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to offer him space in the new building, which he said lies at “probably one of the best corners this side of Kansas City or St. Louis.” He signed a 10-year lease with them that includes eight five-year extensions. “The Odle family recognized the value of having Shakespeare’s at the corner of Ninth and Elm, and it’s very flattering that they think that much of us,” Mirtsching said. “They wanted to make sure we had the opportunity to stay as long as we wanted.”

Health insurance. Child care. Student loans. Cockroaches in their houses. On Tuesday night, MU graduate students expressed a myriad of concerns. Administrators, journalists and numerous disgruntled students gathered Tuesday night in the Geological Sciences Building for the Forum on the Graduate Student Experience. Associate Vice Chancellor for Graduate Studies Leona Rubin fielded questions, but one key player was missing. Nowhere in the crowd could a cheerfullooking man in a suit and bowtie be found. Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin was not present. Instead, he was away at a retreat with the UM Board of Curators. Tuesday’s forum was the latest episode in a dispute between graduate students and administrators that began in mid-August. The trouble began when administration withdrew the graduate student health care subsidy just 13 hours before the scheduled renewal date. In response to this perceived slight, graduate students banded together and created the Forum on Graduate Student Rights, which published a list of seven

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The new restaurant will be 2,000 square feet larger than the original space. HIJDEED'K=D5L Reporter For the past 42 years, Shakespeare’s Pizza has been an icon in downtown Columbia. That tradition will continue at the corner of Ninth and Elm streets for the next 50. The plans for the

new development that will house Shakespeare’s Pizza were released last month. The Rader family, who owns the property, decided to invest in a sixstory development, which will include retail, office space and apartments. The Odle family, who has developed the Brookside properties around Columbia, was partnered with the Rader family to build and manage the new building. Shakespeare’s owner Kurt Mirtsching said they approached him

Swimming

Swimmers join Mizzou following WKU hazing scandal Junior Fabian Schwingenschlogl has the potential to go further than top Mizzou swimmer Sam Tierney. G=:=I'HDOPL Assistant Sports Editor

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His last name has 16 letters and four syllables. He has the fastest returning 100yard breaststroke time of anyone in American collegiate swimming. And after two seasons at Western Kentucky University, junior Fabian

Schwingenschlogl is joining the Missouri Tigers. This summer, WKU’s swim team was suspended after allegations of hazing and sexual assault. And, after a 4,500-mile journey from Germany to Kentucky, Schwingenschlogl and junior Nadine Laemmler found themselves without a swim team only two seasons into their collegiate careers. Both found a home at Mizzou. “Western Kentucky really liked to party,” Laemmler said. “And here, it’s just more professional. It’s not that in the pool we give everything to be the best that we can, but even outside

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Efforts underway to decrease overlap in campus leadership At MU, there’s a perceived overlap in student leadership positions, but the explanation is more complicated than favoritism, and programs are working to bring equality to their hiring processes. CB>@;0J%!30>D00@%BE9%B0BEB%ABB9 Of The Maneater Staff When sophomore Lauren Russ began the Summer Welcome leader application process last December, she heard rumors regarding MU’s “leadership elite.” This privileged group is composed of leaders of well-known programs such as Summer Welcome, Tour Team, the Alumni Association Student Board and Missouri Students Association. “They say once you get in to Summer Welcome or Tour Team, then basically you can get into anything,” Russ said. All four organizations have different but significant purposes: Summer Welcome orients incoming freshmen to the university, Tour Team promotes MU to visiting students and families, AASB connects students with alumni and MSA is the student government in charge of a $1.6 million budget. To Russ’s knowledge, there is an unspoken understanding among MU students, faculty and staff that gaining power on campus is attainable by what many regard as a foolproof method of strategy and connection within these selective organizations. “The reputation of MU falls on the performance of these programs and jobs,” said sophomore Christopher Dade, a member of both AASB and

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Columbia has only the sixth-largest population in the state, but it consistently has one of the busiest DMV license offices in the whole state. 5@AAB%C@DEF@;G Reporter Sad, crowded and timeconsuming were just some of the ways MU freshmen and Columbia residents Gabriel Gassmann and Brett Stover described the Columbia License Office located on Vandiver Drive and Providence Road. Their descriptions of the Columbia DMV touch on the reasons the Missouri

Department of Revenue is trying to open a second location. It’s the Department of Revenue’s third attempt to give Columbia another DMV office, which is one of the busiest in the state, according to data from the state agency. Previous attempts were marred by the quality of bids. The department has been looking for bids since January to try to reduce the busy lines at the Columbia DMV. When the Columbia DMV was first put up for bids in 2009, the Department of Revenue had two bids to choose from. Now this isn’t the case, as they struggle to find acceptable bids. However despite a lack of bids, Michelle Gleba, director of Communications for the

Department of Revenue, cites the busyness of the Columbia DMV as a reason for the department to continue their efforts. “The existing Columbia license office is one of the busiest offices in the state in terms of licenses and processing fees,” Gleba said in an Aug. 28 Columbia Tribune article. “A second office will bring more convenience to the residents of Columbia and Boone County.” In fiscal year 2015, the Columbia DMV carried out 217,477 total transactions resulting in $733,296 of total transaction fees, according to their records. They had 10,512 more total transactions and made $66,364 more in total transaction

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Student Center

New business delivers custom care packages A tailgating box and holiday-themed boxes will soon be available. @0BE@%@9CB;9A Reporter Parents, grandparents, family members and friends can deliver custom-made care packages to their MU students through 24-hour shipping with Stuff in a Box. Five MU students united to create this business, which provides an inexpensive and easy way for loved ones to remind their student that they are thinking of them. The idea came to sophomore Jason

Peiser, the Stuff in a Box CEO, while he and several other Stuff in a Box co-founders were in an MU Entrepreneurs meeting. “One day we were just throwing out business ideas and (Stuff in a Box) was my idea and then we liked it,” Peiser said. “So we kind of broke off, separated and created a team and started developing a business plan for Stuff in a Box.” After the members of the team gathered and developed a plan, they entered the Missouri Student Unions’ Entrepreneurial Program Competition and won. Their success in the competition gave Stuff in a Box funding and a room in the Student Center to work from,

Peiser said. The founders have also received funding help from local businesses, said sophomore and chief technology officer Frankie Cancino. Once Stuff in a Box had money and a location, the team began focusing on developing their product. Chief Marketing Officer Chelsea Branscum built the prototype box and found an efficient way to buy the products. “I went and bought everything I would put in this care package from Walmart, and it was kind of expensive,” Bransum said. “So on our side, we’re just buying things in

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Mirtsching said the new restaurant will open Aug. 1, 2016. Customers will notice many new features in the restaurant, which will be 2,000 square feet bigger than the original location. The bar will also be bigger, and there will be two party rooms in the facility. “One of our dining rooms is going to have the wall that faces Ninth Street (that) is going be a large glass garage door, so when it’s cold or hot out it will be just a great big window, but when the weather cooperates we will be able to raise that garage door and the dining room will open

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(the pool).” WKU announced the fiveyear suspension of its swimming program April 14. This punishment came after a police investigation found that certain members of the team had committed acts of hazing, harassment and sexual assault during fall 2014. They came to Missouri after coach Greg Rhodenbaugh confirmed they were not involved in the WKU scandal. With the suspension of the program, WKU swimmers were free to transfer to any school that would take them, and they would not miss a year of NCAA eligibility. Schwingenschlogl and Laemmler are both from the Bavarian region of Germany and have been dating since before they enrolled at WKU. Since coming to Mizzou, they have been impressed by how their teammates handle themselves both in and out of the pool. “Everyone knows what to do,” Schwingenschlogl said. “Everyone knows how to handle himself to be fit on Monday, fit during the week, go to bed early.” For both swimmers, fitting in

THE MANEATER | NEWS | SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 out onto the sidewalk cafe,” Mirtsching said. “It’s going to be a really nice space to sit down and enjoy a beverage and a pizza.” However, the new restaurant will still have the same nostalgic feel as the original. “The dining rooms are going to be pretty much the same, but there are going to be more of them,” Mirtsching said. “It’s going to be the same bricks and the same ceiling in much of it.” Although he values the integrity of the original building, Mirtsching thinks the development will be good for the restaurant overall. “The old building was very nostalgic and very cool because of the old bricks and it was a neat old building, but it was just

a box that Shakespeare’s was in,” Mirtsching said. “Shakespeare’s is more than a just box — it’s the people, the pizza, the customers, it’s all of that.” Another element that Mirtsching and the downtown Shakespeare’s general manager, Toby Epstein, said they are looking forward to is an improvement in the layout of the space, especially the kitchen. The original space was “patched together” over time and had a layout that did not make sense, Epstein said. “We’d have employees dragging 35 to 40 pounds of dough 75 feet,” Epstein said, noting that was only one of many examples of how poorly set up the area was. “We had one kitchen downstairs and

one upstairs, both pumping out hundreds of pizzas.” Now, the kitchens will be five feet apart, he said. Mirtsching said the new kitchens will make operations easier, quicker and less costly. The development that will become the home for Shakespeare’s also followed voluntary guidelines set by the Community Improvement District, which include “promoting a lively and active neighborhood both day and night; blending a campus atmosphere with a downtown atmosphere; and providing a pedestrian-friendly environment,” McAlester Park, LLC spokesman Jack Cardetti said. Many locals have noted the

importance of keeping the treasured pizza shop at its original location, including Cardetti. “Keeping this iconic Columbia institution at the corner of Ninth and Elm streets for generations to come is good for our town and a critical anchor of this truly mixed-use development,” Cardetti said in an email. For now, Shakespeare’s, or “Tempspeare’s” as their website states, is a block away from the permanent location, at 220 S. Eighth St. Although it will be a year before they are in the new development, Mirtsching said that in the end, customers will be able to follow a “yellow brick road” back to its home. “You will just have to come see,” Mirtsching said.

