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Vol. 81, Issue 8

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Three running for MSA president

Myles Artis and Mary Cate O’Brien

Payton Head and Brenda Smith-Lezama

“Join In: action, service and unity”

Jordan McFarland and T.J. Hinch

“Ignite Mizzou: pride, progress, truth and vision”

“Diversity, safety, tradition and student life”

The Board of Elections Commissioners announced the 2014 slates for MSA president and vice president Monday. The election takes place Nov. 10-12.

Continued on page 6 City of COLUMBIA

CPD managing calls despite shortage of officers

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NUMBER OF POLICE OFFICERS: AROUND 75-80 OFFICERS IN THE OPERATIONS BUREAU, WHICH DEALS WITH STREET OPERATIONS AND CITIZEN REQUESTS. THE NUMBER VARIES BECAUSE OFFICERS MOVE AROUND THROUGH THE DEPARTMENTS.

NUMBER OF CITIZENS:

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NEWS

Columbia Farmers Market receives a grant to expand its “Children’s Table.”

RECENT CPD RETIREES: OPENINGS: ACADEMY OPENINGS:

*AS OF 2013 Source: Assistant Chief John Gordon, United States Census Bureau

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Due to a shortage of law enforcement officers, the Columbia Police Department has had to implement a “triage system” in order to manage and respond to non-emergency calls.

This system gauges the level of threat and the necessity for immediate officer dispatch response and then determines the order in which the calls should be responded to by priority, CPD spokeswoman Latisha Stroer said.

“For an emergency that is actively in progress and happening, we would have to break from

CRIME IN COLUMBIA IS CONTINUALLY RISING, YET THE CITY’S POLICE FORCE HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO GROW TO MEET THE DEMAND.

MOVE The Carolina Chocolate Drops swing into The Blue Note on Oct. 18.

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whatever we are doing and respond to that call,” Stroer said. “For true emergencies, we are not putting anyone on hold. But, for less serious calls, like say someone has had something stolen and they have no suspect information, we will put that below something more emergent.”

A proposed increase in the city public safety tax, which would allow the city to direct greater funding towards hiring police officers and providing updated equipment, will appear on ballots in the November elections.

Currently, the department is lacking nine officers, said Chad

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PAIGE LALAIN

SPORTS

Players say they still stand behind Maty Mauk after Saturday’s shutout.

SPORTS

A new halftime tactic has helped Tigers soccer rule the second half.

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Vendors sell a wide range of homemade goods at Columbia Farmers Market at 1701 W. Ash St. The market is open year-round in locations across the city.

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Future-focused app Farmers market expands education set debuts on campus RUTH SERVEN Staff Writer

GEORGE ROBERSON Reporter At 3 a.m. on a summer night last year, three newborns in a house near Charlotte, North Carolina, just would not stop crying.

It was their father’s turn to get them to quiet down, and he was struggling. As soon as he got the last of them to stop crying, the din rose again. The frustrated father wished he could capture that torturous night for his triplets to see, say, 25 years later.

That was the night the idea for Incubate, a new messaging app, was born. The Charlotte father relayed his experience to a friend, Michael McCluney, who decided to create an app that would allow the user to send photos, videos and messages to other users at any date and time 25 years into the future.

McCluney, now the CEO and co-founder of Incubate, and his co-founder Kade Cullefer were surprised when they didn’t find any app-to-app “strategically-timed” messaging service on the market. So they figured, as McCluney said, “It might as well be us.”

“Incubate stands to make messaging more meaningful,” McCluney said. “It’s a digital time capsule. If a message is funny, sentimental or practical, the build-up to that message or finding that message at a specific time can make it more humorous, more sentimental or more practical.”

MU alumnus Matthew Douty, vice president of marketing for Incubate, came on board in the spring. He said college students are crucial

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Despite cold weather on Saturday, Ani Belsare and his two children stopped by the children’s table. His daughter carefully mashed plant fiber into a circle and laid her paper out to dry in the sun. Belsare said that he comes to the Farmers Market every two or three weeks and usually

visits the table. He said his daughter usually enjoys the activities, but he’d like to see some more variety.

“When they get the money, I would like to see a few more activities, like papermaking, that are unusual or interesting,” Belsare said.

The Columbia Farmers Market will receive $12,933 as part of a grant Missouri was given by the USDA to support various specialty

crop projects across the state.

The larger grant, worth $450,000, is part of the Farm Bill to support crops like fruits, vegetables, nuts and honey.

Corrina Smith, Columbia Farmers Market manager, said the grant will be used to expand the children’s table, the educational portion

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Voting

TAPP, ASUM register 700 students to vote JARED KAUFMAN AND JOHN HERRICK of The Maneater staff The deadline for voter registration in Missouri was Oct. 8. Efforts by the Associated Students of the University of Missouri and Tigers Advancing Political Participation registered 700 MU students to vote in November’s midterm election.

From now until Election Day, Nov. 4, TAPP is focusing on voter education.

“It’s important for students to vote as students and as young people,” said Trey Sprick, ASUM campus president and TAPP founder. “Our interests are often underrepresented in government, but when a lot of us vote, that becomes less so.”

Last week, TAPP hosted a Hunger

Games-themed event titled “The Candidate Games,” where attendees learned about the candidates on the ballot.

The event was intended to increase the political literacy of students on campus, TAPP president Zack Nolan said.

“It’s important to have that on campus because these are students’ lives, and sometimes they don’t realize that,” he said.

Representatives from TAPP also presented in Speakers Circle, residence halls and Freshman Interest Group classes, explaining the importance of voting and registering students to vote.

Sprick said TAPP will also hold an event Nov. 3 on Lowry Mall, “providing last minute resources for people to educate themselves about what’s going to be on the ballot the

following day and helping people make a plan to vote.”

“It’s important to be involved, even if you’ve missed the opportunity to register to vote in this election,” he said. “Civic engagement absolutely does not stop after Election Day.” TAPP’s education committee holds a variety of community outreach presentations. TAPP education director and Maneater staff member Daniela Vidal said the efforts aim to convince students that their vote matters.

“Everything affects you; you don’t live in a vacuum,” Vidal said.

“Whether or not you realize it, there are policies that are affecting your life in some way, shape or form.”

TAPP rebranded itself at the end of the spring 2014 semester

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THE MANEATER | NEWS | OCTOBER 15, 2014

MU extends smoking ban to city streets Parts of Conley, Hitt, Ninth and Rollins streets are now off-limits to smokers.

MATT HORN Reporter Columbia City Council voted Oct. 6 to give MU the rights to extend its smoking ban to certain city streets on campus.

This is the next step in a timeline designed to eliminate smoking on campus. In July 2011, MU revised its policy so that smoking would only be allowed in designated areas.

On July 1, 2013, smoking was banned everywhere on campus.

However, there have been exceptions. Parts of Conley Road, Hitt, Ninth and Rollins streets are labeled as “city streets” and were previously not under MU’s non-smoking permit.

Wellness Resource Coordinator Tiffany Bowman said she has worked closely with the student-led movement to ban smoking on campus, launched

by MSA in 2009. Bowman said the policy may not work 100 percent of the time, but there have been vast improvements.

“The idea came from the students,” she said. “They were the ones who wanted to see a reduction of smoking on campus. The new regulations make the rules more consistent and fair.”

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the United States spends more than $298 billion a year, including $133 billion in adult medical care and $156 billion in lost productivity, as a

If you’ve been walking to these streets to smoke, no more.

MU is extending it’s smoking ban to include the streets.

Source: Council Bill 307-14, www.gocolumbiamo.com BEN KOTHE // GRAPHICS MANAGER

result of smoking.

Bowman said making the policy uniform all across campus eliminates any confusion about where one can and cannot smoke.

Despite the movement’s success, some students oppose the idea of a smoke-free campus.

MU senior Jeffrey Militzer said he thinks it is ridiculous people cannot smoke on campus, let

alone on city-owned streets.

“This looks like it’s a slippery slope when they ban it on campus, then they will go ahead and ban it downtown, then all of Columbia,” he said.

“I’m not littering. If you can do it without trashing the place, there shouldn’t be a problem.”

City Council is currently considering a measure, proposed by First Ward

councilwoman Ginny Chadwick, that would raise the legal age to buy tobacco in Columbia to 21. Additionally, the measure would ban electronic cigarettes indoors.

“Tobacco is the leading cause of death in the nation,” Chadwick said in a Sept. 24 Maneater article. “It’ll kill about 7,500 Columbians.”

Columbia might be new to

the smoke-free environment, but Bowman said long-term benefits should be expected.

“If there is less smoking happening on campus, then less people will come to MU and smoke,” she said. “That’s better for people’s health and the campus as a whole.”

‘Enough is Enough’ campaign enters second phase Students who take the pledge agree to ‘recognize, educate and intervene.’

JACK WADDELL Staff Writer The Missouri Students Association’s “Enough is Enough” campaign video has surpassed 60,000 views and more than 550 students have pledged to be active against sexual assault so far.

The campaign, a response to the growing number of Clery releases regarding sexual assaults on campus, began last month when the video was sent out to all students via email.

MSA Chief of Staff Mitch Moonier said the pledge is a way for the student body to jump in and prevent “red dots” — incidents of personal violence or toleration of violence — from occurring on

campus.

Students who take the pledge agree to recognize the need for a culture change, educate themselves and others, and intervene when possible.

“By taking this pledge, (MSA) wants to show the (number) of students that support this because we should be responsible for our fellow students and for respecting our fellow students,” Moonier said. “It’s an approach to keep students accountable and become active in preventing sexual assault.”

The pledge shows that students want to take action and want to change the trend of sexual assault being a popular topic, MSA Secretary of Auxiliaries Sandy Patel said.

“The pledge will help students to not be passive bystanders, but to help actively stop the trend of sexual assault,” she said. “We want to get more students to sign off on the pledge, agree that they are

going to do something about this trend, and be a voice for all Tigers, that we do not tolerate these types of actions.”

