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FOOD DESERT Students living in Columbia struggle to f ind fresh food (pg. 3)

TO AND FROM MOVE has some tips for traveling home for break (pg. 7)

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Inside this Issue Giving fewer thanks

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Why columnist Kurtis After two inconsistent Dunlap thinks Thanksgiving seasons, Missouri’s break is the “worst holiday quarterback locked in a Five things you should know about your break� for college students win against rival Arkansas car before coming home for winter break (pg. 5) (pg. 10)

Winter is coming:

finding reedy

life is a highway

Lauren Reedy started diving because it fit in her schedule. A few years later, she finished third at Olympic Trials (pg. 12)

The weather outside is frightful — before you drive home for break, make sure your car is still delightful (pg. 7)

Names and Numbers

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3. check your oil

Cases of mumps identified among MU students as of Monday. All diagnosed students have been vaccinated.

Former Missouri football coach Gary Pinkel, who left last season after his cancer diagnosis. Pinkel said this week that he is in remission.

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Retirement

News Bureau executive director takes on retirement and grandmotherhood

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In memoriam

Friends, family remember Dariana Byone Byone was a health science major with an emphasis in athletic training.

SYLVIA MAEHR Staff Writer

Through her 28 years in the News Bureau office, Mary Jo Banken has worked her way through the office hierarchy. As a single mother, she began as an administrative assistant. JULIA HANSEN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Preparing for retirement, Mary Jo Banken looks back on her 28-year career.

OLIVIA GARRETT Staff Writer When MU News Bureau Executive Director Mary Jo Banken first started working at MU as an administrative assistant, she quickly began looking to take on more responsibility. She asked Mary Still, the director of the News Bureau at that time, if she could start writing press releases.

“She said, ‘Mary Jo, I need for you to do the job that we’ve hired you to

do. And if you do that job well, maybe at some point if there’s an opening as one of the information specialists, we’ll move you into that,’” Banken said.

When a position for information specialist became available, Banken was promoted. But she didn’t stop there. She moved her way through the positions of operations manager, co-director, interim director, director and eventually executive director, the highest position at the News Bureau.

Now, come December, she will retire from her 28-year career.

“You are too smart to not get a degree.”

Banken hadn’t always planned on

working on in a university setting, but MU has always had a presence in her life.

“My dad had been to college at a time when most people didn’t go to college,” Banken said. “I remember that he was so highly respected in our small town in southeast Missouri because he did have a degree from Mizzou. I had always held that in my mind growing up that I would love to be able to eventually move here.”

However, Banken didn’t think about attending a university until she was 28 years old.

“It wasn’t a real aspiration of mine to even go to college,” Banken said.

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Dariana Byone, an MU freshman, died over fall break. She was 18.

Byone died of natural causes the day before her 19th birthday. She was majoring in health science with an emphasis in athletic training, and she lived in South Hall.

Byone was from Dallas and was a dance major at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, according to a Facebook post by the school.

Friends and family took to Facebook to remember Byone. They posted pictures of her and videos of her dance performances.

“The worst part of teaching...the WORST PART...is hearing that students and fellow teachers you love have died unexpectedly,” Byone’s former teacher Jody Pendleton said. “As I said earlier tonight, we love these people and kids so much that we invest in them emotionally.”

Kindle Kelley, a friend of Byone’s, started a GoFundMe page to help the family with funeral costs. According to the GoFundMe post, Byone was a hard worker with a pure heart.

“Dariana knew how to make anyone and everyone laugh, smile and just feel loved,” Kelley wrote. “It is such a shame that she was taken from this earth at such a young age.”

The GoFundMe page had raised almost $17,000 by Tuesday night, surpassing the $15,000 goal.

Friends from her high school gathered for a candlelight memorial Friday evening.

The viewing will be Dec. 2 from 6-8 p.m. in Lewisville, Texas. Her homegoing celebration will be at 11:30 a.m. Dec. 3.

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Campus Food

USDA designates much of downtown Columbia a ‘food desert’ MSA committee chairman Hunter Windholz: “There’s nowhere to really go get fresh food unless you’re gonna splurge and go to Lucky’s and spend the extra money.”

ANDREW WITHERS Reporter Hungry for something on the healthier side? If you live in Columbia, you probably aren’t alone, the U.S. Department of Agriculture says.

According to a map tool on the USDA website, a large section of Columbia qualifies as a “food desert,” which the organization defines as a “low-income census tract where a substantial number or share of residents [have] low access to a supermarket or large grocery store.”

Affected areas include a substantial portion of campus and downtown, as well as areas south of Stadium Boulevard and east of Providence Road.

Urban areas like Columbia are considered to be food deserts when a “significant number of low-income residents live more than a mile from a supermarket.”

Hunter Windholz, chairman of the Missouri Students Association Campus and Community Relations Committee, said his committee has been probing the problem after hearing about it from “some firsthand accounts and newspaper articles.”

“We haven’t had avid complaints lately,” Windholz said. “... Before complaints start to come in, we want to take more of a proactive approach.”

Windholz is no stranger to the difficulty of accessing affordable healthy food in Columbia.

“There’s nowhere to really go get fresh food unless you're gonna splurge and go to Lucky’s and spend the extra money,” he said.

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After the closing of Walmart Express in October, Lucky’s is the closest grocery store to campus. This creates possible challenges for students restricted to walking distance locations.

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“Really, my goal was to have five children and get married and live happily ever after keeping the house, because that’s what my mother did. It was only after I got in that situation that I decided that just was not for me.”

Banken raised a family in Clarksville, Tennessee while her then-husband was stationed at Fort Campbell, in Kentucky.

“When I was 28 years old, I decided I wanted to be more than a mother,” Banken said. “I loved being a mother, but I didn’t feel like I was completely using my intelligence and my brain.”

So Banken got a job as an administrative assistant at Austin Peay State University, in Clarksville, and eventually started taking classes after her boss encouraged her.

“I remember he came to me one day and said, ‘Mary Jo, you are too smart to not get a degree,” Banken said.

“You are never going to be able to fulfill your potential until you go back to college.

Take a class, take one class a semester.

Start your degree. Please do it.’”

Following his advice, Banken took a class on mass media.

“It changed my life,” Banken said. “I got really interested in journalism and writing stories and how you could get to know people by interviewing them. That gave me an exposure that I had never experienced before.”

During that time, Banken divorced and decided to move herself and her two daughters back to Missouri. She said it was at that point that she knew she wanted to finish her degree and work in a university setting. In 1988, Banken moved her family to Columbia.

“She wanted to move back here to make a better life for us,” Banken’s daughter Laura Lindsey said.

“She knew that she had the ability to run the News Bureau.”

For a short period of time, Banken worked as an administrative assistant for the School of Library and Informational Science. When an administrative assistant position opened at the News Bureau, which was where Banken wanted to work, she applied. Banken worked in that position while she took journalism classes. While in this role, Banken learned more about how the News Bureau worked.

“She’s always been interested in communication and media relations,” Lindsey said. “I think she knew that those were her strong suits, and so when that

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Lucky’s Market opened a few years ago on Providence Road and is a full-service grocery store, but the relatively high prices and distance to the store are obstacles for many.

