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OCTOBER 11, 2017 • THEMANEATER.COM

LISON CHO

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Dr. Alexander Cartwright is serving his first year as MU chancellor. Before working at MU, Cartwright served as provost and executive vice chancellor of the State University of New York. PHOTO BY KATE SEAMAN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Chancellor hopes to bring out MU’s potential by understanding campus community Story by Allison Cho | Reporter

Chancellor Alexander Cartwright: “I remember calling my wife and saying, ‘I’m going to be disappointed if I don’t get this position’ because I saw this place and I had known a lot about it too, but it was nothing like walking on the campus.”

With a cup of coffee in his hand and a silver MU pin on his lapel, Chancellor Alexander Cartwright is faced with matters every day ranging from enrollment management to adjusting to the university. Cartwright officially began his duties on Aug. 1 after his appointment was announced in late May. “I love being here,” he said. “It’s a great institution. We have outstanding students throughout the entire organization and great faculty, committed staff and people who really are trying to do the best for Mizzou.”

For Cartwright, choosing MU was an easy

decision. In addition to being a land grant institution, the university is one of the 60 American universities in the Association of American Universities, an organization that recognizes leading research universities and places MU in an “elite class,” according to the chancellor. And like many MU students, when Cartwright visited the campus, it was love at first sight.

“I remember calling my wife and saying, ‘I’m going to be disappointed if I don’t get this

CAMPUS SAFETY

MUPD releases annual crime statistics report On-campus, non-campus and public property locations have seen major shifts among liquor and drug law arrests, as well as hate crimes.

STEPHI SMITH

Staff Writer

The MU Police Department released the 2017 Annual Fire Safety and Security Report in a mass email on Sept. 27. The report is in compliance with the Clery Act, which requires all federally funded public universities to collect and publish information about crime on and near their campuses.

The report is required to include 110 security police statements and crime statistics from the past three years by Oct. 1, Lt. Kevin Rodgers of

MUPD Support Services said.

The statistics break the crime reports into three different locations: on-campus, non-campus and public property.

On-campus locations include the main MU campus, while non-campus includes property owned or controlled by MU that is not part of the main campus area.

Public property includes areas within the main MU campus that are public property, such as streets and sidewalks owned by the city of Columbia. For example, Ninth Street is within the main campus but is public property. Being arrested on public property holds the same consequences as at on- or non-campus locations.

Alcohol and drug violations Between 2015 and 2016, the major shift in the number of offenses has involved drugs and alcohol. In 2015,

there were 47 reports of on-campus liquor law violation arrests; in 2016 there were 158. In contrast, there were 142 cases of public liquor law violation arrests in 2015 and only 32 in 2016. In total, there were 196 arrests for liquor law violations in 2016.

A majority of these 196 total arrests were minor in possession, which means that someone under the age of 21 was caught either with alcohol in their possession or was visibly under the influence. This is classified as a misdemeanor.

Rodgers said a main reason for this difference was because in 2015 there were too many incoming freshmen to fully house them in residence dorms. To combat this, the university partnered up with a local apartment complex and had some freshmen technically living off-campus.

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OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Taskforce established with goal of increasing classroom affordability via OERs Fair-use copyright policies enforce costsaving alternatives in the classroom.

WILLIAM SKIPWORTH

Reporter

In an effort to make classes more affordable and boost student success in the classroom, UM System President Mun Choi and other UM System officials assembled a taskforce with the goal of expanding and implementing the use of open educational resources in classrooms across all four UM System campuses.

OERs can be accessed free of charge due to fair-use copyright policies.

The surging cost of higher education across the country has led many universities to seek a similar solution. One source of this surge is the cost of class materials and textbooks.

Unlike textbooks, whose prices have been consistently rising, the cost of OERs have remained free. This is why many in the academic community see them as a viable solution.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works to support higher education, defines OERs as “teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.�

OERs came to the attention of UM System officials when the campus OER Interest Group released results from a

study it conducted last spring.

According to the study, titled “Moving Forward with OER at the University of Missouri,� of 690 MU students surveyed, 60.9 percent reported having not bought a required textbook, 17 percent reported that not having access to course materials negatively affected their grades and 13 percent had considered leaving the university due to the prices of textbooks.

The study also looked at instructors’ knowledge of course material costs. The study discovered that, of the 245 instructors surveyed, 14.9 percent did not know the exact price of their course’s required materials, 22.4 percent knew some of the time and only 11 percent could correctly estimate that over 50 percent of MU students chose not to buy some or all textbooks.

The study led to the formation of a task force known as the “System-Wide Taskforce on Affordable & Open Educational Resources,� according to Jana Moore, a member of the task force.

This group, comprised of faculty and university officials nominated by their respective UM System campuses and Missouri Students Association members, is working to address the issue in several ways. “There are a lot of different ways you have to approach this problem,� said Grace Atkins, outreach librarian at MU libraries and a member of the taskforce. “One is just general awareness building.

So the taskforce is working on, across all four campuses, [the problem of] ‘How do we

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Beyond that, the group also hopes to increase the use of OERs in the classroom. “There will be some form of incentive program for faculty who implement OERs into their courses,� Atkins said. “We’re figuring out, how do faculty want to be incentivized?�

Moore, the senior program/ project support coordinator for the UM System, said the taskforce is currently working on the parameters of the program and more details will be announced in the coming weeks.

Because classroom affordability is always an ongoing problem, defining goals and a desired end result is difficult. “Each stakeholder probably sees a slightly different end result,� Atkins said.

Moore said the overall goal of the taskforce is focused on five main priority areas. Those areas include providing more OERs to students, encouraging faculty to convert courses to OER-based ones, increasing support and resources for faculty using OERs, identifying possible partnerships that could help promote this initiative and developing a system-wide strategy to address high textbook prices. “The end goal, generally speaking, is to have the most affordable course material that we can,� Atkins said.

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MU holds kick-off event for new School of Visual Studies Director Jo Stealey: “We do not intend to be the biggest program. Rather, our goal is to be the best, and we are going to be the best. We already are the best.”

TASHFIA PARVEZ

Staff Writer

After a year and a half of planning, countless faculty meetings and proposals to the administration, the School of Visual Studies launched on Sept. 27 at an art exhibition held at the Sager Braudis Gallery.

This is the first major reorganization within the College of Arts and Science in the last 30 to 40 years, and it is the result of the consolidation of the art, art history, film studies and digital storytelling programs.

The gallery last week showcased various artwork in its exhibition representing multiple MU students and faculty members. The event also included speakers Garnett Stokes, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, Pat Okker, interim dean of the College of Arts and Science and Jo Stealey, inaugural director of the School of Visual Studies.

According to Stealey, faculty members from the four departments came together and began discussing plans for the collaborative project about a year and a half ago. Last spring they decided to put forward a formal request to make a proposal to

Friend of Director Jo Stealey and chair of Columbia’s Commision on Cultural Affairs Aaron Krawitz looks away from an art piece at the School of Visual Studies Exhibition at the Sager Braudis Gallery on Wednesday, Sept. 26. PHOTO BY JACOB MASCOVITCH | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Okker, which received her approval, followed by the chancellor’s and the provost’s.

“President Choi, Chancellor Cartwright and I fully support the School of Visual Studies as they focus on the creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration that will prepare our students for

their futures,” Stokes said. “This dynamic and innovative school will position the University of Missouri at the forefront of visual art studies in the 21st century through its blending of art, media and theory.”

The goal of this new school is to provide students with opportunities to learn skills that will help them

succeed after graduation.

“The faculty are committed to giving our students the technical skills and the playful ingenuity they need to be successful in the 21st century, regardless of what professions they end up in,” Okker

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NATIONAL ATTENTION

New York Times features MU law professor’s blog “Impeachable Offenses” looks into the legal argument both for and against the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

MORGAN SMITH

Reporter

MU law professor Frank Bowman was in college in 1974 when the attorneys behind Watergate inspired him to study law. In 2001, his small co-contribution to former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial made it to the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. Today, he has written his way into the discussion of the current president’s affairs, fascinated with the same subject 43 years later.

Bowman’s blog “Impeachable Offenses” was featured in the New York Times on Aug. 28 and explores the legal arguments for and against the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

“Impeachment isn’t something that happens a lot; it happens very rarely, in fact,” Bowman said. “When it does happen, it’s the center of the political discussion. Those are issues of national debate. It’s kind of fun to talk about them.”

