored 26-6. Against Ole Miss, the Tigers put up 25 runs total, including an 18-1 victory in game two, the largest conference win for Mizzou since it entered the SEC. Mizzou travels to LSU (40-8, 16-7 SEC) this weekend to face the No. 1 team in the nation and will likely need another solid performance from Bond to steal a game. With one win, the Tigers will likely solidify a spot in the NCAA Tournament. Mizzou currently sits in third in the SEC East with 14 conference wins. Historically, 15 SEC victories guarantee a team a spot in regionals.

“I think we need to just do what we did this weekend and be confident,” Bond said. “It doesn’t matter who we’re facing, we just have to go in there and play Mizzou baseball.”

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Bond was also named Freshman of the Week in the SEC for his performance this past weekend against Ole Miss. The St. Louis native was instrumental in Mizzou capturing its sixth conference series victory of the season, hitting .467 against the Rebels and leading the Tigers in batting, hits, RBI, total bases and doubles.

Despite a 4-3 defeat in the series finale, Bond said he was just happy to have been able to start behind the plate in three straight games for the first time since before the injury.

“I’m finally getting back with my feet under me again,” Bond said. “It’s been an annoying injury, but it’s finally getting a little better.”

Although he missed being on the field, Bond said the time out of the lineup likely did him some good, allowing him to take a break and re-focus. Tigers’ coach Tim Jamieson agreed but also saw the ill effects of the injury in Bond’s first couple games back.

“When (Bond) got hurt, he was able to take a couple weeks away from (baseball),” Jamieson said. “I think that refreshed his body and his arm, but it also hurt him. His first game back, his timing was off.”

However, Jamieson did say that he thinks Bond is starting to return

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The 2014-15 NBA season has made for excellent theater with the return of LeBron to Cleveland, the emergence of the Splash Brothers in Golden State and the dismantling of a dynasty in South Beach.

And with the Miami Heat missing out on the postseason and the San Antonio Spurs being bounced in the first round, the NBA playoffs just got a whole lot more interesting. Eight teams have a legitimate chance at a title, and the talent distribution has never been greater.

However, while watching my hometown team the other night, I realized there is a fundamental flaw with playoff basketball and this series in particular.

The Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Clippers tipped off the Western Conference semifinals with three of the best quarters of basketball this season. But what followed was a near atrocity.

For the last 12 minutes of game time, the Rockets and Clippers took turns using the NBA’s infamous “Hack-a-Shaq” strategy. For what seemed like an eternity, Dwight Howard and DeAndre Jordan clanked free throw attempts off the back iron, and fans everywhere yawned.

For those that don’t know, the “Hack-aShaq” strategy is when a team intentionally fouls an opposing player because he is so bad at free throws. The thought is that, statistically, the player is bound to miss his pair of free throws, and with no other scoring option, the opposing team will start to fall behind.

But the irony here is that Howard and Jordan are easily the two worst free throw shooters of their generation and, quite possibly, the worst ever.

Jordan (39.7) and Howard (52.8) are responsible for two of the lowest five freethrow percentages in the league this year, with Jordan himself leading in missed free throws.

I watched this glorified game of “H-O-RS-E” for about half an hour with a group of roommates and good friends, and eventually, the conversation turned to whether or not the NBA should ban the “Hack-a-Shaq” strategy for good.

Initially, I thought it was totally absurd.

If you can’t do something as simple as make the easiest shot in basketball, then you don’t deserve to win; the NBA shouldn’t penalize a team for using a legal strategy.

But after watching that debacle on the court, I flipped sides and couldn’t see how the league could ever let this happen. The rest of the room agreed — one horrible game completely changed everyone’s opinion.

At the end of the day, basketball and all professional sports are for the fans. The NBA is first and foremost a business, so why would you continue to irritate and drive away fans?

I’m all for big men in the NBA learning how to shoot from the charity stripe, but not if it means watching an hour of non-action on my television.

The “Hack-a-Shaq” rule needs to be outlawed in the NBA, and at the very least in the postseason.

Sure, it might be a slight competitive edge, but myself and millions of other basketball fans do not want to see another game with 54 free throw attempts.

Benes off to strong start after missing two years “It’s been a while since I’ve been able to trot around the bases,” Benes said.

Jason LowenthaL Assistant Sports Editor The ball kept traveling as it left Shane Benes’ bat in his first plate appearance in nearly two years April 17. It fell to the warning track after hitting the top of the wall in straightaway center field. He missed his first career home run by an inch.

This past weekend against Ole Miss, the freshman infielder did launch his first career dinger. This one was more special than that first one would have been. Benes’ father, Andy Benes, a former St. Louis Cardinals pitcher and No. 1 overall draft pick, was in attendance at Taylor Stadium to see his son back on the field.

“That felt really good,” Benes said after talking with his dad following the game. “It’s been awhile since I’ve been able to trot around the bases.”

Benes said having his family, especially his father there, made the home run even more meaningful.

“It was pretty cool,” Benes said. “My whole family got to come up and I knew I had been struggling the last couple weeks between (Vanderbilt) and here, so it was nice to just hit a ball hard and get that kink out.”