For Evan Hunt, an MU sophomore who lives on the east side of Columbia, the availability of fresh produce is key.

“For a variety of weird reasons, my health is tied up with my diet in a big way, more than most people,” Hunt said. “Because of that, I rely on being able to consistently access quality fresh produce.”

Overall, Hunt’s experience finding groceries in Columbia has been good, with some caveats.

“I was really surprised that Columbia had the amount of stuff going for it that it does, grocery-wise,” Hunt said. “The amount of high-quality stores here is impressive

THE MANEATER | NEWS | NOV. 30, 2016 position was available, she felt that this was her way to get her foot in the door so she could learn everything she could.”

As an administrative assistant, Banken’s job wasn’t to pitch stories to reporters, but to make sure that the pitches physically went where they needed to go.

“When I was an administrative assistant we had this huge story,” Banken said. “One of our doctors, through his research, had discovered that it doesn’t really matter if a woman gets ultrasounds or not.”

The department tried to get the story to national media outlets, but the fax of the story to The New York Times wouldn’t go through.

“I picked up the phone and called the telephone number of The New York Times thinking that I was going to get somebody at the front desk,” Banken said. “Instead, I got a reporter.”

The reporter asked Banken what the story was about, and when she read him the lead, he asked her to send him the story directly.

“It was the front page story that week in The New York Times, and it was pitched by the administrative assistant of the News Bureau,” Banken said. “And that’s when I realized that it’s the story that gets the reporter’s attention, not how you pitch it. That was a real lesson for me. I was able to get his interest by reading the lead. I really utilized that when I became the director.”

From her initial position as an administrative assistant, she quickly began to work her way through the News Bureau ranks. Lindsey said once Banken sets a goal for herself, nothing will stand in her way.

“She was just a sponge, learning everything she could from [previous directors],” Lindsey said. “She knew that she had the ability to run the News Bureau. She knew that she could do it.

She just had to convince others to give her that chance.”

Throughout her career, Banken has worked closely with university administration and reporters, including Janese Silvey, a former reporter for the Columbia Daily Tribune.

“I like to think I was a tough reporter, so I’m sure there were times when she saw my phone number pop up on caller ID and she probably didn’t want to answer the phone,” Silvey said. “But she always did. She did her best to provide me with all of the information I needed and she was very professional.”

Banken sets an example for those working in the public relations field in higher education, said Silvey, who now works in the public relations field.

“Certainly there have been times in my PR career now where I’ve thought to myself, ‘What would Mary Jo have done?’” Silvey said.

Former Chancellor Brady Deaton said Banken is professional and a “delightful individual.”

“She has a good sense of humor,” Deaton said. “She’s very careful and well-prepared with what she does.”

Lindsey said Banken motivated her daughters and served as an example of a good leader.

“She’s not a person who just tells people what to do,” Lindsey said. “She does things and lets people see what she’s doing so they can learn from her. She tells people why she is doing something instead of just saying, ‘This is what we have to do.’ I learned those skills from my mom that have served me well in my career.”

Having worked her way up the News Bureau hierarchy, Banken is familiar with the tasks and challenges faced by her employees.

“One of the things, I say this to my staff a lot, is don’t ever come to me and tell me that something’s impossible, because I’ve been in that job and I know it is possible,” Banken said.

Lindsay currently works in strategic communication for MU Extension and in the past worked with the College of Arts and Science. During her career at MU, she has on occasion worked with her mother.

“She has really built the News Bureau and its reputation,” Lindsey said. “Her dedication to that department really showed through whenever I was in a meeting with her. She was very professional and firm. She really can stick to her guns when she knows she is right and I really respect that about her.

I could really tell that people listen to what she has to say and they really take her advice when it comes to working with local and national media.”

“She’s leaving the News Bureau in a very good place.”

National media coverage of MU has grown during Banken’s time with the News Bureau, Banken said. Now, MU gets thousands of national placements every year. Placements in national media outlets are important because the purpose of the News Bureau is to elevate the prestige of the university, Banken said. During the protests of last fall, MU received even more coverage by national media.

“I went home one day and I had 600 unanswered phone calls from media,” Banken said. “We had to call in additional staff members from other

offices who didn’t understand media at all to just answer the phones. People were screaming at us. Not just the press, but the public.”

Because of the number of questions and because the News Bureau lacked information, the bureau didn’t have enough time to fact-check properly and couldn’t answer questions from the media, Banken said.

“That really bothered me because I felt like I wasn’t doing my job well,” Banken said. “It was the first time that I had ever felt that way.”

Over the years, the News Bureau has undergone changes as technology has advanced. Under Banken’s leadership, the department has also transformed internally. After being faced with budget issues and struggling to find suitable candidates to fill the administrative assistant role, Banken decided to do away with the position completely. Now, the News Bureau hires students to perform the tasks that Banken herself did when she first started out in the department.

“I couldn’t get [the administrative assistants] to buy into the whole culture of the office and get them excited about what we do,” Banken said. “For instance, they wouldn’t even watch the news.”

But Banken said the student workers have made the workplace “much more enjoyable.”

“They add such a vitality to the office and they keep us young and bring us new ideas,” Banken said.

Banken said one of the ways that the News Bureau successfully interacts with the media is by building a relationship based on trust.

“You never lie, absolutely never lie,” Banken said. “You never say, ‘No comment.’ If you can’t comment, you explain why you can’t comment.”

After she leaves the News Bureau, Banken will be moving to Gainesville, Florida, to help raise her grandson.

“She’s going where she needs to be now,” Lindsey said. “She’s at a stage in her life where she’s proven herself in her career. She’s done very well and she’s leaving the News Bureau in a very good place.”

Banken said those who work for MU care about the university.

“It’s not just about them,” she said.

“There are a few exceptions of course, but the people who I work with, they are all doing their very best to represent this university and to do the right thing.

It’s been a pleasure for me to serve as spokesperson for those people and for this university.”

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considering how small the population is. I think you'd be hard-pressed to get everything you need without a car, but I'm doing alright here.”

Hunt feels that while options in the area are plenty, cost and freshness aren’t always ideal.

“Price is a big issue here,” he said. “I suppose that the relative remoteness of town might account for some of the prices, but that's just a guess. I've noticed with the small population produce has a tendency to sit for a long time in stores. There just aren't enough people to buy it up quick enough to order more.”

Hunt frequents stores like Lucky’s, Clovers Natural Market and Schnucks, which he said are “pricey, but close, which is always good.”

Walmart Express downtown provided a remedy to the price issue by offering students a relatively cheap grocery alternative, but it closed in October.

Michelle Shikles, Community Health Promotion Supervisor with the Boone County Department of Public Health

and Human Services, acknowledged the importance of fresh grocery access to public health.

“Supermarkets improve access to affordable, nutritious food which can improve health status,” Shikles said. “Increased availability of healthy foods impacts a person's diet. Research shows the presence of supermarkets in a community is associated with a lower prevalence of obesity.”

