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BUDGET CUTS

The Briefing EMILY GALLION News Director

Education secretary nominee confirmed Tuesday President Donald Trump’s nominee, longtime GOP donor Betsy DeVos, was confirmed Tuesday by a 51-50 Senate vote. The initial vote was tied at 50 and required Vice President Mike Pence to break the tie. DeVos sparked controversy during her confirmation hearings for multiple reasons, including her lack of public school experience, reluctance to uphold Title IX guidelines, and evasion of direct questions from senators.

GREITENS ANNOUNCES MORE CUTS TO UM SYSTEM The State Capitol in Jefferson City. JESSI DODGE | PHOTO EDITOR

The proposed budget cuts of up to $40.4 million will take effect on July 1. SARAH HALLAM Staff Writer

A budget outline released by Gov. Eric Greitens on Thursday proposed cuts of up to $40.4 million to the UM System in the fiscal year 2018. The

proposal comes after $20 million was cut from MU last month, which will take effect this semester. The fiscal year 2018 budget will take effect July 1, 2017. According to the proposed budget outline, some initiatives will receive no state funding in the 2018 fiscal year, including the University of Missouri Cooperative Medicine program and programs at other UM System schools. “These cuts will make it challenging

for the University of Missouri System to meet its critical statewide mission of educating our state’s future workforce, performing lifesaving research, and helping move Missouri’s economy forward,” MU spokesman Christian Basi said in an email. “We will be discussing short- and long-term strategies going forward among the university’s leadership about specifics

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STUDENT ADVOCACY

Midwest March for Life demonstrators pack Capitol Event organizers estimated that there were at least 800 protesters. JACKSON KINKEAD Staff Writer

Pro-life demonstrators filled the Capitol building and sidewalks around downtown Jefferson City on Saturday for the annual Midwest March for Life. Before the start of the march, senior Kristen Wood, president of Mizzou Students for Life, motivated the crowd to join with her and other members in chants such as, “We are

the pro-life generation.” The crowd also yelled more lighthearted chants like, “Hey hey, ho ho, Roe v. Wade has got to go.” The march started at St. Peter Catholic Church around 10 a.m. Organizers encouraged the crowd to be respectful during the threequarter-mile march. “Keep it peaceful,” an organizer told the crowd as demonstrators lined up. “Keep it honorable.” Knights of Columbus members and clergy led the march, followed by a bagpipe procession and the rest of the crowd. The march, despite its size, remained mostly quiet with

only occasional groups of loud chanting. Many demonstrators used the march as an opportunity to get to know other members and organizations of the pro-life movement. Most signs at the event were provided by the organizers at the beginning of the march. One demonstrator who had brought his family carried a sign that read: “Yo soy la generación pro-vida.” “We’re not all white or speak English as our first language,” the demonstrator said. According to the organizers, there were at least 800 demonstrators.

Once the march reached the Capitol building, they lined up to go inside for the rally. Wood, who had been at the March For Life in Washington, D.C. the week prior, said this march was “a very different, less emotional event.” “I wouldn’t say that this has a grand impact, but it shows our support,” Wood said. “It shows our state and country what matters to us.” Once all the demonstrators gathered in the Capitol’s rotunda, the rally opened with a prayer. The event consisted of fairly

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Proposed legislation would end tenure in Missouri Rep. Rick Brattin, R-Harrisonville, has proposed a bill that would end the tenure system in Missouri as a public money-saving strategy. The bill would come into effect in 2018. It would not remove tenure from professors who have already achieved it, but would cease tenure-track hiring, the Kansas City Star reported. Anti-abortion group to protest outside Planned Parenthood Activist group Protest Planned Parenthood will host a rally outside of Columbia’s Planned Parenthood location at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. In protest of that protest, the Missouri Capitol Women’s Caucus will hold a support rally at the same location a half-hour earlier. Another anti-abortion group, Students for Life of America, is hosting a display at the Student Center on Wednesday.

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BOARD OF CURATORS

Greitensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; withdrawal of two curators leaves no student rep on board In total, there are now five vacancies on the nine-person board. ZIA KELLY Staff Writer

With the first Board of Curators meeting of 2017 on Thursday and Friday, the state of the board remains unclear. Newly elected Gov. Eric Greitens withdrew two nominations last week and has yet to make his own appointments â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Â leaving five vacancies on the nine-member board. Greitens withdrew the nominations of Jon Sundvold and Patrick Graham, an MU senior who served as a nonvoting student representative, on Jan. 31. Both were chosen by former Gov. Jay Nixon last June. Though this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meeting is still poised to take place in Columbia, since the board only needs five members present to hold quorum, two curators â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Donald Cupps and Pamela Henrickson â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will be serving past their term expiration until their replacements are confirmed to the positions. At the meeting, the curators are likely to discuss how the system will be dealing with the $31.4 million the legislature cut from the UM System for this fiscal year, as well as the $40 million less the system will be receiving from the state during the 2018 fiscal year. Graham said he submitted his

Gov. Eric Greitens COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

resignation letter to the governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office on Feb. 1 and found out later in the day that his nomination had been withdrawn. However, this does not mean he or Nixonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other three recess appointments â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Sundvold, Tom Voss and Mary Nelson â&#x20AC;&#x201D; may not serve on the board at a later time. Since the four nominees were all recess appointments â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they were made while the legislature was not in session â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they would need to be confirmed by the state senate within the first 30 days of the next legislative session, or else they would become ineligible to serve in their appointed positions. Voss and Nelson resigned last month, avoiding becoming ineligible to serve as curators, and Graham said this was his motivation to resign his position

as well. Graham said he does not know whether the governor will reappoint him for the student representative position, but he said student government leaders are currently taking applications for others interested in the position. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The goal here is to make sure that we minimize the time that the board meets without a student representative,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure what the interview and application process is â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mainly being handled by Missouri Students Association President Sean Earl and Graduate Professional Council President Rachel Bauer.â&#x20AC;? Â The board holds five official meetings per year. With the first meeting of the year next week, Graham said to have a meeting without a student representative is not ideal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am hopeful Gov. Greitens will appoint my replacement and the other curator vacancies as soon as possible,â&#x20AC;? Graham said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know there are a lot of appointments that a new administration has to deal with during their first month in office, but I truly believe the University of Missouri Board of Curators is one of the most important boards in the state.â&#x20AC;? The governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office has not responded to requests for comment. Edited by Kyle LaHucik klahucik@themaneater.com

CORRECTIONS: A previous version of the subheadline of the article â&#x20AC;&#x153;MU professors state concerns over possible repeal of ACAâ&#x20AC;? on page 3 of the Feb. 1, 2017, issue misstated the job title of associate professor Sam Halabi. The Maneater regrets the error. A previous version of the article â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nasty Women Art Exhibit comes to CoMoâ&#x20AC;? on page 8 of the Feb. 1, 2017, issue misstated the name of Artists for Social Justice on first reference. MOVE Magazine regrets the error.

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Online this Week: The Institute for Korean Studies opening, Planned Parenthood protests and counter-protests, and the announcement of the slates running for MSA president and vice president.

MEAL PLANS

CDS changes Tiger Plan marketing in response to feedback FIONA MURPHY Staff Writer

Professor emeritus Boyd O’Dell (right) and professor emerita Grace Sun worked together for a few decades in the MU biochemistry department. Sun said O’Dell has been a role model for her. PHOTO COURTESY OF GRACE SUN.

AFTER 150 SEMESTERS, PROFESSOR CONTINUES TO FOLLOW PASSIONS story by OLIVIA GARRETT Eighty years ago, professor emeritus of biochemistry Boyd O’Dell began taking classes at MU. Now 100 years old, O’Dell, who has made many discoveries and inspired generations of colleagues, can still be found in his office in Eckles Hall. “I have some questions I really would like to answer, and I’d rather think about answering those questions than retiring,” O’Dell said. O’Dell technically retired in 1988, but still does part-time research on campus. In September, a celebration honoring the 40th anniversary of the biochemistry department served as an early 100th birthday

party for O’Dell. In December, a plaque was unveiled, naming the bridge connecting Schweitzer Hall to the Schlundt Annex the Boyd O’Dell Bridge of Discovery. “I hope the bridge will be a bridge to the future for all the students, and progress will be made in research and learning,” O’Dell said at the unveiling. Over the years, O’Dell has served as a mentor and a friend for many of his colleagues and students. Biochemistry professor Judy Wall first met O’Dell when she joined the MU faculty in 1978. “He’s an incredible gentleman, very professional, a great scholar and a truly kind person,” Wall said. Wall remembers when she and

