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GOING CASHLESS

Make your Roots N Blues N BBQ cashless experience simple with these tips The cashless system intends to bring convenience to festivalgoers.

SARAH HASELHORST

Reporter

Losing your wallet at any event is fear-inducing and guaranteed to make your heart and mind race, but this year the Roots N Blues N BBQ festival has remedied your wallet woes by introducing a cashless system.

This system uses an RFID wristband that festivalgoers will be given in lieu of a paper ticket. This innovation replaces both the ticket and the wallet as well. Festivalgoers will be able to use their wristband to pay for food and merchandise. Once a good is purchased, buyers will receive an email receipt and a readout of their festival account balance. While the RFID wristbands are intended to simplify the festival experience, here are four quick tips to have a smooth cashless experience: Register your RFID wristband

immediately: Once you purchase your Roots N Blues N BBQ ticket, you will be sent an RFID wristband. On the festival’s website, you can click the “cashless payments” tab and register your wristband and then link the wristband to your credit or debit card. While the Roots N Blues N BBQ website notes that you do not have to register your wristband, keep in mind this important caveat — by registering and linking your wristband, you are ensuring the wristband’s replacement if it happens to get lost or damaged (and yes, the wristbands are waterproof).

“Topping-up” before you go: After linking the wristband, you then have the ability to “top-up” your account by connecting the wristband to a credit or debit card. The feature lets you add specific amounts of money at a time, enabling complete and conscious control of your festival account. If you are adverse to linking a credit or debit card online, there are a few stations inside the festival which will allow cash to be put onto your wristband; these will be called “top-up” stations.

2017 Roots N Blues wristbands allow festival goers to complete cashless payments with ease.

PHOTO BY LANE BURDETTE | VISUALS DIRECTOR

Know the limits: While the RFID technology is convenient, there are two points to keep in mind. According to Roots N Blues N BBQ’s website, wristband holders will not be able to split payments between each other; only one wristband can open and close a single purchase. Additionally, credit cannot be transferred from one wristband to another. While these may seem restricting, the wristbands are set up in a way to assure that you have full responsibility of your own

account.

Download the festival app for ease: Roots N Blues N BBQ has a free, user-friendly app where you can access the weekend’s schedule, glance at the all-inclusive map, purchase tickets, receive festival notifications and answer questions you have concerning your RFID wristband.

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Roots N Blues N BBQ Preview MOVE Magazine Sept. 27, 2017 ARTIST PREVIEW

Booker T’s rich tunes to be performed at Roots N Blues N BBQ

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Known for his smooth, rich tunes, soul and R&B, singer Booker T. Jones will perform Stax Records recording studio’s greatest hits, including some of his own, at the Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival at Stephens Lake Park. Booker T’s Stax Revue will be on the Great Southern Bank Stage at 8:15 p.m. on Sept. 29.

Audiences should expect to hear some of Booker T’s swanky top hits from his time with the Memphis Group.

With strong roots to his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, Booker T. has shaped today’s soul music with his modern take on R&B and the interracial makeup of the MGs. Breaking into the music

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scene with “Green Onions,” Booker T. went on to record top hits with Stax Records.

Other hits of his include “Melting Pot,” “All Over The Place” and “Gently,” each of which inspired and pushed the boundaries of 1960s southern soul.

Booker T. and the MGs consisted of Al Jackson Jr. on drums, Steve Cropper on guitar and Lewis Steinberg on bass guitar. Booker T. himself is known for his work on the Hammond B3 organ, a prominent feature on his album Sound the Alarm. The R&B legend also collaborated with star musicians throughout his musical career including Mayer Hawthorne, Janet Jackson and Earth, Wind & Fire.

From slower ballads to upbeat grooves, Booker T’s impact on soul music has led him to win the Grammy award for Best Pop Instrumental Album twice, Best Pop Instrumental Performance and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. His many accomplishments have also given him and the MGs a spot in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

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Booker T. Jones, four-time Grammy award-winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, cultivates the modern age’s definition of soul and R&B.

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ARTIST PREVIEW

‘70s country-folk artist Emmylou Harris to perform at Roots N Blues N BBQ As she finds her way in the modern era of folk, Harris comes to the Roots N Blues N BBQ festival to remind people of her progressive contributions to country and folk sound.

SIENA DEBOLT

Reporter

On stage, Emmylou Harris channels the same desire to perform that she had 50 years ago as a college student at the University of North Carolina.

After pursuing a music career in New York City and watching the city’s folk scene decline, Harris moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to raise her first child and continue her performing career. Following her time with The Flying Burrito Brothers, she moved to Washington in 1973 and worked with Tom Guidera and the Fallen Angels, a band that she worked with while performing in clubs.

Later, Harris would go on

to create the album Angel Band, released in 1987.

Once she had produced her second LP, she found a new backing band called The Hot Band, which included James Burton, Glen D. Hardin and Rodney Crowell.

In 1987, she collaborated with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt to create Trio, Harris’ best-selling album to date.

Now, as she navigates the modern era of folk, Harris comes to the Roots N Blues N BBQ festival to remind people of her contributions to the progressive country and folk sound that was pioneered by artists like Bob Dylan and Neil Young.

MU freshman Crystal Cox listened to “Michelangelo”

by Harris, a song from the Red Dirt Girl album released in 2000, and was impressed by her range of style.

“I like it because while it has an older style to it, it’s definitely still something common in today’s music,” Cox said. “It’s soft and soulful and sounds like something my parents would listen to.”

Harris will perform at the Great Southern Bank Stage at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday.

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Leon Bridges puts a modern spin on the blues Bridges will mix old and new sounds in his appearance at Roots N Blues.

ASHLEY JONES

Reporter

Leon Bridges combines old school style and modernday indie rock. On Saturday, Bridges will bring the good ol’ sound of blues to his main demographic, millennials, at the Roots N Blues N BBQ festival.

MU sophomore and Bridges fan Sage Williams appreciates Bridges’ attempt to bring back a genre that is largely taken for granted.

“I would say he really aims to bring back the culture of Sam Cooke and the many individuals who laid the groundwork of blues,” Williams said in an email. “He utilizes this sound without putting a modern sound or spin on the music. I

believe he could benefit from growing to utilize the genres that were created by the time he is trying to bring back.

However, he is a solid artist who I enjoy.”

MU students who have not heard of Bridges listened to his music and gave their initial impressions.

“I was just trying to figure out what the river was,” sophomore Val Addison said when he first heard Bridges’ hit “River.”

The song’s music video has imagery that reflects racial tension in modern America.

There are images of a black man walking away from a crime scene with blood on his shirt, a candlelight vigil for black victims of police brutality and a church service in the rain. When Addison heard “River”, he noticed that the song gave off a spiritual vibe.

“It kind of rubbed me as like a slave song, like freedom or something,” Addison said.

MU junior Breyana Price

described Bridges’ sound as laid-back indie.

“I really liked it,” Price said. “The tone of his voice is really pretty. It’s relaxing.”

However, those reviews were only based on one song.

If Addison or Price heard Bridges’ song “Outta Line” off of Coming Home, they might get a feel for ‘20s hip-hoppy blues. The track’s happy tone landed it the number eight spot on MOVE’s playlist of Bridges’ best tracks.

“Here in My Arms” incorporates a ‘20s vibe with a slow, romantic tune featuring an organ, trumpets and doowop background singers to add a vintage touch.

“Smooth Sailin’” has a touching backstory. During an NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert, Bridges revealed that he wrote this song after his grandfather told him about seeing Bridges’ grandmother for the first time.

Bridges graced followers’ ears with the release of his single “River” from his 2015

debut album Coming Home in 2016. Bridges also wrote and recorded the song “So Long” for the Golden Globenominated motion picture “Concussion” featuring Will Smith.

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of the songs from Coming Home himself. If you want to take a journey through poignant, old-timey music that embodies classic blues, every track is worth a listen.

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Vendors sell more than BBQ at Roots N Blues N BBQ Harold’s Doughnuts, Smoothie King and Lakota Coffee Company offer unique culinary options for the festival.

MAWA IQBAL

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‘Tis the season of pumpkin spice lattes, spooky, scary skeletons and dwindling daylight hours. With the changing colors of the leaves and the increased prevalence of Halloween decorations at convenience stores, the dog days of summer seem to be coming to an end.

And while outdoor grilling and live music are more commonly considered a staple of those better days, the Roots N Blues N BBQ festival is here to keep that feel-good summer vibe around for one last weekend.

Taking place in Stephens Lake Park and spanning from Sept. 29 through Oct. 1, the Roots N Blues N BBQ festival will feature over 30 local, regional, national and international artists, showcasing genres that range from country and bluegrass to gospel and soul. Headline artists include Ryan Adams, Leon Bridges and Emmylou Harris.

But the musical acts won’t be the only attractions that will draw people to Columbia. As one can probably infer from the title of the event, festivalgoers can also enjoy an

array of culinary options from local fostering eco-friendly practices.

Because the festival doesn’t allow food vendors.

Although the festival menu anyone to carry plastic water bottles, understandably places greater Smoothie King has taken it upon emphasis on BBQ options, vendors itself to make reusable Smoothie King plastic water bottles. specializing in “My favorite snacks, drinks and “WE WANT TO part is not worrying desserts are there PROMOTE LIVING A about putting more to make headlines as well. While it is HEALTHY AND ACTIVE plastic out there reducing our only its first year LIFESTYLE; THAT’S OUR and carbon footprint,” at the festival, MISSION STATEMENT. Lee said. “It’s also Smoothie King something the INSTEAD OF EATING plans to bring customers can take something fresh UNHEALTHY FOOD, home that has our to the festival PEOPLE CAN HAVE OUR logo on it.” experience that Because the SMOOTHIES AS AN doesn’t necessarily festival has grown fit the conventions OPTION.” considerably over of festival food.

