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Third annual Solidarity March takes place in downtown Columbia The march hoped to raise awareness about equality, activism, unity and environmental issues in the community.

ADELE DU

Staff writer

The third annual MidMissouri Solidarity March and Rally took place on Jan. 19 as one of the sister events of the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. In the past, the march has been held outside of the Boone County Courthouse. Due to inclement weather, the event was moved inside the Missouri Theatre. The march was also livestreamed on Facebook for people who were not able to attend the march.

Hundreds of individuals started walking into the theater around 12:45 p.m. and filled most of the seats on the lower level of the theater within 30 minutes.

Melanie Knocke, a

Planned Parenthood Advocates of Mizzou gathered signatures for a free emergency contraception petition at the 2019 Solidarity Rally Jan. 19, 2019, in Columbia, Missouri. | COURTESY OF FACEBOOK VIA @PPADVOCATESMIZ

Columbia resident, said she decided to come to the march after hearing her teenage son’s complaint about gun control issues. She later joined Mothers Demand

Action for Gun Sense in America.

“Finally I asked him, ‘What are you going to do about it?’” Knocke said. “He stopped for a moment and

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then started talking about getting involved in some groups at school. Later, when my husband asked me about coming to the rally, I realized I needed to follow my own

advice and do something. So here I am.”

Missouri resident Crystal Martie and her daughters have attended the march in Columbia since 2017.

“We looked forward to it all year long. It’s just super positive and surrounded by like-minded individuals and it always gives us a lot of hope,” Martie said.

Several local organizations set up stands such as MidMissouri Peaceworks, CoMo for Progress and Student Demand Action from Rock Bridge High School.

Student groups from MU also participated in the march. Colleen Lee is part of the Planned Parenthood Advocates of Mizzou. They were collecting signatures to get emergency contraception for all students at MU. Having participated in marches in Washington, D.C and Columbia, Lee saw similarities yet differences between the two.

“D.C. was huge and

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UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI

‘Hacky sack guy’ sets record, students show support Partial shutdown complicates Students met at Speakers Circle to celebrate Derrick Fogle, who set the Guinness World Record for the longest distance traveled in one hour while kicking a hacky sack.

LAURA EVANS

Staff Writer

Despite the rain, members of the MU community gathered at Speakers Circle on Tuesday, Jan. 22 at 3 p.m. to celebrate Derrick Fogle, 55, and his new world record.

Fogle, commonly known to the MU community as the “hacky sack guy,” since he is frequently found practicing his hacky sack, or footbag, skills in Speakers Circle, an activity that Fogle said he has been doing for around 25 years.

He began playing hacky sack on campus in a group, but as the years went on, Fogle has remained to practice by himself, he said.

“I’m like a rock in the

stream of students flowing through,” Fogle said. “Years and years and years of being out there builds that thing where people hear about me before they see me. Then they finally see me. They’re here for four or five years, and they see me all four or five years.”

On Dec. 17, 2018, Fogle announced on Twitter that he set the Guinness World Record for “distance travelled while controlling a footbag in one hour” at the 2018 US Freestyle Footbag Championships in Las Vegas in December.

According to Fogle’s Twitter, there was no previous record holder for this title, but the record had a 5 kilometer minimum. Fogle surpassed this minimum and garnered the title after traveling 5,053.9 meters while kicking a hacky sack over the course of the hour.

Fogle has been recognized for his dedication to footbag before, having been inducted into the Footbag Hall of Fame in 2005 and previously holding the world record for most consecutive footbag kicks in five minutes, but he said that this achievement

carries a special importance to him.

“This one actually feels more significant than anything I’ve ever done in the sport of footbag,” Fogle said. “It’s definitely the hardest thing I’ve ever done with a hacky sack by a fairly significant margin. I really had to push myself to the limit.”

Also, whereas his induction into the Footbag Hall of Fame was noted among his peers, this world record brought in wider recognition, Fogle said.

“It’s really more of a thing to me, you know, than anything else has been just because there’s so much more excitement about it,” Fogle said. “Everybody else is excited about it, so I’ve got to be excited about it.”

Junior education major Chase Mueller helped organize the celebration, creating a Facebook event titled “Hacky-Sack Guy Celebration!!” shortly after Fogle announced his record.

On Facebook, over 500 people marked themselves

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financial aid process, research grants The monthlong government shutdown has halted new research funding and slowed students’ ability to receive tax documents.

ETHAN BROWN

Student Politics Editor MU has experienced slight disruptions in research funding and financial aid since the start of the U.S. government partial shutdown.

The lack of funding for some governmental agencies has halted processes necessary for students to obtain tax documents and research funding, according to Liz McCune, associate director of the MU News Bureau.

“Research will continue, but new projects might be delayed,” McCune said.

“We’ll work as closely as we can with federal agencies to ensure research is not interrupted.”

More than $165 million of 2017 funding for MU’s research came from the federal government, according to that year’s annual report from the Office of Research, Graduate Studies and Economic Development.

The shutdown, which started Dec. 22, 2018, has left the Internal Revenue Service without funding.

McCune said this interrupts MU’s financial aid system because students often need to provide tax information from the IRS when applying for aid. “[The Office of Financial Aid] is working with students who experience difficulties obtaining tax documentation from the IRS,” McCune said. “The U.S. Department of Education has provided additional guidance to make it easier for students to help mitigate the IRS shutdown.”

