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Pints & Pounds 15,342 lives saved 223,009 pounds of food donated BLAIR KORTE Reporter

AMERICAN RED CROSS IN 30TH YEAR OF BLOOD DRIVE PARTNERSHIP WITH MU Although Missouri Tigers typically bleed black and gold, last week, they bled red for the American Red Cross and saved thousands of lives in the process.

This year marks the 30th year of MU’s partnership with the American Red Cross for the Homecoming Blood Drive. Hundreds of Red Cross volunteers as well as student volunteers aided throughout the duration of the drive Sept. 28 to Oct. 1.

According to the MU Blood Drive Twitter page, the grand total for 2015 came out to 5,114 donors, with each blood pint saving three lives.

Senior Justine Kaminski, a member of the Mizzou Homecoming Blood Drive Steering Committee, has been participating in the blood drive since her freshman year. In fact, it was one of the first activities she became involved with.

“It’s great to see that turnout,” Kaminski said. “It just kept pulling me back.”

Dan Fox, the external communications manager for the American Red Cross Missouri-Illinois region, said he has met with both blood donors and also the recipients. He said he is “incredibly enthusiastic” about the partnership between the university and the American Red Cross. He said that an operation of this caliber would not happen without the help of thousands of MU students.

“To call it impressive is an understatement,” Fox said.

The blood goes to patients who are fighting for their lives, he said.

“These are patients that are going to the hospital everyday for car accidents, or to undergo surgery, cancer patients, premature babies, women going through childbirth,” Fox said. “All of these patients can and often do require blood products, which can literally make the difference between life and death.”

Every donor who came to the Hearnes Center during the four-day drive met with a staff member who checked patient health history and reviewed the donation process. The donors received snacks and a T-shirt after.

The entire process lasted about an hour for a donor.

The organizers also reach out to friends, family and MU alumni through satellite drives throughout Missouri. All American Red Cross stations across the country accept blood donations toward MU Homecoming efforts anytime before Oct. 7.

Kaminski appreciates that everyone involved in Homecoming, whether it’s with the blood drive or another aspect, takes part in one of MU’s richest traditions.

“Mizzou is all about traditions, so getting to experience that and be a part of it, it’s been really rewarding,” Kaminski said.

HOMECOMING FOOD DRIVE FEEDS LOCAL COMMUNITY Not only did MU students save lives by giving blood, but they also helped to feed the community.

This year, MU students and Columbia citizens participated in several food drives. Service committee director Tanner Bryant and committee members Payton Ehrhardt, Sigal Fridman and Garrett Romines organized the drives.

“I think it’s important to give back to the Columbia community because it’s a community that houses us for nine months out of the year, and so for students to give back, even if it is for two hours, it shows appreciation for the community,” Romines said.

The whole food drive process occurred throughout September. Combining all of MU’s food drive efforts, it is one of the largest donations all year for the Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri.

The Homecoming Day of Service lasted from Sept. 9-10, in which Greek students and other organizational members served for two-hour intervals at the food bank. “Lending a Paw to Hunger” involved Greek students standing outside Gerbes collecting monetary and food donations in midSeptember. Canning nights were held downtown.

Tiger Food Fight was held Sept. 15 and the time for campus organizations and Greek students to drop

their goods off at the Student Center.

Lending a Paw raised $3,357.10 and 34,009 pounds of food, Day of Service collected 165,000 pounds of food and Tiger Food Fight gathered 24,000 pounds of food along with 35,000 cans.

The MU food drives benefit several counties within the region of the food bank. The general impact is so great due to the fact that the donations from all three of MU’s events went to the Food Bank of Central and Northeast Missouri, Romines said.

“You don’t realize how many students starve or who aren't well-equipped to have good meals throughout the day,” Romines said. “It’s important to raise as much awareness with the food bank and to give back.”

Various events happen within the food bank, such as making take-home bags for kids, making buddy packs and giving food to homeless and women’s shelters. The food is distributed among various counties, so people in need don’t always have to journey to the food bank’s physical location.

“It’s important because whenever you think of Homecoming, you think of all the stuff that makes campus pretty,” Ehrhardt said. “(We) want people who are participating to also feel like they are doing some good.”

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MU student Cole Lawson poses with a sign while giving blood at the 2015 Homecoming Blood Drive. Over 15,000 lives were saved and over 223,000 pounds of food were donated at this year’s Homecoming blood and food drives.

Giving Giving Back Back Anyone can participate in the blood drive, assuming they fulfill the requirements below. The blood drive is promoted by PHA sororities and IFC fraternities, and the reward for participation is points toward Homecoming. The requirements are as follows.

Free of bleeding conditions HIV/AIDS negative

Waited until six weeks after giving birth Wait 12 months after piercing, if unsure whether needle was sterile

Free of hepatitis

17 or older

Not pregnant

Over 110 pounds

Have a blood pressure between 80/50 and 180/110 Source: American Red Cross (requirements) Graphic by Mary Hilleren // Graphics Manager

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notable What have MU’s celebrated been up to?

ALUMNI Since graduating, notable MU almuni have pursued careers in a variety of fields including acting, coaching and various forms of journalism.

ALYSSA BESSASPARIS Reporter

Now-famed actor Brad Pitt enrolled at MU in 1982. He was actively involved in the campus community through his membership in the Homecoming Steering Committee and Sigma Chi, according to Mizzou’s Most Notable Alumni page.

Pitt set out for Los Angeles to begin his acting career just two credits away from earning a bachelor’s degree in journalism with an emphasis in advertising.

“I just knew there were a lot more points of view out there. I wanted to see them,” Brad Pitt told magazine Esquire. “I wanted to hear them. I always liked film as a teaching tool — a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up. Then it occurred to me, literally two weeks before

BRAD PITT

NORM STEWART

Class of 1986* Actor

Class of 1956 Basketball coach

graduation: If the opportunity isn't here, I'll go to it. So simple.

But it had never occurred to me. I'll just go to it."

Freshman Alex Brookshire supported Pitt’s decision.

“Obviously, he wanted to follow his dreams, and he learned that while he was here,” Brookshire said. “That’s what college is, trying to figure out what you want to do.”

Pitt made his television acting debut on the soap opera “Another World.”

Pitt has appeared in approximately 75 films, some of his most notable being “Thelma and Louise,” “Fight Club,” “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” “World War Z” and “Fury.” *Brad Pitt would’ve graduated but he dropped out two weeks before graduating

MICHAEL KIM Class of 1991 Emmy Award-winning sports reporter Michael Kim was an athlete before transitioning into a career in the sports industry. He played football and baseball in high school and played baseball for Westminster College prior to attending MU, according to the Mizzou’s Most Notable Alumni page.

Kim, a graduate of the master’s program at the School of Journalism, has worked his way through the ranks of sports reporting.

He began his career at

NewsChannel 8 in Springfield, Virginia, and has since earned an Emmy Award for “Local Heroes,” a sports reporting series that was also awarded the “Best Sports Series” by the Society of Professional Journalists.

Kim has worked as the lead presenter for ESPN America’s SportsCenter, has contributed to ESPN’s “Mike and Mike in the Morning” and “First Take,” and is currently working as a host for 120 Sports.

JIM LEHRER Class of 1956 Emmy Award-winning journalist From reporting the assassination of John F. Kennedy for the Dallas Times Herald in 1963 to covering the Senate Watergate hearings for “PBS NewsHour” in 1973, Jim Lehrer has gained recognition as an award-winning journalist.

Since graduating from MU in 1956, Lehrer has pursued careers in news and broadcast journalism, has become a debate moderator for U.S. presidential elections, and has written memoirs, plays and several

novels including “The Special Prisoner,” “The Franklin Affair” and “The Last Debate: A Novel of Politics and Journalism.”

“In regards to both Michael Kim and Jim Lehrer, I think each of their respective accomplishments are inspiring,” junior strategic communications major Eddie Kamber said. “They are a testament to the skills Mizzou is capable of instilling in their graduates.”

Former MU baseball and basketball player Norm Stewart is most prominently known for his 32-year career as the MU head basketball coach from 1967 to 1999. He is the only person inducted into the University of Missouri Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame as a student-athlete and coach.

After winning his battle with colon cancer during the 1989-90 season, Stewart founded Coaches vs. Cancer, an organization designed to raised money for

research on the disease.

“I think it’s great that he’s giving back to the community,” junior Lucy Givens said. “As someone who promotes health as he did as a basketball coach, I think it’s important that he is now promoting a different side of that.”

Givens’ dad graduated from MU in 1980, when Norm Stewart was the coach.

“My dad never played basketball or met him, but he’s told me a lot about him,” Givens said. “He was an important figure for that time.”

KATE CAPSHAW Class of 1976 Actress Kate Capshaw, the female lead in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” broke onto the scene when she appeared in the soap opera, “The Edge of the Night.”

Capshaw graduated from MU in 1975 with a bachelor’s degree in education. Capshaw was a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority.

Upon graduating, she became a

special education teacher at Rock Bridge High School in Columbia.

However, she left Missouri for New York in order to pursue acting where she began her career on the soap opera.

She is currently married to Steven Spielberg and is also noted for the films “Dreamscape,” “Black Rain” and “The Love Letter.”

JON HAMM Class of 1993 Emmy Award-winning actor Jon Hamm is a 1993 graduate who began his college education at the University of Texas, but transferred to MU in order to be closer to his hometown of St. Louis after his father’s death and his involvement in a fraternity hazing incident, according to the Associated Press.

Hamm graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English, but had unknowingly began his career many years prior. He made his acting debut as a first grader in his elementary school’s rendition of “Winnie the Pooh,” according to People magazine.

During his time at MU, Hamm responded to a theater company’s ad for actors and was subsequently cast in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

After graduating from MU,

Source: Mizzou Alumni Association

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Hamm returned to his preparatory school, John Burroughs School in St. Louis to teach eighth-grade drama for two years. There, he taught Ellie Kemper, who is now known for her role as Erin Hannon in the NBC series “The Office” from 2005 until 2013.

He has since moved to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career and has received 16 Emmy nominations.

Hamm recently won “Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series” for his role as Don Draper in the AMC series, “Mad Men.” This role has also helped him earn a Golden Globe Award for “Best Actor in a Drama Series” in 2008.

Hamm is additionally noted for his roles in several television series and films including “Space Cowboys,” “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” “30 Rock” and “The A-Team.”

Photo Illustrations: Mary Hilleren // Graphics Manager

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Sheryl Crow

returns for Hoco performance All the proceeds will go toward the School of Music’s new building.

HANNAH BRITTON Reporter A former sorority member, Summer Welcome leader, Homecoming Steering Committee member and now-famous classic rock and country singer is making her way back to her former home at MU. Sheryl Crow is returning to her alma mater in concert at 7 p.m. Oct. 9 at the Missouri Theatre to a sold-out crowd.

This concert is just one stop on Crow’s current cross-country tour, which will feature songs from her most recent album, “Feels Like Home,” released in 2013. Some of her greatest hits include “All I Wanna Do,” “If It Makes You Happy” and “Soak up the Sun.” But this isn’t just a normal concert.

Crow is teaming up with Commerce Bank and MU to donate the proceeds from her concert to the construction of a new building for the School of Music.

Teresa Maledy, the CEO and President of Commerce Bank for the Central Missouri region, was glad to sponsor the event to support the community.

“We have a long history of sponsoring the arts and we greatly value the partnership we have with the university,” Maledy said in an email. “This seemed like a wonderful opportunity to support the university and a worthy cause in our community.”

But the generosity doesn’t stop there.

“As a sponsor of the event, Commerce Bank is able to underwrite a portion of the cost of putting on the concert which allows more money from ticket sales to go towards the new music building project,” she said.

In addition, Crow has waived her performance fee, School of Music Director Julia Gaines said.

“We are ecstatic,” she said in an email.

“We need a new building desperately and to have an alum come back and donate her time to help with a big fundraiser is fantastic.”

She estimated that the building will be completed within a few years once all the funds are gathered. Events and donations make these kinds of additions possible.

“The building won’t be built without contributions like this from all around,” she said. “Every penny helps.”

Sheryl Crow’s fame might not have started during her time here, but that doesn’t mean she didn’t leave her mark.

Crow was an active student while at MU. She was a member of the Panhellenic sorority Kappa Alpha Theta, the Omicron Delta Kappa secret society and the international music fraternity Sigma Alpha Iota. She also played in multiple rock bands, including Cashmere in the early ’80s. They covered Diana Ross songs, usually at sorority and fraternity parties and Bullwinkles, which is now The Field House. In 1984, she graduated from MU with dual majors in music education and classical piano.

Crow climbed the ladder of success until she finally reached national fame in 1993 with a collaborative multi-platinum album “Tuesday Night Music Club.” In 1996, she went on to release her own solo album, “Sheryl Crow,” which won her two Grammy awards for Best Rock Album and Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.

Since then, she has released multiple albums and won many awards, making her a well-known and respected name in the music industry and as an MU alum.

MANEATER FILE PHOTO

Students paint in a classroom at the Fine Arts Building on the MU campus. Sheryl Crow is teaming up with Commerce Bank and MU to donate the proceeds from her concert to the construction of a new building for the School of Music and renovation of the Fine Arts Building.

MANEATER FILE PHOTO

Returning to MU after 15 years, Sheryl Crow performs at Hearnes Center in 1999.

Crow, who graduated from MU in 1984, performed the concert to promote her album “The Globe Sessions.”

MARCHING LED BY ITS DRUM MAJORS, MU’S MARCHING BAND CONTINUES A 130-YEAR TRADITION MIZZOU KATHERINE KNOTT Managing Editor Surrounded by more than 70,000 fans and standing on a podium overlooking Faurot Field, the reality of her role set in for senior Laura Cooke.

“Holy cow, I’m actually doing this,” Cooke said of conducting her first halftime show for Marching Mizzou as a drum major. Along with senior Keller Shelton, she captains the band.

Drum majors stand out in their all-white uniforms. They’re even more identifiable by their routine with maces, or “the really big sticks” they hold, as Cooke describes them, during the pregame show in which they lead the band for the Missouri Waltz. The routine is new this year, and Cooke hopes it becomes a tradition.

The changes in Marching Mizzou over time are hard to discern.

The formations and music don’t drastically change. Big MO, the iconic bass drum at games, was replaced in 2012 after 40 years when it was too worn out. Yet leaders in the organization, from Director Brad Snow to the drum majors, are working to improve the reputation of the band.

Snow, who is in his fifth year of directing at MU, said the quality of the band has been raised in the last several years. The band has also been helped by additional funding from Mizzou Athletics and the university.

MEET THE MAJORS

A GAMEDAY TRADITION Marching Mizzou is an organization grounded in tradition. It’s been around for 130 years, dating back to 1885. The Missouri Waltz, the drills and the music have been around for decades.

The Waltz Step, the style of marching usually seen during the Missouri Waltz, is unique to Marching Mizzou. During band camp in August, two days are spent on mastering the step.

“It’s just kind of one of those traditional things that we are known for,” Snow said. “It’s one of those things that’s kind of sacred to the band. But it’s real hard.”

Cooke and Shelton are leading this tradition for the 2015 football season. They conduct the field shows, help with practices and organize events.

“It’s exciting that we’re a part of something that’s been around for that long,” Cooke said. “It’s crazy to think about sometimes, but it’s awesome.”

For Cooke, a general education major and the first woman

to hold the drum major position in nine years, leading the band is a way to give back. Shelton, a music education major, said it’s another way to help the organization grow.

Before becoming drum majors, both marched for the past three years. Shelton played the baritone horn, and Cooke played the piccolo.

“Most people don’t expect the person with the tiniest instrument to lead the entire band,” she said.

The 355-member band is a collection of students from all different majors and years. Marching Mizzou has been growing steadily since Snow became the director in 2010.

The band was 250 members strong when he started.

Their budget also increased last year in response to the growing demands of the SEC, such as traveling to away conference games. The School of Music within the College of Arts and Science houses the band, and in the last two years, College of Arts and Science Dean Michael O’Brien committed an additional $175,000 for the marching band.

BEHIND THE SCENes Both Cooke and Shelton have dedicated the past four years to Marching Mizzou, meaning that each fall since 2012, they have been out on the practice field from 4:15 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays. On game days, they report for duty four hours before kickoff. Cooke said it’s busy, but not awful.

Shelton said there’s some grumbling about the early call time for 11 a.m. football games.

“A lot of it is the time commitment, and you would think people would understand that going in, but a lot of people don’t really understand what they are getting themselves into,” Shelton said.

Cooke said you also have to remember “that you're also at the university to get a degree and graduate.”

Snow said students put in hundreds of hours for the band.

“If you were to compensate them for the time they put in, it would be pennies on the dollar,” Snow said. “Daily, we rehearse about two hours a day and then gameday, it’s about an eight-hour time commitment. It’s hundreds of hours, and that just includes the time that they’re here. It doesn’t take into account what they are doing on their own, trying to memorize music and all that.”

Band members are required to take a specific class in order to travel and go on the field. It’s worth one credit, and the students have the option to pay for it or take it for no credit. Students can receive a scholarship to help offset the cost of the class, according to a newsletter sent to band members.