The New York Times article, “Writers on the Right and Left on Trump’s Pardon of Joe Arpaio,” is a compilation of political writings about the pardon of the former Arizona sheriff who was convicted of criminal contempt of court for disregarding a judge’s order and was later pardoned by President Trump.

The piece features various political perspectives, with Bowman’s placed in the “center” category, and is a part of the series “Partisan Writing Roundup,” according to an MU School of Law news brief.

The featured posts are just a few of many on Bowman’s blog, more of which are added daily.

“A lot of my writing on the blog has been about trying to do serious, careful, legal thinking about a lot of the issues that have been raised in the impeachment discussion,” Bowman said.

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Bowman does not claim to be completely unbiased and did vote for the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, in the 2016 presidential election, according to his blog’s mission statement.

“I deeply disapprove of the current president,” Bowman said. “I think he represents an unprecedented danger to the republic. I don't think that’s hyperbole, I think that’s true.”

However, Bowman said he often disapproves of the arguments made

by others who share his views because they don’t abide by the law or could be seen as “careless.”

Prior to the Arpaio pardon, which he found arguably violated the due process clause, Bowman said he didn’t find any legally viable impeachable offenses.

“If you’re going to make legal arguments, they have to have the same kind of rigor and support that you would use if you were talking about someone you didn’t dislike so much,” Bowman said. “If you trot out a lot of stuff that’s transparently weak, you weaken your own case.”

Bowman said the purpose of his blog is to compile sufficient factual information and sound thinking on the public record so that, if the time comes, serious people could consider moving forward with impeachment if there are solid reasons for doing so.

“A lot of people don’t really understand what impeachment is, how it works, how very indeterminate it is because, in fact, it turns out the procedures are pretty clear but the

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I like to enjoy what’s going on, even if it’s really stressful, because I feel that’s the only way I can handle it,” Cartwright said. “If you’re in it together, with any type of challenging situation you then can have the light moments also as the day goes on.”

Although Cartwright is no longer works at the University at Buffalo, Tripathi has no doubts that the chancellor will be successful at MU. “I’ve known Alex for thirteen years, and I know that University of Missouri has an excellent chancellor,” Tripathi said in an email. “He will do a terrific job. He is a wonderful teacher, mentor and leader. And, he is a really excellent scientist. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. These fellowships are a testament to the seminal work he has conducted in his field of electrical engineering.”

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began working together through a program called Faculty Fellows when Tripathi started his role as provost in 2004.

“I think one of the best things Alex really does is he listens to people and he actually tries to understand different perspectives and come up with decisions,” Tripathi said. “They may not be decisions in two minutes, but they would be good decisions, deliberate decisions and [decisions that are] really trying to understand different constituencies.”

Stokes agreed with this sentiment, affirming that that the chancellor “doesn’t take anything personally,” explaining that he looks for people to disagree with him to help him grow in understanding and perspective.

She also values how he can find humor even in difficult situations, a sentiment that Cartwright talked about as well.

“I think my style in working with people is that if you work with me, you’ll realize that no matter how stressful it is, that I like to laugh.

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recently signed a $1.27 million, threeyear contract with a Philadelphiabased branding firm that will aid in creating a positive, unique image for MU. The chancellor is confident that if more student stories are presented in the media, enrollment and retainment numbers will increase.

“We have a lot of really good students here,” Cartwright said.

“They know the truth [about the environment on campus]. They do.

I’ve been trying to get more and more time with students. I really do want to set it up so that a couple times a month we’re hosting some students for different things. I’ve been trying to go have open hours with the student groups. And the reason is that I want to understand what the students are thinking about this place.”

Cartwright’s concern for students stemmed from his earlier career as a professor and researcher, where he enjoyed working with students and began looking at how to change the environment of an institution.

“I learned a lot by working three years at a system office, but now being able to work with students, to talk with students and think about what are the daily challenges that they have and how we might be able to help — that’s what I’m really excited about,” he said.

Cartwright’s attempts to reach out to the student body do not surprise University at Buffalo President Satish Tripathi, who has known Cartwright for 13 years. Tripathi and Cartwright

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Chancellor Alexander Cartwright enjoys biking, reading and listening to music like Ed Sheeran and The Lumineers. PHOTO BY KATE SEAMAN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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position,’ because I saw this place and I had known a lot about it too, but it was nothing like walking on the campus,” Cartwright said. “Some people think it’s not that important, but seeing the care that someone puts into an institution and the care we put into our grounds tells you something about the pride of the institution, about how they value what we’re doing.”

Outside of his role as chancellor, Cartwright enjoys biking, reading and listening to music. He is a big fan of making playlists, drawing from a variety of musical styles and genres. A quick look at his playlists would reveal tracks from Hamilton, Ed Sheeran, Blake Shelton and The Lumineers.

Prior to his arrival at MU, Cartwright held positions as provost and executive vice chancellor at the State University of New York System and vice president for research and economic development at the University at Buffalo, as well as numerous other positions involving research and faculty leadership. His experience in New York helped him understand enrollment strategies and focus on the needs of students, which he plans to use to tackle issues at MU, he said.

Provost Garnett Stokes, who has worked closely with the chancellor since his arrival in August, has helped him as he gets accustomed to the campus, faculty and student body.

From presenting a survey on campus climate with Interim Vice Chancellor Kevin McDonald and UM System President Mun Choi to the initiation of a monthly “joint leadership team meeting,” Stokes said the MU administration team has already accomplished a lot since Cartwright’s arrival.

These monthly joint leadership meetings were started by Cartwright and include the chancellor’s staff, the vice provost, all of the deans, faculty counsel and staff counsel, as well as student government leaders.

“I would need to look at my calendar to remember all of the things we’ve actually tackled together,” Stokes said.

Despite the recent concerns of enrollment and inclusion on campus, Cartwright has high hopes for the university. Although the fall 2015 protests continue to impact the university today, MU is “in a different place than then,” the chancellor said.

Cartwright said this year’s retention numbers have been almost record breaking at 87 percent, the second highest in MU history. To continue efforts to raise enrollment and retention rates, the university

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These typically occur in residence halls, Rodgers said. Of the on-campus reports, 770 were from student housing in 2016. If a residence hall adviser finds a student violating the drug and liquor laws, they are usually referred to the various programs that MU offers to assist students.

Hate Crimes In addition to liquor and drug laws, MU also saw a significant decrease in hate crime reports from 2015 to 2016. In 2015, there were 11 reported hate crimes, a number that dropped to just one in 2016.

Of the 11 in 2015, eight were reported on-campus and three were non-campus. Six were classified as harassment and the categories of bias include gender identity, ethnicity and race.

The single report in 2016 was classified as an aggravated assault on public property and the category of bias was in relation to race.

Rodgers attributed this to the university having taken “great strides to work toward improving the campus environment.” He said a number of different offices at MU have worked toward creating a better environment regarding inclusion and diversity.

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and English. “I’m a little sad I wasn’t here for more of it since I’m about to graduate, but I’m excited for the students coming up to have more opportunities.”

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Because these apartment buildings were technically considered “public property,” Rodgers listed that as the reason behind the spike in 2015 arrests. In 2016, MU had fewer students living in residence halls, and student apartment complexes are not owned by the university.

Therefore, there were fewer public property reports in 2016 than the year prior.

As for the reasoning behind the increase of on-campus reports, Rodgers said it could just be due to simply having more reports of certain crimes over others.

“Some of that could also just be fluctuations in the number of incidents that occurred,” he said.

“You know, [MU] didn’t have as many incidents occurring in public property and more in on-campus locations.”

There was also a change in arrests regarding drug law violations. There was a jump from 94 on-campus reports in 2015 to 164 in 2016. Public property reports saw a decrease from 68 to 55. Non-campus reports had one violation each year. This put the total reports at 163 in 2015 and 220 in 2016.

Rodgers did not provide any reasoning behind the spike behind on-campus violations but said the apartment complex situation could explain the decrease in public property numbers.

A majority of the people that a police officer comes in contact with while violating these laws are likely to end up arrested, Rodgers said.

Sometimes, however, when a student is caught violating either liquor or drug laws, they aren’t arrested but instead “referred for disciplinary action,” according to the report.