- LEE BROWN, the years, Roots Aside from SMOOTHIE KING N Blues N BBQ selling various has inadvertently STORE MANAGER s m o o t h i e s , become an ideal Smoothie King will location for vendors to engage in offer a healthy brand of cookies, some shameless (yet harmless) selfavocado oil potato chips, fruit and promotion. After four years of selling pretzels. Store manager Lee Brown drinks at the festival, Lakota Coffee believes it’s important to offer Company General Manager Andrew healthy alternatives, especially at DuCharme has seen the increase in a place where people may have a festivalgoers as a vital part in the harder time finding them. company’s marketing strategy.

“We want to promote living a “Normally we’re in a coffee shop, healthy and active lifestyle; that’s but here you go outside and see new our mission statement,” Lee said. people,” Ducharme said. “It’s great “Instead of eating unhealthy food, for advertising, especially when you people can have our smoothies as an have people from Kansas City and St. option.”

Louis come try us.”

In addition to advocating healthier Lakota Coffee will offer lemonade, living, Smoothie King plans on

iced coffee, tea and chai and bottled drinks for the hot and stickier part of the day, as well as hot coffee, cocoa and apple cider once night falls.

Snacks such as cookies and chips will also be provided.

But at what point do snacks like avocado chips and cookies fail to suffice? Sure, they do the job at keeping you satiated between a couple of sets, but what about dinner?

While Harold’s Doughnuts is technically filed under the “Snacks, Drinks & Desserts” category on the vendor menu, it does have one item that could potentially answer those questions.

BBQ pulled pork and chicken doughnut sandwiches. There’s a first for everything, right?

Founder and owner of Harold’s Doughnuts Michael Urban certainly believes so. Urban’s goal was to try something unique, especially for this particular event.

“We’ve got the culinary chops to be able to do new things,” Urban said. “Certainly people don’t just eat doughnuts for dinner, so this is a great opportunity for us to be creative.”

With Harold’s Doughnuts’ doughnut sandwiches, Smoothie King’s reusable water bottles and Lakota Coffee’s hot and cold beverages, BBQ vendors need to step up their game or they may run the risk of getting burned.

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Activists march at Mid-Missouri Peaceworks’ Walk for the Climate on Monday, Sept. 24. The event, co- sponsored by the Mizzou Energy Action Coalition, began at 1 p.m. at Courthouse Plaza. Speaking on climate change and its effects, Peaceworks Director Mark Haim said, “It’s all of us. We’re all in this together.” PHOTO BY TRISTEN ROUSE | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Community and MU student groups hold Walk for the Climate The march was part of a larger effort by MidMissouri Peaceworks and several other climate activist groups to raise awareness about climate change.

TRISTEN J. ROUSE

Staff Writer

Chants rang throughout downtown Columbia on Sunday as Mid-Missouri Peaceworks held its Walk for the Climate.

The 5K walk was organized by MidMissouri Peaceworks Director Mark

Haim and co-sponsored by the Mizzou Energy Action Coalition, a student group at MU that works to divest the university from oil. Participants began the walk at Courthouse Plaza before moving through downtown Columbia and the MU campus. The event was organized to both raise money — a target amount was set

ANTHROPOLOGY

Museum of Anthropology reopens after three years The new location at Mizzou North has new features including a rotating exhibit gallery and an archery display

at $5,000 — and raise awareness for climate change.

Mid-Missouri Peaceworks was joined in the demonstration by several local climate activist groups, including MEAC. MEAC President Madeline Niemann attended the walk,

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$30,000 grant will fund teaching of religious diversity MORGAN SMITH

SARAH PETERSON

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The MU Museum of Anthropology reopened in its new location at Mizzou North on Sept. 17 after a three-year hiatus.

The museum originally closed due to renovations of its former location, Swallow Hall. When different academic departments were moved into the hall following the renovation, the museum relocated to the second floor of Mizzou North alongside the Museum of Art and Archaeology. The new location, though smaller in square footage, has more wall space and offers new possibilities for displays.

“We were able to do a little bit more in terms of chronological layout, trying to have exhibits that were thematic and having a brighter and more modern look where it is a little bit

total collection owned by the museum includes over 5,000 pieces of archery equipment.

“The Grayson Archery Collection is the most complete and systematic collection of archery material anywhere in the world,” Barker said.

Another feature of the new museum is a gallery where exhibits can be periodically replaced. This space currently

Associate religious studies professor Rabia Gregory recently received a $30,000 grant from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion to develop a program geared toward improving the way religious diversity is taught not only at MU but also across the state of Missouri.

The two-year program will aim to start meaningful dialogue between professors, students and other members of the community about topics such as race, religion and discrimination during its first year.

“As with so many things related to money, in a way this grant gives us not only the resources to do important work but also gives us the ability to take the time to do [it],” Gregory said.

The first events to be held this semester will be free listening sessions open to the public. These will involve Gregory and potentially other professors mediating discussions between participants.

“Frankly, my biggest goal is having meaningful conversations, not just faculty lecturing, but dialogue between different members of our

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The MU Museum of Anthropology has several sections, each displaying artifacts from arount the world. PHOTO BY EMMALEE REED | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

easier to see things,” said Alex Barker, museum director and archeology professor. “It has a little bit less of the old romance of the dusty museum, but hopefully it’s easier for people to see things and for us to talk about important topics in the human past.”

One new addition is a display of pieces from the Grayson Archery Collection, which contains archery-related materials from different cultures over the last 500 years. The

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Committee will continue working with the auxiliaries to come up with a course of action for each of them. Recommendations for cuts are due Oct. 1.

MSA to cut money from auxiliaries to make Columbia activist room in budget group holds rally against Low enrollment numbers at MU health care bill have forced the Missouri Students Association to start looking for ways to cut back on its budget for the second year in a row. With little room in the budget for cuts, the MSA Budget Committee has started to look at cutting from its auxiliaries.

Auxiliaries of MSA include MUTV, KCOU and STRIPES, each of which are already operating on a tighter budget from previous years. “We brought the auxiliaries in and we told them to plan for the worst,� said Jake Eovaldi, chair of the MSA Budget Committee. “Everybody has the idea that money is short right now, so auxiliaries know that we are going to be meeting with them and looking to cut funds and cut the auxiliary.�

Some auxiliaries, such as STRIPES, have already adjusted their services based on last year’s cuts but worry about what future cuts could mean. “Our budget is the limiting factor of how many cars we can run each night,� STRIPES Director Alexandra Deck said. “With regards to nightly operations, running fewer cars means that STRIPES cannot provide as many safe rides home. Our goal is to reach a quarter million rides by 2020. Any further decreases in our budget would make this goal simply unachievable.�

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ILLUSTRATION BY GILLIAN SMITH

Local progressive group CoMo for Progress held a rally outside Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill’s office Monday, urging lawmakers to vote against the now-dead Graham-Cassidy health care bill.

The bill was the latest of a series of attempts by Republican senators to try and repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Participants carried banners with messages like, “Protect Health Care, Stop the Cuts,� while others filled out postcards and letters they planned on giving to McCaskill after the rally.

Rebecca Shaw, CoMo for Progress member and organizer of the demonstration, encouraged members to show up and support the cause. “We want people to come because we hope to draw attention,� Shaw said. “We feel like our voices aren’t being heard by our representatives, specifically Sen. [Roy] Blunt.�

The bill failed to get enough Republican support and ultimately was not voted on in Senate.

Task force’s first report details data sources and procedures for determining recommendations for MU academic programs The provost’s Task Force on Academic Program Analysis, Enhancement and Opportunities recently released its Phase I

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Report outlining its guidelines and procedures for collecting and distributing data and explaining what types of data have been considered.

The publishing of this report officially moves the task force into the second phase of its project. This stage involves using data and meeting with groups of faculty and students to better understand what these data mean from different perspectives. The task force’s end goal is to release a final report on Jan. 15, 2018, to make recommendations on academic program continuance for the future. “We have been pulling together as much of that quantitative data as possible,� said Dr. Cooper Drury, co-chair of the task force and associate dean of the College of Arts and Science. “For example, the census data — how many students are in the program, how many credit hours are being produced, we have metrics on grants, research productivity. The idea is to bring all those things together and use that data to identify potential strengths and problem areas, at which point we would dig deeper.�

In addition to the data already gathered, such as application and acceptance rates, external funding and future occupational projections, the task force looks to collect more information from market demand analysis, comparisons with other Missouri universities and efficiency/cost data, according to the report. “We’re now on the phase where we’re out meeting with constituents on campus,� said Dr. Matthew Martens, co-chair of the task force and faculty fellow for academic programs for the Office of the Provost. “This phase is the most important of the process. It’s where we’re gathering feedback, data, input, ideas from the folks that matter — the faculty, staff and students, as well as others connected to the university.�

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spoke at the rally and joined fellow MEAC members Micheal Borucke and Mason Brobeck in a satirical skit at Speaker’s Circle. “[MEAC’s] niche in the environmental activism groups on campus is that we focus on climate justice,” Niemann said. “We’re interested in the intersection of multiple forms of oppression and how they relate to climate change, and we want to change it on a systemic level.”

MEAC currently has a five-year goal of divesting from oil on the MU campus with a long-term goal of 100 percent clean energy.

“In the long term, there’s no way that we can have a world that depends on finite resources and not expect to have problems of inequity and climate change,” Niemann said.

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holds a collection of kachinas, dolllike objects carved from cottonwood used to help young people in certain Pueblo societies learn and recognize sacred spirits.