O’Dell were assigned to evaluate a graduate student’s grant proposal for a comprehensive exam. This was Wall’s first time evaluating this type of exam, and the only other female faculty member in the department did not attend their presentations. “I was the sole female faculty member and, you know, a silly person who was in the process of thinking about impressing all of my peers and making sure they didn’t think I was an idiot at the evaluations,” Wall said. “So I was all set for getting this guy because I didn’t think his proposal was great.” O’Dell went first. He discussed the importance of the problem the

for the rest of the story, see page 5 PRESS FREEDOM

J-School faculty assess state of press in Trump era Communications law professor Sandy Davidson: “The press should be a watchdog, not a lapdog.” CLAIRE COLBY Staff Writer

As they train the next generation of journalists, faculty within the School of Journalism are attempting to address concerns with President Donald Trump’s attitudes toward the press. Trump has frequently spoken out against the media. He has called to “open up” libel laws,

making it easier to sue journalists who write unfavorable stories. Working to discredit news sources, Trump tweeted on Feb. 6, “Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election.” In an unprecedented political action, the Committee to Protect Journalists, a nonpartisan advocacy organization, released a statement against Trump during his campaign. “This is not about picking sides in an election. This is recognizing that a Trump presidency represents a threat to press freedom unknown in modern history,” read the statement, which was released

by the organization’s chairman, Sandra Mims Rowe, on Oct. 13, 2016. The U.S. currently ranks No. 41 on the World Press Freedom Index out of 181 countries. In 2002, the U.S. sat at No. 17. Many factors have contributed to this downturn, from the use of the Espionage Act to target journalists to the lack of federal shield laws. “We like to think that the press is the voice of the people, or working on behalf of the people,” journalism professor Brett Johnson said. “But there’s been a successful move by people in power, particularly the

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After several meetings with Missouri Students Association representatives, Campus Dining Services has made changes to its marketing of the Tiger Plan. Last semester, MSA showed concern about the misleading messages CDS used when marketing for the plan. “Originally, there wasn’t enough advertising as to where to use the Tiger Plan, how to spend your money properly to come out on top or at least to break even,” said Hunter Windholz, MSA Campus and Community Relations chairman. “That advertising for it just wasn’t there.” CDS updated its landing page on the website to include “How to Maximize the Tiger Plan Value” and “Breaking Down the Tiger Plan.” Both pages explain where students can go to get the most value out of the plan. CDS also organized a focus group to get the feedback of five students who used the Tiger Plan last semester. “The feedback was very positive,” CDS marketing manager Mike Wuest said in an email. “We learned students primarily ate in central campus (around the Student Center). Flexibility of where they could dine was really important. We learned that students only eat in the dining halls when they have time, so that’s why the Tiger Plan worked best for their schedule.” Students who signed up for the Tiger Plan will receive weekly emails from CDS clarifying how to use the plan, as well as a monthly balance email tracking where students are spending their money. Despite marketing changes, Tiger Plan users continue to swipe most frequently at Mort’s and Mizzou Market Hitt Street, according to CDS plan data. Mort’s and Mizzou Market are a-la-carte locations. For users of the Tiger Plan to save money on the plan, they need to eat at a-la-carte locations for only 17 percent of their meals. “The data hasn’t changed much, unfortunately most students are still eating at the Hitt Street Mizzou Market,” Windholz said. “[CDS Director Julaine Kiehn] justified this as the Subway being there, and the $5 footlong becomes a $4 footlong. There’s high traffic in Mort’s and Plaza 900 right behind the Mizzou Market. Ideally, you’d want to see Plaza on top.” CDS says it plans to continue meeting with the Tiger Plan focus group to monitor the plan’s success with students. “MSA is on board with the progression of the Tiger Plan that we have seen thus far,” Windholz said. “We are still hoping to see the signs advertising the specific percentage off for each of the dining locations go up.” CDS plans to continue the Tiger Plan next year. Edited by Emily Gallion egallion@themaneater.com

are predatory to AfricanAmerican communities. “Black lives matter in and out of the womb,” Bomberger said. “Planned Parenthood is the leading killer of unarmed black lives.” Bomberger finished his speech with a standing ovation from the crowd. The rally closed with a prayer, and then the demonstrators were invited to a lunch and fundraiser event at a nearby church. Edited by Kyle LaHucik klahucik@themaneater.com

respectfully.” Smith, who chairs the business journalism department at MU, noted the historical relationship between the press and the government. “The fact that politicians don’t like or sometimes even demonize the press, it’s actually a fairly common thing,” Smith said. “It comes and it goes, but I think that the overall message is that we need to continue to do our jobs and do them fairly and effectively, no matter who’s in office.” Like Smith, communications law professor Sandy Davidson is comforted by studying the historical trends and patterns in American journalism. “The press has had cozier relationships with some presidents than others,” she said. “The press should be a watchdog, not a lapdog. I

think that we don’t want a press who is too cozy with the government. You can’t, in my opinion, give appropriate oversight if you are too close. You need to be arms length. On the other hand, you don’t want total contention between the government and the press.” Davidson, who has been teaching at the school since 1989, is not unusually concerned by the new administration. “I don’t want to see anything couched in terms of, ‘because of Trump, now journalism professors have to take note,’” she said. “Professors of journalism have had to take note through every administration. It’s not a partisan thing. There’s a party in power, and you have to pay attention.” Edited by Madi McVan mmcvan@themaneater.com

and then,” Chaffin said. “But

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have reached a post-truth or post-fact era with politics. I think that journalists are responding to that,” he said. “My colleagues and I are encouraging aspiring journalists to remember that truth-telling is the cornerstone of journalism, not just balancing a truth with a falsehood.” Others are more hopeful, especially when considering America’s historical relationship with the press. Journalism professor Randall Smith, for example, received his bachelor’s degree in 1974 when the Watergate scandal was unfolding. “I’ve seen this kind of vilification of the press before,” he said. “I think that it just comes with the territory of being a journalist. We just need to continue to aggressively do our job, as long as we’re fair and accurate and we treat people

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the existence of climate change. “Balance for the sake of balance, or the idea that the press needs to give equal weight to one side or another regardless of the context of the story, regardless of how outlandish a claim may be, that’s something that just needs to stop,” Johnson said. “At some point, we need to end this vicious cycle. We’re going to have a very meek and timid and uncourageous press, and that is a world that I do not want to live in.” Professor Ryan Thomas, who works with Johnson to teach the principles course, echoed those sentiments. “Rather than giving the audience the false impression that the two sides are equal, [journalists should be] saying that one is actually true,” he said. “Particularly over the last year with the most recent election, I think we

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Planned Parenthood. Vansen Wong, a former Planned Parenthood physician, focused on the lack of training he said many Planned Parenthood physicians and nurses had. “From a doctor’s perspective, the conventions Planned Parenthood works under is disgusting,” Wong said. After Wong, Ryan Bomberger called Planned Parenthood “Planned Propaganda.” Bomberger is the founder of the prolife, nonprofit organization Radiance Foundation. Bomberger said the clinics

current administration, to really try to break that relationship between the press and the public. And that’s concerning.” Johnson, who teaches an introductory course on the principles of American journalism, works to dispel the myth of “false balance” as a journalistic technique. Instead of putting stories in a full and relevant context, journalists give equal space to all sides of an argument. According to peer-reviewed studies by NASA, for example, 97 percent of scientists believe in climate change. Yet certain news outlets, such as the BBC, have come under fire for giving equal coverage to those who deny

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Means said she was happy that Missouri had elected leaders who “loved babies” but still promoted women’s health care with pregnancy help centers and familyoriented rehabs. Van Means said voters were unhappy with prochoice policies so more people, including “Catholics, Protestants and Ku Klux Klan” members, came out to vote for pro-life politicians. “We have a pro-life president,” Van Means said to standing ovation. “We have a pro-life governor.” The rally closed with two speakers who focused on

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urged the crowd to lobby against the Board Bill 203. The bill would designate reproductive health decisions and pregnancy status as protected classes in St. Louis. Nolkemper said this bill would make prolife employers, landlords and health care providers susceptible to fines. Bridget Van Means, president of St. Louis women’s healthcare organization ThriVe Express Women’s Healthcare, presented awards to pro-life state legislators who had worked on legislation against Planned Parenthood. Van

well-known speakers in the Midwest’s pro-life movement. The first speaker was Reagan Barklage, founder of Mizzou Students for Life. “We are the pro-life generation, and we are going to abolish abortion in our lifetime,” Barklage said. Later, speaker Karen Nolkemper, who is the executive director of Respect Life Apostolate of the Archdiocese of St. Louis,

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“Declining funding for higher education impacts all UM students, and making those human costs clear to lawmakers is a central tenet of our program, each and every year,” Chaffin said. Chaffin also said that while these recommendations should be taken seriously, they are just that — recommendations, and this is the first step in a multistage process. “Some of these numbers are likely to change, and

to address the decrease in funding, as we have in the past in these circumstances.” In-state students are currently protected from tuition hikes by a stateimposed tuition cap that ties the price of college to the Consumer Price Index, but that cap may be adjusted

more important to us,” said Steven Chaffin, executive director of the Associated Students of the University of Missouri, a group that lobbies lawmakers on behalf of the UM System. “I don’t pretend to know how to balance that trade-off.” ASUM works to represent students by sitting down with lawmakers twice a week and having one-onone conversations about technical and personal issues that affect college students.