Above all, Benes is just happy to be back on the diamond, regardless of his performance.

The highly-sought after recruit from Westminster Christian Academy in St. Louis has been on a long journey back since

resiliency, especially facing some of the top pitching in the nation in his return.

“For a kid to come in after what he’s been through and compete in the SEC is asking a lot,” Jamieson said. “The potential there is tremendous.”

Through his first nine games as a Tiger, Benes is batting .219 with one homerun and three extra-base hits. While the statistics may indicate a slow start, Benes knows that it doesn’t come easy playing in what is widely considered to be the best conference in college baseball.

“My second series against (Vanderbilt), some of the best pitching in the country, it was kind of tough after not seeing anything in almost two years,” Benes said.

Against the Commodores, Benes struggled, going 0-for8 with five strikeouts in the series.

At this point, the name of the game is still resiliency for Benes, who will be integral to Mizzou’s postseason success this season. Jamieson knows that Benes has the talent and the patience at the plate. It just all has to come together.

“He’s got a tremendous amount of power,” Jamieson said. “Come out and watch him take (batting practice) sometime. He punishes the football players at about the 20-yard line.”

Benes and the Tigers will travel to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this weekend to take on No. 1 LSU (40-8, 16-7 SEC). If the Tigers can steal one win on the road, they will likely secure a spot in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2012.

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Missouri tigers outfielder Jake Ring (25) slides into second base sunday at taylor stadium.

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barrell long through the zone,” Ring said. “It seems to be working out for me.”

He’s hit three home runs this year and two triples along with his 15 doubles. Ring’s .293 batting average is third on the team but he’s collected the most total bases with 81. Ring is also one of only five Tigers to have started every game this season.

Ring credited Missouri hitting coach Hunter Mense with helping him improve at the plate this year. He said that he and Hunter worked hard during the offseason to mend any flaws in his swing and make sure he was realizing his full potential as a batter.

“Confidence, I just build off that,” Ring said. “Confidence is what I strive off of. Hunter’s been a blessing to me.”

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Sophomore Jake Ring is Missouri’s spark plug.

He knows how to get on base. He’s worked a teamleading 28 walks and his .399 on-base percentage leads the team as well. He knows how to find the gaps. Ring’s 15 doubles are four better than the next best on the team. Perhaps most importantly, Ring has been an exemplary run producer in pressure situations. “ With two outs, RBI situations, he’s money,” Missouri coach Tim Jamieson said. “He’s balanced and hits the ball hard. He’s very confident

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hitting in that situation.”

Jamieson said Ring has been great at the plate with two outs all year. During a May 1 game against Ole Miss, Ring came up with a clutch two-out single that proved to be the difference maker in a 4-2 victory.

Ring said he always tries to be aggressive in the box. His crucial hit against Ole Miss came on a three-two, inside pitch. Ring said he was sitting opposite field and was able to connect with the ball and send it onto the outfield grass.

Ring also stroked two doubles during that game, one to either outfield gap. He said he’s been working on hitting for power and has been able to change his approach at the plate and produce solid extrabase hit numbers this year.

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tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during a Westminster basketball game his junior season. After rehabbing and getting set for his freshman season at Mizzou, Benes re-injured that same knee during the team’s first scrimmage.

“I’m starting to see the ball better,” Benes said. “My timing’s better and I’m able to lay off pitches I shouldn’t be swinging at. I’m getting better at taking good pitches and hitting what I can hit hard.”

Tigers’ coach Tim Jamieson commended Benes for his

Ring’s leads the team in doubles and walks.

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Mizzou will have some momentum heading into the series against LSU. The Tigers are coming off a series victory against Ole Miss in which they outscored the Rebels 25-7. It was the sixth conference series win of the season for Mizzou, and the fourth out of their last five.

“We’ll take two, but we like taking three better,” freshman catcher Brett Bond said.

THE MANEATER | SPORTS | MAY 6, 2015 recognition that the RPI poll says it deserves. The Tigers have the most losses of any top10 team in the rankings, which is a difficult factor to overlook when deciding the seeding for the NCAA tournament.

Although they had a slow stretch in conference play,

the Tigers seem to have hit their stride at the right time.

Junior outfielder Emily Crane emphasized mid- season that “this is when it’s most important to be at your best.”

The two series against Louisiana State and Florida have seen the team at its best.

They may have suffered some disappointing losses, but the team has fought hard over the last few weeks and been able to improve from its downturn of form from the middle of the season.

If the Tigers manage to play at the level that they have been,

they will have a good chance to host a regional. If given the chance to host a regional, Earleywine will have a good chance at getting this team right where he wants it — the WCWS.

“Usually when we play our best and we’re competing, we take that (final) game.”

Despite the loss in the series finale, Jamieson was very pleased with how his team responded and showed resiliency against Ole Miss after being swept by Vanderbilt.

Bond, who took home SEC Freshman of the Week honors, said the team had the right mentality heading into the Ole Miss series.

“Sometimes you’re going to go in and face some really good guys and struggle,” Bond said of the Vanderbilt series. “We’ve just got to put it behind us and I think we’re doing a real good

job of that.”