The Education Department uses students’ tax documentation to determine an Expected Family Contribution, which factors into need-based grants,

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The briefing: MSA senate plans on implementing free feminine hygiene products, new speaker series this semester MSA senate speaker Jacob Addington spoke about the goals MSA has set out to accomplish for the spring semester.

BEN SCOTT

Staff Writer

MSA senate plans to continue a collection of projects that began last semester.

The first project is a TED Talk inspired conference, where they hope to have their first speaker next fall. MSA senate aims to bring in notable MU alumni to talk about their collegiate or professional career, MSA senate speaker Jacob Addington said.

Last semester, MSA senate passed a $2,500 budget for a campus-wide effort for free female hygiene products on campus, which the senate is still working on implementing.

“Hopefully we’ll be rolling it out before the end of the semester — free hygiene products for women to put in bathrooms in select areas around campus, probably starting in the student center and then going out from there to the more used buildings on campus,” Addington said.

Addington also mentioned efforts for MSA to focus more on branching out as opposed to focusing on internal affairs. Instead of writing the official rules and procedures of MSA, they want to bring in administrators to talk to about programs and initiatives.

The social justice committee, as Addington mentions, is working on putting together more events for the resource centers in the student center.

MSA senate first began working with the LGBTQ Resource Center last semester and plans on

MSA senators vote on a bill on March 7, 2018 in the Leadership Auditorium. | PHOTO BY STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER MADI WINFIELD

furthering this relationship for the spring semester.

With this, they want to promote resources like the LGBTQ center so that students become more aware and possibly more involved with those resources.

The FY20 budget, which will be passed this semester, covers the costs of a multitude of student association fees, such as leadership position salaries and auxiliary organization budgets, Addington said.

“The executive is working on [the budget] right now,” Addington said. “Our treasurer will send that over to us [the senate,] and we’ll spend three or four meetings talking about it and ultimately passing it and allocating that money for next year.”

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PLANNED PARENTHOOD

Planned Parenthood group continues push for on-campus emergency contraceptives Planned Parenthood organization hopes to meet with provost and gain support from MSA regarding the accessibility of emergency contraceptives for MU students.

ELYSE LUECKE AND ZAINIE QURESHI Reporters Planned Parenthood Advocates of Mizzou has

received more than 1,000 signatures on its Plan B

petition in an effort to pass a bill and gain support from MSA.

health and autonomy.”

PPAM has also been in charge of other events like

its “Better Late Than Never” campaign to promote

general sex education. They plan to present a sexual education series and have meetings once or twice a month after the initial installment.

due to the existing barriers there are in obtaining it.

“We feel that there should be

no barriers to receive health care,” Lee said.

Lee said there has been little

all students. The cost of contraceptives would

could be linked to the expansion

which the organization announced at an MSA presentation in December 2018.

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be added to the semesterly student health fee,

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similarities yet differences between the two.

“D.C. was huge and everyone was pissed off about [President Trump’s] inauguration in 2017, and I think that energy has dwindled a bit and people have lost some hope,” she said.

“Columbia’s rally had some awesome speeches and focused more locally which is great, but I do think Columbia needs to stretch a little and be a bit more intersectional.”

The all-female indie rock band from Columbia, Violet And The Undercurrents, warmed up the crowd with several of its signature songs. The vocalist, Vonder Haar, came out with a loudspeaker and encouraged the crowd to chant out words like, “This is what democracy looks like!” to hype up the group.

The speakers at the march included Barb Kuensting, a student activist studying

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as going to the event, and over 1,100 marked themselves as interested. Mueller expected this response, he said.

“Everybody loves hacky sack guy,” Mueller said.

“With the right marketing, the guy sells himself basically.”

With the event, Mueller wanted to celebrate Fogle’s positive impact on campus and Speakers Circle.

“Sometimes you see a lot of not so great things in Speakers Circle, things that almost take away from how cool the free speech that exists here is,” Mueller said. “When you have people like hacky sack guy that bring a lighter mood to things... then that’s pretty cool.”

Freshman pre-nursing major Stephanie Ingberg decided to attend the celebration after learning about it through Facebook. In doing so, Ingberg wanted to show support and appreciation for Fogle and his mark on the MU campus.

environmental science and documentary journalism at MU, Michela Skelton, vice-chair of the Missouri Democratic Party Progressive Caucus, Reverend Cassandra Gould, director of Missouri Faith Voices and Carolyn Amparan, chair of the Sierra Club Osage Group.

The final talk was given by Frances Moore Lappé, the author or co-author of 19 books about world hunger, living democracy and the environment. One of her signature works was “Diet for a Small Planet” in 1971, according to the webpage made by the event organizers.

Each of the speakers gave their insights on issues people are facing under the current administration including gun control, immigrants, wealth disparities, racial inequalities, climate change and more. Claps and cheers resonated within the walls of the theater throughout the march.

Jackie Collins said several things stuck with her after attending the march, including the climate change issues. She said she would definitely look into organizations affiliated with this issue as well as getting her kids involved in the process.

“Walking to classes, seeing him, it really brightens my day,” Ingberg said.

When Fogle found out about the event, he was expecting a turnout of five to 10 people. However, he was floored when around 40 people showed up.