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in the future due to the budget cuts. For the time being, because in-state tuition cannot be adjusted to accommodate the loss of revenue from the state, universities will have to make up for it in other ways. These decisions will be made largely by campus chancellors and their staff, as well as UM System administration. “As undesirable as the situation is, we really need to get thinking about whether affordability or quality is

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100-year-old professor emeritus continues research continued from page 3 student had addressed and the strengths of the work before introducing criticism. “That was a wonderful experience for me because I thought that’s exactly the way you should do it,” Wall said. “You have to earn the right to criticize by showing that you understand what’s going on and you have to earn the right to begin to make constructive suggestions. Dr. O’Dell had shown me that was the professional way of going about it.” Wall uses this same approach any time she has to evaluate anything in a similar manner. “He didn’t realize, and I don’t think I realized at the time, that he was mentoring me, but he certainly was,” Wall said. O’Dell decided to pursue education because he admired his teachers, who were his first role models. “I always had an ambition to be a teacher,” O’Dell said. “What did a farm boy in Carroll County have as role models? There was two things that I can think of, teacher was the most obvious one, and veterinarian.” O’Dell was born on a farm outside of Hale, Missouri, on Oct. 14, 1916. Becoming a veterinarian wasn’t an option he considered because it wasn’t a financial possibility. “My parents were just poor farmers, and they couldn’t help me,” he said. “I had to pave my way.” The summer after he graduated high school, O’Dell took an examination to become a teacher. “I passed all subjects with high scores except one, and that was pedagogy,” O’Dell said. “I didn’t even know what pedagogy was. I suppose it’s the art of teaching.” That summer, O’Dell took classes at the University of Central Missouri, which was known as Warrensburg Teachers College at the time. He then began working in a one-room schoolhouse, where he taught first through eighth grade. “It was kind of fun in retrospect,” O’Dell said. “And that was in the depths of the Depression, to be paid $50 a month was a very good job. A lot of people were unable to even find a job.” Because he wanted to continue his education, O’Dell left the grade school after four years. “After a few years I transferred to the university here and got jobs one way or another and was able to support myself,” he said. He wanted to study bacteriology, but MU didn’t have a program, so O’Dell was advised to become a

chemistry major. “I worked for Dr. A.G. Hogan, who was my mentor for my Ph.D. At that time, he was interested in a vitamin that now is known as folic acid,” O’Dell said. O’Dell went on to work for a pharmaceutical company in Detroit after receiving his degree. With the end of World War II, MU saw an increase in students and invited O’Dell back to become a professor. “Coming back to Mizzou was kind of an easy choice because that was home. I’m a Missourian through and through,” O’Dell said. O’Dell then studied the existence of unknown vitamins as an assistant professor.

Professor emeritus Boyd O’Dell COURTESY OF BIOCHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT

“At that time, an assistant professor was really an assistant to the professor,” O’Dell said. “When I became a little further along and had the independence, I still followed the question of, are there still unknown vitamins?” O’Dell went on to study the role of copper and zinc in the body. Among his discoveries was the revelation that copper deficiencies in animals can cause death through the rupture of the aorta, in the heart. “The opportunity arose for me to go on a sabbatical to Australia,” O’Dell said. “And why would I want to go to Australia? If you’re interested in copper, it’s the place to go because much of the soil in Australia is copper-deficient.” In Australia, O’Dell saw that copper deficiency in sheep can cause symptoms similar to Parkinson’s disease. He later observed the same results in rats. “We became interested in zinc deficiency around the same time,”

O’Dell said. “We found that zinc deficiency in animals stops growth and causes increased subject to disease. Diarrhea is a common complaint of zinc-deficient animals and children.” He then discovered that phytic acid, which appears in plants such as soybeans and corn, can actually impact the way the body absorbs zinc. “Scientists want to know why does zinc deficiency cause these signs and symptoms in humans and animals,” O’Dell said. “I’ve been interested in trying to solve that question for quite a number of years.” O’Dell is currently researching the importance of zinc in maintaining calcium channels. “If you think back of all the factors that a cell does, a cell divides, a cell secretes, contracts and carries messages,” O’Dell said. “All of this is dependent on a calcium channel, and if you take away zinc, the channel fails and you get all these symptoms. I think that that is the true, fundamental function of zinc — to maintain the calcium channel.” O’Dell and Wall, a professor of biochemistry, have since worked together on a variety of committees and both taught biochemistry to first-year medical students. “He was always incredibly prepared, just beautiful lectures and so absolutely timely,” Wall said. “He knew the literature and was just great.” Another of O’Dell’s colleagues, professor emerita of biochemistry Grace Sun, also spoke of O’Dell’s role as a mentor. “Right now, I’ve been retired for two years only and he’s been retired for many more years,” Sun said. “I would say that he’s a role model for me, and I wish I could do half as much like him.” The two became friends in the ’80s, when a colleague Sun had met while working as a visiting professor in Taiwan came to MU to study with O’Dell. O’Dell and his wife used to throw parties around the holidays where they would serve American foods, Sun said. “We loved it because we have a lot of international students and he has always a group of them,” Sun said. “At the time, he was like a hub for the international students.” Sun says O’Dell still interacts with colleagues and former research assistants by attending seminars and events on campus. “I remember one time, this must have been four or five years ago,

and he’s way over 90 and he wrote me an email,” Sun said. “He read a paper and then he said, ‘Hey, Grace, maybe we can work together to do something on this area.’ I was so shocked. I was really amazed how he must be reading a lot of papers at home or in his office.” Now, O’Dell does experiments once or twice a week with cells that are grown in the Life Science Building. “I asked to use the equipment and I think they decided they better volunteer to do some of the work rather than trust me,” O’Dell said with a laugh. An undergraduate was assigned to help O’Dell grow and transfer the cells, Wall said. “It came holiday time, and the undergraduate was coming up on holiday, and so instead of imposing on this woman, Boyd decided he would just teach himself how to culture the human tissue culture, and so he did it,” Wall said. “Every day he would come over and transfer his cells and work with his cells. He walks over form Eckles to the Life Sciences Center and back again and has learned how to do this. What a terrifically fearless person he is when it comes to science.” O’Dell doesn’t just walk across campus; he also walks from his house every time he comes to do research. “Most of my career I rode a bicycle to work,” O’Dell said. “I don’t have a car, and I don’t ride my bicycle anymore — that leaves walking. I like walking. I think it’s good exercise, and I need exercise.” O’Dell’s daughter Ann, who lives in Columbia, helps drive him when he needs to go shopping and eats with him every week. O’Dell has a son, David, who lives in California, as well as four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Outside of science, O’Dell’s hobbies include photography and bird-watching. “I was always interested in birdwatching and nature work; I guess that might fall from the science,” O’Dell said. “Even when I was teaching at the grade school, I had projects for the kids where we’d collect plants.” After 100 years, O’Dell recognizes the importance of lifelong learning and following one’s interests. “I think you should, in general even beyond science, you should pick a job or do what you have a real passion for,” O’Dell said. “I think if you really are keenly interested in it you will be successful.” Edited by Kyle LaHucik klahucik@themaneater.com

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Why it’s not OK to say ‘not like other girls’

This “compliment” insults an entire gender and shows you don’t actually like women. HANNAH WENTE Opinion Columnist

Hannah Wente is an opinion columnist for The Maneater who writes about feminist issues. “You’re not like other girls,” a man says to a woman. “You’re different.” She’s supposed to be thrilled that this guy sees her inner uniqueness and beauty. She’s supposed to blush and say thank you. But wait. What’s wrong with other girls? What’s wrong with being a woman? We all want to feel special. It feeds into that adolescent insecurity that we are ordinary and boring and will never stand out to our

seventh-grade crush in the hallway. That is why this trope is such a staple of novels marketed at teenage girls. A perfect, handsome and often supernatural guy comes along and sweeps the damsel off her feet, seeing a special light in her that her uncivilized peers have missed. She’s “not like those other girls.” But what does that even mean? It implies half the world’s population is all the same. It says that feminine things are ultimately inferior to things that are masculine. It also says women are one-dimensional. They only like specifically feminine things. They can’t like both shopping at the mall and playing sports. Girls can’t watch chick flicks and also care about politics. The “other girls” are usually stereotypes, obsessed with “girly things.” They are thought of as shallow and dumb because of these feminine interests. When you say “you’re not like other girls” or “I’m not like other girls,” it shows that you don’t like most girls automatically. It tells us you

think being a girl is a bad thing. It says you don’t see them as multidimensional people. It also puts women into a competition with each other that they didn’t ask for. Society doesn’t constantly compare males to each other this way. Apparently, a woman can’t be praised without putting her whole gender down in the same sentence. Women don’t need to be complimented like this. It’s an insult at the same time. It’s saying a part of her, her gender, is inferior. It’s insulting her mother, her sisters and all women as it “compliments” her. Women are varied and unique people. We can get excited about New York Fashion week and kick your ass on the soccer field. We can flawlessly contour our faces, get a hundred Instagram likes and still get that job at a Fortune 500 company. There’s no point in tearing down our whole gender trying to impress one person.