socially has not been an issue as the team has been welcoming since their arrival. “It’s like she’s been on the team for years and it’s only been a couple of weeks,” Rhodenbaugh said. “Same with Fabian.” Last season, Schwingenschlogl finished sixth at the Men’s NCAA Championship meet in the 100yard breaststroke as a sophomore. All five finishers ahead of him were seniors. At the meet, he was also 12th in the 200-yard breaststroke and competed in the 200-yard individual medley. Laemmler was one of two WKU women swimmers to qualify for the women’s NCAA Championship meet and specializes in backstroke. For Schwingenschlogl and Laemmler, the 2015-16 season has great potential. They get to swim in the Southeastern Conference, one of the top conferences nationwide. It’s also an Olympic year. “We both get the chance to make something special, make something happen,” Schwingenschlogl said. This upcoming summer, Schwingenschlogl and Laemmler will try to make the German Olympic team. Schwingenschlogl said the Olympics are on his mind during practice and serve as motivation. The 24-year-old Schwingenschlogl is set to

essentially replace graduate Sam Tierney, a breaststroker and one of the top swimmers in Mizzou’s history. At the NCAA Championship meet, Tierney was only 12-hundredths of a second faster than Schwingenschlogl in the 100-yard breaststroke. After losing one of the team’s top swimmers in Tierney, Rhodenbaugh suddenly found himself in a position to not skip a beat in the breaststroke. “He kind of brings a level of breaststroke performance that we had last year,” Rhodenbaugh said. “(With) Sam, it took us four seasons to develop him into one of the best breaststrokers in the United States. Fabian is stepping right in, and Fabian has a chance to go further than Sam, only because he started ahead of Sam in college.” As a graduate, Tierney is still swimming with the team to prepare

for Olympic Trials next summer. Tierney and Schwingenschlogl train together and push each other in practice. Rhodenbaugh feels that the addition of Schwingenschlogl will be mutually beneficial. “I think it’s going to be great on both accounts,” he said. “I think he’s going to add to our culture of hard work, and we’re going to add to his opportunity to train against some pretty elite athletes.” Like Schwingenschlogl, Laemmler will train alongside top-level swimmers. Sophomore Hannah Stevens was recently named to the U.S. National Team in the 100-meter backstroke, and graduate Dominique Bouchard finished sixth in the 200meter backstroke at the World Championships competing for Canada. In the coming weeks, Mizzou

swimmers will break into groups based on stroke and distance. As a backstroker, Laemmler will get to train with Stevens and Bouchard. “I’m super excited to train with Hannah and Dom,” Laemmler said. For Schwingenschlogl and Laemmler. the differences between Western Kentucky and Missouri have not gone unnoticed. Most notably, the campus and pool are significantly bigger at Mizzou. They have taken advantage of services at Mizzou that other schools don’t have such as academic advisors and a cafeteria at the athletic training complex. The atmosphere of the team also stands out to Laemmler. “The team’s just really close,” she said. “You come here and you don’t feel like an outsider. They just make you feel like you’re welcome and you’re part of their little family, and that’s really nice.”

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‘Repeal 6214’ sues the city !"#$%&'()"$*) Senior Staff Writer

The group is fighting downtown development using funds from tomato sales and weekend car washes.

Columbia resident Pam Cooper grows pounds of tomatoes every summer. There are always leftovers, so she set up shop in her garage a few weeks ago and exchanged one pound bags of her crop for $10 donations. The money she raised went to Repeal 6214, a community group of about 30 individuals that came together in response to Columbia city Ordinance 62-14 and leads the opposition to the Opus project. She said she raised about $90. Ordinance 62-14 stated that in exchange for $450,000 toward sewer damage repairs and $30,680 worth of city bus passes, the Opus Group would be able to build a six-story, 256-bedroom student housing complex downtown. City Manager Mike Matthes said at a December 2013 Columbia City Council meeting that the infrastructure couldn’t handle any more construction and that electric and sewer capacity was full, according to a story from the Columbia Tribune. All downtown buildings’ sewage flows into Flat Branch sewer system, which overflows during heavy rains. Cooper said Flat Branch Park often stinks of human waste after a storm. According to Ordinance 62-14, the Opus project would add 11,552 gallons of waste to the sanitary system each day. Then, a little over a year later, city council voted 4-3 to pass Ordinance 62-14 in a series of meetings that some citizens said were unlawful. “They followed the letter of the law, but they didn’t follow the spirit of the law,” Cooper said. “It looked like (the meetings) were designed to minimize public input.” In response, federal civil rights case Betty Wilson and Michael McMann vs City of Columbia and Mike Matthes was filed because of a violation of due process, Cooper said. On March 12, 2014, city council held a special meeting for the introduction and first read of ordinances for three student housing development projects, including Opus. At the regular city council meeting on March 17, the council received public comment on the projects for the first time. According to the plaintiffs’ complaint, much of it was negative. Two days later, at a second special meeting, the council passed Ordinance 62-14 with a vote of 4-3. The first meeting on March 12 lasted less than three minutes and violated Section 2-22 of the Columbia Code of Ordinances, according to the plaintiffs’ complaint. Section 2-22 outlines the rules for holding special meetings in Columbia. They can only take place on the the first and third Monday evening of the month — March 12 was a Wednesday — or

whenever the council deems necessary. Cooper said some citizens questioned whether the Opus development agreement was urgent enough to hold a special meeting. Repeal 6214 thought the city’s meeting wasn’t accessible and violated Section 2-25 of the Code of Ordinances, Cooper said. Meetings must be held “at a time reasonably convenient to the public,” the ordinance reads. The Wednesday meeting was held at noon. Cooper said Matthes didn’t follow the guidelines for notifying council members of a meeting as stated in Section 2-22. At the time, Section 2-22 stated that council members needed to be notified of a special meeting in person by a Columbia police officer. Matthes could not be reached for comment. On July 21, 2014, the city voted to change the section’s language to allow the city manager to notify council members of a meeting by telephone or email. Those changes were made after the Opus development meetings in March. Third Ward Councilman Karl Skala said he felt the council had adequate notice of the meetings even though police officers did not notify council members in person. He said Matthes emailed and telephoned members before the meetings. City Counselor Nancy Thompson, who is one of the defendant’s attorney in the case, said in a voicemail Sept. 4 that city staff could not comment on “pending litigation.” The City Clerk could not be reached for comment. In a reaction to what Cooper called “effectively illegal meetings,” Repeal 6214 began petitioning to repeal the ordinance. The group got the required number signatures and Ordinance 62-14 was repealed on June 16, 2014, according to an Aug. 27, 2014 Maneater article. Before the petition was approved, the council introduced a new bill, Ordinance 130-14, on April 28 that was “the same in every material and enforceable respect” as Ordinance 62-14, according to the plaintiffs’ complaint. The new ordinance was passed May 19 and prompted a second petition effort from citizens. The first time the petition was sent to the city, it was short on signatures. Repeal 6214 met the required number of signatures July 16 with 3,699 names on the petition, according to a timeline by the Columbia Missourian. Although the petition was valid, Opus continued its project. District Flats, which is at the corner of Locust and Eighth streets, opened for students on Aug. 15 to move in as the semester began despite continued construction. The developers got the go-ahead for District Flats because the ordinance was a development agreement, not a demolition or construction permits,

Cooper said. Even though the ordinance, which would have give the city nearly $500,000 for approving the Opus project, failed, the developers could still apply for and receive demolition permits. “The spirit of what we were trying to do was disregarded by the city, and (there was) every possible attempt to thwart our efforts to petition for redress of grievances,” Cooper said. Jake Loft, senior and former candidate for First Ward City Council seat, is involved with Repeal 6214 as “an issue about law and the government.” He said he thinks a court appearance will help catch the city’s attention. “It’s pretty easy to ignore a few voices on Facebook, but when a court rules down in favor of those few voices, the voices are a lot louder,” he said. While running for office, Loft said he had to learn a lot about the Opus agreement. He said he thinks students aren’t invested in the issue because, for them, it’s a temporary problem. “A lot of the time students can’t quite understand that even though they’re on campus, they’re in the middle of a city,” he said. “And they have to follow the rules of the city.” Loft said he knows the infrastructure problem will take years to resolve, just as the disconnect between residents and local government will, but he thinks the case is “symbolic.” Although only two names are on the case, the lawsuit against the city was filed on behalf of all affected citizens, Cooper said. Both plaintiffs are long-time Columbia

residents. Betty Wilson is an attorney at a downtown practice; she graduated from the MU School of Law in 1974. Michael McMann moved to Columbia in 1978 to attend MU. Skala said he is surprised the disagreement resulted in a lawsuit. He said more open conversation between the disagreeing sides would have been more productive. “Once you lawyer up on both sides, there is an inclination to extend these arguments, and I think it becomes less likely to solve these problems as you pour money into lawyers’ fees,” he said. Repeal 6214 estimates the cost of their legal action to be around $10,000 and is focusing on raising money. They have to pay for court reporters, depositions and other mandatory court costs, according to the group’s page on GoFundMe, a crowdsourcing website. As of Sept. 5, about a month after launching their fundraising page, the group had raised a total of $1,840 in donations from 40 individuals, according to the fundraising page. The group has held other fundraising events, including a Fourth of July carwash and that tomato sale. Attorneys Jeremy Root, Josh Oxenhandler and Richard Reuben are representing the group pro-bono, meaning they will only receive payment if the plaintiffs win. Root was previously involved in the repeal effort as a citizen. Cooper said the average donor is a long-time Columbia resident who is active in the city politically or culturally.