In 2015, there were 1,031 on-campus reports of referred liquor law violations, where the students were not arrested. That number dropped to 792 in 2016.

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Arts and Sciences has been hit the hardest by the UM System’s budget cuts, losing around $9.6 million and laying off approximately 70 jobs.

The School of Visual Studies offers new and enhanced opportunities for students, especially those within the four majors.

“The School of Visual Studies will allow [students] to interweave their disciplines and find a form they really enjoy,” said Alyssa Gregory, a

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said. “The school aims to graduate future generations of outstanding critical thinkers, innovative problem solvers and makers of conscientious well-crafted art.”

Stealey said the School of Visual

Studies was a step forward purely from an academic standpoint and was not a result of budget restraints.

“This does not have to do with budget cuts,” Stealey said. “This has to do with MU moving forward and ensuring we are providing the best opportunity that we can for our students and the best education that we can.”

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calls, even at his MU office.

“If somebody's not screaming at me, then I’m obviously not doing a very good job,” Bowman said.

Bowman worked as a federal prosecutor for the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., and has spent the last 12 years teaching at MU. He said his job gives him the platform to do work like that of his blog.

“I get to teach a lot of really smart young people how to be really good lawyers, and it gives me the opportunity to do this kind of thing, to provide some kind of public service outside of the classroom,” Bowman said.

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standards are not for what constitutes an impeachable offense,” Bowman said.

Bowman said the country could become more divided if the discussion and process are not carefully thought out, should impeachment become a reality.

“The backlash from the residual people who continue to support him would make our politics even uglier than they already are and tear the country even further apart,” Bowman

the result.”

Professional student Samuel Crosby is in his second year of law school and currently working for Bowman, posting daily updates to the blog. These updates involve links to news and law review articles as well as interpretations of each source’s individual application to the chance of impeachment.

“I like professor Bowman’s writings because I think he’s a very centric writer; he’s not partisan, so he gives an even analysis,” Crosby said.

Questioning the impeachment of any public official often brings opposition from supporters of that individual. Bowman said he receives “nasty” emails and threatening phone

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Bowman’s first experience with impeachment was through watching former President Richard Nixon go through the process prior to his resignation in August 1974. Prior to watching the trial, Bowman was studying pre-med biochemistry at Colorado College but changed majors the semester after.

“By and large, the Nixon affair went as well as it could have gone because the process of investigating what the president had done was conducted in a bipartisan way by serious, intelligent people who proceeded in a sober way,” Bowman said. “When it was all over there really wasn’t a lot of resistance to

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Resources to combat the issues The most common place students are referred to for assistance is the MU Wellness Resource Center, which provides various programs, including a brief course on alcohol screening and intervention for college students who are either referred for alcohol or marijuana violations. Students can also voluntarily attend these programs.

Kim Dude, founder of the Wellness Resource Center, said the different programs are meant to not only educate but also help students succeed.

“Our main goal [at the Wellness Resource Center] is to have students who are successful, safe and healthy,” she said.

The interventions can look different depending on the student.

There might be presentations or oneon-one counseling, for example. In addition, every incoming freshman is required to take AlcoholEdu, an online course meant to educate and inform students of the negative consequences surrounding alcohol abuse.

Much of these interventions have led to successful outcomes, Dude said. In the past 10 years, the at-risk drinking rate for MU has decreased 22 percent, she said. To

be considered “at risk,” a student must be referred by another student or faculty member and reported for “dangerous” behavior. This was from data collected through a survey of random MU students.

Rodgers said MUPD doesn’t look only at this report when looking at crime at MU. “[MUPD is] constantly keeping track of what’s happening on campus as far as certain locations that may be high crime areas and hot spots to put more resources toward,” he said.

These resources can range from higher patrols in certain locations of campus to promoting programs regarding crime prevention.

The main reason for the report, Rodgers said, is to keep the public informed. In addition, people can compare crime statistics from different years and decide for themselves if MU is improving or not in relation to certain crimes, he said. “[The report is] designed for public transparency so that students and their parents can see what’s been going on at the University of Missouri for the last three years and what kind of policies are in place to provide for a safe campus,” he said.

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COLUMN

With the launch of Pixel 2, Google adopts new strategy Last year, Google committed to building its own hardware to show the best of Android, and it doubled down last week with a new device launch.

SOLOMON DAVIS

Opinion Columnist

Solomon Davis is a sophomore journalism major at MU. He is an opinions columnist who writes about technology for The Maneater.

Google held its Google Event on Oct. 4, where the company launched its newest family of devices for 2017. Among the devices were the Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, the refresh of the Pixel line that Google started just last year.

When Google announced the Pixel last year, it was quite the departure for the 19-year-old company. Ten years ago, when Google started using Android, it shaped the software but left hardware to its partners. But in 2010 the company began a new adventure with the launch of the Nexus One. The Nexus line was a partnership between Google and a different manufacturer for each phone in the line.

The Nexus One was the first phone; it was manufactured by HTC and used the Android software in a partnership with Google. The Nexus phones were guaranteed to receive the newest updates first and were a bloat-free experience.

Software bloat is where carriers load apps and games and other pointless programs onto a phone that you bought through them, with bloat-free being something

Chief Executive Officer of Google Sundar Pichai. PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

you did not get on any other Android phones. Most importantly, the devices ran on stock Android, with little to no customization, which was a selling point to consumers looking for simplicity.

In 2016, instead of launching a new Nexus device, Google pivoted to launch Pixel, which the company marketed as the first phone ever by Google. To Google, the Pixel would show off the true power of Android. Now that Google controlled the hardware on top of the software, it could build devices that would highlight what the Android experience should be like for everyone, as well as give the company more control of the platform.

What made Apple devices so popular is the fact that the company controls both the hardware and software of its devices. For years, Apple has made it known that controlling both allows it to do wonders even without the fanciest

of specifications. You can have fantastic hardware, but if the software is below optimal, it can lead to complications that are avoided when both work and are created together.

What Google did in 2016 is what I refer to as the “Apple effect,” a trend in the technology world as of late: Companies that traditionally work in software have started to work in hardware.

Take Microsoft, for example. For the longest period, the company created and sold the Windows operating system to vendors who then loaded that software onto a computer and sold it under their own brand, including Dell, Samsung and HP. In 2012, Microsoft, much to the dismay of its PC partners, launched the Microsoft Surface. The Surface brought together the Windows software now optimized for touch and tablet devices, as well as

marking the foray into manufacturing devices. Microsoft then led the industry change on what a PC experience was, and so far, it has paid off. Google has done the same thing. Through the launch of Pixel, it set the narrative of what a perfect Android phone can be.

The Apple effect has worked well for Apple, and so far Google and Microsoft have found tremendous success with the Pixel and the Surface devices. Consumers have come to love the devices, but most importantly, the devices have set the narrative of what software and hardware can do when optimized completely together.

For Android, it has probably led to a revival that will benefit Google for years to come.

COLUMN

What to do when faced with political burnout It gets tiring having to fight the same fight over and over and over again, but we can’t stop standing up for what we believe in.

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.

After everything that’s happened lately, from the exhausting healthcare debate to Hurricane Maria ravaging Puerto Rico to the shooting on the Las Vegas Strip, it can feel hard to have

the energy to care about politics. I know that I, personally, have felt the urge to crawl into bed, hide under the covers and not come out for a good three days until I’ve had enough time to process everything that’s going on. For the record, this is coming from someone who likes discussing politics. I can’t imagine how heavy this must be for people who aren’t passionate about it.

There’s a certain term for this sort of exhaustion: “political burnout.”

Last election cycle, no matter what side you were on, many people faced the reality of this burnout, getting so stressed to the point of no longer caring or becoming desensitized to the issues they once used to feel passionate about. This is a sad reality for lots of activists due to the intense pressure they face, and even nonactivists can face withdrawal — such as stress-induced breakdowns, intense

tiredness or feelings of apathy — due to burnout symptoms.

However, there is a bright side to all of this: There are things you can do to prevent burnout from happening, or shake it off and get feeling back to normal. Don’t forget that self-care is one of the most important things in life. If you neglect your mental and/or physical health to the point where you’re always running on empty, it only elongates the amount of time you’re affected by burnout.