“There’s no glory for the students to be out there,” Snow said. “They do it because they love it. They aren’t on scholarship to do it. Only a handful of the members are receiving any kind of additional compensation for it. They do it because they love it.”

Snow personally auditioned each new member of this year’s band, a process that began in April 2015. Once

accepted into the band, everyone attends band camp, which is the week before classes start in August.

Band camp is the largest uninterrupted block of rehearsal that Marching Mizzou has. The goal is to learn the pregame routine and the first halftime show.

The work on halftime shows starts six months beforehand when the directors sit down to plan out the schedule. Snow said they try to perform a wide variety of music, and they take suggestions from students. In the first three home games, they have played music from Maroon 5 and “The Sound of Music” as well as America-themed tunes.

Once the music is chosen, Snow must obtain copyrights and then design drills around the sets. Last year’s halftime performance against Indiana was planned several months out; the band formed a bow tie and a tiger on the field for MU’s 175th anniversary.

But the band isn’t just there for halftime. They play at kickoff, after scoring plays and in any other break in the game.

“We play a lot during the game,” Snow said. “I don’t think there’s another band that plays as much as we do. We literally play after every play.”

Snow likes to tell his students that they are “highly involved in providing the soundtrack for the game” along with DJ Beatz, the DJ for Faurot Field on game days.

“We feel like we impact the momentum of the game by our involvement,” Snow said. “We are actively engaged the entire game, not just there for program and halftime.”

Beyond the game, the marching band is in demand for various gigs around campus and the greater MU community.

Cooke and Shelton coordinate these events.

Associate Vice Chancellor for Alumni Relations Todd McCubbin said the band adds an elevated level of spirit wherever they play.

“Music has a funny way of taking you back in time so Marching Mizzou performances mean a lot to our events/ alumni,” he said in an email.

“(The band is) such a face of the university,” O’Brien said.

“There's such a love for the band. Can you imagine going to a game without a band?”

As the band continues to grow, Shelton would also like to see additional facility upgrades. The band practices south of the Hearnes Center, but Shelton said crews are working on a new field to be ready by next season.

As drum majors, Cooke and Shelton will get the opportunity to conduct at the away games. However, only one drum major gets to go, so they alternate games. For the Georgia game on Oct. 17, Shelton will play and Cooke will conduct because both want to go on the road trip.

“Georgia is an iconic stadium,” Shelton said. “It’s a place that has a lot of tradition. I mean, we might get creamed, but it’s one of those places that I want to say that I’ve been to. They only have one spot for a drum major to go, but there’s an open spot in the baritone section, so both of us can go.”

Shelton’s a huge football fan from Aledo, Texas, and he has had a prime seat for some key moments of Mizzou football.

The 2013 home game against Texas A&M to clinch the SEC East division title tops his list.

“I remember seeing Henry Josey break that run off for the touchdown and just losing my mind,” Shelton said.

The Arkansas game last season is a close second.

“The clearest memory I have from that game was when we scored the tying touchdown and we had to get the two-point conversion, and they ran that crazy trick play,” Shelton said. “That just sticks out to me so clearly because it was so crazy that it happened.”

At the end of both games, the fans rushed the field while the band stayed behind.

“We’d probably get in really big trouble if any of us tried to rush the field,” Shelton said.

While both of those games are in Cooke’s top four, last season’s road trip to Texas A&M stands out. Her arm was in a sling from a car accident and it was raining.

“It was cold and pouring down rain and it was so much fun,” she said. “We didn’t have a lot of fans there, so we were the fans ... I was just like, ‘Yes, football, let’s do this, I’m ready.’”

Cooke and Shelton have been playing in band since fifth grade and sixth grade, respectively. Cooke picked up the flute on a whim in fifth grade, and there was no turning back.

“It stuck really easily,” she said. “I don't even know what it was.”

Both aspire to be educators, and Shelton wants to be a band director someday.

“I really like the marching arts,” he said. “It’s something I’m really passionate about. It’s something I definitely want to do.”

Shelton didn’t come to MU specifically for the marching band. He was looking for something out of state where he could have an adventure.

“I knew I wanted the big school, big athletics, Division I kind of thing,” Shelton said.

“The big marching band experience is part of that.”

Both are trying to do something different with the job, and that starts with the pregame routine, which is unique to them. This year, Cooke and Shelton have put together a routine with their maces with the help of the directors.

“We thought (the routine) would be cool,” Cooke said.

“No one had done it in a really long time. We have (the maces); we might as well use them … We love the tradition of band. Being in an SEC school, the band is a much bigger deal than it was when we were in the Big 12.”

Cooke hopes elements such as the drum major routine will help make the band a bigger deal in the SEC, but she acknowledged that it will also take time. Winning the SEC East division the last two years helps too.

“It’s a lot of getting our name out there and showing people that we are an SEC band too,” she said. “We’re loud.

We do cool things.”

For instance, at the Oct. 3 game against South Carolina, the band formed an eagle at the end of their halftime show as a bald eagle flew in from the stands and around the field.

BECOMING THE MAJORS Shelton and Cooke didn’t become drum majors on their first try. Both auditioned in their junior years but didn’t make it. Shelton was a section leader for the baritones last year. Cooke was an unofficial section leader for the piccolos.

“They have to go through a fairly rigorous audition process in the spring that culminates with the Black and Gold scrimmage in April every year,” Snow said.

The first step in the process is a paper round of applications that includes resumes and letters of recommendation. For those that are qualified, the next steps are an interview and live audition. The selection is

based off a combination of member vote, the resume and the live conducting tryout. There’s no set number for how many drum majors there can be.

Despite the obstacles, Cooke said she wanted to stick with it because it was something she really wanted.

Although Shelton and Cooke didn’t try out as a pair, both knew it would’ve been a good fit if the directors picked them together.

“We've been friends since freshman year,” Cooke said.

“It worked really well that it's the two of us. First time since I’ve been here that there's been just two drum majors. (We have) very similar personalities and leadership styles. We

WHY THE BAND

O’Brien, dean of the College of Arts and Science, said that if fans were given the choice of having a football team or the band, “I think most people would say, ‘give me the band.’”

McCubbin, the vice chancellor, called the band “outstanding representatives of the university.”

For the members of Marching Mizzou, it’s more than being on the field for football games or representing the university.

“It's an immediate family once you get to college, which is super nice freshman year when you don't know anyone,” Cooke said. “We are all there doing the thing we enjoy doing. We enjoy making music and enjoy entertaining everyone.”

Shelton said the payoff on game days is worth it if you can get past the long days.

Cooke said she would’ve regretted not doing the band for all four years.

knew it would go well if we got it together.”

Shelton, too, was optimistic that they’d be a good team.

“And I turned out to be right,” he said.

Cooke has had to learn a different skill set for her new role, from learning everyone’s music and spots to knowing the cues for all the music.

She’s also had to adjust to not playing.

“Sometimes I miss it, sometimes I don't … I've been playing since fifth grade and now to not play at all, it's a little different,” Cooke said. “But it's worth it to be able to be drum major.”

“Pretty much all of my friends are in Marching Mizzou, so it's a free excuse to see them eight hours a week and on game days,” Cooke said.

Shelton takes pride in the fact that Marching Mizzou is the one of the largest student groups on campus.

“A lot of people don’t necessarily understand how much we do around town and in local schools, more than just football games and halftime,” Shelton said.

“We work incredibly hard.”

Although the band has a tradition almost as long as the university, the drum majors are still focused on improving and growing for the future.

“We’ve really defined what Marching Mizzou is,” Cooke said. “The tradition that we hold, what kind of attitude we can have about Marching Mizzou. We work really hard during the week, we work really hard on game days, but it’s still a ton of fun.”

JORDAN KODNER | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

(Upper right) Marching Mizzou drum major Laura Cooke directs the band during an in-game performance at the South Carolina game Saturday at Faurot Field.

(Upper left) Marching Mizzou band members perform one of their many songs during the South Carolina game Saturday at Faurot Field.

(Top center) Drum major Keller Shelton leads Marching Mizzou during the South Carolina game Saturday at Faurot Field.

(Bottom center) Marching Mizzou trumpet players perform the traditional Missouri Waltz at the end of the third quarter Saturday at Faurot Field.

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October 7, 2015

mental health

Colleges see high suicide rates Missouri’s suicide rates are significantly higher than the national average.

ALLYSON SHERWIN Reporter

Bel-Air,” the crowd danced and sang along while sipping hot chocolate.

The tone shifted, however, when Missouri NAACP President Naomi Collier and LBC Activities Co-Chairman Darius Thurston, stepped on stage during intermission.

“The LBC exemplifies black excellence,

On average, 1,100 students across college campuses nationally die by suicide, according to Active Minds, an organization intended to create a more active dialogue about mental health among students. The National Alliance on Mental Illness reports that one in four students has a diagnosable mental illness.

“I think there's a lot of pressure with being in college, to keep up your grades,” freshman Emily Bosak said about depression among college students. “But also to be involved in a lot of clubs and have a lot of friends and I think it can just get to a lot of people, and overwhelm them sometimes.”

According to statistics released by the American Association of Suicidology in early 2015, Missouri’s suicide rates are significantly higher than the national average. Missouri’s rates of suicide were at a rate of 15.9 suicides per 100,000 people, compared to the national average of 13, placing Missouri 18th in the nation.

The Counseling Center, Wellness Resource Center, Ask-Listen-Refer program and Suicide Prevention Coalition are all resources on campus aimed at combating one of the leading causes of death among college students, coming in second only to car accidents.

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ZACH BAKER | PHOTO EDITOR

MU students band together for a sit-in protest Tuesday in the lobby in Jesse Hall. Students came to the peaceful protest to show solidarity with the LBC community after recent events involving racism on campus.

racism

MU jolted by LBC discrimination ELIZABETH LOUTFI AND LAUREN WORTMAN of The Maneater Staff Traditions Plaza filled with students and members of the Columbia community Oct. 6 for the performance of “The Mis-Educated,” a play created by the Legion of Black Collegians

and performed by members of the organization’s Homecoming royalty court.

The play explored themes of embracing Black history, discrimination in policing and the struggle of being black in a university. The play recreated ’90s sitcoms known for addressing these issues. During familiar theme songs from shows like “The Fresh Prince of

Football

Drew Lock in spotlight preparing for No. 11 Florida Not much had changed.

Drew Lock still went to class and practice, grabbed lunch at Chipotle and hung out with friends, all while lugging around a black backpack with a white “Lee’s Summit Tigers” imprinted on

it and sporting his zipped-up jacket, signature haircut and innocent smile.

Except everything had changed.

Lock isn’t just an average MU student anymore. He’s the starting quarterback for his school.

Lock led the Tigers to a 24-10 win against South Carolina last week, completing 21 passes out of 28 and

throwing two touchdowns. After coach Gary Pinkel’s Monday announcement that junior quarterback Maty Mauk was suspended indefinitely, Lock has been left in charge of the Missouri offense at least through this weekend’s meeting with No. 11 Florida.

“It’s kind of like a fantasy team,” Lock said. "You see 'probable' on the guy or

he's 'week by week.’ That's kind of how I'm taking my life right now."

Last week, as Lock sat in David Vaught’s Intro to Leisure Studies course, the professor began speaking about people with certain special talents.

“I would be remiss,” Vaught told his class, “if I didn’t say something about

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RHA notes diversity in naming new halls

The naming process should be completed by mid-November.

KARLEE RENKOSKI AND TAYLOR BLATCHFORD Staff Writer The Residence Halls Association is currently choosing names for two new residence halls that will be built in the Dobbs area.

This year, RHA will choose the name for Building 1 (rebuilt from Jones Hall, which was demolished in spring 2015) and give suggestions to the future RHA

government for Building 2 and other upcoming projects.

The naming process for residence halls begins with individual committees in RHA, which send their top two choices to RHA Congress for the process of elimination. Once four names are chosen, they will be sent to the Department of Residential Life and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Cathy Scroggs. Finally, Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin will sign off on one of the names.

Research conducted by The Maneater on the namesakes of campus buildings and landmarks, including residence halls and academic buildings, found that 77 out of 94 buildings or structures on

campus that are named after people are named after white men. Eight are named after white women and five are named after white couples.

RHA President Billy Donley said RHA Congress will have their final names chosen by their last meeting in October.

In order to begin engraving signs for the buildings, RHA should complete the full process for the chosen names by midNovember.

RHA Vice President Rachel Thomas said she believes it is very important that RHA chooses the names of the new halls.

“We represent all students who live in the halls and all the ideas and passions

of those students,” Thomas said. “We’re the best resource to get as much student input as we can in those decisions.”

In addition to the naming of the exterior buildings, students also have the opportunity to name floors in residence halls. Halls such as McDavid, College Avenue, Respect and Excellence have all adopted floor names, something ResLife strongly encourages.

Choosing Diverse Names Director of Residential Life Frankie Minor said that while there are general guidelines RHA must follow, they also trust their students to make good

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Reuben Faloughi looks to change race culture at MU The former Georgia football player recounts experiences with racism.

THOMAS OIDE Reporter One only had to listen to Reuben Faloughi’s voice to understand his pain, anger and frustration.

During the second “Racism Lives Here” protest, Faloughi, one of the organizers of the movement, stood on a chair in the Student Center with hundreds silently watching and waiting to hear what he had to say.

“I don’t like to scream,” Faloughi said.

“I don’t like to yell, but nobody wants to listen. Nobody listens in a forum.

Nobody listens in an email. This is my experience as a black man.”

Faloughi, a graduate student at MU, grew up in Georgia, where he was exposed to racism from a young age.

“Georgia’s an interesting place because the racism is there, but everybody kind of understands it,” Faloughi said.

“Everybody’s been confronted by it in some way.”

Faloughi was no exception to experiencing racism in Georgia. He remembers having to pick whether his friends were going to be white or black.

He remembers seeing Confederate flags flying from pickup trucks.

But ironically, Faloughi’s first-ever personal experience with racism came from other black children. He remembers being made fun of in elementary school

for his dark complexion: “You’re so dark that when you get out of the car, the oil light comes on.”

Even though Faloughi didn’t fully understand the concept of racism at that time, he understood it enough for those words to sting. More than a decade later, the words still hurt Faloughi, but for a much different reason.

“We live in a society that doesn’t value blackness, even for black people to not value blackness,” Faloughi said.

“It’s like the air we breathe; we can’t escape it.”

Since he could not escape the confines of the white society around him, Faloughi learned to adapt to white society as he continued to grow up.

He is a physically imposing figure — he stands 6-foot-4 and weighs 235

pounds — and understands that some people will feel frightened if he raises his voice. He understands that he cannot wear certain clothes at night.

He understands that he cannot wear his hood, even if he’s near his house.

“You have to understand the rules of white society,” Faloughi said. “I find myself having to play in this white world, but also maintain my blackness, and that’s very difficult.”

Faloughi attended the University of Georgia, where he majored in psychology and played outside linebacker for the Bulldogs football team.

The racism still followed him. But as a member of the football team, Faloughi experienced both the god-like status of

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Continued from page 1 which is exactly what we did the other night,” Collier said in response to how the organization handled an incident while rehearsing for the play Monday morning.

The rehearsal was disrupted around 1 a.m. when a white man on a cell phone, presumably drunk, approached the group and wouldn’t leave when asked. He reportedly “stumbled off the stage,” saying “these niggers are getting aggressive with me” to the person on the phone, according to a letter posted

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Continued from page 1 Bosak said she is aware of counseling centers and suicide prevention resources that can be utilized by students on campus.

The Counseling Center is “direct intervention” for students who are contemplating suicide or are suffering from suicidal thoughts, Counseling Center Director David Wallace said. He said assessing the urgency of the problem is the clinic’s preliminary action when dealing with a student who is at risk.

Students who enter the center with suicidal thoughts receive immediate counseling “to help

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“On behalf of the Legion, we feel that this incident is completely heinous and unacceptable,” Collier wrote. “Not only did this individual disrupt our rehearsal, but we were also made victims of blatant racism in a space that we should be made to feel safe.”

LBC President Warren Davis also released a statement on LBC’s Twitter Monday afternoon starting with “Dear Mizzou, Get it together,” in which he expressed his disappointment in campus culture.

“In a place where inclusivity and diversity are said to be paramount, it is evident that this university is not practicing what

it has preached,” Warren wrote.

“The problem however, not only lies with our INCOMPETENT and DISCONNECTED administration, but with our student body as well.”

As news of the incident spread, organizations and administrators spoke out using #StandWithLBC. Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin, who has been criticized for his reaction to similar instances, sent out a statement and video.

“It’s happened again,” he said, calling it an example of hatred and racism, the strongest language he’s used thus far in reference to racial slurs being directed at students.

This is the latest example of racism at MU. In September,

Missouri Students Association President Payton Head detailed his experiences with racism on campus in a now-viral Facebook post. He said later in an interview that the MU Police Department had dismissed his case, since his attackers’ actions were “preserved under freedom of speech.”

Head said the fact that he is the MSA president shouldn’t matter.