Mizzou will certainly have a tough task at hand facing a six-time national champion and 15-time conference champion in LSU. The Tigers have lost just six games at home all season, and their top three starters have compiled a 22-1 record collectively. Mizzou saw one of the top pitching staffs in the nation against Vanderbilt, which should prepare them well for LSU’s big three of Alex Lange (8-0, 2.22 ERA), Jared Poche (7-1, 2.65 ERA) and Jake Godfrey (7-0, 4.10 ERA).

Benes recognized that it will likely help the Tigers having already faced a pro-level staff

against Vanderbilt.

“Seeing that good of pitching (against Vanderbilt), it’s good to see that early on before LSU,” Benes said.

With Mizzou in competition for a division title and berth to the postseason, this next series against LSU will be critical to the team’s tournament resume.

If the Tigers can manage to steal one game in Baton Rouge, they will secure 15 SEC wins and at least a .500 record in conference play.

“This is the first time since we’ve been in the SEC where we’re in the hunt,” Jamieson said. “If you look at the history of the SEC, if you finish at

.500 in the league it’s almost a lock (to make the NCAA Tournament).”

Mizzou has not reached the NCAA Tournament since 2012, but could change that, for all intents and purposes, with a victory over LSU. However, Jamieson knows it won’t come easy for his young team that has scratched away wins all season. Regardless, the Tigers cannot afford another setback.

“I think we’ve still got some work ahead of us and that has to be our mindset,” Jamieson said. “It’s going to be 11,000 on their team against us. It’s going to be fun.”

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Student Organization: MU4MikeBown

GeorGe roberson Staff Writer MU4MikeBrown is not an organization.

The people involved aren't members; they’re activists. They don’t hold meetings; they hold protests. They don’t do what they do because it looks good on a resume; they're part of it because they want to change lives, MU and the world.

MU4MikeBrown is a movement. And it’s one of the most impressive student movements MU has seen.

Three students, graduates Kailynd Beck, Ashley Bland and senior Naomi Daugherty, founded the social justice group after Michael Brown was shot and kill by Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson in August 2014.

And though the movement took the name of the young black man killed in Ferguson since the beginning, it has been about a much broader problem. “(The Michael Brown movement) is about a culture in America that shows up when it comes to police violence … and that shows up on a campus where black lives are seen in a way that makes those who have black skin feel like they don't matter,” said Carl Kenney, adjunct journalism professor and pastor at Bethel Baptist Church. "I do believe that the protest around Mike Brown, yes, is about the death of this young man, but is also about the psychological death, the financial death. It's about people … who feel marginalized because of a culture that is similar to that of Ferguson."

It’s that culture MU4MikeBrown has spent the year trying to change.

At the group's first event, a silent vigil for Brown in August 2014, Bland told The Maneater: “I want this to be a catalyst for other things. It’s just a start."

MU4MikeBrown exposed the divide on campus, Kenney said.

“They have brought to the attention of the administration and the student body and the faculty the great divide that exists on campus related to racial matters," he said. "I think there was a culture pre-

Michael Brown that, in many ways, modeled the culture in Ferguson. And the students in the protests helped bring to the forefront attention to a campus that needs to change the way it functions."

Starting in December, administrators set up a series of discussions about improving race relations on campus, in part because of the efforts of MU4MikeBrown.

"I would say that they're absolutely critical because the only way we can begin a conversation about change is for people to scream,” Kenney said. "It wouldn't have happened without the students of the Mike Brown movement shifting the tide on campus. I think there's more that needs to be discussed. I think there's more to be said, and hopefully the faculty, the administration and the rest of the student body will rally around these questions that they are raising. There is so much that needs to be done on a campus like Mizzou

that is often silenced by apathy."

Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Cathy Scroggs said race relations at MU are “a work in progress.”

“I think (MU4MikeBrown has) done a good job of raising issues about race and about inclusion,” Scroggs said. "They’ve been a good group to raise an important issue."

MU4MikeBrown has held a die-in at the Student Center, marched through Greektown in protest of racism within the Greek community and organized various other race-related demonstrations on and around campus.

“You have people on this campus who had never seen black people until they got to this campus,” Daugherty said. “I don’t know, to this day, a black student who has been to Greektown and not been called an n-word, a racial slur or been harassed (because of their race). I know a

lot of people. That’s a problem. Why are we trying to Band-Aid this issue?”

MU4MikeBrown protests are organized largely through social media and open to the public. The name MU4MikeBrown comes from the hashtag used to mobilize people to attend their initial vigil.

"I have hope in these students,” Kenney said. "The students who lead the Mike Brown movement are highly passionate and incredibly organized and incredibly consistent around what they believe to be critical issues. I believe they are the generation to bring forth change. They have been able to make a community understand how each of us is impacted by these issues. I'm hopeful that is what is going to usher in the change: their ability to stand as Millennials and communicate how (racial issues) impact them specifically."

Elizabeth Loutfi contributed to this report.

University Achievement: Inclusive housing Katherine Knott and esther seawell of The Maneater staff The project initially known as Virginia Avenue South has been a long time coming.

First, the trees had to be removed to clear the space for a new hall. Then, workers started to dig deep to lay the foundation for what would become the latest addition to MU’s residence halls. After two years of construction, Gateway residence hall will open its doors to students in the fall.

