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June 5, 2018

CAMPUS HOUSING

Residential Life adopts neighborhoods for new housing application In an attempt to help foster a new sense of community as well as simplify the overall process, Residential Life has worked with MU’s admissions office to develop a new housing application. STEPHI SMITH

Managing Editor

Residential Life has implemented new changes to housing applications this year, specifically within Residents’ Online Access to Rooms, the university’s online system for selecting residence halls. ROAR is often used for students who want to apply to be part of the Honors residence hall or to be part of a specific Freshman Interest

Residence Halls Dogwood and Galena are going to be located in the Truman Central neighborhood. MANEATER FILE PHOTO

Group or Thematic Learning Community, which students choose based on major and academic interests.

Last fall, Residential Life worked with the MU admissions office to develop a new, simplified housing

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MUPD hosts active threat training for students, staff MUPD officers explained their modified “Run, Hide, Fight” technique, as well as the differences between active threats and other crimes. STEPHI SMITH

Managing Editor

MU Police Department hosted active threat training in Jesse Auditorium. The training, Citizens’ Response to Active Threats, was open for all MU faculty, staff and students. MUPD Chief Doug Schwandt explained that CRAT is based on and adapted from the Department of Homeland Security’s Run, Hide, Fight program and Greg Crane’s active shooter response: Alert Lockdown Inform Counter Evacuate program. “This is a timely topic and it’s a distressing topic in a lot of ways, but it’s important,” Schwandt said.

Schwandt said that MUPD also provides this training for individual departments and offices on campus. In addition, the MU Alert system is run by MUPD and Schwandt said that the on-duty officers are the ones to make the call on which alerts to send out to the public. This is because most active threat situations are over in a short amount of time. MUPD officers Jacob Clifford and James Young showed an infographic which included the amount of casualties, injuries and the duration of five different school shootings. Clifford pointed out that the duration went down significantly over a course of several years due to higher security presence in public and citizens having more training on active threat protocol. “If you look at the timeline of these incidents throughout the country, they’re over in minutes,” Schwandt said. “So by the time [someone] gets the message, most likely they’re going to be close to

ending.” Young and Clifford also explained the difference between active threats and other crimes, such as burglaries or robberies. They said that with other crimes, the criminal has a “retirement plan,” meaning they want something tangible, like money, and can be negotiated with. A person using a gun to murder unarmed people at a school will more likely want something intangible, like notoriety or revenge, and may be suicidal. “They [the active shooters] want to be remembered,” Clifford said. “They want us to still talk about them, they want to be on the news, and their name to be heard.” The officers also showed a video MUPD made in 2016, titled “Surviving an Active Shooter.” The video told viewers specifically what to do in the case of an active shooter, using voiceovers and actors as demonstration. The video explained DHS’

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process, Liz McCune, MU News Bureau associate director, said. This year, incoming

students used ROAR to apply to live in “neighborhoods” as opposed to specific residence halls. Incoming students complete a housing preference form on which they are able to preference a neighborhood. For example, a student may select “College Crossing” as their top preference, which encompasses eight different residence halls. McCune said each of the four neighborhoods has a different “feel based on location and the students who call it home.” Truman Central, for example, includes residence halls and houses MU’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps students and returning students, while College Crossing is located near College Avenue and is advertised as “MU’s most affordable housing.” College Crossing also includes

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Jontay Porter stays at Mizzou for another season Page 12

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An inside view of the Festival de Cannes Page 10

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ENROLLMENT

Enrollment expected to increase by more than 14 percent So far, 4,547 students have paid their enrollment deposit for the fall 2018 semester. STEPHI SMITH

Managing Editor

MU’s enrollment has increased by 14.4 percent, according to a report by the MU News Bureau. The report stated that 4,547 students had paid enrollment deposits as of May 2. This is a 538 increase from the 4,009 students who had paid the deposit around this time last year. Students can continue to enroll during the summer, so numbers are subject to change between now and August. The university focused on enrollment this past year, adding more personal outreach and events at high schools and college fairs, as well as specifically catering to out-of-state recruitment. The office of Enrollment Management and Strategic Development formed the Strategic Enrollment Management Committee earlier this year to focus solely on increasing enrollment at MU. MU spokeswoman Liz McCune said the committee was first formed to provide a “comprehensive, holistic approach to strategic enrollment management.” The SEM committee made plans to promote academic programs to increase student recruitment to the university and student success within MU, McCune said. The group’s main priority was to advance collective enrollment efforts at the university by using “institutional strategic efforts and policy initiatives,” according to its website. MU also expects an increase in transfer students. MU officials recently formalized a partnership with Moberly Area Community College called MizzouMACC. This initiative is for students from the community college to seamlessly adjust and transfer to the university. It was administered through MU’s Community College Pathways Program. As many as 30 MACC students will be admitted into MU for the 2018 academic year, according to an article by the news bureau. Recently, the university has added new scholarships, such as the Missouri Land Grant Compact, which covers the tuition gap for

any Pell-eligible Missouri student, and the Border State Scholars award for eligible out-of-state students coming from one of Missouri’s eight border states. Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA founder and executive director, commented on MU’s change in enrollment. He tweeted on May 31 that the freshman class at MU would be “about 2,158 students smaller than previous incoming classes.” The statistic Kirk was referring to was in 2012 when the freshman class was 6,560. Kirk’s tweet also said that MU has seen a 35 percent decrease in revenue. He did not state where he got this number from or what “revenue” means. The UM System approved to raise tuition by 1 percent in May in order to help with this past year’s budget cuts. He also said that MU had a 70 percent decrease in “alumni support.” He provided no further information on how alumni support is measured, or where he got this statistic. Kirk attributed these numbers to the Black Lives Matter movement, claiming that “radicals took over the school & admin did nothing to stop them.” Kirk was referring to the Fall 2015 protests, when students formed the Concerned Student 1950 group to draw attention to racism on campus. MU experienced a drop in freshmen enrollment of 21.1 percent, or 1,605 students, between fall 2015 and fall 2016, according to the Fall 2016 Enrollment Summary Report.

Sophomore and Summer Welcome leader Galen Bacharier responded to the tweet. “This is both purposefully misleading and wrong. Enrollment [is] up 17% from last year's freshman class,” he tweeted. “Can't wait to see every single one of you Mizzou '22 students this summer.” Bacharier’s statistic was slightly off, but he was correct in that enrollment is up. He said that he thinks Kirk used MU enrollment numbers out of context to further his own agenda. Kirk has expressed his disagreement with the Black Lives Matter movement before, through tweets and interviews. Responses to his tweet called the movement “disruptive activism.” Bacharier said that Kirk’s tweet is misleading in that it insinuates that MU is seeing a steady decrease over time, when enrollment is actually increasing since 2015. “What [Kirk] wanted people to take from it was the fact that Concerned Student 1950 and all of those movements are trying to frame those things in a negative light and saying this is what’s bringing down the university,” Bacharier said. “Obviously, as students here we realize that isn’t true. Certainly, it brought a lot of attention to the university, but I think we only grew from it and we’re already well on our way back.” Edited by Caitlyn Rosen crosen@themaneater.com

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OFFICE OF PROVOST

Provost expected to be announced before end of summer As of May 9, every candidate has been on campus to participate in open forums involving students, staff and faculty as the final step in applying. STEPHI SMITH

Managing Editor

A new provost is expected to be announced by Chancellor Alexander Cartwright before this fall, according to Marshall Stewart, Vice Chancellor for Extension and Engagement. Jim Spain, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies and eLearning, is currently serving as interim provost after former provost Garnett Stokes took a job as president of the University of New Mexico. Stewart serves as co-chair of the provost search committee alongside Joi Moore, a professor with the College of Education and School of Information Science & Learning Technologies. They were appointed as co-chairs last December. The committee works to write up the position descriptions and meets with the candidates, the chancellor, students and staff throughout the

Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies Jim Spain is now serving as interim provost. PHOTO COURTESY OF MIZZOU UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

search process. In addition, UM System hired Isaacson, Miller for $139,597.70 to narrow down candidates and submit to the committee. Tim McIntosh,

director of UM System’s Office of Human Resources, said that Isaacson, Miller sent about two dozen or so candidates to UM System for further review.

