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TECH TALK INSIDE THIS ISSUE: / GENDER-NEUTRALITY The push to change the signs outside of single-stall bathrooms / 3

/ HANDS OFF When is it appropriate to check your phone? / 6

/ FAUROT FACEOFF Why Mizzou’s loss last weekend is not all bad news / 13

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Inside this Issue News

Technology Issue

Crafting a solution

With its future in jeopardy, the Craft Studio will be winding down operations this semester (pg. 4)

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best-laid plans

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Key student leaders say their Tiger Plan feedback wasn’t considered (pg. 4)

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What to do when you drop your phone Headphone jacks, phone explosions and devices named 7 How tech in a coffee shop is helping you get more wired Is electronic music authentic?

Sports

Opinion

Terms and Limits

Going wide

Why the word “feminism� doesn’t capture the spirit of the movement (pg. 10)

Seven different receivers have caught at least one touchdown this season so far (pg. 14)

Who let the dawgs out?

tranquil tigers

Why Mizzou football’s loss to Georgia this weekend is not all bad news (pg. 13)

A plea for relative calm in the student section during football games (pg. 11)

Names and Numbers

15 Average yards per catch for Missouri football’s wide receivers. Last year, Mizzou’s receivers averaged just 11 yards per catch.

Offensive coordinator Josh Heupel has focused on designing route patterns for his players’ specific talents.

5 Gov. Jay Nixon, whose veto was overridden by the Missouri legislature to allow concealed carry with no permit in the state. This does not apply to college campuses. The new law takes effect Jan. 1.

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Gender-neutral signs advance inclusion, advocates say MSA Senator Sterling Waldman: “It’s been needed for so long that we’re just kind of like: 'Okay, this is great, and we need more.’ It’s almost halfway to basic necessities.”

AYESHA VISHNANI Reporter Sophomore Rio Chacon stands outside the door, their hand hovering. It is a smaller bathroom — the two-stall kind — but instead of entering, Chacon pauses to listen for a flush, the noise of the sink, chattering, anything to indicate a person is inside.

If Chacon hears a noise, they wait. For Chacon, who identifies as transgender and gender fluid, using bathrooms at MU has not been a smooth experience.

“I’ll just kind of stand there for a second to hear if anyone’s in there before I go in,” Chacon said. “I hate doing that, but I just don’t want to be there while someone else’s in there, just because I don’t want to make

anyone else uncomfortable.”

Last spring, the the Student Fee Capital Improvement Committee granted $4,000 to the Missouri Students Association to change signs on single-stall bathrooms on campus to make them gender-inclusive.

MSA Senator Sterling Waldman, a sophomore member of the Social Justice Committee, proposed the legislation, which passed unanimously. Waldman, who identifies as queer and transgender, said they saw the need to increase the number of gender-neutral bathrooms on campus based on their own experiences.

MU spokesman Christian Basi said in an email that Campus Facilities and the Department of Residential Life were both involved in the process.

Residence Halls Association President Matt Bourke said signs for single-stall bathrooms and showers in older residence halls that read “Women” and “Men” have now been changed to read “Toilet” or “Toilet and Shower” accordingly. Bourke said $1,000 was used to convert these signs.

Basi said the remaining $3,000 was allocated to change signs in other campus buildings based on an MSA priority list.

Despite the availability of these funds, changes have not been made.

“The MU Sign Shop on campus currently only has one person, so the university is a bit behind in work orders,” Basi said in an email. “Work orders for the bathroom signs have been initiated.”

However, Basi did not know when this

will be completed.

Senior Finn keeps their head down, avoiding eye contact at all costs. They requested their last name not be used in this article for privacy purposes. With only minutes left to get to class, and not a gender-neutral bathroom around, Finn, who identifies as transgender, has to use the men’s bathroom.

“I put my head down and don’t look at people because then I don’t look like a threat, in my opinion,” Finn said. “I shouldn’t have to fight to use the bathroom. For people to even just look at me funny, like, ‘Uh, you’re in the wrong spot.’ Well, I don’t really have a

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MSA constitution schedules presidential inauguration before election The constitution requires a president and vice president to be inaugurated about two months prior to their election.

EMILY GALLION Student Politics Editor Last March, students voted in a referendum to change the Missouri Students Association constitution so the presidential election would occur in March instead of November.

One problem: They did not vote to change the date of the presidential inauguration, however, because it was left out of the initial referendum.

The dates of both the presidential election and inauguration are dictated by the

constitution, and MSA cannot make changes to the document without a two-thirds majority vote of students. To change the date of the inauguration, MSA must hold another campuswide referendum.

“Right now, it says that the president and vice president must be sworn in at the first full Senate meeting of the winter semester, which is impossible, because the president and vice president are not even elected until March,” Senate Speaker Mark McDaniel said.

McDaniel said the omission was due to an oversight on the part of the previous speaker

and legislative cabinet. Operations Chairman Josh Tennison, who held the same position at the time, said the mistake was not one single person’s fault.

“There were several people, myself included, that just had a problem on our plate that was so immense that [the inauguration date] got overlooked,” Tennison said.

The referendum was held during last spring’s special election, which was called to replace former President-elect Haden Gomez after he resigned the night of his own scheduled inauguration.

Junior Amanda Lundgren, a journalism major, said she didn’t understand how MSA had left the inauguration date out of the initial referendum when it seemed to her like common sense.

“It just seems like they could be using that time for more important issues on campus, instead of moving an inauguration that should have already been moved anyway,” Lundgren said.

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Repairs may lead to closure of Craft Studio The studio is slowly stopping regular programs and has canceled all scheduled events after Oct. 28.

SAMUEL FORBES Reporter The Craft Studio, an auxiliary organization of the Missouri Students Association, announced Friday that it would cease operations in its current location by the end of 2016. The long-term future of the studio is still undetermined.

According to a statement the studio released Friday, the creative space will be shutting its doors mid-December. Until then, it will gradually terminate operations, including all workshops, events and gallery exhibits. Scheduled renovations will force the studio to move from its location in the lower level of Memorial Union.

The studio is canceling the Homemade Craft Sale and all events scheduled after Oct. 28. The last day to submit a request for buttons will be Oct. 17, and the last gallery will close Nov. 18. Starting Oct. 29, the studio will no longer be open on weekends.

Michelle Froese, assistant director of strategic communications for MU’s Student and Auxiliary Services, said the renovations were needed to fix a sewer line beneath the location. The sewer line was part of the original building when it opened in the 1950s. Froese said the replacement of a comparable line under the International Center took three months to complete.

The utilities cost of the space is also increasing. Froese said the Craft Studio would have to pay $5,000 for hot water to be directed to the area after recent utility updates. MSA President Sean Earl said that would prevent the studio from returning to that space after renovations are complete.

The studio recently received a $3,000 budget cut for the fiscal year 2016 budget.

Former MSA Budget Chairman Bill Vega said at the time that the cut was due to the studio’s failure to produce revenue.

Both Earl and MSA adviser Bryan Goers are searching for a new location to house the studio, but the large size required of the space makes this a difficult task. If other buildings prove to be too pricey, Earl said, MSA will not shortchange the other auxiliaries to accommodate all of the Craft Studio’s needs.

“We don’t want to stifle any other service because of the situation,” Earl said. “At the end of the day, we honestly have to ask ourselves, ‘What services does the 21st century student want to see?’”

Earl acknowledged that the Craft Studio occupies a unique space on campus, as it operates the last publicly available darkroom in Columbia. However, with widespread budget cuts, he said there is no avoiding higher operating costs.

“While we might be facing budget cuts, the reality is that the other entities on campus are also facing budget cuts,” Earl said. “Costs will undoubtedly rise as time goes on.”

MSA auxiliaries are protected under Article XII of the association’s constitution, which requires MSA to hold a referendum of students before permanently ceasing operations of an auxiliary. However, Goers said in an email that if a new space isn’t found, the auxiliary may still be forced to close.

“What we are finding is that most open space on campus already has multiple academic units in line for it,” Goers said. “If MSA and campus officials are not able to find an appropriate place for the Studio, then there could be a scenario where a referendum to close the Craft Studio permanently fails, but the Craft Studio is still forced to close because it has nowhere to move.”

If the cost of housing going forward is significantly higher, it could have a sizable impact on the studio’s ability to provide services.

“We could keep it, but it wouldn’t look

Pots sit atop shelves inside the Craft Studio located in the basement of Memorial Union.

Sidney Steele | Staff Photographer the same at all,” Earl said. “We’d still have the Craft Studio on the books, but it would be nothing like it was before.”