“Especially for the weather and everything, to get 40 people out there to recognize me is one of those things where this energy and this positive feedback I get from the students is so profound and it’s so powerful,” Fogle said. “It’s so incredible to me that these young people are kind of excited about what some old guy is out there doing, playing hacky sack.”

At the event, Fogle gave a brief speech detailing his history with the sport and his recent accomplishment, then showcased his footbag skills for the attendees.

Mueller said he hopes the event makes Fogle feel appreciated.

“I’d want him to leave thinking that what he does is really special to a lot of people — students, faculty, himself, just anyone who sees him do it,” Mueller said.

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She said she also really liked Skelton’s talk, particularly the mantra she used — “Breathe.

Believe. Push.” Collins was accompanied by her friend from the same sorority chapter, Kappa Chi Omega, who has actively participated in marches years before and invited her to come this year.

Mark Haim, director of Mid-Missouri Peaceworks, was one of the co-organizers. He has participated in organizing the march since the first one took place in 2017. Haim said the purpose of the march is not just about responding to the issues but rather promoting a just, sustainable and peaceful future of mutual respect.

“We see that there is urgent matter to be out and demonstrating for what we want to against what they were doing,” Haim said. “We are a group that works with sustainability, climate action and peace and justice. All those are threatened by the current administration who are trying to drag this country into completely wrong direction which is not what we need.”

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Derrick Fogle, “hacky sack guy,” performed in Speakers Circle on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019. | PHOTO BY STAFF WRITER LAURA EVANS

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according to the FAFSA website.

The deadline for MU students to apply for

financial aid through FAFSA is Feb. 22. According to the university’s website, 80 percent of MU students receive financial aid.

While the shutdown has lasted more than a

month, there may be an opportunity to reopen the government soon. The New York Times reported

the U.S. Senate will vote Jan. 24 on two bills, one with $5.7 billion in funding for a border wall and one without, to reopen the government.

Once the government reopens, MU students will

be able to receive tax documentation from the IRS and new research grants may be appropriated.

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In one of the worst storms in recent MU history, the campus was blanketed in layers of snow the week before classes resumed. According to a report by The Kansas City Star, Missouri was hit hardest among all states who experienced winter storm Gia. The campus closed down on Friday, Jan. 11, and didn’t reopen until the following Tuesday. Students traveling on campus were encouraged to use caution as crews worked to repair damage caused by the storm. According to Gary Ward, vice chancellor for operations, the snow caused damage to nearly one-third of MU’s trees.

Earlier in the fall semester, Mid-Missouri experienced the earliest snowfall in five years on Nov. 7. The earliest snow ever recorded was Oct. 11, 1909.

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Cinema director Barbie Banks seeks to take Ragtag Cinema in new direction A veteran of Citizen Jane finds hope for female representation.

BEN WICHE

Staff Writer

Ragtag Cinema hired Barbie Banks as its new cinema director late last November. While she previously worked as the director of Citizen Jane Film Festival for three years, Banks has also been a long term volunteer at Citizen Jane and the True/ False Film Festival.

She says her new job is basically the same, with one key difference.

“At Citizen Jane, there wasn’t any year-round staff that also worked on the project,” Banks said.

“The whole staff here’s been around a lot longer than I have, so we work really well together.”

The day-to-day work finds Banks performing various tasks to lead the cinema.

“I do recruiting of new members, management of our current ones, and [I] make sure that everyone is using their benefits,” Banks said. “I also handle management of the staff and maintenance of finances with the nonprofit [Ragtag Film Society].”

The Ragtag Film Society also hired a new executive director, Jeremy Brown, who formerly worked as director of the True/False Film Festival.

Brown also has some things he’d like to change about the organization.

“I’m looking forward to working with our talented, dedicated staff, board and volunteers of both the festival and Ragtag Cinema to deepen our impact, expand our audiences and make Ragtag Film Society a more diverse and inclusive organization,” Brown told the Columbia Missourian.

Though Banks’ new job still has her doing a lot of the same things in the same city, she feels that her audience has changed.

“It’s definitely a larger base over here at Ragtag,” Banks said. “Part of that is [Ragtag has] been around longer, but also the idea of a woman film festival turns off certain people. We see a few less of the [Stephens College] students than the ones that attended Citizen Jane, but overall the people who care about Citizen Jane ultimately care about film and seek it out through The Ragtag.”

Banks wishes to bridge both the audiences and the focuses of these two organizations.

“My hope for the future is that Citizen Jane and Ragtag can partner a little bit more to promote each other,” she said. “I think that the programmers for Citizen Jane and The Ragtag, Donna Kozloskie and Chris Boeckmann, both care about representation. While Chris has different films to pick from, he still tries to make sure that

we aren’t just seeing the same person on screen.”

Citizen Jane programmer Chris Boeckmann said he enjoys working with Banks, and thinks her leadership skills make her a perfect fit for the Ragtag.

“I’ve worked with Barbie in a variety of roles,” Boeckmann said. “She is a principled leader. I’m inspired by her drive and care.”

Banks has not only previously known the Ragtag through volunteering. As a college student, she saw Michael Moore’s “Bowling For Columbine” at the cinema. It was the first film she saw that was more than entertainment, though she still enjoys lower brow films, like Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet.”

Banks sees a strong future for who is seen in film and who sees them. Her hope is founded in the changes she is seeing at the national level and the Columbia scene.

