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Vol. 82, Issue 8

October 14, 2015

2015 MSA presidential candidates launch campaigns Three slates have entered the 2015 Missouri Students Association presidential race. The MSA president and vice president are the leaders of the undergraduate student body.

From increasing affordability in housing and dining to

The Board of Elections Commissioners announced the

advocating for mental health and social justice issues,

slates on Oct. 9. Soft campaigning began on Oct. 12

each platform addresses issues on the campus, city and

and hard campaigning begins on Oct. 19. Voting will be

state level to better the lives of MU students.

Nov. 9-11.

Photos courtesy of MSA slates

Female students are four times more likely to be sexually assaulted than male students.

H!JCD%F@0FGGFI Reporter Eighty percent of undergraduate men at MU believe sexual assault is not a problem on campus.

Only 19.6 percent of undergraduate males, compared to 37.1 percent of undergraduate females, at MU reported that sexual assault or sexual misconduct is very much or extremely problematic at MU, according to the AAU Climate Survey released Sept. 21. The survey,

MUPD Maj. Scott Richardson said that despite the recent incidents coming into the public’s attention, the rate of hate crimes occurring at MU have “remained steady.” =CCDEFG%E;HIBJG Staff Writer Incidents of hate have been in the news more recently on MU’s campus, with the highprofile harassment of Missouri Students Association President

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Between 2012 and 2015, nine hate crime reports have been filed with the MU Police Department.

MUPD Maj. Scott Richardson said though these incidents have come into light consecutively, the rates of hate crime occurring at MU have “remained steady.”

Of the nine reports filed and investigated by MUPD, four occurred in 2015. However, hate crimes or discrimination

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:,0+-8"+-;%)1*)4"(+&'" 6$,5.2+1"!+%/$%& The number of residents using Columbia Regional Airport has nearly tripled since 2011. <=>#"7?6>@=#A" >B77?6C Associate Editor Usage of Columbia Regional Airport is on the rise, with 29 percent of Columbia air passengers choosing the airport in 2014, compared to only 11 percent in 2011, according to a report from the Airport Advisory Board. The city’s goal is 40 percent by 2020, Mayor Bob McDavid said.

So far this year, over 86,000 people have flown in and out of the airport, according the report. At the same time last year, the report stated only 68,000 had done so.

Greg Cecil, a sitting member on the board, said the increase this year is primarily because of larger aircraft being used on the flights to and from Chicago.

The new aircraft, an CRJ-700, is able to seat 15 more passengers than the smaller ERJ-145, which was previously used on the route.

The increase from last year is also due to an addition of a second flight to Chicago in April of last year, Cecil said.

“I was surprised that American (Airlines) didn’t have two flights to Chicago from the beginning,” Cecil said. “It’s usually the place that most people want to go.”

When it comes to meeting the city’s goal and making Columbia Regional more affordable and

convenient for Columbia residents, many factors are beyond the city’s control, McDavid said.

“We’re going to continue to promote the airport, of course, but the decisions about how big the planes are, how many flights we have and where they go are ultimately market decisions that are left to the airlines,” McDavid said. “As long as we fill the planes, and as long as it’s a profitable place for American, they’ll continue to increase their choices.”

Cecil said he hopes the airport will continue to add flights to new locations and said a flight to Charlotte has often been the subject of conversation on the advisory board.

“We’ve seen the kind of demand that that would make it sensible to go there. But a lot of it's just a matter of waiting," Cecil said.

McDavid also said the city would also wants new flights added to the airport’s offerings.

“There are destinations I’d like to see,” McDavid said. “The next major hub, from a practical standpoint, would be Charlotte, North Carolina. It would make sense for a lot of the (Southeastern Conference) destinations. We’ll just wait and see what happens.”

Both McDavid and Cecil agree the airport is valuable to Columbia and MU. “We entertain job-creators and investors from Asia, and the University of Missouri has a significant number of international students from allover the world,” McDavid said.

“They all need convenient access to Columbia, and the airport gives them that.”

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Democratic Socialist could be a nominee for 2016 election Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is gaining national attention for his socialist ideals, and his support is rising as Hillary Clinton’s is dropping.

D7E!##!"FB!6> Staff Writer Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is gaining attention and support in recent polls, showing the self-described Democratic Socialist will likely not be fading away anytime soon.

According to CBS News the Vermont senator has 27 percent support, up 10 percent since July. The Democratic frontrunner, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has seen a drop of 12 percent support in the same time, leaving her at 46 percent.

Sanders’ platform includes raising minimum wage, reducing present student debt and making universities’ tuition free through taxes, and expanding social security and workers’ time off for medical leave and vacation.

Sanders has proclaimed support for gay marriage and abortion, as well as supporting government funding of Planned Parenthood.

Sanders has gained widespread attention for his radical ideals, with some hailing and others criticizing him for them.

“I think he needs to come back more moderate because he’s scaring voters that are thinking about policy with the money it would cost,” freshman Democrat Nico Adame said. “But unfortunately, it’s not a matter of whether he should. It’s a matter of whether he can. Other candidates have been sunk because they flip flop. If he

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incidents are not solely in the hands of MUPD. “There are lots of incidents that are not reported to MU Police,” Richardson said. “So Title IX, the Equity Office, those kind of places also take you in, and student conduct, those kinds of places take in complaints of that nature as well.”

The complainant can go through Equity Office services, which allows the incident to be investigated and handled

by Equity Office investigators Otherwise they could file a formal report with MUPD. “If it’s an actual crime, I believe it gets reported to us; it may not, it’s up to the victim to do that,” Richardson said.

“But, typically when there is a crime involved, we are the law enforcement agency for this jurisdiction so we are the one that would take action.”

MUPD and MU’s policies

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The same survey results report that one-third of MU senior women experienced unwanted sexual conduct during their time at MU. 17.9 percent of male undergraduates suspect a friend may have been sexually assaulted, compared to 28.7 percent of female undergraduates.

Although MU already recognized there was a sexual assault problem on campus, “the survey is an opportunity for us to take a closer look at what the climate actually is here,” MU Title IX Coordinator Ellen Eardley said after the survey was announced.

8.8 percent of male undergraduates inter vened to stop an incident of sexual assault, compared to 12.1 percent of undergraduate females.

“The numbers range on each campus,” Eardley said. “But all of the numbers are too high.”

These statistics suggest that the definitions of sexual assault, harassment or

define a hate crime similarly.

The Missouri Highway Patrol defines a hate crime as “a criminal offense committed against persons, property, or society which is motivated, in whole or in part, by offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/national origin.”

The Equity Office defines a hate crime as a criminal act against an individual's property that is motivated by biases toward a certain identity. Their webpage also adds that “hate itself is not a crime.”

The victims of racism at the LBC Homecoming Court rehearsal on Oct. 4 did report the incident to MUPD, and the case is still considered active.

“There is no criminal offense listed in the police report,” Richardson said. “So based upon that officer’s current investigation, it doesn’t mean that they are done, but based upon current investigation it is not labeled as a criminal incident. It’s an open active case, but presently there is no

offense listed.”

Head also filed charges with MUPD after a perpetrator in a passing car shouted racial slurs at him on Sept. 11. Public knowledge of the harassment became widespread after Head detailed his ordeal in viral Facebook post, but the case is still pending.

“There’s been no one identified yet,” MUPD Maj. Brian Weimer said. “The case is still open but no one has been identified at this time.”

Earlier this year, the Equity Office released an annual report detailing the number of bias reports filed and the reports’ resolutions between 2014 and 2015. In that time frame, 40 bias reports were filed with the Equity Office.

Of those 40 reports, 30 percent were based on race, which amounted to 12 reports, nine of which were ethnicitybased biases.

The Equity Office also published how these incidents were resolved. One of the 40 incidents was solved through

“mediation.” It cites mediation as an informal process that is outside of the boundaries of the administrative structure.

The individuals who conduct the mediation “will not take any action on problems uncovered through the mediation process.”

Of the bias reports under the resolution table, 13 were listed as “insufficient info/ anonymous complaint.” Twelve reports were “referred to another office.”

Freshman Wesley Woodson said "there is only so much" the university can do to combat hate offenses.

"They’ve been trying to raise awareness of the hate (offenses) that have been happening, so as long as they are doing that, they are doing their job," Woodson said.

The Equity Office is not a part of the Chancellor's Diversity Initiative, but both programs “work very, very closely together,” MU spokesman Christian Basi said.

The Chancellor's Diversity Initiative is intended “to

promo te inclusiveness , promote diversity and create a welcoming campus for everyone,” Basi said. He said that this is done through workshops and seminars which facilitate dialogues, along with funding various organizations and programs.

Basi said Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin has asked for a full review of the Diversity Initiative to determine which programs have been successful and which have "not given us exactly what we are hoping for."

The chancellor is planning to make changes based on that review, Basi said.

Woodson said that if he were to be the victim of a hate crime, he would feel comfortable reporting it to police.

“I would definitely feel safe reporting it. It’s up to the police to do their job and to handle it, and if they did not handle it then they are obviously not doing their job," Woodson said.

"I wouldn’t feel like I would have to cover up what happened to me just to feel safe.”

misconduct may be different for men and women at MU. However, a larger proportion of women at MU completed the survey than men.

Parker Briden, vice president of public relations for the Interfraternity Council, said IFC is “doing whatever we can” to educate its members about sexual assault, specifically on the topics of bystander intervention and consent. “(At our regular committee meetings), we have talked about how important is it to educate all members on consent and eliminating sexual misconduct,” Briden said. “We want to do what we can within our own sphere of influence.”

This is the first semester IFC has implemented the peer educator program, Briden said.

“We want our fraternity men to have the best education to prevent sexual misconduct on campus,” Briden said. “We want to use everything in our tool chest to make that happen.”

Mizzou Athletics has been under scrutiny in the past for sexual assault, specifically for the case of Sasha Menu Courey, who was allegedly raped by a member of the football team.

Menu Courey took her own life in June 2011.

Since the incident, MU has made several policy changes, including promoting the Title

IX Coordinator position to fulltime and requiring all UM System employees to report any assault or harassment information to the Title IX office.

A sexual assault communications task force was appointed by former athletic director Mike Alden in March 2014 to review existing Intercollegiate Athlete policies, according to a summary of athletic department educational and communication initiatives.

Alden implemented the “See it, Hear it, Own it” policy, also known as SHO. Student athletes and staff received wristbands and T-shirts with the “SHOUp!” logo.

The “SHO-Up!” T-shirts are to be worn on the fourth Friday of every month to serve as a visual reminder of student athlete and staff responsibility in response to sexual assault.

Student athletes also par ticipate in regular programs and discussions with Title IX directors and MU Intercollegiate Athlete faculty.

20.5 p e rce nt of undergraduate men witnessed someone acting in a sexually violent or harassing manner, compared to 27.1 percent of female undergrads.