Sure, it looks like any other residence hall on the outside. Yet, Director of Residential Life Frankie Minor has been working for several years to make sure it was anything but. In fall 2015, his vision for gender-neutral housing options at MU will finally come to fruition.

There will be gender-neutral bathrooms in

Gateway and gender-neutral suites on the first floor of College Avenue residence hall.

For ResLife, it’s all about providing students with options. Incoming freshmen started selecting housing in mid-April, and they have options to choose from including choosing to live on a floor with gender-neutral bathrooms or in a gender-neutral suite.

The two options are a first in MU’s 176year history. In fact, MU is only the second Southeastern Conference school to provide such an option and the first to allow incoming freshmen to live there. Although it hasn’t been easy to implement and only time will tell how the new options are received, it’s a step toward inclusivity, especially for gender nonconforming or transgender students.

LGBTQ Resource Center Coordinator Struby Struble told the Maneater in January that the new housing option would be a safe space for all students.

“I think because there’s a lot of negativity around gender non-conforming and transgender people in our culture at large, having a space that’s openly transparent about their support of all students is really important,” Struble said.

Before this upcoming fall, gender nonconforming and transgender students had to contact ResLife to have special accommodations made available. The new housing allows these students to choose their housing through ROAR, just like everyone else.

The first floor of College Avenue residence hall will be home to four suite-style genderneutral rooms, with a total of 16 beds. These rooms are open to all students, regardless of gender.

Gateway residence hall, which will open this fall, will have gender-neutral bathrooms on floors 2-5. These bathrooms will have

five fully locking stalls. Three of the five will include a toilet, shower, and sink while the other two will have a toilet and shower.

Overall, ResLife operates 26 housing options that provide a community for more than 7,000 students. That’s 25 percent of the total campus population. From the staff to the students, ResLife has a vast impact, especially on incoming freshmen.

The gender-neutral housing option will show incoming freshmen that MU accepts and embraces people of all identities and backgrounds. After all, it’s a notion that was physically built into the new hall. Gateway had to be specifically constructed to allow for the gender-neutral bathrooms. ResLife honored its mission of providing a "safe and secure environment" for all students by investing in the new gender-neutral options.

And that’s an achievement worth applauding.

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Female Athlete: Jordan BoBBy Ceresia Staff Writer On the Missouri women’s basketball team, there was only one forward to stay uninjured all season.

That forward also led the Tigers in points scored (13.2 per game), rebounds grabbed (9.9 per game), steals snatched (49 total) and blocked nearly half of the entire team’s 111 blocks with a sum of 46.

That was the only Tiger who came close to averaging a double-double per game every time she stepped on the court.

Leading the team to one of the best seasons in recent memory were the consistently exceptional efforts of sophomore forward Jordan Frericks.

Coming into the season, Frericks had big shoes to fill — Mizzou no longer had Bri Kulas on the team, a forward who finished her college basketball career in 2014 and led the team in scoring and double-doubles.

While Frericks started in every game this season, every other forward on Missouri’s roster was out at some point in the season due to injury, including two season-ending injuries early on for junior Kayla McDowell and freshman Bri Porter.

But Frericks took these potential setbacks and turned them into benefits, to the delight of Missouri coach Robin Pingeton.

“Jordan is a beast,” Pingeton said. “I’m so proud of her. It’s been amazing to see her grow as a player and I have a lot of confidence in her.”

Frericks managed to perform even better on the road than at home, averaging 17.3

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points and 11.2 rebounds per away game and gaining the nickname “Road Warrior” on the team’s social media outlets.

Frericks’ talents got her to the point where opposing coaches prepared ahead for Frericks’ ferocity.

Arkansas coach Jimmy Dykes said he was proud of the way his team played against Frericks in the post, specifically mentioning how they limited her to “only 10 points.”

“They have good balance with Frericks on the inside,” Dykes said. “She’s a really good player. I’m really impressed with her just about as much as any post player in this league.”

Arkansas lost that game 57-41, with Mizzou limiting them to the least amount of points scored by an opponent since 2010.

Frericks was also recognized this season on a larger scale with her multiple accolades awarded by the Southeastern Conference.

Frericks was awarded SEC Player of the Week honors on March 2 after a strong performance throughout the week, averaging 17.5 points and 8.0 rebounds per game.

She was also named to the SEC AllConference second-team at the end of the season, which was the highest ranking any Mizzou player received this year.

But through her 12 double-doubles and national attention, Frericks stayed humble and always attributed her success to her teammates.

“My teammates and my coaches,” Frericks said, “they give me all the confidence in the world to go out and do what I do. They’ve done everything to help me through practice in the game. They’ve gotten me to where I am right now.”

Male Athlete: Drake Houdashelt

Quinn Malloy Staff Writer Remember that scene from “Mrs. Doubtfire”? The one where Daniel Hillard, played by the late, great Robin Williams, is tasked with preparing dinner for the family. Hillard’s bosom catches fire as he leans over a lit stove. Hilarity ensues. Remember that?

Drake Houdashelt does.