“I like to see this interest in what women directors are making,” Banks said. “The idea that film [is] such an impactful medium and that it’s important that we see equal representation. I like what I’m seeing at True/False, that they care about representation and that the subjects they show are treated well.”

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FILM

‘The Favourite’ showcases career-best performances in bawdy period triumph Yorgos Lanthimos’ newest film is a bawdy showcase for career-best performances from its three leads.

ABBY MONTEIL

Columnist

If you’re at all familiar with Yorgos Lanthimos, you’ll know not to expect “The Favourite” to be one of the dry, self-righteous period pieces that often fill movie theaters in the run-up to awards season. Since he began working with highprofile actors in Englishlanguage films like “The Lobster” and “The Killing of a Sacred Deer,” the Greek director has established a distinct love it or hate it style. His work often spans detached, quietly brutal worlds where the absurdity of it all allows sharp glints of emotion to poke through.

“The Favourite” is easily Lanthimos’ most accessible film, but make no mistake — his idiosyncrasies and biting wit are on display to delicious effect.

An ornately filthy, salacious take on historical

events, we open on early 18th-century England.

The country is embroiled in an exhaustive war with France, but the action of this particular story takes place far from the front lines. “The Favourite” unfolds almost entirely within the royal palace, where the preening royal court entertain themselves by racing prized ducks and pelting naked men with fruit.

Queen Anne herself (Olivia Colman in a knockout performance) leads a disheveled and petulant life of pomp and circumstance.

She’s a woman who, without Colman’s commanding chops as both a comedic and dramatic actor, could easily come off as a brash caricature. Largely immobile due to nasty bouts of gout, Anne is prone to childish tantrums in and outside of her private quarters — where she insists on keeping 17 rabbits as placeholders for the children she’s miscarried.

When the queen gifts her childhood friend Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) with a palace, she lets it slip that she hasn’t even been aware that the British war is still going on.

As Anne’s health worsens, it’s Sarah — who has grown

into the queen’s lover and closest confidant — who cooly governs in her stead.

When her younger cousin Abigail (Emma Stone) arrives at the palace mud-streaked and in search of employment, Sarah is far too busy hiking up taxes to give her much more than a condescending glance.

But after Abigail’s forays into a nearby forest turn up herbs that single handedly soothe Anne’s gout, the would-be ingenue quickly climbs from lowly maid to lady-in-waiting. Light and indulgent where Sarah is not, she coyly worms her way into the queen’s graces.

For perhaps the first time, Sarah’s long-standing grips on the queen’s bed and political conscience are soon turned upside down.

Stone brilliantly shifts in front of the audience as Abigail’s shrewdness becomes increasingly apparent. There isn’t a weak link in the principal cast, but I’d devote entire rewatches to appreciating how much of her rise in power is told exclusively through watchful, corner-of-frame observations — what she’s able to express with her eyes alone is extraordinary.

As Sarah and Abigail’s schemes for favoritism escalate, their Machiavellian battle of wills is only exacerbated by the film’s oscillation between warped fish-eye wide shots and tight views of the three leads.

It’s here that deeper, more vulnerable shades of Weisz’s Sarah start to emerge, as the high lady’s haughty assuredness masterfully bleeds into bewildered desperation.

It’s fascinating to watch how explicitly painful and mirthful these women’s stories come across onscreen.

It’s true that much of the runtime is dedicated to vicious spats and hilariously blunt title cards that introduce each segment of “The Favourite” — including titles like “This Mud Stinks” and “I Dreamt I Stabbed You in the Eye.” But the three leads are still very much grappling with personal vendettas and unwelcoming power structures outside of their control. Anne has been groomed by court flattery for so long that she doubts anyone’s ability to truly care for her. Meanwhile, Sarah’s self-serving plotting is undercut by feelings of real love and affection. Abigail

is clamoring to regain her status as an aristocrat after her gambling father left her devoid of comfort or prospects.

Even as they chafe against a claustrophobic 18th-century patriarchy, it’s incredibly satisfying to watch a film based around three women flattering and fighting and sleeping with one another. Original screenwriter Deborah Davis’ sharp dialogue, combined with Lanthimos’ peculiar brusqueness, allows the three leads of “The Favourite” to be imperfectly compelling.

In this way, “The Favourite” rings much truer than many didactic, blandly realistic on-screen portrayals of historical and gay women. Historical figures’ plights are often painted as Shakespearean exercises in tragedy, or heightened extensions of an acclaimed director’s filmmaking ambitions. Here, as audiences consider whether or not to laugh at these women’s power struggles, their histories feel infinitely funnier, infinitely grosser and infinitely better.

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A CAPPELLA

MU a cappella groups prepare for ICCA quarterfinals Mizzou Forte and The Naturelles have conquered a spot in the quarterfinals of the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella.

MARIANA LABBATE

Senior Staff Writer

The Varsity Vocals International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella is the only global competition for college a cappella groups. This year’s Midwest quarterfinals will take place on Feb. 9 at Missouri State University. Both The Naturelles and Mizzou Forte, MU’s a cappella teams, have qualified.

“The way you get to the quarterfinals is by sending in an audition tape of the group performing three songs,” Alexandra Kickert said, a senior in Mizzou Forte.

“Then we hear back about a month later.”