MSA will be hosting another signing event Oct. 22, as well as an event Oct. 28 called “Take A Stand,” a push for education and action against sexual assault.

Each week in October one of the core values of MU — Respect , Responsibility, Excellence and Discovery — will be hung from the columns, Patel said, followed by a statement or event about sexual assault from MSA. The events are a key part of the “Enough is Enough” campaign, as education is key to executing a plan of action, Moonier said.

“Getting that many signatures and having that many views on our video is great, but the job isn’t done,” he said. “As we get more video views and signatures, we have to remain focused on educating the students who have taken

the pledge and those who will sign the pledge in the future.

We must educate and raise awareness so that we can eliminate passive bystanding and sexual assaults on campus.”

The “Enough is Enough” campaign is geared towards all students at MU and to get them involved in stopping sexual assault.

Graduate Professional Council President Hallie Thompson said the unity of the student population is important for the success of the campaign.

“It’s important for (‘Enough is Enough’) to be recognized by everyone,” she said. “Students — undergraduate and graduate — staff and faculty need to stress its importance together.

This is not an issue you can pin on one group to fix, it’s going to take all of us working together as a community.”

GPC also authored Resolution 1415-02 to support MU administration in any rightful endeavor to prevent

sexual assaults on campus. The resolution was shared with MSA Senate at its Oct. 8 meeting.

While community unity is key, convincing each person that they can individually make a difference is also a central part of the campaign, MSA President Kelsey Haberberger said.

“It starts with one person,” she said. “We are going to advocate that just one person makes a difference. If we get one, then two, then three people, there is going to be a ripple effect, and ultimately we are going to make MU a more informed and safer campus.”

Haberberger said the campaign will extend past her term as president. “‘Enough is Enough’ is something that will continue into next semester,” she said.

“This is by no means the end of the campaign.”

5 Other states’ same-sex marriages recognized in Missouri

THE MANEATER | NEWS | OCTOBER 15, 2014

JENNIFER PROHOV Staff Writer Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster announced Oct. 6 he will not appeal Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Dale Youngs’ Oct. 3 ruling on same-sex marriage.

Youngs ruled in Barrier v.

Vasterling that Missouri’s ban on recognizing same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.

The state must now recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.

Tony Rothert, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri and a representing attorney in the case, detailed its impact.

“Missouri must recognize not only the marriages of our plaintiff couples but of all samesex Missouri couples who have been legally married outside of the state,” Rothert said.

The ruling will impact tax laws and other regulations that apply to spouses, extending those rights to same-sex couples. The state is also expanding its retirement and health care plans to meet the needs of these couples, per the ruling.

Koster explained he would not appeal Youngs’ ruling following the Supreme Court’s Oct. 6 decision not to hear similar cases regarding samesex marriage brought by other states.

“The circuit court's judgment in _Barrier v. Vasterling_ held that Missouri must recognize marriages lawfully entered into in other states,” Koster said in a news release. “We will not appeal that judgment. Our national government is founded upon principles of federalism — a system that empowers Missouri to set policy for itself, but also obligates us to honor contracts entered into in other states.”

Same-Sex Stats

A look at where Missouri and Boone County stand on same-sex couples.

boone county Missouri

435 Same-sex couples 23% raising children

10,557 Same-sex couples 1,592 married 8,965 unmarried Source: Williams Institute Missouri 2010 Census SEINGA MACAULEY//GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Koster said Missouri must look toward the future as samesex marriage laws are changing.

By allowing this ruling to stand, he said, Missouri will become more attractive to businesses.

“A consequence of this morning's ruling by the United States Supreme Court is that gay marriage will soon be legal in as many as 30 states,” Koster said. “At a time when Missouri is competing to attract the nation's premier businesses and most talented employees, we should not demand that certain individuals surrender

their marriage licenses in order to live and work among us.”

Rothert said he agrees with Koster’s view.

“Any time a state removes a discriminatory law, it becomes more inviting to employees and businesses,” Rothert said.

Koster’s decision has created controversy among Missouri’s congressional representatives, with some Republicans discussing possible alternatives to appeal the case. Koster is a Democrat, and his decision by some has been viewed as partisan.

Rothert said he felt the ruling was both a personal victory and a new step forward in the state’s history.

“It has been one of the highlights of my career to be one of the attorneys for the case that showed Missouri that the marriages of our plaintiffs are no different from any other marriage,” Rothert said.

The ACLU felt this case would be instrumental in furthering gay rights in Missouri, Rothert said.

“The ACLU of Missouri defends and expands the

constitutional rights and civil liberties of all Missourians, so it was a natural fit to file this lawsuit,” he said. “Missouri has traditionally recognized the marriages of all legal marriages performed in other states, including marriages of first cousins, common law marriages and marriages of minors.”

Koster’s decision represents what he sees as a step towards the future.

“Missouri's future will be one of inclusion, not exclusion," he said.

string quartet and flutists to Chartres for two weeks in July.

The program is open to all MU and non-MU students.

Glise, who divides his time as a professor in Missouri and a performer in France, saw a need to give musicians international experience.

“Every time that we have influence from any outside source, it wakes us up to different aspects in not only in the learning process but (also) in who we are as individuals,” he said.

The classical guitar department at MU has 11 fulltime students, making it one of the largest in the Midwest.

Glise sees the program as a way to bring the students together.

“The sense of camaraderie that comes from this kind of project solidifies a studio,” he said.

Junior Alec Feldges said he plans to attend the seminar.

“(Classical guitar) is not something that’s been around in universities as a full program for a while,” he said. “A tight community is something that is always on the forefront of the minds of guitarists especially.”

The program will give classical guitar students experience playing in a group.

“Because guitar is normally a solo instrument, we don’t have the opportunity to play chamber music as often as we would like,” Glise said. “The chance to have this many people under one roof will be a tremendous advantage.”

Students will participate in daily private instruction as well as ensemble practices to earn two academic credits.

Coursework will include music from the Baroque period through the 21st century.

Students will study one or two pieces from each period with the goal of performing them.

Glise has confirmed two concerts to be played and is working to finalize more performances.

The program includes excursions outside of Chartres, as well as daily French lessons for cultural immersion. Glise drew on the importance of his own experiences across the world.

“International experiences — whether it’s concerts, teaching, recording, whatever — that I’ve had in my life have had such a tremendous impact on my ability to develop my career and my personality,” he said. “I simply want my students to wake up to that fact.”

Two days in Paris will include sightseeing as well as a chance to visit the National Archives to learn procedures for archival research.

Morgan Schwartz, assistant director of study abroad, said Glise utilized his wide network

to open opportunities for the students. “(Glise) has a lot of that localized knowledge,” Schwartz said. “It’s not a program that many faculty would be able to set up successfully.”

Glise has led 14 international guitar seminars, two of which were in Chartres.

T hrough international programs like Red Socks, Glise helps provide new context to students to further their understanding of music as well as themselves.

“That’s one of the glorious things about music … nobody on this planet is ever going to live long enough to get it all,” Glise said. “Nobody’s going to understand it all. There’s always a challenge out there.

In the big picture, that’s what education is about anyways. It’s about waking us up to little pieces that become parts of our lives.”

Classical guitar students get their own study abroad trip in ‘Red Socks’ MARILYN HAIGH Reporter In 2007, professor Anthony Glise began the classical guitar program in the MU School of Music. Seven years later, he’s taking the program to Chartres, France, in the school’s first faculty -led international program for classical guitarists.

Glise isn’t sure how to describe the program, titled “Red Socks and Classical Guitar” for the red accessories musicians will wear while performing.

“With all the classes, it’s a seminar,” Glise said. “With the private lessons, it’s a series of master classes. With the concerts, it’s a festival. We’re really touching all the bases on this one.”

Under the guidance of program director Glise, MU’s School of Music will take classical guitar students, a

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THE MANEATER | NEWS | OCTOBER 15, 2014

MSA presidential slates share platforms, visions GEORGE ROBERSON, WAVERLY COLVILLE AND JACK WADDELL of The Maneater Staff Three slates have submitted paperwork to the Board of Elections Commissioners in accordance with the BEC handbook in order to run in the 2014 Missouri Students Association presidential election.

The slates were required to gather 500 valid undergraduate signatures on their nominating petitions, which were due Oct. 9.

Artis/O’Brien Juniors Myles Artis and Mary Cate O’Brien said they hope to make the student body more involved and inclusive, represented by their slogan “Join In.” The three tenets of their campaign are action, service and unity. By combining these three goals, they said they hope to encourage students to make a change and give back to their community.

“We want students to give back to the university that invested in them,” Artis said.

“Once we’re all united, we can prosper here at the university.”

Artis and O’Brien also planned a program called PROWHL, Patrolling the Risk of Walking Home Late, to help prevent sexual assaults. Trained groups of students at designated spots around campus will monitor the area, the candidates said. They will incorporate this program into the GoMizzou app and make it the sister program of STRIPES. They said they also hope to increase awareness of Tiger Line, MU’s free shuttle service, to increase student safety at night.

Their campaign also

addresses mental health. Artis and O’Brien said they hope to start a training program that educates students to recognize symptoms of mental health issues. They will work with Active Minds Mizzou and the MU Counseling Center.

“Mental health involves all people, no matter your race, gender or religion,” O’Brien said. “College is incredibly stressful, so we want students to be knowledgeable of not only their friends but of themselves.”

Another aspect of their plan is to work with the Office for Financial Success to set up an

emergency fund for students who are forced to drop out of college for financial reasons.

They want students to feel financially safe, they said.

The inclusion of international students is also an important part of their plan. Summer Welcome is only two days long, but the transition will become an ongoing process by expanding on the Women’s Center’s Language Partners program.

“It’s our duty as the student government to make all students feel accepted,” Artis said. “We want to make sure students are assimilated with American

culture but can celebrate their culture at the same time.”

Artis and O’Brien said they believe they have good energy and spark because of their longtime friendship and their different perspectives, allowing them to exchange ideas.