From there, 11 candidates were invited to St. Louis Lambert International Airport for in-person

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SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM

MU School of Journalism replaces courses, changes curriculum Key changes include fewer emphasis areas, elimination of interest areas and changes to specific courses. CHRISTINA LONG

Reporter

Change is coming to the MU School of Journalism in the fall of 2019. Faculty at the school approved changes to the pre-interest area curriculum. Key changes include the reduction of emphasis areas from six to two, the elimination of the 36 interest areas and changes to specific courses. These changes will affect entering freshmen in 2019. Under the new plan, students will still declare a journalism major and work toward a bachelor of journalism degree. However, rather than taking four credit hours of journalism during freshman year and nine sophomore year, students will take nine credit hours in year one and eight in year two. The increase in credit hours is due to the creation of new courses. While some courses, including J1100 Principles of American Journalism, are merely being updated and renamed, others are being removed. Courses being removed include

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J1010 Career Explorations in Journalism, J2100 News Writing and J2150 Fundamentals of Multimedia Journalism. Curriculum committee chair Stacey Woelfel said that three new courses, Fundamentals of Journalism Practice I and II and Techniques of Visual Journalism, will replace J2100 and J2150 and can be taken during freshman year. “It gets people to hit the ground

running and get those courses where, just like in J2100 and J2150, they’re creating content,” Woelfel said. “So it won’t be, as we have it now, just sitting there and listening about it.” During sophomore year, all students will still take J2000 CrossCultural Journalism and a new 2000level strategic communication course entitled Audiences and Persuasion. Curriculum committee member and journalism school adviser Pete Ozias

said the course is not just important for students interested in strategic communication, but journalism as well. Then, depending on whether a student chooses strategic communications or journalism as their emphasis area, they will take either a revised version of J4200 Principles of Strategic Communication or a new

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students from science, technology, engineering and math as well as the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, and journalism FIGs and TLCs. The other neighborhoods include “Southwest Village,” located near Memorial Stadium, and the “Honors College,” which will solely include Mark Twain Hall and be exclusively available to students enrolled in the Honors College. McCune said that MU’s honors learning community and related FIGs have been in Mark Twain for the past couple years and “honors students have developed a strong sense of

community in this hall.” The reason behind these changes is that MU wants to help foster a sense of community for students who live on campus, McCune said. “Residential Life is working to build a stronger community-driven culture, where hall staff are partners in students’ success,” she said. “Neighborhoods are new to Mizzou, but not to higher education.” The University of Wisconsin— Madison uses a similar housing process. The university offers 19 residence halls spread across two neighborhoods, according to their website. Another reason behind the transition was that the university wanted to simplify the housing application process, McCune said. “Feedback from students and

families indicated that ROAR was a stressful and often disappointing process,” she said. In addition, in years past, students more often selected a FIG or learning community solely because of housing locations and room amenities instead of academic interest and success, McCune said. She also said the news bureau’s main office used to have to be staffed until 11 p.m. every night to field all the emails and calls from confused parents and incoming students. This year, the office only sees an increase of staffing during business hours for two days. Incoming freshman Lily Price said in her application and housing preferences, cost was a deciding factor. Since Price is coming to MU as an out-of-state student, she said she

researched on MU’s website which dorms were cheaper. She originally applied to live in Dogwood Hall, located in the Truman Central neighborhood, but was assigned to Schurz Hall, which was recently reopened and is located in College Crossing. She said she had written on her application that she preferred a community style living dorm, which both Schurz Hall and Dogwood Hall offer. “[The housing application] was all pretty simple and straightforward,” Price said. “I was able to use the [MU Residential Life] website and fill it out quickly.” Edited by Morgan Smith mosmith@themaneater.com

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“Run, Hide, Fight,” approach. It said that the first step is to safely exit the building and get as far away as possible. If, however, students are not able to leave, they should barricade themselves in a room and away from the shooter. Clifford said this was not ideal, as it can trap people inside. In years past, most people only learned lockdown drills, which should not be the only option, Clifford said. Clifford showed a picture of students hiding in a classroom during the shooting at Virginia Tech University in 2007. In the picture, students are sitting on the floor against a wall with the lights off. He said that this unfortunately made them easy targets if the shooter were to enter, and therefore was not the preferred situation. Finally, students should fight back if necessary. Young and Clifford demonstrated defense tactics that may be used on a dangerous person, such as the proper way to grab a person’s arm if they’re holding a weapon. Schwandt, Young and Clifford opened the floor for the audience to ask questions after their presentation. One attendee asked about when an active threat is the

MUPD hosted its Citizen’s Response to Active Threats to help teach students and staff members how to protect themselves in a threatening situation. PHOTO COURTESY OF MIZZOU GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION

responsibility of MUPD and when it’s the responsibility of the Columbia Police Department. He posed the hypothetical of a school-sanctioned event that is technically off campus but hosted by the university. Schwandt said that MUPD and CPD work closely together

and have technology in place for communicating about locations and security activity at university events. “It’s like a marriage,” Schwandt said. “You need good communication for it to all work.” Young and Clifford showed resources for further training, such as

small group self-defense courses and individualized CRAT training which includes scenario-based information and roleplaying. Departments and clubs can sign up for the presentations and training here. Edited by Morgan Smith mosmith@themaneater.com

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airport interviews. On May 9, the final four candidates visited campus for hour-long presentations and question and answer sessions with members of the audience. The final decision for MU’s next provost will be made by Chancellor Alexander Cartwright. Stewart said the committee put together a list of pros and cons for the chancellor to review in making his decision. Stewart said the committee does not rank candidates nor does it recommend a provost to the chancellor, but simply provides him its opinion on each person. Each member of the committee wrote up their own review of each individual candidate using their own personal interactions

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Woelfel said. “We didn’t think we should, because we think a lot of what we’re teaching is the right thing to teach. At the same time, in my opinion, it’s not as modern as it needs to be.” In an effort to retain more students within the journalism school, committee members decided to start students in journalism courses earlier. “We have students coming in and they’re all excited and ready to go,” Ozias said. “They can’t start doing hands-on work until later. It puts them in a situation where they have to stop, because a lot of students have been writing for their high school paper or doing stuff on their own.” Woelfel said the committee also wanted to “increase efficiencies” by reducing duplication of concepts in different courses, as well as “cross-pollinating” disciplines and platforms. Much of that cross-pollination would occur in upper-level courses, usually taken during the junior and senior years when students are in their strategic communication or journalism emphasis areas. Changes to these upper-level courses have been proposed in the

committee and await faculty approval before the designing and structuring of courses can begin. Chief among the proposed changes is the elimination of the 36 interest areas that lie within the six emphasis areas, which students currently must apply to after finishing pre-interest area courses. Instead, students would take six credit hours, likely spread over two courses, in what the curriculum committee currently calls “career portals.” Woelfel said that while under the current curriculum, students may be in magazine or print and digital news emphasis areas, those students could be grouped together in the proposed new system. In addition to completing these six credit hours, students would have 15 credit hours available for electives. “The elective pool would be thrown wide open,” Woelfel said. “If you’re taking courses in magazine but you’re also interested in podcasting, you could take a course in that.” This open pool of electives is an effort to allow students to explore different interests while still specializing in a particular type of journalism or strategic communication.

