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McKenna Lee Campbell honored at candlelight vigil
Campbell’s father encouraged those present at the vigil to hug their neighbor to “show them sincerely that you love them and that you care about them.” ALLYSON SHERWIN Reporter
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MU students and family members gather closely to light candles Tuesday at the Columns for a vigil in honor of McKenna Campbell, a student who died over the weekend. Family members spoke about Campbell’s life and a priest held a prayer.
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Silence hung over the Columns as mourners gathered Tuesday evening to remember sophomore McKenna Lee Campbell who died Saturday. She was 19 years old. All of them were coping with the loss of Campbell, who was described by many as “one of those people who you could never forget.” More than 100 people gathered for the candlelight vigil, including relatives and friends. Blue, pink and purple balloons were passed out and marked with messages, along with candles that flickered throughout the duration of the 25-minute ceremony as family and close friends shared anecdotes and stories. Sophomore Kelly Gorniak was a close friend of Campbell’s since first grade, living in the same neighborhood as Campbell and even attending the same schools, including MU.
“McKenna was a very selfless person,” Gorniak said. “She was the person who put everyone before herself, a very godly person. She went to church every Sunday, she really influenced my faith in God. There was a week in between where I didn’t have a home for a week, she let me stay with her.” Campbell was a new member of the Christian-affiliated sorority Sigma Phi Lambda. Mataya Thomas, senior and Sigma Phi Lambda president, spoke at the vigil. She said she and Campbell bonded quickly during recruitment. She was going to be Campbell’s sorority big sister. “Reveal was scheduled for tomorrow, so I will never be able to tell McKenna that our wish had come true and that we were chosen to be together,” Thomas said through tears. “I texted her the night I found out about her passing and told her that I was her big, and I was so sorry that I was never able to tell her that in person.” Campbell’s final Facebook post, made at 3:02 p.m. Sept. 25, simply said “forgive me.” Her father, Dan Campbell, began his speech at the vigil by clarifying the cause of her death. “We met with the doctor that did the autopsy on McKenna, and I just wanted you to know that they ruled this as an accidental alcohol
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It’s always a long story when 21-year-old Yara Puente has to face an interviewer for a potential job and explain that she’s not in school right now. This fall is the first time Puente has had to take a semester off from
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Hundreds of demonstrators gathered for Planned Parenthood’s inaugural Pink Out.
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community college after attending parttime for the past three years. As an undocumented immigrant, Puente came to the U.S. from Mexico when she was 3 years old. As a teenager at Van Horn High School in Independence, Puente worked to be eligible for the A+ Scholarship Program by completing the 50 hours of community service necessary in her freshman year. However, her hard worked proved for naught when Puente learned she
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Some say recent legislation is a matter of discrimination, not lack of funding.
MOVE Fall festivals? More like fall bestivals. Citizen Jane drops at Ragtag on Oct. 22.
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You can’t mock what you don’t have. Mauk suspended for Saturday’s game.
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Planned Parenthood supporters speak Tuesday at Speakers Circle during a rally held to protest recent decisions by the MU administration against the organization. Nearly 1,000 people gathered to support the cause and raise awareness of MU’s decisions.
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MU rallies after Planned Parenthood investigations TESSA WEINBERG Staff Writer A wave of pink shirts flooded Speakers Circle as the shouts of Planned Parenthood supporters crashed onto its bricks. The inaugural “Pink Out Day,” held Tuesday, saw an overwhelming number of people of all ages and backgrounds come to Columbia as part of a national event in support of Planned Parenthood. Holding signs that read, “I stand with Planned Parenthood,” “Schaefer for Führer” and “This Tiger plans for her cubs, I will fight for Planned Parenthood,” demonstrators chanted “M-I-Z, shame on you,” as the rally got underway. With Columbia as one of 15 “anchor” events for the national day of action, close to 1,000 people were present,
according to the number of signatures on petitions, said Laura McQuade, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and MidMissouri. In light of MU’s discontinuation of “refer and follow” privileges Sept. 24 and cancellation of multiple agreements with Planned Parenthood that had allowed graduate students to receive training at the Columbia clinic, the demonstrators had multiple demands that they hoped the rally would accomplish. McQuade said she hopes the rally pushes MU to reinstate privileges for physician Colleen McNicholas, who was able to perform medical abortions at the Columbia clinic, as well as reinstate contracts for students to be able to continue academic partnerships with Planned Parenthood.
“We want to continue to apply as much political pressure to MU to make them feel that they made the wrong decision, and so today is just the first step in galvanizing the public support that we know we have to push back on MU,” McQuade said. McQuade said she feels Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin’s immediate response to the rally will be silence, and that’s why she said Planned Parenthood and its supporters must keep the pressure on to demand Loftin be held accountable. Planned Parenthood is planning on doing just that by potentially filing a claim with the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., sometime this week, McQuade said. She said they will be analyzing whether MU violated the Church Amendments, a
section of federal law that prohibits federally funded hospitals from discriminating against employing individuals based on their willingness or unwillingness to perform abortion services. McQuade said it is “to protect conscious on both sides of the issue.” Effective Dec. 1, MU Health Care will discontinue refer and follow privileges after an executive committee unanimously voted to no longer offer this “outdated” and “unnecessary” category of privileges, as Chief Medical Officer Stevan Whitt said in a news release. Of MU Health Care’s 800 medical staff, only two medical providers had refer and
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Low reporting numbers highlighted in AAU climate survey MORGAN MAGID Senior Staff Writer The Association of American Universities’ study on sexual assault and sexual misconduct has prompted many to compare MU’s results to other universities and has driven the conversation surrounding sexual violence and rape culture on campus. “This study has been a benchmark,” said Dr. Jeni Hart, an associate professor of higher learning in MU’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. “This is the first time this
particular instrument has ever been used. So we don’t have any comparison and the other piece is that … there are very specific questions that make it very difficult to compare.” The study revealed that at MU, 38.8 percent of senior women had experienced some form of completed or attempted nonconsensual sexual contact during in their time on campus. Of the total student body, 24.1 percent of seniors were victims during their time at the university. The survey also studied other forms of sexual violence, including sexual
harassment, stalking and partner violence. Female students had the highest rate of sexual harassment, peaking at 64.4 percent for undergraduates and 52 percent for graduate students. The results for transgender, genderqueer and gender nonconforming students are even higher. For senior undergraduates who identify as TGQN, 41 percent are victims of nonconsensual sexual contact and 68.5 percent experience some form of harassment. Hart said the statistics are important, but comparing them campus-to-campus is problematic because each campus has
a different set of unique contexts. She said the presence of MU’s Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention Center, for example, may have affected the university’s results. The previously widely used statistic that “1 in 5” women were sexually assaulted on college campuses came from the College Sexual Assault study in 2007. However, as the AAU summary of MU’s results explained, that number came from a study conducted on only two universities and may not be applicable
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overdose,” he said. “She didn’t take a bunch of pills. She had no reason to give up her life, she had a lot of hope, she had a lot of friends, she had a lot of things going on in her life she was looking forward too, the new sorority, the new big sister, she was going to work the next
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wouldn’t be able to use the A+ Scholarship at a Missouri community college, since they don’t accept students who don’t have social security numbers. As a result, Puente attended Johnson County Community College in Kansas part-time while holding two jobs, rather than attending school in Missouri. After receiving her DACA status in the spring of 2014, Puente returned to Missouri and began school part time at Metropolitan Community College - Penn Valley. She could only afford to take six to nine credit hours at a time along with working. Now Puente has had to take her first semester off this fall due to recently passed Missouri legislation. Just this summer House Bill 3 was passed, which charges Missouri resident students an international tuition rate based on their immigration status. Additionally, on Sept. 16, Senate overrode the first bill in their veto session, Senate Bill 224. Sponsored by state Sen. Gary Romine, R-Farmington, the bill requires students to be citizens or permanent residents of the U.S. in order to receive financial aid through the A+ Program to cover the cost of tuition for community college or a vocational/technical school. The A+ Scholarship Program provides scholarships for students who attended one of the 533 approved high schools and meet certain eligibility requirements that include maintaining a 2.5 GPA, completing 50 hours of community service and having at least 95 percent attendance throughout high school. Previously, the state statute allowed students who were “lawfully present,” to receive scholarship funds. This included Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals per the
day.” The Columbia Police Department responded to a call at 11:45 a.m. Sept. 26, and Campbell was transferred to the Boone County Medical Examiner’s office, according to CPD Public Information Officer Latisha Stroer. They have launched a death investigation. A GoFundMe account was created to raise money to assist the Campbell family with funeral costs.
Dan Campbell said he believed McKenna was attempting to drown her sorrows in alcohol and asked those present to be cognizant of the dangers of alcohol. “I’m not here to say don’t ever drink, but I’m saying we have to take care of each other and watch out for each other,” Dan Campbell said. “She was drinking alone, and I know many of you reached out to her that night and some of you
were trying to help her.” Dan Campbell then encouraged those in attendance to hug their neighbor to “show them sincerely that you love them and that you care about them. That they matter.” The balloons were released and picked up by the fall wind, rising past the dome of Jesse Hall, fading into the overcast sky. The crowd dissolved into silence, aside from the sobs of
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Obama administration's executive order in 2012. Puente is just one of many students affected by the Missouri General Assembly’s recent override of Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of Senate Bill 224. In a letter to the Missouri secretary of the state, Nixon rebuked SB 224, defending the students it would negatively affect. “They came to the U.S. through no choice or action of their own,” Nixon wrote. “They arrived as young dependents, in the controlling embrace of an adult who entered the U.S. illegally. They bear no responsibility for this action.” Rep. Scott Fitzpatrick, R-Shell Knob, handled the bill in the Missouri House of Representatives and said he felt the bill was necessary because the A+ Scholarship Program was giving funds to students who are in the U.S. illegally in place of students who were U.S. citizens. “It’s sending a message to people who come here illegally that we will reward you by providing your children with a free higher education, and I just don’t think that’s something that the state would be doing with the tax dollars that we have available,” Fitzpatrick said. The program has only continued to grow in the past few years. Liz Coleman, spokeswoman for the Department of Higher Education, said in an email that the department predicts that about 14,000 students will receive the A+ Scholarship for the 2015-16 academic year. In the 2014-15 school year, approximately 13,300 students received the scholarship and 12,500 students received the scholarship for the 2013-14 school year Coleman said. Fitzpatrick also said insufficient funds were part of the reason behind passing SB 224. By making DACA students eligible, there was not sufficient funding in the budget for the DHE to fully reimburse
all the students currently in the scholarship program, Fitzpatrick said. “(For) every student you add to it at that point, you’re spreading those dollars thinner and thinner,” Fitzpatrick said. Vanessa Aragón, executive director of the statewide coalition Missouri Immigrant and Refugee Advocates, said the Senate passing SB 224 is not a matter of needing money but solely a matter of discrimination. “If the state has a revenue problem, it can’t solve it on the backs of immigrant students,” Aragón said. “Excluding noncitizen students from the A+ Scholarship Program isn’t going to put more money into the system.” For the 2015-16 academic year, the A+ Scholarship program will be funded at $35.1 million. Fitzpatrick said he would like to see more high schools included in the program, but Puente said she would like to see students like herself given equal opportunity first. This is a trend Aragón said will become more common in the coming years. “What’s going to happen, particularly if this tuition increase as a result of HB 3 continues, is that there will be students who never even consider going to school in Missouri even though they’re a Missouri high school graduate,” Aragón said. “They’re just automatically going to look out of state.” With fewer DACA students attending Missouri community colleges, Aragón said diversity will also decrease as these schools garner a reputation for being less welcoming and accepting to students. After receiving her DACA status in the spring of 2014, Puente returned to Missouri and began school part time at Metropolitan Community College - Penn Valley. She could only take six to nine credit hours at a time along with working. However, now
Puente has had to take her first semester off this fall after her tuition increased this summer because of HB 3 and she learned she would not be able to use her scholarship funds after the passing of SB 224. Puente said it was hard to hear from legislators that they were going to override something that could help her go to school. “I kind of feel like they’d rather see me waitressing than getting an education and doing something better for my community or better for the economy,” Puente said. “I feel like it’s damaging a lot of opportunities that are out there, just because they want to give us more obstacles to prevent us from going to school.” Tanya Broder, senior staff attorney for the National Immigration Law Center, said the benefits of offering access to college are clear. At least 20 states offer in-state tuition rates to students who meet certain criteria regardless of their immigration status, she said. Citing a study conducted in 2012 by the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, Broder said that for every dollar the state invests in getting students into and through college, it receives a net return on investment of $4.50. The return for those who complete college is twice as high, at $4.80, than for those who enter but fail to complete college — $2.40. “Tuition equity policies have been demonstrated not only to increase potential earnings and economic contributions of these students, but to reduce high school dropout rates among broader groups of students, including citizens — creating a climate of hope for the students and their peers,” Broder said in an email. Puente said she has already faced many obstacles after coming to the U.S. from Mexico when she was 3 years old. Despite this, she said she
has always had a passion for learning and after just two years in an English Second Language program her teachers said she didn’t need it anymore and had adapted well. Often working two jobs, at times as a waitress at Denny’s or a receptionist at a hotel, Puente still prioritizes her education and made an effort to work multiple internships over the years. Unsure of when she will return to school in the future, Puente said this experience has helped her become closer to the community and made her rethink her major. Puente is also now considering working for a non-profit in the future and has a few words of advice for any students in her situation who are unsure if they can continue their education. “Any student that is getting discouraged, I would just say to unite,” Puentes said. “We are stronger and more powerful in numbers than alone.” Both Puente and Aragón will continue their efforts to work with legislators to try and repeal HB 3, as the budget of HB 3 must be renewed every fiscal year. HB 3, “appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Higher Education,” according to the bill’s text. Although universities cannot be forced to adopt HB 3, many, including MU, are now charging Missouri resident students international tuition rates based on their immigration status. “We’re not just talking about abstract numbers or possible statistics, we’re talking about real students who you’ve sat next to in high school who are trying to college,” Aragón said. “We’re talking about real students who have been enrolled in the University of Missouri system, who are dropping out or transferring out of state as a result of these policies.”