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THE FIFTH LAP

The United States needs to follow Mexico’s lead: We need a soda tax KURTIS DUNLAP Opinion Columnist

Kurtis Dunlap is a fifth-year senior who writes as a columnist for The Maneater. Everyone loves a little sugar. Whether it’s a candy bar in the middle of the day or a piece of chocolate cake after dinner, Americans love our sugar. We love it so much that we ignore, or just don’t care about, the amount of sugar in our soft drinks. It is time we stop blaming the big corporations for America’s obesity rate and just admit that we are the ones making ourselves obese. A 12-ounce can of CocaCola has 39 grams of sugar in it. A 20-ounce bottle of Mountain Dew has 77 grams of sugar. The World Health Organization recommends that a person with an average Body Mass Index, or BMI, should consume about 25 grams per day. But many people don’t realize the total amount of sugar they are

consuming because food companies are not required to put the daily value of sugar in the nutritional information of their products. It is not corporations’ fault that you drink their product. It is your fault for not being aware and conscious of what you are putting in your body. Over 100 million people watch the Super Bowl each year. Many watch for the football, while another audience tunes in just for the commercials. Companies have paid millions of dollars for these commercials because they know millions of people will watch them. Companies like Coca-Cola and Pepsi have been mainstays in Super Bowl commercials for decades. We are a country that has become so consumed by sugary drinks that I have seen people walking out of the gym guzzling down a Pepsi. Now tell me, where the logic is in that? America has an obesity rate of 36.5 percent, according to the CDC. That means that more than one in three adult Americans is obese in this country. Some of these people may have bad genetics or

hormonal imbalances that can influence their weight, but the majority of Americans are just naive to what they are putting in their bodies Mexico is one of the more obese countries in the world, and in 2013 they implemented a “sugar tax.” Since then, they are consuming fewer soft drinks and other sweet beverages. Mexico realized it had a problem and dealt with it. America needs to realize it has a problem as well. Government regulation is

a scary phrase to some, but without it, there would be anarchy. And right now, we need some regulation or we are going to continue drinking ourselves into more heart disease, strokes and Type 2 diabetes. For decades, people thought cigarettes weren’t harmful because big corporations paid lobbyist groups in Washington, D.C. to hide the fact that they caused cancer. The same thing is happening now, only we know what too much sugar does to our bodies

and we still do nothing. How long do we have to go with continually higher obesity rates before we realize it is time to change? Will it be after your kids get diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes? I hope for your sake, and for all our sakes, that the next time you go to grab a Coke or a sweet tea at a restaurant that you think about what you are about to drink and then maybe, just maybe, order a water.

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GETTING DOWN TO BIZZNESS

Columbia police chief needs to acknowledge racial profiling Black drivers in Columbia are three times more likely to be pulled over by Columbia Police Department officers than white drivers, according to a report from the Missouri Attorney General’s office. The search rate for black drivers, 17.71 percent, is more than twice the search race of white drivers, 8.27 percent, even though contraband items were found with white drivers almost 7 percent more than with black drivers. The numbers show that CPD has a serious problem with racially profiling drivers. The report prompted a town hall meeting on Jan. 30., and residents looked to see how CPD Chief Ken Burton would react. “I’ve got a stubborn streak in me, and when I looked at the data I said, ‘That’s not enough data for me.’ I still believe that, and I think we need to look into it more,” Burton said. The problem with Burton’s denial

is that the data is not a sampling or an independent investigation. The conclusions were made based on the data of all stops and searches of 2015, which was provided to the attorney general by CPD. These are raw numbers coming straight from the department itself. The data provided was literally all of the numbers that exist relating to racial profiling in 2015. It is not possible to get more data. To not recognize a problem with this data is to turn a blind eye to an obvious issue affecting community members. It is reasonable to think that a police chief may not recognize an internal problem to protect his own officers, but to deny the problem is to put the reputation of the police department over the wellbeing of the community that the department is serving. When black people are 10 percent of the city’s population but make up almost 30 percent of traffic stops, it shows that

a change of practice is needed. To its credit, CPD is making some changes. To reduce debate about whether verbal consent to search a vehicle was given, a new policy requires police to fill out a consentto-search form. Officers will ask the driver to sign it to consent to a vehicle search if the officer does not have a warrant or probable cause. Other new initiatives include increased training and an apprenticeship program to recruit more minorities to the police force. But studies show that a police officer’s race does not have a strong correlation with how officers treat members of the public. The numbers speak, and the Columbia police — and the department’s chief — need to listen. Racial profiling is a real problem in Columbia that needs to be recognized and addressed so the department can work with the community toward a solution.

HERE’S A WHO

Being a people-pleaser can be a real problem KENNEDY HORTON Opinion Columnist

Kennedy Horton is an opinion columnist who writes about student life for The Maneater. Some of us are people-pleasers; it’s a blessing and a curse. It’s nice to be that person who is always readily available and reliable, but it can become mentally, emotionally and physically taxing. I often find myself involved in unwanted plans, up late in unwanted conversations and stressed out by others’ problems. It’s a serious problem that ties you to either the guilt of saying no to someone or the burden of saying yes when you didn’t want to. People-pleasing is a legitimate issue, perhaps stemming from a lack of self-confidence and a need for outward validation. We hate to tell people no, because we don’t want to be perceived as selfish or lazy. For some reason, I have always felt like I have a duty to the people who request my time and energy. I’m constantly telling myself that if they didn’t need me, they wouldn’t reach out to me. If I needed somebody, I

would want them to be there for me, so I should do the same. This is not a realistic mindset, and despite what a people-pleaser may think, it is not egotistical to take care of yourself. You know how when you’re on an airplane and they tell you that if the oxygen masks drop, you should secure yours first before helping the person next to you? Well, airlines didn’t make that up — that’s more or less how we’re supposed to operate in real life. That’s not to say your life must be perfect before you can help anyone else, because that will never happen. More so, it is increasingly difficult to continually put another person’s weight on your shoulders when you have not yet shouldered your own weight. I’m guilty of putting myself on the back burner in a lot of my friendships. I accuse myself of not being a true friend when I don’t pick up the phone or take a raincheck on dinner plans. If I’m on the phone with a friend, I’ll stay on for hours until they’re ready to get off. If a friend and I are regularly eating dinner at a place I hate, I’ll continue eating there until the end of time because they like it. Most of the time my friends don’t know because I just don’t say anything. That’s why communication is so important.

There’s no need to fear being disliked or cut from a friendship for taking time for yourself. If a “friend” has an issue with that, then the relationship probably needs a check-up. Your friends should want the best for you and should want to compromise with you for the sake of the friendship. The chance of them ending the friendship over being told “no” is slim; they’re more likely to be thinking about who they’ll ask next rather than how to take anything out on you. People are almost always thinking about and reacting to themselves. Realize that you are your own friend. Understand that you cannot do it all. Give yourself a break. Start small, and remind yourself that being assertive doesn’t mean being aggressive. Most importantly, be honest with the people you care about. When you bite off more than you can chew, it typically results in everyone’s time being wasted. I’ve been there. It’s no fun, and it brings up the hurt feelings I was trying to prevent in the first place. I’m still learning, but I’d like to think I’m getting better. Maybe I’ll always be a people-pleaser and maybe that’s OK, as long as one of those people I’m pleasing is me.