Provost Garnett Stokes will create a task force to take a closer look at the survey

results, create focus groups and implement a strategic plan “to make sure that we are building upon the education efforts that have already been ongoing on campus,” Eardley said.

Two percent of male undergraduates believe they are very or extremely likely to experience sexual assault or misconduct on campus, compared to 12.3 percent of female undergraduates.

Of female undergraduates at MU, 18.1 percent participated in the AAU Climate Survey, while only 9.6 percent of undergraduate males participated in the survey, according to the AAU Climate Survey.

The survey reported that female students are also four times more likely than male students to be a victim of nonconsensual penetration or sexual touching due to force.

This year, many different pro grams are being implemented for the general student population at MU. All new and incoming students must participate in one of these programs, the new Not Anymore online training, that “provides baseline understanding about what sexual assault is, what consent is, what healthy relationships look like, and also provides them information about their

rights and their options,” Eardley said.

One of the most important messages of Not Anymore, Eardley said, is bystander intervention, which teaches students how to stand up and say something when they find themselves or their peers in an unacceptable situation.

The training also gives students the opportunity to build up their knowledge by offering follow up discussions and talking more in detail about sexual assault education.

Eardley held a press conference Sept. 21 to discuss the survey results and present strategies on how to confront them. “ The Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention Center on campus has done an excellent job and it’s an amazing resource that the University of Missouri has had that a number of universities don’t have a resource like this,” Eardley said.

Over the last year, the RSVP Center hired three additional staff members to work on education and prevention as well as advocacy, Eardley said.

The Interfraternity Council is participating in the RSVP Center’s initiative for male peer educators who go out and teach other fraternity men about sexual assault and bystander intervention, Eardley said.

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Ejaz/Parrie Juniors Haden Gomez and Chris Hanner are running their campaign “Moving Mizzou Forward” based on five tenets: affordability, academic success, involvement, inclusivity and services.

Their platform reflects their desire to expand on the growth of the current MSA executive cabinet and the administration in the past year.

“We know the current administration has done an incredible job of creating awareness of things that need to be brought to light, need to be talked about and really need to be at the forefront of students minds,” Gomez said. “We would really like to take the charge and initiative that they have and continue it.”

Affordability is emphasized on their campaign because money is the No. 1 reason students drop out of the university, Gomez said. One way the pair plans to help is to lobby the state government through the Associated Students of the University of Missouri.

Their academic success tenet aims to create a scholarship database so students only have to go to one place to search potential opportunities. Gomez said this was because academic success and the ability to finance college “go hand in hand.”

Another emphasis area for their academic success goal is to increase undergraduate student participation in research.

Gomez said this was important to improve the university’s Association of American Universities ranking, which would in turn increase the value of an MU degree.

“A lot of students don’t know where to even start to look for (research opportunities),” he said. “Having one centralized location of all these different research opportunities, I think it’s going to be really beneficial for the student body.”

The student involvement section of their platform includes student participation within and outside of MSA. Gomez said

mcfarland/segers Juniors Jordan McFarland and Jonathan Segers announced they will be running with their campaign “Back to Basics.”

Their platform features four main programs: Lean On, Swipe Me In, the Greek Liaison Office and Inside Out. They

Senior Syed Ejaz and junior Heather Parrie named their campaign “Mizzou Together,” and it is rooted in three pillars: serve, challenge and belong.

Ejaz said his past work in MSA regarding campus and pedestrian safety, sustainability and student living projects combined with his and Parrie’s different perspectives make them different from other slates.

“Heather has a very well-rounded basket of perspectives on discussion of sociological issues on this campus,” Ejaz said. “I think for the first time in a really long time, students are having honest discussion about things such as race relations, sexual violence and the normative culture on campus.”

Ejaz said he wants to continue pushing for affordable housing because of the “enormously high” rent that students have to pay when not staying in residence halls.

“Since we are here to get an education (and) to learn about each other, the cost of living really has a significant impact on student life,” Ejaz said. “On top of that, the higher the cost of living is, the less diverse our campus becomes, because when students are making their decision to come to Mizzou or go elsewhere, student living and the cost of it are big factors in that decision.”

Additionally, he said he wants to keep advocating for pedestrian safety, which he did as Campus and Community Relations Committee chairman, because MU’s “driving culture” is not conducive to 27,000 pedestrians.

“There is a two-fold approach to (pedestrian safety),” Ejaz said. “One is having the proper infrastructure and he wanted to increase communication with student media to provide for more awareness of MSA among students.

They would also like to engage international students.

“Something that’s become very important to me personally is the well-being of our international students on campus,” Hanner said. “I became an international student this summer while I was in China (studying abroad), and I really got to experience some of the issues they experience on campus.

Something that international students have told me they have issues with is finding their niche on campus.”

Hanner said they hoped to create a program through the Department of Student Activities and in partnership with the Missouri International Student Council to match international students with an involvement mentor. The mentor would help them decide what organizations to join on campus and help them settle into MU. For the student inclusion and safety section of their platform, Gomez and Hanner said they don’t wish to add services for students but rather to improve what is already existing.

“Everybody we’ve met with has asked us to just promote what they have already started,” Gomez said. “Everything we’d like to do just hinges on the promotion of current projects.”

Gomez said accessibility for students with disabilities is a “huge tenet” of their platform. “(We’re promoting) being cognizant that there are many students with disabilities on this campus and how we can make that better, (such as) promoting professors using their microphones during lectures for students who can’t hear as well,” he said.

Under the student services tenet of their platform, Gomez and Hanner said they want to expand existing services, such as Tiger Pantry. Gomez said the two will push for Tiger Pantry to also want to rename and restructure MSA to how it was before 1959.

In order to make the organization more open to the student body, they would also like to change MSA’s name to the Student Government Association, as it was in 1959. This includes shifting the presidential elections to April with terms starting in May. This change will require about 20 definition edits to the MSA bylaws and constitution, and will make MU consistent with other organizations across the nation.

McFarland fears that students see MSA as unapproachable and would like to see more student involvement.

“It’s time to put the average student back in MSA,” Segers said.

Lean On, which is a program focused on student mental health, will connect students to existing resources, increase exposure and educate others on the severity of mental health disorders. They also plan to challenge administration to increase the number of programs available to students.

“We need to stop talking about these things as separate issues, like academic retention, mental health, sexual assault,” McFarland said. “(They) need to be at the forefront. They all come together at the student, which is why the student needs to be at the center. We need to see these things as interdependent.”

Swipe Me In addresses food insecurity resulting from the addition of a la carte meals. For those who can’t afford the increased expense of eating, people with extra swipes can offer to pay for meals of others through a Facebook page.

The candidates hope that this program will build a sense of togetherness on the issue of food insecurity.

About 27 percent of the student body is Greek affiliated, but no positions within MSA work directly with the Office of Greek

enforcement to ensure that pedestrians are safe and that both pedestrians and vehicles are respective of the rules. That is something we have to advocate for to the administration and to the city. The second part is education of drivers and pedestrians.”

Another issue Ejaz said they want to address is ensuring that normative culture is very conducive to an inclusive environment.

“Using the office of vice president and president as a sociocultural platform is big because we have the platform to reach out to thousands of students,” Ejaz said. “It should be our obligation to inspire them to make all places around them safe and empowering to everyone.”

Ejaz said his decision to run came about over a long period of time. He said after MSA’s trip to the SEC exchange, he realized MSA needs to keep moving in the direction it is going and felt the urge to step up.

To do so, Ejaz and Parrie approached their leadership strategy a lot differently than what they see from other student leaders, Parrie said.

“For me, I know this is not (a) resume builder,” Parrie said. “This isn’t make or breaking my college career or how I am going to look to employers. This is something that we are bringing to the table because we are passionate about serving Mizzou and passionate about doing this for the right reasons, not just so we can get the office, not just so we can get the gold nametag, so we can actually make an impact on students’ lives.”

Gomez/Hanner be able to distribute meal swipes to students. “(We are not) planning on adding another auxiliary, but how can we make them better, and how can we promote what they’re already doing?” he said.

Life. The candidates would like to form a Greek Liaison Office with a director and two representatives: one for the National Pan-Hellenic Council and one for the Interfraternity Council and the Panhellenic Association.

The candidates would also like to introduce Mizzou ’49, named after the year 1949, when the university decided to admit black students. The program will bring 49 student leaders together to address social justice issues.

“It will finally bridge that gap and have that difficult conversation,” Segers said. “It goes back to mental health.

When you don’t address the whole mental health thing, diversity, inclusion and exclusivity, then you don’t have that safe space.”

The final point of their platform is Inside Out. This program focuses on increasing student awareness of Diversity Peer Educators, Safe Space training and the Green Dot program.

This program will encourage all the joint session governments’ elected leaders to be trained in these programs to increase exposure.

“We need to show from the inside out that we’re serious about these issues,” McFarland said.

In addition to the main points on their platform, McFarland and Segers would like to introduce Quick Tip Guides, which will be short videos featuring programs and basic how-to segments, such as how to set up direct deposit or how to contact your financial advisor.

McFarland and Segers emphasized that they only have one year to make a difference.

“Let’s make sure that when we leave, that we leave it in the best state we can and that we continue the conversation; that we put the student at the center and that at the end of the day, we get back to basics,” McFarland said.

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The residence hall government plans to invest in student organizations and events. :#;!<=$>?!@A#= Reporter The Residence Halls Association finalized the fall 2015 budget Sept. 21, which distributes a total of $48,337.37 among various committees within the organization.

Sustainability received $14,000.

The legislative distribution and the Programming Committee each received $10,000. Legislative distribution funds go toward organizations that request funding from RHA, and the Programming Committee’s budget goes toward events hosted by RHA such as Paint It Pink Week.

“We had a bigger budget this year because of a rollover from last year, so on this budget, we gave more to legislative operations so that we could have more things for the residence halls and make things more interesting,” RHA Speaker of Congress Alex Johar said.

“Also, since we had more money, we added more money to distribution, so we could fund more governments and outside organizations.”

RHA also reallocated some funds.

This semester, funding for committees such as the Advocacy Committee or the Operations Committee will go through the legislative branch as opposed to the executive branch, Johar said.

Sums of money granted to organizations are usually unpredictable until RHA receives funding requests.

“We don’t really know what’s going on with funding requests until they come in,” Johar said. “Most of the time it’s just different hall governments.

We don’t seek out organizations to get

funding from us but we'd like to just focus on the Programming Committee having more events and the Advocacy Committee having events for mental health, diversity, inclusivity, whatever the students’ topics are this semester.”

If an organization or residence hall requests more than $500 in funding, the decision to approve the request goes to RHA Congress as opposed to the legislative branch.

The rollover amount from the spring 2015 semester went to the summer budget. Any amount of money left over from spending during the summer months goes to the executive budget for the fall semester.