McKenna Campbell’s pastor David Sunday led the group in a prayer concluding the ceremony. “This world is broken, this world is also beautiful,” Sunday said. “McKenna was broken, but McKenna was beautiful. I’m broken, you are broken, but there is also beauty.”
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Mizzou Democrats foster learning and growth The organization hosts both discussion-based and panel meetings to inform students on political issues, no matter their beliefs. CLAIRE MITZEL Reporter The Mizzou College Democrats is armed with 30 members, an executive board of seven, a passion for politics and a Joe Biden cardboard cutout. “If you ever see a Joe Biden cutout, it’s probably a Mizzou Democrats event,” Vice President Claire Salzman said. The Biden cutout underscores what President Nick Benham said is the Mizzou Democrats’ mission: to serve as an informative body, a professional organization and a social opportunity. Whether it be having a debate watch party or listening to a politician speak at their meetings, this organization allows students to learn about politics while making friends. “We feel like college students are so critically underserved and underrepresented, so we like to equip the members with the knowledge, the ideas and the discussion necessary to make them effective members of society,” Benham said. The organization has an “open door” policy for politicians who want to speak to them. Some recent and upcoming speakers include state Rep. Kip Kendrick,
D-Columbia, state Rep. Stephen Webber, D-Columbia and state House candidate Martha Stevens, among others. Mizzou Democrats does not officially endorse specific candidates for presidential elections. Instead, they provide resources for members to learn about various candidates and foster discussion surrounding candidates and issues, Benham said. The organization is open to anyone, regardless of political affiliation. They also work together with the Mizzou College Republicans and Tigers Advancing Political Participation, MU’s nonpartisan political organization, to register voters before elections. “It doesn’t matter your affiliation,” Benham said. “We just want you to get out there and vote and have your voice be heard.” Mizzou Democrats recently changed the way they operate. They went from more of a casual club to an organization that offers social events and professional opportunities. “The way that we’ve taken this organization is (to) a much more unique level than it was,” Salzman said. “It became a professional organization where it was a lot of campaigning, endorsing and working for politicians. We give opportunities to work in politics if that’s what you want, but there are also a lot of outlets to celebrate being a young liberal on campus.” This year, the organization has more members than in years past. Between 30 to 40 people attend each meeting. The members make up a vibrant and diverse group, Benham said.
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Members of the Mizzou College Democrats pose for a group portrait. The organization provides students with opportunities to get involved in political discussions.
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“One of our members that came last week is from Sri Lanka,” Benham said. “We have some people in our organization who are more conservative and we had a really healthy discussion about education policy. We have some people that represent first-generation college students. There’s just so much diversity.” Typical meetings are discussion-based. The executive board members meet each week to decide on a topic for that week’s meeting. Members can also suggest ideas that they would like to discuss. The meeting is then spent discussing the topic of the week, with the executive board acting as facilitators for the discussion. There are also panel meetings that address various topics and give the members a first-person look at a certain issue. For example, a recent panel discussion was about education reform and featured firstgeneration college students and a politician who was a former teacher. “The purpose of them is to coordinate with other organizations on campus and politicians, and try and get a different format of the meeting where we can hear people’s stories,” Campus Coordinator Kate Coates said. “We’re going to do a couple others throughout the semester. We haven’t totally nailed down all of them yet, but I’m really excited for where we’re going with that.” The Mizzou Democrats meet at 7:30 p.m. on Thursdays in Strickland Hall 209. Students interested can “like” them on Facebook or follow them on Twitter and Instagram @mizzoudems to stay up-to-date on the latest announcements.
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Members of the Mizzou College Republicans pose for a group portrait. The organization provides students with an opportunity to get involved in political discussions.
College Republicans foster political debate The group plans to host politicians and attend conferences throughout the year. MANYUN ZOU Reporter With 100 members and counting, Mizzou College Republicans wants to give students an avenue to get involved in political discussions and a head start to their future political careers. “Our main goal is just getting college students a foot in the doorway so they can have a little bit of experience,” Mizzou College Republicans president Skyler Roundtree said. The organization gives its members the opportunity to can gain experience through volunteering or internships, since they have connections with both state and city legislators. Mizzou College Republicans have members of diverse majors, including political science, accounting, engineering and humanities. “We are open to anyone as long as you have an open mind,” Roundtree said. Freshman Chris Vas joined College Republicans to have a place to learn from a variety of people and discuss conservative ideals. “I know on campus there’s a lot of rallies and
meetings for a lot of different, more-liberal thinking groups, so I think that the College Republicans are a great place for someone to go who tends to lean more conservative, but we accept anyone who just wants to learn,” Vas said. “Anyone with opposing viewpoints is welcome to come too. There’s no requirement of who can join. We just like to have discussion, whether you agree or disagree. We really just have an open discussion. That’s our main goal.” Whenever politicians come to speak, Mizzou College Republicans encourages its members to get involved in the visiting politician’s office. For example, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., visited Columbia on Sept. 26. Mizzou College Republicans plans to send some of its members to work on his campaign team. “(The visiting politicians) are really friendly,” Roundtree said. “A lot of these legislators will give us money to put on events and donate to our costs. Or whenever we travel to Washington, D.C., they will offer to help fund the trip.” The 2016 presidential election season is a heated topic for the Mizzou College Republicans. “During the presidential election, we try to get as many Mizzou College Republicans as we can … with these people running for offices,” Roundtree said. The organization likes to attend conferences and events throughout the year. Most recently on Sept. 25-26, 10 members attended the Missouri College Republicans State Leadership Conference in
Springfield. Vas travelled to the conference with the group, which was attended by members of College Republicans organizations across the state of Missouri, a Missouri gubernatorial candidate, and a member of Congress via Skype. “I actually learned a lot about more issues that are facing this state and our country,” Vas said. “We talked a lot about the Missouri Right to Work bill that just barely didn’t pass, but a lot of the sitting congressmen and women were talking to us about what it takes to actually pass a bill, as well as just hearing from speakers who are more conservative; which is kind of tough on campus. It was kind of like a place where we can share our thoughts among likeminded people.” The group also plans on traveling to Columbus, Ohio, for the National Midwest Freedom Conference on Oct. 2-3. wwSophomore Benjamin Kochuyt said he enjoys the company of fellow members and the networking opportunities made available through the organization. w“If you see an MCR on campus, come talk to us,” Kochuyt said. “We all love discussing politics and meeting students of all viewpoints that share the same passion.” Mizzou College Republicans updates their meeting time on Facebook and Twitter.
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MU celebrates 100-year anniversary of Ellis Library “The library is the cornerstone of this great institution of higher learning,” MSA President Payton Head said.
people are smiling, and there’s good music and food and it’s all centered around the library, as somebody who works at the library, that’s awesome.” When Ellis Library first opened in the fall of 1915, it was the first free-standing library building on campus. After a fire destroyed Academic Hall in 1892, the few books that MU had left were housed in the ground floor of the new Academic Hall. But in the early 1900s, James Gerould, MU’s first professionally
trained librarian, petitioned for the construction of a large building on campus where textbooks could be stored and students could come to study. It took a decade of campaigning, but Gerould eventually got his wish, and in 1915, Ellis Library was opened to the public. “Today is a day where we are really celebrating and recognizing the leadership of this state 100 years ago,” said Matt Gaunt, director of advancement for the MU
Libraries. “We wanted to honor the people that helped to create our library, as well as what it has become today, a central part of our university.” The MU Libraries consists not only of Ellis, but also eight other branch libraries as well. All together, they hold nearly 4 million books, 1 million e-books and 7.5 million microfilms. Librar y officials have proposed a $5 per credit hour student fee to the Missouri Students Association that would incrementally increase
to $15 per credit hour over the next six years. The fee would fund improvements to the library including renovations, increased staffing and new services. A student referendum will be held for the fee in November. The most popular room in Ellis Library is the Grand Reading Room, where hundreds of students can relax or study at large tables in a quiet environment. The high ceiling and natural sunlight create a very inviting and welcoming atmosphere, Gaunt said. Missouri Students Association President Payton Head and MSA Vice President Brenda Smith-Lezama made history in January by becoming the first slate to hold their inauguration ceremony in the Grand Reading Room. “ The librar y is the cornerstone of this great institution of higher learning,” Head said. “With all the wonderful organizations here on campus and extracurricular opportunities, it can be easy to forget that the No. 1 reason why we are here at Mizzou is to get an education, and so I think the library is symbolic of that academic priority.”
