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February 24, 2016

MSA

The Maneater endorses Earl/Schafer for MSA Empower MU is the best platform for reforming MSA.

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Potential new sorority members fill Francis Quadrangle on Aug. 20, 2011, for “Bid Day.” The Department of Student Life is trying to pass a fee that all Greek students would have to pay.

For the second time this school year, we find ourselves choosing among three slates in the Missouri Students Association’s presidential election. The circumstances of last semester’s debacle of an election have left the student body disillusioned with its government and MSA with an identity crisis regarding its role as an organization.

More than anything, this next executive administration needs to remedy the breach of trust and transparency that MSA has lost with the student body. In this regard, the Empower MU platform provides the best practical solutions to improving this relationship.

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Greek Life

Student Life seeks to implement Greek fee The four Greek Councils have mixed opinions on the $39-per-semester fee.

TESS VRBIN Staff Writer In the 19 years Director of Student Life Mark Lucas has worked in the department, he has struggled to find ways to support one of MU’s most active communities.

Only two people, fraternity leadership educator Jonathan Rummel and Interfraternity Council adviser Nick Evans, are currently paid to work in the Office of Greek Life. Lucas said comparable Greek communities require six to eight full-time staff to be effective.

To get the money to hire more people, Lucas aims to levy a fee of $39 per semester on each member of a fraternity or sorority. The fee was modeled after one implemented by Louisiana State University of $53 per semester for its

own Greek students, Lucas said.

Student Life Business Manager Chris Provorse said in an email that the fee would bring in $565,500. if the fee is implemented, total staffing costs for the Office of Greek Life, would cost about $464,000. The state of Missouri is looking to cut funding for the UM System, and enrollment for the fall 2016 semester is projected to drop, which Lucas and Provorse estimate to equal a loss of $150,000 per year.

Possible Implementation Lucas is working to gain support for the fee from the four Greek councils, who all have mixed opinions. He and Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Cathy Scroggs hope to get it approved by interim Chancellor Hank Foley in early March. Foley will decide if the fee will be implemented either August 2016 or January 2017. Regardless of the start date, Lucas plans

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Residential life

Laundry in halls could have annual fee next school year

The Residence Halls Association has been discussing the fee since last fall.

LAUREN WORTMAN Staff Writer Room and board fees for students living in residence halls could soon

include a flat fee estimated around $100 for laundry charges, according to the UM System Board of Curators’ fiscal year 2017 report.

The flat rate is not entirely set at this point, and it will depend on which new company picks up the bid for laundry services. It is estimated that the fee could be anywhere from $80 to over $100. Student staff will not have to

pay the fee, as their room and board charges are covered by the Department of Residential Life.

The suggestion to implement a flat fee has been a topic of discussion in the Residence Halls Association’s Residential Living Committee since the beginning of the fall 2015 semester, RHA President Billy Donley said.

“It was one of the first discussion

pieces that we had,” Donley said. “Right off the bat, we were talking about laundry. I think a lot of students will prefer it because ultimately it feels like a better value, and depending on how much laundry you do, it is a better value.”

The current contract with the laundry service provider for Residential Life will

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Two years, no progress Following University Village’s shutdown and demolition, MU has provided no new child care or housing options to replace those at the graduate housing complex.

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Hoodie Allen loves his fans. How much? So much.

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Senior Ryan Rosburg leaves a lasting legacy at Mizzou.

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MU student DeShaunya Ware listens to speakers at the fourth annual Social Justice Symposium on Feb. 7, 2015, at the Student Center.

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Social Justice Symposium promotes advocacy RHA President Billy Donley: “A lot of these workshops and programs are very valuable to me to understand different topics such as privilege and allyship.”

ALYCIA WASHINGTON Staff Writer This past Saturday was Kelsey Kupferer’s first year working on the planning committee for the Social Justice Symposium through the Center for Leadership and Service.

“The idea of the Social Justice

Symposium is that it’s an academic space open to all students,” Kupferer said. “It’s free, it’s accessible, it’s a place where people can come and learn about whatever social justice topics are of the most interest to them.”

The annual MU Social Justice Symposium was held over the weekend in the Student Center. About 120 people attended the event, which was the symposium’s four-year anniversary.

The Social Justice Symposium is a one-day conference in which students and faculty come together to learn and educate others about how to be better advocates for social justice.

The conference is designed to create conversation around the three core

concepts of social justice: awareness, advocacy and activism.

Kupferer cites the symposium as an “academic space” because of the workshop format of the conference.

Attendees can choose which to attend based on the summary of each workshop in the schedule.

There were 16 workshops in total, ranging from “Recognizing the Able” to “Clicktivism, the Good and Bad of Service and Free Speech.” With both staff and student presenters, attendants had the opportunity learn from their peers and trained professionals on how they can improve their communities.

Josey Herrera, a planning committee member through the Division of

Inclusion and Equality, has attended the symposium since her sophomore year.

“I got to attend the very first Social Justice Symposium, and it was a very powerful experience,” Herrera said.

“I really enjoyed being able to sit in discussions with my peers.”

One of the most highly anticipated aspects of the symposium was the keynote speaker, Kira Hudson Banks.

MSA President Payton Head spoke last year. Banks is an assistant professor in the psychology department at Saint Louis University who researches discrimination and its impact on mental

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Board of Curators

Bill aims to improve Board of Curators’ professional diversity All six of the board’s current members are lawyers.

NANCY COLEMAN Deputy Copy Chief A proposed bill in the Missouri House of Representatives that could tackle the issue of occupational diversity on the Board of Curators is one step closer to passing in the House after being referred to the Select Committee on Education.

House Bill 2179 states that no more than two curators within the same profession can be on the board at the same time. After three curators resigned in the last four months, the board is

currently entirely comprised of lawyers.

If passed, the bill would affect all appointments made after Jan. 1, 2017. The bill also applies to the governing boards at nine other Missouri universities.

Rep. Don Rone, R-Portageville, proposed the bill after noticing a lack of occupational diversity among the Board of Curators and other boards in the state.

“I got to looking at all the boards — there’s three, maybe four of the fouryear colleges in the state that have a multiple of lawyers on there, and when I say multiple, I mean over two,” Rone said. “And out of 48 board members in the state, 20 of them are lawyers. And I just said, ‘Well, that’s too many in one

occupation.’”

Rep. Chuck Basye, R-Rocheport, and Rep. Dean Dohrman, R-La Monte, are two of the bill’s four co-sponsors.

They said issues regarding a lack of occupational diversity on the board came to light after race-related student protests by Concerned Student 1950 at MU culminated in the resignations of former UM System President Tim Wolfe and former Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin in November 2015.

“When this fall it appeared that there were some issues on the campus concerning things that the Board of Curators would be involved in, we noticed that every person had a legal background,” Dohrman said. “And that just brought it to light. And the bill

sponsor and myself, we talked about it a little bit before it was filed, and we just think that the more perspectives you have on issues, probably the better off we are.”

The Missouri Senate has blocked Gov. Jay Nixon’s curator appointments before because of the high proportion of lawyers on the board, according to the Columbia Daily Tribune.

“I have nothing against lawyers,” Dohrman said. “It’s just when everybody’s a lawyer, thinking outside of the box may not be as possible as when you have people with different backgrounds and different ways of

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soon expire. Director of Residential Life Frankie Minor said RHA has been involved in the process of selecting a new provider, as well as advocating for the flat fee.

“We’re only going to do it if RHA endorses doing it,” Minor said. “We wanted to first find out, how serious are they about this?”

RHA is an important factor in the decision process, Minor said, because there are a few things about the upfront charge that could be controversial.

“For some, this might not be such a good deal because the heavy users are going to be subsidized by the light users,” he said.

In addition, there will likely not be an option to choose a pay-as-you-go plan as opposed to the flat fee, so students who do not believe that they will use the laundry services often will still have to pay the entirety of the fee.

“We know that there might not be students who use the laundry at all,” Donley said. “We hope that it can encourage students to because I

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works in a different office.

Duffy agreed with Lucas that the Office of Greek Life needs more staff in order to accommodate the Greek student population of about 7,500. She estimated that working with Greek Life takes up at least half of her time. Having some staff dedicated to Greek Life and other staff dedicated to the Center for Leadership and Service would serve the students well, she said.

“If the fee is how Dr. Lucas and Dr. Scroggs see that being accomplished, I think that would be a positive thing,” she said.

Lucas asked Jonathan McElderry to be the adviser to the National Pan-Hellenic Council in addition to his full-time job as coordinator of the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center. Multicultural Center coordinator Stephanie Hernandez Rivera also had to figure out how to do her job while advising the newly formed Multicultural Greek Council, Lucas said.

McElderry and Hernandez Rivera could not be reached for comment.

Lucas also said Student Life Office Support Assistant Kristina Estes spends most of her time working with Greek Life, even though she is paid to work in the Center for Leadership and Service.

“This has been the structure of this department for all of my 19 years,” he said. “It’s killing this department and depriving the majority of MU students of programs and services they are paying for. All the work that should be getting done, in the areas where these people are hired, is not getting done.”

Greek Councils’ Opinions The Greek councils have mixed opinions of the potential fee.

MGC President Phillip Nguyen said the council has discussed the fee and is concerned about where

the money would go. Despite the claims that the Department of Student Life suffers from a lack of staffing, Nguyen said MGC has not seen proof of this and worries that the money from the fee might be abused.

“A lot of students (in MGC) are against the fee because whether we support it or not, it’s going to be passed,” he said.

Nguyen also said he doesn’t think students trust administrators after the events of last semester.

The council members want more resources, which could include more funding or administrative support and advice for their organizations.

At the same time, they fear that they may not benefit as much as the other three Greek councils because MGC as a whole is smaller than the individual IFC and PHA chapters.

“If everybody is paying the same amount of the fee, how is that going to be distributed among the councils?” Nguyen said. “Is most of our money going to go to IFC and PHA?” Lucas said in an email that the councils will not be receiving any of the money as the fee is for staffing.

Both Nguyen and NPHC President Khalil Simmons said they would like the fee to be better organized. Simmons said some NPHC members are against the fee because they do not see the benefits beyond hiring a new adviser, and other members support the fee but acknowledge it needs revisions.

The NPHC executive board is neutral on the matter, Simmons said.

“If the fee isn’t the greatest opportunity for us, then we’re against it,” he said. “We definitely see the positives of the fee, but we also see where it needs work. We just want it to be revised before it is passed, and we need to see how it

can benefit NPHC as a whole.”

The IFC executive board believes the fee will make Greek Life more self-sustaining, Vice President of Public Relations Jacob Farkas said.

“We feel like this will help ensure that Greek Life is able to keep the resources we currently have, hire more staff and improve programs for IFC men,” Farkas said.

He also said Greek Life has put together a task force to help general members understand the purpose of the fee.

If the fee does not pass, Farkas said, Greek Life will attract fewer people and its growth rate will decline because it won’t be able to sustain as many members. Without more funding and staff, the Office of Greek Life will be unable to hold various programs and events, such as Emerging Greek Leaders and Greek Week.

PHA declined to comment on the fee.

Looking Forward Lucas said the fee is necessary enough that he and Dr. Scroggs feel they must proceed with it, but they want all internal and external members of the community to understand why it is needed. He said it is difficult to explain the potential consequences of not passing the fee to the members of Greek Life because students cannot directly see how the Department of Student Life has been struggling.

“If we do a lot of things behind the scenes to prevent something bad from happening, (almost) nobody knows about it,” Lucas said.

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to spend the fall 2016 semester educating students about the fee.

“I want all internal and external constituents to understand the issues around the fee and understand why we believe this is the only strategy that can provide our Greek community with stability and a path for success,” Lucas said in an email.

In early February, he sent a letter and a list of frequently asked questions about the fee to Greek Life advisers, housing corporations and national headquarters. According to the FAQ list, students can apply their financial aid toward the fee, and students who join a Greek organization mid-semester will not have to start paying the fee until the following semester.

“Improving the experience for members of your chapter will make the Greek community at Mizzou stronger, more sustainable, with an eye to the future,” the document states. “We want your chapter to be here in 5, 10 or 15 years when you visit regardless of how many members it has.”

The document also states that the Office of Student Life will fund “one full-time staff position, one graduate assistant, and the cost of physical space, utilities and other overhead expenses.” The fee, if implemented, will allow each Greek council to have its own full-time adviser.

Understaffing Issues In the past, Lucas has attempted to compensate for the lack of Greek Life staffing by assigning people from various departments in Student Life to work with Greek Life. This practice is unsustainable,

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he said, and he will not continue it.