Get involved with things that you enjoy or feel strongly about that are separate from your political activities to give yourself a break — like book clubs, sports teams or even taking classes to learn new things.

Remember that even if your cause doesn’t find the success you were hoping for at first, you’re still out making a difference, and important things are rarely accomplished

without a lot of hard work. It can be easy to give up after initial disappointments, but the satisfaction from pushing through is so much greater.

Finally, keep in mind that burnout is different for everyone, and if you find something that works to help you through the stress and fatigue of activism, do it. If you have to take a break from politics for a while to come back at your best, there’s nothing wrong with that. Just don’t give up completely. There’s too much at stake for us to do that. It gets tiring having to fight the same fight over and over and over again, but we can’t stop standing up for what we believe in; if not for ourselves, then for the people who come after us. It’s our duty to leave the world a better place than we found it — otherwise, what is this all for?

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MOVE investigates: MU Parking & Transportation Services While handling changes on campus, MU Parking & Transportation Services is understaffed in operating its website.

JESSIE YATES

Reporter

Earlier this year, students experienced a significant amount of difficulty when purchasing parking permits. There were issues getting preferred parking because of changes in traffic and parking regulations that weren’t communicated to students. There were also some reports of receiving parking tickets erroneously. The high number of recent changes in MU Parking & Transportation Services, including virtual permits, has made it more difficult for the office to keep up with permit demand.

Virtual permits are one of the biggest changes in the past few years for MU P&TS. But there has been a more recent and damaging change in this office: staff cuts.

MU P&TS is one of 18 departments under MU Operations.

The communications department addresses the communication needs for all 18 departments. According to Communications Manager Karlan Seville, this department consisted of four members until June 2017. On June 30, the department size was halved as two members were laid off.

A third member was let go on July 31, leaving Seville as the only remaining employee in the department. These staff cuts occurred along with budget cuts and layoffs across campus.

Seville handles all sorts of messaging, including posters, videos, emails and even the social media accounts. Seville also monitors the website, addressing any trouble students might have using the purchasing portal or finding other information.

“For [MU P&TS], that’s going to be a big chunk of my time this next year, because we want to make sure we do a more thorough job of communicating,” Seville said.

A major part of the communication involved with MU P&TS occurs when permit purchasing is opened each fall. During the most recent permit purchasing period, Seville said she “relied a lot on students’ help.”

Some students worked with the social media accounts, responding to buyers’ questions or complaints, which Seville approved. To work more efficiently, Seville eventually took full control over the social media, having better access to information than did the students.

The students then answered phone calls and walked buyers through the

Downtown Columbia parking meters. PHOTO BY PHU NYGUEN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER purchasing process when necessary.

Once the fall semester started, however, Seville no longer had access to those students as classes became a priority, and she became responsible for the entirety of communications.

Seville has since had to find other resources.

“It helps that Gary [Ward, vice chancellor of MU Operations] is serving as interim student affairs vice chancellor because I have people I can go to,” Seville said. “Angela Dahman, the communications manager — my counterpart — in Student Affairs. So she has been sharing her students with me.”

Despite outside support, the effect of the staff cuts is not fully alleviated.

As a result of the cuts, “reaction time will be slower probably,” Seville said. “Although I will say that parking is a priority right now, so I’m trying to keep up with it. I have been responding even at like 10:30 [p.m.] or midnight. If I see something come up, I usually try to take care of it.”

MU junior Jessica Bromeier follows the MU P&TS Twitter account, using it primarily to find open parking garages. “[The MU P&TS Twitter account] does post updates every once in a while, just about where to park on game day, stuff like that,” Bromeier said.

However, Bromeier didn’t know the Twitter account was managed by only one person.

“That seems like a pretty big responsibility … That’s a lot of information for one person to

facilitate,” she said.

Another student, sophomore Alexandra Neuhalfen, shared her experience on the MU P&TS website.

“There was a problem with the website at the beginning of the year when everyone was trying to get a parking spot,” Neuhalfen said. “No one was getting them where they wanted to go, and they had to go far away. I know plenty of people in my sorority house who have to go all the way to the stadium, which is like a 15-minute walk from the house. It just really sucks for them.”

The biggest website complications occur while students, faculty and staff are all buying parking permits.

According to Seville, over 9,000 permits were sold in July and August this year, and the desire for preferred parking created significant congestion for the program.

“At one point, we sold over 500 virtual permits in less than an hour,” Seville said.

The switch to virtual permits in fall 2015 included a partnership with NuPark, the only vendor that met the university’s requirements at the time. NuPark provides the permit purchasing program that can be accessed via the Tiger Park portal on the P&TS website. In a recent consultation with NuPark, P&TS learned that the heavy load of online traffic was more than the portal was designed to handle. After a certain number of people have entered the system, the portal prevents others from gaining access. That’s why MU P&TS often advises to simply refresh

the page.

This situation is not ideal for buyers or for the commucations staff. Since the permit purchasing occurred in August, Seville was the only employee left in the department to help resolve student issues.

Seville remains optimistic about improvements in communication.

“Once I started taking over the social media, the Twitter account, I feel like our response time has been pretty good,” Seville said.

Further improvements in communication have been planned or are currently underway. MU P&TS is “going to revamp the website completely and make it more user friendly, so that people can actually find information there easily,” Seville said. This will be done with the help of the Division of Information Technology as well as Student Affairs.

Just as students depend on the Office of Parking & Transportation, the office also relies on its own vendors and collaborators, like NuPark and the City of Columbia (which owns a bus service seen on campus). MU P&TS doesn’t always have the control or manpower necessary to fix the complaints it receives on a daily basis.

However, Seville said, “We [MU P&TS] are willing to work with people. We’re not putting up a road block.”

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ROCK AWARDS

The third annual Mid-Mo Rock Awards honors the best rock bands in Columbia

JANE MATHER-GLASS

Reporter

The Blue Note held the third annual Mid-Mo Rock Awards on Sunday, hosting 44 bands competing for 15 awards.

Coordinated by JPS Productions and hosted by photographer Bryan Pitman, the event was a celebration of area music and included live performances from some of Missouri’s finest artists.

Jason Schrick, the owner of JPS Productions and creator of the award ceremony, started this annual event to help grow the local music scene.

“I was watching the Grammy’s one night, and I thought, ‘I want to do something like that for our local rock and metal scene,’” he said.

The event is unique in its intimacy. Most of the bands, presenters and the host know each other, which gave the event an inviting atmosphere.

The majority of the bands are from Columbia, with a few from Springfield or the towns bordering Columbia.

Don’t Mind Dying, the band that won Rock Band of the Year at the 2016 awards, gave the first performance of the night.

The performance was highenergy and got the crowd excited for the rest of the evening.

The band also went on to win Blues Rock Band of the Year, and singer Brian Craig won Frontman of the Year.

The evening began with the Indie-Rock Band of the Year award, which was given to Shades of I, whose drummer Alex Neely also won Drummer of the Year. Following that, The Many Colored Death won the award for Best Live Show. The Many Colored Death’s guitarist and vocalist Brent Moore also won Guitarist of the Year.

The show featured performances from Mangosteen and the heavy-metal band Nevalra, who won Metal Band of the Year. 4 Skeevy Dudes followed and provided a set full of jumping and dancing around the stage. Following them was Decadent Nation, which featured five exquisitely dressed men, one of whom displayed some impressive hair flips. The last two bands to play were The Daily Crime, an indie rock trio that was slightly more mellow but every bit as impassioned as the rest, and

Madora, the trio that won the award for Modern Rock Band of the Year. The singer, Pitman mentioned, has a voice similar to a young Kurt Cobain, and the three closed the evening in a lively manner.

A highlight of the show was Between Elsewhere’s reception of the New Rock Band of the Year award. This was especially exciting because, as singer Shana Backman stated, the band is less than a year old and hasn’t even released a recording yet. Also entertaining was the The Royal Furs’ acceptance of Pop-Rock Band of the Year.

One of the male band members came on stage in a dress and accepted the award as though he were Ruth Acuff, the vocalist of the group.

The last award of the show, Best Rock Band of the Year, was awarded to the Springfieldbased group T.R.O.Y. Following their acceptance speech, one of the members added, “Music heals, music is love,” ending the show with a nice energy in the air.

Schrick hoped to get the community involved in local music with this show.