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Beyoncé’s pregnancy is more than pop culture During a controversial time in America, Beyoncé’s baby news is an uplifting distraction. BIZZY EMERSON Opinion Columnist

Bizzy Emerson is a junior journalism major at MU. She writes about pop culture for The Maneater. Beyoncé is the greatest living artist of our generation. This may be a bold claim, but in an attempt to compare her to another pop culture figure, I can’t think of anyone quite as influential. Madonna comes to mind, but she can’t touch what Queen Bey has done for women of color. Perhaps Michael Jackson comes close, but Beyoncé’s fierce female empowerment puts her miles ahead of him. When I think of Beyoncé, I think of a warrior, an ethereal goddess, a social justice champion and a truly one-of-a-kind talent. On Feb. 1, Beyoncé announced via Instagram that she is pregnant — with twins, no less. Understandably, the world was shook. The photo now holds the record for the most likes on an Instagram photo ever. According to Twitter, half a million tweets were sent about the announcement in just 45 minutes. It’s interesting that this pregnancy announcement coincides with the beginning of Donald Trump’s presidency. Although he’s only been in office a short amount of time, Trump’s executive order regarding immigration has rocked the nation, instilling contempt and fear in the American people. Likewise, Bey’s baby news comes on the heels of the nationwide Women’s March, a movement organized by women wanting, by and large, equity in society and access to affordable reproductive health care. Considering the political climate America is currently operating in, it’s difficult not to view Beyoncé’s pregnancy as a public symbol for hope. If even for a day, it ignited excitement and joy in an enormous body of people, uniting fans in happiness rather than the horror they’ve been grappling with during Trump’s presidency. It’s uplifting and enlightening that so many people can share in a powerful woman’s pregnancy. Had this been another celebrity’s pregnancy announcement, I’m not sure it would’ve received the same fanfare. There’s something unique about Beyoncé. She genuinely moves people. She is elegant and strong in equal measure. Though this news is just a tiny distraction from what’s going on in the world, it meant everything to America. That speaks volumes.

8 A pitcher-perfect Valentine’s Day Learn how to drink like a pro with these sophisticated Valentine’s Day drinks.

If you’ve already picked out his and hers towels and want to grow old together, then His and Hers Cocktails are perfect for you. With these two different cocktails, you can sip them separately with your dinner and then kiss to mix them! When mixed, you get the perfect pairing of sweet vanilla and raspberry chocolate. If you like being put on a throne and waved with enormous palm tree leaves, then Nectar of the Gods is the drink for you. With this sweet champagne, you can sit back and relax like the god or goddess you are. Just play some Trey Songz and kick it in the bathtub.

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DIRECTIONS:

2 fluid ounces vanilla vodka 1 fluid ounce hazelnut liqueur

-Prepare his cocktail by pouring the vanilla vodka and hazelnut liqueur into a rocks glass over ice. -Pour the contents of the glass into a cocktail shaker, then pour back into the rocks glass to mix.

HER INGREDIENTS: 1 fluid ounce raspberry vodka 1 fluid ounce crème de cacao 1 teaspoon chocolate syrup 1 fluid ounce half-and-half cream 2 maraschino cherries

Valentine’s Day on the Rocks INGREDIENTS:

DIRECTIONS:

1 ½ ounces cherry vodka 4 ounces ginger ale Splash of Grenadine 1 cherry

-Mix ingredients in a glass filled with ice -Garnish with a cherry.

Bitter and B old Sangria INGREDIENTS: 2 cups red wine ½ cup cranberry syru p 5 ounces bourbon 5 ounces Campari 1 orange (quartered and sliced) Chilled seltzer for serving Fresh cranberries (hal ved)

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DIRECTIONS : -Combine red win e, cranberry syrup, bourbon and Campari in a quart jar or pitcher and stir to combine. -Add half the ora nge slices and refr igerate until completely cool. -To serve, put ½ cup of the sangria con centrate into each glass and top with 2-3 oun ces of seltzer. -Garnish with one or two of the rem aining fresh orange slic es and a small han dful of halved cranberrie s.

This is the drink you’ve all been waiting for! No matter if you love Valentine’s Day or hate it, this drink will have you pretending like you’re curing a hangover, but it really just soothes your heart from the day before. The Chocolate Coffee Kiss looks and tastes like coffee, but has a little liquor twist so we don’t have to go through the “day after” alone.

-Kiss to mix flavors.

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Krista Biggar Reporter

If you can’t stand the sight of foolish young couples holding hands and looking lovingly into each other’s eyes, then Bitter and Bold Sangria is the best for you. With its deceiving base of red wine and cranberry syrup, this devilish drink will have you running for the hills when all is said and done. The aged bourbon is suitable for those who want a drink just like them, aged and bitter! (We still love you.)

-Prepare her cocktail by pouring the raspberry vodka and crème de cacao into a cocktail shaker over ice. -Cover and shake until the outside of the shaker has frosted. -Strain into a martini glass rimmed with chocolate syrup, pour in the half-and-half, and garnish with maraschino cherries.

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Drinks

Chocolate Coffee Kiss INGREDIENTS:

1 teaspoon brandy-based orange liqueur (Grand Marnier) 1 cup hot brewed coffee 2 tablespoons whipped cream 1 maraschino cherry

DIRECTIONS: -In a coffee mug, combine coffee liqueur, Irish cream, crème de cacao and Grand Marnier. -Fill mug with hot coffee. -Top with a dollop of whipped cream, drizzle with chocolate syrup, and garnish with maraschino cherry.

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MUSIC COLUMN

G#’s Musical Radar: New bands, same style Columnist Grant Sharples finds modern counterparts of older bands. GRANT SHARPLES MOVE Columnist

Grant Sharples is a sophomore who writes about music for MOVE Magazine. It’s a common occurrence in music for sounds to refilter themselves through different eras and artists. Every artist is inspired in some way by older music. It’s probable that many indie rock bands wouldn’t exist without The Smiths or The Cure. So what would be today’s The Smiths or today’s The Cure?

I’m not asking this in terms of influence and overall significance, but more in terms of style and sound. It would be very difficult to pinpoint an artist as revolutionary as The Cure or The Smiths. Without further ado, let’s get started. SMASHING PUMPKINS/ SILVERSUN PICKUPS ’90s alternative rock band Smashing Pumpkins pioneered the fuzzy guitar/ shoegaze sound. Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness have lived on to be some of the most revolutionary alternative rock albums of all time, inspiring artists such as M83, Bombay Bicycle Club and Muse. Silversun Pickups, however, are most notably influenced by Smashing Pumpkins. Silversun Pickups are wellknown for their fuzzed-out guitars and vocalist Brian Aubert’s androgynous voice.

These are crucial elements of Smashing Pumpkins, and it’s very evident that their sound was reincarnated in the mid-2000s with Silversun Pickups’ debut album. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN/ THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM Everyone knows Bruce, but not everyone might know about The Gaslight Anthem, a rock band from New Jersey that surfaced in 2007 with its debut LP, Sink or Swim. The band characterizes the kind of driven, distorted guitar rock music that Bruce Springsteen is known for. The two artists have even become great friends. The Boss himself performed onstage with The Gaslight Anthem. They have reciprocated the act by covering one of Springsteen’s songs, “Atlantic City.” PIXIES/CAR SEAT HEADREST ’90s alt-rockers Pixies are

similar to Smashing Pumpkins in the sense that their albums (particularly Surfer Rosa and Doolittle) have spawned the formation of many bands. Last spring, indie-rock group Car Seat Headrest released its breakthrough record, Teens of Denial, which achieved critical and commercial success. Vocalist Will Toledo’s angsty, cracking vocals and the band’s transitions from quiet verses to loud choruses replicate the vital facets of the Pixies. THE SMITHS/VAMPIRE WEEKEND Vampire Weekend may not get as political with its music as The Smiths did, but both bands have that clean, plucky guitar sound. The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr had incredible guitar work that was simultaneously melodic and rhythmic. Vampire Weekend attains this sound with its guitars

and electronic elements, especially on the band’s third record, Modern Vampires of the City. Vampire Weekend vocalist and guitarist Ezra Koenig has even noted The Smiths as one of his primary influences. THE BEATLES/THE SHINS The Beatles were brimming with backing harmonies, prominent guitars and memorable melodies. It was a simple instrumentation that brought about a new age of music. While The Shins aren’t as revolutionary as The Beatles were, their overall style is comparable. Vocalist James Mercer creates melodies that are memorable and catchy, yet complex and unpredictable. Simple chord progressions and backup harmonies are also common elements between the two bands.

FOR THE LOVE OF MOVIES

Promising films coming to Columbia theaters First Maneater SPEAKER Here’s a look at the most anticipated films coming to local theaters. NICK CORDER MOVE Columnist

Nick Corder writes about contemporary cinema for MOVE Magazine. Awards season is the happiest time of year for the avid cinephile. Unfortunately, the Oscars mark the end of awards season, and the Feb. 26 ceremony is fastapproaching. But a host of promising films are coming to Columbia soon, and MOVE Magazine has the lowdown on the most anticipated titles. Get Out, coming Feb. 24, is a horror film, with racial themes, written and directed by Jordan Peele of comedy duo Key and Peele. Although it is not Peele’s usual territory, the film received favorable reviews at Sundance. Matt Singer of ScreenCrush said the film “does what all great horror movies do: turn real world anxieties into the stuff of nightmares.” Get Out will screen at Goodrich Forum 8 and Regal Columbia Stadium 14. Logan, coming out March 3 at Goodrich Forum 8, is the newest addition to Marvel’s X-Men series. It follows Wolverine as he aids a sickly Professor X near the Mexican border. Everything changes

for the duo when a new mutant, a young girl, steps into the picture. Over the past decade, movies about the adamantium-clawed mutant have gotten better and better. Logan is likely to follow the pattern. Elle, coming out March 10 at Ragtag Cinema, is a sexuallycharged psychological thriller coming from the mind behind Total Recall and Basic Instinct, director Paul Verhoeven. Isabelle Huppert won a Golden Globe for her portrayal of a video game executive caught in the middle of mysteries at work and at home. Enigmatic and riveting, Elle is a truly unique moviegoing experience that should not be missed.

