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September 16, 2015

MSA president combats campus discrimination ALLYSON SHERWIN, LUCILLE SHERMAN & EMILY GALLION of The Maneater Staff Missouri Students Association President Payton Head decorated his office, unsurprisingly, in all black and gold. On his desk sits a black canvas with gold letters featuring an Albert Einstein quote: “The world will not be destroyed by evil, but by those who watch without doing anything.”

Head was walking through MU’s campus on the night of Friday, Sept.

11 when a group of men in the back of a pickup truck yelled racial slurs at him as they passed. Saturday afternoon, he posted a Facebook status detailing the experience and calling for more awareness and discussion on the treatment of minorities.

It quickly went viral. Yet, it wasn’t just a rant.

He said in an interview that he

wanted to focus on creating a dialogue instead of making the post about his own personal hurt.

“Of course there’s a lot of hurt and pain that’s associated with living in a world that’s not created for you,” he said, “but at the same time, if you’re not able to vocalize that to the people with privilege, who can help change that world, who have the institutional privilege to create change, then there’s no way to see change.”

Head is no stranger to this sort of challenge. He almost didn’t run for president because he was told he “would never win” as a black man who wasn’t involved in a fraternity. That was his first experience with racially motivated aggression.

During his sophomore year, another group of young men on the back of a pickup “booed at him and his friend,

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Prevention

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A beautiful blend of orange and brown butterfly wings painted the sky and fluttered above the crowd of students as part of a National Suicide Prevention Week memorial event Sept. 10.

The Mizzou Suicide Prevention Coalition, an organization dedicated to

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Barnes is permanently taking her nononsense attitude to MSA exec.

approaching and wondered why no one was doing anything. A group of students decided to hold their first memorial event using lanterns.

This year, the lanterns were replaced by butterflies.

For sophomore Danielle Katz releasing butterflies is like life. Sometimes it will not match expectations. Katz was one of more than 200 people who turned out

for the butterfly release.

“I almost lost someone I really care about, and that is why I am here today,” Katz said. “I could have if I hadn’t done something, and that is what today is about: doing something. We have to speak. We have to act to do what we can to prevent people from taking their own lives.”

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raising awareness for suicide prevention methods, held the memorial event at Francis Quadrangle. The purpose of the event was to honor those affected by suicide and mental illness. The butterflies were meant to be a symbol of hope.

The MSPC is only one-year-old.

Co-Founder and Director of MSPC Julia Schroer said last year they realized National Suicide Prevention Week was

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Mizzou Suicide Prevention Coalition holds memorial event

MOVE From grinding to latte art: How your favorite cup of joe in town is made.

SPORTS Carly Kan recently scored her 1000th point, but she’s not stopping there.

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SPORTS Why Mizzou is going to run through UConn’s weak defense.

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Corrections The article “‘Repeal 6214’ sues the city� published Sept. 9 incorrectly attributed a quote to Pam Cooper regarding the smell of sewage at Flat Branch Park. The Maneater regrets the error.

The article “Craft Studio seeking credit for classes� published Sept. 9 has been corrected to say that Senate Speaker Kevin Carr supports the idea of adding credit hours to the Craft Studio, not the entirety of the Missouri Students Association. Statistics regarding the staff at the Craft Studio were also wrong. The Maneater regrets the error.

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MU students gathered at the Student Recreational Complex to watch other students compete in dance teams Sept. 9, 2015, for the annual 2015 Fall Fest hosted by the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center.

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MU student Kelcea Barnes poses for a portrait Tuesday outside the Student Center. Barnes was recently appointed as the chief of staff of the Missouri Students Association executive cabinet.

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Gun activity around campus puts policies into question Under Missouri law, rifles and handguns can be purchased from any of Columbia’s 10 firearm retailers without requiring a permit of the purchaser.

ALLYSON SHERWIN Reporter Eleven gun-related crimes and activities were reported from Aug. 2 to Sep. 9 around the city of Columbia. Four of these reports have been armed robberies taking place in various locations throughout the city.

Guns are not new around the city. Crime reports in Columbia involving firearm activity increased by 60 percent from 2008 to 2012, with the majority of them occurring in 2011.

As the population has increased, so have gunrelated crimes. In 2000, Columbia had 85,986 residents, according to the Census Bureau. Now, recent reports show that population has climbed to 108,500 people.

MU Police Department Maj. Brian Weimer maintains that campus gun crime is not fluctuating drastically.

“I would not say it's increased,” Weimer said regarding the amount of gun crimes on campus.

Weimer said the firearm activity around campus only seems like it has increased “if you play the games and sensationalize it with percentages.”

Under Missouri law, rifles and handguns can be purchased from any of Columbia’s 10 firearm retailers without requiring a permit of the purchaser. A license of ownership, certifying the gun's official owner, also isn't mandatory under law. However, the right to carry a handgun in public

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Barnes official as chief of staff The junior worked the job as interim over the summer but will stay on permanently to replace Cara Hartwig.

EMILY GALLION Reporter

The Missouri Students Association’s full Senate and the Operations Committee both unanimously confirmed junior Kelcea Barnes on Sept. 8 and 9.

After confirmation, Barnes now holds the position for the remainder of MSA President Payton Head’s term until the end of the calendar

year.

Barnes worked as interim chief of staff this summer after her predecessor, Cara Hartwig, went to New York to intern at an investment bank. Hartwig left her position to focus on an accepted full-time position upon her graduation in May with the company. So, a permanent replacement had to be found.

“Three things that are definitely the capstones of her personality are her charisma, her sense of respect and her passion,” Operations Committee Chairman Dan Paterson said. “I think her experiences and her stories definitely tie into those three things.”

Barnes is double majoring in sociology and international studies

and minoring in leadership and public service. Her supporters describe her as an assertive leader.

When introducing her to the first full Senate, Head said that “Kelcea don’t play,” and Social Justice Committee Chairwoman Greer Wetherington described her as “fierce.”

“I don’t take no for an answer,” Barnes said. “A lot of people, when something doesn’t work out they say ‘ok fine, I’m done,’ and especially with things related to student interest, we can’t just be done.”

As told by Paterson, the only “red flags” that came up in her Operations confirmation were

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Tiger’s Lair

Tiger’s Lair names first female spirit chair Tiger’s Lair director Veronica DeStefano and Campus Activities Coordinator Kaci Drennan said they think Rachel Sirany is off to a good start.

TESS VRBIN Reporter Rachel Sirany said she understands why women would hesitate to apply for a position never held by a woman before.

“If a girl hasn’t done something before, it’s kind of hard to picture

yourself there,” she said. “When you see two large men running around on the field, it’s kind of hard for girls to imagine themselves being there, too.”

Sirany became the first female spirit chair for Tiger’s Lair, the official student cheering section for the football team.

“I really fell in love with SEC football once I came to Mizzou,” she said. “I wasn’t too into it before, but I’m definitely a No. 1 fan now.”

Tiger’s Lair director Veronica DeStefano and Campus Activities Coordinator Kaci Drennan chose Sirany for the position at the end of last spring semester. Sirany was a Tiger’s Lair coordinator at the time

and was eligible to apply for a chair position.

DeStefano and Drennan were initially unsure of what position to give Sirany because they did not know where her passion was. When they asked her what position she preferred, she surprised them.

“She said she really wanted to be spirit chair and would take it really seriously,” DeStefano said.

“She said she would devote all her time to Tiger’s Lair this year.”

DeStefano said that she and Drennan doubted whether Sirany’s voice would have enough of a boom to successfully get the Lair’s attention, but

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and repeatedly called him the n-word,” he said.

“I’ve always dealt with microaggressions, and there’s racism in all sorts of things that we do, but never directly had someone said something like that to me, out of hatred, to my face,” he said. “Like, they looked me in the eye and called me the n-word.”

“I’ve experienced moments like this multiple times at THIS university, making me not feel included here” That was when Head decided he had to stay involved with campus leadership to make a positive difference at MU. “It was in that moment that I realized I had a decision to make: I could go back down South to the historically black college that was still offering me a scholarship, but then I realized, what would I be doing if I left?” he said. “Later that semester, I decided that I was going to run for MSA president and that I was going to do it regardless of what everybody told me was possible.”

Head won the election with the biggest voter turnout in MSA history, and he and MSA Vice President Brenda SmithLezama were the first slate with two minority students to win an election.

Now, with only a few more months left in his presidency, it’s happened again: a racial obscenity spat at him from the back of a pickup truck. He said he doesn’t want to hear about it happening anymore.

“It started as a hurt for me, but then it became a hurt for my school, because what kind of legacy am I leaving if I don’t talk about these issues?” he said. “I love my school. This place is my home, but I want my home to be better.”

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Many of you are so privileged that you’ll never know what it feels like

For many students, this is nothing surprising. Other minority students have experienced it firsthand themselves.

“I would notice at parties

my friends would introduce me as their ‘Asian friend Crystal’ when I would be standing right there,” said Crystal Duan, junior diversity peer educator and former Maneater staffer.

Duan said she had also been catcalled with racially specific language. Head also references the experiences of others to whom he’s close, such as a transgender student who was spat on and a Muslim woman who was called a terrorist.

These students’ stories never went viral on social media.

“When this happens to them, they don’t have administrators calling them and MUPD checking up on them to make sure they’re OK,” Head said.

Head said that though his influential position allowed his story to gain attention, for many students, their own personal run-ins with discrimination go widely ignored.

“I really appreciate Payton using his voice,” said Rivu Dasgupta, student co-coordinator for Diversity Peer Educators and former Maneater staffer. “That being said, I think it’s kind of awful that it has to be this way, and we have to have our MSA president speak about (the issue for people to listen).”

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a variety of different student organizations, but he said his favorite is DPE, an organization that offers sensitivity training and education to promote greater cultural understanding and awareness. He said that his involvement in the organization gave him the tools to communicate about these issues with others.

“Sometimes you can feel some sort of oppression, but you don’t really have the words to talk about it,” Head said.

The objective of being a DPE is promoting inclusivity in every facet of university life. Part of the DPE program is conducting facilitations, which is a diversity simulation in which people can role-play different kinds of identities.

Duan said the facilitations “get people to think more about the concept of inclusivity.”

“If you see violence like this and don’t say anything, you, yes YOU, are a part of the problem.”

Head encourages everyone to be aware of biases present in society and to wake up “because some students don’t get to sleep.”

“If your simple existence is not a political statement, I’m

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MSA President Payton Head speaks at an event earlier this year.

really going to need for you to check your privilege,” Head wrote in his post.

Head said that there are many things that MU students don’t hear about because of their privilege, which allows them to ignore issues that do not directly impact them. As MSA president and a self-identified advocate for those who can’t speak up for themselves, Head has conveyed that he has fought and will continue to fight for those who are oppressed for “simply being who they are.”

“If this post made you feel uncomfortable, GOOD! That means I’m doing my job. It’s time to wake up Mizzou.”

From 2012 to 2015, nine hate crimes were reported to the MU Police Department. Four of the nine crimes occurred in 2015, including an incident in April where a swastika was burned onto the ceiling of a stairwell in Mark Twain Hall.

“We take every incident of bias and discrimination very seriously, and we are going to take any action we can against any perpetrators we can identify,” MU spokesperson Christian Basi said.

Basi elaborated on MU’s response to hate crimes or

incidents of racial bias.

“We encourage any member of the university community who feels unsafe to contact the MUPD immediately,” Basi said. “We also encourage anyone who ever experienced or even witnessed what we call a biased incident involving discrimination within the MU community to file a bias report as quickly as possible.”

MU has offices devoted to expanding campus policies and behaviors to include students of every identity, including the Equity Office, the Chancellor's Diversity Initiative, the Disability Center and the LGBTQ Resource Center.

“Our school could be doing more,” Duan said. “I’m not saying the efforts we’ve put in so far are very good or very bad, but I think our school could be aspiring to have a higher level of inclusivity.”

Head said he plans to use his remaining time in office to combat the inequalities on campus mentioned in his Facebook post.

To students who are experiencing oppression on campus, Head advised: “Breathe. Fight. Repeat.”

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Grad students push for affordable child care Not all MU grad student parents agree with requests for affordable child care.