He said Associate Director of Student Life Janna Basler was hired as a department supervisor, not as Greek Life director.

“She is the biggest supervisor I’ve got in this department,” Lucas said. “She is not able to do her job because, by default, I have no one else to be director of Greek Life.”

Basler will no longer be working with Greek Life effective July 1, Lucas said, because it is not the job she was hired to perform. Her departure from Greek Life has no connection to her involvement in the Concerned Student 1950 protests, which resulted in her being placed on administrative leave for attempting to block a student journalist.

Lucas and Basler assigned Kathleen Duffy, originally a coordinator in the Center for Leadership and Service, to work with formal Panhellenic Association recruitment last summer. Without Duffy, Lucas said, recruitment could not have happened. However, the Center for Leadership Development does not have the staff to complete all its responsibilities.

In the Center for Leadership and Service, Duffy works with the Emerging Leaders Program, the Involvement to Career program and the Caring for Columbia Day of Service. Since she began working with Greek Life, graduate assistants have taken over most of her previous responsibilities with the Leadership Certificate program and Center Ambassadors, and her work with ELP is less direct than it used to be, she said.

Covering all the responsibilities in the Center for Leadership and Service is a group effort, Duffy said.

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think a lot of students come here not knowing they can charge with their student charge — it’s just kind of an inconvenient system.”

Residential Life is also thinking of ways to ensure that only student residents are using the laundry services, such as requiring students to swipe their student ID before being able to do a load of laundry.

If new vendors would be open to implementing a flat laundry fee, Minor said that the decision would go to RHA, who will have to come up with a formal resolution in support of the fee.

“We have a great relationship with the department,” Donley said. “Many other schools are not as lucky to have the relationship we do. Frankie works very hard to include us in decisions that should include the students.”

While no other universities in the UM System have implemented a flat fee, other universities around the nation have introduced a flat fee and seen positive results.

“What we hear, by and large, is that satisfaction goes up because you don’t see the money going in and out of your pocket right away,” Minor said. “I like our students to be satisfied.”

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RHA to allow another slate to enter election Voting will still be open from 10 a.m. March 2 to 10 a.m.

March 4.

LAUREN WORTMAN Staff Writer The Residence Halls Association passed an act to allow another slate to enter the RHA presidential election during a special session of Congress Feb. 22.

The special session was called to discuss concerns with the RHA presidential election in response to the Roberts/Aiken slate withdrawing from the race last Friday.

The special congressional session began with a motion to expel candidates Matt Bourke, Martha Pangborn and Emily Aiken from the session. The motion passed, although the majority of representatives voted in abstention.

Advocacy Committee Chairwoman Monica Roselli said the reason for expelling them from the room was to facilitate open discussion on the amendment and resolution that would be discussed.

“I had heard talks about (expelling them),” Speaker of Congress Alex Johar said. “I felt like it was something for the representatives to vote on. It’s their call,

and they voted to expel them.”

After the Bourke/Pangborn slate and Aiken left the room, an amendment was presented to allow Congress to change the rules of a presidential election during the election period. The motion passed, allowing Congress to discuss a resolution that changes rules for the current election.

The resolution, passed by RHA Congress, allows for a reopening of the election process. Bourke/Pangborn will remain on the ballot, but there is now an option for candidates to enter the election as either a solo presidential candidate or a presidential and vice presidential slate.

If a member of RHA chooses to enter the race as a solo presidential candidate, they will have the ability to appoint their vice president.

New candidates will follow election rules as outlined in the RHA bylaws.

Candidates will have until 6:30 p.m.

Feb. 26 to collect 50 signatures and be approved as an official slate. The election is not expected to be extended at this time.

Voting will still be open from 10 a.m.

March 2 to 10 a.m. March 4.

“It is the ability of myself or Billy to call a special session,” Johar said.

“Seeing that they wanted the ability to give input on elections we decided to call

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it. We wanted to give them the ability to give their input on the proceedings in RHA.” After both the amendment and the resolution passed with a majority of

representatives in favor, there was a motion to bring the Bourke/Pangborn slate and Aiken back into the session to discuss the naming of the next residence hall.

Election overlap could raise issues for RHA and MSA “The most involved population of (voters) are always within the residence halls, usually those younger students,” Wilt said. “When folks move off campus and get more intensively involved in their coursework, they start to care a little less.”

MSA Senator and RHA presidential candidate Matt Bourke hopes that holding the two elections together, at least this year, will increase voter turnout for both.

“By these two elections running concurrently, students will not only see that they can vote in more elections, but they’ll see all the different elections they can work with,” he said.

Bourke said the overlap initially worried him, but he now has a different perspective.

“The fact that the two largest undergraduate student governments will start together will actually be very beneficial to both organizations because they will be able to learn together,” he said.

MSA is currently reviewing legislation that would move its election to the spring semester permanently. The proposal is currently in the second reading of acts in full Senate. If approved, the MSA election would be held on the first Tuesday of every March. RHA bylaw 10.1.3 states the election “shall occur on the Thursday of either the third or fourth week of February.”

The two elections’ voting times would not overlap, but campaigning would.

Bourke said the MSA and RHA slates could discuss their goals for the campus together, since the elected slates will begin their terms at the same time. Wilt said he also sees this potential benefit.

“Slates could collaborate and make joint efforts in this very formative time of their leadership careers because they can set their direction and get going at the same time,” Wilt said.

However, he said, conversations could lead to endorsements, which could be problematic.

“You’ve got the potential for two slates, one in RHA and one in MSA, to collaborate with one another,” Wilt said.

“If one of them fails, it could create an awfully awkward situation where the winning slate in the other organization has to work with the slate they didn’t necessarily endorse.”

This has never been an issue in the past because MSA and RHA slates have never previously coexisted, he said, and the likelihood of endorsements would go up if MSA moves its election permanently.

RHA as a whole and its individual executive board members are not allowed to endorse anyone running for office in any of the other eight student governments involved in joint session. RHA Speaker of Congress Alex Johar said this was a recently adopted amendment to the RHA constitution.

“Some representatives were talking about that (rule) extending to the slates as well, to avoid potential biases (or) hard

feelings between the two organizations and help us all work together,” Johar said.

He said that while RHA may be able to prohibit endorsements from its own side, the organization cannot control endorsements from MSA. Still, he said, moving the MSA election to the spring semester could improve communication between RHA and MSA. “Ultimately, we work to serve the students, and we want that to work as efficiently and as best as possible,” Johar said.

Voting for the MSA election will be at vote.missouri.edu, an online platform run by the Department of Student Life, and RHA voting will be on a different platform run by the Department of Residential Life. The different websites should prevent confusion regarding who is running in which election, Bourke said.

The aspect of the elections that might be confusing is the fact that every slate’s tagline has “MU” or “Mizzou” in it.

“People that are really interested (will have) to look at each platform and understand what area they’re coming from,” Bourke said. “(The election overlap) will help people learn the platforms better because they have to understand (four) different slates running for two separate organizations.

It will help them figure out what people are actually standing for.”

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RHA Chief Justice Garrett Wilt: “You’ve got the potential for two slates, one in RHA and one in MSA, to collaborate with one another.

If one of them fails, it could create an awfully awkward situation.”

TESS VRBIN Staff Writer

The Missouri Students Association and Residence Halls Association presidential elections will intersect for the first time due to the MSA special election.

The RHA election is at the end of February and the beginning of March every year. Voting for this year’s RHA election will be from 10 a.m. March 2 to 10 a.m. March 4. Voting for the MSA special election will begin at 8 a.m.

Feb. 29 and end at 5 p.m. on March 2, creating a seven-hour overlap between the two elections.

RHA Chief Justice and head of the Elections Committee Garrett Wilt said voter turnout could potentially rise due to the coinciding of the elections. Both MSA and RHA tend to advertise for their elections in the residence halls because most of the voters in both elections live on campus, Wilt said.

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Mizzou Stream Team cleans up Columbia Although the group is small, Mizzou Stream Team hopes to impact Missouri bodies of water through clean-up events.

ANNABEL AMES Reporter In a 1-mile stretch of the Grindstone Creek Trail, Mizzou Stream Team members found rusted metal poles, a machete and an entire desktop computer.

Junior Kevin Tosie, a project leader for Mizzou Stream Team, led a group of about 10 students on a clean-up project in early October 2015.

Mizzou Stream Team is a group within Sustain Mizzou, one of the environmental organizations on campus. Mizzou Stream

Team members visit different bodies of water in the Columbia area and collect trash in and around them to prevent the garbage from ending up in the ocean. Tosie said Columbia supplies the organization with litter bags and work gloves.

On a typical volunteer day, Mizzou Stream Team spends an average of two hours tidying up a location. Tosie said the best part about being a project leader is seeing the students’ reactions to the amount of trash, which he believes “helps them change their lifestyle.”

“Once you start doing the projects, it’s an eye-opener for how much trash is actually out there,” Tosie said. “We try to stop it at the source.”

Stream teams across Missouri independently organize their own events, and are asked to report their accomplishments to the Missouri Department of Conservation, MDC Stream

Team Coordination biologist Amy Meier said. More than 4,000 Missouri teams were active in 2014, according to the Missouri Stream Team’s Annual Report.

“It’s a great way to be a part of the community, and you feel great about yourself knowing that you’re helping the environment,” Meier said.

Meier said MDC stresses the significance of having clean water, education, stewardship and advocacy.

“The stream team program is one of those avenues for citizens to get together to care for their waterways,” Meier said.

“It doesn’t have to be just picking up trash — it can be writing letters to legislators, planting trees along streams, monitoring for water quality or building a rain barrel.”

Sophomore Megan Tyminski, Sustain Mizzou vice president of projects, said the October event was her first time getting involved with a stream team.

“It’s part of my job to go to events, but I also wanted to see what it was like,” Tyminski said. “I was really surprised to see how much trash there was. One of the saddest parts is that the trash could be prevented if it was recycled firsthand.”

Tyminski said participating in Mizzou Stream Team events is a reason to go outdoors and become familiar with local waterways.

“It’s good to get your hands dirty and it’s nice to kind of give back and make sure that the wildlife stays safe and secure,” Tyminski said.

The club plans to host more events in the spring, including partnering with Missouri River Relief for an overnight camping trip at Alligator Cove along the Missouri River.

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She turned to Refuge for Women, an organization to help sexually exploited women.

She is now an active voice against pornography and human trafficking. Neely commands attention with impassioned speech, tears and animated gestures. She hopes to gain nonprofit status for her T-shirt making and speaking efforts and start a YouTube channel to expand the reach of her message.

“I’m living for something greater than myself,” Neely said. “I’ve seen it all and I’m saying it’s not worth it, don’t go there, don’t play with that. I’m telling you I’ve chased the pot of gold, and I got burned.”

In sharing her recovery story, Neely talked about the long process of healing from addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder. She said she had been hunting for people who cared and urged the audience to never stop caring.

“It was upsetting to hear the reality (of the pornography and trafficking industries), but exciting to hear about love driving out the shame,” said recent MU graduate Alissa Jett, who works at Columbia’s Refugee and Immigration Services office.

MU’s IJM chapter partners with the Central Missouri Stop Human Trafficking Coalition, which seeks to educate the community about trafficking issues, identify victims and support survivors. Nanette Ward, a volunteer board member for the coalition, introduced Neely at the event and reminded the audience members of their duty to be the eyes and ears for one another.

“Just make sure you leave here and do something,” Ward said. “Tell someone.

Don’t let it stop in this room.”

Lawmakers are addressing trafficking issues through a proposed amendment to House Bill 1396 that aims to increase safety for human trafficking victims. The bill seeks to include human trafficking victims in a program that gives a substitute address to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking and rape.

The ball has been passed through the Civil and the Criminal and Judiciary committees.

According to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center, 67 human trafficking cases were reported in Missouri last year, nearly a third of which involved minors. The center also received 365 hotline calls.

MU’s IJM chapter, one of 200 across the U.S., gained new leadership last fall and has been working on increasing awareness around campus. Event co-coordinator Emily Dunn, a freshman, said the chapter is still learning how to be leaders and make an impact together. She said being on IJM leadership is a good outlet for her passions.

“Something I’ve been passionate about is justice, and I didn’t know how to get involved,” Dunn said. “IJM is a way I could put my beliefs into action.”

The Stories of Modern Day Slavery event also planned to have Jefferson City native Jessica Luebbert share her experience on being trafficked from Columbia but had to cancel last minute.