In recognition of the museum’s reopening, MU’s anthropology department commissioned and donated a Native American ceramic vessel called a storyteller. The work, “Spring Maiden,” signifies one generation passing knowledge to

This idea that climate change is causing natural disasters lines up with the consensus held by the scientific community. Scientists believe that rising ocean temperatures and raised sea levels are contributing to stronger storms such as Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

“We’re deeply concerned about the climate crisis,” Haim said. “Huge floods, rising sea levels — we’re already seeing ice caps melting, we’re already seeing sea levels rising. We’re seeing air and water temperature going up already … It’s a combination of super storms and extreme heat and droughts, fire, flash floods … We had flash floods this past spring in southern Missouri that were unprecedented. They called them 500- or 1,000- year floods.”

In addition to rising sea levels, as of its mid-year report, Climate Central said 2017 was the second-hottest year on record, a repercussion it attributed to accumulating greenhouse gases.

These rising temperatures and

sea levels were addressed in the 2015 Paris climate accord, an act of international diplomacy in which 195 countries pledged to set goals to curb carbon emissions.

Since his election, President Donald Trump has pulled the U.S. out of the Paris deal, a decision that was criticized at Sunday’s pre-walk rally.

In addition to his withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, Haim and members of the walk criticized Trump for his claim that climate change is a “Chinese hoax,” his promise to bring back the coal industry and the appointment of several “climate change deniers” to his administration.

Haim listed Scott Pruitt, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson as examples of climate change deniers. Haim stated that the Trump administration’s actions concerning the climate were a central reason for the walk.

“It’s a very serious situation, and

we’ve got Trump fiddling while the planet burns,” Haim said. “We can’t afford that. We’ve got to stop that, and that’s why we’re out here demonstrating.”

MEAC plans to continue working on campus, while Mid-Missouri Peaceworks has hopes for the wider Columbia community to use the power of their votes to sway politicians and for Missouri senators Claire McCaskill and Roy Blunt to show leadership in regard to climate change.

“That means getting their heads clear, taking a look at the scientific evidence and deciding that even if the oil companies give them money, they’re not going to keep on voting for what’s not in their constituents’ interest,” Haim said.

MEAC meets every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in room 206 of Middlebush Hall to discuss climate change and plan events.

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Representatives of the Osage Nation did a blessing of the galleries and staff before the museum opened to the public.

“We hold a large amount of Native American material and try to be sensitive to the fact that we’re stewards for those kinds of cultural objects and for teaching people about pasts that aren’t necessarily our own,” Barker said.

Assistant curator Amanda Staley Harrison said her goal for the future of the museum is to see an increase in visibility.

“Most people don’t realize there are

two large museums in Columbia,” she said. “The Museum of Anthropology’s collections started in Academic Hall before the fire, so we’ve been around a really long time.”

The university began compiling collections in 1885, and the materials were officially organized into a museum in 1902.

Harrison said the museum provides services to the Columbia community in the form of research opportunities and education.

“I think we are a good venue for conversation on culture and diversity,” Harrison said. “We also offer a lot of opportunities to educate

the community residents and work with the Columbia Public Schools to get some of those ideas of research and culture into their curriculums.”

The museum will be holding a grand opening celebration Oct. 19.

“I would really like people to understand that this is a fantastic museum to do research and to continue education discussions and culture discussions within our community,” Harrison said.

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community,” Gregory said.

The debut session will be Oct. 10 at 6:30 p.m. at the Fireplace Lounge in Hulston Hall and will focus on race and religion. Gregory said a great deal of misinformation about the two, especially in regard to Islam, has affected how people view global and national news recently.

“Religion certainly isn’t the only part of that, but it’s a big part of it,” Gregory said. “Religious perspectives often shape the ways that individuals become political activists, the ways that people think about their obligations as a citizen.”

The grant will also fund the creation of a survey covering issues of religion, which will be distributed throughout MU and Columbia and possibly other schools that teach religion.

The Campus Climate Survey results released this past month showed that 6,766 survey participants identified as having one or multiple religious/spiritual identities out of 9,750 respondents total.

“One thing that I hope we’re going to be able to do with this project is to get a real sense of what the religious diversity on this campus is, where people are, where they came from and what their faith perspectives are,” Gregory said.

Gregory has been with the religious studies department at MU for 10 years and has received other grants to further personal research as well as to develop her own teaching methods.

This particular grant will allow the entire department to get involved

Dr. Rabia Gregory explains the two-year plan for the new religious diversity project in her office Sept. 20. “We not only want to teach others about the diversity of religion, we want to start a conversation with the people of Missouri,” she said. PHOTO BY JACOB MOSCOVITCH | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

through not only the listening sessions but also teaching retreats and various other events, particularly during the program’s second year. Gregory will also travel across the state to learn more about Missouri’s religious diversity.

“I think one of the most important things that we can do as scholars who work on religion at a public university is think about how our knowledge can help change the ways that citizens understand their own religions and the religions of others in relation to world events,” Gregory said.

Graduate student Alexandra Goans is working toward her master’s degree in religious studies and has been hired as the primary researcher to assist in the creation of the survey as well as to catalog the responses from the listening sessions.

Goans was a senior finishing her undergraduate degree in 2015 when protests occurred on MU’s campus.

“It seemed like a lot of people didn’t understand what it was like to be a minority on campus and I think that that really translates to the university system

as a whole,” Goans said.

Goans believes the work of this program could change that.

“The long-term goal is to develop a systematic strategy for teaching,” Goans said. “If we can accomplish this, the university climate, and hopefully the climate of other universities across the state and the country, can have a more inclusive, more diverse, more accepting university body.”

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T H E M A N E AT E R | N E W S | S E P T. 2 7, 2017 ENGINEERING FAIR

The College of Engineering Career Fair was Sept. 19 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. PHOTO BY SOPHIE NEDELCO | SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Engineering organizations collaborate for first time to host College of Engineering Career Fair NSBE president Walta Abraham: “It was a great opportunity because you got to learn from other engineers that have similar yet different experiences on campus at the same time.”

SKYLER ROSSI

Staff Writer

For the first time, two College of Engineering organizations collaborated to host the College of Engineering Fall Career Fair on Sept. 19 in Mizzou Arena.

The Engineering Student Council and National Society of Black Engineers joined forces to organize the fair that, according to Jack Gilkey, co-chair of the Engineering Career Fair, hosted nearly 150 employers.

“It’s actually one of the first times that this kind of collaboration has happened for any event, let alone the biggest event we put on,” Gilkey said. “The only event larger than this is graduation, so it’s a really big deal.”

The idea to collaborate on organizing the fair came from

former NSBE President Chris Trunell, who approached Gilkey last year. Trunell, on behalf of NSBE, proposed that the two organizations work together to run the fair because he knew that NSBE had too few members to run it on its own.

“We’ve kind of geared more towards events and what not just amongst our own group,” said Walta Abraham, current NSBE president and co-chair of the Engineering Career fair. “So, last year we were trying to make sure that we can expand from that and partner with other organizations on campus.”

In the past, only one organization would run the fair. According to Mary Paulsell, director of the new Leadership Academy of the College of Engineering, each organization writes a proposal explaining why it is fit to run the career fair. The organization with the right amount of people, drive and resources obtains the job.

MESC and NSBE had been planning the career fair since last spring.

“We worked together from the get-go, really starting early on last spring after we got the career fair,” MESC President Becky Gann said. “So, we’ve been planning since last spring with them and throughout the

summer. They’re the ones who delegated the tasks leading up to it early on in the semester, including this week.”

The collaboration helped to make the career fair more successful. More people running the show meant more students to help work the event.

“Normally about two weeks before the career fair we only have about 60 percent of our slots filled, but the partnership actually allowed for us to have 90 percent of the slots filled,” Gilkey said.

Furthermore, the collaboration benefited the members of each organization, who were able to meet people outside their normal social spheres.

“It was a great opportunity because you got to learn from other engineers that have similar yet different experiences on campus at the same time,” Abraham said.

“You kind of got to see what kind of different skills people have, how they go about executing things, which is nice because I feel like I’m constantly growing. We’re all constantly growing, so it gave us the opportunity to work with people we are not used to working with and see how they go about things” According to Paulsell, the collaboration was a success because of the amount of

The career fair, which took place at Mizzou Arena, featured over 200 employers. PHOTO BY SOPHIE NEDELCO | SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

student involvement.

“We like to have [student] involvement because they are such excellent leaders and they know how students think,” Paulsell said. “They’re really invaluable to us. None of these events would be possible without their help.”

Both MESC and NSBE agreed that more collaboration will happen in the future. Abraham expressed an interest in holding collaborative

workshops between the two groups.

“One of the biggest things that MESC wants to do is collaborating with all the different types of diversity we have in the College of Engineering to really make the experience for the student as good of a representation of what the college is itself,” Gilkey said.

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T H E M A N E AT E R | M OV E M AG A Z I N E | SEPT. 27, 2017

ART BEAT

Briana Bedwell talks death, individuality and dreams

Sager Braudis Gallery Director Hannah Reeves: “She combines media in a really fresh-feeling and interesting way. We hadn’t seen much like her work.”

FIONA MURPHY

Columnist

“I am not like others.”

These words of artist Ralph Steadman’s are tattooed above artist and spray painter Briana Bedwell’s right knee.

The brutal tangle of ink divulges and distorts a fanged creature that accompanies Bedwell’s colorful, personal decoration.

Joel Sager, owner of Sager Braudis Gallery, first noticed Bedwell’s captivating work via Instagram. The Sager Braudis Gallery soon made her an offer for five pieces, and her work was shown in its summer exhibit ending Aug. 1.

“She combines media in a really fresh-feeling and interesting way,” the gallery’s art director Hanna Reeves said. “We hadn’t seen much like her work. Her work never seemed derivative or heavily influenced. It feels very new and uninhibited.”