Matt Singer of ScreenCrush said the film “does what all great horror movies do: turn real world anxieties into the stuff of nightmares.” Beauty and the Beast, coming out March 17, is Disney’s newest live-action pursuit. Starring Emma Watson as Belle, the film has already created quite a stir among excited Disney fans. It’s an almost assured spring box office success. A quick

glance at the trailer reveals that the all the hype may not be in vain. Beauty and the Beast will be released at both Goodrich Forum 8 and Regal Columbia Stadium 14. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, coming out May 5 at Goodrich Forum 8, will be the first of many summer Hollywood blockbusters to get to theaters in Columbia. Chris Pratt returns to the screen as Peter Quill, also known as Star-Lord, with his adventurous group of intergalactic misfits, including a talking raccoon and moving tree. If nothing else, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is sure to feature a stellar soundtrack. Alien: Covenant, coming out May 19 at Goodrich Forum 8, is Ridley Scott’s attempt at bridging the gap between two of his most popular films: Alien (1979) and Prometheus (2012). As a result, this film has garnered both critical and commercial attention, making it one of the most anticipated movies of 2017. Expect an immersive thrill ride that blends the best of past and present. Ridley Scott will not let down. There are a host of movies not mentioned that might find their way into local theaters. Ragtag Cinema has expressed interest in screening the celebrated German film, Toni Erdmann; an adaptation of the English novel The Sense of an Ending; and a convent drama starring Alicia Vikander called Tulip Fever.

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From Disney to long-distance, love is a game of pinball RASHI SHRIVASTAVA MOVE Columnist

Most of you have probably played pinball in your life. My erratic experience of “love” with a person outside my kith and kin has always been much like watching a game of pinball: unpredictable and all over the place. When I was young, I was infatuated with the idea of infatuation. I like to conveniently blame cheesy romantic movies for this. For hours at length, I would ogle the magical and exciting love that the lead actress would dream about, and fortunately for her, Prince Charming would be at the doorstep the next morning. What I failed to realize, however, is that movies leave out so much about realistic love. Stirring false hope in the hearts of little girls, Disney forgot to mention that sometimes Prince Charming just doesn’t show up. Sometimes Cinderella is a blithering mess, and the fairy godmother may not be around to wave her magical wand. So, in stage one of this bewildering experience of “love,” I was downright delusional, immature and had no idea what I was in for. Nevertheless, I bathed in an emotion I can only describe as pure childish excitement.

At that point of time, the only thing I knew about the feeling was that it was new. There was anxiety and giddiness. As an early teen, I played hide and seek, hiding from the bitter truth and seeking joyful memories. For a few years, I was successful at this game of hide and seek. Then a meteorite called puberty hit my world and everything went into state of absolute mayhem. The game was no longer fun like it used to be. I was juggling a thousand things at once — trying to balance school work, social life and responsibility toward family. There was slim chance of fitting in a love life between all that. But my childhood feelings circled back and hit me like a flaming ball of fire. In high school, every trivial detail tends to be magnified and overthought. Selfconsciousness and society’s expectations zeroed in on me. A person I was beginning to have a special connection with became a stranger. It all felt like an act, like one of those cheesy romantic movies minus the romance, and we were the playing the lead roles. Finally, it was over. Lesson learnt. Chapter closed. Wrong. The chapter never really closed. I was in my senior year at high school,

dedicated to my dream of being a writer, basking in the bliss of being single. I had come a long way since the hide-and-seek days, and I felt

was, in fact, real; Disney may be right about some things. I was so busy treasuring the precious moments that I didn’t realize that time was slipping

What would a mature person do? Stop when needed and think practically about the future. Fortunately, my maturity went flying out the window as I fell in love with the idea of love for the third time. more confident and mature. What do mature people do when it comes to love? They accept the people and situations they are in and they nurture friendship with their past mistakes. I too began thinking the same way. If love didn’t work out, we can surely give friendship a try. There were three months left to depart for college, and I added this name to the top of my list of friends. I discovered a new part of myself — a happier, more carefree person. The magic

away. What would a mature person do? Stop when needed and think practically about the future. Fortunately, my maturity went flying out the window as I fell in love with the idea of love for the third time. This time, it was serious. There were big, heavy words involved, like commitment and trust. I was in a tug of war, being pulled by the intensity of a relationship at one end and the college dream I had at the other. Compromise was the only thing I could think of

to continue my commitment to the recent developments. Soon, I was twisting in the backseat of my car, waving goodbye to my first, second and third idea of love, and saying hello to long-distance. Long-distancing was probably the most difficult thing I have done in my life. I wasn’t even that committed to feeding my cat every day. The good thing is that living in a different time zone makes your math better. Yet, as some lovesick romantic said, love is timeless. My experience of long-distancing changed my idea of love again. Time and distance aren’t only topics you learn about in physics; they hold real meaning when it comes to being in a relationship. In this stage of my life, all I know for sure is that love is like an amoeba. It has a different meaning for different people in different stages of their life. It can be musical for some, animated for another. Confusing for some, and simple for others. For me, the idea of love evolved slowly through the years and still continues to do so. With every experience, I learn and grow as a person. One of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned is sometimes you have to let go. If the love was really yours, it comes back to you.

Nasty Women Art Exhibit opens downtown, showcasing local work NAT KAEMMERER Staff Writer

The Catacombs beneath ARTlandish Gallery came alive Friday night. Columbia’s Nasty Women Art Exhibit opened amid First Friday and Lovefest, and the whole area was packed with people. There were various artist stalls throughout the Catacombs, a space in the basement of the ARTlandish Gallery, including a whole room dedicated to the Nasty Women Art Exhibit. Most of the time, you had to gently elbow your way or tap someone on the shoulder to get through. The Nasty Women Art Exhibit is run by the recently formed group Artists for Social Justice. They aim to put on at least four events per year, the proceeds of which will benefit a different organization each time. Proceeds from this art exhibit will go directly to Columbia’s Planned Parenthood. There were 51 entered pieces at the start of the show, and as the current art is purchased, event organizers hope others will bring in more pieces throughout the month. Some pieces, like a few nature scenes, did not have overt feminist or political themes, but many did. Pieces were priced and named by their artists.

Artist Tory Kassabaum’s three pieces, “The Balancer,” “The Weight of the World” and “Bloody Hands,” are displayed in the ARTlandish Gallery. NAT KAEMMERER | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

One, with its card reading “Untitled,” is a sculpture of a woman’s chest, postmastectomy. “It was something I had in the back of my mind since I had a mastectomy in 2000,” artist Jacque Pepper said. “Almost 15 years later, [the sculpture] just kind of happened. It surprised me how easily it progressed when I had never made anything like it before. The process was very therapeutic.” Pepper has displayed this piece in public before, at the Columbia Art League. The exhibit was then titled “Please Don’t Touch,” but now Pepper titled the sculpture “Please Touch.” “It worked out just right to

put it in here because Planned Parenthood does free breast screenings,” Pepper said. Pepper’s piece was unsold as of the first night of the show. Artist Suzanne VanSickle also created various pieces of clothing for the exhibit. There were four “pussyhats,” the pink, knitted hats with cat ears started by an online project and ubiquitous at the Women’s March on Washington. They were various shades of pink, and a couple had the female symbol stitched on them. Each was priced at $10. Another piece was titled “Lady Power Va-Gorts,” and as you may have guessed, it was a pair of shorts with a vagina stitched over the crotch and the word “power” above it.