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*+,-.%/.0123%4556278%.3%,11%9:,44%9+512.4 Budget cuts prompted the studio to seek outside financial support. !""#$%&'#()( Staff Writer Last year was a record year for the Craft Studio. In response, the Missouri Students Association are backing the effort to attach credit hours to their classes. Last year, the Craft Studio saw a 100 percent increase in students in their Crafternoon program and a 53 percent increase in participation in multi-week classes, according to the 2014-15 annual Craft Studio report. They have also started assessing the attendance of their gallery shows and receptions. MSA Senate Speaker Kevin Carr said making the Craft Studio’s classes for credit will help financially support the studio. “This will tremendously bolster their whole program,” Carr said. “They will have institutional support from department heads or departments and that immediately gives a lot more leeway to interact and promote events to students.” He said he would probably assign adding credit hours as a joint project to the Budget and Student Affairs Committees. He hopes to have

this out of MSA’s hands and under the consideration of the administration by the end of the semester. A majority of one credit hour classes offered are harder and science-related, Carr said. Since the Craft Studio is comprised of two coordinators, five graduate students and 35 work study students, Carr said the only issue he sees is that there are no teachers present, only instructors, which could make the classes pass/fail. Craft Studio coordinator Kelsey Hammond supports the potential of attaching credit hours to classes. “If people want that, then we can make it happen,” Hammond said. Carr said there are a lot of students who are interested in these classes but are not sure if they will get anything out of it. “By getting students that tangible benefit of a credit hour, it is great for them because they know even if they aren’t getting the artistic benefit at least they are getting a credit or half a credit hour,” Carr said. Since the art department experienced significant budget cuts, Carr said he believes the department will embrace this idea. “If we get more people invested in art and expand their reach on campus, I don’t think it is unreasonable for their department to make significant gains in their allocated pool of resources on campus,” Carr said. “There are certain buildings

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that get a lot of funding, and giving the art department more influence over areas on campus is great.” MSA Secretary of Auxiliaries Sean Earl said his biggest goal this semester will be ensuring that MSA promotes the Craft Studio. “They are doing so good by themselves using social media, but we have so many different resources, like we can be putting commercials on MUTV, promoting it on the airwaves of KCOU and also putting it on the MSA page,” Earl said. Although they have started charging non-MU students $2 to participate in Crafternoons, people are still attending.

Hammond said the change resulted after they had upward of 125 students at a couple of their Crafternoons. “We had to figure out what was going on,” Hammond said. “We need to consider the fact that MSA funds us. We need to start charging people who are not students for this service as we do for everything else we do.” T he Craft Studio’s assessments of their gallery shows are aimed at illustrating convey the value of art on campus. “(The gallery) is a really good way to give exposure to up and coming artists, especially student artists,” Hammond

said. “It is also a really good space because they have a lot control of what they can do in there and a lot of artists like that.” While other galleries have rules stating what artists can and cannot do, the Craft Studio grants them more leeway. Students do not have to feel constricted by any rules such as having their work matted in a particular way, Hammond said “We let the artists really have the space they need to realize their artistic vision,” Hammond said. “We really want their voices to be heard through that expression.”

Olmstead steps in as new LGBTQ Resource Center coordinator The center will celebrate its 20th anniversary this year. !;(<%*<$=;'&%(!=% >(?"@)A%*;)?$))" of The Maneater staff Sean Olmstead came to MU this summer as the new LGBTQ Resource Center coordinator just in time for its 20th anniversary. “For the LGBTQ student population, those students often see this place as a place of self-preservation or where we can put down our guard sometimes,” Olmstead said. “For other students, we serve them by helping to educate them about sexual orientation and gender identity.” Olmstead said he plans to make the LGBTQ Resource Center a by-the-students, for-

the-students organization. Because of former coordinator Struby Struble’s legacy, Olmstead said he sees the major act he has to follow. “It’s intimidating because it sets a really high expectation, but that helps drive me to want to do great things,” Olmstead said. “She has done a fantastic job of sustaining and growing what the LGBTQ Resource Center does.” Theresa Eultgen, The Women’s Center coordinator, has been working with Olmstead over the summer in resource sharing and support. “He’s got a really wellrounded vision on being inclusive and empowering students to be the best version of themselves,” Eultgen said. “We have a lot of good positive reinforcement regarding communication because we do a lot of similar thing so it’s nice

to have that partnership.” Olmstead is also planning a lot of events to celebrate the center’s 20th anniversary. Eultgen said she will work with Olmstead to plan Queer Monologues, which is held in the spring. “Queer Monologues is a really fun interactive program for everybody who participates,” Eultgen said. “What’s so beautiful is that it’s all stories from MU’s campus so it will be his first one so I’m excited for him to come on this year.” The center is planning other events including with the Proud Tigers Mentorship program, which the center calls “an allinclusive mentoring program providing support, guidance, and resources to minoritized students at Mizzou.” There is also the Queer Fall Fling, an open house for the center and a score of LGBTQ organizations

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to join. Although school hasn’t been in session for long, Olmstead said he is already noticing things about the MU community. “I love how students speak their mind and are critical

of the world around them,” Olmstead said. “That makes my job harder and easier because I know that I’m being held to a high standard for students, but also I know that the work we’ll be doing will be important.”

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Tour Team. According to both prospective and current members of this leadership elite — with one former member comparing it

Despite the Columbia DMV’s operational success, the experience is not as enjoyable for the customers who go to visit. Gassmann said he feels everyone goes to the DMV expecting to have a bad experience because of the long wait times. “Definitely things could be more streamlined,” Gassmann said. “I think I went at a time that was supposed to be not that busy, specifically because we didn’t want to have to wait in line for a ridiculously long time, and we still ended up waiting for a really long time.” Students have some ideas of their own as to where the second DMV office should go in

Columbia. Stover suggested the new location should be in south Columbia to help cut down on driving times. “If they put another DMV out on South Providence in southern Columbia, then it would help for a lot of those people who have to drive like 20 or 25 minutes to get to the DMV, and it would also cut the crowds probably in half,” Stover said. Currently, the location for the proposed DMV is unknown, as the requirements for its location have changed from bid to bid, according to an Aug. 28 Columbia Tribune article. Originally in the first bid proposal, the new DMV was required to be within city

limits and only a mile from the current DMV office in Columbia. In the second bid proposal, the distance was increased to two miles. The Columbia DMV is operated by Koester & Koester, LLC. The contractor has independently operated the Columbia location since 2014 when they took over operations from Columbia Licensing Services LLC. In addition to the Columbia office, Koester & Koester operates seven more license offices throughout Missouri. Koester & Koester were not available for comment. The Department of Revenue’s struggle to find a contractor for the proposed second Columbia

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package that will be delivered the next day. “Some people are away from their home when they’re here,” Peiser said. “(Stuff in a Box) is just to kind of get rid of that distance.” Cancino remembers how difficult and expensive sending care packages was for his parents during his freshman year. “My parents would have to

actually go out, get it and then package and send it out,” Cancino said. “My parents would usually procrastinate, or they’d get some of the items and not send it and stuff like that.” After roughly four weeks, the care packages will be customizable. For now, Stuff in a Box is offering one launch box to ensure efficiency. The care

package consists of different food, school supplies and loving cards. It costs $39.99. “We really just wanted to make students feel comfortable starting school and also give them a little love from back home,” Branscum said. “(We wanted) to welcome them to Mizzou and the fun spirit that we have.” Stuff in a Box is also planning

on having seasonal boxes. For instance, the team is planning on coming out with a “Tailgate Box” soon for football season. “We’ll have a Valentine’s Day box, and probably a Thanksgiving and Christmas box when (the) time comes around,” Cancino said. “Maybe even Halloween. We’re still coming up with different ideas.”

to “the Illuminati” — the first step toward influence at MU is attaining a position in any of the aforementioned programs. However, MSA Vice President Brenda Smith-Lezama disagrees with these widespread claims. “I think that we’ve really gotten into this idea that in order to do x-y-z, you have to

have been a part of Summer Welcome, Tour Team, AASB and you know, all of those big organizations that are here on campus,” Smith-Lezama said. “And I really don’t believe that whatsoever. Clearly, I am not a part of any of (the other) organizations, and I really don’t think that’s a make-it-or-break-

it for me, personally.” Although Smith-Lezama denies the existence of an evident problem, she does acknowledge the overlap of leaders within these popular programs. Because she was responsible for appointing the new MSA cabinet this year, Smith-Lezama believes the

logical explanation behind the MU leadership overlap begins at the hiring process.

Gov. Jay Nixon’s reformed system of awarding state license offices through a bid process that was first implemented in 2009 for all 178 license offices. The Department of Revenue will be evaluating bids for the second Columbia DMV office based on a variety of criteria in areas such as the “expertise of the personnel proposed,” and the “methods proposed for performing the services,” according to Department of Revenue news release.

The rest of The Maneater’s first Long Read of the semester will be online on Friday.

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future. “One of my friends in Chicago used it once, and then the driver wouldn’t stop texting her, so she never used it again,” senior Reid Vardell said. “I wouldn’t recommend my girlfriend to use it.” Another issue with Uber is the disruption to the original taxi market in Columbia, Mayor Bob McDavid said. “Uber is a disruptive technology,” McDavid said. “In other words, you have the legacy cabs, highly regulated, and

now they are disrupted by individual people who are willing to work whenever they want to.” Accessibility is also a problem with Uber, Trapp said. “Taxi companies serve everybody, but Uber only serves people with smartphones,” Trapp said. Junior Grace Gabel considered Uber an extra opportunity for college students to make extra money. “I know a lot of my friends want to be

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After receiving backlash from the Columbia City Council for operating without permission, Uber is finally operating legally in Columbia following the release of the city council’s new regulations on Feb. 16, 2015. Under the new regulations, city government will conduct additional background checks on Uber’s drivers, including federal, county and multistate records in seven years, according to Feb. 18 Maneater coverage. “There is no proof that Uber has done their background checks thoroughly,” Second Ward Councilman Michael Trapp said. “So city government decides to check it for them.” Trapp also said that driver identity is a common issue for any taxi service. He said the new regulations not only apply to Uber but also to other similar networking transportation companies that may enter Columbia market in the

drivers,” Gabel said. “I know it is, like, a whole process to become a driver, which makes me feel better about it because it is safer.” Unlike regular taxi companies, Uber doesn't provide employee benefits to drivers, who are private contractors, Trapp said. Compared to other transportation options in Columbia, the advantages of Uber are high speed and good price, freshman David Ritz said. “I have heard Uber is better than STRIPES,” Ritz said. “If you call STRIPES late at night, they might take 30 minutes or 45 minutes to pick you up. And people just decided to use Uber instead because they are quicker. You only have to pay a couple bucks.” In Los Angeles, a 20-minute drive costs only $15, McDavid said. But in Columbia, a six-minute drive costs $10 to $13, according to the estimated price provided by Uber. “It is a matter of demand and supply,” McDavid said. “When the demand goes up and the supply remains low, the price increases.” In other words, if there are more Uber drivers in Columbia, the price may decline to a normal level in the future. Students can use Uber by downloading the Uber app on their smartphone and registering with their debit card information.