“Everybody thinks that they know how the show should go,” Givens said. “My job is to make sure that all of these moments happen as real and as honestly as I can possibly make them. I don’t want to retrace other actors’ steps, and if I do, I want to make sure they make sense for what we’re doing.” Brown and his assistant director, third-year doctoral student Jennie Pardoe, agree that despite the show’s popularity, MU’s production is unique while staying true to the story. “We’ve set it in the Italian Renaissance, so we’re taking it back to the Shakespearean setting of the place,” Pardoe said. “A lot of times today we see Shakespeare in new, postmodern settings, and this is looking back at some of the older themes.” Brown went into more detail about the production’s uniqueness. “The design approach that we’ve taken is very visual,” he said. He explained that “The Kiss,” a painting by Gustav Klimt, inspired the gold and floral colors in the set and costumes. He also said Romeo and Juliet’s
first meeting includes a dream sequence, something that does not happen in other versions of the play. Another distinct element of the show, specifically for MU, is the location of the performance. “The theater department has been around for almost a hundred years, and this is the first time ever that we’ve done a play in the Missouri Theatre,” Brown said. Another divergent aspect of the show is the casting of a woman, senior Alison Kertz, as Mercutio, typically a role for men. “It’s a lot of fun,” Kertz said about her experience playing the part. “I’ve found a surprising amount of common ground between the way Mercutio interacts with others and the way I interact with others in my personal life.” She explained that the similarities include Mercutio’s fondness for embarrassing her friends in front of people and being the bawdiest one in the conversation. “Mercutio in the text doesn’t really fit into the rest of the society,” Pardoe said. “With a woman playing the part, she obviously doesn’t fit in, and it
just kind of continues to speak to that.” The four brawlers in the play’s opening scene are also played by women rather than men in this production. Brown said that these four women later transform into dancers in the ball scene. “I feel very strongly about non-traditional casting, so when I put out the call for actors, we specified that we were especially interested in making sure that people knew that there were roles available regardless of gender, ethnicity, age and that sort of thing,” he said. “So we’ve got a really good cross-section of people.” The cast and directors have spent the past five weeks preparing for the show. Auditions were held Aug. 26. Brown said assigning roles was difficult because of both the quantity and quality of the actors who auditioned. “It kind of becomes like a puzzle because you have all these good actors, but some might be right for certain roles and some for other roles,” Brown said. “Ultimately, it ended up great. The actors that we have are really working out well.”
This is the ninth show at MU for Givens, a theatre performance major. Huskey is participating in MU theatre for the first time. Their favorite aspects of their characters are strikingly similar. Both actors cite their characters’ intense devotion as what drives the plot. “(Juliet) basically goes on an emotional rollercoaster the whole show,” Huskey said. “It’s really fun to play all those different emotions in the span of this one show. She goes from being really, really happy to everything going downhill.” Givens also cited emotions as Romeo’s most interesting quality. “His greatest flaw and his greatest asset is his passion,” Givens said. “Sometimes he’s doing things in a passionate way for good, sometimes it turns out bad, but no matter what it is, he stays true to what he feels. I think that’s one of the most beautiful things about us as people, that we can only be ourselves, for better or worse.”
BRIAN CONSIGLIO Reporter Ellis Library is quite possibly older than your grandpappy. The Library was around for the rise of the Internet, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. Now, it’s celebrating its centennial birthday. Students and faculty were invited to Lowry Mall for traditional MU fare such as Shakespeare’s Pizza and Tiger Stripe ice cream. Attendees were also treated to live music and cornhole. It was also a day to celebrate those who helped make the library possible. In addition to the food, students were treated to bottled water, popcorn and a live band playing jazz music. There were free giveaways of sunglasses, and the “plates” that the pizza was served on were actually MU Library frisbees. “The student experience is what Mizzou is all about,” Gaunt said. “To have a day like today, where the sun is shining,
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MU student Kelly Dobbs studies at Ellis Library on Feb. 17, in Columbia, Mo. Ellis Library celebrated its centennial birthday last Wednesday.
Production of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ unites tradition with originality This is the first time in the theatre department’s 100-year history that it has put on a production at the Missouri Theatre. TESS VRBIN Reporter You may think you know the story of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” but not the way it is coming to the Missouri Theatre stage. With a non-traditional cast and a different time, place and design, the MU theater department will bring a revamped edition of this classic tale at the Missouri Theatre at 7 p.m. on Oct. 1. “The actors and I have thought about this play as if we’ve never heard of it and are coming to it fresh,” Director Kevin Brown said. “We’re really trying to bring our own interpretation to it.” Senior Alex Givens, who plays Romeo with freshman Leah Huskey as Juliet, said his biggest challenge is keeping the show fresh, since it has been performed for centuries.
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Professor Steven Watts’ journey with Walt Disney EMILY O’CONNOR Reporter History professor Steven Watts’ interest in Walt Disney began with a trip to the “Happiest Place on Earth.” “To tell you the truth, it was sort of an accident,” Watts said. This accidental interest led to the publication of Watts’s book, “The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life” in 1997, and his subsequent role in the two-night PBS documentary that aired Sept. 14 and 15, “American Experience: Walt Disney.” It began when Watts traveled to Florida with his wife and visited Disney World. He could not help but wonder about the connection between the throngs of people and Disney himself. “It was one of those things that just stuck in my mind, and when I got back home, it wouldn’t go away,” Watts said. “I just kept thinking about Disney.” Watts discovered that an in-depth book on the historical analysis of Disney did not exist, so he submitted a book proposal to the Houghton Mifflin publishing company. Six months later, he received a contract. Watts traveled to the Disney archives in Burbank, California, three to four times a year over the next five years to gather
information for his book. Sarah Colt, producer of “American Experience: Walt Disney,” approached Watts about the documentary based on their previous work experiences together. In 2013, Colt produced “American Experience: Henry Ford” after reading Watts’ book “The People’s Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century.” Colt relied on Watts’ biography of Henry Ford for her research in the film. Colt said Watts’ book on Henry Ford was the obvious choice during her research for the documentary, and she felt the same about Watts’ book on Disney. “I was interested in all the reasons Steve wanted to write the book,” Colt said. “Why the impact? What is it about this person? The answers to these questions were in Steve’s book.” Watts said he acted as a talking head and adviser in the Disney documentary. He and Colt brainstormed about the content of the film. Colt then interviewed Watts for a total of about seven hours on the life of Disney. “Working with Steve on two projects in a row has been such a pleasure,” Colt said. “I imagine he’s a fantastic professor.” Watts’ interest in Disney has
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MU professor Dr. Steven Watts poses for a portrait. Watts helped produced a PBS film on Walt Disney called “American Experience: Walt Disney.”
inspired many students to take his “Walt Disney and American Culture” class. He said this is his fourth time teaching the course. “I had quite a lot of material from the Disney archives from when I was doing the book,” Watts said. “I thought it would be kind of fun.” The class explores Disney and mass culture as well as its influence on topics such as the Great Depression, art in the 1930s and 1940s and World War II.
“Disney in many ways, I think, was kind of a spokesman for the hopes and values and fears of ordinary Americans in the 20th century,” Watts said. “He sort of presented a picture of themselves and a picture of the country that they really wanted to believe.” Lindsey Foat, the community engagement producer at Kansas City Public Television, is a former student of Watts’ who took the Disney class. “It’s definitely its own crash
course in 20th century American history,” Foat said. KCPT invited Watts to show the first 20 minutes of the documentary at the Kansas City public library Sept. 2. About 450 people attended the film screening and Watts’ discussion afterward. “At the event itself, I felt as though I was back in class,” Foat said. “It was no surprise that Steven Watts was one of the historians they chose to work with.”
“The summer in Chicago, that’s when everyone is out and looking for something to get into,” Hutchins said. “And sometimes what they get into is negative. It’s a nasty way to use their time.” In 2013, 500 people came to the first “I Am For Peace” march. The movement only grew from there. Two thousand people marched in 2014, and in 2015, nearly 3,000 people participated in the initiative. Prominent public figures such as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, singer and actress Jennifer Hudson and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have come to the marches to support Hutchins’ movement. Hutchins said that this year, a group from a church in Tennessee drove all the way to Chicago just to participate. “I felt like the movement in itself is so powerful, so why wouldn’t you want to join?” Hutchins said. “But I never thought that it would grow continuously.” In 2014, her initiative became even more visible as two former producers of the Oprah Winfrey Show turned the 2014 march into a documentary. One of the founders of her school, Diana Shulla-Cose, wanted to make sure that the discussion about violence in Chicago lasted longer than one day. Hutchins and Shulla-Cose went to churches and corporations throughout Chicago to fundraise the $35,000 she needed to produce the film. They were able to raise the money, and the film premiered
on May 29, 2015 — a week before Hutchins marched again June 5. “It was very moving just to see that this one little idea grew to become this big thing,” Hutchins said. “I felt so honored to be a part of it.” Hutchins, a communications major, plans to return to Chicago after she graduates to continue advocating for peace because she knows that her fight against violence is far from over. Just two weeks ago, Hutchins’ 59-year-old cousin was gunned down as he brought in groceries into his house. She still hears of kids in her neighborhood being shot and killed as they walk to school, walk home from school or even as they wait for the school bus. “Even now, even though I’m at Mizzou, I still worry about my family in Chicago,” Hutchins said. “Because it can happen at any time, any moment. You just have to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.” Hutchins plans on continuing her involvement in social justice issues during her time at MU. She has not been on campus for long, but she already identified race as the issue she wants to tackle next. “I tell people, ‘You cannot blame people for the way they think because this hatred has been passed down from generation to generation,’” Hutchins said. “But at the same time, if you don’t like the diversity, maybe you need to leave because we’re here and we’re going to make a difference.”
MU freshman raises awareness about violence in Chicago THOMAS OIDE Reporter Violence. Murder. Poverty. These are all words that are associated with the South Side of Chicago; they are realities that kids who live there must face on a daily basis. But Razia Hutchins, a MU freshman, wanted to associate a new word with the South Side of Chicago: peace. Hutchins was born and raised on the South Side, where she said she was exposed to violence nearly every day from a young age. She recalled returning home from a family vacation in Wisconsin to half her street blocked off. Earlier that day, a man had killed another man over an argument about a girl. While that memory in particular stands out to her, Hutchins said she has countless other childhood memories involving violence. “It’s everyday,” she said. “Even if you don’t know the person (who died), you know someone who knows that person. Everyone gets affected.” With all the gun violence swirling around her, Hutchins constantly worried about whether her classmates would be in school the next day. But Hutchins’ worrying was unique. Many other students at her school became apathetic and immune to the constant violence. Hutchins remembered having a discussion in one of her classes
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MU communications student Razia Hutchins poses for a portrait at Speaker’s Circle. Hutchins started a movement against gun violence called “I Am For Peace.”
about a student who was killed after a high school basketball game. “This is Chicago, what do you expect?” someone called out during the discussion. That reaction, or the lackthereof, left Hutchins in shock. She said apathy toward gun violence was a common occurrence. “The way they were thinking was just sick,” Hutchins said. “How could you think that way? How could you just feel nothing? That’s somebody’s son or nephew or cousin. “They just thought of it as another day in Chicago.” Hutchins refused to let those apathetic feelings proliferate throughout her community. She decided to take action. In 2013, Hutchins approached her school principal, Angela Brooks-Rallins, with an idea: She wanted to bring students together from all across Chicago for a peace
march. Hutchins describes her methods as “very Malcom X;” her vision was to bring every high school in Chicago on the march. Brooks-Rallins, however, had other plans. She only wanted students from her high school, Perspectives Charter School, to participate. She wanted Hutchins to apply for a permit in order to march. She even wanted Hutchins to ensure that she marched on the sidewalks instead of the streets.’ “We were going through a more peaceful way about it,” Hutchins said. “I was like, ‘Lady, you’re ruining my vision.’ But in the end it turned out really well.” Hutchins called her movement “I Am For Peace.” She organized the marches on the last day of school each year because she wanted to see the participants abstain from gun violence over the summer and extend the peace into the next school year.
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follow privileges, according to a news release. Teresa Snow, corporate director of strategic communications and media relations at MU Health Care, said refer and follow privileges were first offered in 2010 to allow healthcare providers to refer patients to MU Health Care’s facilities and follow their patients’ care in MU Health Care’s electronic medical record.