“It’s not even about me anymore,” he said. “It’s taking care of your students. What you can do for me is take care of everybody else. I’ll be fine. Yes, it’s traumatic. Yes, it’s sad. But I think the biggest stressor on me is that students are going through this every single day.”

For the past month, Head said, he hasn’t slept. He and his cabinet are over their weekly office hours working to find a solution. Head takes multivitamins every day to stay healthy and leans on his cabinet, his fraternity brothers, other student body presidents and psychologists throughout the U.S. “It’s this notion of breathe, fight, repeat,” he said. “No person can do this by themselves. We need the student body to mobilize. We need the students to realize that this is an issue. Because if I’m the only one, when I leave office, who else is going to do it?”

them work through that and bring them to a place where they are not suicidal anymore,” Wallace said.

The Counseling Center has crisis intervention services in addition to an after-hours call program where anyone who calls the center can reach a licensed counselor.

“The closer we are to someone saying, ‘I’m actually going to do this, I’m going to actually end my life,’ then we have to take appropriate steps, all the way up to we might have to send someone to the hospital and get them the help they need in a more intense kind of environment,” Wallace said. “Sometimes that’s what’s needed; sometimes it’s necessary to help people in that way.”

The pressure of perfection can also factor into mental health problems on campus.

Students with perfectionist tendencies who are highly motivated to excel academically are more inclined to suffer from depression and anxiety, Wallace said. He said journalism is a major that often puts this pressure on MU students, and that there is a cultural inclination to push harder when stressed.

“It can be hard for people to juggle everything, because you think that you are going to have so much more free time because the classes are more spread out but, in actually, there are so many more things that everybody has to do,” freshman Julia Saak said.

Some stress can be positive

and act as a motivator, Wallace said. However, when that stress reaches an overwhelming peak, negative thinking is often associated to reduced selfesteem.

Despite the prevalence of mental health issues on college campuses, Wallace said stigmas regarding mental health are still present on campus.

“I think it's present in the whole society and it permeates everything,” Wallace said. “I think we have language that we use, derogatory phrases, that we use about people with mental health problems. It’s so flippant and so easily expressed and it’s very important that we talk about some of those words and say, ‘This is what we need to do

away with.’”

Wallace eliminated a common misconception people have when addressing an individual suffering from depression and considering suicide.

“There is no way in the world, you can talk somebody into suicide,” Wallace said. “I think people worry about that ‘If I bring it up, that will put the idea in their head.’ No. It just doesn’t happen that way.”

He said if someone has suspicions that an individual may be contemplating suicide the best method of addressing it is directly.

“Asking directly we know doesn’t push people at all over the edge; it brings them back from the edge,” Wallace said.

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Drew Lock having an opportunity to go out and become a quarterback for a (Southeastern Conference), major football program as a freshman.”

The 200-person class erupted in applause.

“I think it was just the simple fact that he’s one of them,” Vaught said in an interview. “He’s a freshman and he’s certainly getting an opportunity to be in a leadership role. But I think they were really just applauding one of their classmates.”

Since he was given the starting position, Lock’s interactions on campus have been completely altered.

As he left Memorial Stadium with his parents after beating the Gamecocks last Saturday, he was greeted by a flock of children asking for autographs.

He acknowledged the “Good game, Drew” shoutouts as he walked across the parking lot to go celebrate.

Things were different than they were just one game ago.

“It was definitely crazy that night and then today was kind of cool, just walking around,” Lock said during Monday’s media availability. “They don’t necessarily say anything to you, but you kind of see eyeballs. You kind of see them lurking — people stop and do a double take.

“It’s pretty cool, don’t get me wrong. But I guess at the same time, I’m just a normal student that just likes to play a sport that

I’ve played since I was a little kid.”

Lock is undoubtedly a different quarterback than Mauk, who is known for his scrambles and his ability to run when needed.

The freshman prefers to throw.

“Run when needed,” Lock said is the motto. “If they call a play when I need to run, I’ll run. But if not, I’m throwing it.”

Getting essentially thrown into one of the biggest leadership roles a student can have on MU’s campus as a freshman is enough for many to panic, but Lock’s support from his team has helped ease the transition.

With the Tigers’ captains — center Evan Boehm, cornerback Kenya Dennis, safety Ian Simon and running back Russell Hansbrough — helping lead the team, Lock has had plenty of help. “(Lock’s) the most relaxed kid I’ve ever seen,” Hansbrough said.

“He’s just out there having fun with the team, making sure he’s getting the play calls and things like that.

He’s a born leader.”

The typically outgoing Lock will be focusing all his energy on the Gators this week.

He’ll make sure to get his rest, watch tape and stay relaxed.

He’ll still be walking around with his high school backpack, and he’s sure to make the trip to Chipotle at least once, but things sure have changed for him.

“Being a quarterback all my life, it’s kind of all on you,” Lock said. “You fail, they’re all going to let you know. But if you succeed, they’re all going to raise you up to the heavens. That’s just what kind of comes with the position. That’s what I like about it.”

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MSA Operations confirms four new justices Three new justices and the associate justice hope the new court can increase involvement with senate.

EMILY GALLION AND NEETI BUTALA of The Maneater staff The Missouri Students Association Senate Operations Committee sat in suspense as they debated the confirmation of sophomore Landen Smith as associate chief justice. By a narrow vote of 3-2, Smith, along with three other justices, was confirmed in the Sept. 29 meeting.

The other three justices— Tricia Swartz, Allison Boyajian and Derek Van Becelaere— were confirmed unanimously.

Janessa Riehle was also nominated for justice, but the committee denied her confirmation.

Explaining the reason for the narrow vote for Smith’s confirmation, Operations Committee member Saad Malik

said the committee thought he felt “entitled to” become chief justice after gaining the associate chief position.

Smith said this was due to a misunderstanding on his part.

“I was under the wrong understanding of how succession works, so I’m not surprised,” he said. “My answers would have been different. I am not going into this position expecting to be the chief justice.”

Smith double majors in biological science and classics.

He said he is looking forward to learning more from Chief Justice Whitney Barr.

“Being an associate chief justice gives me an opportunity to (receive) direct tutelage from Whitney,” he said. “I get to see how she operates as the chief justice and how she goes through decision-making and taking charge.”

Swartz, a freshman majoring in political science, said she saw the student court as a way to gain leadership experience as well as practice for her future career goals.

“I hope to go to law school someday, and to hopefully become a judge, so I thought that being on the student court would hopefully give me experience I could use later in life,” Swartz said.

Smith is also involved in several other activities, including Political Science Club, the Christian ministry group Chi Alpha and the Jefferson Book Club. She said that maintaining her responsibilities and schoolwork “will require some balancing,” but she is confident she will be able to handle the workload.

Freshman Boyajian is majoring in hospitality management. She said she was looking for a way to get involved and started researching MSA and all of its branches. She was her high school’s student body president, but Boyajian said that she wanted to “step outside of her comfort zone” and be active in the judicial branch.

She said she wants to learn different leadership styles from other justices as well as expand

her knowledge about what it means to be a judge.

“It is important to know what is right and to follow it,” Boyajian said. “So if there can be someone helping another person to make the right decision that can be really powerful and really meaningful.”

Boyajian is also involved with Alpha Chi Omega and the Emerging Leaders Program. She said she is using ELP and MSA as stepping stones to get more involved on campus.

“If every student could be as active as the next, then our school could be much more powerful than it already is,” Boyajian said. “No matter what you get involved in, it is important to find your niche and try to make a difference in that sector of it, because overall it creates an amazing environment to be in.”

As a history major, Van Becelaere said he is required to do a lot of readings, make arguments and generate analysis in his classes, which he said will help him in his role.

He said he wants to give back to the school and help out other students.

“I would like at some point to leave a mark on the school and be responsible for making it better,” Van Becelaere said.

Van Becelaere said he applied to be a justice because he wants to be involved with student government before heading to law school. During his time as a justice, Van Becelaere said he hopes to bring some power back to the court.

“I hope to get the court more involved with other parts of government,” Van Becelaere said.

Smith said one of the court’s goals this year is to become more involved with Senate. He and Barr have discussed having one member of the court attend each Senate meeting as a way to bring about this change.

“We’ve kind of been a back lane part of MSA,” he said. “Us being more (involved) means more people making important decisions, helping everybody to have a sense of unity so that we’re all acting (with) the same goals.”

fares to travelers,” Greyhound spokeswoman Ashley Sears said. “We wanted to remind customers that there is an affordable option, so we hope to get people to try us again.”

Although Greyhound ’s fares were already lower than many local competitors, such as MO-X, before the price reduction, Greyhound always strives to be competitive. Sears said they will often adjust their prices to match the current market conditions, customer demand and the time of year, among other contributing factors.

“We wanted to continue to offer the best price for our

service and attract new riders,” Sears said.

Sears said this drop in prices will not affect employee wages.

In order to improve bus service to Columbia and make transportation more convenient for students in attendance at MU, Stephens College and Columbia College, Greyhound hopes to be adding another stop at Wabash Bus Station.

This location, off Ash and Tenth streets, was a Megabus stop before the company ended service in the area.

Greyhound is currently working with the city to identify options for improving service, possibly adding this stop in the

future.

Sears said Greyhound hopes this change will not only make travel easier for college students, but also improve their business.

“College students represent a significant portion of our customer base, and because Columbia is home to a number of colleges, there is an opportunity to grow our ridership as a result,” Sears said.

As of now, there is only one Greyhound stop in Columbia, located off of Highway 40.

The reduced fares have already been applied to this site, and Greyhound representatives don’t see regular traffic flow at this stop being impacted by the addition of another stop in the area.

“We serve multiple locations in other cities, and it works well for us and the customers we serve,” Sears said.

Senior David Wallace, who started the petition to keep Megabus in service, has now changed his focus. According to Wallace, the current stop off of Highway 40 is not within city limits, making it difficult for students to access. He is

now trying to bring Greyhound closer to campus.

“We’re trying to get accessible and affordable transportation for students,” Wallace said.

“Those are the two goals.”

The petition has a little over 800 signatures.

Sophomore Zack Helland, who had been using Megabus as a way to return home to Chicago three to four times a year, said he is glad that there is now a cheaper alternative. He said knowing about Greyhound’s price reduction makes him more inclined to use their services.

“I’m going to be very quick to make the switch to Greyhound,” Helland said. “With Megabus being out of the picture, Greyhound is definitely the better option.”

Helland hopes other students will take advantage of the low fares as well.

Freshman Kyle Matl is one of these students looking for an affordable way to travel home.

He was pleased to discover that Greyhound provided cheap and convenient transportation.

“It makes it a lot easier for Mizzou students to travel to and from different places,” Matl said.

Lower prices, new Columbia bus stop location for Greyhound ALLYSON VASILOPULOS Reporter On Sept. 24, shortly after Megabus announced they would no longer be servicing Columbia and Kansas City, Greyhound Lines declared that it would be lowering its prices, effective immediately.

Depending on the route, bus fares now range from $10 to $30 one-way on weekdays, and $17 to $42 one-way on weekends. These prices apply to travel between Columbia, St. Louis, Kansas City and Chicago.

“We have always served the Columbia and Kansas City market, providing low

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THE MANEATER | NEWS | OCTOBER 7, 2015

STARS introduces new executive board The organization wants to be more involved in Vagina Monologues this year.

MADISON PLASTER AND ALYCIA WASHINGTON of The Maneater staff The new executive board of Stronger Together Against Relationship and Sexual Violence has one goal this year: to combat rape on a cultural level.

The 2015-16 board is made up of sophomores Hannah Feagan, Deja Mackey, Katie Williams and Khaliyah Frazier. STARS meets once a week in the Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention Center where they discuss plans for future events and a specified topic.

This year, the organization’s focus is to make sure that their main event, Take Back the Night, is better than ever and to play a bigger part in the planning of Vagina Monologues.

The STARS president, sophomore Hannah Feagan, hails from Webb City and is currently double majoring in history and women’s and gender studies. Feagan first became involved with STARS after a friend invited her to a meeting. At that point, the club only had four members. Feagan decided to officially join STARS and became a part of the planning committee after that meeting.

“It means a lot to me to put an end to interpersonal violence, specifically violence against women, because it disproportionately affects (them) and that’s very close to my heart and something I’m passionate about,” Feagan said.

As president, she hopes to raise more awareness about the club and sexual violence against women through social media along with participating in more tabling events, an effort to engage students. In regard to sexual assaults on MU’s campus, Feagan believes that the campus climate survey speaks for itself.

“I just think that when the campus climate survey came out and almost 30 percent of undergraduate women said they have experienced completed and uncompleted acts of sexual violence that it says a lot about our campus,” Feagan said.

She also cites a change in rape culture as being the solution in order to lower the amount of sexual assaults on campus.

“Change can happen,” Feagan said. “It’s just hard because it has to happen at a cultural level to really have an effect.”

Every president needs a left hand, and that is exactly what sophomore Deja Mackey is to Feagan.

Mackey, a sophomore from Oak Park, Illinois, is a women’s and gender studies major and also the new vice president of STARS. Initially, Mackey entered MU as a social work major, but she later realized women and gender studies was the path for her after starting to work in the Women’s Center, which prompted her to become an RSVP peer educator.

“Everything came full circle,” Mackey said. “I was finding words for concepts that I had in my head my whole life, so I switched my major and never felt happier.”

STARS specifically has a special place in Mackey’s heart because her mother is a victim of domestic violence.

“When I got to (MU) and went to parties, I saw a lot of inappropriate things going on,” Mackey said.

“Learning what consent is was a big thing for me, because then I started to see all around me that not a lot of people understood what (consent) means.”

In regards to sexual violence on MU’s campus, Mackey cites the problem as a lack of education on the issue. She also said the Title IX annual report isn’t an accurate reflection because not all women who are sexually assaulted chose to report to Title IX. For the upcoming year, Mackey is excited for Take Back the Night and looks forward to an additional

COURTESY OF THE RSVP CENTER

Members of the STARS organization from the RSVP Center lead a “Take Back the Night” march on the MU campus.

The STARS acronym stands for Stronger Together Against Relationship and Sexual Violence.

fundraiser to help the Leadership Through Education and Advocacy for the Deaf with funding.

STARS Treasurer Khaliyah Frazier, a sophomore business marketing major from the suburbs of Chicago, believes the biggest problem on college campuses comes from the simple idea that people don’t really know the definition of sexual assault.

“I think it’s a really big problem everywhere,” Frazier said. “Sadly, it’s a problem that you can’t really avoid, but I think that we can help the problem by bringing awareness(to sexual assault) and teaching students and others about what’s going on.”

Frazier joined as a freshman after attending a few meetings. This summer, she participated in the Summer Welcome health and safety skits through the Wellness Resource Center, which allowed her to learn a lot about sexual violence prevention.

“I realized that I already had a pretty strong connection to it because I have a few survivors in my family,” Frazier said. “This year, I wanted some type of leadership position because it’s really important to me to show that I’m doing things on campus and supporting my family, too, in a different way.”

Frazier expressed her excitement about the different events planned for this year and said she was trying to get more people involved. Last year, STARS only hosted the Take Back the Night event, but this year, the board plans to host more events.

Frazier hopes that she will be able to learn more about relationship and sexual violence prevention through STARS and the RSVP Center.

“My goal this year is to get really involved with RSVP, so I want to become a peer educator and different things like that, and STARS helps me train my mind for like dealing with different situations with RSVP,” Frazier said. “It’s helped me become way more aware, and I’ve learned so much from STARS. It’s helped me connect more with my family members who are survivors too, just because now I understand way more what they are going through mentally and what they went through and how it’s affected them. So it’s just been a really big learning experience for me.”

Like Frazier, sophomore Katie Williams from Rolla knows people who are survivors of relationship and sexual violence.

“I originally got involved with RSVP last year as a student staffer because I saw the Summer Welcome

skits as a freshman, and I was just like, ‘Yes, this is something I need to get behind,’” Social Media Chair Williams said. “I knew a lot of people in high school who faced relationship and sexual violence, and I wanted to make sure that didn’t happen to anymore people.”

The RSVP Center and educator’s class she took last year through the center had such a major influence on Williams’ life that she recently added women and gender studies to her major in psychology and minor in classics.

“I learned so so much there about just how relationship and sexual violence affect different identities,” she said. “Learning about those identities was mind-blowing because I come from a small town, and I had no idea about all these things, and I wanted to continue that education.”

Through a leadership position, Williams hopes to continue to spread awareness through various events such as Rock Against Rape, a concert to spread awareness for Rape Awareness Month, Vagina Monologues and Take Back The Night.

“Being a part of exec was really important to me,” Williams said. “To have a leadership role and actually see I am making the change on this campus or I’m a part of the change on this campus and leading the way for that.”

As the social media chair, Williams said she looks forward to informing students about upcoming events and opportunities to get involved. She mentioned the correlation between spreading awareness online and the success of planned events. Williams also noted the need to have events like Take Back the Night as a way to inform people and start meaningful conversations.

“I want this issue to be less stigmatized, which comes into people not talking about it enough,” Williams said.