Lately, authorities both on and off campus have been working to increase the availability of healthy options. Shikles said that one of the department’s recent initiatives has been its Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy program.

The program cooperates with local stores by educating both vendors and customers about the necessities of eating healthy.

“The goal of this program is to increase the amount of healthy foods offered at convenience stores and small grocers,” Shikles said. “This past year, we worked with the Pierpont Store and World Harvest International and Gourmet Foods. We are

currently in the process of identifying stores for the upcoming year.”

Students on campus, including Windholz, are also working on alternative grocery solutions. MSA Senator Dylan Cain has been exploring the possibility of getting Electronic Benefits Transfer machines on campus. EBT machines are small cardreading devices that grocers and markets can use to accept food stamps and debit cards. Cain says that getting one of the machines would increase payment options for buyers looking for fresh food.

In order for stores to qualify for a machine, stores must “meet certain standards by providing so much fresh produce, so much meat products,” and “either eggs or dairy,” Cain said.

Other potential ideas MSA is exploring include working with local urban gardens and organizing an on-campus farmers market.

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EDITORIAL

Nonrevenue sports deserve more attention and fan support

Mizzou volleyball, men’s swimming and diving, wrestling and cross-country are seeing a more successful season than other Mizzou teams.

Fans are quick to say that Mizzou Athletics suck. The football team has had a deplorable record this year, and Mizzou basketball will probably continue its bad streak this season, too. But fans of those teams sometimes forget that Mizzou has many nonrevenue sports that are kicking ass and taking names.

A nonrevenue sport is a sport that isn’t a big moneymaker for Mizzou, which is essentially every sport besides football and men’s basketball. However, those sports are the ones with all the wins.

Mizzou’s volleyball team won the SEC championship. Men’s swimming and

diving is ranked No. 2 in the nation.

The wrestling team, which includes an Olympic bronze medalist, is ranked No. 5. Cross-country runner Karissa

THE POTENTIAL FOR A FUN EXPERIENCE IS SO MUCH GREATER AT AN EVENT LIKE A VOLLEYBALL GAME, WHERE THE TEAM GIVES YOU A REASON TO GET EXCITED.

Schweizer won the NCAA title in the 6K. And that’s just to name a few.

Nonrevenue sports are consistently overlooked by Mizzou Athletics fans. We have a plethora of world-class athletes who win and don’t receive campus-wide recognition. An athlete who was a part of a championship football or basketball team would undoubtedly receive more attention.

Even though attendance at basketball and football games has been pretty poor this year, nonrevenue events get even fewer fans in the stands. It feels a little ironic, because going to the sporting events of teams that are doing well

actually gives you a reason to cheer. The potential for a fun experience is so much greater at an event like a volleyball game, where the team gives you a reason to get excited. To make it even better, nonrevenue sports events are free. Why pay to lose when you can win for free?

When cynics say that Mizzou sports suck, they jump the gun and ignore the amount of athletic talent that exists at this school. Supplement your football and basketball with other sports teams that would love your support and reward you with a win.

The Fifth Lap

You do not need nine whole days to eat your Thanksgiving meal KURTIS DUNLAP

Nine days to eat turkey and mashed potatoes is beyond excessive.

Kurtis Dunlap is a fifth-year senior at MU. He is an English major. He writes about student life as an opinion columnist for The Maneater.

On Oct. 3, 1863, President Lincoln declared that the fourth Thursday of every November was to be considered a national holiday called Thanksgiving.

Every year since, Americans across the country have come together to celebrate and give thanks for everything they have.

Since its inception, Thanksgiving has been the worst holiday break for college students.

Thanksgiving week is one of the busiest travel times in America, and there is no doubt the mass amount of college students traveling home contributes to this. Although Thanksgiving is a great time to see family and friends, it is not all mashed potatoes and gravy.

MU gives us a full week off from school. If you include the weekends, it is a total of nine days of vacation time. Having all that time to rest, eat and take a break from the daily grind is always welcomed, but getting more than a whole week off is excessive.

After we come back from Thanksgiving break, we have two weeks of classes left before finals week. I have never

PHOTO COURTESY OF SATYA MURTHY (FLICKR) understood why we get the whole week of Thanksgiving off when we are going to be on winter break just three weeks later. You could argue that having a full nine days to get rejuvenated for finals would be beneficial, but I think it is the opposite.

You get home-cooked meals, you get to sleep in, and you don’t constantly have assignments and tests you need to be studying for. When you come back from break, the last thing you want to do is homework, study for tests or even wake up early anymore. Thanksgiving break gives students the illusion that the semester is over, when in reality the most important part is on the horizon.

A more logical scheduling of Thanksgiving break would be to give students off the Wednesday before Thanksgiving through the weekend.

Take those extra days and give us off some time in late September or early October and call it a fall break. This would break up the unwarranted nine days off in a row just three weeks before winter break.

Because of the large population within the student body that is from out of state, I think MU is catering more to those students that have to travel further distances to get home. You could probably get away with having a shorter Thanksgiving break at smaller schools

because a majority of their students live much closer. It makes sense systemically for MU to have such an extended break, but it is hurting students more than it is helping.

Enjoy the home-cooked meals and the sleep you are going to catch up on, enjoy all those questions from relatives about if you are dating anyone and why you don’t have a boyfriend or girlfriend, and enjoy all those awkward family meals.

Before you know it, you’ll be back in the library, pulling all-nighters and eating something out of a can.

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That’s so regan

Thoughtlessness of students will contribute to lack of campus change If students do not partake in MSA and university initiatives, social growth is not possible.

REGAN HUSTON

Regan Huston is a freshman journalism major at MU. She is an opinion columnist who writes about student politics for The Maneater.

Students, including myself, often find themselves complaining or concerned about the social well-being of our school, but how often do we put ourselves out there to make a difference? MU recently distributed a climate survey, and the lack of participation falls on us, the students.

The survey was heavily promoted by the Missouri Students Association and even came with multiple incentives, such as gift cards, iPads and free parking for a year. But even these did not jump-start enthusiasm throughout the student body, and that’s unacceptable.

Two days before the deadline, only 7,344 students had participated, which is a small fraction of the total student body.

This statistic is very upsetting because the atmosphere of our campus truly does rely on what we’re willing to give. The lack of responsibility shown by those that brushed this survey off as

Maneater File Photo unimportant is concerning.

Life gets busy, and maybe you don’t feel the importance of yet another survey you have to take, but at what point does that excuse lose its clout? I truly do believe that in order to see a change, we have to be that change. No campus is perfect, but we can do better.

We can do better by closely examining ourselves. Although the climate survey has been an ongoing initiative since 2001, MU feels that progress “requires the commitment and engagement of the entire MU community,” according to the campus climate survey page on

MU’s website. This means that our participation numbers must increase to get the most out of the survey.

Skeptics may look at this survey and doubt it will actually make a difference.

What influence does a questionnaire have on us, anyway? But that’s missing the bigger picture. The bigger picture is not just answering a few questions and then going about your day. It’s understanding that the issues being asked about exist on this campus and in the real world. That acknowledgment is the first step in finding a solution.