Senior Alexis Stewart, who has participated in a work study program for the Craft Studio since August 2013, was upset to learn of the studio’s potential closure. She said the staff was like a family to her.

“For a lot of us, it’s our home on campus,” she said. “It’s where I’ve grown up and become the adult I am today.”

Stewart said fear of closure has plagued the studio for years, but she never thought it was really possible.

“We always knew that we were the underdogs so we always worried [about closure], but I didn't think it would actually happen. But then last year when they were putting the budget together, I was just so worried...We weren’t loved as much as I think we should have been.”

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Student governments had limited input in Tiger Plan MSA and RHA presidents each met once with CDS after the plan was already constructed.

ZIA KELLY Reporter The presidents of the Residence Halls Association and the Missouri Students Association both said they raised concerns with Campus Dining Services about the cost structure of The Tiger Plan, but they said their feedback was not taken into consideration.

CDS introduced the off-campus dining plan for the fall semester. The plan advertises “up to 63 percent off all CDS locations” on the department’s website, but when the base cost is taken into consideration, students can at most save 15 percent if they only eat at all-you-careto-eat facilities.

Students would experience a net loss compared to the cash price at all other locations. Students would also save more money by buying a traditional block plan than they would using The Tiger Plan only at all-you-care-to-eat locations.

CDS marketing manager Michael Wuest said the dining plan was based off of a similar program at Virginia Tech, and after The Tiger Plan was created the organization consulted students to get feedback.

“Once we figured out how we could use that similar model, we presented and got feedback from a variety of students and organizations, including RHA and MSA leadership teams,” he said. “Given the

positive student feedback, we decided to offer The Tiger Plan as a pilot program this year for students who live off campus.”

Wuest did not respond to requests for clarification of what RHA and MSA leaders suggested in those meetings.

CDS Director Julaine Kiehn said she consulted MSA President Sean Earl and RHA President Matt Bourke before the plan was released, but both presidents said their input was not taken into consideration.

Bourke said when he and Earl were introduced to The Tiger Plan, they saw the marketing materials that are now displayed in dining halls around campus.

They both said they brought up that few flex dollars were being provided for the amount that students were paying.

“That is when Matt and I were commenting about the flex dollars and how it’s not enough,” Earl said. “Students are automatically going to see $800, and they are getting $350.”

Though both organizations’ presidents gave this feedback, the cost breakdown remained the same. Earl said he understood that a base cost was needed to cover facility and labor expenses, but students were not receiving enough for the amount they were paying.

“I always thought that the base cost could be reduced and the flex dollars could be increased,” he said. “So that was my input, but my input only goes so far because The Tiger Plan was already

happening.”

Other members of MSA were not consulted at all. Senate Director of Activities Saad Malik first found out about The Tiger Plan when he was in a dining hall at the beginning of the semester. He said that while some members of MSA may have known about the plan, they were not consulted about it before it was going into effect.

“It’s not like we signed off on it or anything,” Malik said. “I am not sure how many details were given.”

Earl said he only had one meeting with CDS about The Tiger Plan, and by that time in the summer, the plan was already created.

“I think the flaw in the perception has been that CDS was working with us month after month since the inception of the Tiger Plan, but I personally didn’t find out about the Tiger Plan until during the summer when it was already in place,” Earl said. “Once I found out about it, it was already happening.”

Earl and Bourke hold monthly meetings with CDS to talk about issues that concern on-campus dining.

“We provide our input, perspective and feedback, but not necessarily have the authority to say, ‘Oh, you need to change this’ and then they change it,” Earl said.

Bourke said CDS generally brings changes they have made to them and ask for student feedback on them. “[CDS] are the ones who create the

agenda and then we bring up our concerns we have from that point,” he said. “They also consult with our Residential Living committee.”

RHA congressional speaker Emily Aiken said that CDS meets with the RHA Residential Living committee every month to discuss student concerns with dining on campus.

“CDS takes RHA's input very seriously,” she said in an email. “RHA is who can directly tell CDS what residents really think about the food and the experience.

They value RHA's opinion very highly.”

Though student involvement in creating The Tiger Plan was limited, student governments have worked with CDS on other projects within the past year.

Earl said that last year, some MSA representatives pressed CDS on being more transparent about ingredients in dining hall food to ensure safety for students with allergies, as well as provide information for students who don’t eat meat or animal products.

MSA also consulted with CDS to start Food Truck Fridays. Though MSA is in charge of organizing local businesses to vend on campus, they had to get permission since CDS is in charge of all food served at the university.

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right one here.”

Finn said they were not aware of the changes MSA had made with the bathroom signs and did not see a significant difference from before. Chacon said they were aware of the changes, but did not pay much attention to them because they mainly use the gender-neutral bathroom near the LGBTQ Resource Center.

Finn said they predominantly use the gender-neutral bathroom near the resource center and also in Middlebush Hall. Waldman said they are comfortable using genderneutral bathrooms in general, but none of the buildings they have classes in have gender-neutral bathrooms. But if any of them are not near the bathrooms they feel comfortable using, all three said they use gendered bathrooms out of necessity.

“I’ll go into a women’s [bathroom] just because [it’s a] ‘how I was assigned at birth’ kind of thing, just because I can’t get into trouble for doing that,” Chacon said. “It makes me uncomfortable, as someone who is pretty confident of how I identify.

So it feels like I’m going against what I am when I go into those restrooms.”

Finn said it is hard to deal

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co-sponsored by Tennison would add a referendum to change the date of the inauguration. Instead of taking place at the first full Senate meeting of the winter semester, the speaker would schedule the inauguration during a full Senate within 30 days of the close of the general election.

The referendum would state: “Would you like to change the inauguration dates for the MSA President and Vice President? The

with something that seems to have a simple solution when they experience body dysphoria, struggling to come to terms with their body and how they appear every day.

“I have a binder that makes my chest completely flat, but I can’t wear it all day because it makes me sick because it’s really tight,” Finn said. “It is that constant fear of, ‘Am I actually ever going to get beat up in the guy’s bathroom?’

Maybe. ‘Will it be because they can see my boobs?’ Maybe, maybe not.”

Similarly, Waldman said they experience a lot of dysphoria when they are forced to use a gendered bathroom.

Finn said it is frustrating to use gendered bathrooms because outside of campus, they have been yelled at for being in a women’s bathroom. Finn said it is essential that people get educated on this issue.

“You’re afraid of something because you don’t understand,” Finn said. “Understand your fear and realize that holy s---, they’re just trying to pee.”

Chacon said they have used the men’s bathroom in the past, and they see issues with the resources the bathrooms have.

“In men’s restrooms, they don’t have a little trash can thing in their stalls,” Chacon said. “So trans individuals may have to figure that situation out, because some of

benefit of this change would allow the President and Vice President to enact their duties of office in their official capacity,” followed by the exact changes to the constitution.

The bill was passed through the Operations Committee on Tuesday night and will go through first readings Wednesday. It will go up for a vote Sept. 27.

“If you want your president and vice president to be able to pass a budget that allows $1.6 million to actually get spent for stuff like KCOU, STRIPES, MUTV, vote yes,” McDaniel said.

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them still use feminine products, so that’s a whole other thing.”

Chacon said there is also a special need for tampons and similar products in gender-neutral bathrooms because a lot of individuals within the community rely on these bathrooms.

For Chacon, it has been particularly difficult at their job in Kansas City, where they do custodial work in a museum. They said they feel like they have to identify as a woman because they are afraid to be out in professional settings. Chacon said it is hard because in their work clothes they pass as a man, and a lot of their focus is on making other people feel comfortable, even though they are not.

“I enter the women’s restroom just because that’s how I identify there,” Chacon said. “[The employees] expect me to go in there easily, but when I do, it’s uncomfortable because I have to like, make eye contact with people or talk to them, just so they’re not uncomfortable.”

Waldman, Finn and Chacon said they all would be comfortable with the concept of a multiple-stall gender-neutral bathroom, but they do not feel the campus community is ready for it. Waldman said they would probably have received pushback had they proposed such legislation.

“There’s still a lot of stigma around multi-stall gender-

neutral bathrooms,” Waldman said. “Which is why they weren’t included in the legislation.”

Finn and Chacon also said they feel some individuals in the transgender community may not be comfortable with the idea of a gender-neutral, multiple-stall bathroom.

“I don’t know if trans individuals would be comfortable with that just letting anyone go in there while they’re in there,” Chacon said. “It’s like another thing with harassment. You just don’t know if homophobic or transphobic people are going into that restroom.”

Finn said that especially with minority groups, such as transgender women of color, there is an increased risk of violence.