“You could also get multiple [career portals], which is new,” Ozias said. “If I were radio-TV, I could also take strategic communication courses, as long as I was meeting the prerequisites for those courses. It’s not like you have to be a major in X to take to be able to take their classes.” Capstone courses, which students take the semester before graduation, could also see changes in the coming years. Ozias said the goal would be to add new capstones in which students could participate in a seminar course or work on a research paper as opposed to work in a Missouri Method newsroom. The changes to pre-interest area courses have been approved by faculty and will take effect for freshmen in 2019. Changes to junior and senior years will be voted on by faculty in the coming year and are expected to take effect in 2021 and 2022, respectively, Ozias said. “We just want to widen our gap over competitive schools out there,” Woelfel said. “We want to make Mizzou an even better option for incoming students.” Edited by Morgan Smith mosmith@themaneater.com

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is show tremendous respect and our committee did a great job of that.” He also said that it’s a tremendous honor to have been chosen to co-chair the committee with Moore. “It’s great to be asked by your chancellor to do this, to have the trust from the chancellor and the campus community,” Stewart said. “It’s a very important trust and we took that very seriously because you’re really looking at critical leadership role for the future of the campus and for students.” Stewart said the chancellor hopes to have the provost hired over the summer so they can settle in to their new role before fall semester. The timeline on the chancellor’s website states that the provost announcement is to happen before June. Edited by Morgan Smith mosmith@themaneater.com

course, Newsroom Content Creation. “The newsroom content creation course is probably the biggest idea of all of this,” Woelfel said. “It’s a newsroom course where all students, regardless of what their career interest might be, will work together on multi-platform reporting projects.” Ozias described the course as one that would utilize a different style of newsroom, like a “hub.” In this newsroom, students would not be divided based on their platform or medium. Ozias said this would diversify students’ experiences and reflect real-world newsrooms more closely. According to Woelfel, the committee, made up of current faculty and ex officio members, began discussing changes in 2016. The committee decided to update the curriculum to better meet the needs of students and reflect changes the industry has seen over the past several decades. “We could’ve thrown the whole curriculum out and started over,”

new provost, covering the cost of Isaacson, travel, technology, advertising and committee meetings, according to reporting done by ABC 17 KMIZ. Stewart said that in being chair of this committee, his main role was to ensure that the members of the team were productive and in a good work environment throughout the search process. He said that being part of the search team requires an understanding of how to hire people with respect. “It’s really important that the committee feel like they can be honest and forthright and also have some degree of digression and confidentiality, because you’re dealing with people's lives here and that’s really important to remember,” he said. “All of these people that apply for these jobs are extraordinary people, they’re very qualified, and what you want to do

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as well as information from an online survey for anyone who attended the open forums that was made available from May 14 to May 17. In addition, Stewart and Moore hosted open forums for students, staff and faculty to attend and provide feedback on what they’re looking for in a provost or, as of most recently, to meet the candidates and ask questions. The candidates were also given the opportunity to reach out to and work with individual departments and offices, Stewart said. Some candidates met with the deans of each college and others met with every faculty department chair or staff to the chancellor. “It’s a variety of meetings,” Stewart said. “They’re usually here for two days and they have a lot of stuff going on.” As of May 15, MU has spent $162,623.47 on the search for the

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Column: Greitens’ resignation is a step in the right direction While the future of Missouri’s government remains somewhat uncertain at the moment, Greitens stepping down from his position is a step in the right direction toward what will hopefully be a less dramatic governorship.

MADI BAUGHMAN

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

Last Tuesday, Gov. Eric Greitens resigned from his position, claiming that the ordeal has caused an “incredible amount of strain” on his family — the “ordeal” being the amount of backlash he went through during the revelation of a scandalous sexual encounter with his former hairdresser, as well as accusations of misusing funds from his nonprofit. Lt. Gov. Mike Parson took his place after Greitens’ last day Friday and will remain through the end of Greitens’ term in January 2021. This resignation comes somewhat unexpected, as the charges of invasion of privacy against Greitens were dropped and it was beginning to look like he was out of the woods. The former governor acknowledging what happened and stepping down from his position is something that came as a surprise to many, especially in the age of Trump. Greitens’ resignation is a step in the right direction for Missourian government and politics — Parson’s first objective as new governor is to bring an end to months of turmoil and political drama. Regardless of whether or not you believe Greitens is guilty of what he’s been accused of, or

if you support all of Parson’s actions, it’s going to

be a relief to get away from constant worry over what scandal may be revealed next — at least, we

hope so. Being able to focus on actual lawmaking and policy rather than scandals and the possibility of impeachment should be a relief to people on

either end of the political spectrum. If there’s

one thing that everyone can agree on, it’s that

months and months of political drama becomes exhausting, and it discourages people from feeling

like they can actually make a difference in the way they are governed.

Missourians deserve to have a governor with

whom we don’t have to worry about scandals or the outcomes of trials —we need someone

dedicated to doing their best for their constituents. Hopefully Gov. Parson will step up and be that figure in the future, but only time will tell.

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About 5,000 untested rape kits robbing rape victims of safety and security in Missouri Untested rape kits perpetuate rape culture TATYANA MONNAY Assistant Opinion Editor Tatyana Monnay is a sophomore journalism major at MU. She writes about politics for The Maneater.

There are possibly thousands of rapists who should be in jail walking the streets of Missouri as a result of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lazy criminal justice system. After an investigation by Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley, it has been discovered that nearly 5,000 rape kits have gone untested. When a person reports sexual assault, they do so with the intention of getting their attacker of the street. The least they want is for their rapist to be held accountable for their crime. A majority of these victims are women. According to Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, an anti - sexual abuse organization, one out of every six women have been a victim to rape, whereas one out of every 10 men have been a victim of rape. I have heard stories from several people that the process of completing a rape kit is one of the worst aspects of recovering and handling a rape case. of being raped. There is a need for a quick turnaround time between being violated and completing the rape kit. In this process, you are forced to come to terms with the fact that you have been violated in a very cold and unnatural manner. Being swabbed, photographed and scraped in a hospital or police station can be unpleasant for anyone. Now, imagine doing that after coming to terms that someone forced you to have sex with them. Many women do this in hopes of putting their rapist behind bars and feeling safe again. This second layer of trauma is all for naught for many Missouri women â&#x20AC;&#x201D;which can sometimes be more painful in the end.