ICCA divides the country in regions, each region with three to five quarterfinals.

Mizzou Forte and The Naturelles are competing separately against each other and eight other a cappella teams in the Midwest quarterfinal at Missouri State University. The first and second places will move on to the Midwest semifinal at Washington University in St. Louis in March.

“Mizzou Forte has made the quarterfinal almost every time,” Kickert said. “It is easy to make it to the quarterfinal, but really hard to pass that point.”

The Midwest semifinal winner then moves on to the final phase in New York City, where they face semifinalists from other regions and champions from other countries’ a cappella competitions.

The Naturelles and Mizzou Forte compete and work separately, but right now both groups are rehearsing with the same goal: the ICCA. “Our main focus right now is ICCA and doing the best

we can at that competition,” Taylor Gion said, a senior who also sings in Mizzou Forte.

“Multiple members of our group have also been working over winter break to put together new arrangements of music for us to perform at the competition.”

Participants also have the chance to win special awards such as Outstanding Soloist, Outstanding Arrangement, Outstanding Vocal Percussion and Outstanding Choreography. Although the judges can choose to not give out these awards. However, the groups are mainly focused on the ICCA Champion title.

“Our constant goals are to create captivating music, and to be inspired by and for each other,” Anna Yannessa said, a junior and component of The Naturelles. “We want the best for each other and I think one of our biggest goals is just being a unified group of women in music. And we’ll always continue to grow that bond.”

The judges look at creativity, professionalism and energy in each group.

Participants receive scores from a judging panel in three different categories: vocal performance, visual performance and subjective rank. In total, teams can score a total of 155 points.

“One of the main components for us has been putting in a lot of extra time on our own for learning our music, and just trying to focus on putting the parts together when we get to rehearsal,” Yannessa said. “In these upcoming couple weeks we have a lot of work to do.

We’ll mainly be focusing on choreography and expression to make our set come to life.”

Mizzou Forte and The Naturelles have qualified for the ICCA quarterfinals before, but both of the groups have new members who have never participated in the international championship before, such as Mizzou Forte’s Gion. For that, they can turn to teammates to share their previous tournaments knowledge.

Watching other groups perform with completely different styles can be

amazing according to the Naturelle’s Yannessa, adding to a weekend of new experiences for almost half of her group.

“It’s always a once in a lifetime experience performing your set on stage in front of hundreds of people,” Yannessa said.

“The adrenaline starts going, and honestly the whole thing becomes a beautiful blur, but you know you’ve done your best when you step off stage, and that’s the best feeling.”

As MU a cappella teams prepare for “the reallife ‘Pitch Perfect,’” as the ICCA website describes the tournament, students can also plan to go watch the competition and the school’s participants.

“We are always super proud to be quarterfinalists and we are so excited to perform and hear some amazing groups at ICCA this year,” Kickert said. “There is always so much talent!”

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Hulu and Netflix drop different Fyre Festival documentaries in one week Hulu released its comedic documentary four days earlier than Netflix’s behind-the-scenes deep dive.

JANAE MCKENZIE

MOVE Culture Editor

Streaming giants Hulu and Netflix each released documentaries on the failed Fyre Festival during the week of Jan. 14. While they cover the same event, the films take different approaches in tone.

Fyre Festival, initially scheduled for April and May of 2017, was intended to be a once-in-a-lifetime music festival hosted on the Great Exuma island in the Bahamas. The brainchild of entrepreneur Billy McFarland and rapper Ja Rule, Fyre Festival was designed to promote the newly launched Fyre music booking app.

Complete with promises of bright blue waters, yachts, beautiful women and plenty of alcohol on a deserted island, Billboard senior touring correspondent Dave Brooks felt that the Fyre Festival sold a concept of escapism in a climate of discontent and political upheaval.

“You’re in Lower Manhattan where you’re freezing,” Brooks said in the Hulu documentary. “You’ve got an election that just upended the political environment. The thing that you’re absolutely focused on is escaping from that. So people are dying to be a part of something that was going to be the Woodstock of the millennial generation.”

Due to infrastructure issues, a massive lack of oversight, blind faith and a lapse between planning and execution, Fyre Festival was never completed in time for the arrival of the influencers and attendees. Guests boarded planes expecting luxury villas and private celebrity chefs.

They were instead treated to leftover FEMA disaster tents from Hurricane Matthew, soaked mattresses from island rain and cheese sandwiches in styrofoam containers.

As the festival preparation was revealed to be surrounded in fraudulent procedures and loans, McFarland was sentenced to jail for six years for wire fraud to investors.

About nine months after the incident, documentaries dropped exploring the phenomenon. Netflix planned their release of “Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened” for Friday, Jan. 18, promoting it with a trailer dropped on Jan. 10.

In a surprise move from Hulu, the platform released “Fyre Fraud,” their own take on Fyre Festival coverage.

The drop occurred on Monday, Jan. 14, four days prior to the Netflix release. The film was not preceded with any promotion or advertising, effectively beating Netflix to the punch.

The two films take very different approaches to covering the event.

Netflix describes their film as a documentary covering a festival “billed as a luxury music experience on a posh private island” that “failed

in the hands of a cocky entrepreneur”.

H u l u ’ s film takes a different route.

While still considering it a documentary, Hulu feels their approach reflects a “truecrime comedy exploring a failed music festival turned internet meme at the nexus of social media influence, late-stage capitalism and morality in the post-truth era.”