“They need to have the privacy and safety they require, to not be harmed in any way even by looks, by nothing,” Finn said.

Waldman, who was new to MU last year, said their high school experience influenced their commitment to this legislation.

“I was pretty involved in high school in making sure there was a space for me and my friends,” Waldman said. “I already had that in mind coming here.”

Waldman said a central part of the discussion was the wording of the signage, which took around three months to decide.

“I think people understood the need for [the legislation]; it was generally supported,” Waldman

said. “I think that some people had more issues with certain language things then like the broad concept of needing more gender-neutral bathrooms on campus.”

Basi said that due to budget constraints, they were unable to convert all the signs.

Bourke said the signage on newer buildings was not prioritized because they already include “unisex” bathrooms.

“At least [the bathrooms] say something,” Bourke said. “At least they’re not single-stalled gendered bathrooms. They’re just unisex bathrooms.”

Although efforts were made prior to Waldman’s legislation, Waldman said previous legislation had included language like adding more “unisex” bathrooms, a term they consider outdated.

Waldman said although they were unable to get the old “unisex” signage changed, they made sure that “unisex” was not used in the new legislation.

Finn said there is a big difference between the two terms.

“They’re really tiptoeing around this issue,” Finn said. “They’re not saying gender-neutral; they’re talking about sex, and they’re completely different things.”

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From shattered screens to drowned devices, what to do if your phone breaks Apple-authorized service provider Gravity fixes a wide scope of issues on Apple devices.

VICTORIA CHEYNE Assistant MOVE Editor Many of us have experienced an unfortunate situation when life’s abrasiveness clashed with our device and ended in a shattered screen, lost data or the death of a gadget completely.

Columbia does not have an Apple Store, but it does have Gravity, an Appleauthorized service provider in full that repairs exclusively Apple devices from phones, computers and tablets to Beats and watches.

The most common technological tragedy is a shattered screen. This common predicament cannot be fixed on-site; Kyle Huebotter, a technician at Gravity, said phones and other iOS devices must be shipped out for repair because they require special tools, such as a screen calibrator, that is not used

in-store.

Another quandary many tech owners run into at some point is water damage.

Instead of sticking your device in a bowl of white rice and hoping for the best, immediately turn it off and head over to a store that can fix it.

“The longer [the phone] is on with liquid damage, more problems will be caused,” Kyle said.

This is because liquid damage corrodes the logic board, or the main circuit of the device, and subsequently causes more circuit shorts. At the store, a technician can open up your phone and assess the extent of the liquid damage, but it will likely need to be sent out for repair. This is because Apple Store will likely want to replace the phone, rather than attempt to repair it. A computer that has succumbed to liquid damage can be fixed on-site, however.

If you can’t get to a store quickly after

your device becomes water-damaged, put your phone in an enclosed space with silica gel packets. According to Kyle, “rice works sometimes,” but silica gel packets are better for keeping moisture out. According to Pinterest, removing any cases, drying off the phone and removing SIM cards and the battery may save your device. If you’re comfortable trying less conventional methods, use a vacuum to remove liquid or spray the inside of the phone with 99 percent isopropyl alcohol to disperse liquid.

Perhaps the worst experience you can face as a technology owner is losing your data. All of your photos, contacts and notes are suddenly lost and can’t be retrieved. But this problem can be prevented by simply backing up your data. Kyle “highly suggests iCloud” because nothing will be lost, but an oldschool flash drive will also do the trick.

“A screen can be fixed,” he said, “but

photos and memories can’t be replaced.”

As far as general device care goes, Kyle recommends always keeping a case and using a screen protector if your device is super susceptible to scratches — like the new iPhone 7.

Another helpful tip that many times is unknown or overlooked is that “Apple is not allowed to touch the device” after it is illegally repaired through a third party. Many times customers turn to third parties for a cheaper repair, but this practice violates the user agreement and prevents Apple or any Apple authorized service providers from helping you with your damaged device.

Gravity is located at 810 E. Walnut St., and is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays. The store is closed on Sundays.

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MOVE MAGAZINE | TECHNOLOGY | SEPT. 21, 2016

The Big Bang How to avoid spontaneously combusting phones, and other tips from the FAA. VICTORIA CHEYNE AND NANCY COLEMAN

Seven things you need to know about the new iPhone 7 Here’s what's to expect in the new iPhone, and why you should trade in your old one.

of the MOVE Magazine staff It was an overcast day on Sept. 9 as Jonathan Strobel worked his shift at a Costco in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. And yet, neither the weather nor the fact that he was in a Costco in Florida were the worst part of his day.

In the middle of Jonathan Strobel’s front pants pocket was his Samsung Galaxy Note 7. This is the point where Strobel’s situation allegedly went downhill — or blew up.

Strobel’s Galaxy Note 7 exploded in his pants pocket, leaving a Galaxy-Note-7-sized burn on his thigh, according to Strobel’s lawyer. Strobel sued, one of his grievances being his “loss of the enjoyment of life.”

Samsung issued a self-initiated recall on Sept. 2, a piece of information that was, in a majestic act of irony, emailed to Strobel 10 hours after his erratically overheating phone literally burned a hole through his pants. An official recall went into effect this week.

Samsung is offering a full refund or replacement for the Note 7, but in case you decide to forgo common sense and bring this mobile disaster onto an aircraft, MOVE Magazine talked to the Federal Aviation Administration about how to avoid the consequences that come with willfully holding onto a self-igniting slab of metal.

Turn it off, for the love of Jonathan Strobel.

Disconnect the device from any charger.

(Unless you prefer your phones to explode and still have battery left over to play solitaire.)

Disable all applications so the phone stays off.

(Just kidding. No solitaire.) Protect the power switch so that it doesn’t accidentally turn on.

(Or, you know, don’t bring your explosive phone on an airplane in the first place.)

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KAELYN STURGELL Reporter Last week, Apple officially announced the newest iPhones: the 7 and 7 Plus.

Websites have been speculating for months about the new phones, and now that all the uncertainty is gone, MOVE has seven things you need to know about the iPhone 7.

Camera Camera quality has been at the top of the iPhone vs Galaxy debate.

Samsung has always had a leg up on Apple in the photo department, but not anymore. The standard iPhone 7 now has a 12-megapixel camera that matches that of the latest Galaxy. The phone also has a f/1.8 aperture, which allows the user to take pictures faster than before, and a 7-megapixel front camera for high-quality selfies. But the camera on the iPhone 7 Plus is, somehow, even more impressive. With a second lens capable of physically zooming, users can capture impressive field-of-vision shots perfect for spicing up any Instagram feed. Regardless of the model you choose, the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus have the best camera on the market.

Storage Say goodbye to 16GB. The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus now begin at 32GB and skip straight to 128 and 256GBs (except for

Jet Black models). This means more space for your music and your nowhigh-quality photos.

Jet black This glossy black phone was attained through nine steps of anodization, a fancy process that increases a metal’s resistance to corrosion and allows paint to stick better. However, Apple has warned (in the fine print) that the high-gloss finish of Jet Black phones makes them more susceptible to microabrasions. So if you want to show off your new phone’s aesthetic without getting it scratched, get a clear case.

Battery Apple has said the battery of the 7 Plus can last an hour longer than the 6s Plus, while the 7 is capable of lasting up to two hours longer than the previous 6s. No one is quite sure how this was accomplished because Apple never reveals the exact size of their phone batteries, but many credit the new A10 Fusion Chip’s efficiency for the longer lifespan. The battery claim is definitely one that will have to be experienced first-hand.

No headphone jack If you haven’t already seen on social media, Apple has officially nixed the traditional headphone jack and has left only the Lightning port. But don’t worry about finding compatible headphones, because the new iPhones come with a pair of newly designed EarPods, the

headphones that plug directly into the Lightning connector. These are not to be confused with the AirPods, which cost $159 and are Bluetooth headphones. But if you already have headphones you love, Apple has also thrown in a Lightning-to-3.5mm jack adapter.

Water resistance The removal of the headphone jack and the remodel of the home button, which isn’t really a button anymore, have helped make the new iPhones water-resistant, something Samsung has had for years. While Apple boasts water resistance, be wary of the images of people falling into pools with their new phones; IP ratings only consider water without chemicals. You should be fine if you drop your phone in the toilet a few times, but keep in mind that liquid damage still isn’t covered under warranty.

Price Finally, what college kids really care about: money. The newer iPhones cost less than the initial cost of older generations. In 2015, a 128GB iPhone 6s retailed for $849 while the same size iPhone 7, with more impressive specs, is only $749. Whether you buy outright or lease, the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus provide students with an efficient and affordable smartphone.