Attorney General Josh Hawley has recently discovered about 5,000 rape kits untested in Missouri. PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIPEDIA

Hawley deduced that the huge backlog of rape kits is due to a lack of communication between healthcare providers and police departments, leaving hospitals confused as to where to send evidence. Starting now, Missouri must prioritize the safety of women. Missouri should follow in the footsteps of Texas, which recently adjusted how it addresses rape kits. Texas established a law introducing mandatory testing of rape kits, an annual statewide audit and a system for law enforcement and rape victims to track the results of their rape kits. Rape kit reforms such as these will only help to hold more rapists responsible, therefore keeping the streets safer, especially for women and children. As of now, Missouri is doing a great disservice to sexual assault victims. By leaving rape kits untested, they are effectively denying victims not

only of the justice they deserve but also the right to feel safe in their own communities. As more rape tests go untested, more people are living in fear of their attackers. This is despicable, plain and simple. The devastating thing is: there is no way to tell who these rape tests implicate. Besides the moral issue that comes with untested rape kits, Missouri may have serial rapists further causing harm to people. By not holding rapists accountable, the state is sending them a message of solidarity. This perpetuation of rape culture by Missouri must come to an end now.

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MUSIC

Review: Shawn Mendes’ self-titled album is about more than just a kid in love Mendes draws on flower motifs in the packaging for his newest album, preparing the listener for his emotional vulnerability from first glance. MADI WINFIELD

Social Media Editor

Shawn Mendes is younger than most Mizzou students, as is much of his fanbase. Although, you’d never guess it from his newest work. The 19-year-old singersongwriter sensation may have started on Vine, but his self-titled album, released last Friday on Island Records, continues to legitimize his raw talent and artistry. The album opens with the deceptively accessible “In My Blood.” The radio hit details Mendes’ first experience with panic attacks, a side of himself previously unshared with his audience. There’s a reason he calls it “the closest song to my heart that I’ve ever written.” It’s catchy, meaningful, raw and probably the only song you may have heard before listening to the album. But after establishing his mindset, with “In My Blood” acting as a sort of thesis statement for himself, Mendes spends the rest of the record struggling with a passionate yet uncommunicative romance. The album’s exploration of various types of love makes it feel more intense and intimate than his

past hits. He shows off his adept vocal range throughout the album, with hooks from songs like “Fallin’ All in You” and “Perfectly Wrong” sung entirely in a rich falsetto. His varied musical styles also flow into each other with grace, transitioning easily from upbeat, R&B-influenced tracks like “Nervous” to heavier, more moving looks at the darker parts of relationships. Mendes plays with genre expectations left and right through these transitions. The opening to “Lost In Japan,” a song about the impulsivity of young love, plays like it’s straight off a relaxing playlist before launching into a wellmixed, atmospheric bop. Similarly, “Why,” the signal of the album’s narrative shift from love to loss, opens with subtle record pops evocative of any of a hundred movie scenes of a couple dancing closely to a wistful song. Mendes and his collaborators know how to create a mood, and they take advantage of that skill throughout the album. Mendes’ collaborators actually show themselves more clearly than expected for a self-titled album. Julia Michaels, the co-writer of most of your favorite pop songs from the past five years, wrote and sings part of the conversational “Like to Be You.” Though her deftly talented fingerprints are all over the song, as well as those of the song’s producer and guitarist John Mayer, it’s still one of the weaker points of the album. It attempts to capture the specificity that songs like “Nervous”

(Michael’s other contribution to the album) and “Queen” have mastered, but it gets lost in the cliche-heavy chorus and showboaty vocal riffs from both Michaels and Mendes. Another drop in the album comes next on the tracklist. “Fallin’ All in You” is an expert ballad detailing the steadiness and safety felt in a loving relationship while hinting at some of the problems that made the incoming breakup inevitable. It’s written by Mendes and Ed Sheeran, and you can pick out line for line and practically note for note each writer’s influence; much of it is Sheeran’s. It’s not a bad song by any stretch, but it’s a bit odd for the self-titled work Mendes describes as a “stamp [of] this moment in time at 19 because I’ve never felt so true to myself.” This focus on the importance of youth comes to fruition, funnily enough, in “Youth.” This standout track, inspired by last year’s Manchester terrorist attacks, made headlines with Mendes’ and collaborator Khalid’s moving performance with the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School show choir at this year’s Billboard Music Awards. Their voices blend together flawlessly in both the live and recorded performances, and the song conveys an important message without being heavy-handed, a rare feat these days. Beyond just the musical construction, though, is Mendes’ singular ability to tell one cohesive story throughout an album. The

Shawn Mendes’ self-titled album speaks about his hopeful and honest love story. PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIPEDIA

whole work aches and longs so acutely in both the ups and downs. He intimates facets of his undying infatuation with shocking clarity. Each song feels fresh and vital, if not innovative, in its take on the relationship. Though he strays topics with songs like “In My Blood” and “Youth,” no song feels out of place. He ties together as many loose strands as he can, even those you weren’t aware were loose. Songs like “Mutual,” the track most reminiscent of Mendes’ past LPs, and “Particular Taste,” perhaps his most danceable song yet, also display an emphasis on unique and laser-focused

production that truly defines the album. Every instrument, every line, every lyric feels purposeful but not calculated. Okay, not every lyric; “You ain’t the ruler of no country” in the chorus of “Queen” is certainly a bit much, though Mendes says it’s his favorite on the album. But his care and thoughtfulness into this record is brazenly clear. He may take the maxim of variety a step too far in some of his collaborations, but his solo songs shine through as examples of his true capability. It’s not perfect, but it’s real, just like any 19-year-old in love. Edited by Siena DeBolt | sdebolt@themaneater.com

T H E M A N E AT E R | M OV E M AG A Z I N E | J U N E 5, 2 0 1 8 MOVIES

Top five movies to watch in theatres this month This month is a jackpot for film of all kinds, from the shoestring indies at the arthouse to the big-budget epics at the multiplex. JESSE BAALMAN

MOVE Columnist

Summer is the holy grail for blockbusters, and this year is far from an exception. Audiences have already indulged in superheros (“Avengers: Infinity War”) and space cowboys (“Solo: A Star Wars Story”), but this season is also typical in that it offers several hidden gems of the independent variety. This month, moviegoers are presented with a highly-anticipated Pixar sequel, a probable horror hit, a pair of Cannes and Sundance premieres and a documentary about an old friend. “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” - June 8 Fred Rogers made a career out of breaking down current events and thorny subjects like divorce, death and war for children. Morgan Neville, director of the Academy Award winning “Twenty Feet From Stardom,” made a documentary that celebrates the efforts of an iconic television host, Mr. Rogers. The film

might sound like a run-of-the-mill tribute to a beloved public figure, but it comes at a time in our nation’s history when the subject’s wisdom is much-needed. Hollywood knows this; Tom Hanks has signed on to portray Rogers in an upcoming biography from Marielle Heller. The trailer alone is enough to make you cry, but this film is bound to go deeper. It has earned raves at film festivals across the country, including Columbia’s own True/False Film Festival. “Leave No Trace” - June 29 It has been eight years since Debra Granik stormed through Sundance with her Ozarks-set thriller. “Winter’s Bone” was a country noir that featured a star-making turn by Jennifer Lawrence. While that’s an immense amount of pressure to put on newcomer Thomasin McKenzie, she is said to give an outstanding performance opposite Ben Foster. The story centers around a father and daughter who live off the grid in the forests of Portland, Oregon. One minor mishap alters the pair’s quiet existence forever in this survivalist drama. “Under the Silver Lake” June 22 Andrew Garfield stars in this neonoir from rising auteur, David Robert Mitchell. His last film, “It Follows,”