“There’s a huge stigma against relationship and sexual violence and survivors. That needs to go away so that we can go at this problem head-on and just stop it.”

Williams said if people break the stigma down and have conversations, they will be more educated about consent and problematic relationships.

STARS meets 5 to 6 p.m. every Thursday in the RSVP Center.

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THE MANEATER | NEWS | OCTOBER 7, 2015

Proposed funding increases face hurdles If passed, Governor Nixon’s proposed tuition freeze and funding increase would mark a departure from recent trends in state support for higher education.

AMOS CHEN Reporter On Sept. 21, Gov. Jay Nixon announced a proposal for a freeze on undergraduate tuition at the state’s public two- and four-year institutions for the 2016-17 school year. According to a news release from the governor’s office, this marks the fourth tuition freeze proposed by Nixon since 2009.

In addition to the proposed tuition freeze, Nixon also announced a proposal for an additional $55.7 million increase in higher education funding as part of his 2017 budget. If passed, the funding increase would bring total higher education funding to $985 million, a record high. Of that, $9.2 million will be earmarked toward funding for science, technology, engineering and math programs.

Michael O’Brien, College of Arts and Science dean, expressed skepticism over the passing of the proposal, noting its contingency upon the approval of the state general assembly and the UM Board of Curators.

“The general assembly decides it,” O’Brien said. “It’s a moot point until then.”

However, O’Brien did note the importance of funding increases on the university’s operations because of legislative constraints, mainly Missouri Senate Bill 389, a bill approved in 2007 that caps tuition increases at state universities with the national Consumer Price Index. SB 389 “makes (MU) very dependent on state support,” O’Brien said.

SB 389 has long been a source of controversy at MU. The Missouri Students Association passed a resolution in 2007 opposing the bill, saying, “SB 389 places certain restrictions on the research that faculty, staff, students and administration of the University of Missouri of Columbia can engage in,” and that “such restrictions severely limit the ability of the University to fulfill its mission as the state’s major land-grant research institution.”

In addition, according to a 2009

report by the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education on the state of higher education funding, “annual state funding increases are critical to maintaining current levels of quality and service in Missouri public postsecondary education.”

The governor’s proposed funding increase comes amid already low higher education funding. According to data from the College Board website, in 2014 Missouri ranked 43rd among all states in terms of per capita spending on higher education, enough to receive a “D” grade from U.S. News and World Report.

For O’Brien, the low amount of recent funding is largely a result of the fallout from the 2008-09 recession: A worse economy causes people to spend less, meaning less tax revenue, which ultimately results in less government funding to distribute to programs like education.

“We haven’t seen growth years recently,” O’Brien said. “Times have been lean.”

However, according to the CBHE, low amounts of funding for higher education are not a recent anomaly, but a larger, more worrying trend.

According to the report, from 2001 to 2008, not only did per capita spending

on students decrease from $184 to $159.05, but the appropriations base for funding was also decreased, causing nominal funding to remain “stagnant.”

The report goes on to say, “Extraordinary withholdings, annual 3 percent withholdings, and below inflation increases in state support” have “compromised the University’s ability to recruit and retain top faculty.”

This observation still seems to hold true six years later: In a survey of 34 member institutions by the Association of American Universities, MU ranked 33rd.

Despite these trends, O’Brien remained optimistic about the proposal, noting the many STEM-related Arts and Science programs could utilize the increased funds, such as renovations to undergraduate biology and physics labs, as well as increased graduate student housing. However, O’Brien made sure to stress the uncertainty surrounding funding until approval by the university board of curators and the general assembly.

“Talk to me after the December meetings ... then we’ll have more answers.” O’Brien said.

make the environment hostile.

“With the current climate nationally being what it is with so many violent incidents of shootings in college campuses in the last 10 years alone, I don’t think that making more guns available on campus is really the solution,” Chiarelli said.

Long said eliminating guns does not eliminate crime.

“Saying ‘gun-free-zone’ just means all law-abiding citizens don’t have guns right now,” Long said.

According to MU Police Department’s 2015 Fire and Safety Report, there were five weapon arrests on campus in 2014.

However, there is no issue when it comes to MU students obeying MU’s current gun policy, Weimer said.

“Those (arrests) were mostly weapons found in cars going through campus,” MUPD Maj. Brian Weimer said.

Although Mizzou College Democrats did not have an official comment on the subject, the group wants it to be known that it values campus safety and MU students.

“Our mission is to provide information and invoke political discussion among our members so that they can form their own opinions on issues like these,” Mizzou College Democrats spokeswoman Jordan Pellerito said. “As such, we feel that any official stance on this issue would defeat the purpose

of our organization in providing an atmosphere for those with open minds, differing opinions, and respectful discussion.”

Long feels that properly storing guns and ammunition is part of the solution to gun violence on college campuses.

“If you look at these shootings and you find out about how they obtained these weapons, it’s always like, ‘Oh, it was their dad’s gun or it was their uncle’s gun or someone around the family had a gun and they took it,’” Long said.

“What the proper thing to have done is properly store that so no one else but yourself could get to that gun.”

Chiarelli thinks gun violence can be solved by educating students to be aware of their surroundings.

“Make sure gun policies are in place where people know how to react if they see a gun, that hey know how to respond if there is some kind of incident on campus,” Chiarelli said.

A total of three states in the U.S. allow concealed carry for their students: Colorado, Idaho and Utah.

“Colorado State University follows Colorado state law regarding weapons and concealed carry,” CSU spokesman Michael Hooker said when asked about CSU’s gun policy. Hooker had no further comments.

Although CSU allows concealed carry on its campus, according to CSU’s

website, there are no guns allowed inside of residential halls, dining halls or university apartments. However, the CSU police department will store any weapons or ammunition CSU students may have, as does the MU police department for MU students.

Mizzou College Republicans President Skyler Roundtree said guns can be used as protection if given to only administrators and professors who have been properly trained.

“I feel like our society automatically blames the guns for being the issue,” Roundtree said. “One of my favorite sayings is: ‘The sword is only the tool in the killer’s hand.’ What that means is that we had many people die from car accidents this year, but you don’t see people demanding cars to be illegal because they kill people.”

MU spokesman Christian Basi had no comment on the lawsuit.

As of Sept. 21, the Cole County Circuit accepted the case. Criminal Defense Lawyer Jennifer Bukowsky will be representing Barondes in challenging the policy.

“The student body just needs to be aware of what is going on and be vocal about their opinions,” Chiarelli said.

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Associate law professor questions gun policy at MU The MU concealed carry policy may be considered unconstitutional.

ELANE EDWARDS Reporter

MU associate law professor Royce de R. Barondes is suing the university over its prohibition of firearms, which he believes is unconstitutional.

MU’s firearm policy restricts guns on university property, with the exception of approved programs, university agents or employees in the line of duty.

Sophomore Veronica Long said she sometimes feels unsafe on campus unarmed.

“As a woman walking around campus at night, you know, there might not be a staff member available or a police officer on hand that could save me from something that I could potentially save myself from,” Long said.

Missouri allows concealed carry permits for Missouri residents and members or spouses of members of the armed forces who apply and are at least 19 years of age, have taken an eighthour firearms safety course and pay a non-refundable $100 fee.

Freshman and Maneater staffer Jake Chiarelli said he feels allowing concealed carry on campus would more than likely

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“You feel like you don’t matter.”

Even though Faloughi wants to see a complete culture shift at MU, he understands how difficult it is to change, because he went through a similar situation himself.

Growing up in the Deep South, Faloughi inherited a bias toward the LGBTQ community. As he grew up, he made homophobic jokes, laughed at them and let them go on in the locker room. It was not until he had a teammate at Georgia who identified as gay that Faloughi realized that his actions weren’t morally right.

He went home and took a long look at his upbringing and how it had influenced his perception of the LGBTQ community. Faloughi admits that his bias still exists, but he now knows how to recognize and act on it.

“I think with me having that bias, I can understand the bias of racism,”

Faloughi said. “All these things are social constructs; they are hateful systems that people have created. ... It’s difficult to change your world view or understand something that you don’t identify with personally.”

Even though it is not easy, Faloughi knows changing one’s worldview is possible. He wants to continue to raise awareness about race issues on campus. He plans on doing so through empowering minority groups and building a consciousness about the issue, whether that be through marches or conversations.

“This is serious,” Faloughi said. “I don’t believe that everybody is racist on this campus. Do I believe there are some racists here? I think so. But a lot of (the problems) come from unawareness. How can we generate that awareness?”

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he could not explain.

“I started to see how the university really felt about this,” Faloughi said. “I think in a lot of ways, the university reinforced this racial climate by not using (the Michael Brown incident) as an opportunity to address the climate. That could have been a major opportunity to change the culture here.”

That is why Faloughi and others continue march in the Racism Lives Here protests: They want to see change because they feel like their voices are not being heard by administrators, faculty and other students.

“It feels like you’re in a corner, backed in, somebody’s throwing blows at you and you have no other options,” Faloughi said. “You feel like you’re less than human. You feel like you’re no longer a person who has ideas.

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through rose-colored glasses because he was an athlete. Because he was an athlete, he didn’t experience what the average black student had to experience.

That all changed when he came to MU. “Racism felt different here (at MU),” Faloughi said. “In the South, people have dealt with racism for so long, so they kind of know how to work between each other.”

When Faloughi arrived, he felt as though people hadn’t seen anyone who looked different from them. He went to some of the clubs and bars and saw how segregated they were.

Black and white people didn’t hang out together.

Faloughi took action. He participated in the MU4MikeBrown movement and before the nonindictment of Darren Wilson, he said he felt a tension on campus that

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being a college athlete in a college town and being a black male in the South.

On game days, motorcades would drive in front of the team bus to get through traffic faster. As he entered the stadium, fans would ask for pictures and hugs. They even asked for kisses for their babies.

But as soon as the game ended, everything changed.

“But Sunday morning rolls around, and you’re back to being a minority in America,” Faloughi said. “You’re seen for your athletic ability, not your academic ability.

It’s exploitative. You’re used for your performance and entertainment.”

Faloughi said that for a time, he saw the University of Georgia

contributions are a factor in naming buildings, so are donations.

According to MU Advancement’s naming opportunity guide, it takes a donation of 25 to 50 percent of the construction or renovation cost to have the building named after the donor.

Other donations can buy other naming opportunities on campus.

For $5 million to $25 million, a donor can have an academic department or unit named after him or herself. It takes $30 million to $100 million for a school or college to be named after the donor.

Minor said he would encourage students to learn about history and context behind the names of buildings on campus.

“Helping people understand the name of a facility is often a testament to the contributions, and it’s not just financial, that those people have made to this institution or to this state,” Minor said. “The more students know about this place, I think it gives them a little more meaning.”

Visit themaneater.com for an interactive map of the buildings on campus and their namesakes.

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nature and mission of MU who have “achieved outstanding distinction through civic, intellectual or artistic contributions to the development of the area, state, and nation or to Missouri history” - People or organizations who make or have made a “substantial financial contribution” toward the construction or renovation costs of the building, or have had a substantial contribution made in their behalf MU typically gives a specific individual or organization’s name to only one building or landmark.

The UM System Board of Curators must approve names of exterior areas (buildings and facilities) and university landmarks (statues and other landmarks), while names of interior areas (auditoriums, classrooms and other interior building spaces) require the approval of UM System President Tim Wolfe.

Catey Terry, director of advancement for communications and donor relations, said diversity is always a consideration for named opportunities that come through the Advancement division.

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in the halls, which include pictures and information about those honored. ResLife is currently deciding if and how they will preserve Jones, potentially with an interior room or a scholarship fund.

Minor said tradition is important to MU, and ResLife wants to make sure tradition continues, even when the original buildings are demolished.

Naming Academic Buildings The naming of academic buildings on campus depends primarily on service to the university and donations given.

Names of buildings should “enhance the public reputation of the institution,” according to the UM System collected rules and regulations.

There are four options in the collected rules for naming buildings and landmarks: - Faculty, staff members or organizations who have “rendered distinctive service” to MU - Individuals such as curators, graduates, former students or organizations who have “rendered distinctive service” to MU - People or organizations dedicated to the purpose,

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decisions. The names must fit with the character of the institution and usually pass unless there are strong concerns or objections.

Minor said he believes students will take into account a variety of factors this year, including diversity.

“I think our students are very concerned about social justice issues, inclusion and equality,” Minor said.

There are only two buildings named after black men and women on MU’s campus. Strickland Hall is named after Arvarh Strickland, MU’s first black faculty member.

The Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center is named after Lloyd Gaines and Marion Oldham, two black “civil rights pioneers” in MU’s history, according to the center’s website.

No buildings or structures are named after people who are not black or white.

Donley said RHA Congress wants to have a more diverse and inspiring set of names for the future residence halls.

“We’re trying to be more serious and think about really inspiring people and influential movements, not only for society but for students,” Donley said.

“That is something that’s really wanted and desired on this campus right now.”

History of Naming Last year, RHA went through the naming process for the new building constructed on Virginia Avenue and chose Gateway Hall.

Thomas said they looked at general names but also those specific to MU. “Gateway was chosen because it’s the ‘gateway into the future’, but it also connects the past as well,” Thomas said. “It’s this new single building, but it holds all the traditional values that Mizzou has.”

Prior to 2001, there had been no residence halls named at MU in nearly 40 years. ResLife and other MU administration chose to use placeholder names because of a lack of significant donors, including building project names, such as South, Center, North and College Avenue.

Many of the names from demolished residence halls have been preserved in interior rooms

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THE MANEATER | NEWS | OCTOBER 7, 2015

OPINION MADISON CONTE A thin blend of metals and a bright little screen resting between the fingers has the power to kill. As with any well-populated area, students in Columbia run the risk of disaster every time they leave the house. Where there are cars and pedestrians, so too will there be accidents. This is an unavoidable fact; however, chances for accidents can be greatly lessened if all parties involved would put their phones down for that split second it takes to make a mistake.

In the few short weeks I’ve spent in Columbia, I’ve had some close calls myself. After walking around on a college campus every day, I found myself becoming a bit cocky.

I began to notice a trend in the collective mindset on campus: Pedestrians own the road. We’ve claimed this land for our own two feet. I put in my earbuds and head to the dining hall. That car will stop for me; it has to. So I turn back to my phone to change the song on Pandora and only notice out of the corner of my eye that the car isn’t stopping. I hasten my speed or jump back to the curb as the soccer mom or tipsy senior whizzes past, kicking up a cloud of dust. Or maybe that’s the steam shooting out of my ears because I’ve lost at my own game.

Last week on Rollins Street, a bicyclist made an illegal left turn during peak pedestrian hours, colliding with traffic. She lay bleeding in the road until the paramedics came to the scene. The university has taken steps to ensure pedestrian safety, closing some streets to traffic during class hours, but the fact of the matter is that we must meet the university halfway. As a driver or a pedestrian, we are responsible for our own negligent behavior that puts ourselves and others at risk.

According to MUPD, there are 10 to 12 pedestrian accidents reported each year, but what about the accidents that go unreported?

These statistics don’t reflect the close call that got your adrenaline pumping, and they don’t reflect the close call that your friend from chem lab experienced that made you want to call mom just to say “hey.”

According to USA Today, one in four car accidents are caused by textmessage-induced negligence. We put our futures in the hands of negligent strangers and our negligent selves every time we open the front door.

We’re prone to cockiness. We tell ourselves that adding photos to your Snapchat story and being alert for personal safety are not mutually exclusive, even though study after study proves they are.

The metal in your pocket only has the power to kill if you let it. Put your phone down and look both ways before you cross.

We want to hear your voice.

Submit letters to the editor at: www.themaneater.com/letter-to-the-editor

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We must come to terms with racist past We need to change our campus culture if we want to break the tradition of racism at MU. We’ve seen several high-profile instances of students being racist toward one another this year, with the latest incident happening to members of the Legion of Black Collegians Homecoming Royalty at Traditions Plaza. A venue that was constructed to celebrate MU’s heritage.

Ironic, isn’t it?

And we finally got a halfway-decent recent response from our chancellor.

Maybe it’s because his Twitter mentions haven’t been glowing or because it happened a stone’s throw from his office, but Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin we saw via video from South Africa was impassioned.

He bluntly stated that “racism exists at MU,” and specifically named those who were affected by the incident at Traditions Plaza. In comparison, he called a recent incident involving Missouri Students Association President Payton Head an “incident of bias and discrimination.” It seems as though Loftin is finally on the same page as students regarding racism at MU. He also responded quicker than in the past. This time, he posted a statement the next morning, rather than six days later, as was the case with Head’s incident. In a letter accompanied by a short video, Loftin asked students to join him in ending hatred and racism at MU. Well, Chancellor, you might be late, but we’re nonetheless glad that you decided to finally show up.

It’s refreshing to see a response from Loftin where he isn’t hiding behind a blandly worded letter or a halfhearted referral to the Transparency website.

This is the most urgent and authentic reaction that Loftin has given in response to incidents of racism on MU’s campus.