“It’s a college town, so you don’t really want to invest your time in a local band because you’re not here that long,” Schrick said. “But I think this show is the best opportunity for anybody that is a fan of rock ‘n’ roll or metal.”

Mocklove, which won Alt-Rock Band of the Year, seconded this idea of supporting local music with an important message.

“All your favorite bands started local,” a band member said.

Pitman then drove the point home, telling the audience to go home and support local music by listening to local bands on Spotify, YouTube, iTunes and Pandora.

The award show was an incredible opportunity to expand outlook on Columbia’s music scene. The show will be back next year, as another chance to become acquainted with the talented people in Columbia.

With seven live performances, as well as an opportunity to get to know new bands, it’s an event that’s not to be missed.

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Above: Kyle Day plays bass during Decadent Nation’s performance at the Mid-Mo Rock Awards Sunday, Oct. 8.

Bottom left: Three members of Between Elsewhere, Shana Backman, Jackie Branscom and Dylan Painter accept an award. Between Elsewhere received the award for Best New Band.

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MUSIC

Palehound’s energy enchants at Cafe Berlin

Preceded by Rae Fitzgerald and Thunder Dreamer, Palehound created a fantastic atmosphere.

JANE MATHER-GLASS

Reporter

Rae Fitzgerald, Thunder Dreamer and Palehound were presented by KCOU, Hear Queer and The Center Project at Cafe Berlin Oct. 3. The three bands each brought a unique sound and energy to the stage, ranging from mellow, sweet songs to high-energy dance music.

Columbia-based artist Fitzgerald opened the evening with songs from her album Popular Songs for Wholesome Families. According to Fitzgerald, these songs were about tarot cards, clouds and nostalgia, among other things. Fitzgerald can belt like no other, but she also can restrain her voice, giving many of her songs a gentle and comforting tone. Her voice was complemented wonderfully by Emma Tinker-Fortel’s synth sounds on trumpet and Lucas Oswald’s masterful guitar playing.

Following Fitzgerald, Thunder Dreamer took the stage. The fourpiece band is from Evansville, Indiana, and can create a multitude of moods in a single song. Singer Steve Hamilton moved very little and filled the stage with emotion; on the other hand, bassist Alex Wallwork brought an incredible and infectious energy. He danced, jumped and sometimes made you fear for the safety of his bass strings. The four all bring incredibly unique talents to the table and mesh perfectly.

A highlight of Thunder Dreamer’s set was “Capture,” from its album of the same name. This song is lyrically simplistic but still captivates by painting vivid pictures and overall feels sincere. It starts with haunting

Palehound bassist Larz Brogan dances to the beat of the music on Tuesday, Oct. 3 at Cafe Berlin. Brogan has furthered her love for the arts and continued the musical skills she learned at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

PHOTO BY JACOB MASCOVITCH | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER guitar tones; then the drums and keys kick in and it becomes more upbeat.

The contrast between the upbeat sound and the slightly dark lyrics makes this song complex and captivating.

Finally, Palehound took the stage.

The three members, Ellen Kempner, Larz Brogan and Jesse Weiss, are connected by shared enthusiasm and passion for what they do. From the moment they walked on stage, it was evident that they were going to provide an incredible set. On stage, their energy was contagious and obvious. From Brogan’s hair flips to Kempner’s dynamic voice, the three were mesmerizing. There

were songs that sounded forceful, where Kempner’s voice was insistent, contrasted by songs where Kempner sounded almost delicate. These songs were compelling and full of honesty.

Kempner told the crowd that they had one more song left and began to play their song “Molly,” a fast-paced and upbeat song that nearly has a ranting quality. Kempner cooed, “Ooh, selfish Molly,” at the end of the song and displayed exasperation with the character. The song gives Kempner a chance to display both the range of her voice and her incredible guitar skills. The energy that the trio put forth during this song was

practically palpable.

After the song was over, the three began to walk off stage but hadn’t yet left when a crowd member asked if they had one more song to play. The band returned to the stage for a triple encore.

Altogether, the show felt comfortable and fun. It was casual enough that Kempner could ask the crowd why Columbia has a scuba equipment store — the crowd answered that the rivers here have tiny octopuses — and it made for a space where three skilled bands were able to share their talents.

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FALL TRENDS

Transition your summer staples for fall’s best trends

With a few simple tricks, your summer wardrobe can easily be transitioned for the fall season.

BROOKE KNAPPENBERGER

Columnist

With the arrival of October, football season and midterms upon us, fall fashion is out on the streets.

Boots, sweaters and jeans are some of the many trends students will be sporting.

However, now is not the time to throw out summer clothes and go on a fall shopping spree. Instead of heading to the mall, save some money by slipping on those floral dresses and skirts from the summer.

It may seem strange to be wearing a typical summer wardrobe, but with a couple tricks, those looks can easily be transformed into a stylish outfit appropriate for the fall weather.

The easiest trick to transition

summer clothes into fall is to just fall, boots are the number one choice throw a jacket over any of footwear. outfit. Whether you Each season, have a dress, romper or ankle boots get an off-the-shoulder top, more and more any kind of jacket can updated with instantly make it fallnew details and worthy. There are tons designs. Block of options to choose or kitten heels from. Denim jackets are an on-trend are insanely popular option for right now and they go those seeking perfectly over a floral comfort. White dress. Or, try a cropped or red leather style with a skirt. Opt boots are a for a silky bomber trendier option jacket with a T-shirt to wear with and leggings for a cool dresses or athleisure look that jeans. can be worn from class As seen all straight to the gym. For over the F/W LANE BURDETTE | VISUALS DIRECTOR a chilly night out, try ‘17 runway, a leather or fur jacket tall, slouchy (but only if it’s faux, of course). boots are a newer trend to incorporate While a trendy jacket can definitely into fall style. Try them with a pair elevate a look, the right shoes are also classic skinny jeans or even with a an important part of any outfit. For denim skirt. After the recent S/S ‘18

fashion shows, combat boots have been seen all over Instagram. Try out the trend with a frilly dress for an edgier look.

Another easy trick for fall style is to layer up. As simple as it may sound, adding some layers can really take an outfit from summer to fall in one step. For dresses and skirts, sheer tights or leggings with a pair of thigh-high boots can provide muchneeded warmth. Patterned tights are a unique option as well. For tops, layer a long-sleeved shirt underneath a tank or crop top for a whole new look. Finally, accessorize by adding a hat or, on a particularly cold day, a thick blanket scarf.

Not everyone can afford a new wardrobe with every new season.

For those wishing to make the most out of their current wardrobe, these tricks can extend summer pieces well into the fall.

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ART BEAT

Musician Spencer Westphalen discusses the transcendental art of music

Musician Spencer Westphalen discusses the transcendental art of music. PHOTOS BY FIONA MURPHY | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Spencer Westphalen: “I feel it when I play. The feeling of the color gives me a sense of structure inside; there’s a shape that this sound makes. It's like molding your soul, and it's hard to explain.”

FIONA MURPHY

Columnist

Mangosteen is a local funk blues band started in the summer of 2015 by singer and drummer Spencer Westphalen and keyboardist Michael Miller. The band’s first album, Planets, is available on Spotify and provides a refreshing and jazzy sound hard not to groove to.

Mangosteen is also the name of a tropical fruit from Southeast Asia that contains some of the most precious and beneficial vitamins for human consumption, according to the New York Times. Once banned in the U.S., the small purple fruit is prescribed by doctors to fight allergies and cancer, making it one of the most resilient and pure fruits in the world. Miller and Westphalen began jamming together in 2014 with the members’ first band, Dangerfield.

Dangerfield played jazz at Aladdin’s Hookah Lounge on Thursday nights from 9 to midnight. It was the first time Westphalen sank his teeth into the music scene of downtown Columbia and transitioned into a singer.

“I did backups for Dangerfield, but I didn’t have a lot of confidence back then,” Westphalen said. "I would sing in the car and in the shower like everyone else does. The first time I really sang was with Dangerfield and our main singer wasn’t there so I just made up something on the spot, and from there we went with it.”

Westphalen, now the main vocalist for Mangosteen, has always had

rhythm in his bones. From banging on pots and pans as a child to joining percussion in seventh grade, Westphalen has been playing drums for 10 years. Only recently has he adopted the title of singer and lyricist.