“Weird Men” is the collection Sager Braudis Gallery now owns originals from, and the little men are indeed weird. Bedwell’s work pictures small figures with

cartoonish and expressive faces in a portrait style. With wrinkly eyes, double chins and some whimsical party hats, each subject evokes a charming yet disturbed emotion. Bedwell uses fine point Sharpie and spray paint to capture them.

Bedwell’s been drawing since she was 16. The mastery of crucial details in her creatures came with time, which she had plenty of growing up in O’Fallon, Missouri.

“It’s literally the worst place in the entire world,” Bedwell said. “I spent eight years of my life at Waffle House. I would go to drink coffee and smoke cigarettes because there was nothing to do. In O’Fallon all you do is go to parks, smoke weed and smoke cigarettes, and if someone’s parents are gone for the night there’s a party at their house.”

The boredom of a suburban town of 84,000 afforded her the leisure of acting on her creativity.

Bedwell has struggled with depression and anxiety from a young age. Art became and is now an outlet for her to free herself when depression entraps her.

Though Bedwell continues to combat the illnesses today, she can recount the harsher days when death consumed her thoughts. Depression and anxiety exacerbate a person’s paranoia and general worry, often amplifying individuals’ fear of the inevitable, according to MentalHealth. gov. The mortality of her friends, mom and self plagued

her mind.

Through trial and error, medication was able to end her fixation. Yet through it all, whether in a cheap diner or on her roof porch in CoMo where she resides, drawing gives Bedwell motivation to escape depression’s debilitating claws.

“When I’m really feeling it and I’m sitting in my room staring at the ceiling, I think I could be making art right now instead of just sitting here,” Bedwell said. “And sometimes I do get up and force myself to do something.

Sometimes I won’t even like it and throw it away, but at least I got up and did something.”

The faces of the subjects in her drawings reveal a particular, ominous and almost foreboding perspective.

Bedwell embodies a unique strength because of her previous intimate relationship with dissolution and darkness that manifests itself in her art.

“The first thing I do when I start drawing is make a face,” Bedwell said. Sometimes when I see people, maybe this is mean, but if they look out of the ordinary, I’ll get an idea by the way that their face looks.”

The pieces from “Weird Men” are undeniably haunting, and that isn’t by mistake. The unsettling and intriguing feeling that accompanies her art stems from Bedwell’s experiences with gloom. If faces are the window to the soul, Bedwell has both a sense of humor and a boundless and bizarre

Local artist Briana Bedwell and a work of art from her series “Funny Men.” PHOTOS BY FIONA MURPHY | PHOTOGRAPHER imagination.

“I like haunting shit; I like weird shit; I like old shit,” Bedwell said. “I have a bunch of animal skulls I like to collect. And you know, people say, ‘Aw I don’t care what other people think about me,’ but it’s hard to not wonder.”

By sporting half blue and half purple hair and by also being a woman, Bedwell gets noticed. Mace and a taser arm her handbag as a result. Men are the subject of most of her work, and often the source of unwanted attention.

“I want to get ‘Leave me the f**** alone’ tattooed on my forehead. My dad was physically abusive towards me so men have been always scary — not scary, but …,” Bedwell said. “I’ve always been super aware of my surroundings. Thinking about that it makes me want to draw a series of men who have harassed me.”

Bedwell remains unafraid and will continue making art that proves it.

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T H E M A N E AT E R | M OV E M AG A Z I N E | S E P T. 2 7, 2017 ALBUM REVIEW

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The National analyzes love gone wrong

The band’s new album has reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 in the U.K. LAURA MISEREZ Reporter

Fans of indie rock’s resident pessimists The National have been waiting for new music from the group since its criticallyacclaimed 2013 album Trouble Will Find Me. The band finally released its anticipated seventh record, Sleep Well Beast, on Sept.

8, and it did not disappoint.

Musical complexities and literary lyrics have always been part of The National’s signature style, but never to this degree.

Sleep Well Beast is one of the best albums released in 2017.

The National has layered the story so that each listen of this album reveals something new.

In perhaps his most personal

and emotional record yet, lead singer Matt Berninger explores a failing marriage by dissecting it and finding where it went wrong. From the first piano riff, the record explores all of the self-doubt, guilt and pain that come with growing and becoming different people than the ones who fell in love.

Oftentimes, the album gave me the feeling that I was overhearing a private conversation between Berninger and his wife. His lyrics here are some of his most open and genuine. Listening to Berninger’s baritone croon tell of his painful separation felt strangely like an intrusion.

This quality is what sets The National apart from other indierock bands.

Berninger has said his lyrics would not be possible without the musical genius of fellow members Aaron and Bryce Dessner. Sleep Well Beast has left space for each instrument to be a singular piece while

The National’s newest album Sleep Well Beast on vinyl COURTESY OF 4AD

still maintaining a melodically interesting composition, interacting like characters in a story. From the urgent guitar riffs in “The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness” to the simple piano progression in “Carin at the Liquor Store”

and everything in between, the music does everything right.

The album is emotionally exhausting to listen to but too beautiful not to. The album’s finale and title track, “Sleep Well Beast,” reaches its climax when the narrator repeats four

times “I’ll still destroy you someday, sleep well, beast. You as well, beast.” The National has never been one to hold anything back, and Sleep Well Beast is no exception.

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Matthew Crook is on a mission to end boring music.

The Columbia-based musician and director is one half of Dismal Niche, an experimental record label and organizer of the upcoming music festival of the same name.

“All of the music we feature is eminent to a lifestyle,” Crook said. “Most of our artists don’t set out to use music as a career to make money. It’s a deeply ingrained, powerful thing.”

Since its start in 2013, Dismal Niche has worked to promote DIY and experimental artists based in the Midwest.

Artists include Tim Pilcher & Monica Lord, Rip Rap and Solid Waste.

Dismal Niche deals largely in cassette tapes. They’re cheap to produce in small batches and provide a unique and quirky medium for music. Springfield is home to one of the U.S.’s last cassette producers, providing a Missouri connection. Within the last year, the label has started producing vinyls as well.

“We’re an extremely small nonprofit with a modest budget,” Crook said. “We get more and more support each year, and it’s been great to see an appreciation grow.”

On Oct. 5-8, Crook and his business partner, Ben Chlapek, will usher in a crowd of the best experimental artists from across the country as part of the third annual Dismal Niche music festival.

“We’ve definitely built an audience for this,” Crook said.

“People should come because what we’re doing is very rare in the Midwest.”

Last year, the festival sold more than $4,000 in tickets.

“We do this partially because this town has become more and more homogenous,” Crook said. “Downtown has gotten less quirky and more exclusive.”

Festivities will start on Oct. 6 with a Dismal Niche-curated First Friday’s art event and continue through the weekend with a series of experimental performances.

Dismal Niche isn’t in the business of escapism, however.

“We’re not setting out to distract people,” Crook said.

“This year our artists are a little bit more reflective of the way that a lot of people are feeling about current political conditions.”

Among the lineup for this year’s festival is Moor Mother, a Virginia-based artist whose latest album was named one of the best experimental albums of 2016 by Rolling Stone.

Also playing is Kath Bloom, a longtime artist whose work has been reviewed by major publications such as Pitchfork and Consequence of Sound.

“These artists wouldn’t be here otherwise,” Crook said.

“We’re the ones bringing them in.”

Tickets are available through the event’s Facebook page.

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OPINION

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We can’t keep denying climate change In the midst of one of the worst hurricane seasons of the past decade, it’s time to stop ignoring climate change — especially when lives are on the line.

MADI BAUGHMAN

Opinion Columnist

Madi Baughman is a freshman journalism and political science major who writes about political and civil rights issues for The Maneater.

Harvey. Irma. Jose. Maria.

These are four names people in the Caribbean and along the coasts of the U.S. will not soon forget.

For decades, Americans have ignored the warnings of scientists that are only becoming more and more obvious: Climate change is very real, and its consequences have the power

to affect us all. This summer has already been recorded as part of one of the hottest years on record, but this doesn’t come as a surprise to meteorologists. In fact, 2017 is set to be the fourth consecutive hottest year on record. And if we’ve all noticed how hot it’s been for the past few years (among other noticeable side effects of climate change), why are we still so reluctant to acknowledge that humans have been changing our climate in harmful ways?

It’s simple: “big business” — the term given to the top CEOs of billion-dollar companies (the people that make up the top 1 percent) — isn’t too fond of environmental regulations that would take profit away from them. In the past few decades, the wage gap between the top 1 percent and everyone else has grown at an alarming rate.

Whether we like to admit it or not, big business has a lot of power over the government, therefore impacting politicians and legislation. Oftentimes, unfortunately, this shows up in political agendas, where it then has the power to impact people’s opinions without them researching the topic.

This has been going on for

years, and yet we still fail to acknowledge the problem American society has with this.

So why pay attention now, of all times?

We should care because it determines the future of millions of people. There are islands in the Caribbean that are 90 percent destroyed because of the recent storms.

Dozens of fires have scorched the West Coast recently. Even here in the Midwest, we feel the effects of the recent weather from the coasts, from changes in weather to concern for people we know who have been impacted by these disasters.

The storms have caused billions of dollars in damage, displaced thousands of people and destroyed tons of supplies necessary for basic survival in today’s society. Puerto Rico now faces the possibility of going months without power — that’s 3.4 million people, more than the population of many U.S. states, without any power at all.

Even if you don’t agree completely with climate change, you can’t deny the devastating effects these disasters have had on millions of people. After four of the

Soldiers with the Texas Army National Guard move through flooded Houston streets as floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey continue to rise Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

strongest hurricanes in the past few years all occurring in quick succession, you’d think that maybe even the skeptics would take a step back to reconsider their stances. Unless we want this destruction to keep happening every hurricane season, we need to take a serious look at the way we view climate

change. I encourage you to challenge the ideas of big business and others who deny the scientific evidence and do your own research about the topic. If we don’t start opening our eyes to what’s happening right under our noses, the results could be — very literally — deadly.