EMILY O’CONNOR Reporter A graduate student parent at MU pays about one-third of their income solely in child care fees.

The high cost of childcare in Columbia has taken a toll on MU graduate student parents. A plea for affordable childcare was on MU Graduate Rights Forum’s Aug. 19 list of seven demands for administration.

MU administration has yet to address graduate concerns for affordable childcare.

The national average salary for graduate students is $27,735, according to Glassdoor.com, a job search website.

The average annual fee for a full-time day care center in Missouri is $8,632 per year, according to an annual report from Child Care Aware of America.

Natalie McCabe, a third-year doctoral student in the theater department, said she is simply unable to afford any child care services in Columbia. This means she must juggle her 15-month-old daughter with her schoolwork during the day.

“On my stipend, it’s just too much to

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The butterflies at the event were wrapped in piece of paper saying “Living is Conquering.”

“One of the biggest points we wanted to get across is that it is not only in memory of those we have lost but to honor and give hope to those who are currently struggling with mental illness,” Schroer said. “Studies show one in four people on college campuses are struggling with mental health. We really want to recognize those people as well and show that they are not alone.”

Katz said the butterflies were not agile when released, similar to how people coming out of facing something are not perfect.

This year, there were supposed to be balloons. Because of the high number they saw on their Facebook event, they realized they had to change it. Schroer said she Googled alternatives to balloon releases, and butterflies were the best alternative she could find.

“This is an even better visual representation, yet still hopeful,” Co-founder and Director of MSPC Morgan Domijan said. “There is still life in it. When you see butterflies, you see life, you see hope. It didn’t mean to happen, but I think it was meant to happen.”

After the event, they saw the potential to bring more awareness, she said.

“We came together because we realized a conversation needed to happen, and no one wanted to talk about it,” Domijan said.

In a matter of days after the memorial service the organization formed last year, Schroer said. The MSPC then grew to a steering committee currently consisting of 25 people.

“Not only did we want to join forces to plan events but also to start a conversation,” Domijan said. “We have realized in the past year that a conversation has started on our campus. It is amazing to see people actually saying the word suicide, and for it to not be a scary word. People aren’t afraid to use it.”

Domijan said she did not think this organization would grow this big so quickly. “(Suicide) is not talked about enough,” Domijan said. “People are scared, and there is nothing to be scared about. People don’t

afford,” McCabe said. “I don’t want to go into further debt for child care.”

Eric Scott, a third-year doctoral student and member of the Forum on Graduate Rights, said it’s a relatively small group who would need on-campus childcare, but that it’s “still an important constituency.”

"In my opinion, this demand is the one the university has shown the least interest in addressing," Scott said.

Scott said the very existence of affordable childcare would show an understanding of the needs of graduate students who are in their late 20s and 30s, which is around the time people start having families.

The issue of unaffordable child care forces McCabe and her husband, the Artist in Residence and adjunct teacher for the theater department, to take their daughter with them to class at times.

“Our schedules overlap for about two hours every week, so my husband either teaches in class with her or we have a colleague babysit her,” McCabe said.

Because she must find time for school in addition to her responsibilities as a mother, McCabe can only complete her work in the evenings. She said she sleeps four to five hours each night.

McCabe believes some faculty still hold a patriarchal mindset in which women are expected to stay at home with their know who to reach out to or how to talk about it. When you start reaching out to people, it opens up so many doors for people who had no idea that those doors could be opened.”

The event raised $700 for Wake Up, a documentary about suicide prevention.

Participants could purchase a $10 tank top or a $5 individualized package containing a reallife butterfly.

Katz said the over 200-person turnout shows that MU students care about this issue.

She said she overheard someone that said they were surprised by the outcome because he believed students only cared about alcohol and getting high.

“We are all here because we all know somebody or it affects us,” Katz said. “When someone hears someone has attempted suicide sometimes people just go straight for ‘That was stupid’ instead of asking ‘Are they OK?’” Domijan said MSPC dedicated a lot of time to building the organization during their first active semester. They plan to work hand in hand with other resources and collaborating to spread the message this year, Schroer said.

“I think with a new organization there is a lot of trial and error,” Schroer said. “We have brainstormed ways to make our events better and better.”

Schroer said they also want to find a way to share the training they have received with the rest of the student population.

Domijan said this year they want students to know who they are and that they are here to help anyone who needs it. Schroer said she wants to publicize the many resources that are available on campus.

“A lot of people who are struggling with suicide and contemplating suicide are silenced,” Schroer said. “And that’s obviously not purposefully. I think that can be in part due to the stigma and the fear of what others might think of them if they do seek out help.

Also it can be in part because they are not sure how to get help.”

MU offers many mental health resources to students including the Student Health Center, Mid-Missouri Crisis line, MU Counseling Center, Mizzou Suicide Prevention Coalition and the Wellness Resource Center.

Domijan said it would be beneficial if people knew how to respond to others who have a mental illness.

families. For this reason, they do not realize the need for graduate student child care today.

“In the modern world, women are a part of the work force, and they need to realize that,” McCabe said. “We will do better work and research if we have resources available, like child care.”

Last year, MU demolished the University Village space that offered graduate student housing and the Student Parent Center child care service due to concerns about the building’s old age. The MU-owned building offered housing to all graduate students and undergraduate students with families, MU spokesman Christian Basi said.

The Student Parent Center provided child care services on one level of University Village. MU subsidized prices, but at approximately $800 per month, even that was not very affordable, McCabe said.

According to the Student Parent Center website, their standard rate of full-time child care for an infant was approximately $820 per month. However, depending on the family size and annual income, the center could offer discounted rates.

Rebuilding University Village would cost several million dollars and is not feasible for MU’s budget, Basi said.

Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin and a review

committee created a proposal in fall 2014 for MU to give the land to an interested developer for free to build a child care center. The developer would be required to offer a discounted price to MU students for child care services at the center, Basi said.

The proposal has been open since fall 2014, but no developers have responded, Basi said. MU is still open to developer interest in the proposal.

Drew Fowler, a doctoral student in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, said he disagrees with graduate requests for affordable child care services.

He is the father of a 21-month-old girl and uses a child care service in Columbia.

He said he does not feel MU is obligated to provide affordable child care.

“I do not think it is an inherent right to have health insurance or child care,” Fowler said. “It is not something I’m entitled to.”

When Fowler decided to go back to graduate school, he and his wife knew there would be costs like child care involved.

“We knew we would have to find a way to afford child care,” Fowler said.

“But we consider these responsibilities our responsibilities.”

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MU student Elise Tadros releases a butterfly Thursday as a part of an event put on by the Mizzou Suicide Prevention Coalition in recognition of World Suicide Prevention Week. MSPC aims to remove the stigma associated with using the word 'suicide' and raise awareness and connect students to resources for suicide prevention.

COURTESY OF HANNA YOWELL OF MIZZOU CREATIVE

MU student Elise Tadros holds an envelope with “Living is Conquering” printed on it Thursday for the Mizzou Suicide Prevention Coalition in recognition of World Suicide Prevention Week.

“There is program out already there called ‘Ask Listen Refer,’” Domijan said. “It’s so simple, and a lot people think they know half the answers to it, but they actually don’t. If they were trained on this 20-minute training, it would be so helpful.”

Although this is Domijan and Schroer’s last year in school, Schroer hopes that the organization continues to grow even when they are not there.

“Ideally, we would like to try and reach every student at Mizzou because mental

illness is something that doesn’t discriminate,” Schroer said.

Applications for the steering committee will be released in November.

“This is definitely only the beginning,” Domijan said. There is so much potential and I know that the committee we have, is filled with strong leaders. They will not only do a good job continuing our message but growing it as well.”

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Columbia named Missouri’s healthiest city A study published in USA Today ranked healthiest cities in the U.S. using four criteria.

Senior Staff Writer Columbia is Missouri’s healthiest city according to rankings compiled by financial news website 24/7 Wall St. on Aug. 27.

Missouri as a whole ranks at or below the national average for health, according to the study. Columbia, however, scores above national averages in data collected by Boone County as well as in opinions on campus.

Wellness Resource Center coordinator Tiffany Bowman said she thinks Columbia stands out in health because of its emphasis on exercise.

The trails, bike lanes and pedestrianfriendly downtown and campus promote movement, she said. A survey of citizens conducted by the city in 2015 showed that 92 percent of residents visit city parks.

Bowman said she thinks the Student Recreation Complex also helps keeps students and community members active. In 2005, Sports Illustrated named MU’s MizzouRec the best in the country.

MU awards faculty and staff for healthy habits with cash prizes through the Wellness Incentive. They can earn up to $450 for healthy activities like health assessments, tracking their steps and getting a flu shot.

In the study, published on Aug. 31

by USA Today, Columbia ranked well in the four criteria used: obesity rate (25.3 percent), unemployment rate (4.1

smoking cessation services among other services, Roe said.

According to the 2013 Boone County Community Health Assessment, there is a strong connection between health and level of education. Boone County has higher rates of education with 47.7 percent of residents over 25 holding a bachelor’s degree or higher. The state’s value for the same rate is 26.1 percent and the national rate of 28.5 percent.

College graduates are about four times more likely to have health insurance than those who did not finish high school, according to the health assessment. In 2013, the assessment found that 14.5 percent of Boone County residents did not have health insurance.

Only seven of the healthiest cities had smoking rates above the national average of about 20 percent. In Boone County, 18 percent of adults over the age of 18 smoke and 6 percent use another kind of tobacco, according to the 2013

health assessment. In the same year, a Gallup poll found that 24.7 percent of the state’s population smokes.

The study’s authors, Michael Sauter, Thomas Frohlich and Sam Stebbins, used data from the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps and the joint program from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, according to 24/7 Wall St. The authors created an index to review all U.S. metropolitan areas. The most recent data available was used.

The sources that collected the raw data compiled in the index used to rank the cities did not include students in their surveys.

Roe said it’s important to form healthy habits in college.

“What you learn in college, you take with you in your life,” she said.

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Because one-third of sexual assaults occur in the presence of a bystander, Eardley said she believes bystander intervention is one of the most useful ways to prevent sexual assault.

“Some research shows that students are a little bit reluctant to intervene,” Eardley said. “The bystander intervention focuses on a party setting.

It shows a student putting a drug into someone else’s drink, and how other students might interrupt that.”

Scates recalled an instance when she interrupted a potential sexual assault.

“I had a friend who made it clear early in the evening that she didn’t want to hook up with anyone that night when we were going out,” Scates said.

“Someone was attempting to hook up with her after she had a lot to drink. I asked her what she wanted to do in that moment, and she made it clear that she didn’t want to hook up. So I just drove her home.”

At first, Scates said she didn’t view that night as a bystander intervention.

“I was just being a good friend,” Scates said. “I think people are practicing bystander intervention. Once we give people the language and tools to be active bystanders, they act on it.”

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pay much attention to the training,” Lund-Molfese said. “You could have it open in a different (browser) window just to get it over with.”

Scates said she knows that before college, most students do not have access to adequate, correct information about consent.

“Our society gives mixed messages all the time, but individuals do not,” Scates said. “Individuals know whether or not they want to have sex. Alcohol is the number one predatory drug. We live in a culture that glamorizes alcohol and uses women’s bodies to do so. We call all of this a part of rape culture, which is the idea that we live in a culture which is sustaining ridiculously high numbers of sexual violence and harassment.”

With demands for a more interactive campus education spanning across multiple spectrums of race and gender, Scates is confident in the RSVP Center’s ability to continue educating and reinforcing the definitions more strictly.

“Fifty-nine percent of Mizzou students, mostly incoming freshmen, still don’t understand the definition of consent — it’s a sad number,” Scates said. “My feeling around it is sadness.

My thought around it is that we have more work to do.”

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Only 41 percent of MU freshmen who took the MU Title IX Office’s Not Anymore sexual violence prevention survey correctly answered a series of questions regarding defining consent.

“Unfortunately, the conversation about the definition of consent isn’t happening as much as it really needs to,” said Kimberly Scates, Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention Center education coordinator. “So if folks are surprised at the definition of consent, then we have a problem.”