,-./0123'456378'19:73';71<7-'50=753 The idea of gender neutrality is something that the Truman’s Closet staff has been considering since their start in 2013. It wasn’t until the opening of ThreadBare, the gender-neutral clothing store in the Student Center, that they decided to put it into action. “Instead of wearing clothes because they’re assigned to your gender, it’s about wearing what you want because you feel good in it,” staff member India Simpson said. “Our mission is to make sure that going into your interview you look and feel as positive and prepared as you can. We want people to look good and feel good, regardless of the gender behind it.” The staff at Truman’s Closet are making it their goal this year to avoid falling victim to the many stereotypes that exist in today’s world. “We want people to not only subscribe to what society says looks good, but they have to feel good and confident,” Ackermann said. “Our slogan is ‘Find your strong suit,’ and maybe your strong suit isn’t what society says your strong suit should be.” Freshman Zach Lahr sees the potential impact this movement could have. “In terms of gender equality, I think it’s good,” Lahr said. “It knocks out a lot of discriminatory issues.”

On average, the store will have one to three people come in and check out clothes every time they are open. However, when there are campus-wide events requiring business apparel such as career fairs, these numbers tend to increase. Ackermann doesn’t expect a large rush of people to come into the store now that they’re gender neutral, but rather he hopes their current customers will feel more at home with the new system. “Having gender neutrality will make people more comfortable knowing that they don’t

have to get a certain kind of professionalism look from us,” Ackermann said. “It might bring in more people who might have been turned off.” With the removal of gender labels from their merchandise, the staff believes that more people will have the opportunity to be self-expressive without all the common restrictions. “Now that we’re gender neutral, we’re making professional attire a little less stiff and confining,” Simpson said. “People might feel that they’re able to express themselves more.”

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demands of administration Aug. 19. Administrators did not provide an adequate plan of action regarding the demands, which begat a graduate student walk out Aug. 24. Connor Lewis, a doctoral history student, is on the steering committee for the Forum on Graduate Rights and is also involved with the Coalition of Graduate Workers. He was not satisfied with Loftin’s reasoning for being absent. “This forum has been planned for weeks and Chancellor Loftin couldn’t be here,” Lewis said. “And they knew that they don’t plan a retreat overnight, so clearly they could have made a time for Chancellor Loftin to be available and they chose not to. And frankly, I think that Chancellor Loftin has spent the entire time ducking his responsibility in this whole debacle.” Even without Loftin in the room, the recent cuts to graduate health insurance provided plenty of tension. At one point, the questions Rubin faced were so confrontational that the moderator had to warn the graduate students to calm their tone.

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“The biggest thing I took away is that the administration is still not ready to listen to us,” third-year English doctoral student Jim Hayden said. The graduate students’ concerns did not end with insurance. Halfway into the two-hour forum, the students were given the chance to offer advice for how to better their experience. They had plenty of advice to give, listing off a variety of issues. The students discussed housing concerns, contract problems, trust issues and student debt, among other problems. After nearly every comment, the crowd clapped for the speaker. After the forum, Lewis approached exiting graduate students and collected signatures for the Coalition of Graduate Workers. “We’re launching a drive to unionize graduate employees at the University of Missouri,” he said. Though he did appreciate Rubin’s willingness to answer questions, Lewis’s feelings did not change after the forum. “Frankly, I think my biggest takeaway was the fact that the university isn’t really offering answers,” Lewis said. “They’re expecting us to come up with the solutions on our own when this is something they should be working on.”

Truman’s Closet is reopening its doors Sept. 9 with a twist. There will no longer be any gender-defined labels on clothing items available at the store. Truman’s Closet has made it their mission to push for social and economic mobility by providing free professional attire to students and faculty, encouraging equality when it comes to career opportunities. In order to provide a safe and comfortable environment for all customers, Truman’s Closet is now taking a gender-neutral approach to their business. The store’s typical inventory will remain the same but will no longer be separated into men and women’s attire. Kevin Ackermann, director of operations at Truman’s Closet, said he hopes this change will help to eliminate society’s dependence on gender stereotypes. “We’re an organization that deals with professionalism and how you should present yourself in the workplace, and if we perpetuate those stereotypes, that does a lot of harm,” Ackermann said.

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)%*+,-./*/+*01+2+/3*4/5* -36731*4689,54:4/;*3<<+1/5*2+13 As an institution, MU is making significant progress toward gender inclusivity. However, it seems like MU’s public relations staff is either ignorant or hesitant to highlight this progress. Consequently, if you just looked at MU’s online presence, you’d have no idea any such progress has taken place. MU, like most American universities, spends a significant amount of time and money creating the most appealing websites and social media pages possible. Because these efforts are so influential in defining the public image of the university, the content posted should spotlight the best that MU has to offer — and to a large extent, it does. But MU’s social media presence manages to entirely shy away from mentioning gender-neutrality. For example, the gender-neutral clothing consignment store, ThreadBare, opened its doors on the first floor of the Student Center on Aug. 26. Shortly afterward, Truman’s Closet announced it would no

longer include any gender-specific labels on its clothing options. Initiatives like these are instrumental in creating a more inclusive campus environment at MU and are also a major step in diminishing the perceived distinctions between genders. Meanwhile, the few posts made by MU on social media regarding ThreadBare completely omit its gender-neutral theme and only refer to the store in the context of its role in the Student Union’s Entrepreneurial Program. From MU’s Instagram (@Mizzou): “Kyle Gunby and Zach Bine are on hand for the store's Grand Opening today at the Student Center! It's part of the Student Unions Entrepreneurial Program, designed to give students a place to test business ideas and gain experience.” This is only one example of the progress made toward gender-neutrality across campus that has gone unmentioned by the MU marketing team. In an effort

to not stigmatize gender-nonconforming students by forcing them to declare a gender to live in the residence halls, MU now offers gender-neutral housing options for students — another massive step in the right direction. Gender-neutral bathrooms have also become more commonplace on campus, with MU's newest residence hall, Gateway Hall, including unisex bathrooms on all of its floors. The Missouri Students Association also released a full map detailing every gender-neutral bathroom on campus. All of these advancements have only received minimal mention on MU’s social media. It’s odd that while MU students are making strides toward inclusivity, they don’t seem to be getting public recognition from the MU higher-ups. While the progress made towards inclusivity is great, MU needs to spend more time and effort promoting it instead of skirting around or omitting gender-neutrality altogether.

The Millennial

The illegal attacks on same-sex marriage continue !"!# $%&'$( This past summer, “love wins” was broadcast across the nation when the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage. People who were denied basic rights were suddenly allowed to express their love freely. It was a beautiful and historic moment. However, we are still facing opposition to this decision. This past week, county clerk Kim Davis of Rowan County, Kentucky, was sentenced to prison by a federal judge for refusing to issue marriage licenses. She stopped issuing licenses to all couples after the Supreme Court decision in June because she claimed that same-sex marriage was fundamentally against her religion of Apostolic Christianity. The federal government ordered her to resume issuing licenses Aug. 31 when local couples brought the matter to court, but the next day, she turned away at least four couples, according to The CourierJournal. She was held in contempt of court Sept. 3 for not complying with the ruling. The couples who sued Davis wanted only monetary penalties for her actions to avoid turning her into a sympathetic, martyr-like victim. U.S. District Judge David Bunning decided on jail time because he didn’t think fines would convince Davis to comply with the ruling. Many of Davis’s supporters are saying her

imprisonment is an infringement of freedom of religion. This argument is a stretch to try to get the Supreme Court on their side. She is not being jailed because of her beliefs. She is being jailed because she, as an employee of the government, is refusing to do her job correctly. When she was elected as a county clerk, she promised to uphold the values and laws of the state and country she lived in. If she no longer feels that she can complete her duties because of the Supreme Court ruling, she should resign instead of punishing citizens that have no right to be punished. Besides being illegal, Davis’ actions are just plain ridiculous. The Supreme Court already ruled in favor of same-sex marriage. Does she really think that this little act of defiance is going to change their minds? It’s rather immature and unfair to deny people the gift of marriage just because it doesn’t comply with your personal beliefs. She doesn’t have to be forced to agree with same-sex marriage, but that doesn’t mean that she has the right to force others to agree with her. Even more disappointing still is the fact that many of the GOP presidential candidates have spoken out in support of Davis, according to The Washington Post. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said: “Today, judicial lawlessness crossed into judicial tyranny. Today, for the first time ever, the government arrested a Christian woman for living according to her faith … I stand with Davis. Unequivocally.” Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said: “You have the freedom to practice religious beliefs

out there. It’s a fundamental right.” Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul also offered their support for Davis. These presidential candidates have failed to grasp how the government works, which is frankly a bit frightening. They all think that Davis was jailed because of her beliefs, but this is not the case. She is in jail because she was refusing to do her job. Since she is an elected official, she cannot be fired unless there are some grounds for impeachment, which takes a lot of processing and court cases. The most effective way to teach her a lesson is to jail her until she does her job. Candidates in the Republican Party need to think through the situation before they speak in favor of a woman who was clearly violating the law. Davis has been hailed as a martyr for the religious cause against same-sex marriage. She has become a figurehead for this movement that is once again gaining press. However, the time for this debate is over. The Supreme Court has already ruled that same-sex marriage is legal in the U.S. It’s time for Davis to put the matter to rest and do her job. Despite what she thinks, she is not a hero.