NIBBLING AWAY AT CORRUPTION

Trump’s insulting nature has put us in a tough position — here’s why Trump’s impulsive words and behaviors toward North Korea only put people in danger.

to an Elton John song.

This was a commentary on Kim’s tendency to judge his country’s worth based on the size of its nuclear weaponry and a condescending attack on the childish, impulsive nature of its leader. (Sound MADDIE NIBLETT familiar?)

Opinion Columnist This, coupled with Trump’s vow to “totally destroy” Maddie Niblett North Korea if the need arose, is a freshman prompted Kim to respond journalism major with a profoundly alarming at MU who writes statement that his country about politics for could test a hydrogen bomb The Maneater. over the Pacific Ocean, heavily implying the possibility of Ladies and gentlemen, boys going those extra couple of and girls, Trump’s done it miles to hit and utterly decimate again: He’s gone and made U.S. territory. In a significantly yet another world leader less serious manner, Kimalso royally angry. This time, referred to Trump as a “dotard,” however, the leader at hand or a senile old person.

While there is absolutely no is none other than dictator Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s question that North Korea and tyrannical nepotist autocrat. its leader need to be opposed In a speech to the U.N. and disbanded, Trump is going on Sept. 19, El Presidente about it the entirely wrong way. resorted to name-calling, North Korea wants to destroy referring to Kim Jong-un as America, and Trump’s rhetoric “Rocket Man,” a reference is only making it worse. By

The statues of Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-il at the Grand Monument on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, North Korea, in April 2012. COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

disrespecting this ominous, extremely dangerous country, he is prompting, and in some ways encouraging, these kinds of threatening responses.

Trump expects to be able to say inflammatory and threatening things about a country whose ruler is widely known to be unpredictable and controls the entire country’s arsenal of weapons and then make that country lie down on its back in

surrender to his demands.

While analysts doubt that Kim’s regime has the technology to follow through on those bold words, the possibility still remains that it could since so little is known about the inner workings of North Korea. With Trump continuing to unabashedly insult the very group of people that wants to see American ideals ground into dust, that danger rises

every day.

Of course, this incident is just another in a long line of diplomatic missteps that The Donald has taken since the start of his time in the Oval Office. Not only did he insult Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto by asking him to stop opposing funding a border wall that Mexico did not even want in the first place, he has publicly insulted members of his own party for failing to perfectly align their views with his own and support a failed attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act back in March.

With as much scrutiny as someone on the top of the political food chain faces, that person should not be impulsive or prone to outbursts that elicit drastic responses from dangerous, militarized nations. When Trump resorts to calling Jong-un “Rocket Man,” he puts us all in danger from the consequences of his words.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Anna Frick (6) high-fives her teammates before facing Albany at home Sept. 17. Mizzou soccer won the game 3-0. COURTNEY VILLMER | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Report Card: Grading Missouri soccer’s rough start A tough non-conference schedule, offensive struggles and defensive deficiencies have plagued Mizzou’s season in the early going.

LANGSTON NEWSOME

Staff Writer

Things haven’t gone according to plan for Missouri soccer this year.

The Tigers are 5-6-1 and 1-2 in Southeastern Conference play and sit 10th in the SEC standings.

Missouri’s biggest struggles have come on the road this season as

the Tigers have registered just one road win, which came in the season opener against Illinois. The trend must change for Missouri to finish out its season successfully, as four of the Tigers’ last seven matches are on the road.

As Mizzou hits the midway point of the season, it’s time to evaluate the Tigers’ performance to this point.

Key Wins Missouri missed several golden opportunities to gain a statement victory to jump-start its season during nonconference play. The Tigers had three chances to defeat a preseason top-25 team in the

season’s first month, but failed in each opportunity, getting outscored 7-1 in the three contests against Nebraska, USC and Northwestern.

The three losses to ranked opponents made each game of a three-match homestand in midSeptember must wins for the Tigers.

Mizzou rebounded and got back on track, defeating San Diego State, Georgia and Albany all by decisive margins. To this point, those three were the most important games of the season, and the victories prevented the Tigers’ season from spiraling out of hand.

However, Mizzou still lacks a true key win. Each one of the Tigers’ five wins have come against opponents

with losing records, and through three conference matchups, the Tigers have just one win. The team’s lone conference win came in a 3-1 victory over Georgia, a team that sits at 4-6-1 and 0-3 in SEC play, on Sept. 15.

But, the Tigers still have three opportunities to claim that statement victory. Mizzou has three games against top-25 teams remaining on its schedule. Between Oct. 5-19, the Tigers will play No. 3 South Carolina, No. 10 Florida and No. 25 Tennessee in a stretch that will likely define Missouri’s season.

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The Chiefs should get behind Alex Smith’s response to Trump The quarterback had the right response to the president’s comments.

ADAM COLE

Staff Writer

Since the first week of the 2016 NFL preseason — the first cited instance of Colin Kaepernick’s protest for racial equality during the Star Spangled Banner — fans

in attendance and tuning in to NFL games have witnessed players throughout the league participating in various forms of protest during the national anthem.

The act has expanded far and wide, with athletes of different ages, genders, religions and races participating in the peaceful protest of police brutality and the oppression of people of color in America.

This past Sunday saw league-wide protests in response to President

Donald Trump’s inflammatory comments on NFL players not standing for the anthem on Friday at a speech in Alabama.

In his comments, Trump suggested that owners should cut any player who protested during the anthem.

“Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now; he’s fired,’” Trump said.

The Kansas City Chiefs, like many

other franchises, saw their fair share of responses from players in Sunday’s matchup with the Chargers. Justin Houston used the anthem as a time for prayer, and Marcus Peters put his right fist up during the anthem to protest Trump’s comments.

However, the first statement made by the team came just before kickoff, with Chiefs Chairman and CEO Clark Hunt releasing a message that was,

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POSTGAME THOUGHTS

It’s time for the Missouri offense to slow it down The Tigers were held to 14 points against Auburn on Saturday.

GARRETT JONES

Staff Writer

It’s no secret that the Missouri football offense is struggling under offensive coordinator Josh Heupel.

Since Heupel’s tenure began in 2016, Missouri has run a fast-paced, no-huddle offense. Given junior quarterback Drew Lock’s talent and the speed of Missouri’s running back and wide receiver units, the decision seemed completely rational.

However, that decision hasn’t paid off for Missouri. The Tigers’ offense over the last three games has been simply anemic.

After the offense came out flat in the first half of its Sept. 16 loss to Purdue, Heupel decided to move to the sixth floor coaches’ box at Memorial Stadium to get a clearer perspective of the on-field action.

It didn’t help, as Missouri failed to record a single point the rest of the game.

The most significant issue with the

fast-paced offense is the fact that, more often than not, players simply aren’t in position to run an effective play. Players are focused on getting the play off quickly and do not execute as well as they would when given more time.

The fast-paced offense isn’t fooling anyone. Missouri has been outscored 117-30 since its opening win against Missouri State.

In the bigger picture, things are just as bad. Missouri has scored just 17.9 points per game against Power Five opponents in Heupel’s tenure.

That kind of scoring output is no recipe for success.

Strangely, the play calling has shown no sign of change. Trailing by as many as 38 points against Auburn, Missouri continued running the hurryup offense. Its coaches have shown an inflexible dependency to running plays quickly yet inefficiently.

With more time to run a play, Lock could have more time to read opposing defenses. That would lead to more rest between plays, meaning better blocks, more explosive plays and a more cohesive offensive unit.

Given Missouri’s points per game, a change certainly can’t hurt. After

MIZZOU TIGERS LINE UP AGAINST THEIR OPPONENTS FROM AUBURN. LAURA BUSTELO | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER his press conference following the team’s loss to Auburn that addressed the state of the program, head coach Barry Odom implied those changes could be coming soon.

“I know what it takes to win,” Odom said. “This is the staff, the team, the unit to get it done.”

Missouri will have extensive time to process its offensive gremlins.

After a bye week, the Tigers will travel to Lexington, Kentucky, to battle the Kentucky Wildcats on Oct. 7.

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Examining Missouri football’s performance this season The Tigers (1-3) have managed to look worse every week.

THEO DEROSA

Columnist

There’s more than one way to skin a Tiger.

In four brutal weeks, the first third of what can only be described as another dismal season, Missouri football has experienced them all.

The Tigers have laid down and played dead three straight weeks at home as they’ve struggled to a 1-3 record. Three years removed from back-to-back Southeastern Conference East titles, Missouri looks like it belongs anywhere but the SEC. The offense has averaged barely over 25 points a game despite opening the season by dropping 72.

The defense has given up at least 30 points every week, including 43 to lowly Missouri State. The Tigers look less and less competitive with every passing week, once again sinking quickly to the cellar of the SEC. But the most telling thing of all?

Missouri’s MVP is its punter, Corey Fatony.

Based on the Tigers’ performance this year, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to mistake the team for a Conference USA bottom feeder. It’s just been a bad year.

It didn’t take long to see this collapse coming. While the Missouri offense put up 72 points in the season opener against Missouri State, it was hardly confidence inspiring because the defense managed to allow 43.

The Tigers gave up six touchdowns to an FCS team that hasn’t finished above .500 since 2009.

The Bears team that matched Missouri score for score for 25 minutes at Faurot Field finished 4-7

The Tiger’s Lair student section during Mizzou’s game against Missouri State on Sept. 2. KATE

SEAMAN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER last year, playing in the Missouri Valley Conference with the likes of Indiana State and Western Illinois.