Not Anymore was implemented this school year and is only required for new students. If students don’t take it, there is a hold placed on their account, which can bar them from registering for classes. The training takes an estimated hour to complete.

Title IX Administrator Ellen Eardley encourages all students to take the

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As part of the training, students listen to personal stories of sexual violence, answer true-or-false questions and watch bystander intervention scenarios before taking a comprehension test.

They must pass the test with at least a 70 percent or retake the training.

The Title IX Office recently partnered with the RSVP Center and Women’s Center to implement this training for incoming freshmen and transfer students. The coalition is reaching out to other student organizations in a parallel effort to get students to engage with the training.

“We’ve talked to a number of student groups already this fall, and we have a new menu for prevention programs that are available,” Eardley said. “We have a specific Not Anymore follow-up program that the RSVP Center is offering. So this way, student organizations, classes, fraternities and sororities can invite our office to come and discuss the issues in Not Anymore.”

For freshman John Lund-Molfese, some of the wording in Not Anymore seemed confusing. He said he knew other freshmen who didn’t take the training seriously.

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An MU student runs on the MKT Nature and Fitness Trail. Columbia is Missouri’s healthiest city, according to data compiled by financial news website 24/7 Wall St. on Aug. 27.

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percent), percentage of residents who are food insecure (11.6 percent) and percentage of residents without health insurance (8.6 percent).

Boone County spokeswoman Andrea Waner said the data in the study was similar but not identical to previous state and city research. Every five years, Boone County compiles a Community Health Status Assessment.

The most recent in 2013 focused on five areas citizens told officials were important, Waner said. Those areas were safe and healthy neighborhoods, healthy lifestyles, access to health care, disparities and behavioral health.

24/7 Wall St. does not explain how the authors chose those four criteria, and the authors could not be reached for comment. Bowman said she thinks the addition of mental health statistics would have contributed to a more comprehensive assessment of overall health.

The study’s authors identified five commonalities in most of the healthiest cities around the nation. Most had high rates in education, insurance and exercise, and a low smoking population and are relatively urban.

Student Health Center spokeswoman Pam Roe said the health center is also encouraging activity on campus. Its social media campaign, #MizzouFit, promotes healthy living on campus; students who post pictures doing something active on social media can win prizes from the Mizzou Store.

“When you’re out and being active, it also helps with mental health, behavioral health and stress reduction,” she said.

Roe said the health center is trying to make fitness part of the culture on campus. The health center also offers stress management, counseling and

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Fainaru brothers discuss ‘League of Denial’ The brothers published the book about concussions in football in 2013.

PETER BAUGH Assistant Sports Editor In September 1980, a brown-haired freshman from California turned in a story to The Maneater editors. He wrote a preview on the Kansas State football team that MU would play later in the season. After his first story, the freshman decided not to continue writing for the paper. An average student in high school, he was determined to focus more on academics in college.

Thirty-five years later, Steve Fainaru is a Pulitzer Prize winner for international reporting and has co-authored “League of Denial,” an investigative book on brain injuries in the National Football League.

Fainaru graduated from MU in 1984 and has since worked for The Boston Globe, The Washington Post and ESPN. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for a story he wrote on private armies in Iraq while working for the Post.

Last Thursday, Fainaru came to speak at MU with his brother, Mark FainaruWada, about “League of Denial,” which they wrote together. Both brothers currently work for ESPN. Though Fainaru still loves watching football, future research could impact his feelings towards the sport.

“At some point we will know in a much more sophisticated way, I think, what the real risk of playing football is and what percent of NFL players get brain damage,” Fainaru said. “And if it’s as high as some people suspect that it is, there’s going to come a point where how can you justify watching it if you know what you’re rooting for is people getting destroyed?”

Fairanu-Wada graduated from Northwestern University in 1987 and co-wrote “Game of Shadows,” a bestselling book on steroid use in baseball.

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Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru speak Thursday about their book “League of Denial,” which they wrote together. Both brothers currently work for ESPN.

In the fall 2011, Fainaru-Wada began working on a story about Fred McNeill, a former linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings who developed dementia after a 12-year NFL career. McNeill filed suit against the NFL in a workers’ compensation case.

While working on the McNeill story, neurosurgeon Julian Bailes suggested that Fainaru-Wada write a book about the NFL’s problems with concussions.

Fainaru-Wada turned to his brother to see if he would like to work with him.

“Steve’s the best reporter I know, he’s phenomenal,” Fainaru-Wada said.

“He also sees a narrative in books really clearly and so he said yes.”

And with that, “League of Denial” was born. The brothers started research in early 2012 and published the book in October 2013. The book came out with a PBS Frontline documentary of the same

name. Both brothers are featured in the film.

ESPN initially teamed up with PBS on the documentary but eventually dropped out of the project. The New York Times reported that pressure from the NFL supposedly led ESPN to make this decision.

“Steve and I have both been really quick to point out to everybody that while that’s a weird and screwed up situation and was unpleasant on many levels, the book and the documentary are largely creatures of ESPN,” FainaruWada said.

The book revealed evidence that the NFL had worked to cover up the connection between football and brain damage.

“There are a lot of former football players out there who are hurting (and) who have very serious neurocognitive

issues and so that’s an issue not only for them, but for everybody who loves them,” Fainaru said. “I think that’s one of the reasons why what the NFL did for such a long period of time was so insidious because they were denying the reality of a problem that so many people were living with.”

The brothers would have been hardpressed to find a better topic to write about. Fainaru said the NFL concussion scandal provided a unique and powerful storyline.

“Journalistically for us, that’s an interesting dichotomy: the tension between the sport that’s so popular, so embedded in the culture, learning that very thing from which it derives its appeal can be destructive and even lethal,” he said. “Journalistically that’s a pretty good story.”

MU graduate donates $1.6 million to libraries and health professions BRIAN CONSIGLIO Reporter New York Times best-selling author and MU graduate William Trogdon, also known as William Least Heat-Moon, donated $1.5 million to the MU Libraries and $100,000 to the School of Health Professions.

Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin made the gift announcement in front of faculty and media in the morning of Sept. 11 in Ellis Library.

“Libraries still carry a cache of time and place,” Loftin said in his opening remarks. “Our library is a place that

brings us together, as it is located in the center of campus.”

Trogdon and his wife Jan gave a $1.5 million pledge that will go toward preserving rare books and special collections in Ellis Library and other libraries across campus.

The Trogdons’ gift brings their total amount of donations to the MU Libraries up to $3.5 million.

They have also generously donated $100,000 toward scholarships in the School of Health Professions for students with physical disabilities who are aspiring to be health practitioners.

The scholarships will help keep tuition costs low for SHP students to receive

a tier-one education, which is, as Loftin pointed out, top priority for administrators at MU. After Loftin’s opening remarks, Trogdon himself took to the podium and reflected on his passion for reading.

“Library books open up for somebody a new world, they open up minds and for that reason, there is no greater place than where we stand today,” he said.

In the late 1950s when Trogdon was an undergrad at MU, tuition was a mere $79 per semester. Trogdon is now the owner of five MU degrees and an author of The New York Times bestselling book “Blue Highways.”

“I could never give away more than

what this university gave to me,” Trogdon said.

Trogdon said he was very gracious and thankful to those who helped him get to where he is today, including his father, Ralph, whom the SHP scholarship will be named after.

Trogdon wrapped up his remarks by sharing a story from his college days.

Late one night, he noticed a man in a wheelchair in downtown Columbia and offered a helping hand by wheeling him down Ninth Street to his destination.

“Lend a hand to the people of this great university,” he said. “Expressions of gratitude are good for the human heart.”

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her academic progress and late involvement. She is close to the minimum GPA of 2.5 required to serve as chief of staff. With regards to her late involvement, Barnes said that it was actually a strength of hers.

“MSA is kind of a bubble,” she said. “You see the same people, you go to the same events, and sometimes I think being in the bubble makes it very hard to hear what the rest of campus is saying.”

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Sirany convinced them to appoint her.

Women are not new to Tiger’s Lair leadership positions, as there have been female directors in the past before DeStefano. Sirany, though, is the first woman in the Lair to actively rally the student section during the games.

Tiger’s Lair has considered a woman for the spirit chair position before. DeStefano said that Morgan Barton, now an MU graduate, received the position in 2011.

However, she did not stay in her position the full year.

“Rachel is the first full (female) spirit chair,” DeStefano said.

Sirany said that her attire for the position, a sports bra and shorts, does not encourage women to apply because such exposure could potentially lead to body-shaming.

She said she felt that DeStefano and Drennan were supportive of her desire to be spirit chair.

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Skyler Roundtree, a member of the Mizzou College of Republicans, says that the organization agrees with Missouri’s gun laws.

“We believe perserving the second amendment is essential to our individual liberties,” Roundtree said in an email. “Furthermore, I also agree with the current limitations placed upon individuals deemed a threat to society.

Licensed firearm dealers in Missouri are required by law to conduct a background check of the purchaser, but private sellers are exempt from having to perform a preliminary background check on a gun purchaser.

Missouri repealed its “permitto-purchase” law in 2007, which required universal background checks on gun buyers. Missouri reported a 16 percent increase in gun crimes within three years after the repeal.

Roundtree agreed with Missouri’s repeal saying, “If there are no prior restrictions ordained by courts, an individual should be allowed to purchase a gun underneath the provisions of the second amendment.”

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“Everybody gets involved at MSA at different times,” she said.

“Involvement comes in many different ways, and everybody is actually a part of the association whether they like it or not.”

One of the topics Barnes emphasized throughout the confirmation process was the concept of servant leadership. In her eyes, being a part of student government should be about more than the “gold nametag.” “(Servant leadership) is not glamorous,” she said. “It’s not fake eyelashes and nice dresses and pretty necklaces. It’s the sweatpants,

the hoodie and sitting down at meetings with people you may not want to sit down with. It’s the things that make us uncomfortable that help us to grow.”

Wetherington got to know Barnes while working with her at a project called Community 360, which aims to educate people about inequality, prejudice and discrimination, and promote empathy among people.

“She is a really good friend of mine and so I have a lot of respect for her, and I know she will definitely fulfill every need of this job,” Wetherington said. “She is a go-getter, she stands up for herself, she leans in, she is assertive, and she’s very insightful.”

While much of the chief of staff position entails assisting the president and vice president however they need and serving on executive cabinet, Barnes also hopes to use her position to work on issues she’s passionate about. One of these is It’s On Us, the White House’s national campaign to end sexual assault on campuses. “(It’s On Us is about) holding everybody accountable to the standard we’re setting so that everybody who comes here knows what’s expected of them,” Barnes said.

She said she thinks there’s a place for the accused to go through Title IX and possible rehabilitation

and to still be held accountable for Respect, Responsibility, Excellence and Discovery.

Other projects she wants to work on include outreach to other campus student governments and ensuring that student athletes can access the same quality of education as other students. Barnes hopes to use her direct communication skills to improve the campus as a whole.

“Sometimes it may make me seem very harsh or blunt, but I also think it’s a strength,” Barnes said.

“Yes, I could probably be a little more personable sometimes, I could smile a lot more, I could shake a lot more hands, but at the end of the day, it comes down to business.”

“Obviously, they wanted to make an equal selection and not pick me just because I was a girl,” Sirany said.

“But they didn’t want to not pick me because I was a girl.”

Sirany and her co-chair, Jared Burge, are responsible for keeping the students in Tiger’s Lair excited and energized during home football games.

“We run around, get them pumped and start chants,” she said.

“We keep the energy up, even if it’s not the height of the game.”

The spirit chairs also remind the student section of MU football traditions, such as waving fingers during kickoffs and shaking keys during the opposing team’s third down.

Burge, who is spirit chair for the second year in a row, said there is no real difference between having a male co-chair and a female one.

“We just try to be wild and crazy and have fun,” he said.

He also said Sirany did a great job during the Sept. 5 game against Southeast Missouri State.

“It was really hot and the first quarter took forever, but she did

really well,” he said. “She’s crazy and energetic and willing to make a fool of herself, and that’s what you need.”

A junior from Minnesota, Sirany is a journalism major who worked with MUTV last year. She is a

STRIPES driver and a member of Kappa Delta sorority.