According to KOMU, Luebbert said that in mid-Missouri, there is a misconception that human trafficking does not happen here, but as a survivor she knows it happens everywhere.

The MU IJM leadership said they may plan another time for her to speak in the future.

Edited by Waverly Colville | wcolville@ themaneater.com

Activist Jessica Neely ‘living for something greater’ ANNA SUTTERER Reporter Former pornography star Jessica Neely spoke to a crowd at an MU International Justice Mission event Monday night about her journey from being a victim to becoming a victimizer.

Neely shared her experiences as a porn star and brothel owner before her eventual redemption.

The event, titled Stories of Modern Day Slavery, uncovered details about the sex industries of pornography and human trafficking to a crowd of 105 MU students and Columbia residents, who crammed themselves into a classroom in the Arts & Science building.

Neely is a pastor’s daughter whose molestation as a child and rape as a young adult threw her into the sex industry. Her time in the porn industry left her unstable, financially. She started a brothel in 2011, where she trafficked women from all over the U.S. “I didn’t know I was a trafficker,” Neely said. “I didn’t know I was the bad guy.”

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THE MANEATER | NEWS | FEBRUARY 24, 2016

What you missed at last week’s MSA debate Voting will begin on at 8 a.m. Feb. 29 and close at 5 p.m. March 2.

The announcement will be held at Traditions Plaza on March 2.

ANDREW FREIN, EMILY GALLION AND MAX FILLION of The Maneater Staff The new batch of candidates for Missouri Students Association president and vice president gave a glimpse of their plans Thursday night during a debate co-hosted by the Board of Elections Commissioners and The Maneater.

BEC is holding the special election after MSA President-elect Haden Gomez and Vice President-elect Chris Hanner resigned. Payton Head is serving as interim president until the election.

The debate, which lasted over two and a half hours, covered a variety of topics from social justice issues, their platforms, advocacy and more.

DIFFERENT OPINIONS ABOUT CONCEALED CARRY ON CAMPUS

State legislators proposed bills last year that would repeal the UM System’s ban on concealed carry on campus, prompting discussion on the topic.

Turner/Evans supports the right of students to carry guns at MU. As long as they “go through the proper steps of the concealed carry process,” they said MU students are adults and should be allowed to carry a gun on campus.

The Hutchinson/Ghuman slate disagreed.

“That’s ludicrous to me,” Hutchinson said.

Hutchinson recalled the events that took place last semester when anonymous threats were made on Yik Yak. He said that he would not feel safe if guns were on campus during a similar event.

Schafer said she is comfortable around guns, but understands that not all students feel the same way.

Earl also said he would not feel safe if guns were allowed on campus, but he said the decision should be left up to the students.

MSA’S STANCE ON MELISSA CLICK

All slates agreed that MSA should not take a stance Melissa Click, but they offered their personal opinions on whether or not the university should fire her for her behavior during the Concerned Student 1950 protests.

Turner said faculty members should be held at a higher standard, but he also said he appreciates professors like Melissa Click care about the students.

Hutchinson said that Click was “scapegoated” by the media during the protests.

ZOIE BROWN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

MSA presidential and vice presidential candidates listen closely to Andrew Hutchinson's response to a question during the special election debate hosted by the Board of Elections Commissioners and The Maneater in Bengal Lair in Memorial Student Union on Feb. 18.

“You have to place what happened with Melissa Click in context with how protests are dealt with on campus,” Hutchinson said. “The media did not do enough to discuss those issues.”

Schafer said she did believe MSA should take a stance on Melissa Click and was critical of the state legislature for cutting MU’s funding.

“I don’t believe the state legislature should use (Click) as a poster child to cut Mizzou’s funding,” she said.

CONCERNED STUDENT 1950 INVOLVEMENT All of the slates said they supported the efforts of Concerned Student 1950.

Turner and Evans were the only candidates who had not participated in any of the recent movements on campus. Hutchinson said he had spent time at the Concerned Student 1950 campsite.

Hutchinson said MSA’s lack of clear support for the group was the reason he decided to run.

"It is a very personal and emotional thing for me" to advocate for students with marginalized identities, he said.

When moderators asked whether the candidates had protested with the group, Hutchinson said he didn’t think the question should have been asked.

Ghuman said candidates shouldn’t “tokenize” their involvement.

HOW TO FUND THE LIBRARY FEE The slates also had different stances on the proposed

library fee, which was voted down by students during the 2015 MSA presidential election. The library fee was endorsed by MSA as a means to improve MU Libraries and increase the salaries of their employees.

Turner/Evans said they believe the student voice was well heard regarding the library fee. They would like to re-open the discussion for the library fee, but overall the student opinion is most important when it comes to this.

Schafer was the liaison for the library fee as the MSA Academic Affairs committee chairwoman and said she was disappointed that the library is not in the top four things the university wants to fund. She said that when comparing MU’s library to Alabama’s, MU’s “doesn’t stand a chance.”

She believes the library fee was voted down because the students weren’t informed enough about it and would like to re-open the discussion.

Hutchinson/Ghuman believe that it shouldn’t be on the students to improve the libraries. Ghuman said legislators should be responsible for increasing funding for MU. Hutchinson added that a main point of their platform is advocating for marginalized identities on campus, and that students need to have access to these resources to be able to hear from diverse voices.

Voting will begin on at 8 a.m Feb. 29 and close at 5 p.m. March 2. The announcement will be held at Traditions Plaza on March 2.

Edited by Waverly Colville and George Roberson | wcolville@themaneater.com, groberson@themaneater.com

The Student Voice hosts MSA vice presidential candidates JOHN RICHMOND HERRICK Opinion Editor This week on The Student Voice, The Maneater’s weekly audio podcast co-programmed and live on KCOU, we hosted the three vice presidential candidates in the 2016 MSA special election — Tori Schafer, Clay Evans and Lydia Ghuman.

Last election, when we had on the vice presidential candidates, most of our questions involved the budgetary process. However, because of the unusual nature of this election, the incoming vice president will be inaugurated after the budget is already in its final steps.

So we asked the candidates different questions.

We asked each of the candidates what they would do to aid their running mates.

“An important thing to remember is that the MSA president can only be in so many places at one time,” Tori Schafer said. “As vice president, I would work with (running mate Sean Earl) to be in as many places on campus as we could possibly be.”

Lydia Ghuman, who is running alongside Andrew

Hutchison, was previously appointed MSA’s Chief Inclusivity Officer.

“I would definitely meet with Andrew a lot, just to see what he’s doing and how I can help,” Ghuman said. “But I would still be interested in expanding the role of Chief Inclusivity Officer.”

Additionally, we asked how the candidates would appoint students to the Chancellor’s Standing Committees, which is the only other defined responsibility of the vice president.

“The largest thing would definitely be finding someone who’s passionate about the subject that the committee directly deals with,” said Clay Evans, who is running alongside Sam Turner. “Additionally, having a variety of perspectives represented would be important to me in making these appointments.”

Next week, we’ll be having on the three presidential candidates — Sean Earl, Andrew Hutchinson and Sam Turner — to ask further questions about their platforms and vision for MSA. You can listen to the full show on Soundcloud or on our website in the opinion section. Tune in to KCOU at 4 p.m. Sunday to listen in.

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THE MANEATER | NEWS | FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Bus ad helps spread word about Green Dot RSVP Center coordinator Christopher Walters: “We can make an impact in stopping violence.”

MADISON PLASTER Staff Writer The Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention Center is creating awareness about sexual assault prevention in a new way: They have a bus with Green Dot advertisements.

An RSVP Center supervisor had worked with staff from the Student Health Center on previous projects, one of which used a bus.

When RSVP Center coordinator Christopher Walters started his position in September 2015, he was put in charge of making the vision of a Green Dot bus come to life. They wanted to apply the same marketing strategy to Green Dot as the Student Health Center had done in their earlier project.

Walters connected with Transit

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health and intergroup relations.

“She has a lot of experience working with both students and administrators and helping the students advocate for their rights,” Kupferer said.

The format of the keynote was one of the biggest changes

Advertising, the advertising company that the city of Columbia uses for their wraps, to create an advertisement. He worked with their design team on taking aspects of promotional pieces he had worked on with the Student Design Center.

“It was a pretty simple process, pretty quick,” Walters said. “It was just putting all the steps together.”

The company offered the RSVP Center campus routes. Walters specifically wanted the bus to run where students would see it, so that their message would have a broader reach.

According to the Green Dot website, Green Dot is a program that works to create a culture that reduces powerbased personal violence. It is supported

by MU and many other high schools, universities and institutions around the U.S. Through education and training, Green Dot hopes to enable bystanders to recognize signs of violence before it happens and help the potential victim escape harm.

According to a survey conducted by the Association of American Universities,

to the symposium this year.

Instead of the keynote speaker giving the last presentation, the symposium opened with the keynote. Banks’ presentation focused on “leading through cultural change” and discussed topics such as Concerned Student 1950 and why race should matter in society.

Another major change at the symposium this year were the

11.7 percent of survey respondents from 27 universities experienced nonconsensual sexual activity since they began college.

Research accumulated by Green Dot shows that college women experience victimization greater than the overall population. Between one-fifth and onequarter of females will face completed or attempted rape during their college careers.

Walters said the Green Dot program takes a new approach to fighting powerbased personal violence. According to thinkprogress.org, society has traditionally focused on how to help women avoid rape and rather than telling men not to take advantage of women. Alternatively, Green Dot is gender-neutral and focuses on the idea of community, Walters said.

“We can make an impact in stopping violence,” Walters said. “(Green Dot) provides hope. It empowers everyone to do something and be a part of this movement.”

While Walters works to promote the ideas of Green Dot, he said that

action workshops. There were eight caucuses in total that all were meant to promote action planning.

“They will help people put action behind their words and thoughts,” Herrera said.

“Usually at the end of a day like that when you’re talking about some really deep and heavy (topics), you go home and don’t really know what to do with

there are barriers that can stop people from acting on a situation. The RSVP Center offers training to help students recognize and overcome these hurdles.

“Sometimes we’re worried about our personal safety,” Walters said.

“Sometimes we’re worried about our reputation. We don’t want to accuse someone, and we don’t want to hurt a friend.”

The bus advertisement helps to increases awareness of Green Dot and motivates people to find out more about the program, Walters said. Last week, Walters did a presentation to the Nursing Association and asked who had seen the bus. Around 30 people raised their hands saying that they had.

“We have a saying here at the RSVP Center that we are working to put ourselves out of a job,” Walters said.

“That’s our goal. If violence is not an issue on campus, then we’ve done our part.”

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it anymore. You want to enact and change and be an advocate and this gives our participants the opportunity to start this process before they leave.”

Billy Donley, president of the Residence Halls Association, has attended the symposium for the past two years.

“I had a positive experience last year that just kind of drew me back,” Donley said. “I’m in

a student leadership position and a lot of these workshops and programs are very valuable to me to understand different topics such as privilege and allyship. I think it’s very valuable for student leaders to attend.”

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The resignations of Ann Covington, Yvonne Sparks and David Steward left the board with six curators, all of whom hold legal positions. When all of the curator positions were last filled, Covington was the seventh of nine lawyers.

Rone, Dohrman and Basye all said the board needs to more accurately reflect the rest of the state. Only 0.68 percent of employed Missouri residents work in a legal occupation, according to the May 2014 Occupational Employment Statistics in Missouri from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

“No one’s excluded, but it might be more representative of the makeup of the state as a whole, and I think it’s a very good idea actually,” Basye said.

But the board also lacks the representation and diversity in race or gender that is seen in the rest of the state. With Covington, Sparks and Steward, there were two racial minorities, and one-third of the board was female. After their resignations, five of the six remaining curators are male, and all six are white.

In Missouri, 16.5 percent of the state’s population is nonwhite. Over 50 percent is female. There is currently no proposed legislation to diversify the board by race or gender, but Basye said that it’s a possibility.

“That’s certainly something that could be put in, possibly as an amendment or something to that nature,” Basye said. “And this is not directed toward race or sex, it’s mainly a background type thing, an occupational thing.”

Rone also said that there should be some minorities on the board, and he emphasized that the board should be more representative of MU’s schools and colleges as well.

“Not everybody that goes to Missouri goes to the

law school,” Rone said. “We have (agriculture) people there, we have journalism people at the school, we have medical people at the school, they should have somebody on the board representing them instead of just, at one time, seven out of the nine lawyers.”

HB 2179 was sent to the Select Committee of Education on Feb. 16, which is the most recent action on the bill. If it passes through the committee, it will then go to Speaker Todd Richardson, who will

determine if it goes to the floor, Rone said.