In ignoring the university’s initiative

to get your input, you are saying that social issues are not important enough for your attention.

We have to understand that just because an issue may not be apparent to us personally does not mean it’s nonexistent. Become aware of the social stigmas at MU, and partake in university initiatives in order to foster a better environment. If we all just sit around and wait for somebody else to give their input, we can’t better our learning environment.

The Tenacious Typist

Teachers should be held accountable to combat bullying They have a responsibility to show kids how to act, and that includes responding properly to disciplinary issues in schools.

JESSIE STALEY

Jessie Staley is a freshman studying political science at MU. She is an opinion columnist who writes about student life for The Maneater.

Teachers are our leaders, role models and confidants. They are the ones who slave away, grading papers through the night and rambling off information every day in an effort to make us retain it. They are the ones who mediate our arguments with friends during recess.

They are the ones who expect more of us, who want us to improve, who want us to succeed. Sometimes, society forgets the important role teachers play in all of our lives, and I think sometimes

teachers forget, too.

Self-esteem can either build or plummet at school. One bad peer altercation may not be the end of the world. But when those altercations become a routine occurrence, it becomes a problem. It is the school’s, and especially the teachers’, duty to know the difference and stop the issue before it starts.

Teachers must be held accountable for what they say and do in the classroom.

Just as kids mimic their parents, they also can mimic their teachers. Yelling in the classroom, telling a kid who was just humiliated by a group of other students to “shake it off ” or dismissing the obvious issues a child may be going through, whether at home or school, are things that should never be done by a teacher. Bullying, teasing, harassment, whatever you want to call it — these are major issues in society, and it starts in the classroom. It is the teacher’s responsibility to stop harassment before it becomes a social norm.

My kindergarten teacher was the reason I didn’t go to kindergarten for more than a week when I was five. I had to transfer schools. She would intimidate and yell at her little kindergarten class, full of 4- to 6-year-olds, on a regular basis. A boy wouldn’t stop talking to me

in class, and she used a four-color strike system as a weapon. She made me feel like the smallest person on the planet.

She would have loved the zero-tolerance policy.

The zero-tolerance policy is a very intense, yet popular, way schools have combatted bullying and insubordination, but it sometimes can create a punishmentoriented atmosphere in school instead of the ideal learning atmosphere. Zerotolerance is a school mandate that requires a set range of punishments for breaking certain rules, no matter why the rule was broken. It does not consider mitigating circumstances, selfdefense or the severity of the act. Some children can get suspended for playing rough or defending themselves when a bully hits them. It is a policy that does not concern itself with the well-being of the child.

This policy was definitely gaining steam in my grade school. I remember the countless times in middle school when the two female teachers of our eighth grade class would target the boys, looking for any reason to reprimand them or send them to the office. Don’t get me wrong, my class was horrible, but it wasn’t just the boys, and the girls would definitely encourage our teachers’ behavior. One time in class, a girl was

messing around, talking in class, and the teacher turned around and yelled at the boy sitting next to her.

Teachers need to make an effort to know and help their students before punishing them. They need to teach them honesty and kindness and tell them why those are good characteristics to have. When a student treats another badly, it is important that the teacher inquires about the circumstances, shows them that their actions or words were wrong and presents a better course of action. Kids are open to learning.

They are malleable and innocent. It is imperative that teachers give students the opportunity to learn before punishing them.

Before teachers enter the classroom, they need to put away their biases.

They need to refuse to take sides and be the symbol of truth and altruism that students might not witness otherwise.

It is time to make teachers accountable for every action and word said in their classroom, either by themselves or by their students. It is time to change the social norms and not punish bullying, but eliminate it. School should be a safe and academic environment. Teachers are the ones who are responsible for maintaining that experience.

Winter is coming:

Five things you should know about your car before coming home for winter break

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1. Tire Pressure 2. if your tire pops...

3. check your oil

4. Check your wiper fluid 5. Carry de-icer spray

I do not know a lot about cars, which is probably what worries my dad the most about me being in college. My car is sitting outside in lot AV-14, so Dad is concerned that something will happen to my Acura RDX to make it undrivable, whether it’d be caused by the winter weather or my sincere lack of knowledge about cars. So I asked him and my uncle about the most important things for a college student to know about cars.

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The dropping temperatures cause tires to lose pressure, so if your tires look a little flat, fill them up with air. You can also check your tire pressure with a tire pressure gauge before you go on a long trip to make sure everything is all right.

Pro tip from my cousin and longtime Columbia resident Matt Kinamore: There is an electronic tire pump at the Hy-Vee located at 3100 West Broadway that anyone can set to fill their tires to the desired pounds per square inch, the standard measure of tire pressure. The correct pressure varies from car to car. On average, it ranges between 30 and 35 psi, but you should check the owner’s manual for a precise measurement.

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Speaking of flat tires, if a tire is underinflated, it is more susceptible to popping. If one of your tires pops, don’t panic. Your car might already be equipped with a spare tire, jack and wrench. Check your owner’s manual about whether your car is equipped with these items and where they are located. However, some cars do not have them.

Instead, the car might have sealant and inflator

kits or run-flat tires. Read the owner’s manual and make sure to know what your car comes with.

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Check your oil. It’s pretty simple; there is a dipstick located near the engine that has the word “oil” on the top of it.

You pull that out to check the gauge to see if the oil is full. If you need to add more, you can buy oil at any gas station. You should change your car’s oil after every 3,000 to 4,000 miles.

Unless you know how to change a car’s oil, save this job for a mechanic. Oil changes can be scheduled, whereas popped tires or other emergencies cannot.

Pro tip from Kinamore: Check your oil before you start your car.

Once you start your car, some oil can flick onto the dipstick and produce an inaccurate reading.

If that happens, wipe it off with an old cloth, stick the dipstick back in and remove it for an accurate reading.

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Check your windshield wiper fluid. This reservoir is usually white/translucent in color or is easily marked. Some cars might have a gauge on the outside that lets you know if it is full, but you might have to open the lid to check. If you are low, windshield

wiper fluid can be found at most gas stations.

Windshield wipers are very necessary this time of year because of all the snow or sleet a person may come across when driving home for winter break. If you notice that your windshield wipers are leaving streaks, and you find it hard to see when you’re driving in the snow or rain, it is time for new set of wipers.

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Carry de-icer spray with you. If you have an older car and you have to insert your key in the door to unlock it, winter cold could make that difficult if ice freezes over the top of the key hole. Instead of having to wait around for the sun to melt it off, you can spritz the keyhole with de-icer, and the ice will melt away quickly so you can leave at the time you told your mom you would.

Bonus tip: Carry an emergency kit with you at all times in your car. Make sure it includes blankets, water, a first-aid kit, jumper cables and, especially this time of year, a bag of sand or kitty litter. If you are stuck on some ice and your tires can’t find any traction, pour some sand or kitty litter around them to help get you out.

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‘Gilmore Girls’ revival brings a heavy dose of nostalgia to dedicated fans Break out the pizza and Chinese food, and get ready to watch.