Houdashelt watched the 1993 classic

with his teammates the night before his semifinal match at the NCAA National Championships. Houdashelt, the reigning national champion at 149 pounds, didn’t say Williams’ awe-inspiring performance spurred his championship run in St. Louis; but he also didn’t say it didn’t.

We’ll let you decide.

Houdashelt defeated David Habat of Edinboro in the sudden victory period of the championship match. Though he said he wasn’t thinking during post-victory bliss, he said he had often

conceptualized that moment.

“All I’ve thought about everyday was nationals in St. Louis,” Houdashelt said.

“Everything I thought about, it happened to a tee. Everything seemed to be going right that weekend.”

The past few weeks have been Houdashelt’s first as a national champion but they’ve also been his first as a nonwrestler in eight years. He celebrated his national championship by spending the week in Tulsa, Oklahoma with his family. Throughout his five years as a college wrestler, he’d never been away from Columbia for that long.

After spring break in Tulsa, Houdashelt returned to Missouri to begin classwork and an internship with Mizzou Athletics.

He’s spent time at the Hearnes Center and other athletic facilities on campus this semester helping out with housekeeping and making phone calls to donors. He said the work has helped him maintain ties to the program.

Houdashelt said he still feels as though he is a member of the team, in spirit.

“The only difference will be that I’m not cutting weight and competing anymore,” he said. “Other than that, I’ll still be at every practice; I’ll still be there for them.”

Sophomore J’den Cox, who won the

national championship at 197-pounds as a freshman in 2013, is often looked up to as a leader for the team. However, Cox said it’s Houdashelt who provided the primary source of inspiration for the Tigers.

“A lot of people call me a leader, but Drake was my leader,” Cox said. “I watch Drake, I followed Drake. He’s truly the one who makes me work hard every day.”

Houdashelt said he relished his reputation as a leader.

“Knowing that guys look up to me, that made it easier for me to work hard,” he said. “It’s not always easy when you’re in college. There are always opportunities to go have fun and be like everyone else on campus. But you have to turn your shoulder and remember why you’re doing it, you want to achieve something great.”

When he’s not working with the department of athletics and the wrestling team, Houdashelt said he spends his time fishing and golfing.

Houdashelt said he’s staked out a fishing hole — but that it’s whereabouts are top-secret.

“I can’t say where my fishing spot is,” he said, laughing.

Houdashelt said he’s pursuing a master’s degree in positive coaching for a potential career.

inaugural Battle Line Rivalry locked up the team’s slot in the SEC championship game, but it was only a small part of a much larger streak. The Tigers won their final six games of the regular season to storm back to the top of the SEC East and secure a spot in Atlanta.

“You never know what’s going to happen,” Missouri coach Gary Pinkel said.

But the season wasn’t without its fair share of struggles. The Tigers suffered their first loss of the season to the underdog Indiana Hoosiers at home in a heartbreaking 31-27 defeat. The Hoosiers drove 75 yards down the field and scored the game-clinching touchdown with 22 seconds remaining, spoiling Missouri’s hopes of a perfect season.

“We never thought it was going to slip away,” sophomore linebacker Michael Scherer said. “We had confidence until they got in the

end zone that we were going to stop them, but that’s just how the game went.”

Then, just a few weeks later, the Tigers dropped their biggest game of the season and lost to Georgia 34-0. The five-turnover, shutout loss was easily Missouri’s worst, and it put the team’s season in a state of flux.

“We should never play that bad, ever,” senior wide receiver Bud Sasser said. “It showed on the scoreboard.”

The loss was a major setback early on in the team’s season. The Tigers were faced with an uphill battle to climb back to the top of the SEC East standings, and they needed some help to get there.

“A lot of guys had their heads down, which is the way you should feel,” junior defensive end Shane Ray said. “But we need to pick it up. We need to figure out what we did wrong

and everybody needs to do something extra.”

And that’s exactly what the Tigers did.

The team won its next six games over Florida, Vanderbilt, Kentucky, Texas A&M, Tennessee and Arkansas, and courtesy of a few late-season losses by the Bulldogs, the Tigers clinched the SEC East title for the second year in a row.

Missouri’s final three-game stretch was particularly tense. The team defeated the Aggies, Volunteers and Razorbacks in lastsecond victories, and every game was decided by one touchdown or fewer.

“To see the journey we’ve been on this year and to see how we’ve fought in every game is very rewarding,” Sasser said after the final normal-season game against the Razorbacks. “Nothing can top that feeling.”

Biggest Surprise: Mizzou football wins SEC East title andrew MCCulloCh Staff Writer As time wound down in the final regular season game of 2014, the Missouri defense dug in for one final stand. The Tigers held a slim seven-point lead, and Arkansas quarterback Brandon Allen was marching his team down the field.

Allen handed the ball off to running back Alex Collins, but senior defensive end Markus Golden burst through the line and poked the ball free. The Tigers recovered and secured a 21-14 victory and their second consecutive Southeastern Conference East division title.

“Today, man — it don’t get no better than this,” Golden said following the game.

Mizzou’s victory over Arkansas in the

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MU Alert

Quinn Malloy Staff Writer

MU Alert has made a series of high-profile faux pas in the past month.