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/0123452617281295:;<52=0382>?3@A2?11AB2?;A5C2 Who are you to insist that I’m not black because my skin is a certain color and my hair looks a certain way? !"##"$% &'#"( It seems that almost every twime I meet someone new, black, white or any other race, they seem to ask me what I'm mixed with. My immediate reply is "I'm black," but for some people that answer is never good enough. Now if we're being truthful, I'm a gumbo bowl. The fact of the matter is that my family is French creole, but seeing as French creole is almost a dead race, I identify as black because that is what we are. The real question isn't what I'm

mixed with, the real question is: Who are you to define what black looks like? Who are you to insist that I'm not black because my skin is a certain color and my hair looks a certain way? The problem doesn't come from outside of our race but within our race. Black is a number of shades, hair textures, body types and different types of bone structure. We seem to forget that pre-integration black women were constantly raped and abused. Mixes of children were common, especially in the days of slavery. Keeping with the fact that they used to breed us like dogs, what is fully black? We are not truly one thing, because there isn't a pure breed of any of us. So next time someone asks me what I'm mixed with, I might as well ask them what they're mixed with, because do any of us truly know? The most insulting thing we do to each other is assume that because someone

is "pretty" they are not exactly like us. Someone "pretty" has to be mixed, almost as if we do not believe that just being black is beautiful as well. And nine times out of 10, mixed people find this assumption insulting and exclusionary because it’s been implied that somehow that mixed people are not “fully black” and put into a separate category. By insisting that someone tell you their pedigree, you've dismissed, in one way or another, their proud declaration of "I am black," blocking them from the one group they've thought themselves a part of their entire lives. Oreo, mutt, light-bright — all of these are terms I've been called multiple times in my life, and all have become derogatory terms. These terms force mixed people and "lightskins" to stand on the outside of the circle, wondering what they can do to get to the middle.

I've always thought of it this way: two circles. One white circle, one black circle. Your questioned pedigree forces you to hang on the outside of the black circle, so you migrate between the two, unable to penetrate either circle fully. So you circle them like the Earth circles the sun, or like an electron circles an atom, but you're never able to penetrate their inner circle. Now, not every black person makes the mistake of exclusion, but there are many black people who do. Many black people that assume that black looks a certain way or is a certain thing, but I doubt that there could ever be a perfect definition of being black because there's so many ways of being black. All black people are gumbo bowls, and we are all one and the same together.

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As Americans waste food, Yemenis are facing starvation A dangerous war is leaving its civilians starved. )*+, ('"--#". “Don’t waste food because elsewhere children are starving,” is a common phrase parents often tell their children in many modern American homes. The phrase encourages us to think about the mountains of food waste brought about by production companies every day. The National Resources Defense Council reports that about 40 percent of food produced in the U.S. never actually gets eaten, leading to over $165 million in food waste. Elsewhere, starvation is a normal day-to-day experience. The turbulent

civil conflicts in Yemen, on the Arabian Peninsula, have left the nation’s population on the brink of famine. The northern Shia Muslim rebels, or Houthis, are currently in control of several parts in Yemen, including the capital city of Sana’a. In March, the Yemeni government was forced into exile by forces loyal to Yemen’s former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh. The ongoing displays of violence are preventing aid assistance from reaching areas in need. In addition to this, a bomb recently hit one of Yemen’s most vital ports, Aden, leaving the welfare of its people hanging in the balance. Residential neighborhoods have been destroyed, forcing people to live in local mosques and school buildings, which have little access to medicine, food or clean water. Neighborhoods have been flooded with

sewage waste, which causes the spread of malaria, diarrhea and skin diseases among children and adults. Hospital workers are being overwhelmed by the number of patients needing treatment, and are suggesting that some victims may need to be taken abroad because of health conditions too serious to be treated in Yemen. Recent statistics from the United Nations say that of the 26 million Yemeni people, more than 21 million are in need of some sort of humanitarian aid. Twenty million civilians have difficulty access to clean drinking water and sanitation, while 12.9 million are plagued by starvation. By contrast, many more Americans struggle with eating too much food rather than getting too little. In the U.S., more than a third of the population is obese, while nearly three in four people are above a normal body

mass index. While thousands of Yemeni children starve to death in the remnants of their homes, more Americans are tuning in to watch “Man vs. Food” than are watching news reports documenting their plight. While it’s easy to ignore the suffering of other people's worlds away, it is still important to recognize the widespread devastation in the developing world. More and more individuals are facing starvation every day in the developing world as a culture of excessive eating flourishes in the U.S. Bearing this in mind, remember the phrase we heard as children, “Don’t waste food because elsewhere children are starving.” Always remember how necessary it is to realize how much you have compared to so many others.

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sculpture from 2010-2015 before he passed away this past April at the age of 44 from a heart attack. Museum’s director Hannah Reeves explains this exhibit is different than most of the shows held at the gallery. During most shows, the artist is visiting from out of town and is present during the setup process, but this show is more sentimental because up until his passing, he taught at the art school. Sweet’s wife, Catherine Armburst, a current MU faculty member, curated a huge part of the show herself. She focused on the key elements of his finished and unfinished artwork, while also putting emphasis on his absence. For the exhibit, Armburst recreated Sweet’s desk at home, featuring some of his honors and many books from his bookshelf. It looked as if he had just stepped outside to take a quick phone call. Reeves’ favorite piece of the exhibit is that desk.

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Stuff in a Box CEO talks ambitious endeavors “It’s not just the title,” Peiser says. “A title comes with a lot of work. I’ll sleep when I’m dead, but I have to put the work in now.” MKH>MMC":OC7P!G Reporter To Jason Peiser, it’s never too early to be a CEO. In addition to his business management major and double minor in military science and entrepreneurship, Peiser is an Army ROTC cadet, president of Zeta Beta Tau, president of MU Entrepreneurs and is now the CEO of one of the new student businesses a part of the Missouri Student Unions Entrepreneurial Program, Stuff in a Box. “More or less, I’m busy from 5 a.m. when I start physical training, until 9 or 10 at night,” Peiser says. “Having free time would be cool, but I figure I’ll work hard now.” Peiser pitched the idea for Stuff in a Box during a

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This nonprofit hopes to turn praise toward the people involved in the company, not just the products it sells. !P!GJ!"+!66PC7 Reporter Mustard Seed Fair Trade is a trendy downtown retailer that offers ethically-produced goods with an artisan-focused mentality. The store opened its doors in 2008 with the goal of empowering artisans and farmers to make a difference in their community. The organization has continued to do just that, and after years of working with designers in the U.S and abroad, has made the decision to rebrand itself into something that would embody exactly what it stands for: Route. “We desperately wanted a name that reflected the work that we were doing and embodied the connections we were making for our customers and the makers of our product,” Board chairwoman and founder Christina Weaver says in an email. “Several people closely involved (including our original designer) have described Route as Mustard Seed all grown up. We are excited to present a look that is clean, sophisticated and very simple. We want to let our products and the stories that they create really shine. We will work hard to story tell and share about the amazing connections that change lives that are at the center of what we do.” The name “Route” is supposed to symbolize the company’s aim to create relationships and positive changes around the world. The store is a nonprofit and is fair trade, meaning it pays its producers in developing countries fair prices, and is not conducted to make a profit for those working there. “I think that the fact that they are free trade will appeal to students because most items that students can afford to buy that are cheap are not free trade at all, and come with a lot of consumer guilt when you buy them,”

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I love tennis shoes: Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re comfortable, easy and reliable. Perfect for a day of running errands or an afternoon of running the track, the tennis shoe is the perfect accessory for, well, everyone. However, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve noticed many people overlook the tennis shoe as a staple of the fashion world. This week, I want to break down how tennis shoes will have you looking stylish yet comfortable. One of the biggest misconceptions about tennis shoes is that they are only to be worn with workout attire or jeans. That is far from the truth. What makes tennis shoes so cool is that they are much more than athletic footwear. You actually make yourself look more fashion-conscious if you are able to match them with items outside of their normal pairing. One look I like in particular is the maxi dress/tennis shoe combo. For this look, I recommend a simple, solidcolored maxi dress. A loud pattern would distract from the star of the outfit, which is the shoe. If you do want to add a little oomph from the dress, try something with texture. The threedimensional texture allows your dress not to seem so plain, but also doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t act as a distraction. Next comes the fun part: picking out your shoe. When it comes to this look, you can choose from a variety of different shoes. However, because

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the dress adds a feminine touch, I recommend tennis shoes that are thin and masculine. The point is that the two counteract each other and create an effortlessly cool look. Examples of this type of tennis shoe include the Nike Air Max Thea, Nike Roshe Run, Nike SB Stefan Janoski Max Leather Shoes and New Balance 574 Lux Shoes. To complete the look, knot your dress at mid-shin. Maxi dresses usually overpower the shoes, but in this case we want to show them off. For a chilly day, I recommend a long sweater that also hits about mid-shin. As for jewelry, keep it simple with a watch on one wrist and a bangle on the other. I would recommend a pendant necklace, only because anything larger would draw attention away from the shoes. For your hair, a nice topknot will do just fine. But if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re having a bad hair day, a plain baseball cap will do the trick. As I wrap up this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s column, I do want to leave you with a few parting tips: t *O OP XBZ TIBQF PS GPSN EP NFO T "JS +PSEBOT &7&3 HP XJUI B ESFTT 5IFZ SF UBDLZ BOE * WF TFFO JU UPP NVDI t -PX UPQ TOFBLFST MPPL SFBMMZ HPPE XJUI TIPSU ESFTTFT TLJSUT BOE TIPSUT CFDBVTF UIFZ FMPOHBUF UIF MFH t 8IFO JU DPNFT UP DPMPSGVM QSJOU TOFBLFST ZPV EPO U OFDFTTBSJMZ IBWF UP NBUDI UIF DPMPST UP ZPVS PVUGJU *G ZPV BSF B QSP BU NJYJOH QSJOUT UIJT TIPVMEO U CF B QSPCMFN #VU GPS OFXCJFT * SFDPNNFOE NBUDIJOH DPMPST UIBU BSF DPNQMFNFOUBSZ UP FBDI PUIFS PO UIF DPMPS XIFFM Â&#x2030; CMVF BOE PSBOHF GPS FYBNQMF t 8IFO XFBSJOH MPOH KFBOT XJUI TOFBLFST SPMM UIFN BU UIF BOLMF Remember, tennis shoes are as cool as you make them. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be afraid to try something new!