KATIE ROSSO Managing Editor

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Netflix original “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life” premiered Friday, Nov. 25. It’s a revival of the original 2000-2007 show. JULIA HANSEN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

n one of the final scenes of the seventh season of Gilmore Girls, the camera pans across the smiling, crying faces of all the Stars Hollow townspeople as they see Rory off into the real world after college.

These moments are what define Gilmore Girls: family and friends, united in happiness and sometimes sadness, too.

As a young woman watching Gilmore Girls, I deeply related to high school Rory Gilmore. Rory changed schools in the beginning of her freshman year, and so did I. Rory worked on her high school paper, The Franklin, and so did I. As Rory was navigating her high school years, so was I. When Rory grew up, out of her Chilton Preparatory School uniform and into her short-haired college years, I was also entering college.

Gilmore Girls is relatable and beautiful, and it provides endless funny and touching moments for fans to hang on to. The show is not a cultural phenomenon because of the fast talking or the romantic subplots. Gilmore Girls, at its core, is about family.

When Rory breaks up with her boyfriend and lays her head on her mother Lorelai’s lap, Lorelai orders a pizza. When Lorelai gets dumped, Rory brings her a spread of food that rivals the amount of food that’s been in my fridge this whole year. It is the two of them together against the world.

The quiet moments are what make Gilmore Girls powerful.

When Lorelai’s mother, Emily, cries, alone, standing in her living room, the viewer can cry with her. When Rory sits by the lake after her boyfriend publicly breaks up with her, the silence is deafening.

As Rory says in her graduation speech, Gilmore Girls is full of characters that are “supremely real, made of flesh and bone, full of love.”

So yes, the show is funny and cute, but it’s also so much more than that. To a generation, Gilmore Girls has been a guide to life.

Now, the show is back in all its glory, with all the same characters coming back to Stars Hollow. The only main character who is noticeably absent is Ed Herrmann’s Richard, Lorelai’s father. Herrmann passed away in December 2014, and the revival handles his death with an impressive grace.

Whether you’re Team Jess or Team Logan (as long as you’re not Team Dean, because that’s unacceptable), the revival is still incredible. If Sookie or Michel are your favorite characters, you’re in luck. The new episodes cater a little bit to everyone, and to superfans like myself, the entire show is everything we’ve ever wanted.

The last season of the original series was a contentious one, because creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and her husband, Dan, were forced to leave the show due to contract disputes. The finale, “Bon Voyage,” was pretty good, but the rest of the season should never have existed. The season took some bad and nonsensical turns, and some of the characters reverted in their long-term development.

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life is Sherman-Palladino’s chance to finish the series the way she wanted to the first time. This revival is her love letter to fans, and boy, should we feel loved.

The original series came out in a time when think pieces didn’t exist. We didn’t have The Atlantic arguing that Rory Gilmore is a bad journalist (debatable); we had only our own minds, soft pajamas, Chinese food and word of mouth.

So sure, some of the scenes are a little long, hedging too much on people already being fans of the show and inundating viewers with references from the original series, but the revival is a beautiful gift to Gilmore Girls fans of all ages.

I cried and screamed an embarrassing number of times during A Year in the Life, because I never thought that nine years later, my favorite show would be coming back from an unsatisfying end.

And while I won’t tell you what the last four words are, I can say that the revival was well worth the wait.

MOVE gives Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life “none plus five” out of five stars.

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It’s enrollment time again, and maybe your schedule could use some work. Taking too few credits, a week full of boring classes, having barren Tuesdays — whatever your problem is, fear not. Here are MOVE’s picks of the more interesting upcoming courses you might not know about.

Science: Geology 2150 - 01: The Age of the Dinosaurs I’m not going to lie to you — Rate My Professors reviews say this class is a challenge. But if you love dinosaurs and are on a mission to memorize all of their names, this is the science course for you.

Geology 2220H - 01: Honors Seminar: Headline Topics in the Geological Science: Geology of the National Parks This honors course is the perfect upper-level science class for National Parks lovers. The best part? There’s an optional spring break trip to Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

social Science: History 2004 - 01: Topics in History-Social Science — Gladiators It’s a history course all about gladiators. What more do you need to know?

History 2580 - 01: Mafia Myth and Reality: The Italian Mafia and the Nation-State, 1860 to the Present

Thanksgiving teaches winter travel lessons

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Let these freshmen help you find transportation for winter break.

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inter break is a necessary recess between semesters. The nicely situated month off should be stress-free and filled with hot chocolate and your aunt’s famous sugar cookies. For many out-of-state freshmen, however, the stress of determining the method of transportation for this longawaited holiday is an unwelcome awakening to making mature decisions.

Out-of-state students have a few options to choose from when considering which method of transportation to take home. For those not too far outside the state, being picked up by a parent is not a bad option. Riding home with a parent provides at least a two-hour window of catch-up time to make up for the lack of phone calls home. For Thanksgiving break, out-of-state freshmen used a variety of transportation services to get home.

“My dad came and picked me up and brought me home,” said Bernadette Dwyer, a political science major from O’Fallon, Illinois. “I got to spend time with my dad after being away from him for so long.”

Now, for us less-fortunate souls — the ones who live an unimaginable distance from school — driving home is not the most viable option. Luckily, that is what busses, trains and planes are for.

Alex Roth, an Arlington Heights, Illinois, native, trusted a riskier option to get him home — a ride from MU’s rideshare Facebook page.

“I was dropped off at the major train station in downtown [Chicago],” Roth said. “It was much simpler and cheaper than getting a plane or train ride back.

The trip altogether was about eight hours … It was well

worth the time because of the price and ease.”

The major downside of this mode of transportation is the risk of a very awkward car ride and a terrible driver.

“The people I rode with were not bad — pretty quiet and respectful,” Roth said. “Driving could have been better, but it was fine. If it was my only option, which it was for me this past time, it is very tolerable and easy. I would not do it again, however, if I had the option.”

A frequently used method of transportation is the two-hour shuttle to either the St. Louis or Kansas City airports and then the subsequent plane ride home.

“I flew out of the St. Louis airport,” said Valeria Gil De Leyva, a Texas resident living in a suburb outside of Dallas. “[A plane ride] was easier than driving, and faster.”

Because Gil De Leyva opted to get home by way of plane, the trip took about three hours, rather than the eight hours it would have been if the trip had been by car. This time difference, in addition to the ease that Gil De Leyva faced in the airport, makes the decision of choosing how Gil De Leyva will travel home for winter break unquestionable.

Time and cost are huge factors to consider when deciding how to travel. Whatever you choose, make sure to be smart and cautious. If taking a plane, arrive at the airport with enough time to find your gate and get the overpriced personal pizza from California Pizza Kitchen.

If taking a bus, call ahead to make sure that the bus is neither arriving early nor late — this will hopefully assure that you do not miss your bus or are not waiting hours for it to arrive. If going home on a bus, plane or train, make sure to pack headphones and a book to keep you occupied. Lastly, travel safely and enjoy the needed time off from school work.

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This course offers an in-depth look at the Italian Mafia. It traces the origins of the mafia up until present day, with looks at both fictional representations and actual modern Italian history. In short, it sounds incredible.