“This summer, we spent (the summer budget) mostly on equipment,” RHA President Billy Donley said. “We bought new equipment and we were trying to repair equipment so that we had things that were useful to others around campus. We sponsored a lot of Fall Welcome events for the Department of Student Activities.”

RHA is hosting the Midwest Affiliate of College and University Residence Halls Regional Conference later in the semester, to which they allocated $2,500.

The National Residence Hall Honorary is RHA’s sister organization

and gets 1 percent of RHA’s budget.

During the conference, each residence hall government and their NRHH chapter will come together to discuss issues such as leadership, social justice and how RHAs and NRHHs work at various universities.

Donley is the budget and finance chair for the conference. He will oversee the entire budget, with over 40 schools attending.

One focus for Donley was clearing up misconceptions about where money for funds like the executive discretionary come from. This fund lets the executive branch allocate money however they’d like.

“It’s no secret that we have it, but I think this year we’re trying to let people know so they understand that the money going to executive discretionary is not actually from the social fee from students,” Donley said. “There’s an organization called on-campus marketing and the profit share from that program goes to executive discretionary.”

RHA has a sum of money referred to as the savings fund, also known as the scholarship fund, which is left over from when the organization sold out office space to KCOU, Donley said.

Other amounts remain the same

from semester to semester, including the $2,500 scholarship fund, the $500 sexual health and safety fund, the $8,796 stipend for the executive board and the $483.37 NRHH and campaign financing fund, Finance Coordinator Andre Gasana said.

Money from the sexual health and safety fund goes to the Student Health Center to provide residence halls with sexual health products.

With the expanded budget, legislative operations and the Programming Committee want to host more events, Donley said.

One idea to get RHA more involved in each residence hall is to go around with a whiteboard and have students write what they would like to see from their hall government.

RHA will also be embarking on other projects like naming the new residence hall and looking into other student issues.

"We're extremely excited to (name) these residence halls and talking about where we go from here,” Donley said.

“Also, looking into student affordability, I think the conversation has come up about doing partnerships and profit shares with other businesses in the local Columbia area to start new scholarships on campus."

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!"#$%&'()#*+&("&,-+./++-()0&,-1$%+-#2& +/''-#&-+&3/+*$,&45.6&575-) Commission Chairman Scott Dean feels that issues of racism and diversity on campus are Columbia’s issues, too.

hold, the group is taking cautious steps as income inequality, inclusion and to facilitate the event in the best way community building to the audience for possible by connecting with those who 5 to 10 minutes. can help ensure that attendees gain a lot After some discussion, the from the event. commission decided to structure the While the commission originally event to focus more on outreach for hoped to see its plans for the diversity nonprofits and advocacy organizations. summit come to fruition late this It did this in order to draw attention to month, it has taken a step back from its the particular issues that the Human original timeline to connect with other Rights Commission should address and organizations to help strengthen the how it can go about doing so. summit. The commission plans to do Planned to be a completely free event this by working with these organizations open to the public, Dakopolos said she on side projects. wants “changemakers” Since the to be present in the I really want commission’s audience, such as these to be a September meeting, downtown business the group was genuine discussion owners, people active approached to serve on commissions , as a community of inequality in this v o l u n t e e r s and partner in the city... There’s no especially city council strategic plan, which members. hopes to improve room for hatred.

Dakopolos said she local services and That’s something I would like the presenters foster communal don’t know if this to be of a variety of growth, adopted by backgrounds and ethnic the city. This comes conference will makeups in order to in addition to the fix, but it might be better represent the association’s work community as a whole. toward implementing a start in the right With this combination plans from the direction.” of active audience mayor’s task force on members and varied community violence. speakers, Dakopolos “I think it’s a lot A9?:9ABC=9&D!ECACFC: said she would like to see more productive Human Rights Commissioner concrete solutions come and valuable to out of this conference. be brought in on “We’re putting the these other partnership ideas than to challenge back on the nonprofits and sort of forge ahead on our own on an the human rights organizations in the idea without consulting a lot of other city, and saying, ‘OK, we hear you, but players,” Commissioner Elizabeth Miller now what are we supposed to do with said during the meeting. it?’” Dakopolos said. “We’re kicking Dakopolos agreed by saying, “the the ball back. They’re going to bring more, the merrier.” their best game and give us their best While no formal invitations have been solutions to what they know is already sent yet, the commission has spoken to a problem, and I think it challenges the various organizations and departments organizations, but it gives us real tools within the city about the event, including to work with.” members of the Department of Health The commission is also looking to and Human Services, Dean said. find solutions from its community The summit was originally structured members who attend and can give their to be a symposium similar to TED Talks, unique input. Dean said he feels it’s in which speakers from the community easier to look for “bottom-up” solutions could pitch solutions to issues such rather than “top-down” ones.

Dean recounted the addition of gender identity to the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance in December 2011. The Human Rights Commission reached out to representatives from the transgender community, Dean said, and with their recommendations, they were able to make plumbing code changes so that businesses could have genderneutral restrooms. “(That was) something that the commission could have brainstormed for months, and we probably would have never come up with that idea,” Dean said. “I think the beautiful thing about an idea like that is, the community can tell us things that we just aren’t going to realize without their direct involvement.”

This may take more time than originally planned, and because of this, Dakopolos said the summit may not occur until the spring, or possibly even the summer when it is a “slower time in the city.” However, Dakopolos plans on following through with her original idea despite how long it may take.

“I don’t plan on letting it drop,” Dakopolos said. “I plan on just keeping at it until we get it done and get it done right.”

Looking to pair with other city departments to include them as stakeholders in the event, Dean said the event will most likely be held at City Hall or at another safe space for open discussion, such as the Activity and Recreation Center.

Although there is still a lot of work to go, Dakopolos said she hopes this can become a yearly event that will make an impact on the community in order to build bridges between various groups through education, open-mindedness and experiences with others.

“I really want there to be a genuine discussion of inequality in this city,” Dakopolos said. “There’s no room for hatred. That’s something I don’t know if this conference will fix, but it might be a start in the right direction.”

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The city’s Human Rights Commission has been planning a diversity summit for several months to create an open dialogue centered around issues of inequality.

Commission Chairman Scott Dean said he feels this summit is needed now more than ever and would like to see MU organizations get involved in its planning after several recent racially charged incidents on campus, such as racial slurs directed at members of the Legion of Black Collegians Homecoming Court, “Racism Lives Here” rallies and Missouri Students Association President Payton Head’s vocalization of his own personal experiences with these topics.

“Obviously, we don’t have jurisdiction over the campus, per se, but issues that take place on campus are issues that take place in Columbia,” Dean said. “It’s a very good time to have these sorts of conversations.”

The commission’s purpose is to work toward minimizing, eliminating and investigating discriminatory practices. However, their hope to discuss discriminatory practices with nonprofits and community members will have to wait, as the diversity summit proposed by the commission has been “old business” since discussions on the subject began in June. At its Oct. 6 meeting, the commission decided to table the topic until next month.

While Dean said the commission is still looking to hold the summit at the end of November, Commissioner Persephone Dakopolos — who originally came up with the idea for the summit — said that because this is the first event of its kind that the city hopes to

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Fundraising to diversity training: this week in MU news Fundraising, Loftin and graduate students are among the top stories. %&'(()*+,,"University News Editor

Fundraising campaign MU administrators announced a $1.3 billion fundraising campaign Oct. 8 during a black-tie gala at Mizzou Arena. The fundraising campaign, dubbed “Mizzou: Our Time to Lead” is the largest in the university’s history. The money raised will help increase MU’s endowment, develop “signature centers and institutes,” which have individual endowments of $10 million or more, and kickstart the construction of several new buildings, part of what MU is calling a “campus renaissance.”

Loftin responds to racial injustice Less than 24 hours after racial slurs were hurled at members of Legion of Black Collegians Homecoming Court during their Oct. 5 rehearsal at Traditions Plaza, Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin responded by posting a video of himself personally condemning the act of racial prejudice on campus. In a lengthy written statement, Loftin announced the university’s plan to hire a Vice Chancellor for Inclusion, Diversity and Equity, the re-evaluation and diversification of faculty recruitment methods and the promise of a Campus Climate Survey meant to gather information about race issues on campus.

In addition, Loftin announced a diversity and inclusion training for all faculty, staff and students starting January 2016. All incoming students will be required to complete diversity training. Students will be barred from enrolling in classes unless they successfully complete the training.

Graduate student unionization The Forum on Graduate Rights announced their plans for unionization during a forum in Keller Auditorium on Oct. 1. Graduate students hope that through collective bargaining, they will be able to secure dignified working conditions, acquire strong protections and benefits and represent the full diversity of the graduate student population. The Coalition of Graduate Workers, formerly the organizing committee of the Forum on Graduate Rights, hopes to acquire the 2,000 signatures needed to hold an election to authorize their union as soon as December 2015.

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starts moving right now, he’ll sink. And to add to that, he can win with his radical ideas. If he comes back right, he meshes too much with others and doesn’t stick out.”

The New York native’s platform has been described as “idealistic” by some, who question how hefty of a bill it would realistically put on the U.S. government.

“The reason he’s getting where he is, is that people have yet to really consider policy and money and they like the talk,” Adame said. “He’s a good candidate, but his fiscal questions certainly cause me to raise my eyebrows.”

Sophomore Republican Travis Meier feels that Sanders, if elected president, would make America look more “ordinary” and lower the standard of living.

“People look at us and see a giant power, of industry,

freedom, democracy, innovation and they see that and they kind of marvel at us — we’re pretty much the most powerful power in the world right now,” Meier said. “If he were to be elected president, I would not doubt that a lot of his plans would not only endanger us more financially but hinder us as a nation to where (individuals) would be brought down to a little more of an equal level, but also that level would be a much lower living standard than we’re used to right now.”

Sanders’ political career started in 1981, when he was elected as the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, by a margin of 10 votes. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1990 as an independent, the first elected into the house in 40 years.

He opposed the Iraq war, but he did sign the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists, which authorized necessary and appropriate force against terrorists involved in the 9/11 attacks. He joined the Senate in 2006 with Democratic

support, and in August 2011 had a 67 percent approval rating, making him the third-mostpopular senator in the nation at the time.

Sanders officially announced his run for president May 26 in Burlington, Vermont, at a rally just as unconventional as his campaign that The Atlantic described as “more like a festival,” including free ice cream and music.

“Today, with your support and the support of millions of people throughout this country, we begin a political revolution to transform our country economically, politically, socially and environmentally,” Sanders said in his announcement.

“Today, we stand here and say loudly and clearly that enough is enough. This great nation and its government belong to all of the people, and not to a handful of billionaires, their Super-PACs and their lobbyists.”

Sanders and many of his supporters have criticized the wealthy and corporate America,

with stickers saying, “Billionaires can’t buy Bernie.”

“Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America,” Sanders said at the United Against The War On Women Event in 2012.