“We want everyone to feel connected to our campaign,” O’Brien said. “We love people and our excitement will shine through. We’re here to serve the students, not ourselves.”

Head/Smith-Lezama Juniors Payton Head and Brenda Smith-Lezama will be running under their campaign platform, “Ignite Mizzou.”

Head and Smith-Lezama said they want to ignite the fire and passion that MU students once had about the university.

At MU’s 175th anniversary celebration last month, Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin gave a speech about keeping the fire going within students, and that is where MSA comes into play, Head said.

“Ignite Mizzou is igniting the fire we want to see in students because a lot of times we don’t realize we go to the greatest university in the country,” he said.

“It is the 175th anniversary of Mizzou, so it’s our job to reignite that passion students once had for Mizzou way back in the day.”

Ignite Mizzou will feature four different pillars within the platform: pride, progress, truth and vision.

Head said the slate wants to redefine truth by making the MSA

executive cabinet more accessible and “less clique-y” and by keeping students more informed about what MSA is doing.

“Students should know any and everything about MSA, and I believe that is where MSA has failed our student body,” he said.

Ignite Mizzou and its four pillars are not like past slates for presidency, and it brings a more applicable approach than traditional slates, Smith-Lezama said.

“One thing (Smith-Lezama

and I) bring to MSA is that our platform doesn’t look like historical platforms you see in MSA,” Head said. “The things we want to accomplish are new and fresh, and we really took time to come up with (the four pillars) and choose words that students can relate to.”

One of the biggest parts of Head and Smith-Lezama’s campaign is their fight against sexual assault, in which they would like to establish a plan of action students can follow to stop

the problem, Smith-Lezama said.

“We need to have action. We need to have steps we can follow to make this problem better,” she said. “At this point, especially with the ‘Enough is Enough’ campaign launch, it’s fueling people’s fire and igniting people’s passion to fight against these injustices, but at the same time, we need to have steps we can enact to hold people accountable.”

McFarland/Hinch Sophomores Jordan McFarland and T.J. Hinch said their campaign platform is based on four key tenets: diversity, safety, tradition and student life.

“There are things that students talk about on a daily basis that aren’t being addressed or aren’t being addressed in the depth we think they should be,” McFarland said. “If it’s something the students are talking about, MSA ought to be talking about it, too.”

McFarland said if elected, he hopes to be able to make tangible connections with the diversity groups on campus. McFarland is a former member of The Maneater staff.

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Continued from page 1 Craig, a CPD sergeant in the training and recruitment unit.

In order to keep up with population growth and maintain a set ratio of police officers to citizens, the city is required to add three officers per year, Second Ward Councilman Michael Trapp said in a Sept. 17 Maneater article.

According to the City Council Finance Department’s budget report, the proposed budget plan for

“There’s this disconnect,” he said. “International student groups feel like they’re not a part of campus sometimes. If you’re about diversity seriously, you don’t just say you’re going to change something and have these big coalitions; you make structural changes. People come and go, but structures are here to stay.”

McFarland and Hinch also view changing structures as important to implementing the safety aspect of their platform.

They intend to create a Twitter account for students to report broken lights and other trouble spots on campus in between the semi-annual Safety Walks in an

attempt to reduce attacks and sexual assaults.

“A Columbia PD officer came to campus with this statistic: one out of every 90 sexual assaults is reported,” McFarland said.

“Every time you see a Clery report, multiply that by 90. In an age where we’re supposed to have Title IX policies and where everyone is supposed to feel safe, how ridiculous is that? I may not be a woman, and we may be the only slate that doesn’t have a woman on it, but I will fight like hell until that’s not a thing anymore. It’s just not right, and it needs to be addressed continuously.”

Hinch said tradition is also

fiscal year 2015 includes a number of spending cuts and rate increases.

But it also includes proposed plans to help fortify understaffed public service institutions such as the fire and police departments.

“The budget only includes money that we are sure to have, so it doesn’t include any potential tax or rate increases, like the public safety tax increase we are proposing,” Trapp said. “If we get that, then we’ll hire more police officers. If we don’t, we’ll stick with three.”

In the past two years, CPD has seen a large class of officers retire,

which has given the department both a shortage of officers in general, as well as a shortage of officers with seniority and a greater wealth of experience, Stroer said.

“I think the city has grown so quickly, and we went through a financial downturn — most cities in the country did with the economy — and it created no movement in terms of extra personnel given for the police or fire departments,” she said. “When you have a town that has grown as fast as ours has, it will cause a problem in the infrastructure, which is what we are seeing right now."

an aspect of campus life often overlooked by MSA. The pair said they would attempt to create a new tradition surrounding home football games involving a unified pregame walk to the stadium.

McFarland said he would prioritize student life and focus MSA discussions on topics that matter to students. Although he identified STRIPES as an auxiliary in need of improvement, he emphasized the value of an engaged and involved student body.

“We want to be less officials and more representatives,” McFarland said. “There should be open-door policies. There are 36,000 students who just want

the absolute best. We want to do anything we can to make them feel more a part of their student government.”

McFarland said his passion for public service was an incentive for him to run for office.

“I love public service so much,” McFarland said. “I love working with students. It’s a passion for both of us. People say, ‘you’re sophomores’ and ‘there’s a mold’ for MSA candidates. We might not fit that mold. That’s exactly why we’re running.”

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Camp recruits MU students Nearly 40 MU students were hired to work at Kanakuk Kamps for summer 2014.

LIBBYE TELLOR Staff Writer Kanakuk Kamps, a Christian summer-camp company that has recruited workers from MU for years, returned to campus Oct. 8 and 9 to attract students for upcoming summer sessions.

Employees said workers at the camp, located in southwestern Missouri, spend time during the summer doing various activities such as sports and cliff jumping.

Alex Demczak, senior and Missouri football player, said he spends about three months of his summers teaching football and weightlifting to kids at the camps.

He said he would recommend working at the camp for any college students, whether they are athletic or not.

“You don’t have to be a college athlete,” he said. “Whatever you like doing, you can do that all day and teach classes and work on your leadership."

Shay Robbins, a director for Kanakuk, said he has worked with the company for years after

discovering his faith through the Kanakuk Institute.

“Our mission statement is developing dynamic Christian leaders through ‘life-changing experiences, godly relationships and spiritual training,’” he said.

Robbins said Kanakuk workers believe kids are vital for the future and that investing time in their lives is a rewarding experience each summer.

He said the servant leadership experience is invaluable for college students.

Sophomore Connor Carr has been involved with Kanakuk for thirteen years, as both a participant and a worker.

At MU, Carr joined a fraternity with other staff members and said he would not be who he is without the camp. Carr said he even passed up a trip to Disney World and postponed a NASA internship to work at Kanakuk.

“It is one of the most exhausting jobs you could ever do, both physically and mentally,” he said.

“But at the end of it, it’s also one of the most rewarding summer jobs that you could ever do.”

Carr said he enjoys helping kids through tough times, such as transitioning to high school and getting to introduce campers to new outdoor experiences.

He said Kanakuk’s relationship with MU has been growing for years,

and the ministry organization hired nearly 40 MU students for summer of 2014.

“I think we definitely have a stronger relationship with Mizzou (now) than we did five years ago, and I hope I can say in five years that we have a stronger relationship than we did today,” Carr said.

Both Carr and Demczak said the camp has helped them grow in their faith and to forge connections with colleges across the country.

Demczak is also involved with another branch of Kanakuk called K-Life, in which he meets with local children once a week in Columbia for activities like movie nights.

During spring recruitment, Kanakuk will host a “rival week,” during which they compete with other colleges to have students interview for a job.

Carr said the University of Arkansas and Texas A&M have consistently kept MU from a top position, but he hopes MU will be able to compete this spring.

“I’ve been really excited about the potential number of students growing,” Robbins said. “I’d love to have 200 students come work for us from Mizzou.”

Demczak said that students can get a feel for the camps during a campus event Oct. 30, which will include a concert and a presentation

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of the market. Each week community organizations, like Wild Wonder, Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture or the Stephens College Children’s School, volunteer at the table and provide activities or skill demonstrations for kids.

“We want to provide something educational about food, sustainability, agriculture and about the farmers market,” Smith said.

She said she plans to use the grant money to the make children’s program selfsustaining for a year and buy tents, tables and cooking supplies. She said she would like to create activity booklets to give to each child, who would

be given tokens to spend at the market at the end of the month after completing the booklet.

“We’re hoping by getting these kids excited about eating fresh produce that we’ll hopefully increase the market’s sales and raise healthy eaters,” Smith said.

The children’s table is only one piece of the Columbia Farmers Market’s mission to educate children. Several

community organizations also take groups of children to working farms to learn more about agriculture.

Kenny Duzan, a vendor at the market, said he has had children from Grant Elementary School come and help him pick lettuce. The children picked, washed and prepared lettuce heads and then learned how to make dressing for their salad.

“It was amazing to see how

much the kids enjoyed it,” Duzan said. “It was great to see how much they ate and how actually interested they were.”

The process for expanding children’s table activities has only just begun. Smith said that the Columbia Farmers Market had only just been notified of the donation, and the new children’s programs will not begin until April 2015.

has brand ambassadors to help Incubate get off the ground at MU, the University of Georgia and the University of California-Los Angeles.

“We want to have a big presence at Mizzou,” McCluney said. “Campuses are where things go viral. Given the caliber of students in Missouri’s J-School, we would have been foolish not to have pursued a hub at Mizzou.”

Incubate looks to Snapchat as one of the startups in whose successful footsteps they intend to follow. Snapchat set the bar for what is successful in mobile messaging, and Douty said Incubate can attain that.

One of Incubate’s goals is to reach a seven- to eight-figure

user count by 2016, Douty said.

Currently, they have just under 2,000.

“In a year, I hope Incubate will be a universally accepted way of sharing memories,” Douty said. “In 10 years, I hope that the children that are in first grade now can get messages on their 16th birthday that their parents sent 10 years ago. I hope and I believe that it can and it will become a household name.”