“The Cat Tugger” was one of the more cynical pieces in the exhibit, depicting Donald Trump dragging a cat behind him in reference to a soundbite of Trump in 2005 saying how he can “grab [women] by the pussy.” “It was a knee-jerk reaction to the way he treats women,” artist Harrison Bergeron said. “I just wanted to do something. It’s a reactionary piece, really.” Artist Tory Kassabaum was inspired after the election to create art symbolizing the power of women. She has three pieces in the exhibit, titled “The Balancer,” “The Weight of the World” and “Bloody Hands.” Each piece shows a woman with red handprints over her and a balance with dots extending in rays on top of her head. “I think women are the balancers of the world; they bring balance to the world,” Kassabaum said. “The dots are the weight women bear, and the hands are the blood women have borne over the years.” Each piece is $30 and are unsold as of Tuesday. Hanging on one wall of the exhibit room was a window frame with pieces of glass set in a pattern, titled “The Crucible Calls Me to Rise.” “I thought of the crucible as being the melting pot, but also

the times we are in, because it has that double meaning,” artist Gennie Pfannenstiel said. Pfannenstiel said she creates her art by putting together pieces of glass she has collected. In the middle of the window, there is a small, black-andwhite piece of glass with a woman sitting in a chair on it. “She kept coming back to me,” Pfannenstiel said. Besides the artwork, musicians played around the Catacombs, poets from the spoken word poetry group One Mic performed, and pop-up bake sale Baked Revolution sold cookies and pastries. “This is actually our first event,” Baked Revolution founder Laura Clothier said. “I bake just for fun, not professionally.” The proceeds from this bake sale will be donated to the ACLU. Clothier and Julie Nardy of Baked Revolution plan to do another event sometime in April. Proceeds from that will go to a different organization. Though opening night is over, it’s not too late to view, purchase or submit art to the exhibit. Find the Nasty Women Art Exhibit at ARTlandish Gallery from now until March 3. Edited by Katherine White kwhite@themaneater.com

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INside this section: Wrestling stays undefeated in the MAC, women’s basketball’s win streak ends, and more.

Redshirt sophomore Madi Norman pitches during against Evangelical University on Oct. 28, 2016. JULIA HANSEN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

SOFTBALL

Tigers primed to continue offensive success Despite changes in the lineup, Missouri softball has the tools to build off of its record-breaking 2016 season. HANNAH HOFFMEISTER Reporter

Missouri softball enters the season hoping to pick up where it left off last year offensively after a recordbreaking 2016. The Tigers posted a .327 team batting average and 165 stolen bases last season, both single-season

records for the program. Even with the loss of the team’s top three hitters and scorers, four players with batting averages over .300 have returned for the 2017 season. Senior Chloe Rathburn is back for her second season on the team. One of the team’s top returning producers, Rathburn had 60 RBIs and smashed 15 home runs in 57 games last season. She trailed only graduating senior Emily Crane in both categories. Infielder Amanda Sanchez started every game last season and maintained a .354 batting average. She had 10 multi-RBI games and has not had fewer than 60 hits in either

of her two seasons at Mizzou. Regan Nash, who hit .336 last season as a freshman, will be joined in the outfield by four freshmen this year. The freshman class of eight is made up of utility players, outfielders, infielders and one pitcher. First-year outfielder Cayla Kessinger batted .505 in her senior season and was named a 2016 All-American by two organizations, FloSoftball and Premier Girls Fastpitch. When it comes to speed, the Tigers have a high reputation to uphold. With graduates Crane, Sami Fagan, and Taylor Gadbois accounting for 107 of the team’s 165 total stolen bases last season, there will be an

increased responsibility on the rest of the team on the base path. Incoming freshman Lexi Rampetsreiter adds speed to the outfield and the lineup. The Lee’s Summit, Missouri, native holds her high school’s single-season stolen base record with 27. Rampetsreiter was never caught stealing in her entire high school career. Additionally, she was a four-year Missouri All-State track and field athlete. Rampetsreiter will help fill the speed gap left by the graduating senior class. Last season, the Tigers averaged

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Men’s basketball snaps 13-game skid with Rally for Rhyan win Missouri’s first SEC win of the season came over Arkansas 83-78. JOE NOSER Staff Writer

Junior forward Jordan Barnett had 17 points off the bench and sophomore guard K.J. Walton had 15 points and a huge steal down the stretch as the Missouri Tigers defeated the Arkansas Razorbacks 83-78 at Mizzou Arena on Saturday night.

The game was Missouri’s bestattended this season, as an estimated 11,434 people came out to watch the Tigers pick up their first Southeastern Conference win of the season and support the Rally For Rhyan cause. The campaign supports pediatric cancer research and Rhyan Loos, the 6-year-old daughter of Missouri assistant coach Brad Loos who has been fighting bone cancer for more than a year. Coach Kim Anderson said he was pleased with the emotion and energy his team carried throughout the

game. “I’m really proud of these guys,” Anderson said. “They’ve been resilient all year, they just haven’t had the success that they deserved. It’s a special day, and we matched Rhyan’s fight.” Although there were times in the second half when it looked as if Missouri (6-16, 1-9) was going to let Arkansas (17-6, 6-4) take over, the Tigers never gave up the lead and forced 17 turnovers to get the win. After shooting 61.5 percent from the field in the first half, the Tigers

took lots of low-percentage shots to start the second, making scoring considerably more difficult. But Missouri made the adjustment in the latter half of the second period, focusing on getting the ball inside by slashing to the basket to get betterquality looks. Walton said the Tigers were especially motivated to play well for Rhyan and get over the team’s 39-point loss to No. 24 Florida on Thursday night.

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THE MANEATER | SPORTS | FEB. 8, 2017

Super Bowl capped off a year of championships that proved a welcome distraction from the world As issues in the political world escalated, the sports world was giving fans bigger and better performances as the year went on. COLE BOLLINGER Sports Columnist

Cole Bollinger writes about professional sports for The Maneater.

Sports are meant to be an escape from the rest of the world. They give us an ability to exit our own real lives and dream the impossible. In the past year, they have done exactly that. Outside of the sports world, people have made each other upset, angry and all other kinds of emotions. For many, it’s been a pretty rough year. But for sports fans, it has been one of the best years ever. On Sunday night, the New England Patriots defeated the Atlanta Falcons in the largest comeback in Super Bowl history. Down 28-3 with 8:31 remaining in the third quarter, Tom Brady and the Patriots found a way to pull off an improbable victory in overtime. If you have been following sports over the past year, this level of excitement is nothing new. The championships have been some of the best in each of their respective sports’ history, which has made this one of the best sports years in recent memory. The craziness all started with a simple phrase: “Jenkins for the Championship!” Jim Nantz screamed those now-famous lines as Kris Jenkins of Villanova nailed a 3-pointer at the buzzer to win the NCAA Championship over North Carolina. A win that was perceived as an upset from people who weren’t paying attention was almost universally dubbed as the greatest championship game in NCAA basketball history. We should have known then that it was only the beginning. As Villanova was celebrating its college basketball title, the Golden State Warriors were polishing off a record 73-win season and making the push for the team’s second straight NBA championship. Warriors fans

wish it had been that simple. The Warriors made it look easy through most of the first four games of the NBA Finals, taking a commanding 3-1 series lead against LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Then, Draymond Green was suspended and the Warriors lost Game 5. Then, LeBron scored 41 points and the Cavs ran by the Warriors in Game 6. And finally, Kyrie Irving drilled a three to give the Cavaliers their first championship in franchise history and the city of Cleveland’s first championship in over 50 years. Cleveland had finally turned the corner, and it was now a winning city (excluding the Browns, of course). The Cleveland Indians backed that statement up, racing to a 3-1 lead over the favorite Chicago Cubs in the World Series. There was no way another team could blow a 3-1 lead in the same year. Until they did. The Cubs, subject to a 108year championship drought, rallied back to force Game 7, which became one of the greatest games in World Series history. The two teams went to extra innings to determine the winner. The Cubs prevailed, ending the longest championship drought in sports history. Both Cubs fans and Indians fans cried that night. For Cubs fans, it was because none of them had felt this feeling before, while Indians fans cried after blowing the lead they had been laughing at the Warriors for losing since June. In either happiness or sadness, they were distracted. As things heated up in the presidential election and the outside world, sports gave them an escape, a “Hey, look at what’s going on over here.” But sports weren’t done yet. Protests, rallies and fights were going on across the country, but those took a back seat for four hours on Jan. 9. Alabama and Clemson football took their places on the gridiron in Tampa, Florida, in what would make for yet another classic. The Crimson Tide was the prohibitive favorite, but favorites weren’t safe in this year’s championships. Alabama jumped out to a 14-point lead, but just like the other eventual winners, Clemson rallied. The fourth quarter made for one of the greatest in college football history as

both teams traded touchdown drives. The game ended a lot like the Super Bowl did. Deshaun Watson, arguably the best quarterback in college football this year, found Hunter Renfrow for a two-yard touchdown pass with one second left. Clemson became the champion of college football after defeating the empire that is Alabama in a classic.

it hard to write only about sports because the news felt like it was overshadowing everything. No matter which way people leaned politically, it was becoming an exhausting exercise to simply check the news. The Super Bowl is always a fun time, but this year, it was needed. Sports fans turned to the game hoping for a distraction,