While some hail Sanders for his support for the middle class, others feel that his beliefs go against America’s foundation.

“I would say maybe sometimes people are born into families where they get the silver spoon, and that’s how life is, but overall, I would say that it’s not fair to criticize the wealthy,” Meier said.

“I think a lot of the wealthy get to where they are today through hard work and determination, kind of that Jacksonian mindset of the self-made man, and that’s pretty much what America has been about ever since it’s founding. If we’re going to criticize that and say that’s not good and they need to distribute

their wealth to other people then we’re no longer what we used to be, what we were founded on and what we grew up on to make us the great nation that we are.”

Meier said he thinks that Sanders’ socialist platform would cause Americans to be less motivated to work hard.

“If you’re just going to work hard just to get to a point where most of your wealth is redistributed then why give 100 percent at that point,” Meier said. “If you’re busting your tail while other people are napping and then the fruits of your labor are given away what incentive is there to do any work anymore?”

Mid-Missourians for Bernie Sanders, an entirely volunteerbased, grassroots organization supporting the senator, is planning several events for supporters to get involved, including debate watch parties and the Broke Billionaires for Bernie fundraising costume party on Nov. 7.

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'--./01234%456%)7%8960%.2:43136%35.3.82 Students with an “unlawful presence” saw a tuition increase this year, after the passing House Bill 3 eliminated their in-state tuition.

“unlawful presence” from receiving in-state tuition.

“Our Missouri public institutions of higher learning exist to open the doors of opportunity to hard-working students striving to get ahead,” ACLU of Missouri Executive Director Jeffrey Mittman said in the release. “Now, there are extreme financial burdens being put on the backs of students already struggling to achieve their goals of higher education. To punish students who had no say in how they arrived in this country is not only mean-spirited, it is against the law.”

ACLU of Missouri Legal Director Tony Rothert said he believes the colleges are breaking the law by denying the students in-state tuition because the preamble is not a law or statute on its own.

“What’s illegal about what these schools are doing is that the legislature did not pass a law changing the statute that decides whether or not DACA students are entitled to in-state tuition,” Rothert said. “These universities are

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planning on taking nine credit hours at Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley with the intention of working a full-time job and advocacy work at the same time, according to the release.

Another of the students in the release said he decided to attend St. Louis Community College instead of a four-year college because of financial considerations.

“I believed that I would be able to save more money this way to keep expanding my education, but after doing the math, I noticed that from what I had already saved I could only afford one semester, maybe two,” he said.

Rothert disagreed with Missouri lawmakers' treatment of the DACA students.

“It is shameful to treat DACA students like outcasts, when they have lived, worked and gone to schools in this country since they were children,” Rothert said. “Missouri cannot afford to drive talented students away.”

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Three Missouri students are filing separate suits against MU, St. Louis Community College and the Metropolitan Community College in Kansas City after having their college costs skyrocket this semester, according to an Oct. 13 American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri news release.

Their tuition rates increased because of the recent rewording of House Bill 3, which prohibits students with an

choosing to follow a modification to the preamble of House Bill 3, which is by no means a piece of legislation in itself.”

The modification to the preamble of HB 3 states that “no funds shall be expended at public institutions of higher education that offer a tuition rate to any student with an unlawful immigration status in the United States that is less than the tuition rate charged to international students.”

The students are living and working in the U.S. under the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and are represented by the ACLU, according to the release. One student, who said her mother brought her to the U.S. when she was only three years old to join her father, came for a better life.

“In my hometown, there was a lot of violence and drug trafficking,” she said in the release. “Teens often would get approached to join gangs and drop out of school at an early age.”

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“In those first couple of years, it was a gathering spot,” previous LGBTQ Resource Center Coordinator Nikole Potulsky said. “Now, it is a hub of activity.

There are people that lobby at the state level from this place. There’s a radio program that airs out of the center now.

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“It was only open a few hours at a time, and you had to kind of basically make an appointment to get there,” former LGBTQ Resource Center coordinator Nikole Potulsky said. “Bottom line is, in 1995, it was

hard to find community and having a center let you go somewhere where you could create community.”

Potulsky, previous coordinator Struby Struble, current coordinator Sean Olmstead and students attended the LGBTQ Resource Center’s 20th anniversary celebration Oct. 9 in recognition of the center’s efforts to support students of different identities on MU’s campus.

Olmstead took over this summer from Struble after she enrolled at Mills College in Oakland, California to pursue an MFA in creative writing. He said he hopes that his work in the center, a resource he never had in college, will continue to give support to students.

“It’s a great experience to help provide a place where (students) can be themselves authentically and not have to apologize for who they are or the space they take up,” Olmstead said. “I kind of joke with students about that, like don’t apologize for the space that you take up, but I really mean it, because we’re oftentimes told that we shouldn’t be here, we don’t exist, that we’re problematic.”

Potulsky attended MU as an undergraduate student from 1994 to 1999 and became coordinator for the center in 2001. Before the center opened in 1995, people like her struggled to find people with whom they could identify, she said.

“In 1995, I was a sophomore,” Potulsky said.

“I had just come out. I had my first girlfriend.

Back then there was barely the Internet, so if you wanted to find other LGBTQ people, you really had to do it word-of-mouth. You had to out yourself, which was a risk.”

Olmstead said the center has grown throughout the past 20 years to meet the changing needs of students.

“In the beginning, it was just trying to convince the administration that heterosexism and homophobia exist on this campus,” Olmstead said. “Now, it’s a lot more education. We’re trying to focus on creating more allyship on campus while still creating safe spaces for LGBTQ students.”

Potulsky agreed that the center has changed immensely since its opening.

“In those first couple of years, it was a gathering spot,” Potulsky said. “Now, it’s a hub of activity. There are people

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that lobby at the state level from this place. There’s a radio program that airs out of the center now. It’s unbelievable, unbelievable growth over the last 20 years.”

In 1995, The Maneater published an article illustrating the importance of the center, which at the time was called the “Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Resource Center.”

“I think it is really hard for gays and lesbians,” thensenior Christian Burlingame said in the article. “They grow up in an environment that constantly sends them messages that they are wrong, and that what they’re feeling is wrong or bad.”

Current freshman Sterling Waldman, who uses they/their pronouns, spoke on their perspective as a transgender student at MU. “I think overall, the internalized messages are still very similar,” Waldman said. “I think that’s changing and shifting a little bit. It’s gone from like no positive media representation to barely positive media representation, but there is some now, which is definitely going to at least begin shifting cultural norms.”

Waldman said they would not have chosen to come to MU if the LGBTQ Resource Center didn’t exist.

“It’s so well-established,” Waldman said. “It’s one of the best in the Midwest. It’s really a defining characteristic of my experience here.”

Moving forward, several people at the event expressed they would like to see the center work on issues that address the intersectionality of different minorities on campus.

“How do we talk about trans students who are also in the Jewish faith, and how do we talk about queer Muslims and what that feels like, and how do we just incorporate the disability movement when we’re talking about inclusivity on campus?” Struble said.

“It’s not just inclusivity of our sexuality, it’s inclusivity of all of our identities. I think it’s just important to keep moving with the times.”

As for Olmstead, he said he continues to learn more every day about the wants and needs of the students who come to the center.

“I hope that (the social justice centers) continue to be places where students can learn to discover themselves, educate each other and create programs that support an inclusive campus,” Olmstead said.

In 1975, the Women’s Center officially opened its doors at 1 Gentry Hall to help give female students at MU a place to call home. Fast forward 40 years, and the center now resides in the Student Center and has done much more than give female students a home; it’s given them a voice.

From 1 to 3 p.m. on Oct. 9, the Women’s Center was adorned in photographs and pamphlets from over the years in celebration of its 40th anniversary. Both students and alumni were in attendance for the event, reminiscing on the past and discussing the present.

Freshman KeAnn Mays-Lenoir helped decorate the center with different brochures and posters from over the years.

“I feel really fortunate to be a part of a space that has been around on this this campus for 40 years,” Mays-Lenoir said. “Seeing how times have changed and how hard women have been trying to create a space for themselves is beautiful.”

Theresa Eultgen, who has been the Women’s Center coordinator for almost two years, felt drawn to apply for the position after giving a speech for the Feminist Student Union, an organization within the center, when she found out that there was an opening for the position.

“Physically, the center has changed because we have transformed spaces a couple of times,” Eultgen said.

“It’s really cool to look back at the programs that we’ve archived. Some of the conversations are the same and some are different.”

This year, the center’s main focus is making sure that everyone feels not only accepted, but also celebrated, Eultgen said. They hope to achieve this goal through their many services and events, such as Vagina Monologues.

Vagina Monologues is one of the Women’s Center’s

highly anticipated events. The monologues tell the different stories of girls and women from all around the world and are performed by MU students and staff. The performance is MU’s way of participating in V-Day, a global movement focused on bringing awareness about violence against women and girls.

Since its opening in 1975, the center hasn’t strayed from its original purpose. Its website states that the “center provides opportunities for learning, service and support” and that it is open to everyone.

“It’s a destination spot that’s a second home for so many people,” Eultgen said. “The staff, the student staff, really are the heartbeat and that hasn't changed for 40 years. We have an incredibly dynamic, diverse group of women that come from all backgrounds and that seems to be true throughout the four decades.”

Junior Darvia Okoroigwe is a part of the Women’s Center staff and believes that a lot of the things the center does go unnoticed.

“It’s such a valuable resource on campus,” Okoroigwe said. “It’s like a hero that goes unrecognized a lot and I think it’s under pubbed, honestly. All of the staff here

is so humble. They are silent leaders”.

The Women’s Center offers many services and programs, one of which is called Stitch ‘n Bitch.

Junior Jasmine Morgan has fond memories of the center’s weekly program, where students can come and learn to knit or crochet and talk in a safe space.

“Stitch ‘n Bitch is one of my favorite events because I learned how to crochet there,” Morgan said. “I used to manage it when I first started working (at the center).

It means a lot to me to see how it has progressed from where it started to what it is now.”

The Women’s Center also offers programs like Language Partners, which pairs a native English speaker with a non-native English speaker, and Mend the Gap, which is an open discussion on mental health topics. The Women’s Leadership Conference is co-hosted by the Women’s Center and the Center for Leadership and Service. The conference brings female leaders together to discuss “networking, education, empowerment and diversity,” according to its website.

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!"#$%&'()&'*$+,#$-./'$01%$2345$6&))&,0$789:8&;0 In recent years, it’s seemed as though our university has been just barely scraping by with its budget from year to year. Now, with the announcement of the $1.3 billion “Mizzou: Our Time to Lead” capital campaign, we’re hoping that the bill will no longer be passed to students for necessary projects that ought to be included in this fundraising campaign.

This capital campaign is, without a doubt, a huge positive for MU. It’s the largest fundraising campaign in our university’s history. What’s even more exciting is that over $650 million of the monetary goal has already been raised during the campaign’s silent phase.