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represent the lesbian population. She is a character who just so happens to be gay. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My sexuality,â&#x20AC;? she says in a season two episode, â&#x20AC;&#x153;is not the most interesting thing about me.â&#x20AC;? She is a full and developed character who is completely comfortable with who she is, the kind of representation lacking in television today. For all its special effects, plot twists and complex mythology, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Orphan Blackâ&#x20AC;? remains popular because of its heart. Each of the clones has her own story, her own struggles and her own soul. You can connect to Sarahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s desperation to keep her ragtag family safe, feel Allisonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s desperation to have a pictureperfect life in the suburbs, see Cosimaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s determination to be in command of her own body and biology. The castâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love for their craft bleeds into their sincere performances, enhanced by the wonderful scripts, making every new episode a worthy hour of television. I highly recommend â&#x20AC;&#x153;Orphan Blackâ&#x20AC;? for anyone looking for something strange and exciting. Fair warning: itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the kind of show that will suck you into its clutches and never let you go, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a worthwhile captivity. Season four of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Orphan Blackâ&#x20AC;? will premiere in 2016 on BBC America and previous seasons are available for streaming on Netflix.

together; the clonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; relationships are beautifully fleshed out and portrayed. Additional credit must be given, of course, to the talented supporting cast alongside Maslany. Jordan Gavaris gives a hilarious and wonderfully entertaining performance as Felix Dawkins, Sarahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flamboyant foster brother. Dylan Bruce is also a menacing and fascinating presence on the small screen as Paul Dierden, the mysteriously motivated boyfriend of deceased Beth who develops an attachment to Sarah. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Orphan Blackâ&#x20AC;? puts particular emphasis on the scientific element of science fiction. Its mythology is built on the biology of the clones, some of which have â&#x20AC;&#x153;defectsâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;mutations.â&#x20AC;? Sarah, for example, is able to have children, while the other clones are sterile. Cosima, meanwhile, suffers from a mysterious ailment that has taken the lives of her other â&#x20AC;&#x153;sistersâ&#x20AC;? (who arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t active characters in the show). Â The science is integral to the plot, acting as a driving force rather than a distraction. The science is also as sound as fictional science can be. The real-life inspiration for Cosimaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s character, Cosima Herter, a Ph.D. student herself on the history of biotechnology in the 20th century, serves as a consultant on the show. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Orphan Blackâ&#x20AC;? also provides a refreshing portrayal of LGBTQ characters. Cosima, who happens to be lesbian, is not a caricature meant to

This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Emmy nominations sent the Twitterverse into a frenzy. Critics, fans and casual viewers alike were abuzz about the nomination in the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series category of a relative newcomer to the television scene: Tatiana Maslany. After two years of being overlooked, Maslany finally got the recognition that fans â&#x20AC;&#x201D; like myself â&#x20AC;&#x201D; believe she deserves. Maslany stars in BBC Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Orphan Black,â&#x20AC;? a critically acclaimed series going into its fourth season next summer. Since its premiere in 2013, the show has only gotten better and looks to continue its upward climb. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Orphan Blackâ&#x20AC;? tells the story of Sarah Manning (Tatiana Maslany), a British orphan who assumes the identity of lawyer Beth Childs, a stranger who looks identical to her, after witnessing her kill herself in a chance encounter. Sarah soon discovers that both she and Beth are not just doppelgangers but clones, and she has â&#x20AC;&#x153;sistersâ&#x20AC;? spread throughout the world. Beth, she realizes, knew this already and had already tracked down many of the other clones. Throughout the seriesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; three seasons, Sarah meets Allison Hendrix (Tatiana Maslany), a high-strung, stereotypical soccer mom with a wild streak;

Cosima Â Â Niehaus (Tatiana Maslany), a quirky Ph.D. student in Experimental Evolutionary Development Biology; Helena (Tatiana Maslany), Sarahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s psychotic, estranged identical twin; and Rachel Duncan (Tatiana Maslany), a ruthless corporate powerhouse who was raised self-aware. Notice a pattern? When I first saw the trailer for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Orphan Black,â&#x20AC;? I did not register the fact that Maslany was playing every character I saw until the very end. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how incredible her performance was, and the trailer was only 30 seconds long. Maslany steals every scene she is in, no matter which clone she is portraying. Every time she switches roles, her entire persona alters: her body language, her accent, even the way she breathes. It is a nearly indescribable phenomenon, watching Maslany act out a raw and emotional scene alongside, well, herself. According to an interview in The New York Times, Maslany manages to memorize her lines by recording dialogue on GarageBand and running lines with the recordings as each different character. The clones themselves are all brilliantly characterized. Sarah brings a gritty energy to the show, Allison provides much-needed comedic relief, and Cosimaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quirky compassion brings the group together. The best scenes are when all of Maslanyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s characters are

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Megan Boyer shares her music honor roll !"#$%& !%$'( Megan Boyer is a bit of an audiophile. In an office overflowing with vinyl records, CDs and other music memorabilia, Boyer sat down with me this past week to talk about her favorite album — “This Year’s Model” by Elvis Costello. Boyer advises Honors College students here at MU, but since 2007, she’s also been the frontwoman of The Megan Boyer Band, a bluesy soul group based in Columbia. What is your favorite album? Well, my favorite album today is Elvis Costello’s “This Year’s Model” from 1978. How’d you come up with that? Well I’m a huge Elvis Costello fan. I flew to Maine to see him play, (and one) summer I drove the seven hours up to Sioux City, Iowa, to see a show. And it’s interesting because I wouldn’t say my favorite songs by him are even on this album. But as albums go, it’s a great album in the traditional sense of a record. It was obviously really well thought out in terms of the sequence; the track listing is great. It’s a beautiful album to play as intended because, like, the first song on the second side, “Hand in Hand” is just a killer track to start on a second side. And the album art is just an iconic photo. So iconic that, like, Justin Timberlake has copped it for photo shoots. It’s just from when people cared about every little thing (about albums). Do you remember when you first heard it or when you first became an Elvis Costello fan? I actually still own the original copy I purchased when I was a kid from Cornerstone Records in Jefferson City. It’s at home, and I think I have like four copies of it. I actually have three copies on vinyl and multiple copies on CD because he did a bunch of rereleases over the years and so I keep buying every release. And of course they did a deluxe edition on iTunes that had two I’d never heard before so I had to buy it because I’m a completist. But the first copy I bought at Cornerstone Records when I was 12 was a buck. When records were totally going out of style, you could pick them up used for nothing. People were unloading their entire record collections to replace them with CDs. So it’s just great. I had a couple of his other albums, but this is the first I got from what fans would consider his best years. Which I don’t know that I agree with, but it definitely had a punch to it that particularly intrigued an angsty teenager. It’s kind of an angry album. How did you find other music while you were growing up?

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Like most young people who end up being into music, I got really into The Beatles, and then Paul McCartney wrote some songs with Elvis Costello in the ’80s. Then, I bought a cassette tape because I knew Paul McCartney had written these songs and I was into him. I just found all the connections. (Costello is) probably the one person I’ve been listening to the longest and most stuff I listen to now isn’t even from this genre, it’s more blues and soul and jazz and funk and early punk stuff out of the U.K. like The Clash. Someone else I talked to said their choice wasn’t even from their favorite band because that band could field a solid Greatest Hits, but he didn’t have one specific album he totally loves. I think you could tell someone who hadn’t listened to him before, “Hey, this is his greatest hits,” and they’d be like, “Okay, yeah.” I did this really nerdy countdown last time I went to see him live and I subjected all my Facebook friends to this ten-day countdown with all my favorite songs, and I don’t think there was a single one from this record. But it still works together. And I don’t think there’s a lot of thought put into how you put an album together these days when you can just shuffle. Yeah, it’s about making a playlist, not making an experience of getting from track one to track 10. Yeah, and how the tonal qualities are different when you get to the center of the record, and so there were always certain kind of songs you’d hear when you got near the end of a side because the tonal qualities would change. I mean, all this stuff is a really good example of doing it well and the fact that he did all of it when he was in his early twenties is just infuriating because it’s like, ‘Ahh, you’re so young and you made something so great and the rest of us are just normal humans.’

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meeting for MU Entrepreneurs last spring. The idea was so wellliked that they put together a team, applied for the Student Unions Entrepreneurial Program and received the spot as one of two student-run businesses in the Student Center. Stuff in a Box is a custom care package service that allows users to send packages to MU students. “It’s such a cool experience for us on the Stuff in a Box team,

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sophomore and Route customer and former Maneater staff member Yasmine Benchaabane says. “You don’t really get that from Mustard Seed.” The physical store might be going under some renovations, as the company is currently grant-

the boundaries with what printmaking and drawing could be.” “I’m essentially presenting unfinished work as finished work, so it becomes kind of its own conventional art in a way,” Armburst says. A piece that strongly stood out to me at the exhibit was the Van Gogh book at the desk in the right back corner of the gallery. Sweet had marked the pages of the book, adding his senses of artistry and humor. He took

a Sharpie to the pictures in the book and crossed out some basic information about Van Gogh and rewrote it as if it were about him. The book represents the elements of visual perfection and the controlled style of art that Sweet had mastered in the span of his career. During his time teaching at MU, Sweet was always present in the classroom. He understood how to be flexible, which helped his students be successful. Sweet left many things behind

besides just his art. “In fourth or fifth grade, Eric had a teacher, I think her name was Mrs. E.w Walters something,” Armbust says. “Anyway, she used to tell the students, ‘You don’t have to, you get to.’ It has spread, and I didn’t realize how widespread it was, and a lot of his students are now educators themselves. They’re now in their own classrooms and they’ve been contacting me telling me how they’ve used that in their classrooms.”