Edited by Katie Rosso krosso@themaneater.com

Downtown watch

STAFF MOVE Editor: Katie Rosso MOVE Assistant Editor Victoria Cheyne

Pepe’s of Columbia: Pepe’s Tacos, the taco shop inside of Rose Music Hall, is closing its doors this weekend. In their closing announcement on Facebook, they wrote that they are “moving on to spend more time with my family — and play more futbol ;)” Rose Music Hall is now looking for a new restaurateur to take over their kitchen.

Mowgli’s show: The Mowgli’s, a sevenperson indie pop band, is coming to The Blue Note on Sept. 24 at 9 p.m. Doors open at 8 p.m. and the show will also feature Colony House and Dreamers. You’ll be saying “Hi, Hey There, Hello” to the group reminiscent of Fun and Grouplove. Colony House is more alternative rock band, and Dreamers feature a more nomadic, ethereal sound.

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Move recommends Talking about politics Chelsea is Chelsea Handler’s follow-up to the Chelsea Does series, and last week’s episode, My Story is an American Story, starred guests Diane Guerrero and Mike Coulter and was one of her best. Guerrero discussed the deportation of her parents when she was a kid, and Coulter talked about his new show, Luke Cage.

Although the show is sometimes controversial and edgy, her episodes are more hard-hitting than other daytime talk shows, and she often brings up politics and social justice issues.

Keeping romance alive Brangelina is divorcing, apparently because Brad and Angelina have irreconcilable parenting differences, but you can keep their romance alive with Mr. and Ms. Smith.

That should put a Band-Aid on the Brangelina wound, but adding in ice cream, chips and popcorn will probably also help.

Lauging and cupcakes Justin Willman, comedian and host of _Cupcake Wars_ on the Food Network and _Win, Lose or Draw_ on the Disney Channel is coming to MU on Sept. 23. At the event, he will do magic, as that is his specialty, but he is best known for his cupcake prowess. Smallcakes, one of the franchises of a Cupcake Wars winning shop, is located in town at 2609 E. Broadway. Take a cupcake tour with your folks this parents weekend and see Willman and Smallcakes.

Recipe of the week Northern Irishman, like the one you might order at Ugly Mugg Ugly Mugg uses nitrogen coffee, but if you don’t have $1,000 to spend on a nitrogen machine, just put ice and coffee into a blender.

When you have a smooth blended drink, add in Jameson whiskey and a little bit of Kahlua for a bolder, creamier coffee flavor..

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MOVE MAGAZINE | TECHNOLOGY | SEPT. 21, 2016

The Ugly Mugg, a recently opened coffee shop off of Broadway and Fifth Street, offers a variety of unique cold and hot drinks, snacks and community events. Jessi Dodge | Photo Editor

Ugly Mugg pours technology into every cup Nitrogen-infused coffee, a specialized blender and kegs help Ugly Mugg create unique coffee creations.

JARED KAUFMAN AND KATIE ROSSO of the MOVE Magazine staff For Jenny Thompson, operating a coffee shop is like running a marathon.

Last October, she ran a 5K and a halfmarathon in back-to-back days as part of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon series. Now, less than a year later, she’s the owner of Ugly Mugg on Fifth Street.

“So it’s kind of like when your family is at the end of that finish line waiting for you to cross and have your victorious ‘I did it,’” Thompson said. “It takes a whole lot of work to get to that finish line. So now we’re open, and we’re kind of starting the second leg of the race.”

Ugly Mugg is located north of Broadway, four to six blocks away from every other downtown coffee shop.

“Instead of being on Ninth Street, where all the other coffee shops are, why not move to a different location in the downtown?” she said. “That way I can reach more customers. And then I thought, ‘Each of the coffee shops downtown have their own niche, so what’s mine going to be?’”

Thompson settled on alcoholic coffee, which she said is popular in European countries. A lot of her recipes are tweaked versions of European concoctions she found online.

“I did hundreds of trials of how do I get this just right so that not only myself, but my customers, will enjoy these drinks,” she said. “I worked on the whole menu for about two and a half months. There was a lot of thought and planning into the menu.

And it’s still growing and changing as we find out what works and what doesn’t work.”

During Ugly Mugg’s 10-day soft open period in the beginning of August, they test drove several drinks that did not make it on their final menu. Now, those options are part of a “secret menu.”

“The best thing that might not be on the menu is our San Andreas, which was our version of a Mudslide,” Thompson said.

“It was with a Frappuccino base instead of an ice cream, and it has rum, it has vodka, it has loads of chocolate sauce, Oreos and whipped cream. It was delicious, it was just difficult to make quickly.”

For their whole menu, uniformed military and emergency personnel — police officers, firefighters and EMTs — get a 20 percent discount, and those not in uniform receive 15 percent off.

“We’ve seen quite a few that will come both when they’re on-duty and when they’re off-duty,” Thompson said. “Their drink choices change, but they’re starting to really enjoy that, and I think they really appreciate those discounts because the service that they do is really hard. So we try and give back.”

Thompson’s grandfather worked for 29 years with the New York City Police Department, her father served for 35 years in the U.S. Navy, and her brother is finishing his qualifications to fly Black Hawk helicopters for the Army.

“My whole family is super involved in both police and military,” Thompson said.

“That’s my family. I know the sacrifices that they make and that the families have to make, and I want to make sure they’re recognized for all that they do, because that’s so incredibly hard on everyone.”

She and her significant other, John also came up with various technologies behind the bar of the shop.

In a refrigerator under the bar sits two kegs. No, they’re not full of beer — one keg has cold hot chocolate and the other has cold-brewed coffee. Both kegs are hooked up to a nitrogen tank. The food-grade gas is constantly pumping into the kegs to cool down the liquid, which is then served on tap above the bar.

“What the nitrogen does is it takes out the bitterness and the acidity that a coffee normally has,” Thompson said. “So even though it’s really caffeinated, you don’t

have the acid burn that sometimes a really Ugly Mugg recently installed a second caffeinated coffee will give you.” tap in order to start selling nitrogen-infused The shop gets its nitrogen from Airgas Italian sodas. The sodas will feature a club in Holts Summit, Missouri. Thompson soda base with nitrogen and a house blend said finding the gas was actually one of whipped cream with vanilla rum. the harder things about setting up the “Our nitro Italian sodas are our new baby shop, because she had to find someone right now, our new science experiment,” who actually sold food-grade nitrogen. Thompson said.

She thought nitrogen would draw in the Thompson also sprung for a certain summer market, a time when coffee houses coffee maker that makes iced tea and a topoften lose a lot of business. of-the-line blender, which makes smoother “Before we brought [nitrogen] to iced drinks than blenders you would use Columbia, you had to go to a big city to at home. even try it,” Thompson said.

“So we were really excited and we thought it tasted fantastic. We wanted to “Quite a few of them are my give everyone in Columbia inventions and some of them the chance to have it, are after hours and hours of because that’s really far to go get a cup of nitrogen. research and testing ... They ’re You’d spend more on gas.” reminiscent of other drinks, but To make espresso, we put our own twists on them.”

Thompson picked a Franke Pura, a “smart” machine Jenny Thompson, owner that is fully automated.

The Pura knows when it needs to be cleaned and when it is running low on supplies, and it even detects if the milk “A commercial-grade blender is actually isn’t thick enough to make high-end coffee. super expensive, which is something The machine also makes chai and hot that I didn’t quite expect,” Thompson chocolate. said. “I think we ended 1,500 bucks for “It also takes out some of the barista a commercial blender. That’s how we get work of having to load the coffee. It some of our blended drinks really wellactually drops the beans and grinds them blended.” per shot of espresso so you don’t actually The shop gets requests often for caramel have a pre-ground bean,” Thompson said. frappuccinos and their Salty Sea Turtle, “From barista to barista, you can have a which has a frappuccino base with alcohol. totally different espresso even if you have The inventions are largely Thompson’s, the same bean.” who was inspired by Pinterest — “lot of This is due to tamping, a technique that fun, lots of mad science experiments.” packs the grounds into a puck that more “Quite a few of them are my inventions evenly distributes the coffee. The machine and some of them are after hours and tamping takes the guesswork out of the hours of research and testing,” Thompson espresso, and Thompson said that if you said. “They’re reminiscent of other drinks, have Ugly Mugg’s espresso once, you know but we put our own twists on them.” it’s going to taste the same every single Edited by George Roberson time. groberson@themaneater.com

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MOVE MAGAZINE | TECHNOLOGY | SEPT. 21, 2016 G#’s musical Radar

Electronic music is more than just pushing buttons GRANT SHARPLES

It’s undeniable that technology has played a role in the music industry for a long time. If an artist is serious about their music, they’re going to make sure it sounds exactly how they want it to sound.