Rone is confident that the bill will pass in the House of Representatives, but he is less sure of the bill’s future in the Senate.

“I haven’t had any correspondence with senators about this bill, so I really don’t know what’s going to happen in the Senate,” Rone said.

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The Maneater endorses Earl/Schafer For the second time this school year, we find ourselves choosing among three slates in the Missouri Students Association’s presidential election. The circumstances of last semester’s debacle of an election have left the student body disillusioned with its government and MSA with an identity crisis regarding its role as an organization.

More than anything, this next executive administration needs to remedy the breach of trust and transparency that MSA has lost with the student body. In this regard, the Empower MU platform provides the best practical solutions to improving this relationship.

Just as was the case in the last election, social justice is one of the most important issues this campaign season. Social justice is undeniably an essential aspect of any MSA platform, and we’ve seen solid proposals and plans from both Earl/Schafer and Hutchinson/ Ghuman. But the problems that MSA currently face go beyond inclusivity and accessibility. The next MSA president and vice president need to have clear plans to reform MSA structurally and culturally, something we’ve been advocating for in past editorials.

MSA has historically had a problem with engaging the student body, and the Earl/Schafer platform recognizes that. Their proposed monthly town halls provide a clear mechanism with which students can communicate their concerns to the executive leadership of their student government — something students feel has been difficult to do.

The Earl/Schafer platform places a heavy emphasis on recruitment — another problem that MSA has historically struggled with. While their plan to create a cohesive recruitment structure will keep the association fresh with new ideas, their acknowledgement of this problem sets them apart from the other slates.

Time and time again, MSA slates, senators and even the student body have had misguided notions as to what MSA can and cannot do. Sean Earl and Tori Schafer have the most experience with MSA and, as a result, understand best how to get the organization back to its roots.

Earl was secretary of auxiliaries in Payton Head’s

administration. More than anyone, he recognizes that the most impactful changes MSA can administer are done through these auxiliaries.

For example, their goal to work with the STRIPES executive board to make the organization more gender inclusive is both practical and feasible because it's within MSA’s abilities to attain. Their proposal to move Truman’s Closet to an on-campus location is another accomplishment within MSA’s power.

This special election differs from ordinary MSA elections in that the annual budget is not a campaign issue. The budgetary process, the main responsibility of the vice president, is already in motion and will be nearly complete by the time the next vice president is inaugurated in April.

That being said, vice presidential candidate Tori Schafer impressed us in several other ways. Schafer leads MU’s chapter of the national sexual assault prevention campaign It's On Us. While this program isn’t the be-all end-all for sexual assault reform, the Earl/Schafer slate’s plans to expand the campaign are the best proposals in this election for combating sexual assault.

The Hutchinson/Ghuman platform does not address sexual assault, while the Turner/Evans platform informally includes “Tigers on the Prowl” — a relic of a program from the Artis/O’Brien campaign a year and a half ago.

The “Tigers on the Prowl” program seeks to provide students with a safe walk home in the same way STRIPES provides safe rides home. The Turner/Evans platform also seeks to provide all students with the self-defense courses currently provided to Panhellenic Association executive board members. However, MU Police Department already offers similar self-defense courses to all students.

In addition, these programs are also rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of how sexual assault happens on campus. The vast majority of campus sexual assault survivors know their assailant.

Both of the proposed Turner/Evans programs fail to understand this. Security alone won’t come anywhere close to fixing campus sexual assault.

Beyond their plans involving MSA’s auxiliaries and It’s On Us, the Earl/Schafer slate is mindful about the advocacy role of the presidential and vice-presidential offices, and they are qualified to fulfill these roles.

Schafer’s work with the Associated Students of the University of Missouri and Earl’s leadership experience make us confident that they will be effective advocates for the MU student body at the campus, system and state levels.

Given the circumstances of this election, the three platforms have not had as much time to develop as is normally the case. All three slates ought to be congratulated for assembling platforms so quickly.

Regardless of the election’s outcome, all candidates should continue to be involved in MSA. Hutchinson/ Ghuman and Turner/Evans represent parts of MU that are underrepresented in MSA and the organization will be made better with the addition of their perspectives.

That being said, the Earl/Schafer platform is, without a doubt, the most multifaceted and in-depth.

The Hutchinson/Ghuman platform is almost entirely oriented toward social justice and doesn’t address some of the issues MSA faces as an organization. We like Hutchinson/Ghuman’s passion for social justice, but MSA has more problems than its handling of social justice issues. With Earl/Schafer, we get both social justice awareness and organizational reform, something MSA needs right now.

Turner/Evans are eager to serve the student body and learn about MSA as an organization, but they unfortunately lack any definitive institutional knowledge whatsoever and can’t be trusted with the office.

Earl and Schafer have the most applicable experience for the offices and have the best understanding of MSA’s abilities, identity and limitations. While certain plans in their platform are less-defined than we would have liked, we feel confident that these shortcomings will be improved over time.

The Earl/Schafer slate offers the best vision to address MSA’s unique needs at this point in time, and we are confident that they will serve the student body well.

THE POLITICAL PUPIL

Trump’s civil lawsuits could follow him to the White House TESS VRBIN Donald Trump’s victory in the South Carolina Republican primary, accompanied by his acquisition of all 50 state delegates, was legitimately scary.

Winning the New Hampshire primary was one thing.

Winning South Carolina is another. Since 1980, every Republican presidential candidate who has won in both states has won the party’s nomination.

Common sense would indicate that a person with no political experience, a mouth full of lies and an ego bigger than Russia (meaning his pal Sarah Palin can probably see it from her house) could not have made it this far in a presidential campaign, and yet, here Trump is. After Saturday, his chance of becoming president seems much more real.

If he does, though, he won’t have the time to lead because he’ll be too busy in court, and here’s why.

President or not, Trump is the undisputed king of lawsuits. Over the years he has sued the Chicago Tribune, Macy’s, Univision and a former Miss USA contestant, to name a few. He has been sued multiple times as well. Three suits arose from Trump University, his failed attempt at a real estate educational institution

in which prospective students forked over thousands of dollars and claimed they received no education in return. The “school” shut down in 2010, but the suits are still alive in court.

Presidents are not immune to dealing with civil litigation, thanks to the 1997 Clinton vs. Jones Supreme Court ruling. Then-president Bill Clinton faced a 1994 sexual harassment suit from former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones. One case took three years to solve while he was in office. If Trump were to be elected in November, he would have so many cases to deal with that he wouldn’t be able to govern, which might be the best thing that could happen should he wind up in the White House.

Such a situation definitely would not “make America great again,” as Trump has sworn to do, but it would deviate from the establishment, which is exactly what his supporters want. To them, it doesn’t matter that Trump has expressed support of Planned Parenthood and abortion rights despite calling himself a Republican. It doesn’t matter that he has said terrible things about women, Muslims and Mexicans. It doesn’t matter that some of his goals are preposterous, like making Mexico pay for the wall he wants to build at the border, or swooping into Syria and stealing its oil after somehow magically beheading

the entire organization of ISIS. To Trump’s supporters, it matters that he knows how to get a crowd excited. It matters that his mouth has no filter and that he never apologizes for anything he says. It matters that he is not your everyday politician, or even a politician at all.

According to the South Carolina exit polls, 47 percent of Saturday’s Republican voters want a president from “outside the political establishment.” 61 percent of those people voted for Trump. The New Hampshire exit polls from earlier this month gave similar results: Six in every ten voters favoring an outside candidate supported Trump, who won the state’s primary Feb. 9.

Trump’s inability to pay for a border wall with Mexico’s money wouldn’t just be due to the absurdity of the idea. If elected, he would be too tied up in court to give Mexico a second glance. Even while campaigning in mid-December, he had to take some time off to deal with a Trump University case. He definitely would be unlike any other president of the United States, but even his supporters would eventually have to realize that the establishment they so strongly opposed had, at the very least, a spare moment for the American people. When they called for someone different, this probably won’t be what they had in mind.

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THE MANEATER | OPINION | FEBRUARY 24, 2016

the kaleidoscope view

Beyonce is back and black KENNEDY JONES The day Beyonce turned black was a tragic day for many white people. The uncomfortable moment when she released “Formation” celebrating her black and Creole heritage and rejecting what is said about her family and their blackness was a big deal. She confronted society about their Illuminati accusations, comments on her daughter's hair and her husband's nostrils.

This is a public service announcement: Beyonce has always been black. Beyonce has been black since the moment you saw her at 16 in Destiny's Child. Beyonce has been black since she was born, and she will always be black.

But on a more serious note, Beyonce's “Formation” video was amazing. When I sat down to watch it, I was blown away at how talented she really was and not surprised that she had made yet another hit. But what did surprise me was the reaction to the video and her subsequent Super Bowl performance.

I heard a multitude of things from white people, the most important and most common of which was that they were going to boycott Beyonce. People who incessantly sung Beyonce on all their social media turned on her, claiming that they never really liked her to begin with and that she was being disrespectful. The most appalling argument I heard was that Beyonce and her dancers dressing like the Black Panthers was the same as a white performer dressing as a member of the KKK, and I heard it from multiple people.

WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM FOR ANOTHER PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: The Black Panthers are nothing like the KKK. The KKK is an organization dedicated to killing black people in the most ruthless ways. It is compiled of everyday citizens who are so racist that they are compelled to kill and maim their own neighbors and local children. The Black Panthers was an organization dedicated to the liberation of black people. They advocated for physical force, ONLY if physical force was inflicted on them. I don't know about you, but I agree with them for the most part. I would not be able to march and allow people to beat me bloody without beating them bloody right back — but then again, I'm not a reverend and my name is not Dr. Martin Luther King.

WE NOW RETURN TO YOUR NORMAL PROGRAM: If Taylor Swift decided to walk out dressed in white KKK sheets, it would be an entirely different situation because she would be representing an entirely different implication.

Saturday Night Live’s skit "The Day Beyonce Turned Black" got it right. I personally find it hilarious, and I encourage all of you to check it out — specifically all of you Beyonce haters just so you can understand how ridiculous you sound.

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Sweet Scrutiny

Sexist emails should not be tolerated ELANE EDWARDS Sophomore Edward Lowther, a member of Alpha Gamma Rho, exhibited inexcusable behavior that challenged women of Greek Life’s integrity.

Lowther sent a degrading email to his fraternity brothers Feb. 17 after Alpha Gamma Rho was paired with Pi Beta Phi during Greek Week. The email was sexually explicit and incredibly disrespectful toward women.

“Get your towels ready because it’s about to go down,” the email read according to previous Maneater reporting “... Point is we get to stick our arrows straight up their tight little asses. Now don’t go be ass hats, go be as social as possible with our new friends.”

The women of Pi Beta Phi have declined comment when asked about the email, which is respectful of them. Pi Beta Phi has every right to be outraged and make an angry statement, however they have upheld a standard of professionalism while MU and Title IX continue investigating.

Although Lowther has apologized to the women involved in the email, he has represented his fraternity poorly and his brothers should take a moment and

consider whether this behavior is becoming of a member of Alpha Gamma Rho, a fraternity that for philanopothy events has partnered with True North shelter, which aids victim of domestic violence, according to previous Maneater reporting.

It is ludicrous to allow this kind of behavior to be excused simply because Lowther apologized. An apology is not a sufficient reason to disregard the amount of disrespect these women were given, not to mention it would encourage the derogatory “boys will be boys” attitude. Overall, not doling out a punishment for this email would send a message that it is OK to speak about women, or anyone, in such a disgusting way.

MU must not take a situation where a large population of its students have been harassed due to their sex lightly. The issue of women being objectified is far too real and powerful to not be handled with seriousness. This is an ongoing issue women have been oppressed by for many, many years, and MU has the ability to send a message to everyone on this campus: sexism and sexual harassment will not be tolerated.

The women of Pi Beta Phi deserve justice for the hurtful light in which they were shown. Title IX is currently investigating the situation, and I hope it leads to suspension or expulsion for Lowther.

the big-eyed believer

The Catholic Church should refrain from cutting ties with Girl Scouts HUNTER BASSLER

I have always seen the Girl Scouts as an organization that encouraged young women to change the world.

As a group that promotes outdoor activities, good citizenship, character and community service, they were capable of doing no wrong.

However, according to St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson, I am completely mistaken. The Archbishop recently issued a letter urging priests to cut all ties with the Girl Scouts, claiming that the program goes against Roman Catholic teachings.