In 2015, Missouri State went 1-10 on the season and 0-8 in conference play. Its sole win came by eight points at home against Chadron State.

I couldn’t tell you where Chadron State is, because I’ve never heard of it before in my life.

This was a team that ran roughshod over the Tigers to put up 35 first-half points. It came as a fairly obvious warning sign that head coach Barry Odom’s defense wasn’t SEC ready.

Though the Tigers held Missouri State to just one score in the second half, there was still some trepidation in Columbia.

It seemed to be assuaged when Missouri got off to a fast start and a 10-0 lead against SEC foe South Carolina the following week. Then the kickoff went straight down the

middle to Gamecock’s speedster Deebo Samuel. He took it to the house. Missouri’s response? Drew Lock was intercepted to give the Gamecocks a short field. Samuel scored again, running it in from 25 yards out. And South Carolina quickly seized control, pulling away for a 31-13 win and gaining the rights to the One True Columbia (the Palmetto State’s capital) for at least another year.

Missouri, being the home team, was favored to beat South Carolina.

It was also favored to beat Purdue.

(Moral: Don’t bet on Missouri.)

One week after the disappointment against the Gamecocks, the Tigers again found themselves in the friendly confines of Memorial Stadium to play Purdue, often an also-ran in the competitive Big Ten. The Boilermakers, under first-year head coach Jeff Brohm, effectively

ran their creative offense and stifled Missouri’s. Purdue squashed the Tigers 35-3.

Dante’s “Divine Comedy” (Missouri football is a comedy as well, but it’s far from divine) says that there are nine circles of hell. As one goes deeper and deeper into the Inferno, it gets worse and worse. And it’s a perfect allegory for this hellish Missouri season.

The first circle of hell: heading out to Faurot Field for an 11 a.m. game and watching a mediocre FCS team put up 43 points on an SEC defense.

The second: getting the jump on a conference rival in a pivotal earlyseason game, just to see the opponent race right on by you and keep its foot on the gas.

The third: losing to Purdue, at home, by 32 points.

And the fourth: Saturday night.

The Tigers dismantled the Tigers on Saturday night, and Missouri did not come out on top of that feline skirmish. It was Auburn that took it to Missouri from the start and didn’t let up, coming out of Columbia with a 51-14 win that felt somehow less close than the 37-point margin. It was clear from the start that Missouri stood no chance, and that should never happen. Not at home against a conference rival.

Four weeks, and four circles of hell. How the rest of the season will shake out will depend on how Missouri reacts when it comes back in two weeks, on the road for the first time this year, to play Kentucky (3-1, 1-1 SEC).

But for now, the Tigers will limp, with their tails between their legs, into their bye week.

The bye opens as an eight-point favorite.

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ultimately losing on a penalty kick in overtime. Of any game so far this season, this is the one the Tigers truly let slip through their hands.

Key Losses

Offense: C

Due to the high level of competition the Tigers have faced thus far, there is not one loss that really sticks out.

However, it would be wrong to not mention the five-game winless streak the Tigers experienced from Aug. 25 to Sept. 10. This streak featured the three losses to Nebraska, USC and Northwestern, a loss to TCU and a goalless draw to Oregon State.

The most glaring of the games over the five-game streak was the 2-1 overtime loss to TCU. The Tigers completely controlled the first half of play and entered the second half up 1-0. Missouri was less dominant in the second half, giving up its lead and

Mizzou returned its top three goal scorers from a year ago in sophomore Sarah Luebbert and seniors Jessica Johnson and Allie Hess. But through the Tigers’ first 12 matches, the trio has combined for only five of the team’s 17 goals. Johnson contributed three of those.

One problem that has plagued Mizzou offensively has been slow starts. The Tigers have only scored four first half goals this season, which has kept Missouri from taking control of games early on and has left it trailing at the half on multiple occasions.

“2-0 at half is the most dangerous score in soccer,” senior Kaitlyn Clark

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simply put, a swing and a miss.

Hunt’s statement was one which did nothing more than reflect his own views, views which Hunt has hammered home before. While he was able to recognize differences of opinion and his players’ right to protest, he was unable to recognize the comments President Trump made toward a league which Clark’s own father helped build.

Multiple team owners were able to come out and acknowledge their feelings on the remarks. Patriots Chairman and CEO Robert Kraft, a Trump supporter, said in a statement he was “deeply disappointed” by the tone of the president’s remarks. Redskins owner Daniel Snyder and Jaguars owner Shad Kahn, both contributors to

Trump’s inauguration, were arm-in-arm with their players on Sunday to send a unified message.

Hunt’s message was a statement which failed to live up to a meaningful standard. The Chiefs’ most valuable message came instead from starting quarterback Alex Smith.

“I don’t always feel comfortable talking about a lot of this stuff,” Smith said in his postgame press conference on Sunday. “We’re athletes; we’re playing football. But certainly I’d be lying if I said the comments didn’t upset me.”

Smith, like many of the owners and players around the league, is not asking for a mix of politics and football. In fact, he clearly states he’s not very comfortable discussing it. Regardless, Smith does a valuable job of stepping a line few would be very comfortable crossing on such a platform.

“The league’s not perfect,” Smith said.

“But I’m definitely proud of a lot of my teammates, coaches, trainers, owners …

said after a 5-1 loss to Texas A&M. Mizzou’s 17 goals this season place them 10th in the SEC, and the Tigers are 12th in goals per game at 1.42.

Despite the low rankings, the Tigers aren’t far from the 1.85 goals per game the team averaged last year.

An offensive bright spot for the Tigers has been freshman Tess Rellihan. She leads the team with five goals and has been a huge part of the team’s success.

Defense: CThe Tigers allowed 25 goals for the entire season last year. Through 12 games this season, the Tigers have given up 20, the most of any team in the SEC. The team’s 1.61 goals-against average per game leaves the Tigers ranked 241st in country.

One of the biggest storylines for the Tigers this season has been head There are so many good things, great things that go on in this league … It struck a chord a little bit to see guys get attacked for a peaceful protest.

“It’s the same guy who couldn’t condemn violent neo-Nazis. And he’s condemning guys taking a knee during the anthem.”

Smith was also able to respect a difference of opinion amongst Chiefs players.

“I think this team has great respect for each other in the locker room,” Smith said. “We’re all our own individuals. I mean, we’re all a part of this team, but we all come from different places. It’s one thing we have talked about — it’s obviously a hot topic — that we have great respect for whatever the choice is.”

Some may get bogged down by Smith’s comments on the president himself, or some might ask him to stick to sports, but Smith’s main idea is one of value. He supports his teammates and

coach Bryan Blitz’s strategy of having his goalkeepers, junior Kelsey Dossey and redshirt senior Kristen Rivers, split goalkeeping duties. Each goalkeeper has started six games this season and has typically played just one half in net before being subbed off.

In net, Dossey has given up 11 goals thus far, while Rivers has conceded nine. However, the bulk of the blame belongs to the Missouri defense, not its keepers. The Tigers’ defense isn’t as aggressive or effective as last year’s, and the goals allowed reflect that.

Both goalkeepers have held their own, combining for 51 saves this season.

Blitz’s choice to either remain with the two-keeper strategy or commit to a single goalie will be a storyline to watch through the remainder of the season.

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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith.

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his organization and doesn’t appreciate unjust disrespect from the commander in chief, especially when it comes on the heels of peaceful protest.

Smith’s message, unlike Hunt’s, was clear, present and, ultimately, one the Chiefs organization should get behind.

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Lofty goals don’t scare freshman golfer Julia Bower With only a few years of golf experience, Bower has already exceeded everyone's expectations — except her own.

KATE AHERN

Staff Writer

For many student athletes, MU might not feel like home right away.

Getting adjusted to a new team in a new place with all new people is easier said than done. For freshman Julia Bower, MU already felt like home when she chose to continue her golf career on Mizzou’s women’s team.

Bower grew up in Columbia and graduated from Rock Bridge High School, where she shined on the women’s golf team. In her senior year, Bower was named co-champion at the 2016-17 Missouri State Championship, which brought her high school team to a second-place state finish.

Her accomplishments are impressive, especially for a golf career that only began a few years ago. Bower played soccer until she switched to golf later in high school.

“I played soccer from when I was 4 years old until sophomore year

of high school,” Bower said. “I just started to get sick of it. My dad played soccer and I come from a big soccer family, but once I started playing golf I just liked it so much more.

Switching from soccer, a teamoriented sport, to golf, a far more individual one, helped Bower recognize and appreciate the differences between team dynamics for both sports.

“On the soccer team, everyone has very similar personalities and interests since you’re all out there on the field working together and doing the same thing,” Bower said. “With golf you have a lot of different personalities because it is a very individual sport.”

As the only freshman on the Missouri women’s golf team, the other eight members of the squad have given Bower a lot to work toward. With accomplished golfers like sophomore Jessica Yuen and junior Emma Allen to look up to, Bower knows she will have to work hard to earn a spot to compete.

“If I was to go to a smaller school I would probably have more opportunities to compete,” Bower said. “Being here, I have to push myself to be a better golfer and I have something to work towards. I would rather start at a lower place and work my way up.”

Bower has a good track record of accomplishing her goals, playing golf at MU being one of them. For this season, Bower is focusing on her swing and adjusting to playing college golf. Her four-year plan consists of improving her game overall and ultimately making a larger impact on the team.

“I tend to set pretty high goals for myself in anything that I do. Just the kind of person that I am. After a few months of playing, I was like, ‘I want to play at Mizzou.’ My dad was like, ‘Really?’ It was a really high goal,” Bower said to the Columbia Tribune last September.

When she committed to play at Mizzou in September 2016 as a walkon member of the team, she knew she would have a smoother adjustment to college life than others.