The app is currently in a soft launch phase meant to help the final product improve.

McCluney said he expects the final launch to be in early 2015.

“There’s a huge difference between an idea that people love and a product that people

love,” he said. “We found the fundamental basis of what we wanted Incubate to be, we put that out there, and now we’re seeing what people want.

Releasing a product that isn’t ready is the hardest thing, but we’re changing things based on in-hand feedback to make it 100 percent ready.”

Incubate is a highly versatile app, Douty said.

“The possibilities are really limitless,” he said. “We’re interested in ‘Incubating’ weddings. If you have guests sending you those memories in the future, it really adds a novelty. It can also allow a military serviceperson to send a message to their kids on their birthday or their spouse

on their anniversary. That’s powerful.”

Douty believes that Incubate will become the new way to share lasting memories. He said Incubate will make captured memories more relevant and meaningful, as opposed to other applications.

“The difference between something like TimeHop and Incubate is that apps like that take the past and bring it to the present,” Douty said. “We’re taking the present and sending it to the future. And maybe it’s not even long-term memories.

Maybe it’s just sending your friend a practical reminder about meeting to study. Either way, it’s a revolutionary way to communicate.”

could function better together,” TAPP Vice President Chris Hanner said. “We are now able to reach out to more students and have a bigger impact on the MU campus than ever before.

Members of both organizations have had a very positive reaction in regards to the results of this merger.”

ASUM works to represent student issues at the state capital and campus by urging students to participate in issues

that impact them, such as the upcoming election.

“The best thing they can do is to read up on what ballot issues are going to be voted on and who is running in their home county or home state,” Vidal said. “The most important thing is to not be detached from it inside of our ‘Mizzou bubble.’ It’s so easy to get caught up in that.”

The MU Student Center will be used as a polling location

on Election Day. Sprick said a major benefit of voting at MU, rather than obtaining an absentee ballot, is the sheer convenience.

“This is the most equal way of taking part in government.

Voting is voting,” he said.

“Everyone’s vote counts the same. Barack Obama’s vote, when he casts it in November, is going to count the exact same as mine. And that’s a really important thing to remember.”

Vidal said mobilizing students to participate in elections is crucial to the community and nation.

“A component of voting ... is that not only are you caring for yourself, but you’re caring for your neighbor,” she said.

“That’s what keeps democracy together. There are issues that people get very passionate about, and voting is an outlet to express opinions about those particular issues.”

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to the success of upstart social networks and messaging apps.

“Every social media platform takes off from the college student (demographic),” Douty said. “The success in that demo could really push Incubate to unseen levels.”

The start-up, which is currently finalizing its iOS product and constructing its Android product, has designed a hub system for introducing their app to students at three universities across the country.

The Atlanta-based company

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by changing its acronym from Tigers Against Partisan Politics to Tigers Advancing Political Participation. It also merged with ASUM and became the education arm of the organization, Nolan said.

“We decided that the missions of TAPP and ASUM were so far aligned that we

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A long way from done LILY CUSACK

After the tremendous victories for marriage equality that came about these past few weeks, many American citizens would think this is the end of the fight for LGBT rights. Many people believe marriage is the only inequality the community is facing. This is far from the truth.

Despite advances in marriage and other civil rights, LGBT people are still fighting for their basic human rights. There are many more problems that the LGBT community needs to solve, and marriage is only the tip of the iceberg.

Perhaps the most pressing concern currently is that of unfair treatment in the workplace.

Workplace discrimination within the LGBT community is one of the more rampant and persistent problems facing the population. Federal, state and local laws that discriminate workers on the basis of their sexual and gender identity are still intact. According to ABC News, only 21 states currently have laws that prohibit sexual orientation employment discrimination, while 18 include gender identity.

It is an outrage that we are still dealing with discrimination in the workplace. The federal government has not taken enough action to combat this dangerous issue. Many people in the LGBT community have to endure hardship and abuse in their place of work because they do not feel they have any laws that protect them from discrimination.

The government is basically allowing people to get away with harming others in a place where one is meant to feel safe and protected.

Nevertheless, things may be looking up for the abolishment of workplace discrimination.

The Human Rights Campaign explains that the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which passed the Senate last year, is a bill that works against discrimination based on sexual or gender identity.

However, the issue has not yet been brought up in the House.

Furthermore, President Obama has taken action against bias as well. He passed an executive order this summer that banned workplace discrimination of LGBT employees working in the federal government or as federal contractors. The Huffington Post reported the order “makes it illegal to fire or harass employees of federal contractors based on their sexual orientation or gender identity, and it explicitly bans discrimination against transgender employees of the federal government.”

Although there are some steps being taken to address this issue, there is still a long way to go. It seems that this problem has been pushed to the back burner in the wake of other, more pressing matters. However, now that the marriage equality dispute is coming to a close, it is time to push for equal rights in the workplace. This issue now needs to be brought to the forefront.

America was based on the principles of selfpreservation and equal rights. Without properly fighting against workplace discrimination, we are allowing the government to get away with disobeying the Constitution. American citizens are being unfairly harassed and discriminated against legally in many states. We need to put an end to the abuse and persecution that these employees have to deal with on a regular basis.

The LGBT community has the right to a crueltyfree workplace.

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More dorms, less student housing Affordability and proximity to campus is what students care about.

Seeing as the majority of our editorial board are living off campus, we feel there is an issue which needs to be discussed.

The Odle family, who own and operate Brookside student apartments and townhomes, recently announced their decision to not build any more student housing complexes in Columbia. The decision came after a 14-page report published by the Columbia Heart Beat showed there are too many student housing complexes in Columbia. The report found an oversupply of 902 beds in fall 2013 and estimated an oversupply of 2,270 beds this fall. The report also states while MU may grow to 38,000 students, that does not necessarily mean there will be an increase in demand for student housing.

First of all, we want to applaud the Odles in making this decision. Columbia already has enough, if not too much, student housing and we appreciate the fact that they are able to recognize this. We think they are making the right decision for local developers and for Columbia.

We think the rest of Columbia’s student housing developers (and national

developers looking to come to Columbia) need to follow Brookside’s lead.

The rate at which new student housing complexes are being built is alarming to say the least. With too many unoccupied beds in Columbia, the housing bubble is set to burst very soon. The businesses who have built these student housing complexes would lose business and could potentially go bankrupt. Instead of constantly building new apartment complexes for students, why not fill all of the empty beds we have now?

What many developers have failed to understand is the majority of students on this campus do not care about the fancy amenities included in some of these complexes. Many students don’t care about swimming pools, tanning beds or huge, luxurious rooms. Many students simply want housing that is both close to campus and inexpensive. By adding all of these unnecessary additions, the price is driven up and students are less likely to sign leases for these apartments.

Where we have a surplus of student housing complexes, we have a limited amount of residence halls on campus. So few, in fact, that some freshmen cannot even live in the residence halls their first year at MU. Instead, some freshmen are forced to live off campus. Freshmen need to be able to live on campus so that they

can form a sense of community in their residence halls and be close enough to campus to be able to explore it. The fact is that this problem would not exist if we had more housing on campus.

Due to this oversight, student housing complexes aimed at sophomores, juniors and seniors continue to spring up around campus and the downtown area. Our freshmen class, the class with the most potential to grow, is left out of the equation.

We do realize that a new residence hall, Virginia Avenue South, is in the process of being built. But we also know that Laws, Jones and Lathrop halls are planned to be torn down and replaced by two buildings, according to the Residential Life Master Plan. The two residential halls will have 1,350 beds, 350 more than the three halls have right now, said Frankie Minor, director of the Department of Residential Life, in a November 2013 Maneater article.

Although this is a small improvement, 350 new beds will not be enough if our freshmen classes continue to grow in size year after year. We want to see a change that is more beneficial to our students.

If we want to prevent this housing bubble from bursting, it’s time we focused on what’s important to students: affordability and proximity to campus. We can solve this problem, but it needs to start now and it needs to start with MU.

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No. 1 places for ‘Number Two’ BEN BROWN

In my 20 years on this planet, I have learned a few things. For example, never suggest a woman is pregnant unless you see a baby coming out of her at that moment. Don’t take a laxative after you take your sleeping pills. And finally, a bathroom can make the difference between feeling good and feeling like you are the dirtiest person on Earth.

Mizzou is full of buildings and, therefore, full of bathrooms. Every day that a student goes to class, he or she is faced with an important decision: Which bathroom should I use?

Luckily, I am somewhat of a savant when it comes to bathroom use.

Throughout my freshman year, I estimate that I used, and I am not kidding here, 30 different bathrooms. I have compiled a list of the best bathrooms for the uninformed to reference.

But before we get into that, we need to talk about the danger zones.

The bathrooms that no student should ever use

All bathrooms in Arts & Sciences Never use these bathrooms. Ever. They perpetually smell like … well, bathroom.

The stall walls are too short, the smell is too strong and the atmosphere is too Romantic language-y. Avoid unless there is an absolute emergency making its way through your lower intestine.

Mort’s This bathroom is literally always being cleaned. Literally. If you try and go there during lunch hours, all you will find is disappointment — much like my dating life Why they schedule to clean during lunch hours, I have no idea. Just know that the only person using this bathroom is the custodian.

The best bathrooms on campus Basement of Student Center The basement bathrooms are a godsend. They are very quiet and very clean, thanks to the low amount of foot traffic. If you are able to get past the amount of condescending stares that occupy the “silent” portion of the student center, this bathroom utopia is only a few hallways away. Although somewhat out of the way, the trip is worth it. With four private stalls and a location that only a few are aware of, this bathroom easily makes it onto the list of premier lavatories

on campus.

Second floor of Gannett Hall This bathroom is a single-user model.

It has a push-door lock, double-ply toilet paper and a location that makes awkward door knocks very unlikely. It is best to use the bathroom during the 37th minute of any given hour. (By this time, all of the journalism students are deep into discussions of grammar, story structure and whether to use ‘who’ or ‘whom.’)