He also recognized for the first time that “what we have been doing on campus to address racism has not been enough.” In the letter, he outlined three measures to address campus race relations, which include: - Vice Chancellor for Inclusion, Diversity and Equity: “Provost Stokes is leading a national search for this new position. We are searching for the best person who can understand the challenges we face and help us move toward a better future.”

- Diversity training for job searches: “Every person who is responsible for hiring faculty on this campus will be required to complete training to ensure that we are fully considering diversity when we recruit for positions on campus. We know that we have a disproportionately low number of faculty and staff from underrepresented groups. We want to change that.”

- Campus Climate Survey: “We will ask everyone to participate in a campus climate survey related to race issues on campus.”

The actions outlined by Loftin are a good start, but we need our administration to not only follow through, but also take further action toward creating a discussion about racism across our campus.

Still, even with this new approach, Loftin doesn’t seem to have a full grasp of what MU students are upset about.

Sure, the instances of blatant, overt and aggressive racism are the most visible and garner the most attention. But what about the subtle racism that finds its way into the lives of students every day on this campus?

It’s structural. It’s pervasive. It cannot be escaped.

It’s the kind of racism that is so deepseated and passive that many members of our student body rarely recognize it.

We live on a campus that has struggled with racism throughout its entire existence. It’s very fitting that this latest incident happened at the beginning of Homecoming week, a celebrated but divisive MU tradition. Back in 1988, LBC Homecoming was first held in response to the “Show Me Ol’ Mizzou” theme that recalled this school’s racist past. The theme for LBC Homecoming was “Show Me A New Mizzou.”

We need to encourage an active discussion about this history and the implications that come along with it. One way of doing this would be the establishment of a diversity requirement, which is already far overdue. The questions and conversations provoked by such a diversity requirement are relevant to anyone who considers themselves an active member of our community. Another step toward creating a campus-wide conversation on this issue comes in the form of public forums, which are not consistently seen on campus.

Everyone at MU, including The Maneater Editorial Board, needs to strive to thoroughly engage ourselves in this imperative discussion regarding racism on our campus. We cannot continue to react only to the blatant and overt incidents of racism. As a university, we need to end this reactionary strategy because it does nothing to address the larger structural problem of racism at MU. We should all #StandWithLBC.

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Argument against black assimilation into white culture KENNEDY JONES In English 1310: Introduction to American Literature, we were discussing two different pieces of literature — one

by Booker T. Washington and the other by W.E.B. Du Bois. Although the writers had two different ways of thinking, both men were discussing the same thing: educating blacks and assimilation into white culture.

Washington thought blacks should all be educated for trade jobs, all-too-similar to the occupations they held as slaves.

Contrarily, W.E.B. Du Bois thought blacks should be individually educated like any other race. Booker T. Washington's argument that blacks should only be educated for trade jobs was an effort to have blacks assimilate into white culture.

Although Du Bois thought assimilation into white culture could work for other groups, like the Italian and Irish immigrants who were trying to assimilate into American white culture at the same time, it could never work for blacks because of differences in physical attributes.

Because blacks do not look similar to whites, he argued we will always be too different for them, therefore any effort to please them and assimilate into their culture will be lost. The closest any black

could come to assimilating into white culture would be to stay where white people preferred them, as Washington suggested, by only holding jobs similar to that of a slave.

While sitting in class, I realized that this is an argument that blacks still have to this day. Actually, it’s an argument I had just a week or two ago. I had shown a friend a creative writing piece I had written that won a Silver Key in the Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards. The piece is called “Strange Fruit on White Walls,” inspired by the song “Strange Fruit” sung by Billie Holiday. My piece tells multiple fictional stories about slaves, their sympathizers and the cruelty that came upon them; an extremely dark story, but a piece I'm extremely proud of. After hearing the story, my friend asked if a Silver Key was the equivalent of second place in this competition. When I confirmed that it was, he immediately said: "It was good, but if you hadn't written about that subject then you would have won first place. It was dumb to submit that piece."

It wasn't as if the thought had never crossed my mind; if I had not made the judges uncomfortable I probably would have won first place, but by no means did I believe it was dumb to submit the piece I had submitted. “Strange Fruit on White Walls” is the piece that needed to

be submitted. My friend proceeded to look through all The Maneater articles I had on my bed and comment: "If you hadn't titled it this way, more people would read it. Everyone knows what you're talking about, there's no need to be so hostile.

It turns people off." While walking out, he implied that no one would like me for being the diversity columnist.

My question is this: Why do some blacks believe that if we don't bring up certain subjects, they'll just be forgotten and everything will be fine? If we don't bring up what happened to our ancestors or those unfortunate souls today, white people will feel more comfortable giving us awards. Why should I hide one of the best pieces I've ever written because it'll make some white people uncomfortable?

I admit, there's a time and place to call white people out, but you should never dumb yourself down or quiet your own voice to make it a comfortable space for them, as Washington's passive approach suggests. Instead, we should strive for Du Bois' approach. We cannot sit passively to make white people more comfortable around us. You need to say what needs to be said and do what needs to be done, because they are not going to just hand you what you want; you have to take it for yourself.

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THE MANEATER | OPINION | OCTOBER 7, 2015

Letter to the editor

It hasn’t been a good year for Chancellor Loftin Let’s be honest, Chancellor. It hasn’t been a great 2015 for you so far. You’ve had to deal with an increase in violence on and around campus, increasing racism and hatred, and for a brief moment, the Greek community thought you would be close to shutting them down. This has brought me to the opinion that you’ve lost touch with our university. I believe you institute new policies like diversity and sexual assault training, not because they’re actually good ideas, but rather because they contain buzzwords that the news can pick up and gloss over the fact that these incidents that are still occurring on campus.

Sure, if you mandate diversity, sexual assault, alcohol and whatever other training you deem necessary for incoming students, it covers the university’s ass, but doesn’t actually mean they won’t happen. I can tell you right now that if I had to sit in front of a computer for four hours to complete some B.S. training, then I’d take it not as a step forward, but rather another tedious completion assignment for a 1000-level class.

Outside of failing to recognize the fact your initiatives are merely a way to

for the university to say “hey, we tried to educate them,” I feel like you’re more concerned about pandering to boosters or donors to gather donations for the university than you are the student body.

I get it, it’s part of your job, and it funds the construction of new buildings, but rather than ask for millions of dollars for a building that so a guy can put his name on it, why not ask for millions of dollars for the little things? Have you been inside the Arts & Science building recently, or perhaps ventured into any of the buildings on white campus? They look like they haven’t been renovated since they were built during the Cold War era. Just take a stroll around campus, and you’ll see more and more examples of that. Not every student gets to use the fancy business or journalism schools, but I’m positive every student has had a class in A&S, Middlebush or Strickland. It’s when I hear about a business school annex being built, rather than the renovation of buildings used by everyone, that makes me upset. It makes me feel like you focus on two or three areas that you can market, and leave everyone else behind.

We haven’t even gotten to the racist

acts this campus has experienced over and over again in the past year. When our very own MSA president wrote about how he was called a “faggot” and a “nigger,” it took you a week to respond to it. A week! Considering he represents 34,000 students, Payton Head is someone you should be in contact with regularly and have on your side. Then, when the LBC court were called niggers to their face, you were in Ghent!

You’re expanding Mizzou’s reach and advising other universities, but I can’t imagine a scenario where you, the Chancellor of the University of Missouri, needs to be at the University of Ghent in South Africa! On top of this, when your “ground-breaking” summit on Greek Life took place this summer, you weren’t in attendance. Granted, that wasn’t your fault and your plane was delayed, but it still perpetuates the image that you’ve lost touch with our fellow students.

Chancellor, I believe you’re a smart man and are good at your job. However, I recommend taking some time and meeting with the students on this campus. Don’t meet with administrators and act on what they advise, act on what

the students think. Go on a grassroots tour of your school. Go into the dorms and figure out what could be made better with the help of the RHA presidents elected by the students, meet with the LBC and NPHC and let them voice their concerns to you in person, go into the Greek houses and have dinner to find out what they think, or just sit down with a random student in the student center and ask what they think about the state of Mizzou right now. I think you’d find a lot of frustration with you and the university. It would help us voice our concerns, but also let us know why you make certain decisions. There’s nothing more exasperating when the university makes a decision and 90% of the student body doesn’t know why. So Chancellor Loftin, come back to us.

Come back to the 34,000 students who you represent and claim as family, and do what families do, talk it out and make things better.

William Black wabkh5@mail.missouri.edu

Letter to the editor

Maneater columnist should keep in mind all genders Men aren’t from Mars and women aren’t from Venus” by Elane Edwards, Elationships, The Maneater, 30 September 2015: To Elane Edwards and the editing staff of The Maneater: I want to thank Elane Edwards for starting a conversation about gender, gender roles and gender expectations with her last opinion piece published Sept. 30 on her column Elationships.

Gender is a very important and complicated issue that has lasting impacts on every student at MU, and I’m glad to see it being talked about.

I’d like to offer my views on the relationships between genders and gender itself, and I want to address and refute an underlying assumption about the piece: that there are only two genders. From my own experiences and daily interactions with fellow students, I have come to understand that a man/ woman gender binary is quite limited and actually harmful to all of us. Many students at MU (and people on Earth) identity as neither a man nor a woman, may identify as both a woman and man, or identify as something completely different from a woman or man. I believe there are as many genders as people on this Earth.

As Ms. Edwards wrote, “always keep your mind and heart open and listen

to what others have to say,” which is excellent advice in many, many circumstances. We must acknowledge the existence, and nurture and appreciate the diversity, of many different gender identities, listening to our fellow humans (sometimes spelled humyns) with open minds, ears and hearts, and hearing what they say. We must believe them when they tell us who they really are, because they are experts on themselves.

I am not trying to call anyone out on their current beliefs, but I was struck

by Ms. Edwards’ words to “make every experience a learning experience” and so I felt it necessary to reach out to the editors so that I can hope to teach more people about the dangers of thinking in a gender binary.

The gender binary harms everyone.

It creates and maintains unhealthy, unrealistic and unyielding stereotypes about women, men, transgender women, transgender men, bigender people, agender people, genderqueer people and everyone else. Firstly, the gender binary leads to segregated gender bathrooms, housing, shelters and public spaces in which gender nonconforming or transgender folks can feel invalidated, threatened and put in immediate physical danger.

Secondly, the gender binary strengthens other harmful binaries in our society, like a binary of sexual

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orientation. There are more sexualities than just gay and straight: bisexual, pansexual, asexual, f luidsexual, demisexual, etc. A gender binary may strengthen a binary of gender expression. There is more to express than masculine and feminine. And who defines what is masculine and what is feminine? What makes something feminine? Masculine? Why must men strive to achieve a certain masculine, and women a certain feminine? Why can’t we just let people be whatever they want to be and express themselves however they want? Identities are complex, so why do we only allow two choices?

Thirdly, the gender binary perpetuates the idea that gender manifests itself in only a few certain ways and never changes, when in reality gender can change, shift, slide and be distorted any time during one’s life or even during the course of one’s day.

And fourthly, and this is a point I believe Ms. Edwards was trying to make, people of different genders are not even that different to begin with. There is as much diversity of experiences, thoughts, beliefs and viewpoints within groups of people of the same gender as groups of people of different genders. So why create a binary that perpetuates the idea of opposite, distinct and disconnected genders, when it’s just not true that they are opposite, distinct and disconnected?

Our society, especially our media and

economy, loves to simplify life, as Ms. Edwards illustrated with her fragrance advertising example. But simplification means cutting corners and marginalizing and ignoring complications. And when we ignore complications, we take away all opportunities to deviate from the norm, to express our unique selves fully, to learn about each other comprehensively, and to better understand the lives of others and ourselves.

“Men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus. They are both from Earth.” And not only them, but so is everyone else of all others genders. We are all from Earth, we all must live together on Earth. “If the goal is to feel accepted, valuable, unique, loved and important, then treat others with respect.” And if we want everyone to feel those ways, then the first act of respect we must make is to acknowledge everyone’s existence. There are more than just women and men in our society.

They work, feel, love, learn and live alongside us every day, and we are better off because of it.

Thank you, Brian Chervitz He/Him | President of MU Triangle Coalition bccww3@mail.missouri.edu

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A Truman the Tiger statue sits by new Homecoming clothing at the Mizzou Store on Tuesday in the Student Center. MU’s 104th Homecoming continues this week.

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MU’s 104th Homecoming hits the streets of Columbia this weekend, making for the perfect time to get into some campus traditions (and your savings fund). MOVE found a few places that can help make your next game day outfit on point; all that’s left to do is shop.

TIGER SPIRIT Location: 111 S. Ninth St. Sitting on the corner of Ninth and Cherry streets, this store serves as a prime location for all things Mizzou.

Tiger Spirit has brought a variety of MU sportswear to CoMo since 1988 and has carried the vibes of Memorial Stadium to The District ever since. The shop (on-site and online) has everything from sweatpants to neckties and houses a wide variety of souvenirs, including blankets, megaphones and other game day novelties. Owned and operated by MU grads, it’s clear that this store takes pride in what it does.

THE MIZZOU STORE Location: The Student Center You’re probably no stranger to the expansive sportswear options available in MU’s bookstore. Honing the title of “official tiger outfitters,” the store hit the ground running in 1899 and has since expanded to include more unique options in styles and gifts. Mizzou paisley, polos, dress shirts and Greek gear are just a few Mizzou Store finds. The shop also sells official game day and Homecoming T-shirts and a plethora of non-clothing related items (including everything you need to have the perfect tailgate).

ALUMNI HALL Location: 215 N. Stadium Blvd., Suite 101 This shop first opened its doors in 2006.

The store now has 24 locations for several different teams and caters to collegiate sports fans all over the country. Alumni Hall carries official sideline gear from major brands including Nike, Adidas, Under Armour, Columbia and more. Not only does the shop sell a variety of fashionable and athletic gear for men and women, but also has a large selection for kids as well; it even has something for the sports-loving newborns.

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Are book-based shows obligated to adhere to the source material?

GABRIELA VELASQUEZ Readers beware: MAJOR spoilers for HBO’s “Game of Thrones” are contained in this column. Read at your own risk.

Hello, friends. I’m going to shake things up a bit this week. Instead of suggesting shows, I’m going to give you all a chance to watch the multitude of shows I’ve recommended and instead talk about something that’s been on my mind.

I’m certainly not complaining, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a successful series out there that doesn’t have its roots in a book or series of novels. There’s Showtime’s “Outlander,” the CW’s “The 100” and “The Vampire

Diaries,” TNT’s “The Last Ship” and of course, HBO’s “Game of Thrones” and “Dexter.” Book-based series have advantages right off the bat: many, such as Game of Thrones, already have devoted fan bases who will boost the ratings off of principle. When sketching out a season, writers in need can always fall back on the source material.

Or they can completely throw it away and do their own thing.

Does that sound blasphemous? If you’re a reader of George R.R. Martin’s successful novel series “A Song of Ice and Fire,” you might think so. Basing anything off a book always, always begs the question: How obligated are producers to stick to their source material?

Throughout its run, “Game of

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‘The Martian’ is stellar BOBBY CERESIA Two years ago in October, “Gravity” hit theaters, and Sandra Bullock’s plight for survival made people fear space. Last year in November, “Interstellar” blended complex scientific theories with blockbuster action. In keeping with the annual fall-release sci-fi theme, “The Martian” by Ridley Scott came out the first week of October, and it takes the best aspects of the other two films and combines them into a phenomenal experience that must be seen in theaters.

“The Martian” starts with a crew of astronauts collecting soil samples on a visit to Mars. A storm suddenly hits, and all but one member of the crew make it off the planet before the weather strikes, leaving much of their supplies behind. That one remaining member is Mark Watney, played by Matt Damon, and he’s left to survive on the planet until he can make connection with NASA. The best scientists back on Earth work in conjunction with Watney and his crew to save him before his food and water run out, culminating into one last mission so crazy that it just might work.

Similar to “Interstellar,” “The Martian” takes the approach of science-fiction where the science is 90 percent of the film and fiction is 10 percent.

Given the technology available at the time of the film, everything Watney does to survive makes sense and adds to the believability of the situation — there won’t be any aliens encountered or fire extinguisher space flight in this film.

One of the most amazing aspects of the film is how real Mars feels. The red sands and desolate mountain ranges plus the untouched dust fields make it seem like Matt Damon is actually on Mars, which is an impressive feat in of itself given how much of a movie star Damon is. I don’t know what movie magic Scott used to portray the illusion of Mars so effectively, but it was glorious to watch.

Damon also gives the performance of a lifetime, since a good half of the movie lies solely on his shoulders. His pain seems real, his effort seems real and his good humor in his situation seems real. As his time on Mars keeps getting extended, Damon loses significant weight and his teeth decay to the point where I didn’t see him as movie star Matt Damon, I saw him as a man stuck on Mars trying to stay alive. Damon hits the perfect balance of genius scientist who knows exactly what to do to survive and everyman who complains about the music choice left for him by his crew. Surprisingly, Damon’s wit makes the film much more humorous than I expected, and it helped keep the tone less dire than previous survival films while simultaneously making it impossible not to root for him to get back home.