was a wildly inventive horror contrivance, so I’m hoping his latest will explore a new genre with that same potential. A Cannes premiere, it tells of a man who scavenges through Los Angeles in search of his beautiful missing neighbor. In the process, he learns of a sinister conspiracy involving billionaires, celebrities, urban myth and pop culture. This kind of loopy premise sounds like an unmissable sun-drenched mystery in the vein of David Lynch and Alfred Hitchcock. “Hereditary” - June 8 Every few months or so, it seems like a new movie comes along and mines interest out of the ever-evolving horror genre. First came “It,” second was “Get Out,” followed by “A Quiet Place.” Now, first-time filmmaker Ari Aster might just make his own mark on the trend. “Hereditary” deals with a series of events in the aftermath of a family matriarch’s death. These hauntings threaten to unravel the daughter’s family as well as the Graham’s cryptic ancestry. Toni Collette’s lead performance is being praised as a standout that may have the potential for awards conversation later this year. “The Incredibles 2” - June 15 Pixar is at its best when creating bold classics like their recent “Inside

Andrew Garfield in his newest crime comedy film, “Under the Silver Lake,” to be released June 22, 2018. PHOTO COURTESY OF IMDB

Out,” yet one can’t help but think this installment is overdue in an era defined by reboots, remakes and sequels. Economically, it makes sense now that we’ve reached peak superhero saturation even if these are different kinds of heroes. Nevertheless, Brad Bird continues his saga about an ordinary family with powers of their own. This one should be an event that, like “Finding Dory,” attracts audiences of a certain age and beyond to make a splash at the summer box office. Edited by Siena DeBolt sdebolt@themaneater.com

TRAVEL

Plan ahead for best possible travel experience It’s impossible to list suggestions that guarantee the perfect trip, but these simple tips might make your life easier while traveling around the world. MARIANA LABBATE

Staff Writer

Traveling is tiring. From a twohour drive to a long flight back home, it can get stressful very quickly. Whether you’re on your way to a great adventure, going back home or just visiting a town nearby, here are some tips to make your trip as smooth as possible: 1) Make sure you’re getting the best tickets for the best price If you’re taking the bus, the best choice is usually to buy your tickets straight from the company’s website. However, if you’re flying, there are a few more options at hand. With so many different websites for you to buy your tickets, services like Kayak and Skyscanner, available both as websites and as apps, can help you find the best option. If you enter departure and return information, the companies instantly compare flights and airlines from different ticket websites. They also offer a search and comparison tool if you need to rent a car, book a hotel or

even find a package combining all of those things. 2) Make a list of everything you need to take with you Packing might not be your idea of fun, but it’s a really important step of traveling. It’s easy to get lost in the process, so making different types of lists might help. For example, separate lists for clothing, toiletries and documents. If you’re moving to a new place, it can also be a good idea to get different boxes for what you’re keeping, throwing away or donating. 3) Check your luggage limits This goes from making sure that everything fits in your car to checking how many bags you can take with you on the bus or airplane. Remember that you might get charged per additional bag or for overweight bags, especially at airports. Also, verify the allowed dimensions for carry-on items. The last thing you want is to find out your suitcase doesn’t fit in the overhead bin because of an extra inch. 4) If you’re with a group, make sure everyone is on the same page Make sure all the people in your group are well aware of the schedule. If someone shows up at the airport fifteen minutes late, those will be some really long and stressful minutes for everyone else waiting there. One person might make the whole group miss a flight or be late

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for a layover. Lastly, as unnecessary as it sounds, check that everyone booked the correct bus ride or flight. 5) Do your research when it comes to layovers Airports can be huge, bus stations can be confusing and gas stations may be further away than you thought they were. For this not to be an issue, plan your moves in advance. If possible, go through your tickets and see if you need to go to a different gate or terminal — this one goes for either bus stations or airports — and if you do, check how much time you need to get to this new place. If you’re driving a long distance, try to determine beforehand if and where you’ll be taking breaks.

6) Always be prepared for the worst It might sound a bit extreme, but some problems occur that are out of your control. For that, there are some simple things you can do that actually go a long way: taking an extra set of clothes and putting all medicine in your carry-on suitcase in case the airline loses your luggage, for example. It’s important to know that late flights, terrible traffic and other particular situations like these are inevitable. However, these are things we can prepare for, so the best suggestion is to plan accordingly for your travel. Edited by Alexandra Sharp asharp@themaneater.com

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MOVIES

Cannes Review: Panahi tests boundaries with “Three Faces” Celebrated Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi widens his scope with “Three Faces.” NICK CORDER

Guest Columnist

Set in the most beautiful corner of one of the most storied countries on Earth, the Festival de Cannes has won a hard-earned reputation as the world’s premier film festival. Getting its start more than 70 years ago, the festival has continuously served as a marketplace for some of the best films on the international circuit as well as a breeding ground for future talent. Hollywood stars, cinephiles, paparazzi and pickpockets all share the red carpet during 12 sunny days and star-filled nights, frequenting the same films and the same legendary late-night parties. Former MOVE film columnist Nick Corder, a dedicated filmmaker and cinephile, was present for the last three days of this year’s festival. He opted to write a review for every day that he was there, starting with Jafar Panahi’s “Three Faces” and continuing with Niri Bilge Ceylan’s “The Wild Pear Tree” and Nadine Labaki’s “Capernaum.” All three films come from the Middle East and all three exemplify film’s role as both high art and a tool for social change. For instance, Panahi’s film, born from a deeply human desire to fight oppression, adopts a political aesthetic language that permits him to progress his craft and aspire to change

“PANAHI, FOREVER TAKING BABY STEPS TOWARD HIS OLD FILMMAKING CAREER, DARES TO SHOOT IN THE OPEN IN ‘THREE FACES’, AND HIS COURAGE PAYS OFF.” the social paradigm in Iran. Corder’s other reviews can be found at move.themaneater. com. Cannes Review: “Three Faces” dares to be more traditional It has been eight years since the Iranian government banned Jafar Panahi from making films and leaving the country, yet in that time period the filmmaker has managed to screen four new films at international film festivals by illegally smuggling copies of his movies out of his country. “Three Faces,” the most recent of the four films, premiered at Cannes on Saturday. It marks a return to form for the director who has largely been confined to restrictive indoor spaces in his previous three films. Panahi, forever taking baby steps toward his old filmmaking career, dares to shoot in the open in “Three

Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s newest adventure film “Three Faces” was a success at the Cannes Film Festival. PHOTO COURTESY OF IMDB

Faces,” and his courage pays off. The story is that of Behnaz Jafari, a real-life Iranian actress, who meets up with director Jafar Panahi in order to look for a young actress who is threatening to commit suicide. The narrative, which is by all means a fictionalized account, follows the two characters into rural Iran where they meet up with eccentric villagers and stir up controversy. The film’s inclusion of the protagonists’ real names, much like in Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s “This Is the End,” suggests a fascination with the concept of celebrity. Though, unlike its Hollywood predecessor, “Three Faces” does not seek to parody the concept. Celebrity is presented throughout the film as a paradoxical concept, existing as a mix of privilege and oppression. Panahi’s decision to include Jafari, as opposed to a more well-known male actor, serves to illustrate the particular degree to which all women face oppression in modern-day Iran, no matter

their status in society. Panahi draws a parallel between his own situation as a political prisoner and the plight of women in Iran. By including “Three Faces” in this year’s competition, the Festival de Cannes displays its continuing commitment to projecting international arthouse, but it also displays the festival’s solidarity with storytellers who struggle to tell their stories. One of two filmmakers in the festival’s competition unable to attend as a result of troubles with the state, Panahi embodies a filmmaker working in spite of high stakes. Oftentimes only having one or two takes to shoot, Panahi and his crew were forced to work fast in fear of being discovered by the government. However, as admirable as was the pursuit, shooting scenes in one or two tries takes its toll on the film. Small mishaps like a cameraman in the reflection of a car or a botched attempt at closing the car door, issues that are utterly correctable in a film with a more liberal schedule,

are plentiful throughout the film.