Sirany shows that no matter your gender, anyone can be a fan of football, DeStefano said.

“The NFL has made it so that

you can be a ‘girl fan’ with pink jerseys, but here you can just be fans, not boy fans and girl fans,” DeStefano said. “(Rachel) is out there with Jared, doing exactly what he’s doing.”

In 2010, the Center for American Progress reported that Missouri had “one of the worst rates of gun crime in the nation.” In the same year, Missouri had the fourth highest rate of homicides committed with a firearm in the nation with an average of 5.6 homicides per 100,000 civilians, surpassing the national average of 3.6 gun homicides per 100,000 people.

The type of weapons-offense Weimer said MUPD mostly deals with “is typically off a traffic stop” where an individual “may have a weapon in the car.”

Firearms are not allowed on campus, MU spokesperson Christian Basi said.

“MUPD offers a storage locker

for any student who wishes to store their weapon on campus,” Basi said in an email. “For example, we have some students who might want to take advantage of certain hunting seasons in Missouri while they are here, but they also live on campus.

This service by MUPD allows them to bring their weapon, store it legally on campus and then retrieve it when they are planning on leaving campus.”

According to University of Missouri System regulations, firearms are only allowed on campus if they are apart of a regularly approved college program or in possession of university employees in the line of duty.

Despite the strict gun policies on

campus that clash with Missouri's lenient firearm laws, according to the Center for American Progress, 85 percent of Missouri's residents favored background checks on gun purchasers.

“When the government makes laws prohibiting and restricting the

use of firearms, seldom do they

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MU student Rachel Sirany cheers for Mizzou at the Tiger’s Lair section of Faurot Field Sept. 5 during the Missouri Tigers game against the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks. Sirany became the first female spirit chair for Tiger’s Lair, the official student cheering section for the MU football team.

affect the criminal. In Essabxe, what they do is that the firearm out of the hand of the law-abiding citizen,” Roundtree said.

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Tiger Garden celebrates 10 years of growth “We went from teaching about 50 students a semester to now about 250 students per semester between all of our classes,” floral design instructor Lesleighan Kraft said.

MORGAN JENKINS Reporter Tiger Garden was awash with different hues. Fresh greens, cut into neat diagonals, transformed from clipped lines into brilliant bouquets. Petals of red were scattered about the workbenches, counting the years beneath their veins of fuchsia.

Tiger Garden celebrated 10 years as an independent store this August.

Originally a partner of the Mizzou Store, Tiger Garden separated in 2005 and became a part of the Division of Plant Sciences. Beginning with just two students, the shop has since grown to

encompass divisions like Special Events and Landscape Design, and it now hosts multiple classes.

“We went from teaching about 50 students a semester to now about 250 students per semester between all of our classes,” floral design instructor Lesleighan Kraft said.

Tiger Garden also holds workshops for the greater Columbia community through their club, the Student Chapter of the American Institute of Floral Designers.

“The public — whether it’s students here on campus, faculty, staff or people who don’t work at the university — can come into our classroom, purchase the materials and make their own creation,” retail sales manager Melissa Daniels said.

Students do not have to be involved with the Division of Plant Sciences or affiliated with Tiger Garden to join, special events coordinator Becky Melton said.

Since Tiger Garden contains many facets, it has appeal for students in business, art, sciences and more.

“It’s not just creating an arrangement: It’s the logistics of staffing and budgets and going through the daily tasks of

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MU student Charlotte Mundwiller assembles flower arrangements at Tiger Garden. Tiger Garden celebrated 10 years as an independent store this August.

keeping the shop up and running,” Daniels said.

This student-run, small-business atmosphere prepares individuals for future work environments whether they are going into the floral industry or not.

Plus, because the shop is centered around students, work schedules are flexible, Melton said.

With 10 years under its belt, Tiger Garden hopes to extend its base to even more students, Melton said. For this year’s celebrations, the shop had specials every day and promoted its name throughout the Columbia area through social media.

“I think that it was eye-opening and definitely an accomplishment,” Melton said of the 10-year anniversary.

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MSA president’s post is not surprising, and that’s a problem On Sept. 12, Missouri Students Association President Payton Head posted a Facebook status chronicling multiple incidents of discrimination around campus.

Head said in the post that he was walking down a street Friday night when a group of men in the back of a pickup truck repeatedly yelled racial obscenities at him. Read his post below: “WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE: I just want to say how extremely hurt and disappointed I am. Last night as I walking through campus, some guys riding on the back of a pickup truck decided that it would be okay to continuously scream NIGGER at me. I really just want to know why my simple existence is such a threat to society.

For those of you who wonder why I’m always talking about the importance of inclusion and respect, it’s because I’ve experienced moments like this multiple times at THIS university, making me not feel included here. Many of you are so privileged that you’ll never know what it feels like to be a hijab-wearing Muslim woman and be called a terrorist or a towel head. You don’t have to think about being transgender and worrying about finding a restroom where you can go and not be targeted for violence because you don’t fit into the gender binary. You’ll never know what it feels like to see Memorial Union every day and enter the side like a second-class citizen because after 90 years, there’s still no accessible way to enter the tower.

You’ve never been spit on walking down 9th street or misgendered at Pizza Tree because they called out your birth name. You’ve never had to experience people throwing drinks on you and yelling FAGGOT at you from the patio at Big 12 as you walk past on the street holding hands with your partner. You might never had to think twice about what you’re wearing walking around campus at night so that someone won’t think it’s okay to take ownership of

So, were you surprised? We weren’t, and that fact alone should be concerning to everyone from MU administrators to faculty and staff to students. If you consider yourself to be part of the MU community, the discrimination detailed in Payton’s post should bother you because our university should aim higher.

Since the beginning of Head’s term, he has said experiences like these are what drew him to leadership in the first place. And now he’s using his position as MSA president, the pinnacle of student leadership at MU, to sound the alarm about campus discrimination, which goes beyond race. In his post, he gave voice to the

voiceless, the marginalized students who experience social injustices and outright bigotry on a daily basis.

But Payton’s term ends this year. Someone will have to take up the cause. Our student leadership has done a lot — administration, it’s time to do your part.

Changing campus culture takes time. In order to progress, our student government cannot be the only group talking about social justice issues. We need to have meaningful participation from administrators.

After all, MSA presidents serve one year in office and students generally graduate after four. Administrators, though, have much longer tenures. Our administration owes it our students to respond and _do something_.

We have some ideas: Increase faculty diversity, conduct a survey, and establish a plan. Increase awareness and accessibility of reporting hate crimes with MU Police Department. Take Head’s suggestion and support the Diversity Peer Educator program and the social justice centers. Or you can always follow through on your promise to host monthly forums on race relations.

It’s imperative that Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin or another equally visible administrator issue a formal response to this incident as a show of support, but more importantly, as a reminder that someone is paying attention.

After all, a post like that from any MU student should elicit shock, not a shrug. We were dismayed when we read it, but we wish we had been blindsided — that would mean our campus is one where discrimination no longer lurks around every street corner.

To paraphrase another one of Head’s posts: Have you had enough, MU?

years. So while this issue is one of several being tackled by the Forum for Graduate Student Rights, it is by no means exclusive to them.

As a result of these findings, the task force concluded that an affordable child care service provision would be extremely desirable among graduate and professional students, faculty and staff, and they recommended establishing a plan for providing this service.

But here we are, over a year later, with no definitive plan to make accommodations for these needs. All that has been created so far is a ghost of a plan crafted by Loftin to issue a “request for proposals” from private developers. This plan would require no monetary contribution from the university, aside from the land the center would be built on. Since then, there have not been any developers willing to take on the project.

If MU is disinterested in carving out funding for a replacement child care center, then they should make more of an effort to find an interested developer. Sitting around and twiddling their thumbs, waiting around for

the problem to vanish on its own, is not a strategy at all.

The convenience granted by the center’s on-campus location, flexible scheduling, and its alignment with the university calendar made it far more suited to student parents needs than other commercial day cares in the area. The affordability aspect is also extraordinarily important to student parents. An average graduate student parent pays a sizeable portion of their income solely on child care fees, according to Maneater reporting.

In the short term, MU should provide meaningful assistance to student-parents, similar to the healthcare stipend. Providing this assistance is only fair, as it would only return conditions to normal for our student parents. In the long term, there needs to be a definitive to build a child care center on campus.

Our administration cannot silently phase out essential resources and then act as though students are asking for too much by demanding their return.

your body because your outfit was “asking for it.” If your simple existence is not a political statement I’m really going to need for you to check your privilege. These are some of my experiences and the experiences of the ones closest to me. This is what I’m fighting against every day in boardrooms, conferences, meetings, classrooms, the Capitol, and in my daily life. This is my reality. Is it weird that I think that I have the right to feel safe here too? If you see violence like this and don’t say anything, you, yes YOU, are a part of the problem. It’s the reason why It’s On Us, Black Lives Matter, Trans Rights are Human Rights, and love is fucking love. If you want to fight for social change at Mizzou there are so many different outlets.

Apply to be a Diversity Peer Educator, stop by any of our wonderful centers of social justice. Educate yourselves and others. Hold your family, friends, fraternity brothers and sorority sisters accountable. And if this post made you feel uncomfortable, GOOD! That means I’m doing my job. It’s time to wake up Mizzou.

Your Nigger/Faggot Missouri Students Association President, Payton Head”

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MU cannot continue to ignore student parents’ needs

It’s been 14 months since the Student Parent Center was closed, and in the time since, there has been no meaningful progress made toward creating a replacement facility.

Although MU administration was quick to develop a demolition plan for the center, which had operated for 40 years, tangible plans to create a replacement have been anything but decisive. As usual, a task force was assembled dedicated to gathering feedback from around the MU community regarding the future of child care services on campus.

The task force produced a report detailing the struggles faced by students parents — and it isn’t pretty. The report, using 2013 data, stated that nearly 1,400 students have dependent children, based on FAFSA applications. The task force also surveyed 1,267 MU students and personnel — 29 percent of whom were staff, 24 percent undergraduate students and 17 percent graduate students — and found that over half of those surveyed would need child care in the next two

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THE MANEATER | OPINION | SEPTEMBER 16, 2015 LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Graduate work union matters for MU

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a letter to the editor written by a member of the MU community who is not part of The Maneater’s staff. It is not the opinion of The Maneater or its editorial board.

In accordance with our letters policy, we publish every letter submitted to us barring personal attacks or hate speech; we welcome responses to this and everything we publish via a letter or in our comments section.

On Labor Day, in the wake of weeks of administration-caused health care crisis and a mass graduate worker rally, the Forum on Graduate Rights announced its endorsement of an election on union representation.

Following this announcement, we, as chairs of FGR’s Organizing Committee, officially launched the Coalition of Graduate Workers, our campaign for a graduate worker union.

The issues faced by MU’s graduate workers matter to the entire MU community, including undergraduate students and their families. Graduate workers provide the majority of individually focused teaching at MU, meaning that our well-being has a direct impact on undergraduate education.

Similarly, graduate workers conduct research in programs across the campus, and our work is fundamental to the standing and reputation of our

university. But graduate workers do not receive adequate compensation for their contributions. MU’s minimum compensation is $12,100 on a ninemonth, half-time contract; in contrast, a living wage for a single person in Boone County is — according to the MIT Living Wage calculator — an after-tax income of $18,102. Many graduate workers on quarter-time appointments are living well below the state and federal poverty lines.

Undergraduates at MU deserve a world-class education, and the citizens of this state deserve a worldclass research institution. But these goals can’t be achieved while graduate workers are being paid starvation wages.

The crisis over health care — which was a systemic failure of decision making, not the failure of any one administrator — finally pushed graduate students to action. But our grievances have a deeper history than just the university’s disastrous handling of our health insurance.

Graduate worker and graduate student crises have occurred on an annual basis due to lack of adequate state funding and the mistaken budgetary priorities of university administrators.

Sweeping, unilateral cost-cutting missions by the university have tried to shutter the University Press, left

graduate housing in a decrepit state, removed student child care, stored library books in damp, moldy caverns, slashed tuition waivers for quartertime students, and, most recently, left graduate workers scrambling for new health insurance at the eleventh hour.