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Continued from page 3 on a national scale. Dr. Rajeev Darolia is an assistant professor in the Truman School of Public Affairs with a background in methodology, and gave insight into the general validity of large-scale surveys. For MU, 15 percent of students responded to the survey. A participation rate of 15 percent may seem low, but from a statistical standpoint, Darolia said it’s more important to look at who responded rather than the amount of people, because broad surveys need to represent those who might not usually have their voices heard. “Typically, as researchers, what we look for is whether the sample represents the population, and that’s not necessarily based on the percentage or volume,” Darolia
THE MANEATER | NEWS | SEPTEMBER 30, 2015 “Today, any healthcare provider can refer patients to our facility and referring providers can request electronic access to our medical record for their referred patients,” Snow said in an email. “Such access does not require the provider to be a member of our medical staff nor hold privileges at MU Health Care facilities.” However with McNicholas’ refer and follow privileges ending, McQuade said Planned Parenthood is seeking to get McNicholas either credentialed at the Boone Hospital Center or privileges other than refer
and follow at MU Health Care. Snow said McNicholas will be allowed to apply for other privileges with MU Health Care. McQuade said there are a number of privileges that meet the requirements of the law to perform abortion services. Although McQuade said she hopes Planned Parenthood will be able to regain privileges before Dec. 1 so abortion services at the Columbia clinic will not be interrupted, if they are unable to do so, then they would need to analyze other legal remedies. While the future of abortion services at the Columbia clinic is
under question, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster announced Sept. 28 that based on the investigation into the St. Louis Planned Parenthood clinic, there was no evidence suggesting that the clinic was profiting off of illegal sale of fetal tissue. McQuade said she hopes this causes both the Senate and the House to cease all investigations in order to focus less on politics and more on the issue of women’s health. “I think the more that people can take this out of the political realm
and take this into the realm of
said. “It’s more based on whether we think those who responded reflect the attitudes of the broader population.” While making the survey mandatory may seem like a simple solution to low response, it could’ve easily backfired. “The other risk is if you force people to take a survey, and they’re compelled but they don’t care, they’re not engaged with it, often you’ll see falsified or just not welldone answers,” Darolia said.
down the street late at night by herself and she just randomly gets attacked,” Feminist Student Union Co-President Emma Bagnardi said. “I think we all like to think that’s the perfect victim, those are the only people who experience this sexual violence. But in reality, that’s not the case. Most times it is from people we know.” This culture of gender-based violence affects everyone on campus and comes from a variety of institutions. “The reality is that men and women and anyone along the gender spectrum is getting the same message about gender and violence and about these things, so I don’t want to blame men in this scenario,” Hart said. Statistics also suggest that the rate at which victims report incidents is rather low — 97.3 percent of male victims of nonconsensual sexual touching and 78.8 percent of female victims of penetration by force did
not report to a university program. Of female victims of penetration by force who did not report, 61 percent did not believe the incident was serious enough to report, according to the survey. Another 26.8 percent didn’t report because they did not want the offender to get in trouble. A large part of what creates rape culture, Hart said, is an unsafe environment. “Some of it may be in some pockets that we’re not prosecuting, that we’re making it difficult, that we’re not holding people accountable to the level that...we should hold someone accountable,” Hart said. “The consequences the don’t match the actual action. It becomes permissive.” Hart emphasised that she did not want to blame on a single campus institution, since many organizations contribute to campus culture. “I don’t want to blame athletics, I don’t want to blame fraternities
and sororities, but those cultures do inform how we think about gender on this campus and how we thinking about violence and what is permissible,” Hart said. Bagnardi, who is also an RSVP educator, said education about consent and more funding for organizations like the RSVP Center and Title IX Office is already underway to change campus culture. These efforts could discourage victim-blaming on campus, Bagnardi said. Some education programs such as the mandatory Not Anymore training and the Green Dot program are in place. “We need to be able to have these conversations about privilege and about power and where those messages come from, and I think standby training is another really important avenue,” Hart said. “We need to create a culture that we can talk about this.”
Changing the conversation The study revealed that offenders don’t tend to fit the “strangers hiding in bushes” stereotype. For female victims, friends and acquaintances made up 49 percent of offenders of nonconsensual penetration by force and 70 percent of offenders who used incapacitation. “I think there is this idea of the perfect victim — a young, beautiful white woman walking
people’s individual lives, that’s what health care is all about,” McQuade said. “It’s about individual people making their own decisions about the health care that they need and the lives they want to live. This isn’t some political discussion happening in Jefferson City or Washington, this is a decision that happens in people’s houses, and people’s cars and people’s doctors offices every day.”
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DACA students deserve a fair shot at an affordable education A group of Missouri legislators is determined to remind the children of undocumented immigrants that no matter how hard they try, they will never be able to outrun the consequences of their parents’ illegal immigration. To these legislators, the American Dream is something that should only be available to students who were born in the right place at the right time and to the right parents — anyone else is just freeloading. In reality, however, the children of undocumented immigrants deserve a fair shot at an affordable education through access to Missouri’s A+ Scholarship Program instead of having their eligibility voided by Senate Bill 224. Starting in 2012, the children of undocumented immigrants were able to attain “lawful presence” through the federal government’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy. This program protects children who arrive in the U.S. before they turn 16 from the threat of deportation and, in many states, allows them to pursue grants and scholarships and attain in-state tuition rates. After all, these children played no part in their parents’ decision to immigrate to the U.S. and should not be treated as though they did. But wait — not so fast, said the state of Missouri. After overriding a veto by Gov. Jay Nixon, the state Senate was able to enact SB 224, which will now prevent students who have obtained
lawful presence through DACA from participating in the A+ Scholarship Program. What’s worse is that Missouri legislators have not been content in simply denying lawfully present students eligibility to the A+ Scholarship Program. Just one month before classes started, hundreds of Missouri DACA college students found out they would no longer receive in-state tuition because of a rule change in House Bill 3, the appropriations bill for the Department of Higher Education. All together, there have been five bills filed this year with the sole intent of making it more expensive for undocumented students to enroll in a Missouri public college. The sponsor of SB 224, state Rep. Scott Fitzpatrick, R-Shell Knob, seems to think that the addition of DACA students to those eligible for the A+ scholarship somehow impedes or prevents legally residing students from obtaining the scholarship themselves. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the way the program works. The number of students receiving the A+ scholarship varies year to year, as the number of students who meet the requirements fluctuates. There is no existing cap on how many students can receive the scholarship, but the funds are technically limited, as the funds are set aside in the budget of HB 3 every fiscal year. The only scenario wherein a legally residing resident can be denied the A+ scholarship, despite meeting
all of the requirements, is if the state legislature decides not to fully fund the program during this time. Fitzpatrick has also said one of the primary reasons SB 224 passed was due to insufficient funds in the state’s budget. In other words, the students who became A+ eligible through DACA are a drain on the state’s resources. Yet the original purpose of the A+ scholarship program was to incentivize Missouri’s finest students to attend school in their home state rather than going elsewhere. When it comes down to it, our state can use all the intelligent, ambitious, hard-working young people it can get its hands on. Extending financial benefits to those who earn them — regardless of their background — is not only the morally correct thing to do, it’s also the most economical choice to make. By incentivizing students to attend school in-state, the state receives tuition that they otherwise wouldn’t receive while circumventing the emigration of highly trained or intelligent people from Missouri. At the end of the day, it’s a win-win for the state. But now, with the passage of SB 224, the Missouri Senate has made it clear that they are only interested in incentivizing students with the right kind of parents. These students have fairly met all of the eligibility requirements while simultaneously overcoming the obstacles of being an undocumented
immigrant, such as living in perpetual fear of deportation. The requirements themselves are also unquestionably high standards of merit. The program requires students to have at least 50 hours of unpaid tutoring or mentoring, maintain a GPA of at least 2.5 and an attendance record of at least 95 percent. But instead of commending these students for their accomplishments, SB 224 aims to diminish these accomplishments by ostracizing them for factors beyond their control. Moreover, because of the attendance requirement, students often make the decision to pursue the A+ scholarship at the beginning of their high school careers. So not only is this policy change taking away a great path to success from undocumented Missourians, it’s also pulling a baitand-switch on a significant number of students. Students who were made A+ eligible by DACA might have already begun to plan their futures with the assumption that their eligibility would not be suddenly yanked away by a callous state legislature. SB 224 tells these students that no matter how much they dedicate themselves to their studies, their peers and their communities, they will never be able to get escape their status as undocumented residents. Our state legislature must repeal this bill and end their continuous efforts to exclude younger generations of undocumented immigrants from the American Dream.
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What is The Student Voice? By now, you may have noticed the house ads appearing in the opinion section each week advertising a radio program entitled “The Student Voice.” So, what is “The Student Voice”? It is a weekly radio show/podcast featuring discussion and debate on the most relevant and controversial issue affecting MU’s campus. For our first episode, we discussed graduate student rights with Eric Scott, Connor Lewis and Colleen Young. These three graduate students are members of the Forum on Graduate Rights steering committee, and they came on the show to talk about unionization and mobilization of graduate students in the form of various events and protests. For the next episode, we had on our sports columnist, Nate Gatter, and our assistant sports editor, Alec Lewis, to discuss that week’s editorial topic: the booing of Maty Mauk at the MU football game against Connecticut.
This week, we will continue to build up our platform of debate and discussion by having on the show two representatives from contradicting organizations — one from MU students for Planned Parenthood and another from Mizzou Students for Life. After all, the goal of the show is to be a public platform of discussion for pertinent and controversial issues affecting MU. On Tuesday, MU students for Planned Parenthood held a protest in Speakers Circle regarding MU’s decision to sever ties with Planned Parenthood. In the wake of the rally, we will host civil discussion between the two opponents in this debate. Tune in to KCOU on Wednesdays from 4 to 5 p.m. to listen to our show! You can also find the full archived version of the show on our SoundCloud. - John Richmond Herrick Opinion Editor jherrick@themaneater.com
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Racism lives here, Chancellor Loftin
After a delayed response, all Loftin’s letter shows is how little he knows about race at MU. KENNEDY JONES On Sept. 12, Missouri Students Association President Payton Head posted a very personal and explicit message on his Facebook page. In his message, Payton discussed a recent incident in which he was called a nigger on MU’s campus. Payton discussed not only this incident but other incidents that both he and his closest friends have lived through here at MU. When first posted, this Facebook post generated a lot of talk through Twitter and other social media outlets and around campus, but over the days it became national news. Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin’s response was delayed by six days, without much to show for it. Loftin did not even have enough respect for the incident to call it what it was — racism. Instead, our chancellor chose the words “acts of bias and
discrimination” repeatedly throughout the statement. Not once did he address the situation for what it was, and not once did he express his viewpoint on the situation, other than to say he was saddened at what had happened to an MU student. In order to avoid discussing specifics, he deflected to MU’s often-repeated core values: Respect, Responsibility, Discovery and Excellence, which clearly weren’t displayed in this situation. The chancellor also addressed how only in “spirited inquiry and intellectual discussion” is freedom of speech supported, although “nigger” should never be tolerated in that environment, either. If it were me, Chancellor, I don’t think I’d ever fix my mouth to compare the nigger to freedom of speech on any level, especially while an emotionally charged movement was cultivating itself on my campus. The MU student community felt disrespected by the chancellor’s indifferent attitude and lack of urgency in this situation. They gathered at Speakers Circle on Sept. 24 to protest against the racism they’ve experienced at MU as well as the reaction of Chancellor Loftin and his
staff to this growing problem. After migrating from Speakers Circle to Jesse Hall, over 100 students chanted that “racism lives here.” Racism lives here, within the halls, streets and community of MU. Racism lives here when students of color can’t walk down the streets of Greek Town without being called a nigger. Discrimination lives here when those who identify as transgender or queer are being spit on. Discrimination lives here when students do not feel safe enough to be themselves within their college communities, a community that is supposed to be educated about the real struggles and problems of those minorities they associate with every day. If you feel you are educated on the growing problems that minority students on this campus face, and if you feel that because you would never do any of the things described, that you are not the problem, you’re wrong. The issue is that these incidents have been silenced and ignored for so long that they’re still happening, years after you assumed that they’ve gone away. Your silence has allowed them to continue. Now, it’s your responsibility to speak up.