Second Floor of Physics Building If you go up the stairs to the second floor and walk down the long hallway of professors’ offices, you will find quite possibly the best bathroom at the University of Missouri. Its entrance isn’t clearly marked, so privacy is almost guaranteed, and there are two doorways for added security. It is also one of the few campus bathrooms that those treehugging, earth-conscious liberals haven’t gotten their hands on, so you will be free to bask in the glories of manual toilet flushers, self-serve soap containers and, most importantly, paper towels.

If you take advantage of these restroom locations, you will be surprised how fun and easy going to the bathroom can be.

Just make sure to wash your hands and eat a sufficient amount of fiber.

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Q&A: Debunking IUD myths and misconceptions

Spoiler alert: it’s not as scary as it sounds.

EDNA SMITH

Now that IUDs and other implantable devices are getting near unanimous thumbs up, I asked my roommate, who’s had an IUD (that is, an intrauterine device) since she was 18, about what the whole deal is. Preceded by a “no-duh” reminder that everyone’s body is different, here’s her take on that T-shaped enigma, for your consideration: What made you want to get an IUD? I actually started thinking about getting on birth control before I even was close to becoming sexually active.

I spent a good three or four months looking into different birth control options and talking with friends about what they chose to use and how it worked out for them. One of my friends’ mothers was a gynecologist, and she sang the praises of the IUD. The more research I did, the more I gravitated toward the IUD option. For one, it’s the most effective form of birth control (besides sterilization) with a 0.8 percent

failure rate.

Secondly, unlike the pill, you don’t have to remember it everyday. You actually hardly have to think about it at all.

Lastly, it’s cost-effective. My IUD will last until I’m 28-years-old, and I spent about $575 (a hefty upfront cost for sure). But for paying a, say, $10 per month copay for a birth control pill for 10 years, the total would be $1200. So it’s cheaper in the long run.

Did it hurt? Does it hurt?

I made the mistake of Googling “IUD insertion stories” the night before my procedure. Bad idea. There is a very rare chance that the insertion process can go horribly wrong, and plenty of people will tell you about that on the Internet.

Before the procedure, you take a medication to dilate the cervix. Since I have never given birth, my cervix is less flexible than a woman’s who has. For that reason, some people, like the nurse practitioner I saw, are hesitant to give it to younger women who have never given birth.

Regardless, women of any reproductive age can safely use an IUD. I remember the insertion as not being too painful. It feels like a regular case of cramps. I’m sure it’s all subjective, but I don’t think it was much more painful than a standard pelvic exam. Speculums suck, but I didn’t do anything worse than wince a bit.

Does having an IUD interfere with sex?

No, and that’s one of the big misconceptions about the IUD. I think that’s because some people don’t realize that the T-shaped device is inserted all the way up into the uterus. Strings do hang down just past the cervix, so that you can check and make sure it is in the proper place. But most people won’t feel them because they are too far up there.

Do you still use condoms if you have an IUD? Yes, definitely. IUDs do not prevent any STIs. What happens during your period?

It makes your periods heavier, especially those first couple of months after insertion. My preIUD periods lasted on average 3 to 4 days with minimal cramping (the dream) and now, my periods last about a week on average with much more severe cramping. But in the grand scheme of things, that’s something I was willing to sacrifice.

So what are the downsides of an IUD? The biggest downsides are heavier periods, especially in the months right

after insertion. My period went from a light, three-day affair to a crampy, weeklong heavy bleed. Another downside is the high initial price. However, if I paid $10 a month for the pill for the next 10 years, the cost of the IUD would be about half of what I’d pay then.

And the upsides?

The biggest upside for me is the ease. I’m not great with remembering to take pills, so not having to think about my birth control for literally years is a dream. Also, the IUD is the best birth control method for preventing pregnancy. It has the lowest failure rate because it essentially eliminates the human error factor that comes into play with when you don’t use condoms correctly or forget to take your birth control pill.

Who would you recommend to think seriously about an IUD? I would recommend anyone who cannot take the pill for health reasons like a heart condition to seriously think about this nonhormonal option. If you have the financial means to afford the high upfront cost, I’d say definitely consider it. Or, if you’re like me and kind of forgetful about taking medications, definitely check the IUD out.

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Three things tour guides don’t tell perspective students From walking on campus to the furry friends you make, the tour guides failed to mention some important things.

NINA RUHE

Now that it’s fall, pumpkin spice drinks, scarves and fuzzy socks have asserted their presence into our lives (or at least mine). One other noticeable thing is happening around campus as well: Tours.

Ah, I remember the good old days of high school when I was just a youngling, aspiring to be a grown-up college kid.

Sure, I’m just a freshman here at MU, but seeing high schoolers with their confused and awestruck faces makes me feel more in touch with my adult self.

After living here for a while now, I’ve

noticed a few things my tour guide left out while I was exploring my future home.

Here are the top three bits of information about MU that were left out when I came to visit last year:

Everything is not a ten-minute walk away High schoolers are awed by the colorchanging leaves of CoMo, the beautiful columns and whatever’s going on in Speakers Circle. Those dazed moments happen to be the perfect opportunity for tour guides to tell them that everything on campus is just a mere ten-minute walk away.

Unless you have jet engines for legs, or you’re lucky and happen to be in the center of campus at every time of the day, everything is not, in fact, a ten-minute walk away.

I can tell you with confidence that my Monday, Wednesday, and Friday walk from College Avenue to the Engineering West building takes a solid twenty minutes on a good day.

Sure, I could probably get there in fifteen minutes, but only if I want to be a walking waterfall of sweat when I walk

into lecture.

The animals at MU are the best animals One major thing my tour guides left out when I came to visit last fall was that the animals here are pretty stellar.

Now nothing beats your favorite dog, cat or fish back home, but you can definitely get your fix of furriness and animal love practically anywhere on campus.

From Puppies with Purpose to CoMo citizens walking around the columns, letting their dogs run loose on the Quad, there are so many opportunities to get that puppy fix in.

Not to mention that the squirrels here are basically everyone’s best friends.

Those little guys are just so cute and adorable that my roommate constantly has to remind me on our walks to class that I can’t just pick one up and keep it as a pet.

It’s safe to say No. 1 on my MU bucket list is domesticate a squirrel, name it Sandy — because my childhood will never die — and turn it into my best friend.

OK, maybe rushing Faurot Field is No.

1, but having a pet squirrel named after a SpongeBob character is definitely a close second.

CoMo is basically the best place for a college kid to live in No, I’m not just saying this because I now live in Columbia — OK, well that’s part of it — but it really is a great college town.

Forbes magazine places CoMo as No. 6 on its list of Best Small Places for Business and Careers, ninth in job growth and fifth in education.

I think it’s safe to say that if you go to MU and don’t let the not-really-tenminute walk get to you every day, you’re set to take on the world in a place that’s perfect for doing just that.

The number of times I’ve just wanted to straight up stop a tour group to share these bits of enlightenment is quite ridiculous, and I’m surprised I haven’t done so yet.

Knowing these jewels of information before making my college decision would have made deciding to be a Tiger a lot easier. But in the end, I made the right choice.

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Durham, North Carolina’s Carolina Chocolate Drops will play The Blue Note on Sunday.

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Oh, GIF me A taste of ‘early American’ a break…

Columnist Ellie Papadakis talks about Imgur’s new animated image format.

With its wide array of instruments, Carolina Chocolate Drops rekindles early American music.

TAYLOR YSTEBOE Reporter

ELLIE PAPADAKIS A couple weeks ago, I wrote a column that talked about grammar and communication online. In it, I briefly mentioned GIFs as the Internet’s favorite form of visual communication — or, at least, my favorite form of communication.

Here’s a fun fact: one of the first GIFs on the Internet is a 3-D cartoon of a dancing baby.

Also, it’s pronounced “jif,” like the peanut butter.

But I’m letting passion get in the way of my point. Recently, the image-sharing website Imgur announced Project GIFV. The site states it will take files in the .gif format and convert them to .mp4, a file format that usually signifies a video, thus creating GIF video, or GIFV. Apparently, this will allow for higher-quality looping GIFs that also load faster and take up less bandwidth, especially on mobile devices.

You know, for those times that you need to express how stressed you are about that chemistry test in 1080p.

Imgur also states that this new format will be optimized for social media sites. While .gif has been a compatible image format on Twitter for a while now, Facebook has yet to realize the Internet’s dependence on animation, so maybe with this new extension, the Zuck will finally figure it out.

However, there may be a couple problems with Imgur’s plan. That is, if it takes off like they hope it will.

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The Carolina Chocolate Drops aims to revive the soul of early American music in the modern era.

The passionate band will be sharing its heartfelt interpretation of folk while retaining all its charm at The Blue Note on Saturday.

“When the band met at the Black Banjo Gathering, we realized that it had been awhile since AfricanAmerican music was really talked about,” Hubby Jenkins of the Carolina Chocolate Drops says.

“Early American music was African-

American music.”

Though the band has been through a couple reincarnations after forming in 2005, the current lineup comprises multi-instrumentalists Rhiannon Giddens, Jenkins and Rowan Corbett, along with cellist Malcolm Parson.

The Carolina Chocolate Drops plays with traditional guitars, mandolins and banjos, but the band also cleverly incorporates jugs, kazoos and even bones.

Giddens is the sole remaining founding member of the band.

Jenkins joined in 2011, and Corbett and Parson were introduced to the band in 2013.

“Rowan has been a friend of the band for awhile,” Jenkins says.

So when the band was looking for a new member, Corbett was an easy choice, as was cellist Parson.

“Malcolm (Parson) … clicked immediately with the band,” Jenkins

says.

Both Giddens and Corbett hail from North Carolina, but Parson is originally from New Orleans and Jenkins is from New York. Despite being from across the map, the band still captures the fiery heart of southern music they say is still relevant today.

Jenkins notes a recent resurgence of folk and of the banjo, which African-Americans invented.