Aiming to tackle words over beats, Westphalen draws inspiration for his lyrics from some of the greats of songwriting, most notably Bill Withers.

Mangosteen’s songs incorporate blunt, pure language denouncing the style of flowery metaphor. Leaving little to the imagination, Westphalen’s words intentionally cut deep with ease, much like each of his concise drum beats.

“I don’t want to try and mask an emotion if I’m feeling it through the words,” Westphalen said. “The word choice might be a bit uglier, but the word choice will catch your attention. Just because it's not aesthetically pleasing doesn’t mean it’s not important because there are certain beauties in everything.”

And to this artist, beauty and inspiration are found in everything.

Westphalen seeks lyrical inspiration from the natural world. He thrives on the higher consciousness of seeing music and truth in what others might view as ordinary: birds chirping, the changing of seasons and old houses creaking.

This awareness liberates his creativity and allows his art to be somewhat transcendental. He uses colors to express the feeling when he plays. As Westphalen plays, deep blues and greens emanate from a raw and honest feeling within himself. This allencompassing experience takes control of the musician and connects him with his band mates and audience.

“The feeling of the color gives me a sense of structure inside; there’s a shape that the sound makes,” Westphalen said. “It's like molding your soul, and it's hard to explain. When you’re really focused you enter a flow, and when you’re with a band that’s all together that starts to really take shape. It starts from the inside and everything meshes to become one.”

Live performance relies on the collective attention of an audience and band to enter the “flow” that is an ever-present and yet, fleeting moment.

Each show, Westphalen strives for the moment when the audience’s attention and energy interlock with the performers’ and the colors begin to fly. That climax is different by show because the culmination of people and vibe change.

Much like improv, the intimate moments created at a show must end, making each an original. Westphalen believes the finiteness of a concert’s apex is the most essential part of live performance. Music, in this way, is one of the most honest, versatile and connective forms of art. The authentic, vulnerable nature of music becomes a tool for Westphalen, providing him with opportunities for self-reflection and exploration while also uniting him with others.

“I don’t write music for other people,” Westphalen said. “On the flip side, I want my music to reach people it needs to reach, even if it’s one person in an empty crowd.

If one song we play really strikes a chord with them then that show was worth it. If they can see it from my perspective that’s great, but I’d rather have them make something out of it on their own.”

Performance art is a shared experience. Humans are inherently attracted to music as well as naturally susceptible to despondent times.

Westphalen is no stranger to depressive periods and anxiety himself. While experiencing these issues, music allowed him to examine his problems candidly and straightforwardly.

Much like his realistic lyrics, Westpahlen finds importance in a direct approach to solving life’s problems. Asking difficult questions about himself and his relationships,Westphalen looked for deliverance from the dangerous cycle of evading his problems or masking them with substances.

“In some of my dark times, you can choose to shut it down and bottle it back, but the questions are still going to be there and until you answer them, they’ll remain,” Westphalen said. “At first I made a bunch of excuses as to why I was there, and you have to dig into the deeper parts of your life. It starts with you and if you’re blaming your unhappiness or depression or whatever on anything else but you, you won’t get anywhere.”

Westphalen advocates for a forthright approach to selfexamination when dealing with mental health. His philosophy reflects Withers’s song “Another Day to Run” by saying, “if you don’t look into your mind and find out what you’re running from, tomorrow might just be another day to run.”

The album Planets echoes the answers to these questions. However, Westphalen feels the album is no longer representative of the band.

Bassist Alex Rideout is the newest member of Mangosteen and is what Westphalen believes is the missing puzzle piece to completing the cohesive group the band has become.

Mangosteen will be recording new tracks this November and it hopes to eventually make it to the West Coast, where the competition is higher and the opportunities are more accessible. Westphalen’s resilient, wise perspective and inspiring strength will no doubt hurl Mangosteen into the future with ambition and leadership.

Regardless of notoriety, Mangosteen’s pure, colorful and beneficial music gives them significant potential for success and fosters the relationship between human nature and music.

Edited by Claire Colby ccolby@themaneater.com

SPORTS

Online this week: Coverage of football at Georgia, volleyball recaps and more at themaneater.com.

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Jamie Kempfer one of nation’s best despite injuries Coach Marc Burns: “She’s really lived our Tiger Tough mentality.”

TITUS WU

Staff Writer

On the bus ride home from the NCAA Cross Country Championship last season, coach Marc Burns took thenjunior Jamie Kempfer aside.

“I told her, ‘Look, you just did something that was really special today,’” he said. “‘You’re an AllAmerican. But you’re gonna get overshadowed. I want you to know how proud I am of you.’”

Burns was referring to then-junior Karissa Schweizer’s unexpected NCAA Championship win that same day. But Kempfer simply said, “It’s OK; I’m fine.

I don’t need the spotlight.”

With both Kempfer and Schweizer entering their senior year, the pair is now the crux of the women’s team. The two are coming off highly successful seasons last year, and if the team were without Schweizer, Kempfer would easily be the star.

With Schweizer, Kempfer is happy to be out of the limelight.

“She’s really happy for Karissa,” Burns said. “I think it speaks volumes about who she is as a person.”

During high school,

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Kempfer had an outstanding cross-country career. She was a runner-up in the 2013 Nike Midwest Regionals and placed 19th at the highly competitive Nike Cross Nationals.

That success would translate to her first two

seasons at Mizzou, where she placed as high as fifth in some races and broke personal records. But she still struggled.

“For some reason as we we went throughout the season, she wasn’t running well towards the end of her

freshman and sophomore years,” Burns said.

The team came to discover that Kempfer was glutenintolerant, and eating foods with gluten caused her to lose iron. A change in diet would lead to a breakout season last fall, but it was

a strenuous process figuring out the issue, Burns said.

And even then, the injuries are not, and will never, be over for Kempfer.

Kempfer has suffered from hip dysplasia since she was

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HALL OF FAME

Coach becomes Hall of Famer at alma mater Westminster College Ehren Earleywine played baseball for three years at Westminster and then returned for six years as an assistant and head coach.

HANNAH HOFFMEISTER

Staff Writer

Missouri softball head coach Ehren Earleywine was inducted into the Westminster College Athletics Hall of Fame on Sept. 30, along with five other former coaches and athletes. Earleywine played baseball at Westminster College for three years before returning as a coach.

“In his case, [Earleywine] got into our Hall of Fame because it was dual successes and not just specifically

as a coach or as a player,” Westminster head athletic director Matt Mitchell said.

Earleywine played shortstop at Westminster for three years and graduated with a business degree in 1994. He returned to Westminster to be an assistant baseball coach under former Major League Baseball player Phil Bradley from 1994 to 1996.

“I fell in love with it immediately and learned so much from Phil about coaching, about baseball, about being a man — so many things he mentored me in, and I just fell in love with the profession,” Earleywine said.

Bradley left the program after the 1996 season. After three years of assistant coaching, Earleywine became

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Mizzou football player Jordan Harold (#55) attempts to tackle a Missouri State player during the first football game of the 2017 season. Mizzou beat Missouri State 72-43. PHOTO BY KATE SEAMAN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Jordan Harold’s unique football story shapes his success on field GARRETT JONES

Staff Writer

It’s hot at the Daniel J. Devine Pavilion, the indoor practice facility of Missouri football, after a Tuesday practice.

Players look tired. Given the temperature and the rigor of the practice that they just endured, it’s easy to understand why.

Among the fatigued players, one smiling face stands out. Senior Jordan Harold radiates positivity as he converses with teammates and helps coaches move equipment off the field.

This instance is reflective of Harold’s approach to football as a whole. He has become known around the Missouri football community for his hard work and positive attitude.

“When you’re doing what you love, it’s hard to leave that field sometimes,” Harold said.

Harold’s love for football has grown throughout his unique journey to Missouri.

He began his football career at McCluer North High School in Florissant, Missouri. Despite four standout seasons, Harold’s underwhelming 6-foot-2 frame at the defensive end position yielded few collegiate offers.

He earned all-conference accolades in three of his seasons at McCluer North, leading the team to three consecutive playoff appearances.

Eventually, he accepted a

scholarship offer to play football at Division II football powerhouse Northwest Missouri State. Harold starred during his time with the Bearcats and was an integral part of their 2015 NCAA Championshiprun.