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Men aren’t from Mars and women aren’t from Venus How to recognize the differences between men and women and how to respond to those differences. ELANE EDWARDS The “battle of the sexes” has been fought for hundreds of years now, but now is the time to put down our arms and come together. Television shows, commercials, books and practically every other media source out there often put the idea into our heads that men are providers and women are caregivers. This belief spills over into our everyday lives and causes a large amount of pressure for both males and females. Unfortunately, we believe these overemphasized gender roles and allow society to create a distance between men and women, which evolves into conflict. It is easy to think, “No matter what I do, the opposite sex will never understand me, and I will never understand it.” I refuse to believe that. I believe that is an excuse we use to avoid conflict. My next column will be about learning how to recognize the differences between men and women so that you can respond to those differences in a healthy and productive way. However, before I begin writing about these differences, it is important that we understand men and women are much more similar than they are different. Although males and females are born
with biological differences, we are all still human. Men and women strive to feel accepted, valuable, unique, loved and important. The media tries to tell us that spending money, time and effort on various material items are the tools we need to be able to attain those needs. Perfume and cologne advertisements are a small example of the media’s inadequate representation of men and women. A Houston Chronicle article entitled, “Perfume Advertisement Strategies” stated, “To successfully advertise a fragrance, you must tap into the human psychology and link your brand with a desirable abstract idea, such as passion, femininity or masculinity. This is why so many perfume advertisements are erotic in nature.” In AXE’s recent White Label: Hotel commercial, it shows a man walking throughout a hotel while a mix of men and women daydream about what his profession might be: a surgeon, backstreet fighter, secret spy, movie star or something else. These images show him as masculine, and he is seen as successful with material resources and attention from women. The advertisement is trying to sell cologne to a man by portraying the cologne as the reason why strangers think of him as strong, sexy and successful. The idea of “If I look and smell good, the opposite sex will like me” is put into men’s minds. This leads to a large population of men putting more effort toward buying the best cologne out there rather than putting its effort toward active listening and good communication. Unfortunately, healthy and rewarding intimacy is not
that easy. These cravings are so much larger than the shallow perception the media tries to portray. It takes effort to put our differences aside and find a middle ground, but we can be given the skills to do this. After all, we are trained to do it in a professional environment. If a group of men in suits and ties and women wearing pantyhose and pencil skirts can sit together and discuss business strategies, why can’t we do the same with intimate relationships? Do what you would do in a business meeting. Always keep your mind and heart open and listen to what others have to say. If the goal is to feel accepted, valuable, unique, loved and important, then treat others with respect. A goal implies that you need to work to get there. Make every experience a learning experience. Listen to each other, respect each other and work together. Understanding each other’s differences is important, but focusing on the differences too much causes a disconnect between two major portions of the population. We must remember that in spite of how different men and women may seem at times, they are both after the same end result. When we are aware of what we have in common, it makes dealing with the conflicts much easier. Men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus. They are both from Earth. Sometimes it may feel like we are on opposite ends of the planet, but that does not change the fact that we are on the same one. If you want advice on how to communicate well through differences, then here it is: Don’t see the world as man vs. woman.
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The pope’s inspiring message on immigration LILY CUSACK This past week, Pope Francis made his first visit to the U.S. in what proved to be a historic moment for the country. He visited the U.S. from Sept. 22 to 27 and made appearances in Washington, D.C., New York and Philadelphia. He was also the first pope to speak at a joint meeting of Congress. Pope Francis addressed many issues that have been fervently discussed in the past few weeks during the 2016 presidential debates. In the many speeches he made, Francis frequently talked about the issue of immigration reform in the U.S. He addressed his concerns about the remarks made by Republicans in the past few weeks. During his address to Congress last Thursday, he stated, “We must not be taken aback by their numbers, but rather view them as persons, seeing their faces and listening to their stories, trying to respond as best we can to their situation.” He tackled the topic again on Saturday, saying it is necessary to defend “the dignity of God’s gift of life in all its stages, by defending the cause of the poor and the immigrant.” The pope’s message comes at a perfect time for the U.S. It has been quite concerning for many citizens to listen to Republicans in debates attacking immigrants just for living in the U.S. GOP frontrunner Donald Trump has called for the deportation of 11 million illegal immigrants, and he wants to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to stem the flow of immigration. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has suggested the use of drones and mandatory fingerprinting for all visa holders while neurosurgeon Ben Carson is in favor of allowing guest workers to increase the productiveness of our agricultural sector. A poll by the Chicago Council Survey found that 53 percent of people that identify as strong Republicans “view deportation as the best way to address illegal immigration.” Francis made the right call to talk about immigration to a largely hostile Republican Congress. We need a different attitude toward immigration in this country. Our country needs to help people who have immigrated here by seeing them as people instead of just numbers. It is necessary to provide them with more opportunities to assimilate them into this country. Francis has made a call to action that will hopefully inspire our government to make a change. Many government officials heed the advice of the pope. According to The Christian Post, nearly 92 percent of representatives in Congress identify as Christians. The Protestants make up 57.2 percent, and 30.7 percent are Roman Catholic. The Washington Post reports that there are about 70 million Americans who identify as Roman Catholic. Many citizens listen to the words of the pope and follow his moral guidance because of their faith. This means that many people heard his words of encouragement toward immigrants and will work to change immigration policy in the long-term. The pope’s message during his visit to the U.S. last week will, with any luck, inspire lawmakers in Congress to be more open to immigration reform and more tolerant of the immigrants themselves. His calls for reform need to be heard by the GOP, which has taken a hard approach to immigration in this country. After all, the U.S. is a country based upon immigration. We need immigrants to build this country up. As Pope Francis said Saturday, “You should never be ashamed of your traditions.”
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The Ragtag Cinema is one of the hosts of the Citizen Jane Film Festival. The festival, sponsored by Stephens College, seeks to increase the visibility of film work by women.
Five fall festivals you won’t want to miss CORIN CESARIC Senior Staff Writer
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Citizen Jane is a film festival that is put on every year by Stephens College. It celebrates independent films by independent women and is a Columbia favorite. When: Oct. 22-25 Where: Columbia
From films to pumpkins, the fall festival lineup has a little something for everyone.
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Hartsburg Pumpkin Festival has provided arts and crafts (including, yes, pumpkin carving), music, hayrides and a pumpkin pie-eating contest. When: Oct. 10-11 Where: Hartsburg
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Ozark Arts & Crafts Show is an event that has been around for 42 years. Over 250 vendors from all over the country attend each year. There are food vendors, games and arts and crafts to keep you busy the whole weekend.
Pets & Pumpkins is possibly the cutest festival you could attend. Families bring out all kinds of animals dressed in costume and attend a pet parade, plus there are games, vendors and inflatables offered to attendees.
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When: Oct. 17
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O’Fallon Fall Fest is a twoday dance party featuring music from the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. It will also include acoustic performances, vendors, homemade crafts and mouthwatering food. When: Oct. 9-10 Where: O’Fallon
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CoMo businesses kick off fall with seasonal changes With several seasonal menus appearing in local restaurants, the leaves won’t be the only things changing this fall. AMANDA BATTMER Reporter Everyone grab your favorite mug, throw on your comfiest sweater, and ignore the fact that it’s still 80 degrees outside. Autumn is back. CoMo knows it, and the city is welcoming the change of seasons with open arms. Thanks to the efforts of some local businesses, the crisp, homey flavors of the holiday season will be falling into place in no time. Ozark Mountain Biscuit Co. This one-of-a-kind food
truck has brought the perfect amount of Southern charm to the Midwest since 2013. It always features a seasonally based menu thanks to its use of local farm products as source ingredients. That means that for fall, this Columbia staple will cook up some more traditional cool-weather comfort food. Nothing like some fried green tomatoes to warm the soul. HAUGHTY HILLBILLY: Fried green tomatoes serve as a headliner in this Ozark original, available now and every fall. Fried green tomatoes are also served as a side. CAJUN CATFISH BISCUIT: New this year, this sandwich combines a fried catfish filet with kale slaw, arugula sauce and pickled onions, which are made in-house. “Fried green tomatoes definitely come back every season,” owner Bryan Maness
says. “People (also) really like our hush puppies, and they’re coming back for this fall, and we’re happy to see them here.” Lakota Coffee Now that Lakota is coming up on its 23rd year in The District, good coffee has become a staple in Columbia. This local coffee shop, which opened October 1992, toffers a unique warmth to its customers with its cozy vibe and even cozier fall menu. Every year, the shop features seasonal drinks such as a pumpkin pie latte, gingerbread latte and peppermint mocha. They also bring in real pumpkin pie and begin stocking soups in late October. Though the pumpkin pie latte is definitely a crowd favorite, general manager Andrew DuCharme appreciates that coffee and non-coffee drinkers alike tend to step out of
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Patrons enjoy food and beverages inside Lakota Coffee Company. Lakota is one of the many popular coffee bistros in downtown Columbia.
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The 10 best recorder covers on YouTube
KATHERINE ROSSO Reporter
When you search “recorder cover” on YouTube, there are over 275,000 results: an array of covers, some legitimately good, some horrible. Most kids played recorders in elementary school, but an elite few have decided to continue with the magical instrument through their adult lives. Apparently, there are nearly 70 notes that can be played on a recorder … but seriously, they all pretty much sound the same. There really is nothing quite like a recorder cover, though. Is it the occasional offkey notes or the goofy nature of the videos themselves? Either way, here are 10 good — or maybe a little bad — recorder covers. 1) All of Me by John Legend This is probably the best a recorder has ever sounded and will ever sound again. The girl in the video overlays the piano with her recorder, and it’s seriously amazing. There are no words to describe this fully. I’m serious — watch it and your life will be changed. 2) Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus If you’re looking for an off-key, awful cover of a Miley Cyrus song, this is for you. The creator of this amazing video overlaid the karaoke version of the original song with his cover, creating a mash-up that is too funny to truly comprehend. I’m not sure why this guy decided to make this, but I’m sure glad he did. 3) Baby by Justin Bieber OK, this one is actually good. I mean, not even in a hilariously bad way. The kid is wearing a Santa hat and sunglasses reminiscent of Guy Fieri, but his recorderplaying is seriously unparalleled. Plus, the same kid’s YouTube is full of his other insanely good recorder covers, which really is the best way to procrastinate. 4) Fancy by Iggy Azalea Unlike the last video, the guy (same guy in the “Wrecking Ball” cover) in the video clearly has NO idea how to play a recorder, but this is entertaining nonetheless. I’m actually pretty sure he just plays the same note over and over to the beat of Fancy, but it’s great.
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Photo illustration of a YouTube star playing a recorder cover.