In most cases, this means the music will go through a rigorous production and mixing process.

Even if the artist is making acoustic music, technology will still play a vital role. Acoustic guitars need microphones (unless they’re capable of plugging into an amplifier), as do drums and vocals, and the artist will be recording their music into a digital audio workstation, such as Logic

Pro or Pro Tools. Recording, mixing and mastering depend on technology. Essentially, technology is crucial to creating quality music in any genre.

However, technology is more prominent in certain genres, such as electronic music.

Electronic music is created almost entirely by computers, software instruments and plugins. This brings up a question regarding authenticity. If music like electronic music is wholly created using software instruments, does that render it disingenuous?

This was a question I often asked myself in middle school when I first started taking an interest in playing instruments and writing music. I refused to listen to anything that wasn’t made using “real instruments,” such as guitars, drums, etc. I deemed computerized music as fake and insincere. I didn’t believe electronic music had

the soul that could only be acquired through the utilization of instruments such as the piano or guitar. I thought it was absurd that people could become widely recognized by pressing some buttons and turning some knobs, yet not even know how to read sheet music or play an instrument.

But while some electronic artists may not be able to read sheet music or play an instrument, they are still artists nonetheless. They make music, but in a different way.

In retrospect, I was being relatively closed-minded in middle school. I thought that electronic artists didn’t even create music, but now I understand they do. I’m sure there are quite a few people who still believe electronic music isn’t even music, but it most definitely is.

As a musician, I thought it would be interesting to add

some electronic aspects to my music and start learning how to produce. I must say, it has proven to be challenging and difficult. Not only do electronic artists have to understand music, but they also need a deep understanding of technology.

There is undoubtedly an art form to the genre, and it necessitates a technological aptitude that most other genres don’t require.

In fact, whether it’s electronic, rock or acoustic music, it still goes through the same recording, mixing and mastering process that most music goes through. To a certain degree, all music is dependent on technology and electronics.

As far as authenticity goes, electronic artists create very expressive music. Just as a pianist uses certain chords and melodies, an electronic artist uses different effects such as phasers and pitch shifters to elicit a certain feeling in the

listener. Basically, electronic artists use certain tools to express themselves just as other musicians do.

When you look at artists such as Jamie xx, CHVRCHES or Miike Snow, you realize that it takes true, genuine mastery and a passion for music to achieve that level of quality. It is an art form that requires hours of practice and devotion in order to be good at it.

So, is electronic music disingenuous? Simply put, no. Electronic music should be recognized as a different form of music, a genre that requires a deep technological comprehension and the application of different musical tools to attain a particular sound. If you’re anything like my middle-school self, then just know that electronic artists do way more than press buttons and turn knobs.

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THE TENACIOUS TYPIST

‘Feminism’ name hinders the movement The exclusive title distracts from the feminist cause.

JESSIE STALEY

The concept of feminism has its origins in the French word féminisme. It was coined by French socialist Charles Fourier in 1837 and has been used since the 1890s in relation to equal rights for women. Femini- comes from the word femininity, which means the quality or nature of the female sex. The suffix ism means a distinctive doctrine, cause or theory.

The only problem is that the term implies concerns of women, whether it has to do with rights or something else, and doesn’t imply concerns of equality at all.

According to Merriam-Webster, feminism is “the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes.” Given this definition, shouldn’t the movement involve equality between both sexes and those that dissociate between the sexes? And if so, why does the word claiming the movement only include one of the sexes in its title? The second full definition provided by Merriam-Webster is that feminism is “organized activity on behalf of women’s rights and interests.” It seems to me that the anti-sexism movement is giving off a sexist impression to both its supporters and adversaries, while also desynchronizing the definition of the name with the cause.

Examples of well-labeled causes include the civil rights and women’s suffrage movements.

During the motion for equal treatment of minorities, especially for the black population, the founders could have called it the black or the minorities movement, but that would have confused the true purpose, and the development would have been further delayed by a halt in support by non-minority groups.

The women’s suffrage movement was properly named because that is exactly what the party was fighting for. They could have said the ‘equal suffrage movement,’ but men at that point already had their right to vote. The focus was to gain the right to vote for women, plain and simple.

For such a broad and complex issue such as the feminist movement, it is unfortunate that the title of choice is so exclusive. To improve the way of life for women and to dismiss social stigmas and discrimination, it is necessary for the movement to dismiss stigmas and discrimination against men as well.

In order to gain support, people must know what they are supporting and feel like what they’re supporting affects them in a positive way. In order to reach the proper support and message, the movement should change its name to be more inclusive maybe the ‘sex equality movement,’ or the like. The feminist movement must also unify its cause and definition. When someone searches information on feminism, there should be one definition that embodies the entirety of the cause.

HUNTER OF THE TRUTH

An iPhone 7 without a headphone jack is a step in the right direction

Although the removal of the 3.5 mm headphone jack seems like a drawback, it is actually a smart move in the long term.

HUNTER GILBERT

At Apple’s annual September press conference this year, the company announced that the new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus will not have a 3.5 mm headphone jack. It’s a change that has been rumored for months, but according to a poll on Forbes’ website, 65 percent of respondents were not pleased with Apple ditching the jack that was popularized by the Sony Walkman in 1979.

The fact is, the decision to remove the headphone jack is the right move in the long term.

Apple has been ditching internal parts that they have deemed unnecessary for a while. When the iMac was announced by Steve Jobs in 1998, some people panicked because it lacked a floppy disk drive and had some new drive called a CD-ROM, if you’ve ever heard of it. Last year, people were surprised by the fact that the new MacBook had only two ports: a USB port and a headphone jack. This all fits within a common theme seen in Apple products: simplicity and user-friendly design. At the same time, it allows Apple to focus more on battery life. The fewer components inside the iPhone, the more space that can be filled with battery. For most

Photo illustration of iPhone 7. Jessi Dodge | Photo Editor

consumers, myself included, that is all that really matters.

It is worth mentioning that a free adapter will come with every iPhone 7.

This does mean the adapter must be carried around if you wish to use your old 3.5 mm headphones. You will also not be able to charge your phone and listen to music at the same time if you use a 3.5 mm wired headphone. This can be avoided if you buy a hideous two-slot dongle made by Belkin.

Although it may seem as though Apple is being the bad guy in this situation, they are actually attempting to make the headphone market innovate and produce higher-quality headphones. For example, a certain pair of Lightning headphones reviewed by The Verge offer incredibly high sound fidelity, leagues ahead of anything a 3.5 mm connector can offer.

This is due to the power supply available to headphones if they are powered by a Lightning port instead of a 3.5 mm port.

More power allows for the headphones to use more energy to produce higherquality sound. This level of sound fidelity is not possible via an iPhone with a 3.5 mm jack, unless it has an external power supply.

This trend will more than likely follow suit with wireless headphones that use Bluetooth. Of course, this means the headphones will probably be bigger to have larger power supplies, but it will be worth it. Apple, by dropping the 3.5 mm port, is attempting to force innovation much like what they did with the iMac dropping the floppy drive and replacing it with CD-ROM. In a few years, this will be seen as a good move on Apple’s part.

That’s so regan

Saving the Craft Studio is necessary to preserve creativity and individuality at MU REGAN HUSTON

The Missouri Students Association is at risk of losing one of its most successful auxiliaries: the Craft Studio. Renovations at Memorial Union will cause the current location of the Craft Studio to close, and there is a possibility that it may never open again. The fight to save the Craft Studio is one worthy our attention, and it is a battle that should be fought passionately.

Through social media outlets and the Craft Studio’s website, an announcement was released earlier this week explaining why the studio will be closing. The announcement said MSA President Sean Earl was communicating with MU administration to find a solution to the problem.

The Craft Studio is one of MSA’s

biggest investments, according to its 2015-16 budget, so the closing of the valued program would be a big loss for our student government — and our student body. Rather than shutting down the Craft Studio completely, an alternative would be to find a different location, one that suits and fosters the studios atmosphere of creativity.

Aside from being one of MSA’s most prominent projects, the Craft Studio provides a shelter for creative minds at MU. Woodshop, ceramics, screen printing and general art are just a few classes offered at the studio. Membership and day passes are readily accessible for students and allow for the whole campus to get involved in something artistic.