Carlson, in the letter, wrote that the Girl Scouts were “exhibiting a troubling pattern of behavior and it is clear to me that as they move in the ways of the world it is becoming increasingly incompatible with our Catholic values.” He also advised all priests to “stop and ask ourselves — is Girl Scouts concerned with the total well-being of our young women? Does it do a good job forming the spiritual, emotional, and personal well-being of Catholic girls?” Archbishop Carlson believes, since the group is partners with organizations that advocate things such as abortion and LGBTQ rights, it should no longer be associated with the Roman Catholic Church.

In a sense, I agree with Carlson that the Girl Scouts may not “do a good job forming the spiritual, emotional, and personal well-being of Catholic girls.”

The reason being that the Girl Scouts have been a secular organization since its formation. It is not a concern of the group to pertain to only Catholic values because its main, true concern is the empowerment of females. While the Girl Scouts are a secular organization, Bonnie Barczykowski, CEO of the Girl

Scouts of Eastern Missouri, responded to the letter by saying “(the Girl Scouts) greatly value our longstanding partnerships with religious organizations across many faiths.”

Although the church may disagree with some of the organizations the Girl Scouts support, cutting ties with them would be counterproductive. Many will see this action not as the church defying LGBTQ and abortion rights, but as the church standing against putting women in a position of leadership.

The church, under the leadership of Pope Francis, has recently taken a more progressive stance on topics such as sexual orientation, global warming and the death penalty. Cutting ties with a group as influential and widespread as the Girl Scouts will be a serious step back from this reform era.

In light of this information, I believe people shouldn’t be too worried. Just look at the Archdiocese of St. Louis’ website itself. On the site, a questionand-answer page has been set up, with one of the most asked questions being “Can I still buy Girl Scout Cookies?” Rather than worrying about “How difficult is it to switch programs?,” people are more concerned about getting their hands on Thin Mints and Samoas.

I think it’s safe to say that this letter from a single archbishop will not gain much ground.

If the Catholic Church wants the world to see the loving, caring, respectful and kind religion it truly is, cutting ties with the Girl Scouts will definitely show the public the opposite. If Archbishop Carlson wants to believe that the Girl Scouts, whose law calls its members to be honest, fair, caring and strong, is not “concerned with the total well-being of our young women,” then more power to him. I just ask, and hope, that the entirety of the Church does not come to the same belief.

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THE MANEATER | NEWS | FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Two years,

no progress

MU has taken few steps toward providing new graduate student housing and child care since a walkway in the University Village housing complex collapsed, and graduate students want the university to recognize their needs.

KYRA HAAS AND CLAIRE MITZEL of The Maneater Staff

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A bike is crushed under rubble Feb. 22, 2014, at University Village. Building 707 was evacuated after it sustained structural damage.

Leaky windows, cracked ceilings and roof and deck instability were just a few ongoing concerns at University Village.

The graduate student housing complex, built in 1956, wasn’t meant to last more than 25 or 30 years, Director of Residential Life Frankie Minor told The Maneater in 2009.

Architectural firm Mackey Mitchell stated that University Village was in poor condition and should be demolished in its 2008 Graduate and Family Housing Master Plan.

But MU deemed the demolition — estimated to cost $1.6 million — too expensive.

So instead, the university made repairs. Reporting by KOMU showed that between 2009 and 2014, MU poured over $1 million into fixing up the dilapidated complex.

In the early morning hours of Feb. 22, 2014, University Village, which also housed the Student Parent Center, was evacuated after reports of a roof collapse in one of the units. During the evacuation process, a walkway gave way, killing Columbia firefighter Lt. Bruce Britt.

Monday was the two-year anniversary of the collapse.

In the time following University Village’s shutdown and demolition, MU has provided no new child care or housing options to replace those at University Village.

Matt McCune, Graduate Professional Council director of communications, said that the closure of the Student Parent Center heavily affected student parents.

“Closing the child center was a big deal,” McCune said. “I mean, there were people who came here for that center, and for them to close it and have no alternative … I mean, (former Chancellor R. Bowen)

Loftin even went on the news (in 2014) and proclaimed, ‘We’re going to build a new daycare center.’ And then nothing happened.”

The lack of new housing and child care support from MU highlights an ongoing conflict between graduate students and the university related to graduate student and graduate worker rights.

GPC President Hallie Thompson believes progress is being made for shared governance, but that the university often does not prioritize graduate students’ needs.

“Graduate students aren’t a revenue stream so it’s different, our relationship with the university, as compared to other students,” Thompson said.

She said the collapse of University Village was a “perfect storm” to the detriment of graduate students that coincided with GPC working to improve its internal structure. Following the incident, GPC became more vocal in its demands for new housing and child care along with other needs.

In August 2015, graduate student workers received 13-hour advance notice that the university would not renew their health insurance due to an IRS interpretation of the Affordable Care Act. In response, graduate students formed the Forum on Graduate Rights and the Coalition of Graduate Workers, which issued a list of demands calling for affordable child care and housing, guaranteed health insurance and salaries above the poverty line.

“Just the sheer obviousness of how little we were taken into consideration when these decisions were being made that had really drastic effects on our lives, I think it got us all to stand together and say, ‘No, we’re not going to take that,” CGW Co-Chairman Eric Scott said.

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Construction workers assess the damages caused by a balcony collapse Feb. 22, 2014, at University Village building 707 in Columbia.

The building was evacuated as a result of the collapse.

Unionization Since late October, FGR and CGW have collected signatures to hold a union election. While they now have a plurality of graduate worker signatures, CGW faces a new problem.

“What the university is saying is they don’t know if we are employees with standing to unionize, or if we are students who do not have this standing to unionize,” Scott said. “And, there is no clear legal affirmant one way or the other about that in Missouri, so they’re saying we need to take this to court to get a legal determination.”

In a news release on Feb. 10, interim UM System President Mike Middleton cited the ambiguity of the Missouri Constitution as basis for needing “clarity on the graduate students’ legal right to organize.”

Scott said CGW is “very, very confident this is going to come down as a ruling that yes, we are employees with a standing to unionize.” CGW hoped to reach an amicable agreement in regard to the terms of the union election, but they were also prepared for the possibility of the university making it a legal battle.

In February, GPC unanimously passed a resolution supporting the graduate student workers’ right to

The demise of University Village University Village was popular for graduate students because of its child care facility, affordable rent and proximity to campus, despite its problems with structural stability over the years.

Emails obtained by KOMU in 2014 showed university officials were aware of structural deficiencies for at least five years.

According to previous Maneater reporting, the complex’s problems started even before the 21st century. In 1999, residents complained about the living conditions, with one resident comparing University Village to "downtown Beirut."

"Residents feel they don't have other options,” another resident told The Maneater in 1999. “If we did, we would have used them. We are a skeleton in MU's closet."

Minor said that the Department of Residential Life was working to improve conditions.

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A construction crew works to reinforce a balcony Feb. 22, 2014, at University Village. One of the complex’s 12 buildings sustained structural damages after a walkway collapsed.

hold a union election, but GPC does not have an official position on whether graduate workers should unionize.

McCune sees the university looking to the courts about graduate student workers’ unionization rights as a facade.

“This is all a game that the UM System is playing to appease state legislators,” McCune said. “So, the university, knowing that they’re wrong, has chosen not to label us as employees to make state legislators happy.”

The Missouri Constitution does not have a legal precedent for graduate worker unionization, and no graduate worker unions exist in the state; however, other universities in the Midwest have unions, as well as about 30 universities across the country.

“We’ve also been told they know that they will lose this court case,” McCune said. “They’re doing it anyway. They will likely spend millions of dollars of student tuition money and state taxpayer dollars to keep a certain number of state legislators happy. So I guess if our politicians’ goal is to just take a whole bunch of money and put it through a shredder, then they’ve gotten what they wanted.”

After the formation of FGR and CGW, the university has been more proactive in addressing graduate student concerns despite hesitation to allow a union election.

In response to graduate student backlash about health insurance in August, the university temporarily re-established graduate student health insurance, and Loftin established a task force to investigate comparable methods of coverage under ACA. FGR issued a statement in response to the health insurance task force report in December, concluding the three solutions proposed “would leave graduate students materially worse off than under our current subsidy plan.”

On Feb. 19, interim Chancellor Hank Foley guaranteed comparable health insurance coverage for graduate students for another academic year, but some graduate student workers are wary of the promise.

“There’s a lot of insecurity out there,” McCune said. “An interim person telling us that, that means nothing. We have no contract telling us we’re going to get a pay increase, we have no contract that says we’re actually going to have health insurance in the fall.”

The university also plans to increase graduate student workers’ stipends by $6,000 over the next two years. A Feb. 18 MU News article cited in the chancellor’s February letter highlighted the stipend increase and promise of another year of health insurance as ways the university was improving relations with students.

“We need you, beloved graduate students,” the article read. “You are essential.”

"We offer very competitive rent," Minor told The Maneater in 1999. "We're trying to find a median between renovating and raising rates. We want to keep the rent affordable."

But conditions didn’t improve.

In 2013, MU spent $3,840 to repair concrete on the walkway in building 707, the same walkway that collapsed and killed Lt. Bruce Britt. In 2006, MU declared that building 706 was unsafe to live in, but students continued to reside there for six more months, according to KOMU. In its 2008 master plan, Mackey Mitchell found that it was not a “reasonable alternative” to renovate the housing complex, nor was it a desirable location to rebuild on because of costs associated with its location on a floodway. They recommended demolition.

The proposed costs for demolishing and rebuilding were $1.6 million and more than $15 million, respectively, and MU chose not to follow through with the demolition because of the costs.

On Feb. 22, 2014, the Columbia Fire Department responded to a 911 call regarding a structural collapse.

Britt was one of the firefighters who responded. As he was walking across a partially collapsed walkway on the second floor of building 707, an onlooker told

investigators that the walkway buckled completely and Britt fell.

Britt was pronounced dead at the hospital.

His wife and daughter filed a wrongful death suit against the UM System Board of Curators, seeking a minimum of $25,000 in compensation. Per online court records, the lawyers are deposing witnesses and no hearings have been scheduled.

The curators denied the allegations, claiming they did not improperly maintain University Village and did not have knowledge of the “dangerous condition in sufficient time prior to Decedent’s death to have taken measures to protect against the dangerous condition.”

The following month, MU announced it would demolish University Village. In May 2014, Loftin announced the university would be issuing a “request for proposals” from private contractors to replace the Student Parent Center, which would close in June.

MU spokesman Christian Basi said in an email last week no proposals were ever received.

“We hoped that by offering the land at a very low cost, it would keep the costs of child care low,” Basi said. “We have not received any proposals since the RFP was issued.”

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Building 707 sits vacant, without a balcony, March 1, 2014, at University Village. The Missouri Students Association passed legislation urging the university to either repair demolish the complex.

Current child care options Following GPC resolutions and FGR demands for affordable child care and housing, Vice Chancellor for Operations Gary Ward announced at the December Board of Curators meeting that MU would be issuing a request for proposals for a new housing complex at the site of the former University Village.

“We also will be exploring the possibility of adding child care space to this project,” Ward said at the meeting.

In 2014, the MU Child Care Needs Assessment Survey found that 67 percent of student parents struggled to find child care and 60 percent were willing to pay more for

Housing Thompson said she understands why University Village needed to be demolished and why, financially, MU deemed it too expensive to rebuild, but she felt the university could have had a better contingency plan.

“There should be a long-term plan for grad housing because it’s so important for recruitment of those students, particularly for students that don’t have vehicles, especially the international population,” Thompson said.

Before the walkway collapse and complex demolition, conversations about housing were started at GPC meetings out of habit, but following the events of 2014, the university has been more receptive to what graduate students have to say, Thompson said. She believes by next fall, there will have been “significant progress” made on the housing front.

One of the overarching recommendations of the Task Force on the Graduate Student Experience was to improve support structures for graduate students, including

affordable child care close to campus.

Thompson said she feels child care is something that could make or break a person’s decision to attend MU for graduate school.

“We have X number of grad students … with children, but maybe we have fewer because we don’t provide the facilities and the ability for them to feel comfortable here,” Thompson said. “We might be able to recruit more had we had the ability to say, ‘Hey, we will welcome you with your family.’”

Basi said that while the Student Parent Center is no longer open, there are other on-campus options such as the Cub Hub and Child Development Lab, run by the colleges of Education and Human Environmental Sciences, respectively.

Thompson believes many student parents aren’t aware of those options.