And the campaign has all the right ideas.

They want to bolster our endowment, which is important to the long-term financial health of our university. The endowment must be sizable and competitive with similar universities, which hasn’t been the case in the past decade. We hope to see the campaign remedy this shortcoming.

The campaign also seeks to fund more signature centers and institutes, which are essential to boosting the credibility of our university and furthering interdisciplinary research. The Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders and the Reynolds Journalism Institute are two positive examples of this.

Lastly, the campaign sets out to create a “campus renaissance” to revitalize MU by rebuilding and extensively renovating various schools and centers around campus.

And that’s all fantastic.

We understand that this campaign is still relatively early in its development, and that it’s impossible to say exactly where every dollar raised will go. We also understand that fundraising efforts like this seek out large gifts that are consequently spent on projects of the donor’s choosing.

That being said, here are three things what we, as students, believe ought to be prioritized when deciding

where the funds raised by the campaign end up going: MU Libraries Next month, students will vote in a referendum on an additional student fee to remedy our out-of-date library system. The fee would start off as a $5-percredit-hour charge for the 2016-17 academic year and increase by $2 each year until it reaches $15 per credit hour in 2022.

There is no question that our library system needs this funding. Staffing has not kept up with MU’s growth. Library staff has decreased by 25 percent while the student body has grown by approximately 50 percent between 1998 and 2013. What’s more, library staffers haven’t seen salary raises in nine of the past 13 years. The fee would remedy the library’s staffing problems and would also fund major renovations to Ellis Library.

Our library system is in dire need of capital, and while this new campaign prioritizes projects like a new School of Music building and a renovation to the Fine Arts Building, it does not visibly prioritize revitalizing our library system.

This whole affair is confusing to us as students. The library system is coming to students for funding after being told by our administration that their requested funding just wasn’t in the cards. The library system cannot be left out of this capital campaign while other similar projects are being prioritized instead.

MU Counseling Center The MU Counseling Center, much like our library system, is also severely understaffed. In the past year, MU has seen a 35 percent increase in requests for mental health services. With more people using the center, accompanied by an increasing awareness of mental health on college campuses, the Counseling

Center needs capital to grow and accommodate this demand.

The Counseling Center doesn’t just need more staff, it needs staff that have the opportunity to meet with the same student each time, rather than forcing that student to visit several different staff members.

The center cannot make meaningful progress toward helping those who suffer from mental illness without establishing a rapport with the students who seek out help.

On the Giving To Mizzou website, there is a section dedicated to donations for health services at MU. However, while MU Health Care, the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing all have donation sections, the Counseling Center does not. This needs to change.

MU needs to prioritize the imminent needs of the center in order to truly begin a “campus renaissance.”

MU Graduate Students In the wake of protests and marches surrounding graduate student rights, MU still hasn’t established a plan to improve the way it treats its graduate students, much less meet all of the demands they’ve made.

They’ve asked for higher stipends, tuition waivers, childcare and more affordable graduate student housing. It’s time that our administration start taking these demands seriously, and one simple way of doing that would be to prioritize the needs of graduate students in this campaign.

Capital campaigns aim to accommodate the growth of a university, and one aspect of growth is improved wages and accommodations for university employees.

Improving conditions for our graduate students is imperative to achieving “global leadership in research and teaching,” which is the stated goal of the campaign.

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Dear Chancellor Loftin: Diversity training isn’t enough Graduate student Jonathan Butler says Loftin’s response is a start, but it isn’t enough.

Dear Chancellor Loftin, Your recent email about implementation of diversity and inclusion training is a step in the right direction, but it is not enough.

In order to continue to press forward in the right direction as a “Mizzou Family,” all demands submitted to administration going back to 1969, and even before that, need to be acknowledged and addressed. All of those demands made by concerned students, faculty and staff need to be tackled in a way that is not a “knee-jerk” reaction to external/internal pressures. I would also caution you and your staff on the use of your language in email messages like these. Your language projects the image that administration crafted these strategies for change 1) out of their own concern and 2) as a result of the recent racial slur incident with the Legion of Black Collegians Homecoming royalty court.

This is incorrect and problematic for two main reasons: The first reason is that administrators are not the originators of these strategies for diversity and inclusion. These strategies started with Lloyd Gaines back in 1935 as he pursued a law degree here at MU and was faced with racism and hate. It continued in 1939 with Lucille Bluford fighting for her right to an education. It continued in 1969 with Black students fighting for their rights and demanding increases in Black faculty and staff. It continued in 2014 with

the creation of MU4MikeBrown by three Black queer women who wanted to ignite change at Mizzou and put an end to the racist culture on campus. Even today in 2015 with the #BlackLivesMatter movement, you have students, especially those doing grassroots organizing (and aren’t in formal organizations) who have purposefully, strategically and consistently brought these concerns to the attention of your administration.

This is why your language that attempts to adopt strategies like diversity and inclusion training as “new strategies” without acknowledging where the ideas/ strategies came from is disrespectful and false. These issues and the strategies that brave individuals have brought to the attention of administrators is not new to MU and also not new to you and your staff specifically.

So to not acknowledge the protestors, organizers, students, faculty and staff that have taken of their time and energy to hold you and your administration accountable is very disrespectful and paints a false image of the work that your administration has been doing on this campus.

The second main reason this message is problematic is because it continues to only highlight incidents at MU that involve student organizations or people with social platforms like the Missouri Students Association’s president. Acknowledging their experiences is very important but by only highlighting those experiences you implicitly erase the hundreds, if not thousands, of marginalized students at MU who face incidents of racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, transphobia and every over “ism” and “phobia” you can think about every day at MU. I think about how recently a friend of mine was faced with

racist students outside of the J-School, and I did not see any messaging from you or your staff showing any kind of public concern or care for their situation which happened prior to the LBC incident. These “unheard” stories are worth your time and attention; their lived experiences are worth acknowledging and their humanity worth fighting for. This constant lack of acknowledgment to the struggles of oppressed individuals reinforces the notion that administrators only react to incidents on campus that happen to people in organizations or positions of social power.

This also signifies that administrators are highly selective in their “concern and care” for members of the student body both undergraduate and graduate, which I personally believe to be a true yet unfortunate fact.

As I said in the beginning I acknowledge that diversity and inclusion strategies are a step, but it is not enough. You and your staff will be on the wrong side of history if you continue to erase the voices of marginalized students who fight for their lives and the lives of their friends every day. I hope that your staff puts out an additional statement acknowledging these facts because otherwise your words will end up being another shallow message that is not beneficial to the student body.

The Struggle Continues.

Jonathan Butler jlbutler88@gmail.com

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THE MANEATER | OPINION | OCTOBER 14, 2015 the kaleidoscope view

Loftin’s response is not a solution Yes, I do think the Chancellor is responsible for the 35,441 students enrolled at MU. !"##"$% &'#"( There have been some negative comments concerning my letter to Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin, so let me get one thing straight before I continue. Thank you, Chancellor, for the truly caring steps you’ve chosen to take in this case. Many students have expressed their gratitude and appreciation for how the situation was handled.

For those of you who are asking if I believe that the chancellor is responsible for the 35,441 students enrolled in MU as of 2014, the answer is yes, I do. Much like a parent is responsible for the actions of their children, so is Loftin. Much like a teacher, Loftin is responsible for the actions of the students enrolled in his university.

In school, it didn’t matter how they graded daily behavior, your teacher was still responsible for recording and taking action to correct your behavior.

And much the same, that is Loftin’s job.

This week, through the Legion of Black Collegians, our students have taken actions to remember our roots and the struggles that we have, are, and will endure as a people.

Even outside these events, we were reminded by those who wish to challenge us of these very same things.

And I must say that we were constantly reminded of our misplacement, of how silly the things we were doing were, whether you were told to “Go back to Africa” or had your opinions aggressively challenged, or whether you simply decided to march during the Uplift event.

Speaking of the Uplift event — it was beautiful. It was charged with emotional release and special remembrance.

However, during the event, people were using Yik Yak to express their true opinions behind anonymous social media walls.

The mandatory discrimination course that each new student will go through starting January 2016 is a step, but a step to something I fear can never be fully corrected. Because these thoughts and opinions are so deeply ingrained in these few, I fear they’ll never be able to separate themselves from the influences of their past.

Not every person can be stopped from expressing their opinions, but let us be clear that these recent events are not anomalies in the MU community.

People hold these views frequently and feel completely comfortable with expressing them because they believe that they’re right.

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Unrealistic images have cheapened sexual attraction. ")*#" "$+*,$( The media has exaggerated what humans have naturally found sexually appealing for centuries, causing the magic of sexual attraction to be less satisfactory.

Almost every reason people who identify as heterosexual find members of the opposite sex attractive is because their caveman-like brains want them to have babies. Most heterosexual brains are programmed to find a mate that will create the healthiest and most successful offspring possible, which makes certain physical characteristics of males and females more attractive than others.

For example, males are usually perceived to be sexually attractive when they’re taller than females, and females are more likely to be seen as attractive when they’re shorter than males. The reasons small differences in physical appearance perk our sexual interest branch from our ancestors’ survival skills, which inadvertently affect modern-day beauty standards.

Going back in time to discover how these impossible beauty standards have evolved will help us put back in perspective what realistic attraction is, therefore making sexual attraction more fulfilling.

Heterosexual males tend to be sexually attracted to females who physically appear healthy and young because it leads to the belief that they are fertile. Characteristics like a petite and fit frame, large breasts, small waist,

wide hips and clear skin on females are attractive qualities because they make a female look healthy. Physical characteristics like large eyes, soft curves, smooth skin, a shorter height and plump lips imply youth, so males find them attractive on females.

Heterosexual females are normally sexually attracted to males who look physically strong because they appear to show that the male would be able to protect the female’s offspring.

Strong characteristics include large and fit frame, hard muscles, a deep voice and a taller height. Distinguished characteristics in males are a strong jawline, well-groomed body hair and sharper curves on facial and body features.

However, with the help of advanced technology and plastic surgery, most of these beauty standards have become physically impossible to naturally obtain and are unrealistic for either males or females to uphold.

These physical qualities have been largely exaggerated in the media. For instance, Photoshop has become a worldwide phenomenon when it comes to manipulating body images. People are able to drastically change the appearance of someone in a photograph with the help of technology.

A female’s eyes are enlarged, her waist thinned, her skin is smoothed over, and her lips are thickened to a point where we do not see these proportions happen in nature. In fact, it has been found that if a woman were to have the same body as a Barbie doll, her bones would be too frail to walk and have room in her midsection for only half of a liver, according to the Daily Mail.