With the large amount of programs offered at MU, not every enrolled student is able to major in or even take an arts class that allows them to explore new skills. As college students, we are driven to do two things: work hard and find ourselves. We have hours of homework and studying every night, with exams and projects sure

to follow, and we cannot afford to lose focus. But we also have the difficult task of shaping who we are and who we will be as young adults and onward, meaning that we must take advantage of this time of independence to try new things and send ourselves in multiple directions.

The Craft Studio is a staple that allows students to find and express themselves freely. I have minimal art skills, but I enjoy having fun with the supplies and learning different crafts. Personally, crafting relieves stress and becomes a moment when I can have total fun with no expectations. For others, it’s a more serious trade that is both therapeutic and gratifying.

The loss of the Craft Studio prevents students from exploring and enhancing their skills within such a unique trade.

The student population deserves such an outlet for their creativity. MSA needs to put maximum effort into saving this project and informing the student body of how great of a resource is at stake.

THE MANEATER | OPINION | SEPT. 21, 2016 According to Emmett

Exploring the mob-like mentality surrounding college football EMMETT FERGUSON

If you take a moment to observe your surroundings while in the student section of a college football game, several things are guaranteed to be there: students screaming and stomping, a fight over a free T-shirt, spilled food and that one heavily imbibed guy who definitely graduated several years ago. Even with all this, college football is still wellknown for being a good time.

Your preliminary thoughts might be that it’s fun because you can win. Who doesn’t like winning? While that is part of the reason, it is really not the main allure of the event. If it really was the reason people came, the Chicago Cubs would have fewer fans than a Little League game. The real reason that Faurot is packed every home game is because everyone can act like an imbecile without consequence.

Going to a sporting event is truly a beautiful, unique

experience. Where else can you cuss someone out for being from a different state than you?

Take our old rival, Kansas, for example. Most of the time, no one minds Kansas. It’s actually not even that bad of a state.

It’s one of the nation’s largest producers of wheat, and it won the ‘most beautiful license plate’ award in 1981. Pretty awesome, right? Nope. If you say you’re from Kansas during a game against MU, you may as well have just kicked a puppy.

The reason most people feel this way about the opposing team during a sporting event is due to deindividualization. This is when people lose personal accountability while in large crowds. Think about it: We chant, we scream, and we even don war paint in the colors of our school. If we did this any other day, we would be seen as insane or probably drunk.

Take this, for example: I had the pleasure of standing next to an exceptionally tipsy gentleman at the game against Eastern Michigan. At some point during the game, the opposing team threw a pass and the wide receiver reached for it, bobbled it a bit and finally caught it. It was a fine play, an excellent display

of hand-eye coordination.

However, this prompted quite a different response from the man next to me. The response was a string of curse words directed at the wide receiver’s mother, a fist punched in the air in front of him and chuckling at his own wit before vomiting a little. In what situation is this at all even close to acceptable? If this same response was triggered while you were at a grocery store and someone caught a box of cereal that was knocked off a shelf, the person shouting would likely be kicked out and potentially arrested for public intoxication.

The deindividualization that takes place during sporting events is the same kind of thing that happens in riots. People do things that they would never do in any other situation because they are totally lost in the group.

Everyone is just part of the crowd. There is only one group mentality, and that is that there are no consequences. Everyone from the computer science nerd to the person crushing Natty Light against their forehead is likely to be a complete and total raving idiot. That is why football games are so fun.

She Wente There

Stanford rapist’s jail time is an outrage HANNAH WENTE

In March, Stanford student Brock Turner was sentenced to six months in jail for the sexual assault of an inebriated and unconscious woman. He went on to serve only half the sentence, a mere three months.

Turner was found behind a dumpster on top of a passedout woman with her clothes half-pulled off. He had pulled off her underwear, digitally penetrated her and allegedly took photos of her breasts and sent them to his friends. When two bicyclists found them, he tried to run and had to be held down.

Apparently, this only warrants three months of jail time. Violating an unconscious woman, according to a judge, only gets 90 days.

The reasoning behind the sentence was that Turner was

only 20 years old with no prior trouble with the law and had a bright future ahead of him.

He was a promising swimmer at Stanford. He blamed his actions on drinking and the atmosphere of casual sex at universities.

Being young, white, rich and talented granted him a slap on the wrist for a violent crime.

A judge decided his future was enough to forfeit justice for the woman he violated.

This is terrifying to collegeaged women. They see this and know that the exact same thing could happen to them, and their attacker could go unpunished.

Women are already afraid of being raped, now they have to be afraid that if they are raped no one will care.

By giving Turner such a light sentence, our national and state governments and our judicial systems are shrugging their shoulders and saying to us, “There’s nothing we can do,” and “Your suffering is not important to us.” They’re telling us, “We don’t care.”

When cases like this aren’t prosecuted, it tells rapists that they can get away with it. That

they won’t be punished. That if they are even brought to trial, if a judge or jury decides there is enough evidence to convict, they’ll only have to serve three months.

It tells men to go ahead and take advantage of a drunk girl at a party; it must not be that bad of a crime. No one will care anyway.

Instead, we tell girls to not to drink too much, to never go anywhere alone, to keep their eyes on their drink at all times and to always be alert so that this won’t happen to them.

We should be telling men that rape is a serious and disgusting crime to commit and that a drunk or unconscious woman can’t consent to sex.

We need to tell them that you don’t have to force a woman to the ground in an alley with a knife to be a rapist. You can be a promising swimmer at Stanford and be a rapist.

The problem is not a campus culture of drinking and promiscuity, as Turner claimed in his defense. The problem is a culture and government that permits this to happen without consequences.

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Redshirt freshman Michael Widmann stops after a cross-country practice in Columbia. Maneater File Photo

Cross-Country

Michael Widmann shines as cross-country contributor Coach Marc Burns: “There’s no reason why he can’t be one of our top guys moving forward.”

TITUS WU Reporter At Neuqua Valley High School, the cross-country coaches combed through the year’s first results, “convinced somewhere in these [race] times was the next Michael Widmann.”

This statement from the Neuqua Valley team’s website illustrates the impact redshirt freshman Michael Widmann had, even after a year’s absence, on his high school program. More importantly for Tiger fans, it shows the impact he could have on Missouri’s men’s crosscountry team.

Already in his first collegiate race, Widmann was the second-fastest male Mizzou runner, placing far ahead of many upperclassmen.

“There’s no reason why he can’t be one of our top guys moving forward,” coach Marc Burns said.

Burns expects Widmann to be one

of Missouri’s top seven runners this season.

Widmann’s high performance at such an early stage can be attributed to the decision to redshirt him in 2015.

Redshirting is when a student practices with the team but does not compete in the first academic year of college. The athlete’s four years of eligibility begin in the second academic year and end after the fifth year of college.

“I absolutely think that redshirting was the best option,” Widmann said.

“You got to figure a lot of things out.

Taking a year off and not wasting a year of eligibility to figure that [out] is a great way to go about it.”

While high school athletes run 5,000meter courses, college athletes have to run 8,000- or 10,000-meter courses, which can be a huge leap. With different distances come different pacing and racing strategies, all of which Widmann learned in his redshirt year through intense workouts and training.

Not everybody can handle these workouts as well as Widmann can.

“He’s very consistent,” Burns said.

“It’s really important to get his weekly training volume up. Last year, we held him back and had him run 65 to 75 miles per week. This year we were able to go to 75 to 90 miles per week. And then next year will probably be 85 to 100 miles per week.”

Consistency is Widmann’s weapon, and his rapid ascent through the workouts stems back to high school.

“He’s from a really good high school program from Illinois … a championship program. They know how to win,” Burns said. “By championship, I mean they get better every year. And that’s what Michael knows how to do ... At [the collegiate] level, you got to get better every single year.”

With an already great start combined with this level of consistent improvement, Widmann has potential to lead the team and dominate the

course in the coming years.

But his impact goes beyond performance: He is determined and willing to work hard.

One time, in a high school track meet, “he kicked hard the last 100 meters,” Neuqua Valley coach Paul Vandersteen said. “He ran out of gas about 10 meters in front of the finish line and collapsed.

Through sheer determination, he got back up and dove across the line, qualifying by time for the state meet.”

“Michael was a true inspiration,” Vandersteen said. Examples like this are how “an average freshman … through hard work … developed into one of [Illinois’] best.”

And if all goes well in the future, he could develop into one of Mizzou’s best as well.

Edited by Bailey Sampson bsampson@themaneater.com

women’s soccer

Allie Hess propels Mizzou soccer to victory over Weber State With three starters out on suspension, Hess led the Tigers with two goals and one assist.