The system’s basic function is to alert students to any “personae non gratae” in the vicinity of the campus.

Any potentially violent or harmful event is supposed to be noted and relayed to the student body via mass alert texts and emails, and even phone calls for some.

One would think that a bomb threat or armed and dangerous man near campus would warrant an alert text. One would think our vigilant security personnel, the guardians of our well-being, would spring into action upon the first inkling of menace.

Alas, no. This kind of dutiful diligence has been lost on the operators of MU Alert. There was indeed an armed and dangerous man on campus grounds April 15. Police eventually confronted and fatally shot the suspect in Hitt Street Garage. But students did not hear anything of the man’s presence until 11:26 p.m., nearly five hours after the initial tweet from the Columbia Police Department about the armed robbery downtown. The suspect was already dead by the time students were notified.

One week later, an anonymous caller called the MU Student Center saying there was a bomb somewhere in the “student union.” As a precaution, students were evacuated from the Student Center. Some time later, Memorial Union was evacuated as well.

There was a flurry of activity on Twitter during and after the evacuations. The bulk of the commentary wasn’t related to the bomb threat; rather, it was snide jabs at MU Alert. Students were decrying the lack of proactivity by the administration, which did little to disseminate news of the bomb threat outside of scant social media postings.

In other words, students who didn’t happen to tune into the Twittersphere during the hours of the bomb scare were hung out to die. Administrators’ formal excuse for withholding an alert text about the bomb threat was that the “threat was isolated.”

Administrators cannot assume anything. They cannot assume information will be spread, especially if their error can lead to the endangerment of students.

If that was the sincere result of following protocol, then the protocol needs to change. On a campus of 34,000 students, that kind of callous nonchalance, concerning the armed gunman and the bomb threat alike, is simply unacceptable.

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Worst of the year

Biggest Disappointment: Administration’s handling of campus race relations

Covey eonyak Son Universtiy News Editor Take a walk through the heart on the Francis Quadrangle and you’ll notice there’s a lot of repairs taking place on Red Campus. Lafferre Hall is finally undergoing renovations after years of soaking up water leaks with buckets and Tupperware. Jesse Hall, once overflowing with visitors and special events, has been hollowed out for a facelift. Swallow Hall has been disemboweled completely, and officials estimate that work will continue into early 2016.

Right across the chancellor’s own front yard is Pickard Hall, which was vacated last year after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission found low levels of radiation leftover from when chemical experiments took place there in the early 20th Century. These structural problems are some of the most visible on campus, but they are hardly the biggest issues plaguing MU today.

For too long, many top MU administrators have taken the passenger seat in driving conversations to address campus climate and race relations instead of leading them.

We’ve seen some progress in the past few years, like the creation of One Mizzou under then-Chancellor Brady Deaton and the open forums hosted

by Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin. But administrators only gave these issues their full attention after acts of hatred and discrimination prompted dozens of student protests.

After taking heat from frustrated students in December, Loftin vowed to listen more closely and “create action plans” to address the campus climate.

Five months after the first forum, Loftin has continued to listen, but we’ve hardly heard him speak or take action to cool off tensions that have only built up since the events in Ferguson highlighted systemic racial divide both here and elsewhere. In fact, we’ve only seen more hatred toward marginalized groups emerge from the discussion around the “American Sniper” screening and incidents of anti-Semitism.

Many of Loftin’s biggest critics accused him of being too “reactive” and urged a more proactive approach to tackling these problems. I am not by any means implying the chancellor does not care enough to address this issue, but I agree; the administration’s way of addressing campus climate has lacked assertive and decisive leadership.

Students should not have to protest at the chancellor’s doorstep in the rain to see reform start to take place. Change should not always have to follow a traumatic event like cotton balls strewn outside the Gaines/ Oldham Black Culture Center.

And when students talk about senseless bigotry on campus, we don’t want to see our chancellor throw his arms up in the air and proclaim, “I don’t have the power.”. But the chancellor does have the power. He can introduce new programs and policies, and help create a safe campus environment for constructive dialogue.

What’s more disappointing is that the ‘Bowtieger’ also has the power to influence over 22,000 people on Twitter with a few clicks on his phone.

I wrote in last year’s Mizzou in Review that Loftin’s social media following is one of his greatest assets as a leader because it gives him the power to

influence. But he has so far neglected to use this influence to rally students for positive change.

That’s not to say Loftin completely ignores students on Twitter; he frequently retweets messages from campus organizations and marginalized groups, and replies to student feedback. But I’d like to challenge the chancellor to do more with this incredible power he has. I want to see Loftin ask students what they would like to see on campus and raise awareness about serious concerns on campus as much as he tweets about Mizzou Athletics.

Additionally, any reform that does come out of the forums and students’ Call to Action will require long-term direction as discussed during the April 29 forum, which was lacking in past administrative actions. Even One Mizzou lost momentum after its honeymoon phase, which prompted the Missouri Students Association to pull its funding for the initiative because of its “lack of vision.”

Implementing meaningful reform is a marathon, and administrators should take care to ensure today’s efforts do not burn out tomorrow.