“It’s a little weird seeing people that I know from high school all the time, but it’s been really nice to see a familiar face now and then,” Bower said. “It’s been a lot of fun here so far, and I feel more comfortable since I’m not away from home. I’m also familiar with the golf course and the facilities, which has made things a little bit easier.”

Being both a student and an athlete at a competitive school like MU promises a packed freshman year.

However, a demanding schedule is

Freshman Julia Bower playing at Rock Bridge High School. PHOTO COURTESY OF MIZZOU ATHLETICS

not something that Bower shies away from.

Her dedication and drive were instilled in her during her days as a soccer player in high school, and she will carry those with her over the next four years with Mizzou women’s golf.

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

Sugarfire’s BBQ sauce wins Roots N Blues A Texan reviews four barbecue vendors at the 2016 festival.

Editor’s note: This is a MOVE Roots N Blues article from Oct. 2, 2016.

Sugarfire Smokehouse, Smokin’ Chick’s Barbecue and Dickey’s Barbecue Pit will be at the festival this year, but Big Daddy’s BBQ is not included on the list of 2017 vendors.

VICTORIA CHEYNE

Editor-in-Chief

Texas is home to many things: big hair, armadillos, the two-step, J.J. Watt, Beyoncé and, most importantly, barbecue. And as a nine-year Houston denizen, trust me when I tell you I know (and love) good Texas barbecue.

It’s truly food for the soul and for the passionate eaters out there. You eat barbecue to feel something and walk away from your empty plate fulfilled, redeemed and five pounds heavier.

We know how to barbecue down in the Lone Star State, and we barbecue every chance we get. So naturally, when I found out about Roots N Blues N BBQ, I had to go — not for the music, but for the barbecue, solely. I went in with moderate expectations and was pleasantly surprised with two barbecue vendors in particular.

I went to four vendors at the festival that sold strictly barbecue: Big Daddy’s BBQ, Sugarfire Smokehouse, Smokin’ Chick’s BBQ and Dickey’s Barbecue Pit. I sampled pulled pork from each and tried every sauce offered.

Big Daddy’s BBQ My first sample was from Big Daddy’s BBQ, and it surely started my day of barbecue on a high note.

The pork was hot (as in temperature), and wispy strands of smoke floated from it, curling around my face as I inhaled the glorious fumes; a great first impression, no doubt. My sample was served to me lathered in sauce, which was exciting. The sauce was a house-made sweet barbecue with a hint of spice and a slightly tangy aftertaste. It was delicious and original but overpowering (in a good way). I tasted much more of that heavenly sauce than of the meat’s seasoning, but what I did taste was beautifully smoked, tender pig. The pork was truly pulled — shredded, rather — and was absolutely divine. My mouth waters as I sit here, writing this review.

Sugarfire Smokehouse After Big Daddy’s, I went several vendors down to Sugarfire Smokehouse. I was served a full pulled pork sandwich for free, instead of a meager sample. But to keep things fair, I tried the pulled pork sans carbs. Sugarfire had not one, not two, but seven house-made sauces. I was crying inside and readily tried each and every one. STL Sweet BBQ was everything the title implied: sweet and sugary. It was thick in consistency and is a great sauce, in my opinion.

Baby back ribs from Sugarfire Smokehouse. COURTESY OF SUGARFIRE SMOKEHOUSE

The White BBQ sauce was not my favorite. It was very creamy, with seasoning particles throughout, and reminded me of tartar sauce in both appearance and flavor. #47 sauce was a basic mild barbecue sauce.

Not spicy, too sweet or memorable. I found it mediocre, at best.

Carolina Mustard was a typical Carolina barbecue sauce, kind of like a tangy, dirty mustard, and while marketed appropriately, was not my favorite. I am not a huge Carolina barbecue fan and generally hate mustard. These are obviously personal reservations, so the brand is not to be blamed.

Texas Hot Sauce was quite disappointing, because I know, understand and crave the unparalleled heat in Texas cooking, and this sauce captured absolutely none of that flavor, that essence. The sauce wasn’t even remotely spicy, hot, or Texasesque. It lacked the merciless and ungodly Texas “burn,” and flavor all-around, so it goes without saying that I was not happy.

However, my dissatisfaction suddenly switched to awe and amazement as I tasted the last and best sauce (in my humble opinion), the coffee barbecue sauce. Yes, you read correctly; a coffee barbecue sauce. I was hesitant — actually I wasn’t at all — so I slathered some on the pork, and dove in head-first. And man, was it good. The sauce had finely-ground coffee grounds in it, not in a gross way, and a thick consistency and a brown hue. The initial taste was that of coffee but only for a second; then the flavor transitioned into one of a sweet barbecue sauce but not sugary.

This sauce is everything a barbecue sauce should be, with rich, distinctive flavors that are fleeting and an aftertaste that leaves you craving more. I adore this sauce and appreciate the originality of it. The pork was hot in temperature (a surefire “gold star,” if you will), but the

“pulling” of the pork was different than my preference. The pieces of meat were in chunks, or strips, rather than fine long filaments, but the flavor and seasoning was excellent.

However, the meat slathered in that heavenly coffee sauce made for a delicious and unique barbecue dish and had me walking away completely satisfied and impressed.

Smokin’ Chick’s BBQ My next barbecue sample was from Smokin’ Chick’s BBQ. The pulled pork was finely shredded the way I like it and rubbed in Pig In A Polka seasoning prior to smoking.

It was flavorful even before a sauce touched it. My sample of the meat was relatively hot but not searing hot or smoking hot when I received it, a non-negotiable “no-no” in my book.

A server told me that the sauces weren’t house-made but were house mixed. Basically, Smokin’ Chick’s takes other pre-made sauces and mixes them in a unique house recipe to create their two sauces, a wingding and hot. However, the two sauces available to self-apply onto your barbecue were labeled “Classic” and “Hickory,” so who even knows what I was eating.

The classic sauce was a basic barbecue: sweet and flavorful. It was good but lacked unique properties.

That sauce has been tasted time and time before and separates the good barbecue from the great barbecue.

The hickory sauce was tangier and spicier and definitely more flavorful.

I enjoyed that sauce much more than the first one but still wasn’t mind-blown. The pork was fine, but “fine” is inadequate when describing soul food. All-in-all, Smokin’ Chick’s doesn’t leave any lasting impression on the carnivore at its mercy.

Dickey’s Barbecue Pit

Lastly, I made my way to Dickey’s Barbecue Pit. Unlike the other three, it is a nation-spanning franchise with roots in Dallas, Texas, and over locations, rather than a local, Columbia-specific establishment. I’ve had Dickey’s barbecue at home but have always put a different sauce on it.

Dickey’s serves three house-made sauces: an original, a sweet and a spicy. The original is delicious. It was on the sweeter side, with some hints of spice. I would surely eat that sauce again. The sweet sauce lived up to its title and was undoubtedly sweet. It was basic, generic, even; safe.

The spicy sauce was spiciest in the aftertaste and was good, but not great.

If they were targeting people who prefer mild spiciness, they nailed it.

But if you’re going to label something as spicy, make it truly spicy, dammit! I want to feel the heat, the burn, rather than your delicate hints of heat. This sauce is not for the jalapeño pepperloving or for those who like it hot. The pork was delightful, however; smoked to perfection and hot to the touch.

Overall, Big Daddy’s BBQ was my favorite of the four vendors. It served near-perfect barbecue (because I believe there is always room for improvement) with exceptional heat, flavors, sauce and meat. Best sauce has to go to Sugarfire Smoke House’s coffee barbecue sauce. That sauce is a delightful rollercoaster of unique flavors and could make cardboard taste like a five-star meal. Smokin’ Chick’s and Dickey’s are honorable mentions but just didn’t bring the heat in the battle of the pulled pork at Saturday’s festival.

All receive high marks for their Southern hospitality. I had one hell of a time (and meal) and enjoyed a taste of Houston in Columbia. It goes to show that you can take the girl out of Texas, but you can’t take the Texas out of the girl.

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Roots N Blues festival to feature Gary Clark Jr. Gary Clark Jr. brings fusion of rock and blues to the Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival this year.

SIENA DEBOLT

Reporter

After experimenting with a guitar when he was only 12 years old, Gary Clark Jr. started his career of mixing blues, soul and hip-hop in Austin, Texas. While he performed in small locations around Austin, trying to get as much experience as he could, he met Clifford Antone, who invited Clark Jr. to perform at Antone’s, his blues club in downtown Austin.

Since then, Clark Jr. has self-produced an independent album called Tribute in 2005 and later produced for Hotwire Unlimited, his own record label.

Once he was discovered by Eric Clapton and performed at the Crossroads Guitar Festival, he was signed to Warner Bros., where he produced Blak and Blu, the EP “Bright Lights”

and The Story of Sonny Boy Slim, all of which combine gritty rock and blues with his contrastingly smooth voice.

Clark Jr. is known for his performances at various music festivals like New Orleans’ Jazz Fest, and he even gave a noteworthy performance at this year’s Grammys.

With his revolutionary combination of different elements of classic rock and blues, Gary Clark Jr. will make an appearance at Roots N Blues N BBQ this upcoming weekend with a show that will most likely generate a large and energetic crowd. He is the last to perform on the Missouri Lottery Stage on Friday at 9:15 p.m.

MU freshman Abby Pritchett, who was recently introduced to Gary Clark Jr.’s style, said she enjoys his smooth mixture of blues and rock, similar to that of Jimi Hendrix. “[Clark Jr.’s music is] relaxing but also makes me want to dance,” Pritchett said. “I hope I get the chance to see him this weekend.”

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Get to know the Old 97’s before their show at Roots N Blues JANE MATHER-GLASS

Reporter

Dallas-based alternative countryrock band the Old 97’s will take the stage at the Roots N Blues N BBQ festival on Sept. 29 for a set that you won’t want to miss.