As such, the film cannot

be considered perfect, but

other issues are few and far between.

Perhaps

Panahi

indulges a little too much in melodrama from time to

time, but more than anything else, the film is a positive

development in the Iranian filmmaker’s career.

A synthesis of Panahi’s

new and old careers, “Three Faces” is exciting at all turns.

Panahi is without a doubt at the top of his game, and the film flourishes as a result. “Three

Faces,”

which

shared the award for best screenplay in the festival, has

yet to find distribution in the United States.

MOVE gives ‘Three Faces’ 4.5 out of 5 stars.

Edited by Siena DeBolt

sdebolt@themaneater.com

T H E M A N E AT E R | M OV E M AG A Z I N E | J U N E 5, 2 0 1 8 SEXUAL HEALTH

Sexual healthcare can be affordable beyond Mizzou Locations in Kansas City, Columbia and St. Louis offer affordable STI testing and protection so students can stay safe during the summer. CHARLY BUCHANAN

Staff Writer

Though your access to the MU Student Health Center may be limited during the summer, there are still ways to access affordable care, especially in regard to your sexual health. It is important to practice safety even when care is less convenient, and one way you can do this is by being aware of your options. Below is a list of some locations in Columbia, Kansas City and St. Louis that provide testing and methods of protection. Kansas City KCMO Health Department’s Sexual Health Clinic: Located at 2400 Troost Ave, this clinic offers rapid HIV tests as well

as testing for chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis among other infections with results available within seven to 10 business days. All testing is confidential, and no payment is required for both testing and treatment, according to its website. You can call 816-513-6379 to schedule an appointment, though walkins are also accepted if there is time available. The clinic is open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 8- 11:30 a.m. and 1- 3:30 p.m, and Thursday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Planned Parenthood Midtown Health Center: Planned Parenthood is a great location for services regarding sexual health. They provide treatment, prevention and education services, and testing for many STIs. Though testing is not necessarily free, Planned Parenthood stresses its ability to provide affordable care on its website. It is open Monday, Thursday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Saturday 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. This Planned

Parenthood location also takes walk-ins, including those for emergency contraception, and is located at 1001 Emanuel Cleaver II Blvd. In addition, this Planned Parenthood offers nine different methods of birth control, including both male and female condoms. There are also Planned Parenthoods in Columbia and St. Louis. Columbia Spectrum Health Care: This Columbia health center offers free testing for HIV and STIs as well as STI prevention and education services. Spectrum began as a source to provide care to those dying of AIDS and its website illustrates this continuation of care by promising “to foster an environment of trust and inclusivity to all patients.” It is open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1- 5 p.m and offers Spectrum After Dark walkin clinic from 5:30- 8 p.m. every Monday, Tuesday and Friday. Spectrum is located at 1123 Wilkes Blvd, Suite 100.

Columbia/Boone County Public Health Department: The city of Columbia offers testing for gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis and HIV. You can either set up an appointment by calling 573-874-7356 or by walk-in, though times for walk-ins vary and slots are limited. Students at MU and other local colleges can receive testing for $20 by showing either their student ID or proof of an in-county address, otherwise the cost of testing is $40. The Public Health Department is located at 1005 W Worley Street in Columbia. St. Louis St. Louis Effort for AIDS: This location offers rapid HIV testing, meaning results take about 15 minutes, as well as testing for other sexually transmitted infections. Free and confidential testing is available Monday through Thursday at varying times, and walk-ins are available on Monday and Wednesday, according to its website. St. Louis Effort for AIDS is located at 1027 S.

Vandeventer Ave.,Unit 700. Family Care Health Centers: Though no specific prices are listed, Family Care Health Centers offers HIV and other STI testing and most insurance plans are accepted, according to its website. Those without insurance will pay on a sliding scale based on income and family size. This location is especially supportive because it makes an effort to help people who speak languages other than English, providing interpretation services for those who are Hispanic, Bosnian, Vietnamese and Somali. Contraception is also available at this location, which is located at 4352 Manchester Ave. It is open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Edited by Siena DeBolt sdebolt@themaneater.com

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SPORTS BASKETBALL

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Porter In,

Porter era at Missouri continues as Jontay pulls out of NBA Draft BENNETT DURANDO

Sports Editor

When Missouri freshman Jontay Porter declared for the NBA Draft on April 5, he left behind a safety valve. It left Tiger fans hopeful. So when coach Cuonzo Martin left one scholarship unfilled through the heat of the recruiting circuit, the 18-year-old forward could be left with a way out — a way back. Porter has withdrawn his name from the 2018 NBA Draft and will return to the Missouri men’s basketball program for his sophomore season, the team confirmed in a press release on Wednesday afternoon. “We are excited that Jontay will return,” coach Cuonzo Martin said in the release. “He had a great experience going through the pre-Draft process, got the feedback that he needed to do what is best for him and he will learn from it to improve in all areas of his game. Jontay has the potential to make a big jump from his freshman season and he’ll be a great leader for us on and off the court next year.” A team spokesman indicated the announcement was coming after the team

MU basketball starter Jontay Porter has officially opted out of 2018 NBA draft and will be returning to Mizzou for another year. COURTESY OF COURTNEY VILLMER

Twitter account posted a three-second video of Porter smiling and winking in his Missouri jersey. Porter’s option to back out of the draft and return

to Missouri was possible because he did not hire an agent when he initially declared in April. The maneuver, one commonly utilized by basketball players

who declare before their senior year, allows them to retain NCAA eligibility while participating in pre-draft workouts. Players who planned to

return had until May 30 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard time to notify the NBA and their school’s athletic director in writing of their decision. The draft will take place on June 21. Porter was named Southeastern Conference co-sixth man of the year in 2017-18 and was an SEC allfreshman team honoree. The 6-foot-11 forward averaged 9.9 points and 6.8 rebounds per game for Missouri despite starting in only seven games. In a statement issued by the team after he declared in April, Porter had said: “While I am not making any final decisions at this point, I am not hiring an agent and will be diligent in complying with all NCAA rules to ensure that I maintain my eligibility to compete at the NCAA level for Mizzou in the future.” Porter interviewed and worked out with several NBA teams. He also attended the mid-May draft scouting combine in Chicago. There, he had the highest body fat percentage (13.65 percent) of all those tested and recorded the weakest max vertical leap. But he opted out of participating in the

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Porter Out. Cierra Porter medically retired, leaving frontcourt opening for women’s basketball Porter was the team leader in blocks the last two seasons and was set to mitigate the loss of Jordan Frericks this season. ANDY KIMBALL

Staff Writer

One day after Missouri men’s basketball regained Jontay Porter for another year, the women’s team lost an asset out of the same family. Rising senior Cierra Porter medically retired due to lingering knee issues, meaning she won’t play her senior season, the team confirmed in a press release June 1. Porter, a three-year starter, was the team leader in blocks and one of the team’s top interior defenders.