5) Kiss From a Rose by Seal This cover is an experience. The man in the video’s cover is good on the recorder, but it’s the fact that he’s shirtless with a flying mountain scene behind him that makes it great. At one point he gets a nosebleed — which I think is because of the altitude — but either way, it rocks. 6) My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion The explanation on this video is, “Love, passion, trust. Never Let Go,” which is wholly descriptive in so many ways. This video is insanely dramatic for such a terrible cover. It starts off really great: on-tune and everything, showing a man walking on the beach playing the song on the recorder. Then it begins to transition into a second scene of the same man on the beach, now in a tux and playing the song off-key, something I never knew I wanted but loved nonetheless. 7) Bad Romance by Lady Gaga This girl looks like an early 2000s version of Allison Hannigan, but her three-melody cover is pretty atrocious. It’s clear that she tried to make a coherent song out of the three different videos, but it’s so terrible that it turns out hysterically great. The screech of the recorder is truly an unparallelled musical device.
8) Best Song Ever by One Direction I generally avoid reading YouTube comments, because they’re a pretty bad picture of the human race, but the comments on this video are almost as funny as the video. In the words of 11-year-old Jamavia Smith, “she tried she failed.” The girl playing the recorder clearly states that she can’t actually play the recorder, but the attempt itself is still a work of art. 9) See You Again by Wiz Khalifa This cover sounds like it could seriously be playing at some kind of hip yoga class in LA. Besides the flawless song choice, watching the guy play the recorder and jam out to a Wiz Khalifa song is way better than I could ever imagine. It even goes into a split screen harmony at one point. It’s incredible — I promise. 10) Let Her Go by Passenger Although this cover doesn’t have the pizazz of a floating mountain green screen or fancy background music, the kid earns some recorder chops. This is probably how your third grade teacher imagined you would sound before you completely killed “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” but the plain recorder and simple video just works.
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Hitt Records’ owner Kyle Cook talks Yo La Tengo MORGAN MAGID
Although he might own over 4,000 records, Hitt Records’ owner Kyle Cook sat down with me last week to talk about his favorite album. Yo La Tengo’s 1997 album “I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One” holds a special place in Cook’s musical collection because of how formative it became after hearing it for the first time while in college. Hitt Records has quickly become a necessity for any Columbia-based collector, so take a look here to see how this New Jersey trio influenced Cook’s love of music. Q: What is your favorite album? After much deliberation ... I would have to say personally based on how many times I've listened to it and how formative it was for me, it has to be Yo La Tengo's "I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One." Q: Oh, I was just talking to someone about them the other day. Yeah, first of all, it's a long album. I want to say it's over an hour long, but it's honestly a CD-era album, it came out in the mid ’90s. But there's a lot of these albums now that they're re-issuing on vinyl that came out when CDs were the popular medium. I remember putting it in and ... at first it didn't do anything for me ... I liked Pearl Jam, and I liked stuff that was like, "This is what it is!" and "I Can Hear The Heart Beating" is one where it opens with this instrumental slide guitar track then goes into this thumping bass driven groove, then on the third song,
it's just shredding guitar. And it's a pop song shrouded in this guise of fuzz. ... And it comes together and this record is just so strange and we listened to it and I was like, "What the hell did we just listen to," and I remember thinking, "I don't understand what this band is doing…” So anyway, we got back to our apartment and were like, "We can't go anywhere, we're 19 years old we can't even go out and buy drinks," but I remember everyone's in the one room playing board games, and I'm not much of a board game person, so I just went in the other room and was like, "I'm gonna listen to that CD again." I was journaling a lot at the time and I remember just sitting there and reading and writing and listening in the ... room, and I remember it ended and I just restarted it again. I was like, "Is this actually the band that I'm hearing?" And it just started to take hold of me. There's an eight-minute ambient song that's pretty much just slide guitar crickets, and there's another noise track that's pushing 10 minutes that's just repeating organ and harsh guitar tones and tucked between those there's these soft pop/oldies type songs. I couldn't wrap my head around this being one band. Q: And all of this on one record. And as I’ve come to know this band, and I've seen them five or six times … they’re just one of those charming bands that's not at all pretentious about what they do, but somehow their ego is overshadowed by the cohesiveness of a perfect trio. There's no limit to what they can do. But that record as the years went on, "I Can Hear The Heart Beating" is one that I sought refuge in
anytime life seemed to get too stressful or too serious, that's one of many. But that's one album that I'd always put on and then be in a really good mood. It would also distract me enough to the point that I’d be like "I can't believe this album is still this good." It'd almost trouble me at times but it was in this really wonderful way in that there's something in life that you don't understand and actually that element of mystery is what makes it so great. People are fascinated by ... things that they don't understand because in a world where answers are so readily available and everything is so black and white there's still these variable and for me, it's this record ... Q: Was this the first time you sat down and really listened to a record? Well, there was always albums like that, but they were never so genre-expanding … Those records that throw you off at first … that Yo La Tengo record I feel like it's the first time I heard a record that just kind of smashed down the walls of genre-defining. It's not a rock record, but it is. It's not a soft pop record, but it is. It's not a psychedelic jam record, but it is, and somehow it's still an ambient recording as well. It's like four bands on one album … It’s one of those things where it’s like record store geeks form a band … Yo La Tengo is just another one of those bands that was just like record geeks whose life was probably just listening to music and seeing bands, and I know a lot of people that fit that description, and I’ve thought myself if I ever make music, I’d have a really hard time trying to decide what kind of music I’d make because there’s so much that I like and I never get sick of listening to so many different things.
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THE MANEATER | MOVE | SEPTEMBER 30, 2015 STYLED & STUDIED
MOVE’s look at up-and-coming designers LAUREN WILLIAMS New York Fashion Week is officially a wrap. It came and went in the blink of an eye. Due to having to study for the numerous exams these past two weeks, I was unable to keep up with the shows as much as I would have liked to. However, thanks to the Internet, I am now curled up under my tartan covers watching and studying each show. My favorite part of New York Fashion Week, other than seeing what Chanel or Moschino pulls from under their sleeves, is seeing the up-and-coming designers showcase their looks. It takes so much confidence to show the world what you got. It’s honestly like serving your vulnerabilities on a platter and telling the fashion world to eat up. Trust me; they’re hungry. With new designers, I’ve noticed that there is kind of this DGAF attitude in their clothes. This new attitude includes trends such as deconstruction, neogrunge, oversized silhouettes and dystopian-esque looks. I wanted to share a few designers that stuck out to me this season.
1) Public School Started by partners and New York natives, Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne, Public School is known for its take on menswear and (more recently) womenswear with elements of streetwear. Public School focuses on a lot of layering and has a common theme of dark clothes; I would compare them to a futuristic Kanye living in Seattle. The number one reason I put Public School on the list is I am in love with their men’s spring 2016 line. It’s a line full of carefully constructed jackets, coats, bombers and vests. Each outfit keeps a monochromatic theme and follows a color scheme of black, white and a beautiful, iridescent navy blue. Also, they played with my favorite print: grid. 2) Sandy Liang When I first saw a photo of Sandy Liang, I thought her line was about to be very awesome. My prediction was surely correct. Noted as being strikingly chill, Sandy Liang started her career in February at MADE Fashion Week. With her extensive (and impressive) history of past employers, including Opening Ceremony, Phillip Lim and Jason Wu, Sandy Liang juxtaposes tough and girly-girl looks. Built on the philosophy that “every girl needs one larger-than-life coat,” the brand features very large, intricate coats made of textures such as fur
and leather. Sandy Liang also plays a lot with cropped pants. Her SS16 line includes cropped denim jeans, oversized girly aprons, gingham print, a-line skirts and oversized oxfords. Overall, it was very reminiscent of a ’90s Drew Barrymore. 3) Babyghost Not only do I just love this name, I love this brand’s aesthetic! Babyghost was created by two founders: Qiaoran Huang and Josh Hupper, the first Chinese and the latter American. The duo, known for their edgyyet-girly streetwear, features many oversized pieces along with an ever present simple shoe. The look is amplified casual, with pieces such as shirt dresses, lace and oversized sweaters. There is this overarching neo-’90s trend that is apparent. Babyghost’s Ready-toWear Spring ’16 line is said to be inspired by “a Halston documentary, a poem about death from the 1940s and classic American retail chains such as Gap and J. Crew.” After researching Halston, I can definitely see the inspiration from the ’70s designer’s sleek gowns. I also sensed the ideas of Gap and J. Crew through the simplicity of the pieces and the style of the layering. This year’s designers have truly stood out.
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ROOTS n BLUES n BBQ
2015 in review
TAYLOR BLATCHFORD | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Roots N Blues N BBQ showcased genre-bending acts across multiple stages at Stephens Lake Park from Friday through Sunday. Headliners included Punch Brothers, Drew Holcomb and Christian rock group NEEDTOBREATHE.
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Electro-pop blondes vs. the brothers from England “eyes on horizon,” that was packed with dullness. “eyes on horizon” isn’t bad by any means, it’s just bland. Sticking to the same poppy and distorted synth sound, this song is overly repetitive both in a production and lyrical sense. Not bad enough to make me stop listening, but boring enough to make me hesitate to listen to the rest of the album out of fear of further mediocrity. Despite my doubts, I continued on and listened to the track “remember me,” which was a tease. Taking on an electronic reggae vibe, the track builds up to a big burst of … heaping disappointment. This is the track where I started to realize the shortcomings of Dumblonde. Although they are both beautiful women, O’Day cannot sing. Danity Kane was a while ago, but I still remember her pitchy vocals. It’s a no from me. Throughout the album, the two rely too much on overly autotuned and modulated vocals. This could possibly be a production room cover-up for O’Day being the weaker of the two vocalists. Moving on, let’s discuss Disclosure’s
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Being a writer with word count limits, I won’t go into detail about my love for Lorde (you know, the young New Zealand-born singer who blew up the music charts in 2013 with her debut album “Pure Heroine.” That girl.) All you need to know is that the raspyvoiced young singer didn’t stray from her infectious style on “Magnets.” With a hook packed with “die with the one I love” lyrics and a tribal drum melody, the song is musical gold. This week’s Record Radar was less of a competition and more of a K-O. Dumblonde couldn’t stand up to Disclosure’s grooves in a whistling contest. If you like pop, you’ll like “Caracal.” If you like R&B, you’ll like “Caracal.” On the other hand, “dumblonde” is a basic mix of electropop with its only distinction from track to track being lyrical content. After a few listens, I became bored to the point where I realized I was checking through my syllabus for my economics class for fun. Now that’s boredom. Disclosure is a whirlwind carnival of enough variety in emotion and sound to hold you down for the entire fall semester.
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Girl-fronted dance/electro-pop duo Dumblonde released their self-titled debut album last week. Chances are you don’t know the ladies by their current alias, but by a more wellknown moniker. Dumblonde consists of members Shannon Bex and Aubrey O’Day, former members of the mid2000s girl group Danity Kane. Should the ladies have let the past be the past and left their music careers behind, or is the new “dumblonde” album project new territory they should explore more? I gave the album a listen and it just might be the former. The first tune I heard from the duo was “white lightning.” As the opening track of “dumblonde,” this song invites you into the album with open arms. Oftentimes, the first track of an album is somewhat empty in personality and simply a group of sound waves that don’t seem to actually serve a real purpose. Surprisingly, it was the successor track,
new album, “Caracal.” The deep-house duo, English brothers Howard and Guy Lawrence, is back for another round of music chart domination following the success of their 2013 debut album, “Settle.” After listening to just the opening track, I knew Disclosure wasn’t a one-hit-wonder. Featuring vocals from The Weeknd (one of the hottest male vocalists in the industry right now) was a smart move from the duo. Adding soul to the opening track “Nocturnal,” a song with an already glitzy energy, Disclosure demonstrates something significant within a single track: They have the ability and diversity to separate themselves from the sound of their “Settle” album days. Using their now - superstar status wingman Sam Smith (still an underground artist when featured on the duo’s first hit single “Latch”) for the duo’s sophomore album, Disclosure goes back to its beginnings. Giving signature Sam Smith soul, “Omen” is full of that self-styled Chicago house groove Disclosure is known and loved for. Now, let’s discuss the track “Magnets” featuring Lorde. LORDE. L-O-R-D-E.