Students are sick of the game of whack-a-mole in which administrators only act in response to peripheral problems. Loftin said in a press conference that some responsive action is necessary. I agree with the chancellor, but that should not be the only way to heal what he called “a great deal of hurt” on campus. If we are not reaching the root of the these problems, we will never see the end of hate speech and discrimination on campus.

Administrators must listen to students. They should shift the way they think and operate so they can begin to develop policies that enhance the cultural competency of our students and proactively make campus a more inclusive environment for all students.

Biggest letdown:Mizzou Readership Program elizabeth loutfi Student Organizations Editor Parents send their kids off to MU because they know it’s the best school for journalism. We have those handson journalism classes (lookin’ at you, 4450/4460 and 4300-4320), the decorated faculty of the Missouri School of Journalism and that good old “Missouri Method.”

Tour Team can show off our wonderful facilities, down to the possibility of having access to The New York Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, USA Today and the Columbia Missourian every weekday ... … except we can’t anymore.

The Mizzou Readership Program circa-

2000 was a pilot program brought to MU through a partnership with USA Today.

Students had campus-wide access to these papers with just the swipe of an ID. It thrived at MU. In 2008, it even ranked fifth in the nation of collegiate readership programs. This past year, we still remained in the top 10.

The program is funded entirely by student fees. This past year, it was allocated $1.73, or roughly 0.31 percent, of the entire student fee. Alone, these publications ranged in cost from $2 to $9 per weekly print or full-access subscriptions.

But at the beginning of fiscal year 2014, it was announced that nearly every department, including the Department

of Student Life, would receive 2 percent less in general operating funds. The approximately $8.7 million would then be absorbed by the MU Strategic Operating Plan.

Student Life Director Mark Lucas was faced with a decision. He had to make cuts. He asked student leaders from the Missouri Students Association, the Residence Halls Association and the likes to talk to their constituents about the readership program.

Lucas said the leaders reported back with the same response: Students either knew about the program but didn’t use it, or didn’t know it even existed.

Lucas took this to the Student Fee

Review Committee, which is comprised entirely of students and decides student fee allocations each year. SFRC makes suggestions to Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Cathy Scroggs, who approves the budget every fiscal year.

Through this chain of recommendation, the Mizzou Readership Program was terminated.

We loved those papers. We cherished them. We used them for J2100’s weekly news quizzes.

The Mizzou Readership Program flourished for 15 years, but fiscal year 2016 officially marks the end of an era: when journalism stopped being accessible at MU and the Missouri School of Journalism.

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Biggest Embarrassment:

Men’s Basketball Daniel Witt Staff Writer The year was 1967. Thousands of Vietnam War protesters marched in the nation’s capital, the Green Bay Packers had just defeated the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10, in the first ever Super Bowl, and gas prices in the U.S. hovered around 30 cents per gallon. And in the heart of the Midwest, Bob Vanatta’s Missouri Tigers finished the year 3-22, the most losses in program history to date.

Flash forward 48 years. Kim Anderson’s 2015 squad broke that record.

This past season, the Tigers lost 23 games — the most in a season in the program’s 109year history.

As young, inexperienced and raw as this team was coming into the season, it still fell far below expectations. The Tigers returned four players from Frank Haith’s 24-12 2014 team and added five freshmen and one senior transfer in guard Keith Shamburger.

The group of freshmen, stock full of potential, were more streaky than Blackhawks fans in a playoff run. One game, top recruit Montaque Gill-Caesar would go for 15 points, flashing his athleticism with every touch of the ball. The next game, he couldn’t find the basket, let alone a handle on the ball.

Gill-Caesar averaged nearly two turnovers per game over the course of his first season.

The youngsters’ struggles bled off the court, too. By the time the season was over, seven different Tigers had missed time for non-basketball related issues. Whether it was junior guard Deuce Bello for academic issues or the dual suspension of Gill-Caesar and fellow freshman guard Namon Wright, it always seemed like there was someone missing.

Even Mizzou’s seemingly most levelheaded player in Shamburger was stripped of his starting role in his last collegiate game due to disciplinary reasons.

Discipline wasn’t the only thing restricting the Tigers. Injuries plagued the team, too.

Gill-Caesar played half the season with a bad back, junior forward Ryan Rosburg played the last eight or so games with a broken finger and senior forward Keanau Post dealt with an injured wrist.

The most detrimental of them all came Feb. 10, when second-leading scorer and sophomore guard Wes Clark was lost for the remainder of the season with a dislocated right elbow suffered while diving for a loose ball against South Carolina.

But while Clark is healing, the program is still hurting.

The offseason hasn’t started off much

better. On April 7, one day after Duke won the national championship, sophomore forward Johnathan Williams III’s transfer was confirmed in a news release. He was the Tiger’s leading scorer and rebounder.

Junior transfer Bello followed. After a season like this, it’s not far-fetched to expect

at least one more transfers from the young Mizzou squad.

No matter who is on the roster next season, there is one thing for certain: the expectations have never been lower.

But hey, at least as of today, the Tigers haven’t lost in 48 days.

ill Columbians to grow one or two pot plants with a doctor’s letter, and decriminalized possession of up to 35 grams within city limits, was shot down by City Council.