LANGSTON NEWSOME Staff Writer In a 3-1 victory over Weber State on Sunday at home soccer (6-3, 1-1) proved they can compete without three pivotal offensive players. Allie Hess and Rachel Hignett were able to pick up the slack in the Missouri victory after three starters were suspended for rule violations.

In the first-ever meeting between

Mizzou and Weber State, Mizzou headed into its second straight game without Sarah Luebbert, Kaitlyn Clark and Bethany Coons, who were suspended before Thursday’s game against Tennessee.

“They broke team rules,” coach Bryan Blitz said. “They will all be back tomorrow in training, we will move forward, and that’s really it.”

Moving forward is exactly what the

Tigers needed to do after a 2-0 shutout loss to Tennessee on Thursday.

“Anytime you have a loss it’s important to bounce back,” Blitz said.

“One of our mottos is ‘one doesn’t make two.’”

Mizzou responded with 25 shots, the most shots the Tigers have had in a game this year. The Missouri defense limited WSU to only four.

“Sundays are definitely hard, because

after playing a full Friday game, everyone is tired,” Hess said. “You have to dig deep and get out there.”

Adjusting to a starting lineup shaken by suspensions cost the team against Tennessee and in the early part of the game against Weber State. Defensively, the Tigers continued to press, not allowing WSU to get into any rhythm

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Georgia fans are among the best in the SEC Andy Sorrells: “Being in the South, [Georgia football is] just kind of a way of life.”

PETER BAUGH

Andy Sorrells has not missed a Georgia football game since Nov. 10, 2001.

After witnessing his Bulldogs edge out Missouri 28-27, the 29-year-old has been to 191 straight Georgia games.

At a tailgate before Saturday’s game, Sorrells rattled off some of his favorite Georgia wins: Auburn in 2007, Florida in 2007, Louisiana State in 2008 and 2013.

“It’s like you guys are wine connoisseurs,” a nearby Missouri fan said with a laugh.

Sorrells, a native of Grayson, Georgia, was one of many Bulldog supporters to make the trek to Columbia.

The Bulldog fans were in full force on Missouri’s campus: passionate, crazy and fun.

Fred Rose, an Augusta, Georgia, native, set up his tailgate near the intersection of College Avenue and Stadium Boulevard. Music blared and smoke came from a small grill. When I approached him, he greeted me with a smile. He offered me beer, chips and soda.

Rose is a die-hard Georgia fan.

Recently, he adopted a bulldog puppy.

The dog’s name? Chubb, named after

star Georgia running back Nick Chubb.

Though Chubb (the dog, not the player) could not make the trip to Columbia, Rose hopes to bring him to tailgates in the future.

“Just like us, he’s friendly,” Rose said. “He loves to meet people, whether they’re Georgia or Mizzou.”

Like Rose — and, apparently, his dog — Georgia fans were happy to mingle with the Mizzou faithful. Bulldog fans shared food with Missourians at their tailgates, and there were cornhole competitions between fans of both schools.

The Georgia fans were complimentary of Columbia natives.

“I’ve been to every SEC stadium except for Missouri and [Texas] A&M,” Georgia junior Taylor Burns said. “These are the nicest fans. People welcomed us into the stadium, people gave us tours around the city. The nicest fans by far.”

While Missouri may have the nicest fans, Georgia’s are some of the most passionate in the nation. In a sea of black and gold shirts, noticeable red splattered Memorial Stadium.

The Georgia section was nearly full; fans waved red towels and danced. After the game, a swarm of red shirts greeted players as they left the stadium.

“We travel,” Georgia senior Peter Bodunrin said. “The Dawgs travel well.”

After a J’Mon Moore fumble sealed the victory for the Bulldogs, “U-GA! U-G-A!” chants rang out across a stunned stadium.

“It feels great,” Georgia running back

Georgia fans celebrate after Georgia finishes with a 28-27 win over Mizzou on Sept. 17.

Photo by Emil Lippe | Staff Photogrpher

Sony Michel said. “It was great that we was able to come out here and lay it all out on the line until the last second for our fans. We have great fans, great supporters that come out and support us each and every game, and I just thank them.”

Chubb agreed with his teammate.

“We have an amazing fanbase here for UGA,” he said. “And they traveled … and we’re thankful for them.”

Trent Gatz, a 28-year-old Georgia graduate, said that Bulldog fans are obsessed with football.

He’s right. Whether at home in Athens or on the road in Columbia, the Georgia faithful makes its presence known.

The love of Georgia football is passed from generation to generation. Rose said his father-in-law has gone to Georgia games for 40 years. As his kids grow up, he likes “knowing that when their grandparents are gone and we’re gone, they’ll still be here doing the same thing we did.”

Sorrells was with his uncle for the first football game he remembers. Like Rose, his passion for the Bulldogs came from his loved ones.

“Being in the South, it’s just kind of a way of life,” Sorrells said. “For me at least, it’s a family thing, and I’m sure for most people it’s a family thing … Once you go one time or something, you fall in love.”

Missouri football can play alongside the big boys Even though they lost, the Tigers proved they can hang with the SEC’s best.

ELI LEDERMAN

For the better part of the week leading up to Mizzou football’s contest with Georgia, there was increasing sentiment around campus that the Tigers might have a real shot against the Bulldogs.

Mizzou was fresh off a 61-21 victory over Eastern Michigan in which everything seemed to click. Sophomore quarterback Drew Lock looked like he might finally be coming into his own after throwing five touchdowns. Johnathon Johnson looked like one of the conference’s most explosive players, and even the offensive line was holding up well enough. Throw in the fact that Georgia came to Columbia after a scant 2-point win over Nicholls State with a freshman quarterback at the helm, and Tiger fans were licking their chops. It felt like Missouri was meant to take this game.

And it almost played out that way, too.

The Tigers jumped out to a quick 10-0 lead on a Bulldogs team that simply failed to show up for the game’s first eight minutes. But Georgia stormed back and pieced together consecutive scoring drives to go up 14-10. From that point on, neither team led by more than six points, and for a good while it really did look like Mizzou

was going to come away with a victory.

When the Tigers opened up the third quarter with an interception and scored on the subsequent play, it looked as though a Tiger win was destined to be.

However, it was not. The Tigers fell 28-27 after a last-minute Georgia score.

Yes, this loss felt like the same old Tigers. The offense turned the ball over five times. Lock threw three interceptions. The defense came up short when it was needed most. And Mizzou’s final possession ended on a J’Mon Moore fumble on the drive’s first play.

Ultimately, this one can go down as just another close loss for Mizzou.

Despite the bad taste Saturday night left in Tigers fans’ mouths, there’s a major takeaway here that cannot be ignored: Missouri proved it can hang with the big boys.

Sure, this particular big boy has a weak O-line and a measly 12-point margin of victory through three games, but it’s are still among the nation’s best. The Tigers were just a play or two away from stealing this game from the Bulldogs.

Saturday’s game was proof that the Tigers can truly challenge the Southeastern Conference’s best, which was still in question headed into the weekend.

Mizzou’s ability to contend with bigtime teams begins and ends, of course, with its quarterback. Even while tossing three interceptions, Lock looked pretty damn good against that Georgia defense.

He countered those three picks with three passing touchdowns and 376 yards through

the air. Even more important than the stats were the actual plays that Lock made.

His capability to continually make throws and execute carried over from the Eastern Michigan game.

When defensive back Cam Hilton picked off Georgia quarterback Jacob Eason and left the offense with the ball at the 6-yard line early in the second half, Lock came in and fired a strike to Moore for a quick touchdown. I don’t know — maybe it’s the fact that Mizzou’s offense has been so anemic over the past two seasons — but seeing a passer execute in the red zone is as refreshing as anything at any tailgate in Columbia.

Lock also made a big play with his feet.

On their second to last drive, facing a third and 4, he made a gutsy break from the pocket and scrambled for a 10-yard gain, extending a drive that might have been pivotal had it not ended with an end zone interception.

Lock’s game was a mixed bag, but he made it apparent on Saturday night that his success can make a world of difference for the Tigers.

The coaching staff also impressed yesterday. More specifically, first-year offensive coordinator Josh Heupel had an incredible game plan. A major concern headed into this week was Mizzou’s ability to slow down the game and keep Georgia’s defense on the field. During the first two weeks of the season, the Tigers had been running an up-tempo offense that did very little to shave time off of the clock.

The issue? A major component of sticking

with teams that possess superior talent is slowing the game down and controlling the football. Going into the game, I questioned the Tigers’ ability to slow down the game.

But Heupel proved me wrong again.