Netflix’s documentary places a general focus on providing “an exclusive behind the scenes look at the infamous unraveling of the Fyre music festival,” operating with a general focus on the logistics and details of what brought the festival into being.

R e c e i p t s , emails, court proceedings and financial documents are displayed consistently “Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened,” a new Netflix original documentary, gives a behind-the-scenes look at the throughout the downfall of the Fyre Festival. | COURTESY OF IMDB film, giving information on effort to earn back some of the savings the right events?’... You see what how the little pieces came together. she blew through when attempting to everyone else is doing, and the fact The film features interviews with accommodate attendees. As of Jan. that you’re not there creates this fear people at every level of involvement, 22, over $160,000 has been raised that you’re less of an individual.” including pilots, managers and for Rolle.

Interviews were also conducted Bahamian workers.

Hulu took a different approach with those close to the festival, Netflix’s feature of the involvement to the documentary, transforming it often making light of the situation. of the locals stood out in particular into a cinematic, comedic experience.

Interviewees drew comparisons to the general public. Following the Cartoon stock footage and clips between McFarland’s life to popular departure of Fyre guests, McFarland from shows such as Keeping Up sitcoms “The Office” and “Parks and disappeared from the island, leaving with the Kardashians were used to local workers without pay for their place emphasis on the psychology at Recreation,” likening McFarland to eccentric boss Michael Scott and work onsite. play. For dramatic effect, ominous One testimony in particular, that music and exaggerated storm footage Fyre Media to Tom Haverford’s of Maryann Rolle, garnered public accompanied the description of the Entertainment 720.

With the element of surprise giving support. In tears, Rolle spoke to the final storm. an advantage over Netflix’s release, camera about her own experience Psychologists, venture capitalists Hulu’s documentary had the key taking in festivalgoers when and media writers were brought in element of an exclusive interview they arrived unexpectedly at her to discuss why Fyre Festival garnered restaurant, the Exuma Point Bar & so much attention and interest. with McFarland. McFarland’s take Grill.

Calvin Wells, venture capitalist post-failure was revealed to be rather “I had ten persons working directly and owner of the Twitter account optimistic, believing that “so many with me just preparing food all day FyreFestivalFraud, weighed in on the things had to go right to make it this and all night, 24 hours,” Rolle said. FOMO phenomenon, or the fear of big of a failure.”

The combination of both “I had to pay literally all those missing out, and its power. people. I am here as a Bahamian.

“But certainly, our generation documentaries provides the public And they stand in my face every day. loves to be a part of the hype,” Wells with multiple ways to access more I went through about $50,000 of said. “We identify ourselves with information on the failure of Fyre my savings that I could’ve had for a what we’re attached to or who’s Festival, as well as some insight to rainy day. They just wiped it out and involved or who follows us or who larger effects and hidden causes.

Edited by Joe Cross never looked back.” likes us or who comments. ‘Do I have a blue checkmark?

Am I trending at Rolle set up a GoFundMe page in an jcross@themaneater.com

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WOMEN OF MIZZOU

Women of Mizzou: Ginny Ramseyer Winter emphasizes importance of healthy body image, possibility of VR sex education Ginny Ramseyer Winter conducted research on body image and incorporating VR sex education in Columbia public schools.

AUDREY ROLOFF Reporter Often times, due to popular media, body image can be distorted and turned into an impractical view of one’s self worth, functionality and capability. Ginny Ramseyer Winter, Ph.D., assistant professor in the MU School of Social Work and founding director of the Center for Body Image Research & Policy, conducted research on body image and recognized the influence it has on society, especially on women.

“We’re socialized that appearance matters in terms of your value as a human being, girls especially,” Ramseyer Winter said. “Girls are sexually objectified and taught that this is what matters for them as a person. And so, when we can’t measure up to that, this ideal that is not possible for most people results in shame, which can transform into poor mental health.”

Ramseyer Winter received her undergraduate degree at the University of Kansas, immediately starting her master’s afterwards at the University of Michigan. After gaining a master’s degree in social work, she worked for the state of Kansas doing public health education around food safety. Then, Ramseyer Winter moved on to doing volunteer coordination for the nonprofit organization KC Care, which is the leading provider of HIV care in Kansas City.

“I had some of the best sex educators in the country,” Ramseyer Winter said. “I learned so much from them about how to do community education, how to meet students with different learning styles in a classroom setting, how to manage classrooms. I’d say a lot of my pedagogical training comes from them.”

Wanting to focus on research, Ramseyer Winter eventually decided to go back to the University of Kansas to receive her Ph.D., and afterwards came to the University of Missouri to teach and begin research on body image.

“I think it’s crucial to shift this focus away from appearance, more toward function, appreciating our bodies for what they do for us,” Ramseyer Winter said. “We use them to carry our children, to get from

Ginny Ramseyer Winter teaches a lesson on older generations and the social etiquette involved on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018, in Middlebush Hall.

Ramseyer Winter’s primary research examines body image in relation to women’s physical, mental and sexual health. | PHOTO BY SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER JACOB MOSCOVITCH

place to place, to do the things that we love.”

Mackenzie Cook, Ramseyer Winter’s graduate research assistant, has had the opportunity to see how Ramseyer Winter teaches first hand, and has directly benefited from her advice and guidance.