Despite the Bearcats’ success, Harold’s desire to become a Division I athlete persisted.

Missouri as a walk-on and achieve his dream of playing Division I football.

After redshirting in 2015 to comply with NCAA transfer rules, Harold began his Missouri career without a scholarship as a walk-on athlete.

“It’s all about work,” Harold said

“IF YOU WATCH HIM PRACTICE, THERE’S NO DOUBT WHY HE HAS THE RESPECT THAT HE DOES.” - HEAD COACH BARRY ODOM “There was a lot of stuff going on with me internally, emotionally, and I wasn’t happy with my placement where I was,” Harold told the Kansas City Star in August.

Harold drove to Columbia in the summer of 2015 with his mother to locate the Missouri coaches and make his case for a spot on the team.

At the end of their drive, Harold crossed paths with Missouri’s then-defensive line coach Craig Kuligowski in the parking lot of the Mizzou Athletics Training Complex.

The meeting with Kuligowski ultimately solidified Harold’s decision to take a leap of faith. Soon after, Harold decided to transfer to

about walking onto the football team. “As a walk-on, it’s about setting a standard for yourself that no one else has.”

Soon after, he impressed thenfirst-year head coach Barry Odom enough in spring and fall camp to earn two starts on the Tigers’ defensive line during the 2016 season, including the team’s first game at West Virginia.

“We try to provide the opportunity for every player in this program to become a great player, graduate from school and be a great teammate,” Odom said after the team’s win against Missouri State on Sept. 2.

“Jordan’s done all that.”

Playing in all 12 contests last year, Harold showed his potential to the Missouri coaching staff and earned a scholarship.

In 2017, Harold was voted as a captain by his teammates at the beginning of the season. He was elected alongside Missouri mainstays junior quarterback Drew Lock, junior offensive lineman Paul Adams and senior linebacker Eric Beisel.

“I feel like I can add more to the team, be able to give more of myself,” Harold told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch prior to the 2017 season.

He had leadership experience before his election to captaincy in 2017. At McCluer North, he was named a captain as well.

Though he has come to be known by his leadership and work ethic, Harold has proven he is much more than a fascinating story. He has consistently recorded strong outings, recording 16 tackles and one sack this season.

Today, Harold’s presence and performance yields tremendous respect.

“If you watch him practice, there’s no doubt why he has the respect that he does,” Odom said. “He’s a tremendous kid.”

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Mizzou volleyball’s opposite hitters adapt to new roles as passers Kira Larson and Dariana Hollingsworth are rotating through the back row for the first time in their careers.

LIAD LERNER

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Freshman Dariana Hollingsworth played for the Puerto Rican national team. MANEATER FILE PHOTO

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skill mixed into passing.”

Larson’s 171 digs and Hollingsworth’s 122 digs this season rank fifth and 20th, respectively, in the Southeastern Conference, among SEC players who are not liberos or defensive specialists.

Kreklow is pleased with how quickly and successfully his opposite hitters have evolved their style of play.

“They literally have just worked themselves into being pretty good passers,” Kreklow said.

The players have equally high

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praise for their coaches and for assistant coach Joshua Taylor in particular, as Taylor has been working closest with the hitters.

“Josh has been an incredible help,” Hollingsworth said. “He tells me, ‘You’re doing great, but you need to let yourself breathe.

Give yourself some credit because you are doing well.’

He gives me pointers every time I’m in a drill.”

Despite getting off to a rocky start in their relationships with playing defense, the opposites have come to love passing and the added dimensions to their games. Although it was initially difficult for Larson to play all six rotations, she now realizes the benefits of having more game time.

“My favorite part is the impact I have on the game,” Larson said. “The fact that I can be able to lead in those tough moments and the fact that I can always be there for my teammates.”

Hollingsworth is willing to continue to play in the back row in her future years at Mizzou. She even said that she might be open to changing positions in order to pass more.

“I like a challenge and the fact that I’m not a great passer yet is a challenge,” Hollingsworth said. “I’m standing back there knowing that they will serve at me, and I prefer that over hitting any day.”

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everything because it’s the little things that make it perfect,” Hollingsworth said. “Making my angles early, holding my platform, not sweeping, getting my feet to the ball. It’s a whole lot of details, a whole lot of

“MY FAVORITE PART IS THE IMPACT I HAVE ON THE GAME. THE FACT THAT I CAN BE ABLE TO LEAD IN THOSE TOUGH MOMENTS AND THE FACT THAT I CAN ALWAYS BE THERE FOR MY TEAMMATES.” -KIRA LARSON

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three rotations that she had been playing her entire career until this season. Last season, Larson would be subbed out for a setter once she rotated into the back row, but this season she plays the entire match.

“When you only play three rotations, you sub out and you can readjust your mindset every time you go in,” Larson said. “You can talk to your teammates about what you are going to work on and what your focus is going to be. The thing about playing six rotations is that when you don’t sub out, you have to reset faster. I don’t have time to be like, ‘Kira you got this.’ It’s a lot quicker, and for me, it was very mentally exhausting at first.”

For Hollingsworth, the biggest challenge was not the mental aspect but improving her passing abilities.

“I have never been a great defensive player and now I’ve been given the responsibility of being a full-time defensive player,” Hollingsworth said. “It takes a whole lot of skill and a whole lot of patience. You’re going to get worse before you get better.”

Despite the early struggles and frustrations, the opposites have taken up their new positions with tenacity and without fear. Each player has put in thousands of repetitions and countless hours of practice in order to fine-tune their defense.

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On Dec. 9 last year, Missouri volleyball lost 3-1 to Minnesota in the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA volleyball tournament. The defeat not only signified the end of a spectacular season for the Tigers but also the end of a career for one of the greatest players in the team’s history.

Outside hitter Carly Kan completed her senior season ranked second in Mizzou history in kills (1,677) and third in points (1,905). But where the Tigers feel her absence the most is on defense, where Kan’s 1,445 digs ranks fourth all-time.

In the offseason, head coach Wayne Kreklow had to make some big decisions about which players would pass in the back row. Traditionally, the two outside hitters would rotate all the way around the court and play in the back row, while the setters would sub in for the opposite hitters when they reach the back row. But Kreklow decided to flip the script, opting to have the opposites play in the back row and the setters subbing in for the outsides in the back row.

“I don’t know if there was any specific point in time [when I made the decision]; it just gradually evolved into that,” Kreklow said. “A lot of it was looking at who our most consistent passers are and what we have to do with the lineup to try to get them on the court as much as we could.”

However, utilizing such an unorthodox formation has its drawbacks. Neither of the starting opposite hitters had much experience playing in the back row before this season. Redshirt senior Kira Larson was a middle blocker for most of her career and only played in the back row for one rotation during her senior year of high school. Freshman Dariana Hollingsworth occasionally played in the back row for the Puerto Rican national team, but only on the right side, never in the middle back position she plays in now.

Both players describe the transition as a challenging one.

“It was pretty rough,” Larson said.

“Passing was all very new to me.

It’s strange because I’m a fifth-year senior and I feel like I’m learning so much in my fifth year.”

For Larson, the most difficult part was the mental aspect of learning a whole new position with a lot of added responsibilities.

“It can be overwhelming because you have so much responsibility, and if it’s not going well, it’s frustrating,” Larson said. “I need to pass; I need to play defense; I need to block; I need to hit; I need to serve. It’s just a lot at one time.”

Larson is also adjusting to playing all six rotations, as opposed to the

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Wrestling notebook: trademarks and trials

Tiger Style becomes a registered trademark for Mizzou wrestling, and underclassmen and alumni shine at U23 World Team Trials.

BENNETT DURANDO AND HANNAH HOFFMEISTER

Staff Writers

“Tiger Style” receives trademark status, cementing its role in the Missouri wrestling program “Tiger Style”: Does it mean the clothes sold at the Student Center?

Maybe the trends of tailgate season?

Actually, “Tiger Style” is the motto for the Missouri wrestling team. And now that phrase is trademarked by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, according to the Columbia Tribune. The Tribune reported Saturday that the wrestling team found out about the trademark this week after a year-long process.

“What Tiger Style is about — you know, developing winners on and off the mat,” head coach Brian Smith said in a Facebook video released by University of Missouri Wrestling on Aug. 17, 2016.