These decisions strike at our personal security, as well as the security of our families. Certainly they reflect poorly on the value of an MU degree.

The welfare of graduate workers matters for Missouri families and MU undergraduates. We know unions are a contentious issue in this state and this nation. Lawmakers, bigmoney campaign donors and Missouri unions are currently in a legislative dogfight over Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of so-called ‘right-to-work’ legislation.

Missouri is in a crucial moment where we’ll decide the future of our state’s working families. That’s what makes our campaign so important. Our fight isn’t just a fight for ourselves, or just for the University of Missouri.

It’s a fight for the right of working Missourians to secure a better future for themselves and for their children.

— Connor Lewis and Eric Scott, co-chairmen of the Forum for Graduate Rights’ Organizing Committee, clewis740@gmail and eric.o.scott@ gmail.com

The Kaleidoscope View

Is your definition of diversity even feasible?

Diversity is based entirely on perception.

KENNEDY JONES The other day in my public speaking class, we were discussing audience and the diversity of each type of audience you might need to present to. My professor moved the conversation from one group to the next, seeing as we all had different sources to analyze.

She came to a group discussing the MU Diversity website and asked for them to discuss with the class what they thought about MU’s diversity. A white girl raised her hand and said, “Well MU is diverse, but it’s mostly white.” My professor chuckled, and so did most of the students in the room.

At first I thought her comment so odd.

If our school is mostly white, then how is it still “diverse”?

Still, her comment had me thinking.

From her perspective, the numbers on the screen translated to her that MU was diverse. But to others in the room,

it told an entirely different story. In all honesty, she’s probably never seen this many Black, Asian or Hispanic people, etc., in her life. Contrarily, many people attending MU have never seen so few people that look like themselves. For example, various international students on campus have probably never lived somewhere where they were the minority, because in their own countries, most people are of the same ethnicity. All of this thought was produced by one student’s comment — “MU is diverse, but it’s mostly white.”

This student’s one comment brought about a series of questions for me. Firstly, who are we to define what diverse is? Is it different in everyone’s eyes? The Oxford Dictionary says that the definition of diverse is “showing a great deal of variety; very different.”

This definition of diverse isn’t even specifically about race, and it doesn’t give numbers or quotas. It doesn’t tell us what it really means to have a “diverse population” because that just means a “very different population.”

At which percentage is an organization or institution considered diverse? Is it even possible to have a perfectly

diverse population, especially without knowing what a truly diverse population is? Every time someone tries to calculate or look at how diverse an institution or population is, they’re looking at numbers, but what do the numbers have to look like in order for an institution or organization to be considered diverse? What are we really looking at?

In my eyes, a diverse population is when whites only take up 50 percent or less of the population and the remaining 50 percent or more consists of other races. What is your definition of a diverse population?

As a nation, white people in the U.S. outweigh everyone at 77.7 percent of the population with hispanics at 17.1 percent, and blacks at 13.2 percent.

Surprising? It was surprising to me as well. So is my definition of a diverse population even feasible? Probably not, and if it is, it’s probably extremely unlikely. Perhaps MU is closer to being diverse than we think. Or maybe the U.S. just isn’t as diverse as they’d like to lead us to believe, but in the end the definition of being diverse doesn’t give us much information on what the meaning of diverse really is.

WAR AND PEACE

Graphic photos should not be censored Shocking images can change the world.

MICA SOELLNER Turkish photographer Nilufer Demir captured two shocking images in early September documenting the plight of the Syrian people: One of a 3-year-old boy face down on a beach and another where the same boy is being carried away by a Turkish police officer. Perhaps as a result of the photos’ shocking nature, it has caught the attention of people all over the world. However, an unsettling amount of news outlets decided against running the photo of the Syrian boy, arguing that the picture is too graphic. As horrific as some images may be, there is a journalistic duty to expose a certain reality to the public — however graphic that reality might be.

This isn’t the first time a shocking photograph has had a significant impact in the media. Richard Drew’s “The Falling Man,” taken during the 9/11 attack, resulted in a serious amount of backlash against the Associated Press photographer.

Despite the national shock that the photo endured, it has become one of the most remembered images of 9/11. In 2001, the photo was awarded a World Press Photo Award.

Going back a few decades to another picture that is still remembered today, Vietnamese war photographer Nick Ut’s “The Terror of War” or “Napalm Girl” is another example of media’s neglect to publish images that are seen as unclean. It exposed the darker depths of the Vietnam War at a time that was sensitive to the U.S. When the photo was published, war protests emerged all over the world, another example of how graphic photographs can change the world.

The photograph of the Syrian boy has already impacted the conversation on the suffering of the Syrian people. Shortly after the release of the photo, Prime Minister David Cameron announced that the United Kingdom would take in 20,000 Syrian migrants. Efforts to help migrants have become stronger since the image was released, including a long overdue offer of Canadian citizenship to the Syrian boy’s father, who declined the offer.

Terrible things happen, and shielding me from them by way of preventing publication strips me of my right to know what is truly occurring in the world. It is often argued that constant exposure to horror can leave a person numb to the effect, but not seeing that kind of impact can leave a person ignorant of the world in which they live. Reality can be censored, but it cannot be stopped.

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Poster for One Read’s art exhibit “Remnants,” which challenges artists to think outside the box for this year’s exhibit.

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‘Station Eleven’ named One Read Plot twist: ‘The Orr Street Studios partners up with Daniel Boone Regional Library for their annual One Read program.

BIANCA RODRIGUEZ Reporter There are a lot of “what ifs” in the world.

As humans, we tend to be curious people. We’re constantly wanting to stay updated on the latest news and celebrity gossip. We ask tons of questions, and if we can’t find the

answers we want, we Google them.

Sometimes with curiosity we can travel down paths no one's ever thought of. After all, that’s how some of the best books are made, I mean Harry Potter and Game of Thrones weren’t just thought of mid-shower.

Neither was “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel, a novel set 20 years after a nationwide pandemic that killed off a majority of the world’s population. The novel follows a group of performers attempting to survive in the world they once knew.

“Station Eleven” was nominated and selected this year by the community for the Daniel Boone Regional Library annual One Read program.

In the past, the program has had local artists over the age of 16 submit their work to the library to be displayed as a representation of themes in the chosen book. Four years ago, that changed when then the One Read program partnered up with Orr Street Studios in downtown Columbia.

Now, they have the annual show and judging at the gallery, allowing more entries to be displayed and greater coverage of the event.

Williams describes the combined efforts as the “perfect venue and partnership.”

The entries are judged on their

KENNEDY SIMONE Columnist Ever since the 2014 release of his hit single “Happy Little Pill,” I’ve been patiently waiting for young pop singer Troye Sivan to bless my ears with a full-length album. Well, 2015 is here and still no album (how Frank Ocean of him), but Sivan has recently released his sophomore EP “WILD.” Coming across an artist with a voice as pure as Sivan’s doesn’t happen often, so I took what I could get and gave the EP a listen.

Self-titled track “WILD” captures the essence of forbidden young

BOBBY CERESIA Columnist

though the songs were nice, they were simply “nice.” I’ve heard the same dreamy Joel Little and Caleb Nott produced-beats before and they didn’t need to be recycled for another artist. The more I listened, the more I reminisced upon albums by BROODS and Lorde. Don’t let acclaim by bigname artists like Taylor Swift and Sam Smith fool you. If “WILD” was any animal, it would be a kitty-cat.

Moving on to Alessia Cara’s “Four Pink Walls” EP. More than likely you’ve heard the soulful songstress’ hit single “Here” playing on a Spotify commercial or a 20-something clothing store’s playlist by now. Sung by an old soul, “Four Pink Walls” is a compilation of songs that don’t merely sound good, but feel good.

Cara’s tracks hit where it hurts.

“Seventeen” preaches the perils of short-lived youth and the beauty of

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The soulful singer and the dream-pop Aussie love with ease. It’s fresh enough to make me seriously believe it might be heard on the radio within the next few weeks. Definitely touched with that M83-type vibe that turns legit pop hits into JCPenney fall sale commercial features.

Almost every song on this album is about love, whether it’s the new kind, the unrequited or the simply physical. “BITE” gets hot and heavy with raunchy lyrics and would be five-star if only it weren’t accompanied with lackluster instrumentals. A little genre-bending happens on “DKLA,” featuring female rapper Tkay Maidza. A song about heartbreak, its repetitive lyrics just give me a dying urge to skip it.

Without a doubt, Sivan is a talented singer. It’s just too bad that “WILD” makes him seem like a onetrick pony.

The issue with “WILD” is that

Columnist Bobby Ceresia reviews “The Visit,” the recent product from divisive director M. Night Shyamalan.

Before going into detail on director M. Night Shyamalan’s newest film “The Visit,” some context is necessary — Shyamalan’s films have been on the decline from his first hit, “The Sixth Sense.” That film introduced a foreboding atmosphere and a jaw-dropping plot twist that enraptured audiences. Then came “Unbreakable,” also with a twist and generally well-received by critics and viewers alike. Then he made “Signs,” where the alien invaders are allergic to water and Mel Gibson angrily eats mashed potatoes while his children cry at the dinner table. And they just got worse and worse with each successive entry.

Shyamalan went from filmmaking prodigy, with American Express commercials focusing on his imagination, to box-office poison, trying to distance himself as much as possible from the Will and Jaden Smith bomb “After Earth” a couple years ago.

With that in mind, my expectations for his found footage movie on scary old people chasing children around with handheld cameras were low. But to my surprise, “The Visit” shattered expectations on multiple levels and reminded me of how much fun a movie can be.

The film centers on two siblings: Becca, a pompous teenage aspiring filmmaker played

by Olivia Dejonge, and Tyler, a goofy internetobsessed preteen who raps on YouTube under the name “T-Diamond Styles,” played by Ed Oxenbould. The two want to give their divorced mother time to herself since their father left

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“I think (the audience) hopefully will come in with a sense of adventure,” Winship says.

Visit’ is amazing

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Students rewarded for less cell phone use BRI CONSIDINE Staff Writer A smartphone app called Pocket Points is giving students a hands-off learning experience at MU this fall. The app gives students points for not using their phones in class, which can then be used toward discounts at local and online businesses.

Already, the app is blowing up on campus. In the three weeks since Pocket Points came to MU, more than 2,200 students have signed up at an average rate of 100 to 250 downloads per day, says Pocket Points Campus Ambassador Jeremy Terman. He says that is about 8 percent of the entire student population.

Once students download the app, all they have to do is log in when they get to class and lock their screens. The number of points earned is based on how long the student’s phone is locked and how many people are using the app at any given time. The more people that are logged on, the more points there are up for grabs.

Terman says you earn around two to five points per class. That amount can be doubled every week on Pocket Points’ deal day, 2xTuesday. The number of points you earn per minute increases as you level up as well.

Pocket Points was created in 2014 by California State University, Chico students Rob Richardson and Mitch Gardner. Their first couple of months saw them garnering a couple thousand users.

Soon they branched out to Pennsylvania State University, where the usership flourished. Now 75 colleges and universities are

involved.

The app uses geo-fence technology to map out a school’s campus. It can tell whether a student is on the map or not and will only work on campus from 7 a.m. until 10 p.m. That means that you can even earn points while studying in the library or walking to and from class.

Businesses get a slice of the profit cake, too. Signing up with Pocket Points allows them to see firsthand how their marketing is working. The app allows them see which of their discounts and coupons are being used most often and how much attention they are getting.

“It’s free marketing for us, which is great,” co-founder of ThreadBare Gabriel Riekhof says. “Obviously every business wants to be able to market for free.”

So far, Terman and his team have gotten 15 local businesses involved, including Hot Box Cookies, Bengal’s and Jamba Juice. A lot of the deals include “buy one get one free” offers, such as Jamba Juice’s BOGO smoothie offer for patrons with 40 points.

The MU Pocket Points team is hoping to get student organizations, fraternities and sororities involved. They hope to spread awareness by visiting different organizations’ dinners and speaking in classrooms, and they can be spotted at Speakers Circle too.