“One thing we need to do and haven't been able to facilitate with our current bandwidth is to try to communicate those better and to try to ensure they’re filled with as many needy grad-professional students as they can be,” Thompson said.

Even with increased communication, she said the current facilities are still insufficient to accommodate the number of graduate students’ children, and the facilities’ hours did not offer adequate flexibility. This flexibility, Thompson said, doesn’t solely benefit the student parents.

“Very flexible hours for students that are doing research, who have to be on campus at absurd hours to take care of their plants, or take care of their bacteria, or whatever it may be,” Thompson said. “That’s really important to the research engine that the university is and that’s something that’s really in the benefit of the university to provide for graduate students with families.”

improving access to housing and child care. McCune and Thompson were members of the task force.

The 2015 MU Graduate Housing Market Study, cited by the task force, found that 20 percent of graduate students living in MU housing would not have attended MU if there was no housing; 19 percent said they would leave if housing was gone. Over 75 percent of all graduate students said university-provided housing is either “extremely important” or “somewhat important.”

“There is a clear need for safe, quiet and reasonably priced graduate housing that is close to campus,” the report read. “Even though MU offers 335 units of apartment housing for graduate students, family students and undergrad students over 21, listening sessions revealed several cases where students thought those facilities were not well-maintained.”

Thompson said she is pleased that the request for proposals is being made, but she wants to know more about it.

“If it’s not within that (affordable) price range, I have very little confidence in its ability to do what it needs to

do,” Thompson said.

Director of Residential Life Frankie Minor declined to comment other than to refer The Maneater to a news release about the request for proposals issued by the UM System.

Ward’s office was unable to be reached for comment after multiple attempts.

Basi said that MU had no current timeline for the project and could not speculate on a potential location or other details.

“Our first goal is to finish the RFP and distribute it,” Basi said. “After we receive the proposals, we’ll evaluate and make a decision about how to move forward from there.”

For Scott, beyond meeting the current needs of graduate students and graduate workers, the end goal is shared governance.

“Nothing should be done about us without us,” he said.

“That’s my dream … In general, I’m looking for a more democratic institution. That’s what I want.”

Edited by Taylor Blatchford | tblatchford@themaneater.com

THE KEY TO YOUR ENTERTAINMENT

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An empty bar at Columbia’s British pub, Ye Olde Lady & Pint, awaits patrons on the afternoon of Feb. 23.

The establishment opened opened in October and sits in the shopping center east of Mizzou’s campus.

new eats

Ye Olde Lady & Pint brings British eats to CoMo Bangers and mash, anyone?

AMANDA BATTMER Reporter CoMo’s first authentic British pub, Ye Olde Lady & Pint, opened last October. The east Columbia restaurant’s menu includes traditional English cuisine like the ever-popular fish and chips, shepherd’s pie and other classic pub eats like burgers and sandwiches.

Owner Doug Marsden is an experienced vet of the restaurant biz and decided to form Ye Olde Lady & Pint when he saw that Columbia was in need of something a little different. Marsden’s English heritage made it clear from the start what the restaurant would be.

“I’d say we’re a gathering place,” Marsden says.

“Traditionally in England, pubs are where people meet after work to bitch about work and have a pint before they go home. They’re a part of the community; that’s what we want.”

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in-house. We try to do things as authentic as we can.”

Anstine advises anyone tempted to try Ye Olde Lady & Pint to save room for dessert. Their everyday menu includes bread pudding and deep-fried candy bars, along with housemade daily specials. Marsden’s wife makes all the desserts, which have consisted of white chocolate cheesecake and raspberry-filled chocolate cupcakes, to name a couple.

Beyond their food, Ye Olde Lady & Pint takes pride in their atmosphere. The restaurant aims to bring an authentic, pub style to Columbia as a place where people can just come and hang out. The bar is separate from the restaurant, surrounded by royal blue walls and lined with English knick-knacks.

“We want people to come and hang out, turn off their cell phones,” Marsden says. “We don’t have a stereo system. British pubs don’t; they’re not sports bars. It’s a place where people come and meet and talk, and if they don’t talk to each other, we want them to talk to us.”

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The eatery’s menu aims to be as authentic as possible, something which seems to come easily to Marsden, whose knowledge of all-things-Britain has been passed down for generations.

Marsden says the restaurant’s fare isn’t just bar food but comfort food. Its array of offerings include some lesser— known British fare like cornish pasties (a mixture of ground beef, potatoes and veggies served in a pastry shell) and traditional burgers and pies made with lamb. You can also try out Marsden’s personal favorite, the onion gravy, which is served with bangers and mash (an English favorite comprised of pub sausage served atop a bed of garlic mashed potatoes).

Like the traditional pub it is, the restaurant is also home to a pretty extensive beer list, including local brewing options as well as English beers like Newcastle.

“I take a lot of pride in our food,” employee Karl Anstine says. “I think Doug has come up with a fantastic menu and almost everything is done here

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Samantha Bee’s show initially plays up the fact that she’s a woman among men, but there are many more reasons to tune into “Full Frontal.”

JACK HOWLAND The visceral — and correct — response to a Samantha Bee-helmed late night show is that it’s a relief to finally have a woman crashing the sausage fest. “Vanity Fair” inadvertently ignited a discussion on gender disparity in October last year with its cover,

“Why Late Night Television is Better Than Ever,” which featured 10 tuxedo-clad men candidly mugging at the camera whilst toasting half-full glasses of bourbon.

The photo meant to elicit excitement about where we are but only served as a reminder of how far we have left to go. Like with the Miss America pageant or ads in which half-naked models eating cheeseburgers writhe around on hot rods, we all collectively seemed to think, “How is this still a thing?”

Bee, in her excellent debut episode of “Full Frontal” on TBS on Feb. 8, begins by embracing this initial hook for her show (Her ads had said, “Watch or you’re sexist”). Seated at a table for a mock press conference, the Canadian-born comic fields predictably tone-deaf questions, one of them being, “What did you have to do differently to make this show happen — as a

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THE MANEATER | MOVE | FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Hoodie Allen talks live shows, his new album and loyal fans Hoodie Allen’s performance on Monday had many fans leaving as “happy campers.”

GRANT SHARPLES Reporter As I made my way to The Blue Note to interview pop-rapper Hoodie Allen before his show last Monday, I saw countless fans already queued up for the show four hours before it started in relatively cold weather.

I already understood that his fans (the Hoodie Mob) were remarkably loyal, but this was a loyalty beyond my expectations. I was astounded.

“I decided really early on that I wanted to have this sort of relationship (with my fans) that was very open and very communicative,” Allen says. “I think it’s helped foster a really strong connection.”

Allen makes an effort to connect with his fans.

“I think it’s cool that we live in a day and age where if you do become a fan of someone, there is an opportunity to engage with them directly,” Allen says. “I can’t imagine if the 12-, 13-year-old version of myself got to talk to Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 on Twitter. Since I have this platform, I want to give kids that feeling of, ‘We’re all people, and I appreciate you supporting me.’”

It’s no doubt that Allen loves his fans as much as his fans love him. He never fails to respond to his fans on social media and express his gratitude. Allen even posted an infographic on Twitter that listed various ways to meet him on tour.

Along with Allen’s reputation for being loyal to his fans, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a double major in marketing and finance and temporarily worked at Google.

“Those are obviously two things that jump out at people because it’s rare to work at Google and it’s rare to finish college,” Allen says. “Those were things that I was

very interested in doing, but at the same time I was always doing music as my passion. It was the thing I was putting all my time into outside of class and outside of work. It was something I was developing at the same time I would say.”

Despite having immediate post-graduate success lined up with a full-time job at Google, he found music to be his calling in life, and he fully accepted the risks and challenges that came with it.

“I started writing songs when I was 11 or 12,” Allen says. “I can’t really tell you why because it was something that I was just doing after school in the same way that someone would take up drawing or piano. I was drawn to it. Over those next eight years, it became more serious as I developed my music taste. I got to the point where I was putting out music and people were responding to it and liking it outside of my social circle. It just fell into place like that.”

During “Surprise Party,” dozens of yellow balloons with the “Happy Camper” logo rained down on the crowd during the final chorus. Later in the concert, he threw an inflatable raft into the crowd, and after jumping into it, the crowd carried him (all the way to the back of the room).

There are certain parts of a live performance that Allen deems to be important, such as having a live band (as opposed to a backtrack) and high energy.

“I think it’s important for the music to sound different live than it does on the record, better really, like more dynamics and more musicality,” Allen says.

Allen argues that a live band is vital to putting on a good show because it gives the performance more substance.

“You’re giving people a live experience, you just don’t want to rap over a beat,” Allen says. “That’s no fun. The energy has always been there with the band, and we’ve been able to up the production on this one too and give a cool light and video show. I think we’ll have the effect of ‘wow, we’re really giving an experience,’ and that was an important next step for me with this tour.”

While the live performance itself was captivating, the

music Allen and his band were playing also caught my attention. The lyrics from his new LP, “Happy Camper,” seem more substantial than his previous works, and while there’s still a joyous, light-hearted tone to his music, there’s more of a meaning this time around.

“The title comes from the idea that I put myself out there on social media and that the world is a very happy, smiley thing,” Allen says. “I also want to recognize the fact that that’s not how people are all the time. We censor ourselves for things like social media to give the appearance of being happy at all times for others’ approval or whatever the psychology behind that might be.”

Allen explains that the album’s lyrical themes do not revolve around gloom, but more so around honesty.

“I think on this album there’s a mixture of songs that speak to happiness and nostalgia and then there’s things that talk about all the anxiety that goes between making music and feeling like you have to reach certain goals you’ve set for yourself and not wanting to disappoint the people around you,” Allen says. “On this project, I’m trying to speak honestly about a range of emotions that come when you’re trying to achieve something that’s not so easy to achieve.”

Allen put on a great performance at The Blue Note on Monday night. His dedicated fanbase augmented the overall experience. Whether you were a fan of his music or not, you were bound to have fun. The light and video production was an impressive show alone. But Allen and his band were brimming with an energy that’s rare in many live performers today.

Edited by Katherine Rosso | krosso@themaneater.com

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16 A Simple Exchange releases first album The band’s indie-folk sound is sure to capture your heart.

REGINA ANDERSON Reporter Local band A Simple Exchange describes their sound as a mix of Mumford and Sons and Of Monsters and Men with the harmony vocals of The Civil Wars. The band played their first gig at Gunter Hans in Columbia in 2013.

Last Wednesday at Rose Music Hall, the band celebrated the release of their first full album with a performance and a party.

Comprised of four members, A Simple Exchange began with Morgan Manson and Lucas Dierker meeting on Tinder in January 2013. They had both pursued music separately, but when they sang together for the first time, both Manson and Dierker liked the sound they had and began to perform as a duo.

After a few band member switches, Catherine Sandstedt on viola and Daniel Blake on drums joined Manson and Dierker to create the band as it is today.

The band recently recorded their first fulllength album called “What We’ve Become.” The name of the album is also the title track, which tells the story of the band, Manson says. It’s supposed to show how far the band has come, as well as what they are going to do.

While this may be the band’s first full-length album, the group as a whole has performed together around 10-15 times, and performed numerous times as a duo or trio. The live shows are different from a recording studio, allowing the band to feed off the energy of the crowd.

“I love the interaction (during live performances),” Sandstedt says. “I know when we get into rehearsal, we want to work on everything, got to get everything perfect and then we get to the performance, and we just have fun.”

Rose Music Hall is an intimate venue, making the performance much more interesting.

“In a place like (Rose Music Hall), you are going to have a lot of people just standing around, socializing and drinking and stuff,” Dierker says. “If you can get people to come up to the front and really pay attention to what you’re doing — that’s pretty exciting.”

A Simple Exchange’s sound is familiar, yet all its own. I feel like I’ve heard something like them before, but I couldn’t tell you who or what it was that they reminded me of. Their songs made me nostalgic for something I couldn’t quite place.

The acoustic portion of the show really highlighted the musical talents of the group, Sandstedt especially. Her ability to play viola and sing at the same time was impressive and something that I’ve never seen before.

The three-part harmonies were also on display during the acoustic set, filling out their sound.

One of my favorite songs they played was “New York for New Year’s Eve.” It was one of the songs they performed during the acoustic set.

There was a simplicity to the song that really captured my attention and stood out from the rest.

If you are into folk and harmony vocals, this band is for you. Their relatable lyrics and Americana sound are sure to sweep you away.

Manson says connecting with the audience is one of the most important things for her.