The wrestling team incorporates Tiger Style into many of its marketing and promotional programs. The team’s Twitter handle is @MizzouWrestling,

similar to other sports, but its actual username is #TigerStyle.

“It’s about more than just what happens on the mat,” a Mizzou Athletics representative said in the Facebook video. “It’s the allencompassing lifestyle that every Mizzou wrestler adheres to. It’s what’s guided every single national champion that has come through Brian Smith’s training room over the last 18 years.”

The patent is owned by the curators of the University of Missouri public corporation, according to the Tribune.

Eierman shines as program’s youth on show at U23 World Team Trials As Mizzou wrestling ventures into a new, youth-led era, the program’s potential continues to be put on display.

Led by a third-place finish from sophomore Jaydin Eierman, several Missouri wrestlers excelled at the U23 World Team Trials in Rochester, Minnesota, this weekend.

Eierman was one of four current Mizzou athletes in action at the trials, claiming a third-place finish in his 65-kilogram weight class to finish highest among competing Tigers.

Lavion Mayes, a volunteer assistant at Clarion University who graduated from Mizzou in 2017 after making four national championship appearances for the Tigers, also competed, going 3-2 in the 70-kilogram weight class Sunday.

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Also wrestling at the trials were Missouri freshmen Dack Punke and Jake Raschka, along with redshirt freshman Wyatt Koelling, the lone Tiger to compete in Greco-Roman style as well as freestyle.

It was Eierman who shined brightest, though: The Columbia, Missouri, native cruised to a 4-1 record on Sunday, starting the day with back-to-back statement wins via technical fall. After suffering his lone defeat of the tournament in the semifinals by 15-5 technical fall, he regained his stride in emphatic fashion with a fall against Utah Valley’s Matt Findlay.

Taking on Clarion’s Brock Zacherl in the third-place match, Eierman survived his closest competition of

the day with a tight 5-4 decision.

Koelling was the busiest Mizzou wrestler at the event, in action on Saturday and Sunday. A recruit out of Kaysville, Utah, who was a member on the junior world team, Koelling lost a 3-0 decision in the semifinals of the Greco-Roman competition Saturday. Back on the mat the next day for the 86-kilogram freestyle, Koelling went 2-2.

For the four current Tigers who qualified, the U23 World Team Trials served as a tune-up to the 2017-18 season. The team opens on Nov. 4 against Illinois in a first pitch of sorts, with the meet taking place at Mizzou Softball Stadium.

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young. It’s a condition where the hip socket doesn’t rotate smoothly around the hip and instead grinds and causes hip pain.

“After a really long day, you’re so exhausted that you can’t even walk up two stairs – that’s how I feel all the time,” Kempfer said. “I’m always in pain, but I take it day by day.”

Because of her condition, Kempfer doesn’t run many miles on the ground. A typical week contains at most 40 miles of running and another

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the head coach at 24 years old.

“I looked younger than a lot of the players on my team. It was crazy, but it was the best training ground that I could have ever hoped for,” Earleywine said. “Not only working under Phil, but then when I became the head coach, I was by myself.”

The time at Westminster taught Earleywine coaching skills that he sais have transferred to Mizzou softball, where he started coaching for the 2007 season. At Westminster he recalled having between 32 and 36 players per season but no assistant

four to six hours swimming in the pool, Burns said.

“Really, she’s getting the aerobic work of 70 miles a week, but in a different way,” he said.

Running with hip pain all the time is tough. But having to do workouts separately from the team is another type of difficulty for Kempfer.

“I’m in the sport because I love the team atmosphere, so working out by myself wasn’t what I wanted,” Kempfer said. “But seeing the fruits of my labor pay off is worth it.”

Even though she doesn’t work out as much with the team, all Kempfer thinks about, she said, is its success.

“If that means helping my team,

a little pain goes a long way,” she said. “Now, I’m running for the team.

I’m doing it for them and not for me anymore.”

Her selflessness is one way she deals with her hip dysplasia. It’s also a reason why she isn’t affected by Schweizer overshadowing her. It’s why even if the public doesn’t view her as the stand-out star, her team does.

After all, dealing with constant pain and still winning All-American honors is a hard task.

“She’s tough, and she persevered,” Burns said. “A lot of people would probably have given up. She believed in her ability and the team here.”

coaches and limited resources.

“It made me really resourceful, and it made me really good at organizing things,” Earleywine said. “Having come from Westminster and doing all those things alone makes me so much better now when I put together a practice because I have tons of ideas that now I can fulfill with all the help that I have.”

During Earleywine’s three years as head coach, Westminster baseball went 63-44 and won the conference tournament in 1999. Two of Earleywine’s former players, Chris Pemberton and Cory Roper, were also inducted into the Hall of Fame this year.

“They were great players — and man, you talk about good people, too,” Earleywine said. “They’re five-

star human beings as well.”

The six new inductees joined 38 others who had been previously inducted into the Hall of Fame at Westminster. Mitchell said this year’s inductees influenced the athletics department at its infancy.

“This group really kinda began that, that foundation of making athletics a very visible, positive piece of our institution,” Mitchell said.

According to Mitchell, over 100 alumni were on campus for the Hall of Fame induction because the ceremony coincided with Westminster’s homecoming activities. According to Westminster’s website, the school has a total enrollment of approximately 1,000 students.

“That’s a pretty good amount for a school our size,” Mitchell said of the

Schweizer agreed.

“She always pushes me,” Schweizer

said. “She’s truly inspirational to put in all that work, and she inspires everybody else to work.”

Due to her conditions, Kempfer

won’t be racing until later in the

season, Burns said. But he knows she’ll continue to put in her very best.

“She’s really lived our Tiger Tough

mentality,” Burns said.

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jnoser@themaneater.com alumni attendance.

Earleywine has won six career coaching awards. He said the difference between coaching men and women is less about the fundamentals of the game and more about the differences in personality.

“I guess I was just so naive. I just thought, ‘Well, you know, they’re human beings, and they all want to win, and they’re all competitive, you know — how could they be any different?’” Earleywine said. “And I learned in a hurry — there’s a major difference in between coaching men and women. Really, that’s probably been the most challenging part of what I do, but at the same time, it’s been a lot of fun.”

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VOLLEYBALL

Stellar serving helps Mizzou volleyball roll past Ole Miss in consecutive sets The win over the Rebels marked the Tigers’ fourth consecutive victory.

LIAD LERNER

Staff Writer

Missouri volleyball picked up its fourth consecutive win in a 3-0 sweep of the Ole Miss Rebels at Hearnes Center on Sunday.

Two consecutive aces from redshirt senior Kira Larson got the Tigers to set point in the first set, and two points later they won 25-17.

Mizzou had an exceptional side-out rate of 83.3 percent, which helped the Tigers build a lead; there was only one instance in which Ole Miss got two points in a row.

The second set started out neck and neck before the Tigers went on a seven-point run behind the serves of redshirt senior Melanie Crow. Crow also recorded two aces during the run, and the Tigers won the set 25-19.

Mizzou went on a similar 6-0 run in the third set, this time with senior Courtney Eckenrode serving.

“You are always trying to separate from the other team in volleyball,” head coach Wayne Kreklow said.

“Big serving runs like that are the best ways to create separation.”

A service error from Mississippi ended the set 25-15 in favor of the Tigers.

The Tiger offense was once again dominant, as all six starting hitters had at least six kills while also hitting at least .230. Topping that list was redshirt freshman Kayla Caffey

The volleyball team has an overall record of 11-7. MANEATER FILE PHOTO

who had 10 kills on 11 attacks, hitting .909. Caffey had been hitting a perfect 1.000 until midway through the third set.

Other notable performances included redshirt sophomore Riley Sents, who led the team with 14 digs, Eckenrode, who led the team with 21 assists, and Crow, who had seven

kills, five digs and two aces against her former team.

The win was the fourth consecutive for the Tigers, who are now third place in the Southeastern Conference with an SEC record of 4-1 and an overall record of 11-7.

Next up for Mizzou is a home game against the Mississippi State

Bulldogs, who were swept by Mississippi on Sept. 27 and have no wins in six SEC games this year. The first serve is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.

CT on Friday, Oct. 13 in Hearnes Center.

Edited by Eli Lederman elederman@themaneater.com