A photograph of a male may be manipulated to make his jawline sharper, his abdomen muscles more

distinguished, his arm muscles larger and his features appear rougher. These characteristics are exaggerated to a degree that is not healthy for a male to realistically own. Actually, if a male were to try to constantly look this way, he would be dehydrated so no water weight would soften his curves, according to Paleo Leap. He would also not be able to have a healthy diet since he would have to consume an excessive amount of protein, and he would have to put himself through such extreme strength training that he would more than likely injure himself.

This hypothetical population of males also finds itself taking steroids in order to obtain an unnatural body build.

Manipulated images have tricked our instincts into believing that the unrealistic beauty standards shown to us are healthy and attractive.

However, unrealistic standards are unhealthy, and since we are supposed to be attracted to health, the media is making sexual attraction counterproductive. Women and men are becoming unhealthy, aspiring to look like these Photoshopped images.

The unrealistic images have cheapened the sexually appealing qualities of males and females in real life. It’s time to end the self-mutilating process of achieving unhealthy standards.

We’re all human, so no person will be able to meet every sexually attractive expectation perfectly. Every person is different; that is what makes personal preference so beautiful. Once we start to realize that the images surrounding us are unhealthy, males and females can begin to celebrate each other’s natural physical appearances wholeheartedly and appreciate the magic of sex appeal.

It’s a Jungle Out There

Graduate students shouldn’t be exploited Our graduate students are being exploited right under our noses, and too many undergraduates aren’t even aware of it. ;*$<('# ='#>" In the classroom or at the columns, armed with chalk or a megaphone, we’ve all witnessed our crimson-clad graduate students in action. They’re an impassioned breed, fervently teaching undergraduates new concepts, all the while soaking up their own lessons and balancing their lives at home.

University-vetted, graduate students have plenty of wisdom to share, so students often find themselves hanging onto each word in English classes and seeking them out during their office hours for help with those pesky problem sets. They have so much to offer, so we listen; but it seems the university isn’t offering them the same courtesy.

Since early August when MU sent out a very last-minute email informing them that the university would no longer be subsidizing their health care, graduate students have been raising their voices and fighting back for their rights. They’ve staged walkouts and

protests, peacefully raising awareness and attempting to get their needs met by administration. Now, in the aftermath of these demonstrations, it’s more important than ever not to let the struggle of our graduate students silently slip away.

Their outrageous demands included: -Subsidized health care -A living wage -On-campus childcare - More affordable university housing -Full tuition waivers -Removal of departmental fees How can we have extra money just lying around for such frivolous spending when we have sports teams and new Starbucks operations to finance? What next? Are they going to demand clean drinking water and an asbestos-free teaching environment? The absurdity!

Without our grad students, this university would be so much lesser for students and faculty alike, and yet administration continues to dismiss their basic human needs, tossing them out in the rain like flea-infested puppies.

The university is using our students as workhorses, sending them out to the fields without the compensation their diligent work has earned. This cruel treatment is unacceptable from anyone, but it is absolutely deplorable that this

blatant disrespect comes from the very people who are supposed to be protecting and advocating for the students at MU. This issue of unthinkable disrespect is happening right under our noses, and perhaps the most unfortunate fact is that many undergraduates aren’t even aware of it. Undergraduates make up the majority of this campus and we are not using our power effectively. We seem to be pitifully absent at the events the graduate students have organized, and many aren’t even aware of what they are going through at all.

Just because undergraduates are not being directly persecuted does not mean that we aren’t affected, and it does not mean that it isn’t our concern. When the university treats a group of students unfairly, it has treated us all unfairly.

When the well-being of each and every student is not at the top of the checklist, something’s very wrong with our system.

We cannot sit idly by while our fellow students are being exploited. We must be active participants in the politics of our university. We must celebrate our administration when they do great things, and we must hold them fiercely accountable when they have done their students wrong. Together we are 35,000 voices, and 35,000 voices can carry quite a distance. We must stand and we must scream with our graduate students for the justice they deserve as human beings.

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First allergy-friendly cafe opens in CoMo Range Free serves delicious (and safe) food you can feel good about, thanks to its single set of working hands. <=<>?<$3<!!=@A$ Reporter Columbia welcomed its first allergen-free eatery, Range Free, to Orr Street last Wednesday.

Range Free is a bakery and cafe that serves the specialized diets of mid-Missourians with food allergies by offering a wheat-free, peanutfree and tree nut-free menu. Many items also leave out five of the top eight most common allergens: milk, eggs, fish, crustacean shellfish and soybeans.

The restaurant is owned and operated

by Anna Meyer, who decided to start the establishment after her own experience with food allergies.

“The story was, I was hungry,” Meyer says.

“I am allergic to seven of the top eight (food allergens): all grains, chocolate, garlic, other various spices, some fruits, some vegetables.

And there is no place for me to go out and eat safely in Columbia and really anywhere I travel.”

Until now, she would’ve had to drive to St. Louis for a restaurant meal that suits her needs.

Range Free hopes to cater both to the needs of that market and to everyone else by offering a safe menu and specialized orders for customers.

“I saw it as a need for not just myself, but a good portion of the population,” Meyer says. “Because I have a background in food, I thought it would be a great thing to bring to the community.”

Meyer has worked at a number of restaurants and as a cake decorator in a couple of bakeries since her time as an MU student, though most of her baking is self-taught or passed down from relatives. As of now, her restaurant is a one-woman show.

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becoming bulletproof

B,5/$0%'+5,4"+0$(,0.;,5,+,#0 “Becoming Bulletproof ” is an important step toward a more diverse media environment. !<HIJA$3I<!DKBJA? Campus Projects Editor People with disabilities are rarely featured in film. When they are, it’s usually in supporting roles or as stereotypical characters that focus on what they cannot do.

“Becoming Bulletproof,” a documentary about the making of the Western film “Bulletproof ” starring people with and without disabilities, goes beyond that typical

narrative. Ragtag Cinema showed the film in a special free screening Oct. 6, which was sponsored by Columbia’s Services for Independent Living.

Zeno Mountain Farm, a nonprofit organization based out of Vermont, invites people with disabilities to Los Angeles each year to make a full-length film. The film focuses on A.J. Murray, a man who uses a wheelchair because of his cerebral palsy, and his journey acting with Zeno for the first time.

The film features actors with a variety of disabilities, including Down syndrome, cerebral palsy and Williams syndrome, working alongside people without disabilities.

It follows the actors through

their arrival at the base camp for filming, pre-production meetings and rehearsals, the costume design process and, of course, filming the movie itself.

Besides the filming process, “Becoming Bulletproof ” offers glimpses into the daily lives of the adults with disabilities and their families, capturing their everyday routines in their hometowns across the country. It is an honest, rarely publicized look at what life looks like for people with disabilities and their families, whether physical, mental or developmental.

“Becoming Bulletproof ” is unique because of its film-within-

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Autumn Treats

Bye-bye pumpkin spice latte, hello heaven These drink alternatives will beat the pumpkin spice latte any day. =CDEC$F<G>@A Reporter Ah, fall. Or, as every basic white girl knows it, pumpkin spice latte season. However, not everyone loves the PSL. So for the PSL-defector, here are five fall treats just for you.

Hot Pumpkin Macchiato from Dunkin’ Donuts A fall take on the classic caramel macchiato, Dunkin’ Donuts’ new coffee drink is the bomb-dot-com.

No, seriously. My high hopes were exceeded. There is something so

satisfying about getting this drink and seeing the coffee on top and the sweet, pumpkin-spiced cream on the bottom then having to swirl the two together. It’s like you’re getting to take some credit for the magic that is this coffee. It’s so delicious, it’s almost dangerous.

Maple Clove Latte from Dunn Bros Coffee Made with homemade maple syrup and plenty of spice, this drink will make you feel cozy inside. The coffee is strong, the maple syrup is sweet and the spices are bitter and earthy, making for a perfectly balanced drink. The best part? Not a trace of the infamous PSL anywhere.

I don’t know how they do it, but if

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‘Hamilton’ is a cast album to remember #$$#&.#/0,1 Reporter On Sept. 25, I first listened to the cast album of “Hamilton”, a new Broadway musical. I haven’t stopped since.

This show is based on the life of the “10-dollar founding father” Alexander Hamilton but is told using the music of today, including rap, R&B and even British pop sung by infamous King George III. People of color play all of the parts (save for the king), from the Marquis de Lafayette to President George Washington.

The combination of the 18th-century setting and current music should clash, but they somehow perfectly intertwine. LinManuel Miranda, the lyricist, composer and title character, manages to completely abolish any distance between the time of the American Revolution and the present day.

In short, this musical and its corresponding cast album are nothing short of revolutionary.

The opening track, “Alexander Hamilton,” had me hooked in fewer than 30 seconds. What starts out as various actors rapping clever (and historically accurate) lyrics to mere snaps gradually builds into a massive ensemble piece reminiscent of “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd” in its mythologizing of the main character.

A mere two songs later is arguably the catchiest song of the album, “My Shot.” This song does a fantastic job of calling attention to Hamilton’s intense ambition and immigrant background, especially in its chorus: “You know I’m just like my country/ I’m young, scrappy and hungry/And I’m not throwing away my shot!”

“The Schuyler Sisters” and “Helpless” provide great examples of the intricate and endless references peppering the entire album. In the former, a love letter to New York City in the late 18th century, Angelica, Peggy and Eliza Schuyler take on the sound of the ’90s R&B group Destiny’s Child.

A few songs later, Eliza, Hamilton’s soon-tobe wife, sings “Helpless” in the style of Beyoncé to tell the story of the courtship between she and Alexander.

Hamilton’s lifelong adversary, Aaron Burr, played by Leslie Odom Jr., serves as narrator to the story, and his songs are some of the album’s strongest. “Wait For It,” Burr’s soliloquy, is not only an incredibly intelligent insight into the historical figure’s psyche but also feels comfortably familiar.

In my personal favorite song, “The Room Where It Happens” Burr discusses the frustrations of being excluded from backroom decision-making, using a blend of New Orleans and Dixieland jazz.

Though these compelling and insightful moments could have completely driven the album, Manuel refuses to skimp on the comic relief.

“What’d I Miss,” the hilarious opening of Act II, introduces the character of Thomas Jefferson returning to the colonies after the war. Jefferson is also a key player in both “Cabinet Battles” songs, in which the various secretaries to the President argue the issues of the day in the style of a rap battle, and Hamilton suggests that Jefferson “Turn around/bend over/I’ll show you/Where my shoe fits.”

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter of The Roots produced the album, and it shows. Each song sounds fantastic, building tension and emotion effortlessly.

Miranda spent nine years of his life researching and writing this musical, so the story is more than historically accurate: It pays incredibly close attention to details usually only studied by historians.

If you have always been skeptical of musical theatre, or have been interested but unsure of where to start, this is the album for you. If you are a fan of music or musical theatre in any form, why haven’t you listened to Hamilton yet?

MOVE gives “Hamilton” five out of five stars.