Reeves agrees with the sentiment. “It’s a way of saying you are privileged to be an artist, you know, and for all of us who are artists, it’s just true,” she says. In honor of his work at MU, the Eric Sweet Memorial Scholarship Fund has been created to give back to kids who push outside the typical printmaking and drawing style here at the university.

because we’re predominantly sophomores,” Peiser says. “We’ve never done anything like this, so it’s an incredible learning experience.” In the weeks leading up to its official launch, the executive staff marketed for the business, handed out fliers and accepted pre-orders for packages. Its official launch was Sept. 1, and though the business has not yet implemented their full range of options, a customizable package will be available within the next few weeks. Stuff in a Box isn’t the only organization Peiser has worked from the ground up.

In the spring semester of 2015, Peiser, Paul and Maneater staffer Jordan Kodner recolonized Zeta Beta Tau on MU’s campus. The fraternity is now recognized by the Interfraternity Council and has grown to 40 members. Tyler Ingram is a sophomore at MU and a member of ZBT. He was among the first class that was initiated and met Peiser their freshman year. “I feel like every time I talk to him, he’s doing something new,” Ingram says. “He never sleeps.” As the president of two student organizations and now CEO of a student-run business, Peiser has

learned how to juggle his crazy schedule. “It’s not just the title,” Peiser says. “A title comes with a lot of work. I’ll sleep when I’m dead, but I have to put the work in now.” Peiser’s goal is to start a business and work it from the ground up. So, to Peiser, Stuff in a Box is great experience for his post-graduation goals. “Outside of the Army, I can’t see myself working for another person or having a boss,” Peiser says. “I want to start a business, and I think this is an awesome experience and I get to see everything that’s involved with

that (process).” After graduating, Peiser plans to spend time in the Army, attend graduate school and eventually open his own business. In his four years on campus, Peiser will go through officer training and will be commissioned as a second lieutenant after graduating. After graduating, successfully opening his own business and serving time in the Army, by age 45, Peiser’s ultimate aspiration is to drive a Bentley Continental Supersport Convertible. “It’s not a dream, it’s gonna happen, and I’m working everyday to make sure it happens,” Peiser says.

writing in order to do some basic remodeling. Route hopes to make the shop reflect the look of their online store: light and warm with neutral colors. Current Route director Carissa Boesch says the store has received ample positive feedback from longtime customers about the rebranding. “It's important to be as conscious as you can about how you're living your life and paying

attention to how your decisions affect others,” Boesch says in an email. “Connecting with each other as people and caring about others’ lives, whether we have any idea who they are or not, is really the bottom line and I'm proud to be a part of an organization that wants to facilitate those ideas.” According to Route’s website, the company puts their efforts toward alleviating poverty in the

rural areas where much of the store’s goods are purchased from. Volunteers make up a big part of the store’s work staff, further connecting the people of Columbia to the global community. “The goal behind starting Mustard Seed was to create a retail store that carefully chose beautiful and high quality pieces that were fairly traded from artisan groups who were

making a significant change in impoverished communities and marginalized people groups in the U.S. and abroad,” Weaver says. “We also started to educate customers and the community on the impact of their purchase and the long term change that can happen when we buy consistently from companies that are committed to ethical production.”

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problem? No. It’s more likely a youth issue, since Saturday was the first college game for five of Missouri’s receivers. Offensive coordinator Josh Henson was a bit harsher, though, but for another reason. He’s dealing with a quarterback situation that has many questions, and the youth at receiver is an easy target. “(One receiver ran) out of bounds; we dropped another touchdown and thought we had another right in our hands on a long throw earlier,” Henson said. “You change all that — we dropped another third-down completion that would have been a conversion — and his numbers are 17 or 18 of 22 with a couple more touchdowns. It looks

different. Some of that stuff, we can control as receivers. It wasn't on (junior quarterback Maty Mauk).” But for those playing the position, the touchdown catches in the first quarter were boosts. Earlier this offseason, sophomore J’Mon Moore separated his shoulder. Going through season-ending surgery would’ve slighted his brothers, he said, so he chose to play. With 11 minutes left in the first quarter of Saturday’s game, Moore leaped backward to haul in a touchdown pass from Mauk, putting the year’s first points on the board. “A couple of weeks ago, I had to make a decision,” Moore said following

Saturday’s game. “I wasn’t sure if I was going to play, but I did a lot of rehab, and the next thing you know, I’m here. (A catch like that) uplifts our spirits. We hear a lot of things, a lot of people questioning what we can do, so with us making reps and connections with Maty on the field, it really does feel good.” That catch meant more than six points. After losing Bud Sasser, Jimmy Hunt and the majority of weapons on the edge, Mizzou’s young guys have been faced with a tall task. Every catch is important, said Nate Brown, who caught Mauk’s second

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Pinkel says he doesn’t treat road games differently from home games “It’s all about the weekly grind coach Pinkel has us do,” sophomore receiver J’Mon Moore said. CD@@'I?2JD; Senior Staff Writer On Friday, the Missouri Tigers football team will board a bus, hop on Highway 63 due south and drive. They’ll exit Highway 63 some 290 miles later on Johnson Avenue in Jonesboro, Arkansas, head east on Highway 91, take a right on A Street, and the destination

will be on the left. Centennial Bank Stadium: home of the Arkansas State Red Wolves. Five hours and 14 minutes. That’s what Google Maps says. Despite all this, the unfamiliar stadium, the unfriendly fans, the lack of Tiger tails hanging out the trunks of passing traffic, coach Gary Pinkel won’t treat this Saturday any differently. “This isn’t the first time (we’ve been on the road),” Pinkel said. The veteran coach knows a thing or two about playing on the road. After all, he’s done it 66 times over his 14 years at Missouri. In those 66 games, his Tigers have gone 34-32. Currently, they’re riding a 10-game road win streak, the

best in program history. So when Gary Pinkel tells his players not to treat road games any differently, you can bet they’ll listen to him. “It’s all about the weekly grind coach Pinkel has us do,” sophomore receiver J’Mon Moore said. “We practice hard. Practice how you play, that’s what coach says. We take it one game at a time.” Clichés aside, Moore is right about “The Grind” Pinkel puts his team through on a weekly basis. The head coach used that same “grind” rhetoric to describe the process that prepares his team for every fall Saturday on the field. It’s not so much what you do, but how you do it, according to Pinkel. You don’t just watch film. You watch it the

right way with the right people. You don’t make judgments on other teams’ players. You analyze the scouting reports — the right way — without jumping to conclusions. “The Grind,” as Pinkel called it, couldn’t be possible without the leadership of not only the coaches, but also the upperclassmen. Each veteran player is assigned a younger brother for August camp. They teach them “The Grind,” and how to watch video and act the night before a game. But at the end of the day, it’s all about execution. Senior Ian Simon knows this. All the

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0#123*452647*89*9134:;<=*>?<44*4:8@*A;B<>5 Drew Lock: “We have some true studs in our class right now, and I can’t wait to see us all eventually get on the field at the same time and see what happens here.” '&(!)*+$&!",-./ Sports Editor As soon as Drew Lock scored his first touchdown with a 78-yard pass to Tyler Hunt, he was in celebration mode. The freshman quarterback ran toward the sideline, greeted center Evan Boehm and starter Maty Mauk with powerful high-fives and then shared a moment with defensive tackle Terry Beckner Jr. All smiles. Beckner and Lock are two of the eight true freshmen that saw playing time in Missouri’s 34-3 season-opening win against Southeast Missouri State on Saturday. Lock finished his three-drive debut with 138 passing yards and one touchdown, while Beckner managed to tally his first four tackles as a Tiger. After his first performance, Beckner, who was listed as second-string last week, was moved up on the depth chart to co-starter, alongside junior Josh Augusta. “Terry did a lot of good things,” coach Gary Pinkel said during Monday’s media session. “He's really coming along, really maturing and it's really nice to see. He's a really humble guy and those guys kind

of seem to mature quicker. They don't get caught up in themselves, so we're really excited about his progress." With Beckner and Lock considered five-star and four-star recruits coming out of high school, respectively, they are being looked to be impact players right away for the young Tigers. “We knew that if we got a (recruiting) class rolling here, we could do something special here,” Lock said following the SEMO win. “I feel like maybe you saw a little hint of it tonight. I’m not saying the whole world’s coming down because we played semi-well, but we have some playmakers in our class.” On paper, you wouldn’t expect Lock and Beckner to be good friends. One’s from Lee’s Summit, the other from East St. Louis. One loves to hold a conversation, the other timid and reserved. They play almost direct opposite positions on the field. But off the field, they share a special bond — and Lock insists his pal isn’t as shy as he seems. "He doesn't have Twitter, he doesn't have Instagram, so he's kind of a quiet guy in a sense,” Lock said. “But once you truly get to know him, he's really outgoing, and he's a good guy. He's one of my better friends here now, and it's really cool. You don't really know him — you just think of him as 'the' Terry Beckner. Now, when you see him and talk to him in person, he's pretty normal, believe it or not." Another immediate-impact freshman for the Tigers is punter Corey Fatony, who averaged 45.8 yards in six punts,

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in a starting position Saturday. Kicking off, Fatony averaged 64.3 yards per kick. Fatony is the first punter to arrive at Mizzou already on scholarship since 2007, when junior college transfer Jake Harry was signed. "Years ago, when I was at Washington, we had a bunch of great kickers and punter, and we never put a guy on scholarship ever,” Pinkel said. “You had to come in and earn it. The biggest difference now is the development of these kickers and punters. “Some of the punts he had were outstanding, and it’s encouraging that he’s a freshman. I just like his competitiveness — the confidence he has. It’s not cocky in any way, just the determination is pretty good. (I’m) very

pleased with that.” The freshmen who will see playing time this year are not all that’s to be seen from the 2015 recruiting class, according to Lock. “The guys that aren't on the field right now just have really good guys ahead of them,” Lock said. “We have some true studs in our class right now, and I can't wait to see us all eventually get on the field at the same time and see what happens here." In the meantime, the eight true freshmen on the depth chart will be working hard to grow closer. “Taking coaching, the coaching staff does a really good job of bringing us together,” Fatony said. "We really just kind of want to become a family.”