The Old 97’s are made up of singer and lead songwriter Rhett Miller, guitarist Ken Bethea, bassist Murry Hammond and drummer Philip Peeples. The four have been recording and touring together since the early 1990s. Their first album on a major label, Too Far To Care, came out in 1997. In the past 20 years, they’ve released four EP’s and 11 albums, including their newest that came out this year, Graveyard Whistling.

The Old 97’s’ songs span a wide array of subjects. Their 1999 album Fight Songs has songs like “Lonely Holiday” and “Valentine” that are far more melancholy, contrasted with songs like “Murder (Or a Heart Attack),” which is about a lost cat.

Graveyard Whistling has songs that are more serious, but the band also has some more cheeky love songs.

“She Hates Everybody” is one that is especially fun to listen to, with lines like “she’s a lovely girl but she’s a misanthrope” and “she hates everybody but me.” Another song in

that same vein is “Jesus Loves You,” which begins and ends with the line “Jesus loves you more than I do, just because he doesn’t know you.”

The Old 97’s have an unbeatable rock feel that’s mixed with a slight twang and strong storytelling that serves as a reminder of the band’s Texas roots. Some of the songs reflect a confusion or sadness about life, like “All Who Wander” or “Four Leaf Clover,” while “Champaign, Illinois” talks about the depressing and banal lifestyle in central Illinois. They also have upbeat and fun hits like “Let’s Get Drunk & Get It On” and “19,” as well as songs about being a musician, like “Longer Than You’ve Been Alive.”

If you prefer more low-key tunes, the Old 97’s can provide those, too. “Question,” one of their most popular songs, is sweet and about engagement and “Busted Afternoon” from Fight Songs is calm and wistful.

If you stop by the Old 97’s’ set, you may get to see some of Miller’s hair flips, and you’re sure to enjoy yourself. There’s also a chance they’ll play some songs from Miller’s solo career, which he has maintained alongside the Old 97’s since 2002.

The energy of the band is infectious, with lyrics so specific and detailed that they have a feeling of intimacy while still being upbeat, charming or

somber. The chemistry the Old 97’s have is so apparent when they play live and they are sure to deliver a fun — yet sometimes pensive — set

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1. Lonely Holiday 2. Valentine 3. Murder (Or a Heart Attack) 4. She Hates Everybody 5. Jesus Loves You 6. All Who Wander 7. Four Leaf Clover 8. Champaign, Illinois 9. Let’s Get Drunk and Get it On 10. Nineteen 11. Longer than You’ve been Alive 12. Question 13. Busted Afternoon Sara Marquardt // Graphic Designer

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FESTIVAL MAP

A visitors map of the 2017 festival. COURTESY OF ROOTS N BLUES N BBQ

Q&A

There is more to Roots N Blues N BBQ than meets the eye

Jamie Vavaro shares his perspective on what makes the festival unique.

SARAH HASELHORST

Reporter

For Jamie Varvaro, an 11-year veteran of Roots N Blues N BBQ and the festival’s director of development and marketing, the carefully thoughtout details set this festival apart from others. From strategic stage placement to the innovative cashless system, Varvaro delves into festival details and shares with MOVE what he believes makes this event unique.

MOVE: What is your involvement like with the Roots N Blues festival?

Varvaro: I deal with all our branding and work alongside the assistant festival director with all advertising and social media.

MOVE How long have you been involved in the festival and what keeps you coming back?

Varvaro: I have been involved in one way or the other ever since the festival began. Up until this last year, I worked as a volunteer and

then as a consultant, where I would handle all the festival merchandise. I came on full-time in October. I have two perspectives about coming back each year. One perspective is being tied to the festival, the connection of working for the festival and being part of it. The second is just the high quality acts and artists that we have at the festival. Magical things happen.

Since it is in Stephens Lake Park, there is a community atmosphere, all of these music lovers, great crowds with people passionate about their experience. I cannot imagine a late September without Roots N Blues N BBQ festival.

MOVE: What do you think sets this festival apart from other music festivals?

Varvaro: I think we have this amazing art team that really focuses on enriching the environment beyond the park atmosphere. There are so many different art installations: sculptures hanging on trees, the way it is lit, the color and even the activities they have created for the youngest of our festivalgoers. Pretty cool, pretty darn unique atmosphere and there is also such an incredible lineup.

With an environment like the park, there are two huge stages and all this music going on. With the amount of space, the music does not cross, which is not always the case with other festivals because of sound bleed.

It is an amazing value. If you buy a three-day pass, you see the top-seven artists, which if you would pay to see each one individually, it would be around $300. You get to see them all in one place, plus another 26 artists.

MOVE: What are you looking forward to most for this year’s festival?

Varvaro: From a music perspective, I am a big Gary Clark Jr. fan, and I am excited to see Leon Bridges and Ryan Adams. And being on the administrative end, I look forward to the gate opening on Friday and being in go mode. I look forward to the overall experience of finally launching the weekend and that everything is running smoothly.

MOVE: Any new changes for returners to expect?

Varvaro: A big change is that we are cashless. You get through the gate with your RFID wristband, and when you buy a beverage, food or merchandise, you use your wristband.

Through the festival app, you register a wristband, tie it to your email and have a card associated with it, but you control how much money comes off by setting a certain amount you can hit. Every time you make a purchase, you get an email with the payment and balance. Inside the festival you can only use cash at the top-up station, which is where you can put additional cash on your wristband.

MOVE: Is there anything MU students need to know about Roots N Blues?

Varvaro: We get a good number of students, and in the back of our minds, we always would like to have more students. It can be a balance with students because they are watching their budget. We try and make it a good value for them, and the tickets on campus are at a student rate. I know it has been very consistent that students come back year after year; it is just getting them to get there the first time.

This interview was edited for clarity.

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How to look like a veteran festivalgoer at Roots N Blues N BBQ

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The Orin Ethics Symposium increases awareness of ethics issues in accountancy, business, and law by hosting key figures in business ethics, corporate governance or regulation.

The symposium is generously supported by Richard M. Orin, a 1949 graduate of the Robert J. Trulaske, Sr. College of Business at the University of Missouri.

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Friday, October 6, 2017 11:00 am - 12:15 pm Cornell Hall | Bush Auditorium

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Know Your Sales

Mark’s presentation will cover business ethics, the dangers of isolated decision making, the warning signs of a flawed corporate culture — and how U.S. laws have changed in response to fraud and whistleblower protection. Join us!

business.missouri.edu/orin-symposium

Certain CoMo retailers have been offering specials starting Sept.

15 and concluding at the end of the festival. Certain restaurants are offering sales on food and drink with the presentation of your RNBNBBQ wristband, such as Lakota Coffee offering 10 percent off any specialty drink or Nourish Cafe and Market offering 10 percent off your order.

The Peace Nook is holding a 20-percent-off sale on books and Maude Vintage is offering 20 percent off sunglasses and 20 percent off “Galaxy Tag merchandise” for

sustainable food and drink containers. Don’t be a jerk and put all this effort to be environmentally friendly to waste by abandoning your trash in the grass.

Now you should be 99 percent prepared for the amazing weekend that is ahead of you. The last 1 percent falls on you. Listen to all of the artists on Spotify or YouTube so you can seek out which bands your want to listen to. Look up the vendors and see what food you might be craving or what crafts interest you so that you don’t miss out on anything you love.

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Mark Whitacre — known as the highest ranking executive to blow the whistle on a Fortune 500 company — will share his experience from the ADM price-fixing scandal of the early 1990s. His story became the basis for the major motion picture The Informant.

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ORIN ETHICS SYMPOSIUM

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Though it may not be as hot for Roots N Blues weekend as it has been the past week, it will still be sunny and warm, so bring sunscreen to

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What To Wear Wear whatever your heart desires. You can dress up as your inner hippie child,

What To Bring

Finally, Roots N Blues N BBQ is making an effort to be sustainable, so you should, too. All vendors are going green, meaning they “use local, organic, fairtrade products,” compost and recycle and use

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With artists like Leon Bridges performing at the Roots N Blues N BBQ festival, one needs to show up prepared and with food from one of the vendors in hand in order to fully appreciate his sultry voice. The festival is a three-day extravaganza starting on Friday, Sept. 29 and ending on Sunday, Oct. 1 at Stephens Lake Park.

Respect Mother Nature

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as per the typical festival fashion, or wear jeans and a T-shirt. Dress to impress or dress for comfort because you are really only there for the music and food, anyway.

Just be prepared for the temperature to drop, as the forecast for the weekend is in the 70s.

Tip: Last year a man rocked a pink tuxedo; try and top him.

all festivalgoers, according to the Roots N Blues website.

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distance from downtown, you can park in any of the downtown parking garages and take one of the free festival shuttles. The shuttles run at different hours each day of the festival, so read this before you end up waiting for a shuttle that will never come for you. Other options for transportation include riding on the free GoComo busses, Uber, Lyft, taking a taxi or being active and walking or riding your bike to Stephens Lake Park.

The one way you cannot get to the festival is by driving yourself, as there will be no parking.

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reapply throughout the day.

Also bring a refillable water bottle because a day in the sun dancing, eating and just being happy really makes a person parched. No outside food or drink are allowed in the festival, but if you bring an empty water bottle, free water will be provided. If you want to lay out on the grass or just take a few minutes to sit out, eat, relax and take in the music, bring a blanket or a chair, but just know that you will be asked to remove the case for camping chairs upon admission.

Don’t bring money; Roots N Blues has gone cashless.

The wristband that you get for admission at RNBNBBQ doubles as both a pass to reenter the festival and a debit card. You have to preload the wristband with money prior to purchasing anything, but if you run out of money, you can always reload more at the top-off stations.