“For me, the music is about those people and their lives,” Manson says. “I just want to say what I want to say and I want people to pick it up and do something with it.”

Edited by Katie Rosso | krosso@themaneater. com

THE MANEATER | MOVE | FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Easy microwave recipes to make in residence halls Instead of using E.Z. Charge, make these easy recipes.

BIANCA RODRIGUEZ Staff Writer If my freshman year has taught me anything, it’s that anything goes when it comes to food.

Just from freshman year alone, I’ve

been introduced into the world of T-ravs and buffalo chicken dip, two things I’m not the biggest fan of. Despite my taste, everyone else loves them.

But now that it’s second semester, I’ve hit a roadblock with my taste buds, and I can’t stand dining hall food.

So MOVE has come up with a day’s worth of meals, from breakfast to dinner, for those who fear going outside in the cold and the dim lighting of the dining halls.

Breakfast: French toast

Lunch: Pizza

Dinner: Mac ‘n Cheese

Dessert: Cookies & Cream

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woman?” She smiles and quips, “just a bit of magic,” before we see a darkly lit montage of her crawling backwards, between a ring of candles, like a satanic witch out of a horror flick. The cold open has the acerbic, hardedged feel of her best work as a correspondent on “The Daily Show” and sets the tone for a once-a-week diversion that already feels sharper than what her old stomping ground has become.

By the premiere’s end, I had forgotten I was so relieved to have a woman breaking up the boys’ club. Instead I felt overjoyed that we have someone — anyone — capable of infusing a little bit of Jon Stewart-esque outrage into the after-hours politics-skewering

circuit. The big three talk show hosts — Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel — all mock those in power, but do it with an amiable niceness and charm that makes the attacks lose some of their venom. That is certainly not Bee, one of the fiercest interviewers to ever appear on the Daily Show, able to deride subjects in front of their faces without blinking.

Her TBS program sizzles with that same fervor. Take, for instance, the moment she plays a clip of Hillary Clinton putting on her aw-shucks humble schtick during a Democratic debate, saying she never imagined she would be here.

The joke is obvious — Clinton, who likely has fever dreams of losing the presidency, is lying. But Bee refuses to spew out a simple one-liner, instead turning to camera B with her voice amplified and lights flashing, as she roars in the

role of Hillary, “ANOINT ME YOUR GOD!” Throughout her first two episodes, Bee maintains this sarcastic, smarter-than-thou tone in mocking presidential candidates, puritanical dress codes for female politicians and the panicked reaction among conservatives to the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Bee is in the zone with these stand-up monologues, bristling with confidence and bursts of cable-approved profanity. It will be interesting to see if she decides to break from this more with prerecorded bits, and though she’s great at delivering jokes, I hope she does.

For my money, one of the most LOL-worthy, shareable moments so far came in the form of a faux-documentary, “A Jeb in Winter,” about the cringe-worthy depletion of the once-promising Jeb (!) Bush

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campaign. Narrated by someone who sounds suspiciously like Werner Herzog, the clip follows the youngest Bush brother at speaking events before mild crowds, all scored by a melancholy piano. It puts his weary campaign into a hilariously bleak context, and the interviews are all gold (One kid compares Jeb to a glass of milk — not particularly exciting, but solid).

In her follow-up episode Feb. 15, Bee deploys an even stronger digital short, which shows her going to Jordan to visit with Syrian refugees.

Dubbed “The People We’re Incoherently Yelling About,” it intersperses harmless chats with seemingly pleasant people alongside footage of Republicans losing their over the “Islamization of America.”

Bee knows the truth alone is funny, but the touches she adds to get across the conservative

stance — which includes random flashes of a little girl crying on a rollercoaster — further illuminate the insanity.

With “A Jeb in Winter” and now this, along with consistently fiery monologues, it’s become clear that Bee is unrivaled when it comes to late-night snark.

That much could be surmised from how she dealt with that “Vanity Fair” cover five months back. In the midst of VF’s PR poop-storm, Bee tweeted out that same testosterone-filled cover photo with her own image photoshopped in. Except her head was actually plastered onto a strapping pegasus, naturally, with lasers shooting from her eyes. The caption: “BETTER.” Late night is undoubtedly better off with the voracious Bee in it. And it has little to do with that extra X chromosome.

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Cox becomes fastest Mizzou wrestler to 100 wins J’den Cox: “I always look to push myself in every way I can. That’s the way I’ve always been in anything I do.

The accomplishment in itself is a testament to that hard work.”

ANNE ROGERS Staff Writer It took J’den Cox 105 matches as a Missouri wrestler to win 100 matches.

The 197-pounder, who is only a junior, became the 24th and the fastest Tiger

to reach 100 wins after a 16-7 major decision victory over Nebraska’s Aaron Studebaker on Sunday.

“I didn’t really know about it until my mom told me about it,” Cox said.

“It’s really cool. I always look to push myself in every way I can. That’s the way I’ve always been in anything I do. The accomplishment in itself is a testament to that hard work.”

No. 11 Missouri traveled to an old rival’s home mat in Lincoln, Nebraska, to compete in a National Wrestling Coaches Association National Duals series matchup. The team was able to come away with a win, defeating the No. 11 Huskers 19-14.

Cox scored seven takedowns in the

first two periods of his match, allowing him to take a dominant lead over Studebaker. With only five losses his entire collegiate career, Cox has shown that consistency ever since he stepped onto the mat as a Tiger.

“To get 100 wins by your junior year is hard to get,” coach Brian Smith said.

“It shows he’s very consistent. I think for him it’s nice to have, but his goal is much larger than that. I’m sure he could care less about how many wins he has as long as he wins a national title.

That’s all that really matters to him and helping out his team.”

MU graduates Ben Askren and Alan Waters are the only other Missouri wrestlers to reach 100 wins before their

senior years. Askren went on to become Missouri’s first national champion in 2006, and Waters finished as high as third in the nation.

Cox, who now has a record of 25-1 on the season and 15-1 in dual matches, is looking towards NCAA Championships in March and another national title. He became the fourth Missouri wrestler to win a title during the 2013-14 season, when he was a freshman. Last year, he lost in the semifinal round to Ohio State’s Kyle Snyder. This year, Cox is looking to redeem himself.

Cox said he is truly grateful for the team atmosphere at Missouri and he

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Short win streak provides Missouri hope for the future Missouri’s underclassmen gave glimpses of what they could become in the future.

TYLER KRAFT Assistant Sports Editor For a moment, fans of the Missouri men’s basketball team caught a glimpse of what their future could hold.

Missouri was down 63-62 to South Carolina entering the final two minutes of a game that had been controlled by the Tigers. However, the loyal patrons who had made the trip to Mizzou Arena saw their team in an all too familiar position even after seeing some of the best basketball Missouri had played in the 2015-16 season.

Then, when all seemed lost, the

crowd was brought to its feet in jubilant applause by the future of the Tigers.

Freshman guard Terrence Phillips took over and brought his team back into the lead with four points, a rebound and an assist as the game clock ticked toward zero. After the final buzzer sounded, Phillips gave a sly grin to the crowd despite his exhaustion, showing a confidence that had been missing from the Tigers the entire season.

Despite holding a record of 10-17 (3-11 SEC), Missouri can look to the future, which appears bright under coach Kim Anderson’s youthful squad.

“These guys have worked really hard,” Anderson said. “It’s nice to see this group have some success because they have worked hard. It was hard on them.”

Besides Phillips, fellow freshman guard K.J. Walton has seen massive improvements to his game as the season

has worn on. With Wes Clark’s dismissal from the team, it appears that Walton will battle with freshman sharpshooter Cullen VanLeer for the team’s second guard position next year.

“I thought (K.J.) hit the wall a week ago, and he broke through it,” Anderson said. “I thought he was struggling a little bit as all freshmen do. He’s a guy who’s slippery and slithery. He can get the ball to the basket. We need him.”

To add to Missouri’s potential, freshman forward Kevin Puryear, who leads the team in points per game, has shown no signs of slowing down as the season has worn on. While he is the focal point of every team facing Mizzou, Puryear still averages 12 points per game and dropped a season-high 23

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Missouri stays afloat during SEC Championships Coach Greg Rhodenbaugh: “I thought we’d be pretty good. I didn’t know we’d be this good.”

GEORGE ROBERSON AND ANNE ROGERS of The Maneater Staff It was a week of firsts for Missouri swimming. The team hosted the Southeastern Conference Championships for the first time, and it was their best SEC performance yet.

The women’s team scored their best finish in program history, taking fifth place. The men’s team also took fifth, matching their best finish.

“Being able to compete like we did, in about every race, is a pretty neat thing for people who are unshaved and unrested,” Missouri coach Greg Rhodenbaugh. “I thought we’d be pretty good. I didn’t know we’d be this good.”

In the women’s, junior Katharine Ross won Missouri’s first SEC championship, winning a gold medal in the women’s 100-yard breaststroke Friday.

“I’m just really honored and so happy to be a part of a program that’s had such success recently,” Ross said.

“Just to be a part of the legacy … has been a big part of inspiring me to do amazing things.”

Junior Michael Chadwick had a dominant meet,

finishing on the podium three times, including Saturday’s second place finish in the 100-yard freestyle. Chadwick also picked up two bronze medals earlier in week.

“This just reinforces the idea I’m in a really good place (heading into NCAAs),” Chadwick said. “I didn’t get a whole lot of rest for this meet, and I didn’t shave, so I’d say the word is excited. I’m really excited to see where I am in a month.”

Chadwick finished third to Florida swimmer Caeleb Dressel, who set two American records in the pool.

“It was a fight for second,” Chadwick said. “(Dressel) is doing great, so anywhere I can get close to him would be awesome. It’s cool seeing Caeleb go that fast in our pool.

Now we have the fastest pool record in the world.”

Rhodenbaugh was pleased with Chadwick’s secondplace finish to Dressel in the men’s 100-yard freestyle Saturday and said he was excited to see what is in store as the Missouri swimmer is able to rest before NCAA Championships.

“I think that gap is going to close pretty quickly,” Rhodenbaugh said. “Caeleb is one of the best in the world now. So is Michael. We’ll see what happens once we even the playing field in Atlanta.”

The NCAA Division I Championships begin March 23 in Atlanta.

“It’s been such a great year,” Ross said. “This has been a huge step for us. I’m just so proud of our team and so blessed to be a part of … making history.”

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Men’s swimmers compete in the 200-yard backstroke final on the last day of the SEC Swimming and Diving Championships on Feb. 20 in the Mizzou Aquatic Center.

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Missouri swimmer Katharine Ross waits for the buzzer to start a race at SEC Championships on Feb. 20 in the Mizzou Aquatics Center.

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A Tennessee swimmer and a Georgia swimmer congratulate each other at the end of a race Feb. 17 during the SEC Championships in the Mizzou Aquatic Center.

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Rosburg becomes a star in his twilight Former player Laurence Bowers: “I have the ultimate respect for a guy that can deal with coaching changes, up-and-down seasons, and the recent infractions, the way that Burg has.”

ALEC LEWIS Sports Editor Think about the thing you love to do most. If I told you that you could do that only three more times in your life, what would you do? What would you say?

Ryan Rosburg, Missouri’s 6-foot-10 senior center, is in that position. He only has three more college basketball games left.

Over his 124 games played at Mizzou, Rosburg has averaged close to four points per game, three rebounds and has played a specific bench role. Over the past six games, though, Rosburg has shot 61 percent from the field, has averaged 16 points and 5.8 rebounds per game.

Simply put, he’s been the difference in a late-season rebirth for Missouri men’s basketball team.

Hailing from Marquette High School in St. Louis, Rosburg came to Mizzou at a time of triumph. Missouri had made the NCAA tournament four straight years, and even after the transition of Mike Anderson to Frank Haith, there seemed to be stability

from the angle of recruits like Rosburg. program, Ryan Rosburg has seen it all.

At this point, four years later, Rosburg And as his former high school coach, leaves the program after much tribulation. Shane Matzen, puts it, the way Rosburg Rosburg’s days have been numbered since has dealt with such polarized experiences the announcement of the self-imposed should be the bridge from the present to NCAA sanctions Jan. 13 that included the the future. withdrawal from the SEC tournament in “If I’m someone associated with the Nashville, Tennessee. That’s why his late- University of Missouri, whether I’m a fan, season success has meant so much. alum or whatever, I treasure guys like Ryan,” After an 18-point, five Matzen said. “He’s kind of -rebound performance a link to the past, but he’s I JUST HOPE, against South Carolina also something I think we WHEN IT’S ALL on Feb. 16, Gamecocks all want more of. I’m so coach Frank Martin said OVER, THERE’S LITTLE proud of him, and I’m glad of Rosburg, “I wish my KIDS ACROSS THIS he is (scoring all of these senior center would play points) because I think with the same urgency STATE THAT WANT TO people will realize that he that he plays with as BE LIKE (RYAN) AND stuck it out and he just their careers are coming loves Mizzou.”