“We’re seeing more and more people picking up banjos and using their own stuff, their own story,” Jenkins says. “It’s becoming popularized — you see Mumford and Sons playing the banjo, and you see Taylor Swift with a banjo.”

Even with the renaissance of folk, this powerhouse string band still gives the genre their spin while still hinting at the past.

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Seoul Taco soon to arrive in Columbia Food truck-turnedrestaurant to roll into town.

MICKI WAGNER Reporter It’s true: Seoul Taco will soon be joining the ranks of Columbia’s beloved downtown. The K orean-Mexican food- tr uckturned-restaurant is slated to open downtown sometime before the spring semester.

Established in 2011, Seoul Taco

became a leader in the St. Louis food truck scene.

“The feedback from the food truck was great,” owner David Choi says.

Seoul Taco soon opened a freestanding restaurant in St. Louis due to its need for a full kitchen. The St. Louis restaurant is right down the street from Washington University, part of the reason Choi decided to come to Columbia.

When asked “Why Columbia?,” Choi says, “We really think it’s a cool time in Columbia now … Everyone in my family went to Mizzou.”

He says Columbia is “a unique

small town” complete with a “homey feel.”

When Seoul Taco hits CoMo, however, it won’t be solo. Strange Donuts, a trendy, cutting-edge donut shop and fellow St. Louis eatery, will be moving in with Seoul Taco. The two restaurants will each have their own kitchens but will share a dining space.

The two have collaborated in the past, creating the Seoul Done, a potato and pepper flake cake donut with greens, jack cheddar cheese, bulgogi and shredded carrots on the

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How to: Make a crumble-topped apple pie There’s no denying it — autumn goes perfectly hand-in-hand with delicious, homemade pies. So in the spirit of the season, I gave this simple recipe a try; Now it’s your turn. Awe your friends with your pie prowess, and who knows? Maybe take it home with you for Thanksgiving break to impress your family and dazzle your friends.

My recipe is loosely based off of the recipe for “Cinnamon Crumble Apple Pie” from Epicurious, but I tweaked it ever so slightly to suit what I had on hand.

For the topping:

For the topping:

2/3 cup flour 1/3 cup sugar 3 tablespoons golden brown sugar, packed 1/4 teaspoon salt 5 tablespoons chilled butter, cut in ½ inch cubes Pecan chips (optional)

In a bowl, combine the flour, sugar, salt, brown sugar and cinnamon. Add in your butter cubes. Chop and stir (I used a fork, but fingers work just as well) the butter into the mixture until the whole thing resembles coarse, lumpy sand.

Side note: I added pecan chips here as well. The pecans cook faster than the rest, so they develop a toasted flavor. If you want a more traditional-tasting apple pie, then I’d leave the pecans out.

For the pie:

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees farenheit.

Pour the filling into the ready-made crust, spreading it out evenly. Next, gently pour your crumble topping over the filling, covering it completely. Use your hands if you need to.

Place the pie on a cookie sheet and put it in the oven. After about 10 minutes, turn the heat down to 350 degrees and continue baking for 45 to 55 minutes.

Let the pie cool for 45 minutes to an hour before attempting to serve.

—Shannon Murff Staff Writer

Ingredients: Directions:

For the crust:

Keebler’s Ready Made Shortbread Pie Crust (You can always make your own, or go frozen, but I was limited due to my lack of rolling pin and decent freezer — dorm life, yo).

One egg yolk, to brush the bottom and sides of the crust with before baking.

For the crust: Slather the bottom and sides of the crust with egg yolk and pop it in the oven for about 5 minutes on 350 degrees. Then pull it back out and let it cool while you prepare the rest.

For the filling: About 4 to 5 (roughly 2.5 lbs.) small McIntosh apples, peeled and sliced. Slices should beabout ¼ inch thick, but they can vary.

2/3 cup sugar 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour 2 tablespoons butter, melted

For the filling: Combine all the ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Add the melted butter in, and mix the ingredients into a sort of syrupy paste before adding the apples, then be sure to coat the apples thoroughly with the paste.

Folk rocker John Craigie comes to Columbia Singer-songwriter to bring “humorous, storytelling, serious folk” to The Bridge.

KENNEDY WARD Reporter Singer-songwriter and multiinstrumentalist John Craigie will be performing at The Bridge on Friday Oct. 17. As it will be his second time playing at the venue, Craigie has good expectations for the upcoming performance.

“I like the people of Columbia,” he says. “I think they have a great sense of humor. They’re great to have as an

audience. I hope they come out, and I hope they have a good time.”

Although the L.A. native has been touring full time for around six years, Craigie says he has known that he wanted to pursue a career in music since childhood.

“I think it’s all I wanted to do as a kid,” he says. “Before I played, I was obsessed with music. It’s like someone who’s so into magic, they kind of want to know what’s going on behind the curtain. That’s what started it. I wanted to learn what was going on.”

A primarily self-taught musician, Craigie plays the acoustic guitar, harmonica, banjo and ukulele.

In the vein of his personal influences

Bob Dylan, John Prine and Arlo Guthrie, the content of Craigie’s music is solely based on real-life experiences.

“I pick specific themes that have universal themes within them,” Craigie says. “What’s great about storytelling songs is that it’s not very vague or poetic, but it’s something that everyone can relate to while still being something that’s personal to me.”

From his first album, “I Always -ed You” to his most recent release, “The Apocalypse Is Over,” Craigie says his music has grown with him.

“So much has changed in every possible way,” he says. “Maturing, learning more about songwriting, traveling … at the time my first album

was written, I hadn’t been anywhere.

I think the travel and the maturity of being human and being an artist has changed my music dramatically.”

With song titles like “Chuck Norris’ Tears Cure Cancer… Too Bad He Never Cries,” expect an entertaining and hands-on performance at Craigie’s upcoming show.

“I really hope that I’m able to do what I’m doing,” he says. “I always hope that I can entertain the crowd. Not to sound unambitious, but I really like where I’m at and I want to keep playing.

Hopefully, I’ll play to as many people as I can and keep traveling, keep singing and hopefully win over some new fans as I go.”

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Think Outside the Boom Box

Flying Lotus dazzles in latest release PATRICK MCKENNA

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In a musical world filled to the brim with ambiguous sub-genres and off-brand sounds, it isn’t every day that an artist is able to melt together three completely different genres and weld the final product into something completely original.

Steven Ellison, otherwise known as the multi-instrumentalist and producer Flying Lotus, has molded a craft that is both adventurous and tantalizing — but most importantly, completely different.

The West Coast-based musician has a sound that sways from relaxing and groovy to so fast and furious you may think you’re having an aneurysm halfway through the song. A delicious concoction of nearly every form of jazz, electronica and hip-hop, FlyLo’s sound is unlike any other artist (it should be mentioned Ellison comes from a line of innovative musicians: his aunt and uncle were jazz greats Alice and John Coltrane).

With his fifth release, “You’re Dead!”

(Warp Records), the artist continues to push boundaries — thematically and musically — with a record about the afterlife that offers hard-bop jazz sharing space with heavy, chaotic hip-hop beats.

Compared to his past work, this record falls into the free-jazz, hard-bop velocity 2010’s “Cosmogramma” while still having shades of the more luscious, fluid sounds of 2006’s “1983” and 2012’s “Until the Quiet Comes.”

Yet, as a cultivation of everything he has released so far in his career — including his doom-rap alter ego Captain Murphy’s debut album — ”You’re Dead!” has the feel of an album Ellison’s been working towards achieving throughout his career. It functions as the new, old and classic FlyLo and leaves that familiar taste for more.

The album’s most complex feature is the almost endless amount of ideas splattered across its musical canvas. Eleven of the 19 tracks come in at under two minutes, so the sporadic nature of Ellison’s vision is prominent on “Dead!”

Yet, as a full album, listened to from the first second to the last, this record weaves within the conflicting sounds and elements to come together as one exquisite piece of mortality commentary.

The guest list for “Dead!” is fantastic, with FlyLo’s usual collaborator and friend Thundercat supplying the acid-jazz, improvreliant bass that gives the album the feeling of turbulent beauty mixed with mellowed-out intoxication. In addition to Thundercat, the album includes the brilliant helping hands of Snoop Dogg (the drippy, druggy “Dead Man’s Tetris”) and jazz-fusion titan Herbie Hancock.

“Never Catch Me,” the Kendrick Lamarfeatured and strongest track off the record, opens with a gentle piano riff that evolves into a bass-tempered groove and holds K-Dot spewing out wisdom like a fire eater after eating a moldy enchilada, rapping, “I can see the darkness in me and it’s quite amazing/Life and death is no mystery and I wanna taste it.”

“Never Catch Me” is the collaboration that hip-hop lovers deserve. It matches the fast and fluctuating production of FlyLo with the unbelievably quick delivery Lamar has made his name with.

With this latest release, Flying Lotus has continued his legacy as one of the most inventive artists in the last 10 years, combining the sounds of psychedelic music and old-school jazz with electronic and hiphop production, proving yet again he’s a mad genius. It gets scary, hairy and a little overwhelming at times, but, holy hellfire, is this a good album.

“We don’t play like others. (Our music) becomes our sound, our song, our vibe,” Jenkins says. “It also involves talk about different issues that relate it to today.”

Their brave, folk-centered album “Genuine Negro Jig” won the Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album in 2010. The band released its latest album, “Leaving Eden,” a hard-hitting and

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inside and a chili glaze on top. The duo was also part of Kaldi’s Columbia Takeover on Oct. 10.

Choi says he plans to bring the food truck to Columbia as he’s done for events like

most people who want to use a .gifv image will most likely have to embed it as a video, which kind of defeats the purpose.

Also, the basic definition of a GIF is a looping animation with no sound.

And as of right now, the Internet loves the acceptably crummy quality of most GIFs anyway.

If Imgur combines MP4s

and GIFs, isn’t GIFV just a Vine with no sound?

Arguably, unlike Vines, you can add text to GIFVs, so at least there’s that.

Still, part of me doubts that it’s going to take off.

Sometimes I feel like the Internet’s mentality for most things is, “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it.”