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to a Coke or something like that.” Sparky’s Homemade Ice Cream
their comfort zones to try out the seasonal menu. Thanks to this tendency to branch out, a seasonal menu also reels in a little extra business. “When it’s fall or winter, you get a bigger coffee crowd,” DuCharme says. “You know, you get people that would normally maybe drink a soda or something in the summer — now in the winter or the fall season, they’re drinking a pumpkin pie latte as compared
Opened in 2003, this ice cream parlor features a unique menu of ever-changing flavors throughout the year. Last year, the shop featured fall flavors such as salted caramel pistachio, gooey butter cake, pumpkin mint chocolate chip, eggnog and pumpkin spice latte sorbet. Pumpkin pie flavors return each year as well as some other fun in-shop traditions. “I know last Halloween, we
customers. This autumn, the menu will include the horchata cream-filled doughnut, the pumpkin-pie filled doughnut and an all-new pumpkin spice cake doughnut. The shop plans on rolling out new creations every couple of weeks, all inspired by popular fall flavors and made completely from scratch. Owner Michael Urban says the staff is always excited to think outside the box and to create new flavors. Thanks to the changing of seasons, now is prime opportunity to do just that.
Though this storefront has brought hand-crafted treats to the streets of The District for only eight months, it continues to release seasonal creations and cater to the tastes of its
“The big benefit to releasing seasonal creations is giving our customers new and delicious flavors to experience,” Urban says in an email. “New doughnuts help keep things fresh and it also inspires our staff to think creatively and connect with customers in a fun and unique way. Our new fall flavors have us buzzing in the shop, but I think we’re all excited for our holiday creations that will come out starting around Halloween and continuing through the end of the year.”
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changed all the labels to be a sort of spooky theme,” Sparky’s employee Jessica Hicks says. “A lot of times, we do more things around Thanksgiving, like pumpkin pie and stuff like that. We did a pumpkin spice latte (flavor) last year. We do do some thematic seasonal things that are kind of fun.” Harold’s Doughnuts
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Missouri Tigers quarterback Maty Mauk passes downfield against Georgia at Memorial Stadium at Faurot Field on Saturday. Missouri lost to Georgia 34-0.
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With the Maty Mauk suspension, Drew Lock will most likely start Saturday.
Grant Milner brings energy to golf staff Assistant Sports Editor For the first time since 2013, when he talked to the Memphis Tiger Network prior to that year’s NCAA golf tournament, Grant Milner was the focus of an interview. Sitting behind a desk in an office, his office, as Mizzou’s new assistant golf coach — in effect since the start of September — feels different, Milner said. So does wearing team colors and tweeting with a Mizzou bias. Why? Because since 2013 he’s been on the other side: a journalist, reporting on Memphis football and basketball, wearing multi-colored polos and tweeting objectively. But prior to his venture within the realm of journalism, he excelled on the links for Memphis’s golf program. “I wasn’t the greatest player coming out of high school, but I tried to work as hard as I possibly could,” Milner said. “Just like I did in my previous career, just try to make a name for myself, that’s what I tried to do.” As a junior, Milner helped lead Memphis’s golf team to its third-straight NCAA Tournament appearance and, that same year, he was named the Conference USA Men's Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Post graduation, Milner began to pursue a career in journalism and found a home with GoTigers247.com (formerly MemphisRoar.com). After two years working on the Memphis beat, the opportunity to become an assistant golf coach in the Southeastern Conference presented itself. “For me, I wasn’t actively trying to get out of
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Mauk suspension unlocks new door PETER BAUGH Assistant Sports Editor On Oct. 21, 1995, true freshman Corby Jones started at quarterback for Mizzou. On Saturday, nearly 20 years later, a first-year player could start under center again for the Tigers.
Junior quarterback Maty Mauk has been suspended for Saturday’s game against South Carolina, according to a statement from spokesperson Chad Moller. With the suspension, freshman quarterback Drew Lock is expected to start against the Gamecocks. Mauk and offensive lineman Malik Cuellar, both juniors, were suspended by coach Gary Pinkel for “disciplinary reasons related to violation of team policies,” according to the statement. The future status of the two players will be evaluated after Saturday’s game. MU Police Department Maj.
Brian Weimer said there are no investigations that he is aware of underway involving Mauk at this time. The Columbia Police Department could not be reached for comment by print deadline. Mauk struggled in the opening four games for Mizzou. He has thrown for 654 yards, six touchdowns and four interceptions, and he has completed just over 50 percent of his passes. He was booed during Mizzou’s 9-6 home win over Connecticut. Lock has already fared better than Jones did in his first season as a
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FOOTBALL
Offensive woes continue for the Tigers After Saturday’s 21-13 loss to Kentucky, the Tigers total offense ranks 119 out of 127 FBS teams in Division I. WILL JARVIS Senior Staff Writer Saturday was just another showing of Missouri’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad offense. Junior quarterback Maty Mauk made errant throws out of the pocket. Wide receivers dropped easy
touchdown passes. The running game continued to be one of the worst in the country. “We’re not scoring enough points,” coach Gary Pinkel said. “We understand that. We’re making progress, and we’re continuing to work hard on scoring more points.” After Saturday’s 21-13 loss to Kentucky, the Tigers total offense ranks 119 out of 127 FBS teams in NCAA Division I, scoring just 20.8 points per game. Those are the worst numbers of any Power Five team in the country. The 20.8 points per game through the first four contests also comes as the worst scoring proficiency since the 1995 Tigers
averaged just 20.75 points in their first four weeks. That team finished 3-8. Missouri has most notably struggled on the ground. The absence of senior running back Russell Hansbrough certainly put pressure on sophomore Ish Witter to step up. So far, Witter has not. Averaging just 3.24 yards per play on the ground and 108.5 per game, Missouri’s running game ranks 116 in the nation. Senior center Evan Boehm said a lot of the struggling running game
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Fischer looks to make national impact “She’s one of the best distance runners in the country, there’s no doubt about that,” Burns said. PETER BAUGH Assistant Sports Editor Missouri cross-countr y coach Marc Burns’ 10-yearold son crawls across the floor on his hands and knees. From behind the couch, his younger brothers take aim with Nerf guns. This is Deer Hunter, a game created by Burns’ children. The goal is simple: Shoot the “deer” with the Nerf gun. Junior Kaitlyn Fischer, their babysitter and one of the top two cross-country runners on the Missouri team, joins in on their game. Much like a deer, Fischer can run. As a freshman, she qualified for the NCAA championship meet in crosscountry and was also a secondteam All-American in the 10,000-meter race for outdoor track. As a sophomore, she was named to the All-Southeastern Conference team in crosscountry. “She has an insatiable appetite for getting better,” Burns said. “She loves coming to practice everyday, she’s very
coachable, positive. And it’s fun to be around people like that as a coach. You want to build a whole team of kids like that.” Although Fischer was the Tigers’ best cross-country runner for most of 2014, her season came to a hard end. Despite her strong showing freshman year, Fischer struggled in the NCAA regional meet and failed to make it to nationals as a sophomore. Now, Fischer is using last year’s disappointment as a driving force in 2015. “It motivates me a lot,” she said. “Not making it was a pretty big upset, so I’m definitely motivated this year.” The NCAA regional meet was one of only two races Burns would consider subpar in Fischer’s college career. He has been impressed with how Fischer has handled last season’s upset. “It was tough,” Burns said. “But she has really used it in a positive way to be ready for this year and, hopefully, make the highs even higher than they’ve ever been before.” One of the keys to Fischer’s success is teammate Karissa Schweizer. Schweizer, a sophomore, qualified for the NCAA championships in crosscountry last season. While Fischer is more of a long-distance runner, Schweizer has more speed in the shorter distances, which
can be beneficial for them when they train together in practice. “We always keep each other accountable and push each other every day,” Fischer said. “Some of her strengths are my weaknesses and some of my strengths are her weaknesses so we help each other out in that way.” Fischer hopes the Tigers can qualify for the cross-country NCAA championships as a team this year. To do this, the team would need to finish as one of the top two teams at regionals or receive an at-large bid.
After her strong freshman campaig n, ex pectations were high for Fischer as a sophomore, and Burns said the added pressure can be hard on a runner. Now, Burns feels the junior is running with more internal motivation. “I feel like when the kids on the team get to the point in their career where they’re doing it just for themselves, that’s when really, really good things start happening,” he said. “And Kaitlyn is at that point.” Fischer said that there are aspects of her running that she
would like to improve upon. She is working on having a more positive mindset and is also trying to develop more speed. Going forward, Burns has high hopes for his part-time babysitter. “She’s one of the best distance runners in the country, there’s no doubt about that,” he said. “If we can just continue to develop and give her opportunities and then put her in the position and then let her go, she’s going to be great.”
can’t harp on the bad things. We have to stay positive with it. I mean, move on from there, just because there is no point in getting down about it because you can always go up from where you start.” Trujillo’s ascension as a goal scorer has helped to take some of the pressure off senior forward Reagan Russell, who has been cold for the first half of the season. Many expected her to be Missouri’s leading goal scorer. “Even the young kids that came in were ready to excel and ready to lead the team, and you can see that in Amanda (Shaw) and Beth Coons, Savannah (Trujillo),” Russell said. “They are ready to come play and to make a difference.” The rise of Trujillo comes after a freshman year in which she had 10 starts, scored three goals and notched four assists. “Last year, I played a pretty decent amount of minutes, I scored a couple goals, so I’m pretty happy about that,” Trujillo said. Despite her early success, Trujillo is choosing not to focus
on her past and is putting all of her concentration on improving herself this year. “Freshman year is freshman year; it’s in the past now,” Trujillo said. “I mean, I can work and work and work, which I have been, so the only thing I can really do is use my work ethic and everything else that goes my way.” Besides becoming a regular starter, Trujillo has also been given the task of replacing the graduated Taylor Grant. Grant scored 18 goals in her career as a Tiger, including a career-high nine goals in her senior year. Those nine goals led all scorers for Missouri last season. Trujillo is optimistic about her ability to fill the big shoes left by Grant. “Losing Taylor was a big loss for us, but I think I’m going to be able to fill her shoes,” Trujillo said. “We are close friends, and she taught me a lot last year so I can only go up from here.” As the newfound goal scorer for the Tigers, Trujillo has found herself placed in a leadership role of the youthful
Tigers’ attacking core. “I’ve tried to help (the freshmen) in any way possible,” Trujillo said. “Whether it’s telling them to make a certain run or telling them to keep their head up. We’ve all been freshmen, and we know how hard it is juggling school for the first time with soccer and being away from home, so we really do anything we can to help them. We pretty much help them with anything they ask for.” Trujillo’s performance has
been a pleasant surprise for both herself and the Tigers this season. Now the only other thing Trujillo could ask for is a Southeastern Conference championship. “We are after an SEC Championship and we want to make it to the NCAAs and go on from there,” Trujillo said. “ We know we have the talent and the drive, we just have to put it all into play and make sure everyone is on the same page.”
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Missouri Tiger runners Kaitlyn Fischer and Karissa Schweizer run together Sept. 11, at the Forest Park Cross-Country Invitational. Fischer was recently named to the All-Southeastern Conference team in cross-country.