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Pinkel creates unnecessary, harmful QB controversy Start him or sit him. Pinkel has to choose. !"#$ %"##$& There’s an old saying in football: “If you have two quarterbacks, you don’t have one.” I know, I know. You’ve already heard more than enough quarterback controversy. At this point, even the Missouri football team and the quarterbacks involved are ready to move forward. But thanks to coach Gary Pinkel, the Drew Lock Hype Train and its ensuing controversy are just leaving the station. After Saturday’s 34-3 Missouri win over Southeast Missouri State, the debate among Missouri fans centered on the team’s two quarterbacks: junior starter Maty Mauk and Lock, the babyfaced freshman backup. The discussion was already there in the preseason, but it gained steam when Pinkel named Lock the second-string and elected to give him the opening offensive series of the second quarter. Missouri fans have seen this before in Pinkel’s management of young quarterback prospects, but that doesn’t necessarily make the strategy a good one. He’s dumping highly combustible jet fuel into the train’s tank, perhaps sending Missouri’s high hopes for this

season up in smoke. In fairness to Pinkel, Lock played no small part himself. The freshman from Lee’s Summit High School connected on his first four passes, leading the Tigers to a field goal at the conclusion of his second quarter cameo. As if his pocket presence, rhythm and arm strength weren’t enough to capture fans’ imaginations, Lock later found senior running back Tyler Hunt for a 78-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter. Granted, Hunt was wide open. But Lock’s poise in extending the play, scanning the field and firing to Hunt opened more than a few eyes. Overall, Lock completed six of 10 passes for 138 yards and the Hunt touchdown. Whether you pre-ordered your ticket aboard the Drew Lock Hype Train or you’re now chasing it down in hopes of hopping on at the last moment, Pinkel is pushing the Train to dangerous speeds heading toward the first sharp curve of Southeastern Conference play later this month. Coach, it’s decision time. Quarterback controversies never end well, especially when neither of the two clearly fits into a smaller, well-defined role. Regardless of whom Pinkel chooses, he must choose before he sacrifices Missouri’s entire season. Want to throw your support behind Lock and abandon Maty Mauk? Fine. Want to make Lock wait a year and reevaluate? Fine. But Missouri, especially its young wide receiving corps, needs the consistency

and leadership of a firmly established starting quarterback without the constant disruption of indecision. Sure, a few teams have had success playing a two-quarterback system. But the only national championship won from a dual-quarterback strategy was Florida’s in 2006, spearheaded by Chris Leak and a smooth-faced freshman named Tim Tebow. But Leak and Tebow were obviously different quarterbacks — Leak, a pocket passer; Tebow, a shortyardage power runner. Mauk and Lock are too similar to work in tandem. Thus, Leak and Tebow put no pressure on one another; they weren’t in “competition” as much as they complemented each other. The same cannot be said of a Missouri quarterbacking duo from what’s been seen in the Tigers’ first game. Most successes from true twoquarterback systems came long before Missouri’s current players were born: Georgia in 1959, Southern California in 1962, Florida State from 1977-79 and so on. Media coverage and fan interaction happened quite differently pre-2006, and quarterback controversies thrive on the unnecessary drama driven by social media. There was no Twitter forum from which fans could badger players or controversy could be stirred. When Florida won the national championship on Jan. 8, 2006, Twitter was only six months old. If you’re in search of evidence to draw conclusions toward dual-QB systems’ future validity, a more apt comparison

would be South Carolina’s infamous “Smelley Garcia.” When Gamecocks coach Steve Spurrier opted to platoon his two quarterbacks, sophomore Chris Smelley and redshirt freshman Stephen Garcia, fans slapped the mocking moniker on his decision after a disappointing 7-6 season. Allow South Carolina’s failure to serve as Missouri’s warning. Unless Pinkel leaves one of his quarterbacks on the bench, this discussion won’t end. After every practice, reporters will ask about his quarterback plan for the next game. After every mistake in practices or games, although he said he doesn’t feel threatened by his counterpart, Maty Mauk will glance over his shoulder at the Drew Lock Hype Train continuing to gain on him, and wonder if Pinkel will finally make the switch. The Tigers’ young receivers will try to adjust to each quarterback simultaneously, instead acclimating to neither. That’s not the blueprint for defending an SEC East title. Notice that I haven’t supported one quarterback over the other. That issue is secondary. Both Mauk and Lock are capable of leading Missouri to a third straight SEC championship game; the Mauk-Lock combination is not. The Tigers need a single quarterback, and they need him soon. The longer Gary Pinkel can’t make up his mind, the closer Missouri’s train draws to hurtling wildly off the rails.

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“After last season, I had a pretty good season, so my expectations were pretty high for myself,” Russell said. “Obviously I want to get out here, make a difference in goal scoring, assists and I expect a lot from myself generally so obviously I have high standards this season.” Russell finished second in goal scoring last season with seven goals. So far, the season has been tepid for the Tigers. They enter Southeastern Conference competition with a record of 2-1-2. A major factor in the slow start has been the team’s goal scoring, or lack thereof. Through five games, the team has only put the ball in the net six times. During cold streaks such as these, the team looks for players like Russell to lead them out. “I have a quote: ‘If you take 10 shots, at least one of them is going to go in.’ So the more that we’re shooting, the more that we are making a ruckus in the box, the more potential we have of scoring,” Russell said. “My thing that I always say is ‘Hey, it’s coming, it’s coming. Any goal is coming.’” This attitude allows Russell to stay positive and help the underclassmen remain calm through the drought. “Eventually everything will click, and we’ll be on our way,” Russell said. Coach Bryan Blitz has been pleased with what he has seen so far in his oldest set of players. “I can hear them staying positive,” Blitz said. “So I think from that standpoint, they’ve really been able to

!"#$%&'%()! Reporter If there was a word to describe the Missouri soccer team, it would be “young.” Out of the 27 players on the roster, only 12 are considered upperclassmen. Out of the 12, only five emerge seniors. And seniors Reagan Russell, Candace Johnson, Lauren Flynn, Brittany Conley and Macee Blanchard are not only expected to lead the team, but also to improve upon their performance a season ago, which saw the Tigers put down in the second round of the NCAA tournament. In order to make the team a contender, the seniors faced a tough task in getting all of the underclassmen into their game form. “We have a lot of underclassmen,” Johnson said. “So teaching them the ropes is always a little tricky because it is a big transition. It’s not like spring sports where you have all fall semester to prepare yourself for the games. You only have four weeks in the summer to teach them how to play at the college level.” The seniors will also be looked to as mentors to the younger players.

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help us and help this game.” The Tigers are hoping to battle through the growing pains that they have shown so far in the season and reach the goal that they set at the beginning of the season: an SEC championship. “Our goals at the beginning of the season were to play our best and have fun, to get us close to an SEC Championship, hopefully win an SEC Championship and then continue on into the NCAA Tournament,” Johnson said. “As long as we follow the little things and do what we need to do in practice and scouting report, and then (by) game time, we’ll be able to reach all of the goals that we set for ourselves.”

With the brunt of the pressure sitting on their shoulders, the seniors know that they must perform to their highest level. “(By the time I leave) I just hope that I did what my teammates wanted me to do, what my coaches expected of me and I hope that I achieve everything I set out to do. I hope I achieved everything the coaches expected me to achieve,” Russell said. Blitz does not seem overly stressed about how his seniors will play going into conference play. “I think we all rely on those guys, you are only as good as your seniors and we have a really good class,” he said.

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In its past five games dating back to last season, Arkansas State has sur rendered an average of 47 points per game. While that’s a horrendous average, it wouldn’t be so bad if the Red Wolves’ offense wasn’t just as bad. During that same five-game stretch, the Red Wolves averaged 29 points per game. Not too bad, but in week one they struggled to put up six points and went on to lose by seven touchdowns. Not only do the Tigers shut down this struggling offense, but Maty Mauk and/or Drew Locke torch this secondary for a big road win.

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a catch for the whole group,” Brown said. “One man’s success is everybody’s success, so we look at each other as brothers and just great teammates. When one of us makes a play, we’re all excited.” Brown is another sophomore wide receiver that’s expected to

make an impact catching balls from Mauk or freshman Drew Lock. “They both performed well,” Brown said of the quarterbacks, though you could tell that’s not something he wanted to talk about. Why? Because that situation affects him and his

counterparts every down. “We’re a young group,” he said, but added that dwelling on that won’t heed production. On Saturday, many of the receivers will take the field in an away environment for the first time. With the quarterback talk prevalent and the fans

screaming, Brown said it’s best to “just have to embrace it.” “Everybody is going to have their opinion (on the receivers as a group),” Brown said. “You just have to focus on what you’re doing, what your guys are doing, and everything else will take care of itself.”

road. The safety knows what it’s like to play — and win — in big-time settings. From the Rocky Top in Tennessee to the Swamp in Florida and everything in between, it’s not easy playing on the road. It’s even tougher in the Southeastern Conference.

“I was in awe,” Simon said of being on the road as a freshman. “I was in someone else’s house. You look around and you don’t see much of your own colors. It’s really loud and it’s a hostile environment with people yelling at you. It’s crazy going on the road.”

He still buys into Pinkel’s system and doesn’t treat it any differently. He has some advice for the freshmen: Prepare. Work hard. Sleep well the night before. But at the end of the day, playing college football is something very few people get

to experience. Have fun. “Enjoy the moment,” Simon said. “That’s the biggest thing. You want to enjoy yourself on those road games.”

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