Finally, and probably least importantly, how do you

pronounce GIFV? Is it “jifvee” or “gif-vee?” Will it even enter the Internet lexicon, or will we continue to just call everything a GIF for old time’s sake?

I don’t know if I’m ready to add more fuel to the fire of file format pronunciation, but just in case, I’m pronouncing it “jif-vee.”

raucous ode to the South, in 2012. The quartet says they’re currently discussing releasing a new album in the near future.

In order to capture this soulful mixture of past and present, the band holds a variety of musical influences that cross genres and time periods.

Jenkins cites country icons Charley Patton, Hank Williams and Willie Nelson, and jazz heroes Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima and Billie Holiday. Skip forward a few decades, and Jenkins

also finds inspiration in hiphop like A Tribe Called Quest and Homeboy Sandman.

For the upcoming show in Columbia, Jenkins says “there will be a song for everyone.”

“We’ll play old stuff that people know, new things and new arrangements that people appreciate and can get down with,” Jenkins says.

He also adds that his favorite part of performing is seeing concertgoers’ reactions.

“I like seeing people being

shocked, people dancing and seeing little kids who have no idea what’s going on and falling asleep halfway through the show,” Jenkins says.

He said he also likes meeting fans after the show who tell him they learned more history about AfricanAmerican music because of their concert.

Dust off your dancing shoes and get ready for the Carolina Chocolate Drops at 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 18 at The Blue Note.

Tickets are $20.

last month’s Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival.

The Korean-Mexican fare is sure to provide an interesting and innovative shift from Columbia’s current offerings. Seoul Taco’s specialty is its Koreaninspired taco, featuring Korean greens, green onion and special “Seoul Sauce” with a choice of chicken,

spicy pork, tofu or bulgogi, which is Korean marinated beef.

Choi said Seoul Taco prides itself on its marination process. The team marinates its meats for 24 hours before cooking.

Along with the tacos, the restaurant also serves quesadillas with Seoul Sauce, burritos with kimchi

fried rice and Gogi bowls, featuring rice, vegetables, a fried egg and spicy gochujang sauce.

While the opening date of Seoul Taco and Strange Donuts’ store is not set in stone, Columbia residents can expect Seoul Taco to be open sometime before the winter ends.

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Missouri Tigers quarterback Maty Mauk passes downfield against Georgia at Memorial Stadium at Faurot Field on Saturday. Missouri lost to Georgia 34-0.

Football

Players still behind Mauk Mauk said he was working with his receivers at 2 a.m.

ANDREW MCCULLOCH Staff Writer After throwing his first two interceptions against Georgia, sophomore quarterback Maty Mauk said he knew he had to get things rolling.

No more turnovers, he thought, we have to hold on to the ball.

After a couple more, he said he started to get a little flustered. He dug himself into a hole. And, at a certain point, he said he realized he needed to have a successful drive

and put points on the board however he could.

He never did.

Mauk’s five turnovers were a large reason why the Tigers fell to Georgia 34-0 and an even bigger reason for the offense’s goose egg on the scoreboard.

“When you finally get the ball rolling and you can’t even get in field goal range, it’s embarrassing, and it ticks you off,” senior receiver Bud Sasser said. “We know we have so much more than what we’re actually showcasing. We’re just trying to figure out why it’s not all coming out of us.”

Following Mauk’s performance, fans took to social media to let the Tigers’ quarterback know how they felt about his play. But Mauk

managed to tune out the overtures for a replacement and focused instead on his own game.

“That’s why coaches are on the sidelines and (fans) are up in the stands,” he said. “Coach (Gary) Pinkel knows what he’s doing and I don’t think it crossed his mind. I just have to go out there and execute.

That’s all it is.”

And Mauk wasted no time getting back to the drawing board. Just hours after the game, he gathered with his teammates to hash out any issues on the field and get back to executing the way they should.

“We have to put in extra time to get that together,” Mauk said.

Mauk said his receivers were

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BASKETBALL

Rosburg looks to cut down on fouls this season DANIEL WITT Staff Writer Senior Keanau Post had possession of the ball, ready to finish and add to his point total. But as the 6-foot11-inch Post went up with the ball, he was met by fellow big man Ryan Rosburg. Rosburg collected his third whistle in the first seven minutes of the the annual Black and Gold

Scrimmage on Tuesday at Mizzou Arena.

Fouls have been familiar to the junior forward.

Rosburg picked up 109 fouls for the Tigers last season while averaging just 22.2 minutes per game. He had more fouls called against him last season than any other Tiger. Jonathan Williams III, now a sophomore, was second on the team with 97 personal fouls.

Mizzou coach Kim Anderson said that while fouls are inevitable, it’s important for Rosburg and Post to keep themselves in games this season.

“Obviously (Rosburg has) got to do a better job of moving his feet,” Anderson said. “We can’t afford to have those two guys get in foul trouble. Because after that,

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Forde Points

Stripping down and seeking fans MITCHELL FORDE

If you attended Missouri volleyball’s game Oct. 10, you know that the men’s swim team has no problem making fools of ourselves.

For those who were not there to see it, we made the volleyball game against Auburn a “strip game,” where we put on 25 different articles of clothing and took off one each time Mizzou scored a point. When they scored the game-winning twenty-fifth, we were wearing only Speedos.

It was a little bit embarrassing and a lot of fun, especially because we were on the floor, where everyone in the Hearnes Center, including the Auburn players, could easily see and hear us. We even had about 10 people come up to us after the game and ask to take pictures with us.

That kind of attention is nice, but that is not why we strip at volleyball games and attend soccer games where we may heckle the other team a little bit. We are trying to show support for the rest of the athletic department.

As student athletes, we fully appreciate how hard each sports team works. We also understand how much playing in front of a large, engaged crowd of your peers can energize athletes. Plus, if we go make fools of ourselves at a soccer match or volleyball game, we know those athletes will return the favor and come cheer for us at home swim meets.

The Mizzou Athletics Department has helped to foster an environment of athletic department-wide camaraderie through events that bring student-athletes from different teams together. That is the goal of spirit week, which happened this past week.

Spirit week pitted eight teams — seven formed by combining members of two different sports and the eighth comprised of the athletic department staff — against one another for three nights of fun competitions. The first night was ultimate Frisbee, the second was Gatorade pong and the third was dodgeball.

The idea was that, at the end of the competitions, a winning team would be declared based on success in the three competitions and who had the most members participate.

I don’t know if the athletic department ever declared a winner, but if there was one, it sadly was not the pairing of men’s swimming and diving and softball.

The competitions did, however, allow us to meet other student-athletes and form friendships while doing what we do best: competing. Now that we had a chance to get to know several softball players, once softball season rolls around, the swimmers will be in the stands for a few games, obnoxiously cheering them on.

The other swimmers and I can be found at other sporting events besides just volleyball and soccer. Many of us go to every football game and just about every basketball game, as well as the occasional baseball game, but do not feel the need to be quite as rowdy at those events because those teams have a far larger audience than most. We are sympathetic to the other non-revenue sports because we know what it is like to perform in front of a crowd of 20. Part of our mission is to raise support for the swim team.

Unfortunately for us, swim meets seem to be the most boring athletic competition ever formed for the casual viewer. A few athletes make an appearance at meets to show support, but rarely do they actually know what is going on. Many others don’t attend altogether.

I cannot entirely blame them. I sometimes struggle to stay interested watching people swim back and forth across a pool for four hours, and I am on the team. Still, I know I speak for all the swimmers when I say that the presence of other students at meets is very exciting for us, and if you come to one of our dual meets it might prove surprisingly entertaining.

So look for us at the next home soccer game and future volleyball games as we support our fellow athletes in hopes that they will brave a swim meet to return the favor. We won’t be hard to spot.

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Missouri Tigers middle Kaysie Clark (9) runs after Vanderbilt forward Lina Granados (31) Sunday at the Audrey J. Walton Soccer Stadium. Missouri won 2-0.

Tigers make use of halftime Mizzou has scored 60 percent of its goals in the second halves of its games.

DANIEL WITT Staff Writer Every halftime, the Missouri soccer team walks into the clubhouse. The players have 10 minutes to themselves while their coaches discuss the first half. And while the women rest their aching muscles and retie their cleats, they are setting goals for the second half, where statistics show the Tigers (9-3-2) are at their best.

Out of Missouri’s 28 goals this season, 19 have come after the first half — 17 in the second half alone and the other two coming in overtimes.

Through 14 games, the Tigers are outshooting their opponents 139-87 from the second half on, compared to a 12-shot differential in the first half of games.

“Sometimes it feels like we play better with pressure,” Missouri coach Bryan Blitz said. “But we can’t always pull off the miracle comeback, which we’ve done a lot.”

Yes, sometimes a strong finish isn’t enough. In a 2-3 loss to Auburn on Oct. 10, all five of the match’s goals were scored in the second half.

Opponents have scored 11 of their 17 goals in the second half against the Tigers.

Blitz said he’s still figuring out why Missouri is starting games slowly, and he wants the trend to change.

“One, we need to start quicker,” he said. “We have been resilient, but I’d sure like to even that out a little more, but I’ll take it when it works for us. Overall, I’ll take it as a positive, but I’ll also take it as something we need to work on moving forward.”

Blitz said he wishes he could take the credit for the changes and motivation produced at halftime for

the Tiger team but called soccer “a player’s game.” He raved about the leadership and organization of the players at halftime.

“I give them the credit for being so adaptable and coachable at halftime,” Blitz said. “It’s the players.

Before I even get to the locker room, they write things down and they try to figure it out.”

Senior Kaysie Clark started this halftime habit.

According to junior Reagan Russell, during the break of one of the first games of the season, Clark started writing a short list of second half goals on a whiteboard in the clubhouse. The habit stuck with the team. Now it’s a routine.

“Coming up with those goals and having them in our minds is a really helpful thing — what we need to achieve exactly, how we can come out way better than the first half,” Russell said. “We’ve already seen where we’ve messed up — what didn’t work, what worked.”