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At a glance, sophomore forward Savannah Trujillo does not look like the player who would be leading Missouri in scoring halfway through the 2015 season. Trujillo is listed on the roster at 5-foot-3-inches — the smallest forward Missouri has and one of the shortest players on the team. What Trujillo lacks in height, she makes up for in athleticism and scoring ability. Through 10 games, Trujillo has notched a team-leading four goals, guiding a Missouri offense out of a scoring drought that saw the team without goals for two straight games. Despite the offensive struggles, Trujillo is pleased with the Tigers’ position so far this season. “Overall, we’re pretty happy with where we are,” Trujillo said. “It could be better, but we
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Tennis off to a strong start with invite win Tigers secure five individual titles during successful season opener. PABLO SUAREZ Reporter After three days of matches to open the season, the Mizzou women’s tennis team returned home victorious from the Mizzou Invitational in Kansas City. The women were led by the standout performances from the team’s veterans. Over the course of the weekend, the Tigers won 29 out of a total of 39 matches against the likes of Penn State, Louisville and Nebraska. The team hit the ground running by finishing the first day of matches with 10 wins under its belt. “We definitely got momentum and we worked together, which really helped us,” senior Kelli Hine said. “I think we started strong and finished strong, and it was all the way a good performance for Mizzou Tennis.” Hine, who was recently ranked 89th in the preseason Intercollegiate
Tennis Association rankings, is a major component of the team’s success at the No. 1 position. She won all three of her singles matches as well as securing the individual title for No. 1 singles. Hine received help from juniors Beatriz Machado Santos and Brittany Lashway, who also earned individual titles in No. 2 and No. 6 singles, respectively. “I think we did really well, we showed ourselves as true competitors, and even though these weren’t (Southeastern Conference) teams, it was still really good to get out there and show how much we have improved since last year,” Hine said. Santos and Lashway were tested during their quest for their individual titles. Santos held on to defeat Daria Sapagova of Penn State 6-2, 3-6, 6-0 while Lashway persevered to topple Abbie Pahz of Louisville 6-0, 4-6, 6-4. The Tigers valiantly fought back after dropping the second set of each match and displayed the mental strength they have built up. “I definitely reminded myself of how we have been going through tough workouts and going on 6:30 a.m. runs,”
Santos said. “My mindset was that I’ve been there before and I can do this.” Along with the Tigers’ strong showing in singles, the team found success in doubles. Santos, paired with sophomore Brianna Lashway, claimed the No. 1 doubles title while Brittany Lashway teamed up with sophomore Clare Raley to claim the No. 3 doubles title. The Tigers attributed their positive results in doubles to assistant coach Colt Gaston, who joined the program this season. Gaston, a former Association of Tennis Professional and ITA AllAmerican at Louisiana State, brings a large amount of experience to the table and has already made an impact on the team’s doubles match play. “We all know each other very well and we know what our best play is,” Santos said. “We know what play we want to run in a specific situation. I think that (Gaston) has brought in a huge amount of doubles knowledge and so we’ve really worked hard. It’s coming along really well, and we’re excited to keep growing.” Winning the Mizzou Invite is a positive sign for the team as they look to rebound from finishing at the bottom
of the SEC last season. Last year’s growing pains have toughened up the team and the lessons learned have given them confidence to take on any team they face, especially ones from other conferences. “It was just good to play against those kinds of teams, and after playing in the SEC last year, we feel like we can go up against any team and not be surprised because we go up against the best teams in the country day in and day out,” Santos said. With the Mizzou Invite behind them, the Tigers have a month to prepare for their next team event, the ITA Central Regionals in Stillwater, Oklahoma, from Oct. 16 to 19. The team will continue its rigorous regimen in hopes of carrying some of the momentum it created. “We’ve been working really hard and our legs are definitely sore, but that’s OK because it’s going to pay off later and we know that,” Santos said. “It’s been great and we just can’t wait to get started with Regionals.”
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Please, Gary: Do the right thing NATE GATTER Dear Gary, Make us care. We want to like Missouri football, we really do. We want to watch it, enjoy it, cheer for it, believe in it. But right now, you’ve lost us. We can only take so much mediocrity, Gary. Sure, you’ve won three out of four games this season. But even your wins only showcased a mediocre team waiting for any respectable opponent to architect an expose. On Saturday night, Kentucky — Kentucky! — was that team. We understand struggles, Gary. We didn’t desert you when you stumbled during your first Southeastern Conference season. We didn’t desert you after you faltered against Auburn in the SEC Championship game two years ago. We didn’t desert you when Georgia and Alabama embarrassed you last year. We have never deserted you, Gary. Now, it feels like you’ve deserted us. There were red flags from the second week, when beating Arkansas State required fourth quarter defensive stands. Then Connecticut, one of the worst teams in the country, took you to the wire. But we understood, starts are often bumpy. What we don’t understand, Gary, is why you continue to substitute platitudes and cliches for meaningful changes. “We do what we do.” That’s one of your favorite one-liners. But what does it mean? “We do what we do.” You lose to Kentucky? Why yes, Gary, yes you do. Perhaps it’s time to do something differently. But it seems you’re rarely a man to do something differently based on events or data when there is a “gut feeling” to be trusted instead. Talking about your “gut feelings,” even when they operate in direct opposition to your earlier statements, is becoming routine. After stating pregame, to ESPN’s Maria Taylor, that freshman backup quarterback Drew Lock would play one series in both the first and second halves, you promptly chose not to enter him in the second half despite the scoreboard showing Missouri trailing. When asked why we didn’t see Lock in the second
half, you were your usual curt, condescending, dismissive, generally bamboozling self, saying, “It was the same plan we ever had and we made the same decision we’ve made.” That sentence — if it’s fair to call that jumble of meaningless sounds a sentence — is simply false on two counts. First, you had previously said Lock would play a series in the second half, so it wasn’t “the same plan (you) ever had.” Second, you put Lock in for first and second half series during the previous week’s victory over Connecticut, so holding him out wasn’t “the same decision (you’ve) made.” At least you refrained from discussing your gut again. We want to see real change, Gary. That’s why we booed during the Connecticut game, and it’s why we’ll likely boo your lack of progress next Saturday against South Carolina. Right now, that change is Lock. Luckily for you, Gary, some of the heat will be taken off this Saturday when Lock will likely start in place of suspended starting quarterback Maty Mauk. But that doesn’t count. Forced progress isn’t progress. Through four games, against a weak schedule, Mauk’s total QBR (quarterback rating) is 51.1, which ranks No. 76 in the nation. That puts Mauk at No. 11 in the SEC among 13 qualified passers, ahead of only Vanderbilt’s Johnny McCrary and Auburn’s Jeremy Johnson, neither of whom seem destined to lead their teams to the SEC championship game. Lock has already showcased his potential, Gary. On his lone drive against Kentucky, he connected on multiple impressive throws that conjured visions of the lanky righty in a couple years’ time. Sure, Lock is a freshman. He’ll make freshman mistakes. But consider the alternative: Mauk making freshman mistakes in his junior year. There is very little for you to lose in starting Lock longterm and potentially much to gain. Worst-case scenario: Your mediocre season provides necessary preparation for Lock’s future as a Tiger. Best-case scenario: Lock engineers an offensive turnaround, and his right arm leads you to a third straight SEC East title. Look, Gary. We want to love you. You are our coach; our esteemed coach, our heroic coach, our SEC Coach of the Year coach. But you’re not making this easy. Play Lock, Gary. Give us something. Make us care.
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is on the offensive line, which hasn’t lived up to expectations thus far. Rushing for just 111 yards, he said, isn’t solely on the sophomore running back. Little steps, Boehm said, is what the line is working toward. It’s about getting better every day and having pride in their work on the field. That pride was evident Monday as he sported a black “O-Line Pride” tank top. "We need to have some pride in this room and some pride in the offensive line,” Boehm said. “Going out there and doing the things we need to be able to do, that coach (A.J.) Ricker preaches each and every day.” Another factor in Missouri’s offensive woes has been field position this season. Off kick returns, the Tigers are averaging only 16 yards per kickoff, which is the eighth worst in the nation. The longest kickoff return of the year went for 21 yards. Anthony Sherrils, who has
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four interceptions with zero touchdowns and completed less than 35 percent of his passes. The freshman, who is the next quarterback behind Mauk on the depth chart, has played
at least one series in each of Mizzou’s first four games. He has thrown for 225 yards with a touchdown and an interception. Lock, a Missouri native, is already a fan favorite among
the Tiger faithful. He attended Lee’s Summit High School in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. “If he practices a high level, then what you like to do is get in some playing time,” Gary
Pinkel told the Kansas City Star in late August. “That’s going to be up to him and how hard (he) is working. He’s working very hard, but time will tell that.” That time might be now.
taken a majority of the returns this season, has had to fill in for Marcus Murphy, who scored two kickoff return touchdowns his senior year en route to AllAmerican honors. Sherrils isn’t too worried about his role on kickoff. He said he just wants to help the team where he can, most notably on defense. Pinkel said he would try other guys on kickoff as well. Catching the ball and finding seams off the kickoff is a crucial role, especially on a team that struggles to score in the first place. Field position, Pinkel said, has a lot to do with offensive momentum and driving downfield. Starting at even the 30-yard line makes a huge difference. “There’s no question about it,” Pinkel said. “Kickoffs can re-establish momentum. We had (Marcus Murphy) sitting there for four years. But I think we have some talented players. I think Aarion (Penton) will return some for us, and we’ll test out some of the other guys.” Last week’s team — the one that lost to Kentucky in its
SEC opener — will be far from the same team when the Tigers take on South Carolina at home this Saturday. Testing out other guys may be difficult with the array of injuries the Tigers have suffered — most notably just in Saturday’s game. On offense, tight end Sean Culkin and right guard Nate Crawford are both listed as out against the Gamecocks. Culkin has been one of the
Tigers’ top receiving threats this season with 12 receptions for 101 yards and a touchdown. The country’s leading tackler, Kentrell Brothers, is listed as questionable after leaving the Kentucky game in the third quarter with an apparent ankle injury. Perhaps the biggest change to the Mizzou offense, though, is the absence of Mauk, who, along with offensive lineman Malik Cuellar, has been
suspended for “disciplinary reasons,” according to a Mizzou Athletics statement that was sent out Tuesday night. If the Tigers can’t fix the offense, the loss column might fill up fast. And for the defending Southeastern Conference East champions, they can’t let an underperforming offense turn into a horrible, no good, very bad season.
“When I was in college, I started to do play-by-play for student radio,” Milner said. “I always said that I wanted to be the Dave Woloshin, who’s the voice of the Tigers at Memphis, like I’ve always thought that would be the greatest job.” Robbins, who now coaches at Kansas State, was surprised when Milner reached out about possibly shifting gears back to golf. He’d heard him on the radio, he’d read his work, so he was a bit confused when Milner said he’d be interested in getting into coaching. “Grant was really good at what he was doing, and I always thought he was going to pursue that route,” Robbins said. “But when he was in school, he was always that guy that would meet with recruits, so it made sense.” The recruiting trail is a place that Memphis basketball coach Josh Pastner thinks he’ll thrive, as well. Although he’s from Nashville, his roots in Memphis run deep. Pastner worked with Milner daily and speaks highly of the 24-year-old. “His ability to relate and his work ethic stood out,” Pastner said. “We would agree to disagree and we had our battles at times, but I always respected how hard he worked. That was impressive to me.” Milner enjoys writing letters to recruits and Milner works hard to send packets of information on Mizzou. It’s the same work ethic that many around him see, and it’s the same work ethic that has allowed him to succeed in every setting. “He will have the opportunities to do whatever he wants to do,” Pastner said. “He is going to be a wanted individual.”
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