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When I headed over to Greektown on Friday night to see the house decs, I was officially blown away. Here’s a recap: The first duo I came across was Alpha Phi and Delta Tau Delta and their jungle experience that to me resembled the children’s show “Go Diego Go!”, with the skit including interaction with children in the crowd.

Next, I saw Pi Beta Phi and Sigma

Chi wow the crowd with a rock star battle between Truman the Tiger and the Florida Gator to become the drummer of KISS. It’s hard to tell what the Gator got booed for more during his band tryout: his unimpressive dance skills or the fact that he chose to play a Nickelback song.

Zeta Tau Alpha and Phi Gamma Delta saved the day with an impressive comic strip stage setup, in which Truman was a superhero and battled the Gator to rescue coach Gary Pinkel. The handwriting and glitter skills alone on the comic strip really showcased how hard Greek students work on this event.

Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha Epsilon Pi and Alpha Kappa Lambda took on the theme of engineering.

Their set up was insane with a replica blueprint of Jesse Hall and a cannon that moved and gave off a hint of smoke.

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Chi Omega and Farmhouse did a great job with their firehouse routine and pomping parts of their set up. I almost didn’t realize some of it was paper and not paint.

Delta Gamma and Pi Kappa Alpha gave the crowd an out-ofthis-world show involving Truman as an astronaut. The setup featured a backdrop of twinkling lights that resembled a star-filled sky.

Phi Mu and Lambda Chi Alpha went 007 for this year’s theme, staging Truman as a secret agent who battled the evil Gator in his lair to protect Mizzou’s secret files.

Sigma Kappa, one of the two houses to go stag for Homecoming, did a really good job despite being on their own. The dec and the show itself were sky high, with Truman as a pilot.

Theta Chi and Kappa Kappa Gamma had quarterback Drew Lock and Truman pose as safari hunters in order to save the football for the Homecoming game.

Alpha Delta Pi, Delta Kappa Epsilon and Alpha Gamma Rho took us back in time to the land of the dinosaurs while also taking donations for a child battling cancer.

Delta Delta Delta, Delta Upsilon and Kappa Sigma had a SportsCenter set with an interactive ESPN replica van that you could go inside and sign to leave your mark on the Mizzou house dec tradition.

Kappa Delta, the second house that went solo during Homecoming events, roped the crowd and me in with their western theme and the piano duel of a lifetime.

Alpha Chi Omega, Delta Chi and Tau Kappa Epsilon took us fishing as we attempted to outsmart the Gator once and for all.

Sigma Sigma Sigma, Beta Upsilon Chi and Beta Sigma Psi went mad with science as they went up against the evil Gator scientist to retrieve their formula book back.

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“There are a lot of challenges (to working by myself),” Meyer says. “The largest is I can’t do everything all at once, and since I’m still in the process of learning throughout the space, it’s a little challenging just to wrap my head around things in a quick manner. Things are taking a lot longer than I had anticipated. The benefit is that I don’t have any clash of personality going on yet. That happens in any job, and I’m sure I’ll eventually encounter it, but right now it’s all me, and I get to say what I want to do.”

Range Free offers a varied menu, with breakfast, lunch and rotating dinners based

THE MANEATER | MOVE | OCTOBER 14, 2015 instead of just the polished final product.

More importantly, though, it shows that people with disabilities can be the main actors of a film, not minor parts in cliche roles. They can play diverse characters (including

a mayor, hero and villain in “Bulletproof ”) and act like any other actors, and they should not be limited based on physical or mental abilities.

“I want (people with disabilities) to have a seat at the table in pop culture,” Murray

said near the end of the film.

Especially in 2015, in a time focused on diversity and embracing identities, everyone deserves to have a seat at that table. While people of various ethnicities and gender identities are seeing increased

representation

Starbucks drink or otherwise, is still an easy seasonal find, in addition to being just plain delicious. Naturally, the pumpkin chocolate chip blondie (think vanilla version of a brownie) is definitely going to be your new fall comfort food. From the spiced pumpkin flavor to the sweet, slightly bitter chocolate chips and the sugary icing and sprinkles on

top, this treat is the decadent dessert you deserve.

for anti-PSL peeps. The toasted graham is sweet and toasty without hitting you over the head with graham flavoring.

It’s a good balance; a balance I imagine I’ll be enjoying a lot.

fad or becoming a new age fall tradition, apple cider still reigns as the classic chilly weather drink. Vida’s apple cider is a beautiful harmony of spicy, warm cinnamon and fresh apple. The cider is silky smooth and perfectly cozy with back-ofthe-throatwarmth. Classics are classic for a reason, right?

on the day of the week. The breakfast menu includes biscuit sandwiches, waffles and quiche, and the lunch menu consists of salads, soups and sandwiches.

Since it’s a bakery, it focuses heavily on cookies, cupcakes, dessert loaves, muffins and other baked goods. To fit the needs of particular diets, Range Free frequently omits ingredients like wheat, egg, dairy and sugar.

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!"##$%&"'(")*&#'FGH"-*'013%&*#' 2IHH'JKLMIB Senior Staff Writer The Tigers had just beaten Connecticut at home. Barry Odom’s defense recorded three sacks and nine tackles for a loss, allowing only six points. They got a timely turnover to win the game and UConn managed to rush for just 77 yards against a defensive line that was made up of freshmen and sophomores.

After that game, the firstyear defensive coordinator brought his defense together to talk about a different type of

statistic.

“We as a staff talked about, after the third game, (how) you’re not young freshmen anymore,” Odom said. “It’s time to lose that label and go play … It doesn’t matter how old I am. It doesn’t matter how old they are. Age is a number and we shouldn’t make more out of it than it is. You’ve just got to get those 11 guys on the field to play.”

From an outsider ’s perspective, the biggest surprise for this year’s 4-2 Missouri team has been the success on the defensive side

of the ball. While the offense, plagued with quarterback drama and playmaker issues, has been criticized relentlessly by media and fans, the defense has quietly been one of the best in the nation.

After six games, Missouri ranks 11th in the nation for total defense, allowing just 275.8 yards per game. And it’s done so with a completely revamped defensive line.

After Harold Brantley’s car accident this summer, question

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Cross-Country

Runners go from state champs to SEC NO(OL'4KP<D Assistant Sports Editor Damn. They did it.

It was a sunny day in Jefferson City on Nov. 5, 2011.

The Rock Bridge Bruins boys cross-country runners sat under a tree at Oak Hills Golf Center, still sweaty from their race.

They had just competed at the Missouri state championship cross-country meet.

Suddenly, a smiling Neal Blackburn, the Rock Bridge coach, sprinted toward them and shouted out the meet results. The Bruins had won the state championship.

The runners jumped to their feet. They hugged, chestbumped and high-fived one another. After a few moments of celebration, silence fell over the team and their victory started to sink in.

“We were just like, ‘Damn, we did it,’” said Zach Cook, a high school sophomore at the time.

Cook’s older brother Jordan was a senior in 2011. He was a four-year varsity runner for the Bruins and finished in seventh in the 2011 state cross-country meet. To him, the team state championship was a culmination of years of hard work.

“It was pretty surreal to have worked four years to get up to that point,” he said.

Now, nearly four years after the Rock Bridge state win, three of the team’s seven varsity members are still running in Columbia.

Jordan Cook is now a redshirt junior at Mizzou and one of the top runners for the Tigers. Zach is a redshirt freshman and Evan Schulte is a sophomore.

T he three r unners’ experiences at Rock Bridge gave them a sense of familiarity with each other that has only grown

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Reporter Two weeks ago, the Missouri soccer team was in dire straits.

The team had just come off being shut out in two straight games and were heading to Lexington, Kentucky to face the for a Southeastern Conference matchup against the Kentucky Wildcats.

The Tigers had not scored in the last 204 minutes they were on the field.

Missouri took the field in the pouring rain against the Wildcats, who had tripled their overall goal total at that point of the season, 24-8. Then, in the 13th minute, there was a glimpse of hope for the Tigers.

Sophomore forward Savannah Trujillo twisted away from a defender inside the 18-yard box and then unleashed a thunderbolt of a shot into the back of the net.

Just moments later, junior forward Jessica Johnson stunned the Wildcats as she dribbled past the Kentucky goalkeeper and scored an easy goal to put Missouri up 2-0.

The Tigers eventually won the match 3-1. Since their demolishing of the Wildcats, the Missouri offense has regained its confidence. The Tigers have scored eight goals in their past five games.

“We just really wanted to come out

strong because we wanted to bounce back,” Trujillo said. “We had kind of been struggling on offense all year but that game really picked it up.”

Trujillo has been a major part of Missouri’s offensive success over the past weeks, scoring two goals in the five games. She is also the Tigers’ overall leading goal scorer this season with four goals.

Trujillo attributes her success this season to a change in the mentality that she has played with in the past.

“I kind of just have to keep that mentality of going to goal, taking that shot, being risky because in years past, I’ve given up the ball for some easy pass (so) someone else can get a shot,” Trujillo said. “This time, I’ve kind of just got the mentality that it’s my time and I’ve got to shoot and people trust me with the ball at my feet, so I might as well take a shot over someone else if I’m feeling it.”

For Missouri coach Bryan Blitz, Trujillo’s success has come from working to get high percentage shots inside the 18-yard box.

“She was actually getting in the box but that’s the hardest part,” Blitz said.

“If you look at the goal she scored against Kentucky and even the first goal she scored against Mississippi State, they were all inside the box. A lot of times, she has been settling outside.”

As a team, the Tigers have been trying to gain more high percentage shots from inside the box to improve their scoring. Their attempts have been successful, as all eight goals in the past

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five games have been scored from inside the 18-yard box.

Blitz is proud of his team for being effective through the change in style, as past Missouri teams have relied on their speed to catch their opposition on the counter attack.

“We are a little bit more composed than we have been in the past,” Blitz said. “I think we had been settling a lot. We took what they gave us but we needed to be composed and move the ball around. It’s almost like a zone in basketball. You’ve got to move the ball around and we would just launch it like in basketball and take a long shot.”

The change in style has allowed more Tiger players to become involved in the attack. Over the course of the season, 10 Missouri players have been able to

score at least one goal.

“Our depth is amazing,” Trujillo said.

“We take pride in coming off the bench and making a difference, making an impact. It just goes to show that anyone coming off the bench can score, anyone that starts can come out and score.”

Missouri has four games left in the season before entering the SEC championships and then, in all likelihood, an NCAA tournament berth.

The team is hoping to continue on their goal scoring streak and even improve upon it.

“We still have time to go up,” Trujillo said. “Right now we really want to win as many as possible but we still have the tournament to get to and that’s really the main goal: to get to the tournament and see what happens from there.”

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Sents fulfills volleyball values, pushes behind the scenes

With Sents’ continued improvement, Kreklow: “I think she’s going to be a valuable piece in what we do.” #$:;&<=>%<=;## Reporter Grit, gratitude, resiliency, investment and teamwork.