“We’re just trying to get as much exposure as possible,” Terman says. “It’s beneficial. The whole point is to get teachers to not have to worry about having to tell kids to stay off their phones.”

Every Chat sparks common conversations LUCILLE SHERMAN Reporter Last year, on one chilly December night, Jacob Rice couldn’t sleep.

As he lay awake, he contemplated a topic most of us take for granted: communication. He thought, “Why is there no way to talk about one thing with everybody?”

Enter Every Chat: the product of Rice’s winter insomnia and a contemporary to Yik Yak. The app allows users to connect with people around the globe and discuss whatever they’d like using hashtags as subjects.

Rice spent the majority of his winter break working on the app and launched the first version of it and a website Jan. 20. While he wasn’t originally planning on launching the app, Rice explained that as a user of Yik Yak, he wanted to create a way to bring a group of people together that were all discussing the same thing.

Rice is an application developer and sophomore computer science, pre-engineering major at MU. A Columbia native, he attended State Technical College of Missouri in Linn for the first three semesters of his college career and transferred to MU for the 2015 spring semester.

Every Chat’s focus is to let a group of people discuss the same thing in one place, similar to a group message.

The number of people who currently have the app is 100, and there are no trending hashtags, but Rice and Every Chat Director of Communications Matthew Carlino hope to bring in more people

after their official launch date.

Carlino joined the Every Chat team after seeing a flyer Rice had posted on a bulletin board on campus.

“I walked out of my summer history class, and I saw a flyer that said, ‘Let me buy your cup of coffee,’ and explained his app,” Carlino says.

He was the first one to contact Rice and since then, they have been planning for the official launch of their marketing campaign Oct. 5.

Through this process, Rice has been able to learn and appreciate Apple’s strict guidelines. He has created both an Android and an iPhone app, but he’s more familiar with Apple. At first, his apps were basic, but “they got the job done.”

Apple must review all updates for iPhone apps, and Rice has already been rejected twice.

“I’ve learned to appreciate their extremely high standards that a lot of people don’t like,” Rice says.

In Rice’s second semester at MU, he has been able to apply things he’s learned in classes to the programming of Every Chat.

At the State Technical College, Rice says “every class revolved around programming language.”

“Here, it’s broader strokes, and you learn concepts that you can apply to those languages,” he says.

While this is Rice’s first time programming an app, he doesn’t have a specific hope for the future of Every Chat.

“It’s a never-ending process,” Rice says. “I don’t have a specific hope, but it’s something that I would do in my free time anyway. It’s great experience and great for my resume.”

Gofer app brings new meaning to delivery KATHERINE ROSSO Reporter College students pretty much live on a mix of free stuff and convenience. If it’s out of the way, it’s out of the question. And with all the stuff college students have to do, from hardcore studying to binging on Netflix, it can often seem as though venturing out to get food or running errands isn’t even worth it.

A great solution? Gofer.

Gofer is a service that debuted in May 2015 and has an open delivery policy. Where similar services such as Eat24 only have a few fast food places to choose from, Gofer has an open text box where you can describe what you want from virtually any store or restaurant.

Gofer’s Director of Operations William Zabriskie and his business partner, Shawn Clark, are both MU grads and understand a college student’s desire for convenience. They began Gofer because they saw the need for a delivery service but thought the available services had too many restrictions.

“We realized there were several times throughout the week when we would have loved to have any number of things brought to us, but sometimes real life gets in the way of running errands,” Zabriskie says in an email. “Finally, we figured if we feel that way sometimes, surely others do as well. So the multiple ideas coalesced into a service where you

could hire out the equivalent of a personal assistant for $5 a pop.”

While Gofer can be used for ready-made fast or restaurant food, they also have you covered with groceries or regular errands. Give the Gofer driver a list of fewer than 20 grocery items and they will deliver it as fast as possible with an $8 delivery fee. Non-grocery errands are charged a $5 delivery fee for orders under $25. For any extra stops, a $2 fee is added.

Also, if you’re running out of time planning a party, they’ll deliver wine, beer and other alcohol.

“Alcohol delivery is our newest service, and something we are very excited about,” Zabriskie says. “We have our ‘errand service,’ which is a succinct way to say we can do almost anything else. Whether we are picking up your dry cleaning, grabbing some groceries or bringing your office some printer paper, we classify that under our errand service.”

Gofer takes advantage of its close proximity to MU in its marketing strategy by handing out flyers to spread the word among students.

“Actually, we had more orders in one day than we would have in an entire week,” Potter says. “It really took off and I think people saw the Gofer cars around and now they understand what it actually is.”

Gofer is a perfect solution to many of life’s problems: cravings, laziness and drowsiness. When you don’t have time, Gofer does, and with that, you really can’t go wrong.

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A cup of Shortwave Coffee from start to finish AMANDA BATTMER Reporter

All quotes from owner Dale Bassham

HANDBREWS: Shortwave features black hand-brewed coffee, meaning they take a certain amount of water and manually brew a cup of coffee for each customer.

Shots of espresso are brewed at 200 degrees but are pushed through at around 130 PSI, which is about four times the amount of pressure in the tires of a car.

“Imagine a blowout times four; we’re forcing that through coffee, and that’s espresso. It’s just taking all that extraneous stuff and, like, get it out of here. Let’s just focus on the coffee. And we have milk and sugar and that stuff, but you know ... What I’m looking for is a way just to represent the work that’s been done before I got to the product.”

“My goal is to not screw it up.”

“We feature a handbrew menu, we feature espresso drinks, and little fun experimental things like this. For a while I was featuring tea brewed with the fruit that surrounds the coffee seed that gets roasted … Coffee’s fun.”

GRINDING THE COFFEE: Coffee has to be ground in order to brew it. Shortwave features three different sizes of espresso grinders and houses a bowl grinder in the back.

“It’s essentially turning coffee into a more easily manipulatable subject. Like if I’m brewing a French press, which I don’t really do, because we don’t feature a French press here, you can turn one coffee bean into about 20 pieces. If I’m brewing a drip cup of coffee you can turn one coffee bean into about 100 particles. If I’m brewing espresso, I turn it into about 3,000 particles. It’s just going smaller and smaller and smaller.”

Coffee oxidizes quickly, meaning it gets stale easily. The more surface area of the coffee that’s exposed to the moisture in the air, the quicker it goes bad. Shortwave avoids this problem by grinding just before brewing.

Bassham compares coffee brewing to songwriting: “Like you listen to a song, and it has techno loops or it’s got like a string section or heavy vocal layering or all these kinds of things. The true test of a good song is, what does it sound like, one singer and one piano, right? All the extra stuff that can cover up, that can mask, that can hide how good the song really is, right? So we’ve got equipment and machinery to kind of showcase some of that stuff, and we do a few things here and there, I guess. But you won’t find a lot of the extraneous things, in regards to my coffee. It always comes down to, how does the coffee taste black? Like this is still black coffee, it’s been pushed with various kinds of nitrogen gases but it’s still coffee at its heart. Espresso? It’s still black coffee. But it’s pushed on an espresso machine; we brew it with pressure.”

LATTE ART: Now for the fun part: latte art. Bassham says the basics of this delicate artform can, for the most part, be learned in an afternoon. As for the perfect heart or tulip, it all comes down to having the right machinery and good technique.

“Essentially, pouring art, it’s mostly decided before you actually put the milk into the cup. If you don’t froth the milk correctly, you’re not gonna get art. If you don’t have good shots of espresso, you’re not gonna get art. I always say latte art is 90 percent speed. As far as secrets, it’s good machinery and good technique.”

“You’re not wrong for enjoying coffee any way that you enjoy it. Look at it in a particular way and enjoy it that way.”

COFFEE ON TAP: Shortwave has a partnership with Broadway Brewery, which has helped Bassham design a system in the shop to do things with coffee that are similar to what would be done with beer.

Bassham asks, “What do you think of when you hear, ‘on tap’?” That’s right, beer. The Shortwave stout is a feature item on the company’s menu.

It’s brewed like a beer, but is nothing other than coffee.

SHORTWAVE STOUT:

“It’s all just coffee. It’s sort of like cold brew coffee but it has this sort of crazy texture, like it’s effervescent, it’s light, it’s bubbly, it has some of the crisp pine nuts that you’re gonna get in a light roast coffee. Something different.

Something fun.”

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than it is scary. Oxenbould’s raps had me laughing out loud and a surprising amount of the grandparents’ behavior is played for dark humor rather than pure terror. The grandma will creepily run through the room with her hands behind her, with the moonlight only illuminating her in brief glimpses, only to have it turned into a joke the next scene by Tyler imitating her goofy pose.

The mother, played by Kathryn Hahn, who is better known for comedic roles, nailed the ‘mom’ type of humor that is simultaneously eye-rolling for her kids as it is hilarious for the audience. The only truly scary parts came in the end, when everything goes to hell and the kids are running through the house for their lives. But even then, it’s PG-13, so it never got

too gory or violent.

Amazingly, in addition to the genuinely funny parts, a serious underlying story on divorce and self-worth began to tug at my cold, cynical heart. This drama gives the audience reason to root for the characters getting out alive, which felt cathartic given that so many other horror movies are populated with vapid teenagers waiting to get their heads chopped off by an axe-wielding murderer.

The drama can be attributed to the impressive and layered performances of Dejonge and Oxenbould. The two feel like real siblings, who joke around but also care deep down, even if they would never tell each other. The grandparents, played by Deanna Dunagan and Peter McRobbie, also had wonderful performances,

acting sickly sweet but creepy as hell as their story unravels.

Finally, it wouldn’t be a Shyamalan film without a twist ending. Without spoiling anything, the twist in “The Visit” left me literally on the edge of my seat till the credits rolled, and it is almost worth the price of admission just to experience it.

Shyamalan stated that he used the money he earned from “After Earth” to produce this movie in an attempt to regain artistic control. Given the raw entertainment value of “The Visit,” I think he regained control, and I hope more films of this creativity are in the near future from him.

MOVE gives “The Visit” four out of five stars.

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them and the kids decide to stay at their grandparents’ house for the week while the mother goes on a cruise. The mother also ran away from home when she was 19, and Becca hopes that by creating a film about the visit, she can help reunite her mother with her grandparents. But weird things start happening when night falls, and all is not what it seems at grandmother’s house.

The gimmick of found footage has been done to death since movies like “The Blair Witch Project” and “Cloverfield” popularized the cost-effective method of filming. Recent films cheat the system by adding

in outside noises that aren’t possible in the world of the film. They also just do the found footage style to save money even if it would make more sense to film it traditionally.

Fortunately, given the premise of “The Visit,” the method makes perfect sense and it doesn’t break the illusion with eerie music or nonsensical jump scares. The only issue I had with the found footage element was that we, the audience, are watching Becca’s film, which means she put it all together and edited it. There is no way the creepy grandparents killed her if the film exists, so the tension of the scarier scenes deflated a little after thinking it over.

Despite what the commercials want you to think, “The Visit” is significantly more funny

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Song: “Bet” Artist: Tinashe What’s better than a song with a trippy beat and a feature from musical mad scientist Dev Hynes sung by an up and coming PBR&B singer? The same song

accompanied by a terrific music video with amazing direction.

“Bet” is dark, artsy and sexy.

It offers something other than that hot, but overdone “I want you” vibe that so many female singers give off. It has fire and intensity.

“Imma be around forever always/You can bet on it” If Tinashe keeps bringing the heat with tracks like this, I’ll bet on it, too.

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artists as a whole. Cara not only has the vocal talent, but a true songwriting gift that can take her anywhere in this industry.

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adolescence. With an infectious vivacity, she stirs good vibes into a song that could easily be a tear-jerking ballad. “I’m Yours” and “Outlaws” are all about getting lost in love.

Unlike Sivan, Cara offers something more to songs with “been-there-done-that” subject

type who likes to hit up “the frats” or “darties” during the weekend, this song just might be your saving grace.

Two YouTube channel stars, same age, both pop musicians … who’s crowned this week’s Record Radar winner?