She was expected to start this season for the Tigers and help mitigate the loss of recent graduate Jordan Frericks, who led the team in steals. Porter averaged 10.6 points and seven rebounds per game over the last three seasons for Robin Pingeton’s Tigers. Pingeton is Porter’s aunt. Porter was named to the SEC all-freshman team in 2015-16. She had a secondteam All-SEC campaign her sophomore year, but the lingering knee injury began to limit her efficiency and availability last season. Those seven rebounds per game make her seventh all time in rebound average at Missouri. Filling the frontcourt will become an immensely greater challenge for the Tigers now. Among the candidates are

redshirt sophomore Hannah Schuchts, who will likely take on an extended post role in 2018-19. Schuchts specializes in shot blocking and spacing the floor on offense. She was fourth on the team with 17 blocks despite only averaging 7.8 minutes of play per game last year. Schuchts can also stretch the floor and play a similar role to Porter with her midrange and outside shooting ability. She was fifth on the team in 3s last season with 15 and fourth on the team in 3-point percentage, shooting 37.5 percent from behind the arc. Missouri has two options for the other forward position. They could put in incoming freshman Brittany Garner or use a more traditional wing player. Garner, an incoming

freshman from Philadelphia, scored over 1,000 points in under three seasons at Winslow Township High School in Winslow, New Jersey. She was a highly touted recruit, ranked 68th in the 2018 class by Prospects Nation, and at 6-foot-2, is a more traditional post player who could pair well with Schuchts on the offensive end. Schuchts specializes in shooting from outside but struggles from inside the paint and rarely posts up, meaning she is better suited for a role as a stretch four on offense while Garner could patrol the paint and play inside at the center position. To make the Tigers more versatile on defense, they could add a fourth wing player to pair with Schuchts or Garner and add depth. Missouri will tack on wings

Grace Berg and Haley Troup next season. Berg, an incoming freshman from Indianola High School in Iowa, is ranked the 36th best player in the class of 2018 by ESPN.com. She is a knockdown shooter with a skill set similar to rising junior Amber Smith. Troup transferred from South Carolina in the summer and will join the team after redshirting her freshman season. She is a 5-foot-10 player who tallied over 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds at Gadsden City High School in Alabama. Adding Troup or Berg as fourth wing players would give Missouri more quickness for defense on the perimeter. While the insideout combination would fit

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combine’s 5-on-5 scrimmages, indicating at the time that his draft stock may still have been safer without competing. Ahead of the 60-pick draft, projections on Porter’s stock ranged from mid-first round well into the second. His skill as a passer and prowess as a spot-up shooter were his greatest selling points at the combine, reflecting the trend of big men who can play multiple positions, but scouts saw room for improvement in athleticism. He was the youngest player at the combine (he won’t turn 19 until November) and, among the other poor results, finished last in the three-quarter sprint run, bringing up concern over his ability to run the floor and defend. His youth also presented perks in returning to Missouri for another year. The 2019 draft is already expected to be significantly weaker than this year’s, so many think another season of improvement at the college level could land a more in-shape Porter in a lottery pick situation next June. Since he reclassified in high school to graduate a year early and play with his brother last season, he will still be the age of other one-and-done freshmen entering the 2019 draft but with the

benefit of one more year of college experience. Missouri’s 2018-19 roster now appears complete as Porter’s return eliminates the last scholarship Martin had to offer ahead of this season. In the time since Porter declared, the Tigers have signed three-star Xavier Pinson, Illinois transfer Mark Smith and Evansville transfer Dru Smith. That left them with room for one more. With Porter at the time presumptively not coming back, Martin went full-throttle on two potential 2018 recruits. However, Courtney Ramey and Blake Hinson both chose other schools after including Missouri in their final cuts. Porter is expected to become a regular starter this season, joining fellow rising sophomore and big man Jeremiah Tilmon in what could be one of the most imposing frontcourts in the SEC. Porter’s return also provides much needed depth in the paint; junior Reed Nikko and K.J. Santos will be able to serve as extra bodies and role-players if Tilmon’s foul-prone tendencies keep him benched. Filling in the Schedule One of the biggest question marks surrounding Missouri’s nonconference schedule is the potential for a clash with former conference rival Kansas State. But whether Missouri and Kansas State coaches Cuonzo Martin and Bruce Weber get their wish granted with a showdown in the U.S. Virgin Islands will remain to be seen until November. The Tigers will head to St. Thomas for the 2018 Paradise Jam in November for an early-season

13 tournament. They are one of just three teams from major conferences featured in the eightteam tournament, along with the Big 12’s Kansas State and PAC 12 product Oregon State. The other contenders are Kennesaw State, Old Dominion, Northern Iowa, Penn and Eastern Kentucky. But it’s Weber’s Wildcats that Missouri will have its eyes on from across the bracket, perhaps rooting for a collision in the finals. The two head coaches’ relationship spans back 25 years, to when Martin played college ball for a Purdue team that featured Weber as an assistant coach under Gene Keady. Weber said in a phone interview in April that he and Martin have been in touch about scheduling a potential home-and-home series across two seasons, but they held off on doing so in 2018 due to the possibility that they would clash in the Paradise Jam. “Because of that tournament we kind of put it off, but we definitely would like to do it,” Weber said. “Some of that stuff in the future, we’ll definitely think about scheduling.” Though the complete nonconference schedule is yet to be released, some of Missouri’s other opponents are already evident from home-andhome pairs that began last year. A new home-andhome with Xavier has also been scheduled, with the first meeting set for Columbia in December. Edited by Adam Cole acole@themaneater.com

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continued from page 12 together well on offense, neither Schuchts nor Garner are quick enough to guard on the perimeter and could be taken advantage of against smaller power forwards on drives to the basket or off switches in a pick-and-roll. With more long wing players, the Tigers would be able to pressure the ball and create more turnovers and deflections. Smith has also shown herself to be capable of playing as a smaller power forward. She filled in for part of the 2016-17 season as a power forward once Frericks missed the season with a knee injury. Smith is a good rebounder as well. She was third on the team with 5.3 rebounds per game playing from the wing. Edited by Bennett Durando bdurando@themaneater.com

Cierra - Women’s basketball starter Cierra Porter has announced that she is medically retiring due to a knee injury. PHOTO COURTESY OF EMIL LIPPE

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SPORTS

Missouri non-revenue sports: summer notebook

The MU baseball team failed to earn a bid to the NCAA tournament for the sixth season in a row. PHOTO COURTESY OF MIZZOU ATHLETICS

Baseball missed the NCAA Tournament, softball has a new head coach, and track and field is primed for nationals. ANDY KIMBALL, HANNAH HOFFMEISTER, BENNETT DURANDO