I found myself laughing more that Watney had enough optimism to crack jokes than at the jokes themselves, and it is rare to feel such a connection to a character.

The supporting cast was surprisingly packed with well-known actors, and their performances ranged from excellent to distracting. Chiwetal Ejiofor from “12 Years a Slave” and Jeff Daniels from “The Newsroom” put up stellar performances as the decision-makers back at NASA, but Kristen Wiig and Donald Glover didn’t sell me on their respective roles as NASA assistant and astrodynamicist expert. Sean Bean from “The Lord of the Rings” and Michael Peña from “Ant-Man” performed in the middle, getting the job done, but there are so many characters on Earth to share screen time that they don’t get the chance to shine. While the science going on back at NASA is interesting and important to the story, the best parts of the film come from Damon stranded on Mars, and I found myself wishing it would show more of him whenever we cut back to NASA headquarters.

Overall, “The Martian” gives audiences everything they need: a likeable protagonist, dazzling special effects and expert directing by a man who knows what he’s doing. I can’t recommend it enough.

MOVE gives “The Martian” five out of five stars.

New programmer joins T/F team BIANCA RODRIGUEZ Reporter To most of us, films are just a form of entertainment.

We go to the movie theater because we want to get away from our boring lives and live vicariously through someone else in another world. What draws us in is that dramas, comedies or even romances often seem too good to be true.

Yet there are always those people who look at films as more than just a moving picture on a screen. These are the people who make the films we love, the ones we recite over and over, and leave us thinking the magical question: “What if?”

Pamela Cohn is one of those visionary people in the nonfiction film industry and is planning on bringing her passion to Columbia this year for the True/False Film Festival as the festival’s newest programmer. In an email, Cohn explains her favorite thing about films.

“I like the way a random group of strangers can come together for a brief period of time in a cinema, each person having his or her own experience, but also simultaneously sharing something communal, no matter how temporary that is — to be frightened together, to be turned on together, to laugh together,” Cohn says.

Ever since she helped a friend make his documentary “La Fabri-K” in Cuba back in 2003 as a co-producer and shooter, she fell in love with the world of nonfiction films and hasn’t looked back since.

Her admiration for films has led her to take on many jobs in the industry such as a producer, line producer, location scout, talent agent, casting agent, an actor and many other jobs.

Currently, Cohn lives and works in Berlin as an associate programmer for DokuFest, a documentary and short film festival that takes place in Prizren,

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Portrait of producer Pamela Cohn. Cohn is the next programmer for this year’s True/False Film Festival hosted in Columbia, Mo.

Kosovo, each August.

That will change this upcoming November when she moves to Columbia to take her new position, working alongside David Wilson, Paul Sturtz and Chris Boeckmann to create the film lineup for this year’s festival.

Besides deciding the festival’s lineup, Cohn will also have a role in shaping panel discussions, helping curate The Great Wall (the festival’s outdoor screen), as well as being the festival’s liaison for the Based on a True Story journalism conference that takes place concurrently.

She says she first heard about the festival itself in 2007 through word-ofmouth and on a favorite blog of hers.

From that time until she accepted her current position in Berlin in 2010, Cohn had been a regular attender of the festival.

So when she heard through the grapevine that Sturtz and Wilson were looking for a programmer to join their team, she threw her hat in the ring and sent in an application.

After landing the job, Cohn asked Sturtz and Wilson why they were looking to bring someone new to the festival, and “their response was

that they weren’t so much looking to expand the fest as much as wanting to deepen its curatorial profile,” Cohn says.

“Adding a new (but experienced) voice and presence into the mix was what they thought they needed.”

A change from previous endeavours, Cohn’s position at True/False will involve her stepping into a more “fully realized” role. Rather than applying her ever-expanding aesthetic to a new project before moving on to another, the next scene in Cohn’s career will feature her adding her name to a more permanent script.

When asked what aspect of the festival she’s excited to work with the most, Cohn says, “I don’t think there is really any one thing, but obviously, the overall film program and getting to have a hand in curating that is very exciting. Working closely with David, Paul, Chris and Arin means I’m working with a group of people at the top of their game, individually and collectively. It’s a distinct privilege. I’m really looking forward to meeting the rest of the team.”

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Rapper takes on production-perfect soul singer KENNEDY SIMONE You know what’s great about music? It’s one of the best examples of multi-dimensional and fused art, if demonstrated by the right artist. With that being said, it’s ironic how the music industry and many so-called “music enthusiasts” try to box in artists and musicians with strict labels, as if the art of music wasn’t built on the principle of using influences and experimentation.

Let’s use rapper Marty to illustrate this fault. An underground rapper from Miami, he’s often strictly labelled by many as a Christian rapper.

I listened to his new EP “Marty For President” for 15 minutes and had no idea he was considered a Christian rapper until I pulled up his Wikipedia page.

“Marty For President” is a spark of hope in the music industry. With the EP, the rapper touches on a myriad of subject matters, like his inability to ever be on mainstream radio due to his spiritual lyrics and wanting to stay true to his character despite the naysayers.

The song that forced me to give Marty my undivided attention was “The One with My Friends.” This is the track where

Marty mixes his signature genuity with gritty and grisly depth. Over a dauntingly bass-heavy beat, the lyricist gives a shout out to his haters and admits the perils of being a rapper who professes his faith with his line, “I got some people that write me like, ‘I wish you’d die like ya mama did.’” These type of gutsy confessions make Marty the type of rapper who you not only hear, but also actually listen to.

The EP’s not all dark matter, though.

On “The One Where She Stayed,” Marty raps about being in love and “awkward and weird together” with his girl over ’90s synths keys and drum beats. Its quirky honesty makes it an absolute must-listen from the EP. Need something slower? Allow me to introduce you to “The Anderson .Paak EP” by Blended Babies. The Chicagobased production duo collaborates with the groovy Cali singer and drummer Anderson .Paak to create a work so fervently finessed that I won’t hesitate to call it one of the best works I’ve listened to in a long time. If you’re a fan of neosoul singers like SZA and Isaiah Rashad, you’re definitely in for a treat.

This EP has that early 2000s R&B soul that makes sweet memories worth reminiscing. Don’t believe me? Listen to the track “Make It Work” featuring Asher

Roth (yes, the “I Love College” guy) and Donnie Trumpet, and you know it’s no argument. Paak’s honey-smooth vocals combined with Roth’s nonchalant flow, featuring memorable lines like, “Let’s roll this weed/Turn our free time to you and me time,” make this a definite EP highlight.

This EP only consists of four tracks, but there’s so much to love. “Drifter II” is where Paak puts his East Coast swag to great use. With a gentle guitar melody and the poetic hook, “Baby, a drifter is all I can be/but you won’t stop me from floating upstream,” Paak puts the finishing touches onto the perfect song to breeze through those wonderfully lazy days.

I don’t want to choose a Record Radar winner for this week, but I will.

I’m giving the title to Blended Babies’ “The Anderson .Paak EP.” I don’t say this often, so don’t take this lightly: This EP is perfect. This is the type of music that makes it onto one of those “Best of…” lists and eventually becomes a lifetime favorite. And Marty? He’s on the road to making the kind of music that makes it to the top of those lists. Until that day comes, best believe I’ll be listening to these albums on repeat, because they’re both absolutely amazing.

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Four books to celebrate Adopt-a-Dog Month October is National Adopta-Dog Month, and I couldn’t let that pass without doing a column all about dog books. Although I’m most certainly a cat person (seriously, ask anyone — I’m a cat lady all the way), there is no denying that dogs have a special charm. Their devotion, loyalty and inability to take no for an answer make them fiercely reliable companions that anyone would want by her side. Plus, they’re cute, and who can deny that? Whether it’s a fluffy Pekingese or a gruff German Shepherd, a dog can be an inimitable partner and a bone-afide (pun intended) canine counterpart. Here are four dog books that any puppy lover should not pass up.

“Marley and Me” by Josh Grogan I really can’t mention dog books without mentioning “Marley and Me.” The book shot to fame after the blockbuster success of its 2008 movie adaptation and has become synonymous with the dog book obsession ever since. The

book was so popular that the publishing company even made two versions: one for kids and one for adults.

Although I would recommend the one for adults, as it’s a more realistic portrayal of the grittiness of life, both versions portray the main theme of the novel: the unconditional love between dogs and their human companions. Marley is an adorable lab but an extremely naughty one, and his rowdy antics always end up being a point of hilarity in both versions. The interactions between Marley and his family are the best part of the book because of their sweet simplicity. No matter what Marley does and what messes he causes, he is family, and there is no denying that. I must warn you, though: When you are reading this novel, bring a big box of tissues. You are going to need them.

“Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love” by Larry Levin One of the best parts about this book is the cover: a creamcolored portrait of a sweeteyed dog with a half-scarred face and one ear, his name

in red across the cover. Oogy gets his name from a goofy and affectionate derivative of the word “ugly” because of his unique appearance. Oogy grew up in a dogfighting ring and only found solace from it when the police rescued him and brought him to the Ardmore Animal Shelter.

The Levins, Oogy’s new family, find him when he knocks them over with excitement after escaping his cage. Even though the Levins had just put down their cat, they cannot ignore Oogy’s tenacity and spirit, and they adopt him on the spot.

“Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love” is written simply, but Levin’s perspective is filled with moments of hilarity and hard-ridden reality. Oogy’s disposition and excitement for life despite his past certainly forms a lesson from which we could all learn. In the afterword of the book, Levin writes, “Once you’ve seen Oogy, it’s not hard to remember him,” and he couldn’t be more right. Oogy’s story is one that sticks with you as a true example of the bond between humans and canines, illustrating dogs’ capacity for loyalty and love. Don’t put that box of tissues away just yet for this one. This book is a

tearjerker, too.

“The Art of Racing In The Rain” by Garth Stein The best part of “The Art of Racing In The Rain” is that it is uniquely told from a dog’s perspective. Despite the seemingly tricky storytelling, the book actually reads like an extremely philosophical dog wrote it, with insights that only a dog would be able to notice about his human counterparts.

Enzo, the narrator, is a mutt who spends a lot of his time thinking about what it would be like to be a human and how to reach that in his next life.

When he’s not theorizing about how to obtain his human goal, he watches car races with his semi-pro car racing owner and best friend, Denny. They watch car races on television and on the Internet, trying to figure out what went right, what went wrong and most importantly, how to race in the rain. If you’ve ever cried during Animal Planet’s “Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet” — I definitely have — then you’ll most definitely cry during this.

Full of raw and unforgiving emotional twists and turns, the book details Enzo’s intuitions

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about the struggles that Denny goes through in his life and the harsh ways he has to deal with them. “The Art of Racing In The Rain” is both a heartbreaking goodbye letter and a hopeful and hilarious tale, making this book one that you can’t miss.

“Underwater Dogs” by Seth Casteel While this is not necessarily a novel, it is a bound collection of pictures, and one that definitely deserves to make this list. The book contains photos of dogs as they jump into water.

Yes, it is just as incredible as you would imagine. The book only lists the names and breeds of the dogs, but that is all it needs. The fuzzy floppy ears and excited faces are the best part, as the pure excitement of the dogs is clearly illustrated.

The book shows incredibly fun and free moments frozen in time. Oversized paws, bulging eyes and wide-open mouths reaching for a tennis ball show a new perspective on the game of catch. There are 80 dog pictures, which seems like a lot, but I promise, you won’t want them to end.

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TIGER TEAM STORE Location: 600 E. Stadium Blvd. (Memorial Stadium)

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this store has everything it takes to provide the perfect game day attire. Its apparel includes dressy and athletic gear for men, women and kids, and it has official Nike, SEC and gameday gear. This shop is the official store of Mizzou Athletics, and every item sold

anguish, I was prepared.

But as the show progresses, I’m finding myself less and less familiar with what is happening on the screen. The Red Wedding was made a little redder than it was in “A Storm of Swords.” Lady Stoneheart is still nowhere to be seen. Cersei and Jaime’s sex scene over Joffrey’s coffin was made into a rape (I can say a lot about this, but that’s a column for another week). Jojen was killed for no real reason I could see. Tyrion is not only on his

directly supports MU athletes.

The shop also houses an impressive collection of gold gear, preparing its customers to face every golden game day.

RALLY HOUSE Location: 808 E. Broadway

way to Mereen, he’s there, and he’ll be Daenerys’ adviser.

I won’t even get into the whole Jon Snow thing.

I had a feeling all of these changes were coming. After “A Storm of Swords,” a lot of the action is replaced by political intrigue. There’s no thrilling Brienne vs. the Hound confrontation. Sansa doesn’t marry the psychotic Ramsay Snow. Instead, Sansa remains in semi-hiding under the alias Aryane, Jamie goes wandering,

This specialty sports boutique has become a popular staple with locations in the Midwest, South and Northeast, but started close to home with its first store opening in the Kansas City metro area in 1989. The shop offers large selections of local sports team apparel and gifts, and carries

collegiate attire for fans all over the country. Rally House carries fan fare from top brands such as Nike, Adidas, Reebok and Under Armour. The store also offers a large assortment of MU Tigers sports jerseys, including authentic, replica and game day gear.

and Brienne and Podrick take down a few meaningless villains.

“If we were going to stay absolutely faithful to the book, it was going to be very hard to do that,” showrunner David Benioff says in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.

“Game of Thrones” aside, there are a plethora of shows out there that merely took the premise of a book and maybe some characters, and completely went off in

a different direction. “The 100,” based on Kass Morgan’s successful book series, is vir tually unrecognizable compared to her books.

Morgan, having no involvement in the show, is accepting of it. This variation, Morgan says in an article for the Huffington Post, “is a good thing — TV and literature are very different mediums and excel at telling different types of stories. But you have to be prepared for your characters to do things you never expected.

It's kind of like sending your kids off to college. You have to give them the freedom to become their own people.”

I believe changes are often necessary. Television audiences want different things than book readers do, and they want them at a quicker pace and with higher stakes. In books, when the action is at a lull, we can delve into the minds of the characters through internal monologues, whereas in television, a dramatic closeup can only do so much. A show must maintain a steady pace and keep the stakes high, or else their viewers will lose interest. They don’t have time for introspection.

It is virtually impossible to adapt a novel to the small screen word-for-word.

A producer’s job is, first and foremost, to run a show. And yes, sometimes running a show efficiently requires changes. So where do shows draw the line between doing what’s best for their medium and veering too far off the beaten path?

One word: respect.

Producers must respect the source material they draw from, whether it’s just a concept or an entire season’s worth of plot, because without it, they would have no show. Changes should be made not for shock value alone (I’m looking at you, “Game of Thrones” writers).

If a show is going to claim it is based off of something, it should either accurately portray its source material or pay homage to it in some way.

After all, it’s just storytelling in the end.

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Thrones” has thrown some major curveballs by deviating from its source material more and more. Now, I began reading the books a few weeks before “The Rains of Castamere” (the ninth episode of the show’s third season) aired, so by the time the Red Wedding came around and Twitter exploded in

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Missouri Tigers freshman quarterback Drew Lock (3) looks for an opening Saturday at Faurot Field. Lock led the team to victory against the South Carolina Gamecocks during his first start as the Tiger’s quarterback.

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Missouri Tigers senior offensive lineman Evan Boehm (77) blocks a defender during a game against the Vanderbilt Commodores at Faurot Field in 2012.

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Boehm serves as mentor, friend for Lock Evan Boehm: “I just want to go out there and make sure that Drew’s OK and he’s having fun doing what he’s doing.”

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Drew Lock heard the chants.

The Lee’s Summit freshman basketball player stood just feet away from an entire student section mocking his pretty boy, shaggy-haired demeanor. This was crosstown rivalry basketball at its finest. Lee’s Summit West students were relentless. If Drew Lock touched the ball, the Justin Bieber chants would commence.

Standing in that student section, leading the Bieber-shaming chorus was burly high school senior Evan Boehm.

“I made it a point that we started the Justin Bieber chant,” Boehm said of his first interaction with Lock. “When he came over and caught a pass on the three-point line right next to us, we just started going after Drew.”

All 6-foot-3, 300 pounds of Evan Boehm were in the freshman’s ear. Screaming with the fiery passion of an offensive lineman, the senior tried everything he could to get in the 15-year-old’s head. His efforts were unsuccessful.

The Bieber-haired shooting guard put his toes behind the three-point line, and with Evan Boehm howling just feet away, he drained a three.

“We just go, ‘Well, we can’t do that one anymore guys,’” Boehm said. “‘We’ve got to think of something else to do.’”

Four years later, a lot has changed. Instead of jeering at Lock, Boehm now blocks for him.

They’re not at rival high schools; they play

together for their state’s university.

The hair? No, that hasn’t changed one bit.

Boehm, a senior captain for the Missouri football team, has taken his fellow Lee’s Summit native under his wing. Acting as a mentor for the Tigers’ first starting true freshman quarterback in two decades, the man who snaps the kid the ball has made sure Lock’s transition to college football has been as smooth as possible.

“I don’t think there’s any question that having an experienced center like Evan there is a huge plus,” coach Gary Pinkel said.