During her campaign, Chadwick had supported decriminalizing medical marijuana, but in the middle of hearings over the ordinance, she withdrew her support. She said that during her campaign she supported the theory of decriminalization, but she did not think all the implications of this bill had been thought through. Advocates for medical marijuana felt betrayed by her switch, and rumblings of a recall campaign began.

In December, Chadwick and Tobacco Free Missouri sponsored a bill to raise the legal age to purchase tobacco to 21. Proponents thought it would lower the rates of teen and young adult addiction; opponents viewed it as an assault on individual freedoms and local small businesses. Tobacco 21 passed Dec. 15.

But the biggest clusterfudge in the First Ward in 2014 was ... Opus. A tangle of

legislation, jargon, money and really angry residents that played out like a seven-season drama. Seriously, the drama involved was really, really, really ridiculous.

Beginning in February 2014, the Opus Group proposed a student housing development, despite lack of adequate infrastructure, and were told the development couldn’t move forward. In March, agreements were proposed for the proposed housing developments to fund part of the infrastructure repairs.

As spring went on, residents, who felt left out by the quick approval, began one petition, while Chadwick created a new agreement with Opus that addressed infrastructure issues.

The new agreement passed, and residents began a repeal campaign that dragged through the summer. The agreement was repealed by the council, which then passed a third agreement.

Petitioners, city lawyers, and Opus lawyers then began an acrimonious legal battle that

lasted throughout the fall, involving circuit and federal courts. Opus broke ground Sept.

15, and its development, District Flats, on Seventh and Locust streets is slated to open in fall 2015.

I don’t even understand what I just wrote.

The whole process was long, drawn out and, mainly, unwanted. These issues also led to the loss of First Ward residents’ trust in Chadwick. Her subsequent flip-flops on medical marijuana and Tobacco 21 were seen as just more cases of her looking out for powerful interests and rejecting local interests, which led to a crowded First Ward race all hoping to remedy the lack of trust.

It remains to be seen whether Opus will be just one more “brat castle,” as First Ward council candidate Sal Nuccio phrased it, or a good addition to downtown that will lower steep housing costs. However, Columbia residents are unlikely to forget how many headlines they saw about the development over the past year.

Biggest Clusterfudge: the Ruth SeRven Staff Writer If you’re an MU student, you might not know that you probably reside in or go to school in the First Ward, an area of Columbia that encompasses campus, downtown and part of Business Loop 70. The First Ward has seen some interesting legislation and catfights over the past 10 months — from Ginny Chadwick’s [recall campaign and subsequent resignation and Tobacco 21 to the death of the medical marijuana bill and the free-for-all council election.

Chadwick, an MU graduate student, gained enemies after voting against the decriminalization of marijuana, voting for the Opus Group’s development downtown, proposing to ban alcohol in Douglass Park and sponsoring a bill to raise the legal age for tobacco to 21 within city limits.

In October, a bill that allowed chronically

First Ward

Biggest Buzz Kill: Closing Rollins to shuttles

Paige lalain Staff Writer Public transportation — well, there’s a thing of nightmares. Especially COMO Connect, the city-owned public bus system that pushed private apartment complex shuttles out of the MU Student Center stops.

With pressure on students to take city buses, congestion on campus streets might

have decreased, but, with fewer transportation options, congestion within the city buses left many students standing, seatless and squished.

What is worse than waking up in the morning and taking a shuttle to your way-tooearly 11 a.m. class, you might ask? Waking up in the morning and boarding a city bus filled with randos, City Council answered, presumably with a smirk. What an idea.

MU students who signed leases in a

number of off-campus housing complexes were contractually promised usage of free private housing shuttles. These shuttles, catering specifically to MU, its students and their schedules, run at more favorable times than COMO Connect, which serves the public as a whole. Again, what is worse than waking up for your 11 a.m. class and catching a private shuttle that runs every 15 minutes or so?

Waking up at 9:20 a.m. to catch a 10:20 a.m. city bus to campus that doesn’t run again until 10:55 a.m., which if you took, would definitely make you late but sometimes it’s worth it just so you don’t have to be waiting on campus for an extra forty minutes for a class you don’t want to be in anyway, City Council answered, presumably while twisting their one, collective handlebar mustache of government.

This transportation switch-up came after City Ordinance 14-180 was put into effect this fall, prohibiting nearly all private vehicles from using sections of Rollins Street, Hitt Street, Ninth Street, Conley Avenue and Missouri Avenue from 8:15 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.

on weekdays. With Rollins Street being cityowned, the prohibition of private vehicle presence outside of the Student Center was a decision to be made by the city. Alternate routes for private shuttles were created at locations like Strickland Hall and Memorial Union, but only after this legislation was strictly enforced with no notification or collaborative notice given to MU and its students.

To the credit of City Council as well as MU officials, a collaborative effort between the two was dedicated to quick, consolidated, efficient transport of students with emphasis on traffic safety, something that, with the number of campus traffic accidents that have taken place in the past few months alone is always an important measure to give consideration.

As students at MU we are lucky enough to have access to a unique city and a homey college town and it is important for us to remember that these things are merely additions to our beautiful campus. In the case of CoMo, it is sometimes best to simply go with the FlowMo.

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