Humanities: English 2860 - 02 / Film Studies 2860 - 02: Film Themes and Genres — Film Noir If you love mysteries and crime dramas, analyze the genre of film noir and nab some English or Film Studies credits while you’re at it.

English 2200H - 01: Studies in British Literature — Honors — Jane Austen If Pride and Prejudice’s Mr. Darcy swept you off your feet, consider this honors English course that surveys all of Jane Austen’s novels. There’s even a film festival of Austen movies during the semester students can choose to attend.

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Coach Kreklow holds up the SEC Championship trophy following Missouri’s home win against Tennessee on Sunday, Nov. 27. COURTESY OF MIZZOU ATHLETICS

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SEC champs await NCAA tournament The Tigers look forward to hosting the first and second rounds of tournament play.

CHELSEA ROEMER Staff Writer The Missouri volleyball players rushed the court to hug each other, laughing and crying tears of joy, after winning the SEC Championship on Nov. 26. Black and gold confetti rained down on the Hearnes Center floor as a trophy was presented to the team.

Mizzou defeated the Tennessee Volunteers in three sets, claiming its second Southeastern Conference title in four years.

“We worked hard, and this was one of our goals,” senior Carly Kan said. “We knew

we could do it.”

Despite having an outstanding season, coach Wayne Kreklow never looked ahead at the chances of playing for the SEC title.

“I never mentioned the word ‘championship’ at all this season to the players,” he said. “We wanted to take each match one at a time and not get ahead of ourselves.”

The Tigers received the No. 15 national seed for the NCAA tournament, and they are hosting the first and second rounds of the tournament at Hearnes Center.

A day after winning the conference title, the Tigers, joined by friends, family and fans, found out they will face Northern

Illinois in the tournament’s first round.

“Having home court advantage is a big deal because it is so helpful,” redshirt junior Melanie Crow said. “You can see at every home match that we have a huge Columbia fan support and that’s really big for us.”

The winner of round one on Dec. 1 will play the winner of a match between Iowa State and Purdue, held at Hearnes Center on Dec. 2.

“We are going to have to prepare and be ready to go,” Kreklow said. “Northern Illinois is a good team that has lots of energy.”

If there are no upsets, Missouri will

FOOTBALL

Lock ends sophomore season with a rivalry comeback win Coach Barry Odom: “There’s ... signs of what he has done, what he can do, what he’s going to, what he’s going to grow into.”

PETER BAUGH Sports Editor After Missouri’s 28-24 win against Arkansas on Friday, the

black sharpie on Drew Lock’s left hand was clearly visible. “PF squared,” it read.

Play fast. Play fakes.

“Be slow throughout it,” he said after the game. “Because if you’re slow throughout it, you’re going to calm in the pocket. As far as being calm, I did a completely better job tonight.”

Lock showed both the potential and consistency Missouri fans have been waiting for during the Arkansas game.

He dropped a pass perfectly into the arms of Johnathon Johnson for a 67-yard touchdown in the third quarter.

He hit J’Mon Moore for a 49-yard completion early in the fourth. He managed the clock late in the game and took a knee to give the Tigers the win.

Lock played fast, and he executed his play fakes. It was a complete performance after two years of inconsistency.

“We just continued to work

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eventually play No. 2 Minnesota in the Sweet Sixteen.

Getting ready to enter the postseason, the players are focused on another aspect of the game as well: each other.

“I’m honestly looking forward to having another opportunity to play with the girls that I love,” redshirt junior Kira Larson said. “I’m out there on the court with my best friends and I could not ask for anything else.”

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BASKETBALL

Mizzou shows two sides to team in inconsistent start BRENDAN LAVELL For two heart-pounding hours against No. 11 Xavier, Mizzou showed more guts than they have at any point during the two-plus years of the Kim Anderson era. In an instant, though, all that effort was all for naught.

With the game tied in the waning seconds of overtime, sophomore point guard Terrence Phillips took an ill-advised 3-pointer, then

committed an unnecessary foul to send Xavier to the line for the winning free throw. Phillips played a great game up to that point, scoring 21 points and providing an answer for every punch the Musketeers threw.

But people will remember the mistakes.

Phillips will learn, but it was in that late-game moment that Mizzou sorely felt the absence of a veteran leader, someone who has already learned, already made those mistakes.

The Tigers needed a veteran

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Mizzou volleyball leads over South Carolina 12–5 in the first match on Sep. 21 at Hearnes Center. The Tigers went on to win the first three games of the match.

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VolleyZou members explain their love for Mizzou volleyball Calvin Blaylock: “Mizzou volleyball games offer an in-game atmosphere unlike any other Mizzou sport. You feel engaged and excited through every point.”

CHELSEA ROEMER Staff Writer Sophomore Zach Valleroy distinctly remembers the volleyball match against the Florida Gators his freshman year.

“Standing on the floor in front of the student section, I was definitely excited,” he said. “I was cheering loudly. My friends and I really got into the game because it was so intense,

and it was by far one of the best memories from freshman year.”

Missouri volleyball has had a strong season so far. They are ranked as one of the top 25 teams in the country, and they just won the Southeastern Conference championship.

At every home game, the official student section, VolleyZou, cheers loudly from the sidelines. The group promotes spirit at home games and around the Mizzou campus.

“Mizzou volleyball games offer an in-game atmosphere unlike any other Mizzou sport,” VolleyZou member Calvin Blaylock said. “You feel engaged and excited through every point because the student section seats are located just a few feet from the action.”

During the games, the students sit in a specific section close to the court, just feet away

from the athletes. VolleyZou yells chants for the Tigers and cheers with them every point of the match. They also yell chants to heckle the opposing team's players. The students hold up cutouts of players’ faces and wear matching Mizzou volleyball shirts to show their pride.

“We have chants for the Mizzou players when they ser ve,” freshman Mike Schwinn said. “When Courtney Eckenrode serves, we yell ‘Four!’ and pretend like we're playing golf, because that is her jersey number.”

Along with their efforts during games, the volleyball players are also admired for their talents off the court.

“My favorite player is Julia Towler because she is an outstanding individual on the volleyball court,

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in the classroom and in the community,” Blaylock said. “I greatly admire who she is as an individual and how she uses her platform to immensely impact people in positive ways.”

VolleyZou is small in size.

Although the student section for big games, such as the SEC championship, are larger, only around 10 members of VolleyZou typically show up to games during the regular

season. Despite this, the efforts of VolleyZou do not go unrecognized by the players. “ The crowd is crazy,” sophomore middle blocker Alyssa Munlyn said. “Having people your own age watch you play is awesome. Having VolleyZou cheer us on is a great feeling and we love the support they give us all season long.”

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DIVING by chance With new mindset, Lauren Reedy jumps ahead of competition

After starting her sport as a freshman in high school, Reedy has emerged as one of the nation’s top divers.

PETER BAUGH Sports Editor Leading up to U.S. Olympic Diving Trials, coach James Sweeney made Lauren Reedy compete in mock meets twice a week. Sweeney would announce Reedy’s dives over a microphone at the Mizzou pool, and he would score her based on her performance.