The two first met after that basketball game four years ago. Boehm, who had already committed to Missouri, talked to the freshman.

Lock knew of him. Boehm was Kansas City high school football’s biggest star. He’d won the Thomas A. Simone Award, annually given to the Kansas City area’s most outstanding football player.

He grew up hearing about the brawny center from the rival high school. He saw Boehm mercilessly pancake his Lee’s Summit defensive linemen. He saw the recruiting updates. “Boehm gets offer from Alabama.” “Boehm gets offer from Auburn.” “Boehm gets offer from Missouri.”

He’s the only offensive lineman to ever receive the Simone award in its 32-year history. Needless to say, the lanky freshman was intimidated before he ever said a word to him.

“Probably just hearing about him,” Lock said of his first exposure to Boehm. “Hearing about – excuse my words – how much of a badass he was.”

As badass as Boehm was, Lock still despised him. After all, this was a high school football rivalry on the line.

Respect? Yeah, that’s one thing. But it doesn’t mean you have to like the guy.

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Big dreams keep post-graduates at Mizzou Dominique Bouchard, Sam Tierney, Mack Darragh and Dani Barbiea are the four post-graduate swimmers continuing their training with the Tigers.

PETER BAUGH Assistant Sports Editor For Mizzou graduate Dominique Bouchard, missing the 2012 Canadian Olympic Team was painful. Bouchard finished fourth in both the 100-meter and 200-meter backstroke, just two spots and less than a second shy of making the team in both events.

After barely missing the Olympic Team, returning to the sport took a little longer than usual for Bouchard.

“I was so disappointed,” she said. “I took more time off than I normally do, kind of got back into it myself and figured out a four-year plan and we’re sticking to it and it’s going well.”

Bouchard used the heartbreak of missing the Olympic Team as a motivating force. Three years after the last Canadian Olympic Trials, she has transformed herself into one of the top backstrokers in the world.

Even though she graduated in 2013, she

can still train with the Mizzou Tigers, along with other post-graduate swimmers.

To train as a post-graduate in coach Greg Rhodenbaugh’s program, a swimmer must have a good reason. For most post-graduate swimmers, the dream of making an Olympic or National team keeps them in the sport.

This is the case for Bouchard, who hopes to make Canada’s 2016 Olympic Team.

“You’ve got to know you’ve got a shot and then you’ve got to be willing to chase it,” Rhodenbaugh said.

Bouchard is one of four post-graduate swimmers currently training with Mizzou.

She is joined by Sam Tierney, Mack Darragh and Dani Barbiea, all of whom graduated in 2015. The four swimmers all earned NCAA All-American honors during their careers with Mizzou and hold individual event records.

Darragh is also Canadian and has a chance to make their Olympic Team in 2016. In 2015, he posted the third fastest time by a Canadian in the 200-meter butterfly. Bouchard said that they are “trying to get two Mizzou kids on the Canadian (Olympic) Team.”

Tierney and Barbiea will both compete at the U.S. Olympic Trials this coming summer.

Both hope to either make the Olympic Team, which takes the top two swimmers in almost every event, or the National Team, which takes the top six.

“We’ve developed some people into some of the best swimmers in the world,”

Rhodenbaugh said. “That’s the reason to swim post-graduately.”

Tierney specializes in breaststroke and was arguably Mizzou’s best swimmer last season.

In 2015, he posted the 10th fastest time by an American swimmer in the 200-meter breaststroke.

What has kept Tierney in the sport is that he does not feel like he is done getting better.

“I’ve seen improvement year after year,” he said. “And so if I haven’t really hit my peak, there’s no point in stopping yet.”

Tierney is taking this year to focus almost entirely on swimming. He does tutor for the Intercollegiate Athletics Department, but he is not working full-time or taking classes.

Bouchard, on the other hand, is working on her master’s degree in health administration.

Since the post-graduate swimmers have exhausted their four years of NCAA eligibility, they are not able to compete in college meets for the Tigers. However, they will swim in a few professional meets during the season.

Mizzou was not the only place Bouchard could swim as a post-graduate. A year ago, she was given the chance to swim at the High Performance Center in Toronto. However, she decided to stay with the Mizzou team.

“I had made a life here,” Bouchard said. “I had all my friends here, my boyfriend’s just in Kansas City, so it’s definitely something that I didn’t want to drastically change two years out from the Olympics.”

Bouchard joined Mizzou’s swim team in 2009. Now, six years later, she finds herself close to the end of her career with the team.

“Almost for sure I can say that this is my last year swimming at Mizzou, so I’m making the best of it,” she said.

Tierney is not sure about his future in the sport after Olympic Trials. He plans to evaluate where he is with swimming every year.

“I’m taking it year by year,” he said. “I could see myself being done, but if you make a National Team and you can get funded, that’d be great. I’d love to see if I can swim another year, but I’m just going to see year by year.”

With the growing strength of Mizzou’s program, Rhodenbaugh has had non-Mizzou post-graduate swimmers ask to swim with the Tigers. At this point, though, Rhodenbaugh only wants to train swimmers with connections to the Mizzou program.

Rhodenbaugh said what makes the postgraduate swimmers special is their ability to see that they still have room to grow.

“The goals are always to get them to the maximum place that they can be, and we’re on that road,” Rhodenbaugh said. “I don’t think any of them have reached their ultimate potential yet. They’re certainly getting closer every meet, everyday. There’s still more in the tank for all of them and they see that.”

Strong offense helps volleyball reach No. 11 ranking MIA CHUDZIK Reporter Missouri players huddle and cheer.

VolleyZou screams in excitement. The Tigers have scored yet another point.

For the No. 11 Missouri volleyball team, offense is one of the keys to their success so far in the season.

The Tigers as a whole have an average hitting percentage of .294, and an average of 13.8 kills per set, both among the highest currently in the Southeastern Conference.

“It makes you much tougher to try to stop,” coach Wayne Kreklow said. “And that’s probably one of the biggest differences between this group this year and the group a year ago. We just didn’t have all those options.”

Among these options is freshman Alyssa

Munlyn. The middle blocker finished off Saturday’s game against Tennessee with a season-high hitting percentage of .714.

Outside hitter Carly Kan averages 4.54 kills per set with an overall hitting percentage of .304.

Besides getting kills, another part of the offense’s job is to block. Players like sophomore Kira Larson, who has transitioned from playing middle blocker to right side, often have trouble adjusting from having to close the block to being a pin blocker and having to put the ball up themselves.

“Hitting wasn’t as big of a change as blocking,” Larson said. “I’m used to just running as fast as I can to the pin blocker and putting up a strong block. When you’re a pin blocker, you have to set up that block. You have to watch the ball and watch the hitter. So

there’s a lot more going on. You have to focus a lot more on the other side.”

Along with Larson, junior Julia Towler can hit both right side and middle, giving her flexibility and the ability to switch it up at random times when the other team isn’t expecting it.

The transition seems to have gone smoothly both of them, seeing as they both currently have a .342 hitting percentage and have helped contribute over 60 blocks combined.

Other top offensive players for the team include outside hitter Regan Peltier, who has contributed 129 kills so far.

Setter Courtney Eckenrode also sees the effects of a strong offense. On top of having options to set to every rotation, the opposing team needs to be able to read the block in

order in order to prepare for the ball, which doesn’t always happen.

“It’s hard for the other teams’ block to be able to read and know where to go,” Eckenrode said. “And having three options in the front and even one in back row, we’re hard to stop.”

Having all these offensive options gives the Tigers more leeway when a player is having an off night and an extra competitive edge over less offense-driven teams, helping contribute to their No. 11 ranking.

“We’ve got some decent size at the net, so that presents some challenges for the opposing teams a little bit,” Kreklow said.

“We’re not locked into, ‘if this person or that person is having an off night we’re in trouble,’ because now I think we have some options.

We have more people and it gives us more things that we can do.”

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Hignett hopes to use skill set coming off bench Hignett is looking to bring her skill set across the Atlantic Ocean from Wales to Missouri.

TYLER KRAFT Reporter The first time Missouri coach Bryan Blitz saw junior midfielder Rachel Hignett, she was dominating the player that Blitz was supposed to be recruiting.

At the time, Blitz was looking into recruiting an English international player. It was only by sheer luck that he stumbled upon Hignett.

“The Internet is great, right?” Blitz said. “I was recruiting a kid from England that was on the national team and was an Arsenal player and I saw in Rachel’s tapes and I just felt like, ‘Oh my God, that kid from Wales is killing that other kid and outplaying her.’”

In the tape Blitz watched, Hignett was proudly wearing the national uniform of her home country: Wales.

Hignett is from a town of about 2,000 people called Llandough, which sits on the southern edge of Wales. Her career has taken her from her small local team in Wales to Bristol Academy WFC in England. Now, she’s a junior at Missouri, where she is the only international player on the Missouri soccer team.

After Blitz saw the tape, he began recruiting Hignett, who was originally intent on starting her collegiate career in

2014. Blitz offered her a place with the Tigers in 2013.

“Rachel wrote me on an email, and she wanted to come a year later, and we had room for her, and I said, ‘Hey, would you ever consider coming now?’”

Blitz said. “I think it caught her by surprise, and that wasn’t her initial plan, but for whatever reason it worked for her, and she came in a year early.”

For Hignett, Blitz’s offer was one she couldn’t refuse.

“I emailed Bryan saying, ‘I want to come out in 2014,’ and he said, ‘Why don’t you come out in 2013?’ which was a year early for me, and I was like, ‘Hey, why not?’” Hignett said.

“The school I was doing back home, you don’t need it for over here, so I had already done the test to get out here. So I just went for it, and I came on a visit here and really loved it.”

A major part of Hignett being interested in coming to America for soccer stems from her older brother, James, who played tennis for New Mexico from 2011-14. He encouraged Hignett when she was trying to decide if moving to America was the right choice for what she wanted to accomplish in her soccer career.

Speaking to him, he was saying that it was an opportunity I couldn’t miss,” Hignett said.

When Hignett first arrived on campus, she was faced with an array of challenges. Luckily for her, the fellow freshmen on the team were always there for her.

“I think freshman year, Bryan was a bit worried about

me because he always used to phone up the other freshmen and be like, ‘Hey, do you know how Rachel is?’” Hignett said.

“They’d always be looking out for me and making sure I was OK, and if I needed anything, they would be the first to take me anywhere I wanted to go and do anything with me. My class really helped when I came in because they were always there for me.”

An entirely separate challenge for Hignett came when she stepped onto the field. Despite being well-versed in the European model of soccer, Hignett found out that the American version is a whole different beast.

“Her soccer sophistication is something that is unique for our team,” Blitz said. “That’s the European model. They learn that and they grow and

the gym.”

Focused on “the details,” the team approached each drill, each practice, in a more “serious” manner, Ethridge said. However, the players’ shift in attitude would not be the only significant change from playing the Billikens to the Florida Gators.

With the mid-major players the Tigers were previously matched against, the games were played “differently” given the opponents’ tendency to be “smaller, faster and quicker,” coach Wayne Kreklow said.

Florida is by no means a midmajor team.

“Sometimes those early season matchups with those mid-majors result in a bad outcome, not because we don’t have talented kids, but (because) the matchups aren’t there,” Kreklow said. “My biggest concern going into (Florida) is I think we know what we’re doing, but we’ll see when we match up against another big, physical team.”

After a week of serious practices, the time had come.

“Florida has always been one of their country’s best,”

Kreklow said. “Any time you go against them you better bring your ‘A’ game or it’s going to be a short night.”

And for the first half of the game it looked like it would be. Following two competitive, back-and-forth games, the Tigers went into halftime down 0-2. When they returned to the court, their chances decreased immediately.

The team fell behind by a few points. Then five. Then eight.

“I was worried because we were at that tipping point where a couple more and the hole would’ve been too big,” Kreklow said.

But the hole was just big enough. The team utilized several serving streaks to chip away at the gap, closing in a little at a time until the teams were finally tied at 17. Then the Tigers took over to win it, 25-21.

The players carried the momentum to win the fourth set 25-19, forcing a fifth and final game. With a high level of aggression, the team went “hard on every ball,” and 15 Mizzou points later, the team that “was not supposed to

COURTESY OF MU ATHLETICS

Missouri Tigers midfield Rachel Hignett (8) dribbles the ball against a Kentucky Wildcats player at the Wendell & Vickie Bell Soccer Stadium in Lexington, Ky.

North America’s (style) is a little more athletic. You know, bigger, stronger, faster. I think she’s been trying to accumulate that to her game. In Europe they let you have more time on the ball, it’s a less athletic but more cerebral game.”

As a result, it has taken time for Hignett to adjust. Now in her junior year, Hignett is still coming off the bench for the Tigers, mostly playing in the midfield when she sees time.

“She’s in a tough spot,” Blitz said. “She’s always fighting against good players. That’s why she came. I think her play has gotten better and better and better, but just like all of our players, it’s hard to get on the field and her strengths have to be better than somebody else’s strengths.”

When Hignett does come onto the field, her role varies.

“I feel like my role is always changing,” Hignett said. “In some games, I’m playing more than others, so it’s been hard to adapt to the playing style, so I feel like in some games I’m utilized more because of the way the other team plays and how we want to play against them.”

As she continues on in her junior year and eventually her final year at Missouri, Hignett hopes that her hard work will pay off.

“Right now, (I) just (want) to get more time, and then senior year just to get a few starts,” Hignett said. “I just want to progress with my skills and my development so when I leave here I can become a better player than when I came in and continue to develop my game.”

Volleyball returns to form after SLU sweep to SEC streak

Regan Peltier after 2-0 SEC start: “We have more confidence in ourselves for the rest of the season.”

LEXI CHURCHILL Reporter It was time to bounce back, and quickly.

After being swept by an unranked St. Louis team Sept.

23, the Missouri volleyball team returned to Hearnes Center knowing it “can’t have another match like that,” especially given its next opponent, junior Julia Towler said.

With the challenge of the No. 9 team in the nation ahead, the Tigers needed a mentality change, fast. Their turnaround began at practice.

“We’ve been talking a lot lately about how, over the course of the season, there’s a lot of ups and downs, obviously that was a pretty big down,” junior libero Alexa Ethridge said. “We all came back way more focused, energized and serious. It was a new vibe in

ALEXZANDRIA CHURCHILL | PHOTOGRAPHER

Missouri Tigers volleyball players celebrate after winning their match against the Florida Gators 3-2 on Wednesday at Hearnes Center.

win this match,” was the one celebrating, Towler said.

“I was blown away by the resiliency and hard work that we continued to show,” Kreklow said in a press release. “We finally came together and fed off each other’s emotions the rest of the way. I’m so proud of this team. We never gave up. What a way to start the (Southeastern Conference) season.”

Their success was furthered

Sunday night in a 3-1 win over the Tennessee Volunteers. With a 2-0 start in their SEC season, Mizzou moved up to the No. 11 team in the nation.

“We were a little down on our spirits after the SLU game, but to come out and rally against Florida and then beat (Tennessee),” senior middle blocker Regan Peltier said.

“We have more confidence in ourselves for the rest of the season.”

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LOCK

Continued from page 15 “I always watched him like, ‘Gosh, I hate that guy,’” Lock said. “The one time I got to watch him play, I was pretty amazed by him. But now, to take snaps from him, that’s pretty cool.”

Little did he know, three years down the road, Lock would win that same honor and commit to the same university.

It’s the first time in the history of the award that two winners hand the ball off to one another at the collegiate level.

Center to quarterback or quarterback to wide receiver.

It’s never happened until now.

“It’s really cool,” Boehm said. “Even from quarterback to wide receiver, that’s the first time anything like this has ever happened. It’s really special.”

That Simone bond brought

the two together for Lock’s official visit. Quarterbacks coach Andy Hill had Lock stay with Boehm for a weekend.

The weekend of his visit, Lock played his future center’s alma mater in basketball.

There was no Boehm in the stands making Bieber chants.

Instead, Boehm welcomed the highly recruited quarterback to Missouri.

They bonded immediately.

“Evan’s a great guy,” Lock said. “Evan definitely warmed up pretty quick. You thought the older guys would push you aside, being a freshman.

That’s not what the University of Missouri did here. They welcomed us, and that was cool.”

Once on campus, free laundry was the bait for Lock. Anytime, Boehm told him, he could come over and do laundry. No residence hall fees. No having to wait for an open machine.

Just throw some dirty clothes in the wash and hang out.

Lock takes advantage of

these things. At first, it was laundry, but now, the common texts will just be to hang out.

“If I get a little stressed out, he’ll tell me to come over and just chill,” Lock said. “Just be normal people for an hour and not focus on football and decompose everything that happened during the week.”

Boehm also appreciates his time with the 18-year-old who’s stolen the spotlight. He joked they “Netflix and chill” when Lock comes over.

As a true freshman, Boehm started, too. He knows what Lock is experiencing. He knows Lock will make mistakes. It’s inevitable when making the transition to the college level.

The center had his fair share three years ago.

“I played as a freshman,” Boehm said. “I told him, ‘Man, I cut on the front side of the zone freshman year. The one rule you have on inside zone is you don’t cut on the front side of zone. There was my mistake.