IF YOU LOOKED AT TWITTER ON SUNDAY NIGHT, YOU DIDN’T SEE PROTESTS OR VIOLENCE. YOU SAW FANS ADMIRING AN EFFORT BY ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER LACE IT UP. How could this be topped? Fans returned to the real world thinking that while the NFL Playoffs were going on, they wouldn’t get much better than what they had seen already this past year. They returned to find turmoil at a high. “Sticking to sports” was no longer a thing, and everywhere you looked, you saw fighting and animosity toward others. Sports writers found

but they weren’t alone. Even those who normally do not venture into the world of sports tuned into the most anticipated sporting event of the year. The sports world made them wait, but the performance they were given was well worth it. Brady, arguably the greatest player in NFL history, led the Patriots back from a 25-point deficit on

sport’s grandest stage. Four quarters were not even enough, as this one required the first overtime in Super Bowl history. If you looked at Twitter on Sunday night, you didn’t see the protests or violence seen most recently in the media; instead, you saw fans admiring an effort by one of the greatest to ever lace it up. There was unity, and it felt good. Sports are not the most important thing in the world, but sometimes it’s nice to escape from everything and simply enjoy a game. As issues in the political and pop-culture world escalated, the sports world was right there giving fans bigger and better performances as the year went on. A distraction every now and then from what’s going on in the “real” world is more than welcome, and this year’s sports championships did not disappoint. If the upcoming year’s championships are anything like these past ones, you can count me as one of the many willing to pull up a seat to the best distraction in the world.

THE MANEATER | SPORTS | FEB. 8, 2017

Wrestling dominates Northern Illinois 38-3 LANGSTON NEWSOME Staff Writer

No. 7 Missouri wrestling continued its dominance in the Mid-American Conference, dismantling Northern Illinois 38-3 on Saturday. The Tigers won nine of 10 matches and had three wrestlers, No. 10 John Erneste, No. 9 Jaydin Eierman and No. 4 Daniel Lewis, win by fall. “I asked for bonus points and guys to look for turns,” Missouri coach Brian Smith said. “I thought we did a really good job in the first nine matches with that. It was a pretty complete win.” Mizzou has been on a tear in MAC competition since 2014; this was the Tigers’ 28th straight dual win over a MAC opponent. Missouri is 10-3 overall and 7-0 in the MAC this year. In the opening match between 184-pounders Mizzou’s Matt Lemanowicz and NIU’s Bryce Gorman, Lemanowicz took control of the match in the second period. With a takedown 1:29 into the period, Lemanowicz prevented Gorman from escaping for the rest of the period. Setting the tone for the third period, Lemanowicz had two takedowns, a near-

fall and 1:24 of riding time. He went on to win 10-4. In the bout between 197-pounders, Tigers’ No. 1 J’den Cox and NIU’s No. 12 Shawn Scott, Cox asserted himself with two takedowns in the first period. The first takedown came 34 seconds into the match. At the end of the first, Cox led 4-1. He gained another takedown with 42 seconds left in the second, followed by two takedowns in the third en route to a 16-4 major decision win. Next were the heavyweights, a bout between 285-pounders: the Tigers’ Austin Myers and the Huskies’ Caleb Gossett. Myers jumped to a 6-2 lead in the first period, after two takedowns and a near-fall. But Gossett was able to keep the score close at 6-3 in the second with three escape points. With six seconds left in the second period, Gossett had his breakthrough and brought the score 6-5 headed into the third with a late takedown. Myers held on to win 7-5, gaining an escape point in the third period. After a scoreless first period between 125-pounders Mizzou redshirt sophomore Aaron Assad and Brock Hudkins, Hudkins scored the first points on a reversal

1:23 into the second period. He would win that period 2-1. This was followed by Assad taking over the match in the third. Assad started with an escape, followed by a takedown with 1:22 left. After an escape by Hudkins, Assad clinched the 5-3 win with a stalling call on Hudkins. The action started quickly between 133-pounders as Mizzou’s No. 10 John Erneste took on Alijah Jeffery. Erneste started the match with a takedown just 16 seconds in. Erneste would hold on to a 2-0 lead throughout the second period. In the third, Erneste got a quick escape point and reversal, before pinning Jeffery and winning 4-0 by fall in 5:14. “It always feels good to end the match before it is meant to end,” Erneste said. “It was frustrating starting off the match. I want to go out there and score points, but people start game-planning, and you just have to stick to your system. By the end of it, I finally got him on his back and finished it up.” Eierman followed suit. He shot out to a 6-2 lead in the first over Anthony Rubino. Eierman racked up three takedowns in the period and blew the match open in

Freshman Daniel Lewis struggles to gain control in a matchup against OSU wrestler Chandler Rogers at Hearnes Center on Jan. 27. EMIL LIPPE | SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER the second. Eierman got a reversal and a pin. He won 8-2 by fall in 3:21. “We all plan to go out and get bonus points,” Eierman said. “That’s the main goal of wrestling. It’s like boxing, you want to get a knockout, not a decision. So it was really good to keep it rolling and show that we can go out there and just hammer them, break them and get our falls.” The only loss on the day for Missouri came from No. 18 Dylan Wisman. He was

dominated in the first period by Trace Engelkes, who led 2-0 after the first. After the second, Engelkes was up 4-1. Engelkes scored on a reversal, while Wisman gained his only point of the match on an escape. In the third, Engelkes gained another point from Wisman stalling and won 5-1. Mizzou’s next match is against No. 21 Northern Iowa on Sunday at Hearnes Center. Edited by Eli Lederman elederman@themaneater.com

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Women’s basketball win streak ends with blowout loss TITUS WU

After two days without practice as a result of a rough travel schedule, the Tigers simply shot poorly. They went 33 percent from the field compared to 44 percent for the Bulldogs. The Tigers hit just four 3-pointers on 19 shots from beyond the arc for 21 percent shooting from deep. The ultimate eye sore on the stat sheet for Missouri came from turnovers. The

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“When you get killed like that, it should hurt, and it hurt today,” he said. “We came out and we played mad, and I think that was the difference.” Barnett said getting off to a good start was the key to Missouri’s victory. “It was huge,” Barnett said. “Sometimes we get off to good starts and lose it a little bit, but to get

off to a really good start gave us some ground and confidence to continue to play like that.” Walton said Rhyan’s fight against cancer served as an inspiration for the team to persevere. “She’s fought hard through what she’s going through, and she’s a sweet little girl,” he said. “I’m proud we got it for her.” The win was the Tigers’ second victory in Rally For Rhyan games, and it snapped a 13-game losing streak, which had been tied for the longest in program history

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team-high 19 points. In the second quarter, the Bulldogs had a 15-5 run, which gave them a ninepoint lead at halftime. The Tigers then went on a sevenminute scoring drought in the third quarter, giving Mississippi State a doubledigit advantage. In the end, the Tigers couldn’t catch back up. Despite the loss, Mizzou outrebounded Mississippi

State, and the freshman trio of Amber Smith, Jordan Chavis and Jordan Roundtree chipped in 19 points. Amber Smith’s eight-point performance comes after winning SEC Freshman of the Week last week. Next up: Missouri faces Tennessee on the road Thursday. Edited by Eli Lederman elederman@themaneater.com

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trend since Ehren Earleywine became head coach in 2007. Earleywine holds the program’s highest winning percentage at .746 in over 800 games. The Tigers began their season with the Black and Gold Game on Feb. 4. This week, the team will travel to South Carolina to play in the Charleston Southern Tournament, ready to start a new season with a chance to continue their offensive numbers. Edited by Eli Lederman elederman@themaneater.com

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Missouri women’s basketball fell to the Mississippi State Bulldogs 70-53 Monday in Starkville, Mississippi. The loss puts Mizzou’s fivegame winning streak to rest, which was the longest in the conference and in Missouri’s Southeastern Conference history.

Tigers committed 29, which the Bulldogs converted into 35 points. In contrast, Mizzou only made two points off of the Bulldogs’ eight turnovers. Mizzou’s trend of consistently starting games strong did not continue in Starkville. The Tigers trailed behind Mississippi State the entire first quarter, and they hung in there mostly due to sophomore guard Sophie Cunningham, who scored a

and was the second-longest active streak in Division I basketball. Anderson said after the game that he and his team would celebrate the win and the brief respite it provides from what has been an otherwise disappointing season. “I hope they have a good time tonight, within the limits of the law,” Anderson said. “I know I’m going to go have a good time within the limits of the law.” Edited by Eli Lederman elederman@themaneater.com

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6.7 runs per game while holding their opponent to just 3.6 runs on average. The 73 home runs during the 2016 season ranks third in program history. However, the team struggled to convert baserunners to runs in some opportunities, leaving 390 runners on base compared to their opponents’ 349. Offensively, the Tigers have been on an upward