“She’s really been an awesome advocate for me and wanting to make my courses fit my personal and research agenda.” Cook said. “I received a national grant for a teen pregnancy study and if it wasn’t for me being able to move my schedule around and focus my time on that I don’t know how I would be able to do it.”

When people are engulfed in their appearance, important tasks like thriving in a career, focusing on education and eventually taking care of a family can be nearly impossible and lead to dangerous eating disorders, from using obsessive coping mechanisms to deal with anxiety.

“Eating disorders are the most deadly mental health issue or mental illness,” Ramseyer Winter said. “And, that said, they’re also very treatable.

There’s no access to eating disorder treatment in Central Missouri, you have to go to Kansas City or St. Louis.

I work with the Missouri Eating Disorders Council, and we’re training providers to try and create more treatment teams that are trained.”

Ramseyer Winter has also been exploring secondary sex education, in

collaboration with Ph.D. Fang Wang, professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the College of Engineering. Ramseyer Winter sees the possibilities of incorporating virtual reality technology into sex education.

“Think about going inside of the body and getting to actually see what is going on in your reproductive cells,” Ramseyer Winter said. “The path that the sperm takes, and different male anatomy, visualizing that just adds another dimension, and engages youth in a different way...If you think about actually practicing putting on a condom on a model with VR goggles on. It’s kind of a private moment, so why shouldn’t practicing be more of a private moment, rather than asking students to do that in front of a big group of kids.”

The possibilities of VR technology with sex education is something that has not substantially been explored, and could potentially help with decreasing rape statistics by showing students how to practice healthy refusal skills.

“Using avatars through VR technology to practice refusal skills to say no, or communicate what you’re willing to do with your partner and what you’re not,” Ramseyer Winter said. “Or practice having conversation negotiating condom use.”

Parents may not be comfortable letting their children be exposed to certain topics. There is the potential

of some community backlash to the innovative teaching style, but backlash is to be expected with any sex education, according to Ramseyer Winter.

“It might not be a good fit for all communities to use VR technology to do condom demos, but practicing refusal skills would be appropriate,” Ramseyer Winter said. “I obviously think that comprehensive sex ed is important, and that includes teaching about condoms and abortions, but that’s obviously not the cultural norm for all communities. So I think it can be used for things that would be very acceptable to most parents.”

At MU, Ramseyer Winter’s dedication and wholeheartedness has been regarded by not only her students in the classroom, but the students that will soon follow her footsteps.

Derek Landes, who undertook his master of social work this year, has ascertained how Ramseyer Winter’s teaching has paid off.

“I really appreciate her honesty and her commitment to the students,” Landes said. “To her what’s most important is what’s best for the kid in the classroom, and it’s disappointing when you don’t see that in teachers.

Her research is clearly very important, but when it comes to the classroom the students are first and I respect that a lot.”

Edited by Janae McKenzie jmckenzie@themaneater.com

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MOVING WITH MO

Everyone has implicit biases, but implicit doesn’t mean unchangeable Everyone has implicit biases and everyone has a responsibility to address them.

MAUREEN DUNNE Maureen

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trying to dismantle their biases. It provides an option for people to subscribe to a week-long email bias cleanse, where information on oftenmarginalized communities is sent directly to subscribers’ email once a day.

Everyone has implicit biases, but everyone has the capacity to undo them. For the sake of a more equal society, everyone must take it upon themselves to identify their biases and work to correct them. Starting

Harvard’s Project Implicit initiative was set up to measure unconscious bias. | COURTESY OF IMPLICIT.HARVARD.EDU

can be as simple as taking an online quiz and subscribing to a daily email.

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BRYCE’S BLATHER

Gerrymandering is a simple fix, but it’s not the only thing holding back democracy Representation continues to be a problem across America. Fixing gerrymandering is only half the battle.

BRYCE KOLK

Bryce Kolk is a freshman journalism major at MU. He is an opinion columnist who writes about politics for The Maneater.

Gerrymandering is a direct threat to democracy.

Representatives in power are able to, in the vast majority of states, draw district boundaries in a way that is likely to keep their party in office. Essentially, rather than have voters choose their representatives, gerrymandering allows representatives to choose their voters.

Missouri isn’t as gerrymandered as North Carolina, Michigan or New York. Missouri’s map unfairly favors Republicans, but there are far worse cases of gerrymandering.

Missouri is, however, leading the charge against partisan gerrymandering.

In the November midterm election, Missouri voters approved an amendment to the state constitution that would require the districts be redrawn more fairly. Though similar proposals have passed in other states, Missouri is the first to draw its districts based on a mathematical formula, rather than by representatives or experts.

In short, the new law is aimed at decreasing the efficiency gap in Missouri’s elections.

The efficiency gap is a formula used to compare the vote share a party gets in an election with the share of seats won statewide. A larger efficiency gap is an indicator of partisan gerrymandering.

Getting the gap as close to zero is crucial in reforming elections.

Missouri’s efficiency gap in the November elections was 8 percent, favoring Republicans. It may not sound huge, but that equates to roughly 13 extra Republican seats in Missouri’s House of Representatives.

Using this formula to redraw districts is the best way to ensure a fair democracy.