No one dived against Reedy at the meets. It was just her, the board and the pressure of competition.

From April to May — just weeks before June’s Olympic Trials — Reedy struggled.

“For six weeks, she failed miserably at it,” Sweeney said.

Each of those weeks, Reedy failed at least one dive in every mock competition. She struggled to find the right mindset, but she and Sweeney kept working.

“We just were relentless,” Sweeney said. “Relentless about learning how to think right, learning how to master herself.

And eventually she did.”

Reedy’s Mindset When Reedy competes, she is doing more than simply diving. She is worshiping God. “He created me and created my body to function the way it does and the abilities and talents that I have, and when I get on the diving board, that’s what’s going through my mind,” she said. “If it’s a meet and there’s a crowd, if I do something beautiful with my body, they’ll get excited about it and cheer.

And that’s worship to the Creator.”

Sweeney says each diver has to figure out their own optimal mindset for competition. And for Reedy, finding her faith-based outlook took a full year of training.

Reedy did not dive for Missouri during the 2015-16 season. Instead, she took a redshirt year to train for Olympic Trials. She and Sweeney focused on three aspects during the year: fundamentals, consistency and the ability to compete.

Reedy’s hard work paid off. Her consistency improved, she discovered her ideal mindset for competition, and her diving reached new heights.

In June, the redshirt senior finished third at U.S. Olympic

olympic trials

Reedy finished third at Olympic Trials in the 3-meter springboard diving event.

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Diving Trials in the 3-meter springboard event, missing the Olympic team by just one place.

For Reedy, the Olympic Trial experience brought mixed emotions.

“Obviously, I would have loved to have been one of the top two and gone to Rio and done that whole thing, but at the same time, I was really pleased with the way I dove and figured a lot of things out,” she said. “It was an opportunity for it to be more stress and more fear than ever, just with it being televised and everyone watching and everybody commenting on Facebook and stuff like that. But I competed with more peace than I’ve ever competed with before.”

Finding Reedy James Sweeney was frustrated.

He had been recruiting two top-level divers to come to Mizzou. Then, on the same day in 2011, both called Sweeney to tell him they were going to other schools.

Sweeney called his friend Buck Smith, the diving coach at Eastern Michigan. The Missouri coach needed to vent.

“I just want to find someone that no one has ever heard of and make her really good,” he said.

“Dude,” Smith replied. “I’ve got your girl.”

At the time, Reedy was a senior in high school going through the recruiting process. She had toured Michigan, Indiana, Texas A&M and Louisville, but none of the schools felt right for her. She was only allowed by the NCAA to take one more official visit, and she did not know where to go.

The weekend after he talked to Smith, Sweeney flew to Michigan to see Reedy dive. He convinced her to use her last official visit to come to Columbia.

“I took a trip the next weekend to Mizzou and just fell in love with everything,” she said. “The campus, the team, with the coach, with the facilities.”

Much like how she ended up at Mizzou, Reedy came across the sport of diving by chance.

Entering Rochester High School in Rochester Hills, Michigan, diving was not even on Reedy’s radar. She was a hockey goalie and a softball catcher and wanted to play one of the two sports in college.

Her freshman year, she joined the diving team because it did not conflict with her hockey schedule. She had been a gymnast growing up, and she missed doing flips.

“After the first practice, I remember coming home and teaching my dad in the living room everything I learned,” she said.

But Reedy was not immediately successful. She did not qualify for state as a freshman, and she finished in last place at the meet as a sophomore. Then she began club diving and went on to win the state title as a senior.

“I was asking coaches to recruit me completely on potential,” she said. “I hadn’t done anything worth anything.”

Luckily for both Mizzou and Reedy, Sweeney was willing to take a chance on her.

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in her youth A young Lauren Reedy understood the hard work of sports. She poses for photos in her softball uniform (left) and hockey uniform (right).

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e Learning the Fundamentals Reedy came to Mizzou with immense — but unrefined — athletic abilities. Since she did not start diving year-round until her sophomore year of high school, she was still learning about certain elements of the sport.

During Reedy’s redshirt season, building her fundamentals was

I ... want to lead my team well and love them well and listen to them well and empower them to take over when I leave.

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one of Sweeney’s main focuses.

“I’ve been to tons of international meets, things like that, and never seen a girl capable of doing some of the dives that she’s capable of doing,” Sweeney said. “But she always had a lack of fundamentals.

She didn’t grow up having those fundamentals ingrained into her.

And so we kind of had to retroactively train her like an age-group diver for half the day and then the second half of the day train her

like an elite-level diver.”

Over the course her redshirt year, Reedy’s fundamentals and consistency improved, culminating in her strong showing at Olympic Trials.

Now, Reedy is back competing with Mizzou, and she has already made her presence known for the Tigers. The senior has earned Southeastern Conference Diver of the Week honors twice and has set the Mizzou record in the 3-meter springboard, all within the first few months of the season.

“As far as diving goes, I would love to be an SEC and NCAA Champion,” she said. “So that’s kind of what I’m working towards everyday.”

Reedy’s impact is felt outside of the diving well, too. Her swimming and diving teammates voted her and swimmer Katharine Ross the captains for the 2016-17 season.

For Reedy, the title of captain is an honor.

“I ... want to lead my team well and love them well and listen to them well and empower them to take over when I leave, so that’s kind of where my head’s at in regards to that,” she said. “It is a little bit more pressure, stress, but it’s fun too.”

Reedy has started to look ahead past her college career. She wants to continue diving through the 2020 Olympic cycle, and she hopes to train with some of the world’s elite divers in China next year.

But for now, Reedy’s main focus is on her college season, and Sweeney thinks she’s capable of going out with a bang.

“By the end of the year, she is capable of a perfect performance,” Sweeney said. “And the outcome of Lauren Reedy’s perfect performance is there wouldn’t be anyone even close to her.”

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Reedy also played on her school’s softball team.

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Better performances from both his running game and offensive line helped Lock throughout the season, including the Arkansas game. Missouri quarterbacks were sacked 28 times in 2015, compared to only 14 this season, a testament to the line’s improvement.

In 2015, Missouri only posted 1,385 rushing yards. This season, the Tigers racked up 2,461 yards.

“The ability to scheme a running game has helped them a lot this year,” said Andy Lock, Drew’s father. “The ability to be balanced at any level of offense, I think, is the most critical piece to having a successful offense, and those guys are super balanced this year.”

As a true freshman in 2015, Lock struggled under center. He threw eight interceptions with only four touchdowns and completed under 50 percent of his passes. Coming into his sophomore

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leader the next day, when the latest loss may have been on their mind and the team looked flat in a 70-55 loss to Davidson.

The Tigers showed their potential in the tight loss to Xavier. Against Davidson, reality set in: This team still has a long ways to go.

Ultimately, the team will go as far as their young guards take them.

Specifically, freshman guard Frankie Hughes has had a large impact on the results of the team’s games thus far.

In the team’s two wins, plus the close loss to Xavier, Hughes averaged over 20 points. In the team’s blowout loss to Davidson, he scored two points on 1-for-11 shooting.