Staff Writers and Sports Editor

Softball reins in third coach in as many years When MU Athletic Director Jim Sterk announced a search for a new Missouri softball head coach, he said in his statement that he would “have no further public comments regarding the process or the status of any candidates until the announcement of Mizzou’s next head softball coach is made.” That was on May 22. Four days later, Larissa Anderson was named to the position. She will be Missouri softball’s third skipper in as many years. “I am very proud and honored to be the next head softball coach at Mizzou,” Anderson said in a press release from the team on May 26. Anderson was signed to a five year deal with a base salary of $185,000. Anderson has spent the past 17 years at Hofstra University, the last four of which were as its head coach. She had served as an assistant prior to taking over the program. Anderson also previously coached at LIU Post and her alma mater, Gannon University, where she was an AllAmerican outfielder. This season, her team went 41-14 and notably finished with only 33

errors and a .979 fielding percentage. In comparison, the 2018 Missouri team wasn’t much behind with a .966 fielding percentage, but the team committed almost twice as many errors (61). Over her four-year tenure, Anderson brought Hofstra to the NCAA Tournament twice and accumulated a 130-73 overall record. Anderson will take over for interim head coach Gina Fogue, who was thrown into the role just days prior to the 2018 season after Ehren Earleywine, the winningest coach in program history, was fired in January. Fogue led the Tigers to a 30-29 season and to the NCAA Tournament, where they were eliminated in the Regional finals by Oklahoma. Missouri also finished last place in the SEC. Lackluster conference campaign snubs baseball from NCAA Tournament Though coming perhaps closer than ever this season, Missouri baseball still can’t break down the wall to the postseason. The Tigers failed to earn an at-large bid to a Regional to compete in the 2018 NCAA Tournament in June. Missouri (34-22) has now missed out on the tournament six straight seasons, every year since joining the Southeastern Conference. The Tigers were not among the first four teams to miss the tournament. Those spots were filled by Arizona, Illinois, Kentucky and Central Florida. Steve Bieser’s club was widely considered to be on the bubble but

on the outside looking in after a short-lived stint in this year’s SEC Tournament. After slipping into the conference tournament as the last team in on the last day of the regular season, the 12th-seeded Tigers failed to get past their first game. A win would’ve guaranteed them at least more games to pad their resume. Instead, they were left to rely on their No. 48 RPI ranking and SEC-bolstered strength of schedule despite finishing just 12-19 in the conference. Tournament selection committee chair Ray Tanner said on ESPNU after the field was announced that sub-.500 conference records served as a detriment to other near-miss teams.

indoor and outdoor championships

Schweizer shines at Regional, leads track and field to Oregon for NCAA Championships Karissa Schweizer and co. had a strong outing for Missouri track field at the NCAA West Regionals in Sacramento, California, May 24-26. Program poster girl Schweizer, with all eyes on her as she nears the end of an incomparable collegiate career, won two titles at the Regional. She triumphed in the 10,000-meter run on day one, then finished her double two days later by scampering the 5,000-meter run in 15:19.65. It was the nation’s fastest time recorded in that event this season. Meanwhile, long-distance runner Megan Cunningham saw her stellar senior season end at the preliminary Regionals. While Schweizer won the 10,000, Cunningham was unable to finish and qualify for the NCAA Championships in the event. SEC

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highlighted the fifth-year senior’s improbable and emotional recovery from a near-fatal car crash in 2015

that left her with a fractured skull and broken neck. Schweizer,

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the year and USTFCCCA Midwest Regional Track Athlete of the year, will compete for her sixth and seventh

individual national titles June 6-9 at the NCAA Championships in Eugene,

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Avery Carter and junior Gabi Jacobs. Carter qualified in the men’s throw,

women’s discus.

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would almost certainly put the Tigers in range of the top 15. Jacobs has eyes on repeating as an All-American, which

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around 25 total points. That total would have tied Kansas State for

ninth place at last year’s outdoor championships.

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acole@themaneater.com

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Digest: The biggest storylines of the 2018 World Cup The big dogs and dark horses of international soccer collide in sport’s greatest spectacle. LIAD LERNER

Staff Writer

The 2018 World Cup is set to kick off June 14 in Moscow, Russia and millions of people across the globe will be watching, enthralled, as 32 nations fight it out to become the champions of the quadrennial competition. The contenders come in all shapes and sizes, from historical soccer powerhouses Brazil and Germany – who have combined to win nine of the 20 total World Cups – to debutants like Iceland – who, with a population of around 335,000 people, will become the smallest country to ever have taken part in the tournament. Even without the U.S., excitement is building for the 64 matches, culminating with the final on July 15, that will make up the biggest sporting event on the planet in 2018. Here are some of the biggest storylines ahead of the tournament:

World cup - Germany, the FIFA World Cup 2014 champions, are looking to win another championship this summer in Moscow, Russia. PHOTO COURTESY OF FLICKR

its inexperience. For both of these countries, this tournament is about proving their worth and finally living up to their potential.

Youth-filled European emergers hope to dazzle Only eight countries have ever won a World Cup. Belgium is not one of them. But the years since 2012 have seen the emergence of a ‘golden generation’ containing some of the best players the country has ever seen, led by Eden Hazard, Kevin De Bruyne and Romelu Lukaku. After reaching the quarterfinals of both the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 European Championship, the Red Devils are primed with perhaps just enough experience to join the club of champions. France boasts a similarly talented but young squad, headlined by Paul Pogba, Antoine Griezmann and Kylian Mbappé. Although it has previously won the World Cup, the current team also has faced criticism surrounding

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Minnows who could crash the party Outside the major contenders, there are still 25 other countries vying for a shot at the trophy, and one of them could very well make a surprise run all the way to the finish. Uruguay is the team that will pose the biggest challenge to the big dogs. It boasts the fearsome strike force of Luis Suárez and Edinson Cavani, as well as major tournament experience after reaching the semifinals of the 2010 World Cup and winning the 2011 Copa América. Croatia is another team that has a wealth of individual talent, led by Luka Modrić and Ivan Rakitić. But

Brazil’s quest for redemption You can’t talk about soccer without mentioning Brazil. The fivetime world champions are famous for their rich culture with the sport. But four years ago, the Brazilian team was humiliated on home soil when it lost 7-1 against Germany in the semifinals, leading to a nationwide depression surrounding the sport not seen since 1950, the last time Brazil hosted a World Cup and lost. Other defeats on intercontinental stages in the following years showed the country was still reeling, but when Tite took over as head coach, Brazil regained its swagger and success. It will enter the competition as one of the favorites to lift the trophy, and the squad has the attacking talent to prove it deserves that label in a desperate hunt for redemption.

internal conflicts between the fans and the country’s soccer federation have led to a team that in recent years has played much worse than the sum of its parts. Egypt will have the support of a lot of neutral fans in Russia once Liverpool phenom Mohamed Salah recovers from injury. The Premier League Player of the Year took the world by storm this season as he scored 44 goals in 52 games. He doesn’t have the best supporting cast, but Salah’s talent will make Egypt a force to be reckoned with. Colombia’s James Rodriguez became a superstar after his World Cup-leading six goals in Brazil 2014. He will try to replicate that form to help Colombia improve on its quarterfinal appearance four years ago. Edited by Bennett Durando bdurando@themaneater.com