These are the standards the Missouri volleyball team lives by and the words freshman Riley Sents works to fulfill everyday. However, Sents began working toward these volleyball values far before her collegiate career began.

Given her father, Darwin Sents’ club team connection with coach Wayne Kreklow, Sents always envisioned Mizzou in her future.

“It was kind of a dream of mine when I was younger,” Riley Sents said. “I knew that coach Kreklow had a great program, and I'd love to play for him one day. It all just fell together in high school.”

However, Sents had a lot of work to do before that dream could become a reality, work that comes easily when you grow up in a volleyball family like hers. With an older sister and father who played and supported her skill development, Sents’ career began early and improved quickly.

Investment Beginning at age 12, Sents played for the Six Pack Volleyball Club about 45

minutes away from her house in Grundy Center, Iowa. Her freshman year, she decided to join the Iowa Rockets club team despite the four-hour round trip, three times a week. Knowing it was a “really good fundamental club” that improved its player’s skills, she saw it as a good move for her development. In her first year on the team, they won the national championship.

Sents underwent another team transition her freshmen year as her father, the man who started her love of volleyball and coached from the bleachers, was now coaching her from the bench. The father-daughter dynamic proved successful. As the libero of Grundy High School all four years, Sents helped her team to seasonal successes and put up significant numbers of her own.

During her Grundy career, she led the entire state of Iowa in digs as a sophomore and junior, claimed numerous all-tournament titles, and she led the team’s defense to conference victories all four years. She left her mark after graduation with over 2,000 digs and a .972 serve receive percentage.

Gratitude With a mounting high school success, her unofficial recruitment began early: sophomore year. Given the familiarity of Darwin and Kreklow, Mizzou was always on Sents’ list.

“I knew they had a great program,” Sents said. “The coaches are all amazing people, they all care about you as a

person. You’re not just another player on their roster.”

After multiple visits, open gyms and tours with the team, Sents chose the “family atmosphere” of Mizzou. Her childhood fantasy came to life.

Resiliency Coming in as a freshman defensive specialist, Sents is the youngest among a hefty pool of experienced back row players. Despite little playing time, she continues to come in everyday willing to do “everything and anything in practice,” senior Carly Kan said.

In addition to her willingness to work, Sents’ positive attitude is a vital part of her defensive game. Her way of play not only pushes her own development, but also her teammates’.

“She can be your biggest cheerleader and push you the hardest at the same time,” Khan said.

Sents is both the teammate who encourages everyone with a “good job, bud,” and the defensive player who makes your life “a living hell” during hitting practice, Kan said. From providing difficult daggers to the starters during serve-receive drills to chasing down shanks in order to further a rally, Kan said Sents is “relentless” during practice. And it has been noticed.

Grit This year the coaches began the yellow or “grit” jersey as an honor to “recognize contributions other than the

typical,” Kreklow said. Sents has already won it twice.

“I don’t know how many times last week when we were scrimmaging when she’s sprinting off the court, 15-20 feet to keep a ball in play that extends a rally that makes everybody better,” Kreklow said. “That kind of stuff is invaluable.”

While the coach-player duo originally discussed a possible redshirt for the year, Kreklow said he plans to rotate Sents in with the starters during future practices to “see what kind of impact (her hustle) has on the other side.”

Depending on her performance, Sents could possibly continue working on the starters side, gain a redshirt status or be in line for future playing time. As of right now “anything is possible,” Kreklow said.

Team Work Redshirt or not, Sents will continue her relentless play behind the scenes as she works to “improve as much as a player as (she) can as well as help the team improve in any possible way,” Sents said.

With a determination for improvement, Sents will continue to fulfill the slogan of the team as her role grows more and more significant with the season’s progression “She’s athletic, she makes a lot of defensive plays,and she reads really good,” Kreklow said. “As her passing gets better and her serving becomes more consistent, I think she’s going to be a valuable piece in what we do.”

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H7//9'0.,;3+9'037,+/9, >1-1$,HK%LI Assistant Sports Editor I have a family video that shows me as a four year old. In the video, I sprint down the stairs of my house. I am a ball of energy. As I wreak havoc on the first floor, my dad calls to me.

“Peter! Guess what?”

He’s caught my attention.

“What?” I yell and sprint up to him. “What is it, Dad?” He looks at me and says, “The Cardinals won last night.”

The look on my face is pure elation. I run around the house, jumping for joy. “The Cardinals won! The Cardinals won! Mom! Guess what! The Cardinals won!”

I bleed Cardinals red. I always have. My daily emotions ride on the team. I know the history, the stories. I know all the players.

My best childhood memories are at Busch Stadium.

And so, when the Cardinals were set to play the Cubs in the 2015 National League Division Series, I had to be there. It was history. In all the years of the rivalry, the Cardinals had never played the Cubs in the playoffs. Never!

I bought the cheapest ticket on Stubhub, threw on my lucky Cardinals socks and traveled to St. Louis.

Walking into a Major League Baseball stadium is a special feeling. You never know what you are going to see. And, with playoff baseball, this feeling is amplified. Every pitch you see could be history. That’s the beauty of

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marks surrounded the defensive line unit. Brantley, a junior and undisputed leader of the group, was declared out for the season.

The highly touted D-Line Zou quickly became “D-Line Who?” Big problem, right?

Nope.

“I was concerned we lost Harold because we were going to have to line up a ton of young players,” coach Gary Pinkel said. “We hit on those young players. I thought at the beginning of the season, the linebackers might be the most athletic group we’ve ever had so we could supplement it with those defensive linemen. I feel

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“It’s such a different atmosphere and the cohesion of all three of us is on a completely different level than high school,” Zach Cook said. “I’d say we’re way closer and running is more of a legitimate thing now instead of being second fiddle to school and everything like in high school.”

The story of the Schulte and the Cook brothers goes back further than just high school.

In fact, Schulte and Zach Cook have been best friends since they were four years old.

Zach Cook and Schulte roomed together last season and now share a house offcampus. Cook is thankful for his lifelong friend.

“It’s just been awesome,” he

the game.

Busch Stadium was electric. Fans waved white rally towels throughout the game.

The stadium shook when Yadier Molina was announced as the starting catcher. The bitter St. Louis wind didn’t even bother me.

The Cardinals took an early 1-0 lead as Matt Holliday drove in Stephen Piscotty with a single. John Lackey, the St. Louis starter, looked great. He didn’t allow a hit until the sixth inning.

Still, I never felt that the lead was safe.

Anything can happen in the playoffs. Every time a Cubs runner reached base, I got worried. Even routine ground balls scared me.

The atmosphere at a playoff game is different. Fans exchange high fives with people they have never met. The hot dog lines take 25 minutes. Everyone knows that the season could change on any pitch.

In the bottom of the eighth the Cardinals got a little security. Both Tommy Pham and Piscotty hit monster home runs, giving the Cardinals a 4-0 lead. Still, my heart rate did not slow down until the final out in the ninth inning.

After winning the night I was there, the Cardinals proceeded to lose the next three games and the series. The entire four game stretch was an emotional rollercoaster.

Watching the final out in Game four felt like a punch to the gut.

But that night, taking the subway home from game one, I couldn’t have been happier.

I got to see my team win in my home city.

The elation and excitement from when I was a four-year-old was still there.

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very fortunate that we’ve hit on these young players that have really helped us.”

Among those young players is Terry Beckner Jr., the fivestar recruit out of East St. Louis. The freshman has not shown much trouble adjusting to the Southeastern Conference level of play.

Then there’s Walter Brady, a redshirt freshman who is second in the SEC with six sacks in as many games. Add Charles Harris, who has 11.5 tackles for a loss, and there’s no question the defensive line reloaded instead of rebuilt.

“No, I’m not (surprised with the young group’s production),” Odom said. “We’ve done a good job recruiting. We’ve done a good job in player development.

Coach (Craig Kuligowski) has

done a great job.”

It seems nobody in the confines of the Tigers’ locker room has been surprised by the young defensive line’s efficiency this year. They rank in the top 25 in rushing yards allowed (112.7 per game), and give up just 2.86 yards per carry.

“There are a bunch of guys who have really stepped up,” senior cornerback Ian Simon said.

He wasn’t surprised either.

During summer camp and fall practices, he saw how the young guys penetrated the seniorfilled offensive line. He also knew Missouri had Kuligowski, one of the best defensive line coaches in the nation.

Simon has been most impressed with the group’s work ethic. The tight-knit unit

said. “We went to the same Catholic church together, we were on the same soccer team for 10 years and then we decided to run at Rock Bridge together on the cross-country team.”

Their decision paid off.

Schulte said he started to fall in love with cross-country during his sophomore year of high school. Then, after a breakout track season his junior year, he started receiving interest from college programs.

He finished fourth in the state cross-country meet as a senior.

Zach Cook also was a top high school runner. As a senior, he finished ninth in the state cross-country meet, just five spots behind Schulte.

To both Schulte and Zach Cook, Jordan Cook has been a leader throughout their crosscountry careers. They say he has led by example both at Rock Bridge and at Mizzou.

“He’s made me a lot better

both in high school, I always looked up to him in high school, and even now I look up to him even more,” Schulte said. “He’s just a really good leader to have.”

For Zach Cook, winning with his older brother was a special experience.

“Just being on the same team as my brother, winning state, I think that’s just something that a lot of people couldn’t say that they’ve done,” he said.

To the Rock Bridge graduates, Columbia has been their home for their entire lives. After making a huge impact on the high school cross-country scene, the runners have their eyes set on making a similar impact in college.

“It would be interesting to see this team do as well as we did at Rock Bridge …” Zach Cook said. “I think we’re really close to that and next year will be a big year for us.”

has guys like Harris, who works out when he’s not supposed to.

They have Beckner Jr., who as a freshman has showed a kind of maturity most guys his age don’t seem to comprehend.

But then again, age is just a number.

“A lot of young guys don’t have that motor (of getting to the ball),” Simon said. “(The defensive line) has a great understanding of the team concept. Terry’s a great team player… He gets it. A lot of young guys don’t get it.”

Maybe the most impressive aspect of the unit is where they came from. Harris didn’t even think he was going to play college football until he received a last-minute scholarship to Missouri. Brady, an outside linebacker in high school, only

received one other scholarship offer to Middle Tennessee State.

Beckner, the most highly touted recruit on Missouri’s team, has seen firsthand the kind of effort needed to succeed at the college level. Extra hours in the gym, giving everything — and more — in practice, they add up. They add up to six sacks in six games. They add up to 11.5 tackles for a loss.

Once you leave high school football, that five-star ranking on ESPN.com means absolutely nothing.

“It’s never off of a player’s potential,” Beckner said. “It’s about the player’s work ethic.

You need the work ethic to be a great player. A hard working (player) will beat out a talented player any day.”

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