Alessia Cara is the definite winner. Cara’s ability to connect with her audience with real relatability makes her stand out not just in comparison to Troye Sivan, but in comparison to the collection of today’s

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matter by utilizing her No. 1 weapon ... her voice. Cara has powerhouse vocals that could easily place her among the ranks of famed chanteuses like Christina Aguilera and the late Amy Winehouse.

In a world full of party anthems, “Here” wears an ‘S’ on its chest for the introverts of the world. Telling the story of what it’s like to be stuck at a party when you’d rather be elsewhere, Cara designs a lyrical masterpiece. If you’re not the

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and Williams’s what they would miss, they both agreed on the easy accessibility of communication.

As you look through the exhibit, you too will start to question the things you would miss if the world really did end tomorrow just like exhibit intended.

“That’s what good art should do, it should make you think," Meyer says.

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quality of work, technical skills and how well the piece meshes with the show's theme. To get different perspectives, they usually have a photographer, an artist and a literary expert as judges on the panel.

With “Station Eleven” selected as this year’s book,

two key elements we’d also lose technology, which is showcased by my favorite pieces, an old MacBook laptop that is painted over as a garden of flowers that has butterflies flying over them.

The piece really puts emphasis on that with technology, we’d also lose the daily communication we have everyday and the certain comfort of knowing what and how our love ones are doing.

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when people start bringing things in,” Meyer says.

From warm baths, Saturday morning cartoons and even McDonald’s, all the entries have a distinctive aspect about them.

As you walk through the gallery, you notice a strong theme of light and electricity.

“They’re very simple things but really evoke this huge idea ... that not having (electricity) would change your life dramatically,” Williams says.

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the program asked artists to illustrate something they would miss in this type of catastrophe, thus the creation of Remnants: One Read Art Exhibit.

When asked why this exhibit is different from the years before, Amy Meyer, the studio’s art director, explains that usually the artists had a prompt or even sometimes just the title of the book, but now it’s different because there is no wrong or right answer.

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Hard work pays off for Mizzou volleyball MIA CHUDZIK Reporter

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Missouri Tigers front Alyssa Munlyn (8) slams the ball during a game against the Winthrop Eagles Aug. 29, at the Hearnes Center in Columbia, Mo.

They say true athletes are made in the offseason.

When it comes to Mizzou volleyball, this seems to be accurate.

The Tigers continued their undefeated streak after coming out on top in the Appalachian State Invitational in North Carolina this past weekend, claiming their third-straight tournament championship.

Hard work over the summer and a handful of new players are helping the team start off the season with a bang.

“I think we just always have the mindset to get better,” sophomore right side hitter Kira Larson said.

“We worked really hard all summer and all pre-season, and we try to take each game seriously. It’s easy to underestimate opponents, teams that aren’t really that well-known or stuff like that. We just go out there and play our game. I think that's a big contributing factor (to our success).”

Some might think the

combination of new and old players could cause problems, making it hard for the team to mesh together.

That is not the case with this group.

“We all get along so well,” senior outside hitter Regan Peltier said. “When we’re off at tournaments we all hang out and we’re all genuinely friends. We’re not very cliquey. I know a lot of teams sometimes get cliquey and you only hangout with your class or whatever, but all of us are so intertwined and we hangout.

We have really, really good chemistry.”

Having six new players, including three transfers and three freshmen join the team gives the Tigers not only a chance to come back from last year’s notso-Cinderella season, but also plenty of new options to help them get there.

Three new offensive players joined Mizzou, including sophomore Kira Larson, who currently has a .383 hitting percentage and Alyssa Munlyn with

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Three top British runners look to make impact at MU All three runners could make immediate impacts in either cross-country or track.

PETER BAUGH Assistant Sports Editor On July 11, 2014, the Mizzou crosscountry team announced that Marc Burns would be the Tigers’ new head coach. As soon as he could after the announcement, Thomas George sent him an email. George wanted to be recruited by Mizzou.

Burns had recruited both George and his twin brother Alex while he was the coach at Bradley University. When Burns came to Mizzou, he continued to recruit George, who is a year behind Alex in school.

George, a freshman from Gloucester, England, is one of three British runners who have joined the Tigers’ cross-country and track programs. He joined the team with first-year graduate students Ollie Lockley and Luca Russo.

George ultimately chose Mizzou over Iona College and the University of Arkansas, the school his brother attends. Though he is very close with his

twin, George felt it would be the right choice to come to Mizzou.

“We decided it was probably best to go to different schools because of how competitive we get,” he said. “It’s great having us to train, but too much of us around each other and we kind of butt heads a bit.”

In the United Kingdom, George posted the 14th fastest mile time of any runner under 20 in 2015. He is expected to make an impact in both track and cross-country as a freshman.

George was the first of the three new British runners to arrive at Mizzou.

Burns has been impressed with George’s

attitude toward the sport.

“I really like George,” Burns said.

“He thinks about what he’s doing. He just understands that it’s a process, he’s patient. I like that a lot. It’s a very mature outlook on training.”

Going into the season, George hopes to finish as the top freshman at the Southeastern Conference Championships, just like his brother Alex did last season.

Russo and Lockley took a different route than George to running in the U.S. Both ran for three years at St. Mary’s

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Underclassmen deliver win in golf team season opener Team members work together to successfully fill the void left by Ryan Zech, the All-American who graduated last season.

PABLO SUAREZ Reporter After a disappointing end to its previous season, the Mizzou men’s golf team teed it up at the Turning StoneTiger Intercollegiate behind standout

performances from underclassmen and came out victorious. The tournament took place Sept. 6 and 7 in Verona, New York.

The underclassmen fought off nerves to begin the tournament. Freshman Preston Fleenor was 4 over par after his first 10 holes, but he quickly settled down and found his rhythm leading to his second place, 3-under-par finish.

“I knew if I could start off strong then I could get myself in a rhythm and play well,” Fleenor said. “I was able to start off consistent and never put too much pressure on myself to make any crucial shots or crucial putts.”

Sophomore Hayden Buckley also shot 3-under, adding to the youthful performance that led the Tigers’ collective effort.

Redshirt senior Wilson Sundvold, son of Mizzou All-American basketball player Jon Sundvold, set the team up for success early, shooting 7-underpar for the first two rounds. Although he struggled toward to end of the tournament, Sundvold closed out the tournament on a strong note with a top10 finish.

However, it was the underclassmen who stepped up in the final round and carried the team to its fourth

consecutive win at Turning Stone. Both Buckley and Fleenor played their best rounds of golf on the final day of the tournament, and their finishes helped secure a Tiger victory.

“It’s tough for freshmen to come in and play the first tournament, but they’ve kind of established themselves as contenders for our top five,” Buckley said. “I think we have a lot of depth this year, so it’s great to see young guys coming in.”

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Carly Kan surpasses 1,000th point milestone Kreklow thinks “she’s going to continue to set more records before she’s done.”

LEXI CHURCHILL Reporter There’s still more to go.

During the South Florida Invitational earlier this month, junior hitter Carly Kan exceeded the 1,000-point mark, a “rare” accomplishment for a player her age, coach Wayne Kreklow said.

In spite of her youth, the achievement was well-deserved in Kreklow’s eyes.

“I’m really happy because you like to see stuff like that happen to good people and Carly’s just such a great kid,” Kreklow said.

“She works so hard and is such a conscious teammate. That’s what makes it special for us as coaches, when someone like that accomplishes those kinds of things.”

Kan, a player who came into college as a defensive specialist and was never meant to see the front row, currently leads the team in both kills and aces. However, her success goes far past the service line and the front row. She also currently has the second-most digs on the team, only junior libero Alexa Ethridge has more.

Although her significant numbers are important to the squad’s success, her teammates recognize a different aspect of Kan’s game that makes her the stand out player and leader of the team.

“I’ve played with some really good players, but I haven’t played with very many who carry themselves like Carly,” sophomore Kira Larson

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Missouri Tigers outside hitter Carly Kan digs the ball from a Purdue offensive attack at the Hearnes Center. Kan recently exceeded the 1,000-point mark, a “rare” accomplishment for a player her age.

said. “She’s such a good leader on and off the court. She knows what to say and how to say it. I’ve played with good players, but they’re not always like that.”

Kan’s value exceeds the big numbers, ranging to her leadership, an element of her game she does “by example.” However, Kan attributes her accomplishment to her playing style and experience.

“I am a more steady player; I'm not really

a rollercoaster,” Kan said. “I like to stay at a certain level and hopefully fluctuate in-between those. That has helped me a lot and the fact that I’ve been playing volleyball since I was six years old. That volleyball IQ has really helped me find where the better shots are in certain situations.”

Though Kan believes the 1,000-point mark is a “cool accomplishment,” she recognizes that it’s only the preseason and “there’s still

more to go.” Rather than basking in her achievement, she wants to “focus on getting better and getting the team better.”

Although she is set on improvement, Kreklow recognizes there’s much more to come from Kan. “She’s obviously one of the best that we’ve had come through here and I think she’s going to continue to set more records before she’s done,” Kreklow said.

welcoming. The coaches are awesome, the soccer is awesome and I just love all the girls.

I felt I was a part of the family right when I walked on campus.”

One year later, Dossey has been the only freshman to start in a game for the Tigers this season. Moreover, she has started every game.

In her short career, she has amassed three shutouts and only allowed four goals.

Dossey remains humble even through her success, insisting that her teammates are the ones who deserve the praise.

“I’ve always been stuck with such an awesome back line, so I’ve been really blessed,” Dossey said.

While Dossey does not show it, the learning curve has been a steep one in the transition from high school to college. The hardest adjustment has come from the speed of Division I athletes.

“The speed of play is much much quicker,” Dossey said. “It’s not even relatable. The speed of the shots are 10 times quicker, the physicality of the girls is 10 times harder.

I feel like everything is just 10 steps above

everything that I was already with in high school.”

Dossey credits her quick transition to coming to Mizzou earlier than all the other freshman.

“Graduating high school a semester early and coming in the spring is a huge help for me,” Dossey said. “I honestly don’t think I would have earned that starting spot if I would not have done that.”

Dossey, a Plainfield, Indiana, native, attended Avon High School. While playing for the Avon High School Orioles, Dossey set a state high school record with 51 career shutouts and was also one of three goalkeepers in the country to be selected to the All-America Game.

Avon coach Eric Nance immediately saw a leader in Dossey from the moment she walked onto the pitch.

“One thing that Kelsey did as soon as she came into our program during our summer workouts is that she was really vocal and showed leadership skills right from the start,” Nance said. “She was always looking for ways to help her teammates get an advantage and get better.”

Leadership is also a commodity that goalkeepers coach Molly Schneider looks for in her players.

“You know for her, and for both keepers, it’s just continuing to get to know the team and work with the team and be a leader,” Schneider said. “We continue to want our goalkeepers to be a leader so not only are they stopping the ball but starting the attack so continue to lead from the back.”

Schneider is also quick to point out that Dossey, even though she has started every game, still needs to work hard to maintain her spot as the team’s first choice keeper.

“Both our goalkeepers compete each week to start,” Schneider said. “(Kelsey) is doing a great job and she is technically clean, great in the air so she is competing and doing all

of that. The job is open for both to compete each week.”

Dossey’s teammates have been exuberant with the work that the freshman has turned in this season.

“She is doing really well for us this year,” sophomore forward Savannah Trujillo said.

“She came in as a freshman last spring and we really didn’t know much about her, and she’s really stepped it up this season. She’s starting, and she’s doing really well because she has a really good mindset. She’s got a good head on her shoulders, and she’s one of the people that keeps us in games.”

Dossey’s performance is a relief to the Tigers and also to herself. Coming into the season, whoever started in the net would be filling the shoes of one of Mizzou’s all-time great goalkeepers: McKenzie Sauerwein.

Sauerwein had been the Tigers’ keeper for the past four years. During that time, she amassed 46 wins and only let in an average of 1.22 goals per game.

“It’s definitely nerve wracking coming here, especially being a freshman, earning the starting spot and then just kind of living up to that,” Dossey said. “It’s definitely a blessing in disguise though and I’m looking forward to the future.”

The future looks bright with Dossey in goal for Mizzou. As the Tigers push to win a Southeastern Conference championship, Dossey just hopes that goals are that of staying consistent and finishing her first year strong.