WEAR THE JERSEY to an end.”

Rosburg did stick it “When you’re a coach, JUST LIKE HE DID.” out. Recruited highly by you compete against all Iowa State and Virginia these teams and you SHANE MATZEN in high school, he didn’t watch guys on other Former high school coach have to come or stay at teams,” Martin said. “To Mizzou. Ultimately, he do the things that (Ryan’s) doing right now, chose and has stayed at the school he loved, he needs to be commended. He needs to and many, like his former teammate and be commended for staying the course and Missouri forward Laurence Bowers, respect this team in difficult times has needed that to this day. leadership, so a lot of credit to him.”

“I have the ultimate respect for a guy that In his four years, Rosburg has seen things can deal with coaching changes, up-andlike suspensions to teammates like Jakeenan down seasons and the recent infractions the Gant. He’s seen things like dismissals of way that Burg has,” Bowers said. “It could teammates like Wes Clark. And though they easily mess with you mentally when you go may seem distant, he’s seen things like through so much during a four-year span.”

NCAA tournament appearances. In terms of Rosburg is a hard worker — everyone ups and downs within an collegiate athletics from Matzen to Bowers to coach Kim

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Anderson will tell you that. But what’s been different these last few games hasn’t been hard work.

What’s changed? Rosburg will tell you that each day lost means more motivation.

“I’m playing like I’ve got nothing to lose,” Rosburg said after Tennessee two weeks ago. “My days are numbered. I know that I don’t want to have any regrets looking back.

I want to give it my all and play my heart out every game we have left because it’s a countdown now.”

With three games left in his career, that countdown hasn’t stopped. The kid that’s loved Mizzou since the seventh grade has been the leader and the star of his team in the closing moments of his career. Through it all, “his love hasn’t subsided a bit,” Matzen said.

You could still see it after the Rally for Rhyan game against Tennessee, and you could see it after Missouri beat South Carolina. Ryan Rosburg still cares about this school and this team, and that will add to his lasting legacy.

“When I was a little boy and I watched Mizzou basketball, I wanted to be like Kim Anderson, who was the Big 8 player of the year at the time,” Matzen said. “I just hope, when it’s all over, there’s little kids across this state that want to be like (Ryan) and wear the jersey just like he did.”

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Senior forward Bri Kulas of the Black Team fights for control of the ball between sophomore guard Morgan Stock and sophomore forward Michelle Hudyn of the Gold Team during the Black and Gold Scrimmage on Oct. 16, 2013. The Gold Team took the win in a close 29-26 victory.

Morgan Stock peaks at the right time The women’s basketball guard has the sixth-most 3-pointers in program history.

LEXI CHURCHILL Assistant Sports Editor You know why she’s on the court. It isn’t for lockdown defense or dominating rebounding. It is for what she gets done behind the arc.

A few weeks ago, senior Morgan Stock was moved from the bench into the Missouri women’s basketball starting lineup after a lights-out performance against Florida and radical improvement in her shooting consistency. When it comes to shooting 3s, she improved from shooting 25 percent in nonconference games to 41 percent during Southeastern Conference play. Ever since that night, she has been the go-to player.

But it’s not just on the stat sheet that you see the progression. There’s a different air about Stock when she has the ball in her hands. There’s no hesitation.

She’s fearless.

Following a squad-leading 17-point, five-trey performance against Arkansas, Stock said she likes to think every shot she takes will go in, a confident response that speaks to her attitude change over the course of the past few weeks.

“It was a mental thing for me for a while and I’ve figured out a way to just clear my mind and just have fun with it,” Stock said after a 20-point game against Florida on Jan. 24. “I think that is just part of it I guess. I would get down on myself after one miss, but now I’ve finally learned how to move on and we talk about next play all the time, so next play. My teammates and coaches have been huge supporters, and

they have been able to push me forward.”

With a new mentality, Stock has dominated from behind the arc in almost every game since her breakout Florida match. Her consistency has broken her into the top 10 in trey ranks. As of Feb. 21, Stock is tied for the sixth-most 3-pointers in Missouri women’s basketball history with 119.

Stock’s breakout may appear more of an abrupt spurt to rookie fans and viewers who missed out on her three previous years; those years led her to the sixth spot. Stock’s lack of exposure to fans continued into this season, when she saw few minutes due to knee complications.

With the injury, the coaches were tentative with her minutes, allowing enough time for rest and recovery to bring her back to full health.

And by the looks of it, she just might be there.

Given Stock’s injury and grade, coach Robin Pingeton has been particularly impressed with Stock’s resilience. Stock has hit her peak late in the season, playing at a level that she will hopefully be able to maintain into the postseason.

“Morgan has gotten shots all year; she is just able to knock them down right now,” Pingeton said. “So many times when you are in a slump you start to feel sorry for yourself and play the victim, but Morgan has been doing a great job of getting in the gym outside of practice and getting game like shots. Kudos to her, because sometimes even as a senior it would be easy to throw in the towel. ‘It’s my senior year, I’m not shooting the ball very well and woe is me’ type attitude but she has not done that. She has done the exact opposite.”

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Takeaways from baseball’s opening weekend

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Missouri Tigers infielder Shane Benes (3) swings at a pitch April 21, 2015, at Taylor Stadium. Missouri lost to Missouri State 9–8.

JASON LOWENTHAL Senior Staff Writer The Missouri baseball team kicked off its 2016 campaign down in Florida with a four-game set against the Seton Hall Pirates. Mizzou’s big guns, Reggie McClain and Tanner Houck, helped the Tigers earn wins in each of the first two games, but the back half of the series ended on a sour note.

Seton Hall, a club that managed just a .500 record in the Big East last season, won the final two games in dominant fashion, out-hitting Mizzou 25-11. The series undoubtedly raised some concerns about the Tigers going forward. Here are five takeaways we learned from opening weekend:

Shane Benes is back Tigers’ third baseman Shane Benes is back and healthy after missing nearly two years due to injuries.

Benes, a highly-touted 2014 recruit from Westminster Christian Academy in Missouri, made his return near the end of last season, but he was strictly used as a designated hitter for precautionary reasons. Now, months after his ACL injury and with his knee fully healed and his lateral movement back, he looked like the talent the Tigers recruited initially.

Benes smacked two home runs and collected five RBIs over the weekend, all coming in winning efforts.

He was a threat at the plate throughout the series and managed to reach base six times (2 HR, 1B, 2 BB, HBP).

If he can maintain that sort of production, it would be monumental for the Tigers, who ranked 13th in the SEC last season in runs scored and in the middle of the pack in home runs.

Mizzou will use its top two to its advantage as long as it can We know what Reggie McClain and Tanner Houck can do. The Tigers are guaranteed to be competitive in any series with that dynamic duo on the bump on Friday and Saturday. McClain was near-perfect on opening day, leading Mizzou to a 7-0 win. The redshirt

senior right-hander tossed eight innings of shutout baseball, allowing just four hits and walking none. He mixed up his pitches well and kept hitters off-balance with some nice off-speed action. Houck, on the other hand, wasn’t his dominant self, but did earn the win in a 4-1 Tigers victory. The sophomore right-hander struggled a bit with his command in the early going, but was able to maneuver his way out of numerous jams and keep the Pirates at bay. He turned in a sixinning performance, allowing one run on seven hits and fanning nine.

However, that’s when the wheels fell off. We knew the Tigers would have issues trying to pinpoint a No. 3 starter and it showed on opening weekend. Freshman southpaw Michael Plassmeyer got the nod in game three of the series, but did not receive a warm welcome from the Pirates. He was roughed up for five runs on nine hits in just four innings, before being yanked as the Tigers tried to mount a comeback. Mizzou got within a run of winning late in the game, but Plassmeyer was eventually saddled with the loss. In the series finale, Ryan Lee started the game, but lasted just 2.1 innings after he was knocked around for three runs, all earned, on three hits and took the loss.

The other candidate for the No. 3 spot in the rotation is senior southpaw Austin Tribby, who is making the transition from reliever to starter this season. Tribby showed promise over the weekend in relief efforts, but it’s still unclear how he’ll hold up as a potential starter. Look for him to get some chances throughout nonconference play.

Inexperienced bullpen will have growing pains Aside from Tribby, the Tigers have a very young, inexperienced bullpen to work with this season. With that lack of experience, there’s going to be some obvious growing pains: missed locations, lack of communication on bunts, need for more development, etc. While there were some bright spots, Mizzou’s bullpen did have its fair share of struggles against Seton Hall and will continue to work through these growing pains throughout nonconference play before the talent gap kicks in during conference play. In

a combined 15.2 innings of relief work, the Tigers’ bullpen surrendered nine runs. Four relievers made their first career appearances and two others saw their first action in nearly two seasons.

Tigers’ 7-9 hitters are a major question mark Another question mark for the Tigers in 2016 will be the production they get from the 7-9 slots in the order. Opening weekend saw next to none. Hitters slotted 7-9 (including pinch-hitters) went an abysmal 2-for-38 with zero RBI and 11 strikeouts against Seton Hall. Given, nearly all of the players who were slotted 7-9 over the weekend are underclassmen or transfer students, so there is an expected learning curve as they see their first stretch of games with the Tigers. However, if the Tigers continue to get that little production, it will force the guys in the 1-6 spots to become too aggressive, trying to make too much happen.

Ryan Howard leading off might work out In a surprise move, coach Tim Jamieson gave junior shortstop Ryan Howard a new role this season. After Howard was successful in the middle of the order last season on a team that lacked power, Jamieson moved Howard to the leadoff spot in an effort to stack his best hitters at the top of the order. During opening weekend, the strategy panned out. Howard tied junior center fielder Jake Ring with a team-high six hits against Seton Hall, including one home run.

He slugged .625 over the weekend and held a teamhigh .444 on-base percentage, as well (among full-time starters). The jury is still out whether the Tigers will be struck with a power struggle in the heart of the order this year, but if Benes can continue his power stroke and help that cause, there’s no reason to believe that Howard as a leadoff hitter can’t work.

Next up Mizzou will take on Florida International (0-3) in a single game on Wednesday in Miami. The game will be broadcast on KTGR.

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on Saturday against a stingy Arkansas defense.

“It’s like I always tell him, the other team has film too,” Anderson said. “You’re going to have to work that much harder.

The good thing is now guys

“I wouldn’t have got to where I am today without my team around me pushing me and driving me to become a better wrestler every day,” Cox said. “It’s hard to do this sport alone, to have a great group of teammates and coaches around me is a blessing.”

Missouri will travel to

Ypsilanti, Michigan, for the MAC Championships March 5-6. The Tigers will be looking for their fourth consecutive title and fifth conference title overall in the tournament. From there, based on place finish at the MAC Championships, individual wrestlers will head to New York City for the NCAA

Championships, where they’ll have a chance to win national titles in their respective weight classes.

“All the work we’ve been putting in and the tough competition is all preparation for this time of the season,” Smith said. “We’re prepared, our mindset going in is that

this is our tournament and we have to dominate. We have the mentality we’ve had all year and need to carry that momentum we gain at conference with us to New York.”

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are going to start contributing around him.”

Missouri only has to look to the Gamecocks to see that player development is still possible in the modern world of one-and-done players.

Three seasons ago, South Carolina finished secondto-last in the Southeastern Conference with a 14-18 record (4-14 SEC). That team fielded

five freshmen on its roster.

Now, three of the thenfreshmen start as seniors and average 34 combined points per game. While South Carolina’s 2012-13 roster is not nearly as young as Missouri’s current one, there are comparisons that can be drawn between the two.

“We’re real happy for Kim and his kids,” South Carolina coach Frank Martin said. “I’ve

been in that situation, we’ve been in that situation a couple years ago where your kids continue to fight, fight, fight and deal with adversity.”

So while Missouri will finish with a losing record this season and will likely stay in the basement of the SEC, the key for the Tigers is to continue to make progress with the team they have so they may roar

again one day.

For now, Missouri is just trying to improve one game at a time and disrupt other teams’ postseason bids if possible.

“The past few games, it has felt like a different team,” sophomore guard Namon Wright said. “We’re going to try to ruin some teams’ record.”

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