These goals commonly include scoring in a certain amount of

minutes, completing passes and winning certain percentages of headers. For Russell, who has scored four of her career-high six goals this season in the second half, they make a difference.

“I think since they’re measurable goals and we actually know what we have to do to win. I think that really helps us mentally because we can check it off of our heads,” Russell said.

Senior Taylor Grant said the goals are easy to check off, as there are only three or four of them each game.

“A lot of it is us sticking together,” said Grant, who is tied for the teamlead with Russell with six goals.

“Whether we’re ahead at halftime, or we’re behind, or tied, we need to come out and do better. We know the second half is what makes or breaks games, and we all come out really hard and fight for those last 45 minutes.”

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The Missouri soccer team has found success in the second halves of games.

28 total goals this season first half

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Tigers still have sights on NCAA Tournament “This isn’t the same team as in 2012,” coach Wayne Kreklow said.

MICHAEL NATELLI Assistant Sports Editor The Rating Percentage Index isn’t a big fan of the Missouri Tigers volleyball squad right now. It has them ranked as the 108th-best team in the country.

But that’s not fazing Mizzou coach Wayne Kreklow.

“The message to these guys is that we just need to focus on getting better,” Kreklow said prior to the team’s match against the Auburn Tigers last week. “We don’t need to worry about (standings) right now, just practicing and getting better.”

Mizzou players said they know they have an uphill battle to fight if they want to be playing in December, but they’re trying to stay in the moment for the time being.

“The biggest thing this year is … not trying to pay attention to standings or stats because that can really bring you down,” senior middle blocker Whitney Little said. “Our big picture goal is the tournament and making it there, but it’s more about the (little things) and the narrow view to get what we want. We all have the mindset that it’s so early in the season … and anything can happen on any given day.”

While it won’t be an easy task making the NCAA Tournament, the Tigers know what they have to do to make it there.

They’ve looked dominant at times this year but not often enough to make their mark in the standings to this point.

“We have to be more consistent and not give up points,” Kreklow said.

“When you’re playing to 25, it only takes two times when you give a team three or four points in a rotation and you’re really in a tough spot. The teams in the (Southeastern Conference) are

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Missouri Tigers defensive specialist Sarah Meister stretches to dig a serve Friday at the Hearnes Center. Missouri beat Auburn 3-0.

good enough, particularly on the road, that they’re not going to give you those points back a lot of times.”

Strictly from a win-loss standpoint, the Tigers are similar to the 2012 Missouri team that ultimately finished with a 19-11 record, missing the tournament. But players and coaches alike are convinced that this year is different.

“The people are different. This team is different,” senior libero Sarah Meister said. “The quality of the work that we

put in (during) practice is different.”

Coach Kreklow echoed that sentiment.

He said his current team is younger than his 2012 squad and a “much more together team than that one.”

“I know there were a lot of issues that year that made that team more difficult than it needed to be,” Kreklow said.

“I think this is a much better team. I like their work ethic. They really think about what they’re doing. It’s just a good league, and it’s hard when you have a bunch of young kids. … It just takes a

little time.”

The Tigers are currently 12-8 and have 13 games left to make an impression on the Division I Women’s Volleyball Committee if they want to be in the postseason. But Kreklow said he thinks they have what it takes — and the Tigers are only playing up to approximately “75 or 80 percent” of their potential.

“Sometimes we’re a really good team and sometimes we’re a great team,” he said. “It just takes time.”

Mizzou faces tough challenge against Driskel, Harris Pinkel said the Gators run similar offenses with each quarterback.

JASON LOWENTHAL Staff Writer Along with Missouri, the Florida Gators are one of the nation’s most mysterious teams.

Once a dark horse to win the Southeastern Conference East Division, the Gators have had possibly the most up-and-down season of any team in the nation. Florida struggled at home against Kentucky, remained competitive against Alabama before being blown out in the second half, came from behind against Tennessee in an ugly win and then lost to unranked LSU at home. A confusing season, to say the least.

Diving into Florida’s quarterback play makes the Gators even more mysterious.

Gators coach Will Muschamp said Monday that typical starter Jeff Driskel and true freshman Treon Harris will both see time behind center this week against Mizzou.

Criticism has been directed at Driskel in recent weeks after a string of sub-par performances. He has thrown for under 200 yards in three consecutive games

and was held to under 100 yards passing against Alabama and Tennessee. In the last three weeks, he has been picked off seven times with just one touchdown.

Against Tennessee, Driskel was benched in favor of Harris, a fan favorite and agile quarterback. After the Florida offense had been stagnant the entire game, Harris led the Gators on two scoring drives in a comeback 10-9 road victory.

“That’s a tough thing to do, to come in and lead your team to victory like that,” Mizzou junior safety Ian Simon said of Harris. “That’s a very tough environment to win at.”

Considering his stretch of poor outings, it appeared as if Muschamp was ready to move on from Driskel, who was at one point on the Davey O’Brien watch list as the nation’s top college quarterback, and start Driskel’s backup, Harris. However, allegations developed over ensuing days, accusing Harris of sexual assault.

With an ongoing investigation taking place in the following week, Muschamp was forced to put Driskel back behind center. Then, the story took another turn when Harris’ accuser dropped the complaint. Despite reinstating him for last Saturday’s game against LSU, Muschamp opted to sit Harris.

Coming into this week, Muschamp faces yet another decision of who will take the snaps for the Gators.

“Both will play this week,” Muschamp said. “And we’ll work through the week.

Right now, Jeff (Driskel) would probably start, but both will play.”

Mizzou coach Gary Pinkel said his defense is up for the challenge of facing both quarterbacks.

“For the most part, they run the same offense,” he said. “I would expect to see both of them in there. If they design more plays for (Harris), we’ll just have to adjust.”

Defensive end Markus Golden took a similar stance.

“We know they’ve got two good quarterbacks throwing, but we’re ready to play both of them,” Golden said.

Sophomore linebacker Michael Scherer said the team isn’t all too familiar with Harris yet, but they’ve taken notes on Driskel, including his dual-threat ability.

“They run (Driskel) kind of similar to a ‘Tim Tebow style’ of offense,” Scherer said. “By the end of the (LSU game), he had to have had 12, 15 rushes. That’s something we’re definitely going to have to keep in check.”

Scherer actually underestimated Driskel’s performance last week. The

quarterback ran the ball 21 times for 71 yards. In his career at Florida, Driskel has seven rushing touchdowns to his credit, including a 70-yard run in 2012.

Harris has been more than impressive throwing the football this season. In limited action against Eastern Michigan, he completed two passes for 148 yards — both went for touchdowns — and compiled an astonishing passer rating of 1,051.6. He also led the team in its fourth-quarter comeback against Tennessee two weeks ago.

“They’re an explosive offense,” Simon said. “I think it’s going to come down to limiting their big plays and forcing them to go on 12- or 13-play drives.”

Regardless of who is taking the snaps for Florida, Mizzou players said they know this game could make or break their season, either keeping the team in the SEC East race or putting it in a deep hole.

“I’m going in expecting it to be a fight,” Simon said. “Just like any other game in the SEC.”

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And Rosburg did keep himself in the scrimmage. After picking up his third foul seven minutes in, Rosburg had a clean sheet for the remaining 13 minutes of the scrimmage. He said he made an adjustment after the third foul and attributed his play early on to transitioning from practice to games.

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Senior offensive tackle Mitch Morse said he continues to trust his quarterback, despite his failings Saturday.

“Nothing has been

disparaging,” Morse said.

“There have been no remarks between us. This is a pivotal moment in our season where we can either digress or we can come together and lean on each other.”

Even with a poor performance this past week, Pinkel still maintains Mauk is his quarterback. All he really wants is for Mauk to believe in himself and keep persevering.

“We believe he can do it.

We’ve seen him do it on big stages,” Pinkel said. “He’s just going through some tough times, and he certainly takes responsibility. He’s a good player, and he has my support.”

practice is all about playing physical and playing hard,” Rosburg said. “In practice we foul each other a lot. It’s kind of just adjusting and I got caught in some bad spots and had to foul some people.”

Missouri ranked 178th in Division I men’s basketball with 19.1 fouls per game last season under then-coach Frank Haith, right near the middle of 345 teams.

Rosburg said this year will be different.

“I think just because we play team defense this year, it’s going to help a lot,” Rosburg said. “Last year it seemed like I was helping other guys who’d get blown by or lose their man,

so I’d have to come and help them out. I picked up a lot of fouls that way. I think this year since we play so solid defense — or we’re supposed to — that it’s going to help a lot.”

The Tigers have focused a lot on defense this preseason, Anderson said.

Rosburg said the keys to avoiding fouls are to avoid reaching and maintain fundamentals and footwork.

Assistant coach Rob Fulford said for big men like Rosburg, it is all about thinking and preparing before a defensive play.

“You get a lot of fouls in the post because you don’t get your work done early so you have to

catch up with the ball,” Fulford said. “I think mainly it’s just understanding positioning and working hard a little earlier.

The biggest thing is just getting them to think and not just react.”

Anderson’s expectations for his big man aren’t unrealistic, though. As a big man, meant to block shots and grab rebounds, the fouls can be inevitable for Rosburg.

“There’s nothing wrong with leading your team in fouls,” Anderson said. “If you go back and look in the history books, there have been a lot of good players who’ve fouled a lot.”

Anderson, who played for Missouri from 1973-77, led the

team with 121 fouls his junior season, and 101 his senior season. Even as a sophomore in 1974, the 6-foot-7-inch forward from Sedalia ranked second on the team with 97 fouls.

Anderson has said he sees a little of himself in Rosburg.

Both are Missouri natives, commit their share of fouls and have the “big and tall” frame essential to playing the post in Division I college basketball.

“I think I’m a physical player, so just being a big guy you want to try to take up space, try to block shots and get into positions where they can’t score,” Rosburg said.

“Sometimes you’ve got to foul.

It’s just part of it.”

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