“Hopefully (I) get a little better and stay consistent,” Dossey said. “I feel like any coach just wants consistency and as long as I’m staying consistent throughout the season, they’ll appreciate that. So not dropping down like a rollercoaster, which is part of freshman and part of life in general but just finding that consistency and sticking with it.”

Freshman Kelsey Dossey provides solid starts in goal for Missouri Dossey looks to fill the big shoes left by one of the top Mizzou goalkeepers.

TYLER KRAFT Reporter When Kelsey Dossey first heard of Mizzou, she had no idea what it was.

Dossey was on her way to becoming an All-American goalkeeper for Avon High School when a friend came up and introduced the possibility of attending Missouri.

“Well my friend had come on a visit here, and she really liked it,” Dossey said. “She was like, ‘Hey, you should go on a visit to Mizzou,’ and I was like, ‘What the heck is Mizzou?’

I’m from Indiana, so I wasn’t aware of what Mizzou was.”

Dossey decided to come on a visit and instantly knew Missouri was the place for her.

“I came (to Missouri) and just fell in love,” Dossey said. “I knew from the get-go it was a home away from home. Everyone was very

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Missouri Tigers goalie Kelsey Dossey (1) winds up to clear the ball at Audrey J. Walton Stadium. Dossey is the only freshman to start in a game this season.

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As a first-year graduate student, Russo will have two years of eligibility for crosscountry, indoor and outdoor track. Lockley, also a first-year graduate student, will only have one year of cross-country eligibility but two years of both indoor and outdoor track.

As the coach of a team with many young runners, Burns feels that the presence of Russo and Lockley will be valuable.

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the postseason last year and finishing second to last in the Southeastern Conference, the Tigers are determined to climb the ranks of the conference and prove that they can compete with the best. That mission began by preparing for Turning Stone and making sure the

THE MANEATER | SPORTS | SEPTEMBER 16, 2015 as libero, has contributed over 100 digs already.

“We’re kind of a new team than we were last year,” Peltier said. “We lost a few of our big counterparts and we gained some new ones and I think that each of us coming from the

different situations that we did last year, we just wanted to make this one (season) so much better.”

The team worked hard to establish a strong work ethic and bounce back when times get tough, which has “really

helped us push and have a great start to the season,” according to Peltier.

The Tigers will travel to Indianapolis this weekend for the Butler Invitational in hopes of winning another tournament championship and remaining

undefeated “I think everything was different right from the getgo,” coach Wayne Kreklow said.

“I think all the new people have really been really good additions in their own way.”

Halter and I most about those guys was just their maturity level,” Burns said. “They bring in a level of experience and maturity that will be really good for our team as we continue to grow.”

Russo has already made his debut for the Tigers. He finished 20th at the Forest Park Cross Country Festival, eighth best on the Mizzou team.

George will make his debut this year, but Lockley will not be eligible to run cross-country until next fall.

Burns traveled to England in an effort to recruit the three British runners. His trip ended up being one of the main reasons Russo came to Mizzou.

“Coach Burns came over and visited us, which is really cool,” Russo said. “No one else made that sort of effort, and he was always the most interested.”

Burns has built a relationship with the St. Mary’s University coach and plans to make more visits overseas to keep these connections and make new ones. Like Russo, Burns’ visit was pivotal in Lockley’s decision to come to the United States.

“I got interested when Coach Burns came over to England, and I set up an interview with him and we just got talking,” Lockley said. “I considered it beforehand, but then he sold it to me.”

Russo, who is from Kent, England, has had more experience in the U.S. than his British teammates. He has visited family in Boston and also spent a semester of his sophomore year in Philadelphia.

For Lockley and George, the experience in the U.S. is mostly new.

“Everything’s really big ... I’m just getting used to it all,” Lockley said. “It’s a good culture shock. It’s definitely a good change.”

Burns feels that the British runners will help the current runners on the team. Not only will the new runners be a strong addition physically, but they will also be able to

educate their teammates about a different culture.

Ideally, Burns would like to see U.S. runners traveling overseas to visit their British teammates.

“We’re excited about having the international presence on our team,” Burns said. “I think it helps us build that piece of team culture. It’s unique to have that.”

In cross-countr y, men usually race on 8,000- and 10,000-meter courses. After a 4,000-mile trip across the Atlantic Ocean, that distance should be pretty manageable for George, Lockley and Russo.

team started off with a win to kick off the season to set the

“It obviously means a lot (to have an impact) as a freshman,” Fleenor said. “You’re not expecting to help or completely lead the team. You’re expecting to help yourself through one or two rounds to help the team and contribute in case someone falls.”

With the help of the team’s veterans, the underclassmen are taking the guidance they receive to improve as quickly as possible.

“Everybody was able to help

us, we’ve never played the course before and they were able to help us in the practice rounds and help us adjust to the course,” Fleenor said. “When we’re all on the same page, we can play that course and we can play it well, that’s a big part of why we did so well now and in the past.”

With a win under their belts, the Tigers are setting their sights on the Jackrabbit Invitational in Valentine, Nebraska on Sept.

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they will get more experience going up against schools such as Arizona State, Oregon and Texas A&M. Although they will face formidable squads, the Tigers feel optimistic heading into the tournament.

“We’ve just got to believe that we can compete with (other schools),” Buckley said.

“We’ve put in the time and the practice, I like our chances.

I think golf is a game where anything can happen.”

tone for the rest of the year.

Having underclassmen such as Buckley and Fleenor rise to the occasion early on in the season is a good sign for the team in regards to its aspirations. After losing AllAmerican senior Ryan Zech, Mizzou is looking to fill the void left in his wake and begin developing new talent on the roster.

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UConn’s Daily Campus foresees MU victory The Daily Campus’s sports editor talks this week’s Mizzou vs. UConn game.

ALEC LEWIS Assistant Sports Editor The Maneater: So, 2-0 through the first two games for the first time since 2008. What's been the difference?

Matt Zampini: Yeah, it's been quite a different story than the past few years here in Storrs. I think the biggest thing is that UConn isn't turning the ball over, and it finally has a quarterback who is comfortable out there on the field and can make plays with both his arm and feet.

Through the first two games, UConn has just two turnovers compared to four in the first two games last season. A large part of that has to due with quarterback Bryant Shirreffs protecting the ball and not putting it into dangerous spots around the field. With the offensive line being in question coming into the season, it is good that Shirreffs is mobile and can escape the pocket when need be.

You can also attribute it to the defense.

Like you mentioned, UConn is only giving up 284 yards per game. It has an experienced defense out there that hopes

to be one of the best defenses in the country. But the Huskies haven't seen a team like Missouri this year, so we'll see how they handle the Tigers on Saturday.

ME: UConn is 33rd in the country in total defense and only giving up 284 yards per game. What can you attribute this to?

MZ: Like I mentioned before, the defense has a lot of experience from last year. UConn returned seven players on the defensive side of the ball from last year.

Some players to take note of are Graham Stewart, Andrew Adams, Kenton Adeyemi, Julian Campenni and Marquise Vann. The Huskies have allowed 16 points per game this year, good for third in the conference.

ME: What players should Mizzou folks look out for and why?

MZ: Mizzou fans should watch out for Shirreffs, wide receiver Noel Thomas, running back Arkeel Newsome and Adams.

After going through multiple quarterbacks over the past few seasons, it looks like UConn has finally found a stable one in Shirreffs. Through the first two games of the season, Shirreffs is 31 of 45 in the air with 472 yards, two touchdowns and one interception. He's smart, quick and he hasn't put the ball in danger, which head coach Bob Diaco loves. He can also be mobile, as seen by his 64 rushing yards in two games. Thomas, a junior with very good

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hands, is one of Shirreffs’ favorite targets to throw to. Diaco said that Thomas should be one of the best receivers in the country this year, so the expectations were high coming into 2015. In two games, Thomas has seven receptions for 122 yards.

Newsome is small, but he's quick and can make big plays. A sophomore, Newsome was the first UConn player to ever receive the honor of Parade Magazine AllAmerican. He also holds the Connecticut

high school record with 10,672 yards and

Each story and each practice are what’s made him the 2015 version of last year’s best punter, Alabama’s J.K. Scott. The Crimson Tide’s punter led the nation in punting average in 2014 as a freshman with 48 yards per punt.

And Wilhoit attributed it all to his ability to stay humble.

Asked about Fatony’s personality,

sophomore wide receiver J’Mon Moore said, “He’s a cool guy.”

“Actually, his locker is about two down from mine,” Moore said. “I talked to him one day, and I remember he called himself a ninja.”

Why? That’s a story Pinkel should tell next week.

187 touchdowns. This season, Newsome has a rushing and receiving touchdown.

Adams is the leader of the UConn defense. He has an interception in both games this season and has a knack of making big plays when UConn needs them most. Look for him to have a big game Saturday afternoon.

Fatony is ninth-best punter in nation through two weeks The freshman is averaging 47.8 yards-per-punt heading into week three.

ALEC LEWIS Assistant Sports Editor Gary Pinkel’s press conferences can be compared to history lectures. He talks in a monotonous voice, quietly and blandly, but it’s the stories he tells that are most noteworthy.

On Monday, Pinkel told two of them. One story on Kentrell Brothers, college football’s leading tackler, and the other on Corey Fatony, Mizzou’s freshman punter whose 47.8 yards per punt ranks as the nation’s ninth-best.

He’s shy, Fatony, but his leg’s certainly not. For the first time in almost a decade, a leg spoke to Pinkel, telling him to offer it a scholarship. He listened, and that offer has been key to both Pinkel’s play-calling thus far and even the way redshirt junior quarterback Maty Mauk has played.

“That’s something you really need to be good at — the kicking game,” Mauk said. “And when you’ve got a guy like Corey, who might even be leading the country, I mean, that definitely takes a lot of stress off of your back.”

The stress relief Fatony provides for Mauk appears to be tangible, too. Against Arkansas State, Mauk ran for 75 yards, the best since his 75-yard rushing total against Kentucky last year.

It’s Fatony’s early excellence that’s made such a big impression so far.

“Corey’s been doing a great job, and that’s kind of an understatement,” Pinkel said on Monday. “I asked him about two weeks ago, ‘Were you kind of scared or a little nervous?’ and he said no, he was just excited, and that’s kind of who he is.”

With a minute to go in the game, and the black and gold up 27-20 against the Red Wolves, Fatony walked back to the end zone.

Catching the snap, dropping the ball and swinging his leg through, the contact “felt perfect,” Fatony said.

The ball was downed 60 yards away and essentially sealed the game.

That was only his 12th punt of the year, and it came in the most crucial time. Consistent and clutch, just how Pinkel drew it up.

As a high school junior, Fatony made a 53-yard field goal. As a senior, he averaged close to 43 yards per punt. The way he’s trending, it’s easy to understand the excitement surrounding the Franklin, Tennessee, native.

With a click of his mouth and a wowed look on his face, Pinkel added, “Knowing that you have a guy like him for the rest of the season and three more years … it’s really good.”

Nothing New In high school, Fatony trained under the tutelage of the University of Tennessee’s second all-time leading point scorer, former placekicker James Wilhoit.

Wilhoit has mastered a system that features the elements of kicking and punting and their importance, and he now trains kickers across the Southeast.

Fatony was a unique talent from the day he saw him, Wilhoit said. And in talking to him, even at 5-foot-11, his stature jumps out.

“Corey was extremely athletic and mature,” Wilhoit said. “Most kickers are good athletes but they don’t have the explosion and power that Corey possesses. The moment I saw him kick I knew he had the chance to be elite. What I have been most impressed with though is his maturity.”

Wilhoit also has many stories to tell about his most recent star punter.

He’ll tell you about the beginning, when he suggested Fatony quit soccer as a sophomore.

He’ll tell you about the day he sat down with Fatony’s parents and told them their son could play Division I football. He’ll tell you that Fatony’s character speaks louder than his play.

“Corey is a bit more reserved, but he is very humble and a hard worker,” Wilhoit said. “I have enjoyed training him and he now helps me as a counselor at my camps. He is great with young punters and kickers and is a high character guy who will be a leader on the team for years to come.”

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