Outside of Hughes and the typically steady Phillips, sophomore K.J. Walton has shown improvement, notching 20 points in Mizzou’s comeback win against Tulane. Sophomore Cullen VanLeer is shooting over 42 percent from 3 after shooting just 27 percent last year.

The Tigers are going to need these positive trends to continue because they are not going to outmuscle most Southeastern Conference teams. The Tigers have actually outrebounded three of their four opponents, but against a larger Xavier team, they lost the rebound

Quarterback Drew Lock celebrates after his handoff to running back Nate Strong results in a touchdown Friday against Arkansas. Alexzandria Churchill | Assistant Photo Editor season, teammates and coaches stressed the quarterback’s growth confidencewise.

Lock was far from perfect in 2016, but his improvement was apparent.

He threw for 3,399 yards with 23 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. battle 52 to 39.

Sophomore forward Kevin Puryear, of course, is the steady force down low.

Puryear leads the team in rebounds with 6.8 per game and is second in scoring at 13 points per game. Freshman forward Willie Jackson has potential and senior Russell Woods is a solid piece, but neither can take control in the post the way Puryear can.

If Mizzou is going to have success this season, Puryear will have to be a consistent anchor down-low and the guards will need to pack a scoring punch.

It’s going to take two or three players stepping up and “simply” putting the ball in the basket each game, whether it’s Hughes, Walton, VanLeer or Phillips, to consistently win games.

Perhaps most importantly, the team needs to learn how to deal with tough loss. If Mizzou has hangovers like the way they did against Davidson and in the sluggish first half against Tulane, it will be a very long season.

There are going to be a lot of bumps along the way, but if the Tigers can learn from their mistakes and move on from their losses, they will go a long way toward establishing a winning culture.

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“There’s throws that you’d always like to have back,” coach Barry Odom said.

“There’s also signs of what he has done, what he can do, what he’s going to, what he’s going to grow into.”

Lock’s performance Friday evening was vastly different from last year’s

game against Arkansas. He threw for 268 yards and a touchdown on Friday, compared to his 83-yard performance in Missouri’s loss in 2015.

The quarterback referenced last year’s game against Arkansas multiple times his sophomore season. He remembers the weather: cold and rainy.

He remembers looking at his father in the stands after the painful loss.

He remembers it as the low point of his freshman season.

Friday’s scene couldn’t have been more different. Lock walked up the grass hill toward his family after the game and leaned over the concrete barrier to greet them.

“It kind of shows the work you put in,” he said. “It’s a feeling of gratitude, I guess. It’s hard to put into words how good you feel.”

If Lock plays the way he did against Arkansas on Friday, it’s a feeling he could get used to.

Edited by Nancy Coleman ncoleman@themaneater.com

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THE MANEATER | SPORTS | NOV. 30, 2016

NCAA champ Schweizer pulls ahead against odds Karissa Schweizer: “I couldn’t believe it happened; it was a dream.”

JOE NOSER Staff Writer The last few weeks, life has been nothing but a whirlwind for Karissa Schweizer.

The junior won the NCAA championship on Nov. 19 in Terre Haute, Indiana, for the first women’s championship in Missouri cross-country program history.

“It’s been crazy, but it just shows how supportive the whole school has been in wanting to recognize how cross-country has been doing,” Schweizer said.

Schweizer, who won five out of the six races she ran in for the Tigers this season, won her championship in dramatic fashion. In the final 400 meters of the 6K race, she waited back and kept pace while watching Michigan senior Erin Finn take a late lead. Then, Schweizer made her own move, blowing past Finn in the final 100 meters to finish in 19:41 and shocking the heavily

favored Finn and the rest of the crosscountry world.

Even Schweizer said she was surprised how much she had left in her tank.

“I knew I had a kick in me and another gear, and I knew I could catch some of [the leaders], but I didn’t know it was going to be all of them,” Schweizer said. “I didn’t even see the time when I crossed the finish line; I just said, ‘Someone pinch me.’”

The conditions on championship day were not exactly optimal for running.

At race time, the temperature was 39 degrees, with 25 mile per hour winds coming from the northwest. Schweizer, however, was able to use these conditions to her advantage, much to the delight of her head coach, Marc Burns.

“She stayed right in there and battled,” Burns said. “If you go online and watch the race, you can just see it unfolding right into her hands because she looked the most comfortable, the most at ease [and] the most poised. She was in the right spot and shielded from the conditions.”

Like her coach, Schweizer said she thought the cold air and heavy winds would slow down the pace of the race. But Erin Finn and Notre Dame

sophomore Anna Rohrer came out with a blistering pace, and Schweizer decided to hang back and wait to make her move.

“I definitely favor those conditions because I know that anything can happen in them and they can mess up heavy favorites,” she said. “I went out fast, stuck in there and just dealt with the circumstances.”

Since her championship win, Schweizer has been honored at a men’s basketball game and a wrestling match in Jesse Auditorium, gotten a text from Chancellor Hank Foley and received countless notes of congratulations via texts and tweets from people all over the country. But when it came time for the Thanksgiving holiday, nothing was different for her at home.

“My parents [haven’t changed how they treat me],” she said. “They asked me to unload the dishwasher. I was like, ‘But I just won.’ But they said it doesn’t matter.”

Burns said in addition to the team finishing 16th at the NCAA Championships, Schweizer’s win has helped put Missouri’s cross-country program on the map.

“If you’re going to win one NCAA championship, this is the one you want

to win,” he said. “In track, there’s 21 championships on both the men’s and women’s side, but there’s only one crosscountry championship. It’s huge for the program.”

Burns said Schweizer’s ultimate goals do not revolve around her own individual performances but rather how her team does as a whole.

“She knows it’s a team effort, and she’s more excited about being there with her teammates than being there as an individual,” Burns said. “I think that meant more to her than anything. [Her being able to help] her team finish 16th in the country is pretty amazing.”

Schweizer will run again on Thursday at Boston University at an indoor 5K event to try and earn a time to qualify her for the NCAA indoor track championships in March. She will then take a well-earned week off before starting up her track season in full force.

For now, however, Schweizer is still trying to take in all of the support she has received.

“It’s been really nice,” she said. “I couldn’t believe it happened; it was a dream.”

Edited by Peter Baugh pbaugh@themaneater.com

MIZZOU SPORTS thanksgiving week edition

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Diving: Sophomore Kyle Goodwin competing in the Mizzou Invite. (photo by Julia Hansen) Men’s basketball: Sophomore guard Cullen VanLeer pulls up in Monday’s loss against NC Central. (photo by Emil Lippe) Women’s basketball: Junior forward Bri Porter drives in the lane in Tuesday’s win against Western Illinois. (photo by Emil Lippe) Football: Senior safety Brock Bondurant before Friday’s Senior Day win over Arkansas. (photo by Alexzandria Churchill) Volleyball: Freshman Riley Sents digs a bill during a win over Auburn. (photo by Julia Hansen) Swimming: A UNLV swimmer at the Mizzou Invite. (photo by Julia Hansen)