While the Tigers didn’t dominate possession — the Bulldogs owned the ball for just over 60 percent of the game — Heupel’s offense was able to manage the game well and kept the Tigers in it till the very end. It may be something that goes without saying, but game planning and the execution of that game plan are integral parts to challenging talented football teams.

You could look at the way Mizzou played on Saturday and say it was far from impressive. Five turnovers? Three secondhalf interceptions? They could have won this game by two touchdowns, but they failed to take care of business when it mattered most.

Saturday night could be viewed as a prime example of this team’s youth and inexperience and inability to close out a game in the fourth quarter.

But it could also be viewed as a success, as something of a statement game. A moral victory means nothing when you’re sitting at the bottom of the conference standings with two losses, but the Tigers just hung with the No. 16 team in the nation for four quarters. They showed us a gear we didn’t know they had. And with conference games against quality opponents like LSU, Florida and Tennessee circled on all of our schedules, we’ll know at the very least that these Tigers should be able to hang with the best.

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Photo series of home game facing the Georgia Bulldogs on Sept. 17., including Barry Odom’s son crying after the game. Photos by Alexzandria Churchill | Assistant Photo Editor & Emil Lippe | Staff Photographer

Wide receiving corps makes name for itself Seven different wide receivers have caught at least one touchdown pass so far this season.

TYLER KRAFT Assistant Sports Editor The last time Missouri had more than five wide receivers with at least one touchdown catch was the 2013 season. That year, Missouri went to its first Southeastern Conference Championship and won the Cotton Bowl.

The 2013 squad featured star wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham, who topped the list of nine scoring receivers with 12 touchdowns.

That season, Missouri’s passing attack racked up 31 touchdowns.

Missouri’s current batch of receivers doesn’t boast any big-name wideouts.

You wouldn’t know that by the way the Tiger pass catchers have played this season.

Missouri’s aerial attack is quickly becoming one of the most feared in the country, armed with quarterback Drew Lock and a ragtag team of receivers who are quickly making names for themselves. Through three games, seven different receivers have caught at least one of Lock’s nine touchdown passes.

“The coolest thing to me today was throwing to those guys who have never caught the ball in the end zone,” Lock said following his five-touchdown performance against Eastern Michigan.

“Seeing their faces after they catch the touchdowns is probably the coolest thing.”

Coming into the season, the Tiger receivers were largely unproven. Only two, J’Mon Moore and Nate Brown, had significant past experience.

“My last game of high school was really the last time I played like that,” receiver Ray Wingo said in reference to his performance against Eastern Michigan.

Early on in the season, Missouri boasts one of the nation’s best passing attacks.

Lock has more passing yards than all but three other quarterbacks in the country.

Part of the receivers’ success can be attributed to offensive coordinator Josh Heupel’s dedication to utilizing the strengths of each of his receivers.

Wide receivers coach Andy Hill is quick to credit his players for picking up the new system in stride.

“It says a lot about those guys,” Hill said before the Georgia game. “We’ve had 10 guys that stay in the meeting and pay

attention and all have a chance to play.

Those guys are reaping the benefits.”

Last season, Missouri’s passing attack was one of the most lackluster in the country. Missouri’s playcalling rarely used the middle of the field, often opting for bubble screens and outside routes instead.

While Heupel still orders those routes on occasion, he has focused more on utilizing his wide receivers’ strengths when designing route patterns. That is why Moore has appeared more on slant routes this season while Missouri’s speedy slot receivers are often seen sprinting down the field on deep routes.

“At the end of the day, you can’t block everyone,” Heupel said. “The guy with the ball in his hands is responsible. He’s on scholarship to make the last guy miss.

We’re trying to put our guys in some space where they have the ability to do that.”

The difference in playcalling is doing wonders for Missouri’s ability to move the ball. The Tigers are averaging over 15 yards per catch, whereas the 2015 receivers only managed just under 11 yards per catch.

For quarterback Drew Lock, the

emergence of his receiving core has not only been nice to throw to but fun to watch.

“All these guys want it super bad,” Lock said after the Eastern Michigan game. “It was just cool to let them get in the flow of things. [Wingo] is always like, ‘I’m going to run past them, I’m going to run past them.’ So I’m like: ‘Here you go.

Here it is. Run past them, and I’m going to get you the ball and we’ll go score.’”

Although the Tigers showed many different plays in their arsenal the first three games, they have yet to use many of their potent weapons. Brown, who led the team in touchdown receptions in 2015, has yet to play due to an ankle injury.

Meanwhile, tight end Sean Culkin has yet to find the end zone, and Missouri’s running backs have yet to catch a touchdown in 2016. Wingo knows that by the end of the season, all of Missouri’s pieces will be used.

“We’ve been working together,” Wingo said. “We’ve been coming together as a team and gelling. I mean, this is what we all want to do: make big plays and go score.”

Edited by Peter Baugh pbaugh@themaneater.com

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THE MANEATER | SPORTS | SEPT. 21, 2016

Georgia coach reflects on showdown with Missouri Kirby Smart: “[Drew Lock] can throw the ball. He’s a force to be reckoned with. He’s going to be around for a while.”

PETER BAUGH Sports Editor Like Missouri, the Georgia football team is playing under a first-year head coach. Kirby Smart, the former Alabama defensive coordinator, calls the shots for the Bulldogs.

Smart talked to the media after Georgia’s 28-27 victory over the Tigers on Saturday. He discussed the Georgia running game, Barry

HESS

Continued from page 12 offensively. Mizzou controlled the ball and possession but struggled at times to capitalize on early chances at the net.

This game was also marked by how physical play was; Mizzou reaching a new season high for fouls with 13.

Odom, Drew Lock and the Missouri team as a whole.

On Georgia’s running game…

“We have to find other ways to run the ball, because right now, we can’t run the ball the style of run we want to do. So it’s frustrating … because that’s what we want our identity to be, and if you can’t do that, you struggle. It’s real simple in football.”

“We like physical,” Hignett said. “In training we are always being physical with each other.

We are prepared for that battle and that scrap, and that’s what we came here to do.”

This defensive struggle was broken up by a flurry of goals. The Tigers scored three goals in six minutes.

Mizzou was able to capitalize on a corner kick to score the first goal. “ We pride ourself in

On coach Barry Odom…

“I take my hat off to Coach Odom. Barry did a great job. Great plan for us, and they really coached their kids well.”

On Missouri’s defense when Georgia scored the gamewinning touchdown…

“They took a chance. They blitzed us on that play. They had not blitzed much that drive … the

our set pieces,” Hess said.

Savannah Trujillo perfectly placed an assist right on Hess’ foot to start the goaling mirage in the 20th minute.

The was quickly followed in the 23rd minute by WSU’s Paige Stevens slipping an unassisted goal past Kelsey Dossey. Dossey was making her first start after not traveling with the team to Tennessee because of an illness.

The tie did not hold long, though, as Hess blasted

only decision that’s right is the one that works, and I probably would’ve blitzed there too. And they got stung on it.”

On the Southeastern Conference…

“We’re in a league where there’s good teams. There’s a great parity in our conference, and there’s really good teams. So week in and week out, we’re going to be challenged.”

in another goal in the 26th minute, her fourth on the year.

“We had that talk yesterday,” Blitz said. “I just said, ‘We need more from you. You have to really finish and create chances to score goals for us moving forward.’ She really stepped up and did that.”

De fe n s i ve l y, Mizzou played perfectly in the second half, holding WSU to only one shot and no goals.

The Mizzou scoring, on the

On the Missouri team and quarterback Drew Lock…

“I saw a great team that fought, grew up. Their quarterback, other than a couple bad decisions, he’s a gunslinger. He can throw the ball.

He’s a force to be reckoned with.

He's going to be around for a while. offensive coordinator Josh Heupel does a great job offensively. They go fast, and they’re furious at it. Their defense plays really hard.”

other hand, continued from Hignett in the 71st minute. “[Allie Hess] did all the hard work,” Hignett said. “I just made it look good by putting it in the back of the net.”

Mizzou will be back to full strength Sept. 22 to take on Southeastern Conference rival Kentucky.

Edited by Peter Baugh pbaugh@themaneater.com

Coming up this week in Tigers sports Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Volleyball plays South Carolina at 8 p.m. at Hearnes Center.

Soccer takes on Kentucky at home at 6:30 p.m.

Tennis hosts the Mizzou Invite in Kansas City all weekend.

Women’s golf is at a tournament in South Carolina all weekend.

Football hosts Delaware State at 3 p.m. Catch it on SEC Network.

Volleyball hosts Ole Miss at noon.

Catch on ESPNU. Soccer hosts Mississippi State at 1 p.m.