You’re going to make a mistake,

so just roll with it and go.’”

When Boehm was a freshman, he had a similar mentor relationship with lineman Elvis Fisher. As Boehm’s “big brother” in the Missouri program, the two were nearly inseparable.

Looking back, Boehm stands in those same shoes.

“The way Elvis acted and the way Elvis practiced and his leadership styles,” Boehm said. “I modeled myself a lot after that in the way he played and just had fun doing what he does. I just want to go out there and make sure that Drew’s OK, and he’s having fun doing what he’s doing.”

Having fun is a top priority, which is why he likes to take the occasional jab at his young quarterback. Recently, Boehm saw a Vine of Lock whipping his hair in the wind before a game.

It was a perfect opportunity to give his QB1 an ego check.

“I sent that to him and said, ‘Man, no matter what, your center will always look better than you,’” Boehm said. “I

believe that’s true. I don’t know if he does, but a lot of other girls on campus think that’s true.”

Even on the field, he likes to have fun with the freshman.

After Lock was sacked for the first time against South Carolina, the offense met on the sideline. That sack, Boehm told Lock, was his initiation to the Missouri offense.

“I guess I’ll take it for what it’s worth,” Lock said at media availability Monday.

T he tr ue freshman quarterback looked up over the swarm of press members.

There was Boehm, extending his iPhone over the herd of reporters, trying to get a question in.

“Oh, there he is,” Lock said with a laugh.

“Do you still hate me?”

Boehm asked, referring to their high school football days.

The younger Lee’s Summit native cracked up.

“No, I love you now,” Lock said. “Thank you.”

What do you get from a nervous cow?

A milkshake!

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ANNUAL HOW MANY OF THESE CAN YOU FIND? PARADE ELANE EDWARDS Reporter

TO MAKE THE PARADE EVEN MORE FUN, THE MANEATER HAS PROVIDED A SCAVENGER HUNT OF PEOPLE, ORGANIZATIONS AND THINGS TO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR ON THAT BUSY MORNING.

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Different residence halls will be represented throughout the parade, so try to keep an eye out for the residence halls that create “HawLeWood.” Hint: HawLeWood consists of three different residence halls.

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The parade will feature multiple Greek chapters, but let’s see if you can spot them by their Greek letter signs. They march with their own as well as their pairings’ letters to represent their Greek Homecoming pride.

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Who are the Homecoming Royalty? Can you name them all? Getting a photo of the crowns wouldn’t be a bad idea.

On Oct. 10, Rollins Street will be filled with roaring Tigers ready to celebrate MU’s 104th Homecoming at the annual parade.

“It’s one of my favorite days of the year, for sure,” MU Homecoming Advisor Alyson Friend said. “You can hear the marching band practice, Marching Mizzou kind of kicks everything off, so it’s just a lot of fun and a really great start to that day for Homecoming.”

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Friend said Athletic Director Mack Rhoades will be hanging out on Rollins Street during the parade. You should get a photo of him showing off his Homecoming pride with a football in his hand.

5

Timothy M. Wolfe, president of the UM System, will be making an appearance at the parade too. Get a photo of him in the parade.

6

Do you know what a karategis, aka “gi,” is? The parade will have some guests dressed in them. See if you can pick them out of the crowd.

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Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin will be at the parade, but he is very busy throughout it all. Try to grab his attention and get a selfie with him.

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During the parade, you can get some free swag as well. Some items that will be handed out are a little football, three different stickers, a pompom, three different types of fun-sized candy and homemade kettle corn, which runs out quick.

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There will be coupons handed out by multiple businesses from the Columbia area, so make sure to grab as many of those as possible.

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Finally, make sure to be at the parade a tad early so you can get a good seat. The parade map can be found on the Mizzou 2015 Homecoming parade website.

The parade starts at 9 a.m. and will go through downtown. It can be watched via livestream.

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GREEK LIFE

CLAIRE SCHWARK

PEEK BEHIND THE POMPING PROCESS

In the past, 75 percent of the boards had to be filled with pomps to gain full points with the Campus Decorations judges, said Carolyn Welter, Panhellenic Association’s vice president of public relations. This year, the boards could only be 25 percent pomped, with paint or glitter being the typical materials covering the rest of the board.

Reporter Hundreds of people flock to want to do, what their design is, but you There are different sizes of pomps, Welter said.

Greektown during Campus Decorations can either have four stacked on top of too, Kent said.

In the past, 75 percent of the boards each fall to witness the unveiling of the four, or have some type of staggering to “You can have fat marker pomps, had to be filled with pomps to gain full secret that Greek houses have hidden create a 3-D effect,” Kent said. skinny marker pomps, pencil pomps and points with the Campus Decorations for months: their famous pomp boards.

Pomping is the process of rolling even lollipop pomps,” Kent said. judges, Welter said. This year, the MU’s Greek community has been tissue paper around a pencil, pen or Different pairings decide to start the planning this year’s Campus Decorations marker, folding the bottom to make process of pomping at different times, boards could only be 25 percent pomped, with paint or glitter being the typical pomp boards since last year. materials covering the rest of Sororities and fraternities the board. paired up last semester through “It's one of those nights that people look forward a lottery system to begin Members of each chapter designating committees and must work an average of four to in a sense because it's exciting that it's starting, homecoming liaisons as well as to six hours pomping each week and youre ready to just see the finished product.” planning pomp board designs. before Homecoming, Kent “Especially this year, since — Delta Delta Delta President Ashley Kent said. She said this can increase homecoming was so early, we depending on the speed of decided it would be best if (the progress and if pomps need to planning committees) were be redone. decided on in the spring and then hit a base and gluing it to a pomp board Kent said.

The pairings have 24 hours to set up “Some pairings start immediately the ground running when they get here following a predetermined design.

The design is dictated by differing after sorority formal recruitment bid their boards before judging begins, and in the fall,” Delta Delta Delta President colors of tissue paper, said Carolyn day, and then some pairings wait a little they cannot start before.

Ashley Kent said.

A pairing’s finished Campus Welter, the Panhellenic Association’s bit to try to get the first syllabus week Kent said everyone works through the out of the way,” Kent said. “It really just night to set up their campus decorations.

Decorations design consists of multiple vice president of public relations.

“If you’re doing the columns with a depends on the date of Homecoming, pomp boards that can be arranged in “It’s a fun night, though,” Kent various ways to create an overall scene, blue background, you’ll have blue tissue but we do like to start it early so we’re said.

“It’s one of those nights that such as landscapes, backdrops that paper for the background and some not rushing at the very end.” people look forward to in a sense because The Alumni Association appoints a correspond with each pairing’s theme, lighter grey and darker grey to make the columns,” Welter said. ““It’s kind of like homecoming committee that sets the it’s exciting that it’s starting, and you’re Kent said.

“It depends on the chapter, what they ‘color between the lines.’” requirements for Campus Decorations, ready to just see the finished product.”

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GRAND HONORED FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNIVERSITY MARSHALS WAVERLY COLVILLE

Each year, MU honors distinguished alumni to serve as the Homecoming Grand Marshals. This year, the university will kick off the Mizzou: Our Time to Lead campaign during Homecoming. Tri-chairs of the campaign Catherine Allen, José Gutiérrez and Richard Miller are the honored Grand Marshals.

Morgan Jenkins contributed to this report.

Student Organizations Editor

Photos courtesy of the MU Alumni Association

CATHERINE ALLEN ‘68 Chairman and CEO of The Santa Fe Group As chairwoman and CEO of The Santa Fe Group, Catherine Allen is a leader in technology strategy, financial services, business innovation and breaking gender barriers.

“When I started at the university, there weren’t many women in business, and I knew (attending MU) was a way that I could be in business: by taking classes in the journalism school and in the business school,” Allen said.

Hailing from the small town of Perry, Allen was in Pi Beta Phi and chose MU because it was a place where she wouldn’t face discrimination as a woman getting an education.

“There was a time when smart women (were not as rewarded as they are now),” Allen said. “You had limitations on what careers you could go into.”

Allen established The Santa Fe Group in 1996, which became a strategic partner to BITS, a company

she founded and served as the CEO of until 2007.

Allen served in several senior executive positions throughout her career. She was the director of corporate planning for Dun and Bradstreet. There, she created the Electronic Yellow Pages Association.

She was also a consultant to CBS, Inc. on new technologies and international trade. She served in several positions at Citicorp in the retail, bankcards and corporate Technology divisions. She was the founding chair and president of the multi-industry Smart Card Forum for Citibank.

She credits her time as a Tiger for her success in technology and business. “(MU) is a first-rate, worldclass university; it enhances your reputation as well as (your) educational background,” Allen said.

Allen has appeared on television several times including CNN, ABC’s

“Good Morning America,” CBS’ “This Morning” and “Eye on America,” MSNBC, NBC News and NBC’s “Dateline” and PBS’ “Nightly Business News.”

Allen served on President Barack Obama’s New Mexico Finance Committee and the New Mexico State Investment Council. She also sits on the boards of several corporations.

She was given a Lifetime Achievement Award twice: once by U.S. Banker Magazine and again by the Executive Women’s Forum.

Not only did she graduate from MU with a bachelor’s degree, but also received an honorary doctorate in 2006.

She looks forward to returning home to old traditions.

“First of all, it is going to be fun,” Allen said. “I don’t think I have been in a parade since I was 16 years old.”

JOSÉ GUTIÉRREZ ‘84 President of AT&T Wholesale Solutions and Access Management José Gutiérrez is a showcase of the American Dream — immigrating here, working hard and achieving success. He came to MU from Madrid speaking very limited English.

Fast-forward 30 years and he is the president of AT&T Wholesale Solutions and Access Management, a multi-billion dollar business owned

by AT&T. “Mizzou changed my life, and Mizzou is America for me,” Gutiérrez said in an interview with the University of Missouri International Admissions Blog. “It embraced me and made me work very, very hard — harder than I had ever worked. But the people at Mizzou changed my life and still do.”

As president, he leads a team of domestic and international

professionals from 152 countries that oversees service to carriers, wireless providers, cable operators, Internet service providers and content providers.

Since English is his second language, Gutiérrez did not understand many of his lectures.

He relied on textbooks, which were written in English, so he had to read slowly. But, as he told Mizzou Magazine in 2013, he also had the support of his professors and felt the university really invested in him.

Gutiérrez graduated summa cum laude with both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in accounting in 1984 and 1985, respectively.

In 1991, he worked in the merger and acquisition department at Southwestern Bell in St. Louis. After

15 years at the company, he became president and CEO. The company merged with AT&T in 2005.

Gutiérrez is a Jefferson Club Fellow, a Chancellor’s Society Annual Member and a Davenport Society Sponsor. He serves on the Trulaske College of Business Strategic Development Board, the Missouri 100 Advisory Board and advises the Thompson Foundation for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

He is an endowed life member of the Mizzou Alumni Association and received their Faculty-Alumni Award in 2008.

Gutiérrez’s legacy continues for the next generation. His son is following in his father’s footsteps as an accounting major at MU.

RICHARD MILLER ‘70 CEO of Miller’s Professional Imaging and Mpix Despite growing up in Pittsburgh, Kansas, Richard Miller comes from a long line of Missouri Tigers.

“My dad, my two uncles and my grandfather all played football at the University of Missouri, so I grew up as a Missouri football fan,” Miller said.

“It was a no-brainer for me.”

After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in math, Miller began working for his father’s professional photography lab that he started in 1939. He went on to win Kansas Photographer of the Year twice, and later took over as president and CEO of his father’s multi-million dollar company.

He still uses things he learned during his years as a Tiger in his business.

“In terms of the math, the statistical analysis and the computer

work, those are things that I still use every day at my business,” Miller said.

In 2001, he opened a new branch of his company in Columbia and in 2003, he launched an online-based edition of the company called Mpix.

He has given back to the School of Nursing several times. In 2011, he funded MU’s Safe Practices Room for the School of Nursing, where students learn how to keep themselves and their patients safe. He also supports the Fund the Drive for Nurses Golf Tournament and the annual banquet and awards ceremony for the School of Nursing. He also has co-funded a gala dinner for the Dean’s External Advisory Council, on which he serves.

Miller sees Homecoming as reuniting with a comfortable and familiar past.

“It’s an opportunity to reacquaint

yourself with family and lots of friends that you don’t necessarily see any other time of year, except for Homecoming,” Miller said. “The Mizzou campus really is a family.”

The university has decorated Miller with awards. He has an honorary doctorate and won the 2012 Champion of Hope Award from the MU Children’s Hospital. In 2004, he was awarded the Faculty-Alumni Award from the Alumni Association.

He also serves on several MU gift societies such as the Jefferson Club, Mosaic Society, Davenport Society, Chancellor’s Society, McAlester Society and Grace Bibb Society.

The Miller family tradition continues. All five of his children have either graduated from or attended MU, leading to another generation of Miller Tigers.

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HOMECOMING

HOMECOMING TALENT

BRITTANI LANGLAND Reporter

Before sororities and fraternities took to the Jesse Hall stage for the annual Homecoming talent competition, Homecoming Director Kelsey Denker addressed the racist incident that occurred across the road at Traditions Plaza.

“We are deeply saddened by the hateful act that was committed on Traditions Plaza last night,” Denker said. “Traditions Plaza is a place for new events to be born, celebrated and embraced. So this Homecoming season, we challenge everyone to work and celebrate together and make unity and respect a lasting tradition on this campus.”

The night before a presumably drunk white

KICKS OFF WEEK OF EVENTS Before the competition began, Homecoming Director Kelsey Denker acknowledged the racist incident against the Legion of Black Collegians members at Traditions Plaza.

man yelled racial slurs at members of the Legion of Black Collegians' 2015 Homecoming Royalty Court while they were rehearsing a play, “The Mis-Educated,” which they performed Tuesday night at Traditions Plaza.

The directors also strongly encouraged students to attend a wide variety of events this week in to support all students at MU. After Decker’s message, the competition, also known as Fling, kicked off. For the members involved, it was the culmination of months of choreographing, rehearsing and perfecting since the beginning of the semester.

Nine acts stepped into the spotlight in Jesse Hall on Monday night. A livestream broadcast the performances at the Student Center and online.

The acts performed by fraternities and sororities ranged from skits to dances.

The houses are judged, and winners are announced for a variety of categories at the end of the competition.

As for the talent competition, all the groups have been spending weeks preparing for the show.

They had to come up with

choreography and scripts. Along with that, an audition and execution process had to be fulfilled.

“First, we had auditions a week after Bid Day,” Sigma Sigma Sigma member Elizabeth Reiher said. “Then we would practice two times a week for two hours for six weeks. Then on this past Sunday, we had our ‘marathon day,’ which was 10 hours of practice. It was a lot of work.”

To start off the night, Sigma Kappa member Rebekah Northern sang the national anthem.

Next, the production team performed their annual dance, and then the competition began.

Kappa Delta took the stage to perform their skit titled “A Wild and Wonderful Western Bank Job.” The skit was a mashup of cowboy and romance stories.

“I loved everything about the talent competition,” Kappa Delta member Katherine Fraley said. “It was so fun getting to watch everyone on stage, and they all did a really great job.”

Next, Grace Rasulo, Jack Fargotstein, Jeremy Schmetter, Josh Less and Alex Foster played the song “Sunday Candy” for Delta Delta Delta and Alpha Epsilon Pi. They used guitar, piano and trumpet to create their own

twist on the song.

The next skit was titled “The Band Goes to CoMo,” performed by Pi Beta Phi and Sigma Chi. It featured a band called HUGG that was trying to find its way back to Columbia.

A music group came in to break up the skits featuring Shauna Yates, Morgan Fryman and Madison Croft, representing Kappa Delta.

They sang the song “Stitches” by Shawn Mendes.

Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha Epsilon Pi and Alpha Kappa Lambda arrived next on stage with their skit “Father Time.” Their tale involved a time machine and a look into different time periods.

“The B Team,” a skit performed by Zeta Tau Alpha and Phi Gamma Delta, changed the focus from time travel to supervillains.

Their story ended with the defeat of the supervillains Florida Man and She-Gator.

The last performance of the night was

by Sigma Sigma Sigma, Beta Sigma Psi and Beta Upsilon Chi with a skit titled “The Love Experiment.” It showed the love story between two college students who had the help of Bill Nye to aid their relationship.

Reiher enjoyed getting to participate in her sorority's Homecoming talent.

“It was so cool getting to perform in Jesse (Hall),” Reiher said. “I loved dancing up there, and there was a lot of great energy from the crowd. It is nice being involved in something that everyone around me is so passionate about.”

JORDAN KODNER | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

(Bottom right) Sorority members from Alpha Phi prepare for the 2015 Homecoming Talent Competition on Tuesday at Jesse Auditorium. Alpha Phi is paired with Delta Tau Delta for Homecoming this year.

(Top and bottom left) Members of the Production Dance crew kicks off the second night of the 2015 Homecoming Talent Competition on Tuesday at Jesse Auditorium. They are typically the best dancers from the different Greek organizations.

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