In 37 states, the state legislatures were primarily responsible for redrawing districts, as

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of August 2017. Leaving the task of redistricting to state legislatures is the worst possible choice, as legislatures have the most incentive to redraw districts to skew to their benefit.

Missouri’s pioneering of redistricting policy could set the course for these states in the future. While efficiency gap isn’t perfect, using data to redistrict leaves much less room for bias.

Limiting gerrymandering is a relatively simple task and can go a long way to making legislatures more closely resemble their voting population.

There is more we can do to get representation even fairer, however. This solution would require an overhaul of our federal government.

There are far too few representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives as it stands.

Every district intends to represent around 750,000 Americans, though that number can vary widely in less populated states. Compare that number with the 57,000 that were represented in every district at the founding of our country in 1789.

America’s population keeps

growing, but the number of representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives is locked at 435.

Adding more representatives allows for better representation as a whole. As districts swell, it’s harder for representatives to know their constituents.

R e p r e s e n t a t i v e democracies work by grouping like-minded people into districts. Expanding those districts too far will inevitably lead to dissimilar people with dissimilar experiences having the same representative. As an example, it’s impossible for a representative to vote for the interests of both rural farmers and big-city urbanites.

It may seem like we’d be disavowing the Founding Fathers by making this change, but they were clearly worried about this exact scenario. The first proposal of the Bill of Rights included an amendment meant to cap districts at 50,000 Americans apiece.

The 50,000 standard that was proposed at the dawn of our country would be difficult to justify today, however. If it were kept, the House of Representatives

would have nearly 6,500 members. This would make it the largest legislature in the world by far, as China currently has the largest at about 3,000 members. It would be impractical to have our legislature be the size of a modest city.

Having a rate of roughly 116,000 people per district, similar to Germany’s legislature, may be the

best solution, which would expand the U.S. House to 2,801 members. It may seem like a lot, but it’s necessary to ensure an accurate representation of the country.

Two solutions exist as the most effective methods of reforming our democracy.

Limiting gerrymandering is just the start if we truly want to restore representative democracy.

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Tough defense halts Tigers in road loss at South Carolina Despite 24 points from Sophie Cunningham, Missouri couldn’t find a way to get what would have been its first-ever win at Colonial Life Arena.

OWEN KRUCOFF Senior Staff Writer Cierra Porter’s second free throw clanged off the rim, and the crowd of 12,004 went wild in Columbia, South Carolina.

The game was already mostly decided, but Porter’s back-to-back free throw misses early in the fourth quarter gave everyone in attendance the right to a free sandwich thanks to a promotional deal with Chick-fil-A. It was a fitting way to cap Missouri’s (15-5, 4-2) performance in a 79-65 loss to South Carolina (13-5, 5-1).

The No. 19 Gamecocks shut down the Tiger offense for most of the

Missouri forward Sophie Cunningham shoots against Missouri Western on Monday, Oct. 30, 2018. | PHOTO BY SPORTS EDITOR ADAM COLE

evening, keeping No. 25 Missouri

the home team in a budding rivalry

Six turnovers led to 13 of South

behind early and snuffing out all

between the two programs.

Carolina’s 24 first quarter points. The

hints of a possible comeback. It was the fifth-straight matchup won by

Missouri’s

offense

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itself challenged from the start.

WRESTLING

Missouri extends win streak to 33 with dominant win over Central Michigan at ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Seniors John Erneste and Daniel Lewis led the way in Missouri’s win over UNI.

Old Dominion 40-3 in November and

earning a fall in the opening 30

weight class to make the score 22-12

SIU-Edwardsville 48-0 in December –

seconds of the bout. Erneste’s win

with two weight classes remaining.

however, Missouri is aware that No.

gave Missouri a 9-0 lead.

Following a 5-1 victory from Wyatt

14 Northern Iowa (UNI) doesn’t fold

Following a rare loss from All-

Koelling in the 197 weight class,

easily. The last time Missouri lost a

American Jaydin Eierman at the 141,

heavyweight Zach Elam closed out

CHUCK RYAN

dual was against the Panthers two

Missouri went on to win three out of

the night for the Tigers with a 10-2

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years ago on Feb. 12.

the next four bouts, including a win

victory to clinch the Tigers’ 32nd

by fall for Daniel Lewis in the 174.

consecutive win in dual play by a

With revenge on its mind, Missouri While most students were still

(13-0) extended its win streak to 32

As one of the leaders of this

at home or on vacation, the No. 5

against UNI (2-4) led by two pins

Missouri squad, Eierman knew his

With only one day off on Friday,

Missouri Tigers wrestling program

from seniors John Erneste and Daniel

individual loss was miniscule in the

the Tigers were back on the mat

had an eventful weekend with two

Lewis.

grand scheme of things.

Saturday against Central Michigan.

home duals in three days.

final score of 29-12.

Freshman Dack Punke led off in

“It’s alright to lose if the team is

Thursday

the 125 weight class for the Tigers

in a position to win,” Eierman said.

homestand, the Tigers traveled across

night’s matchup at the Hearnes

with a 6-3 victory following three

“You’ve got to be willing to go out

the street from the Hearnes Center on

Center against Northern Iowa winner

strategic takedowns throughout the

there and try new things every time

Saturday to face Central Michigan at

of 31 straight duals.

bout.

on the mat.”

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BASEBALL

Missouri baseball retires Max Scherzer’s No. 31 jersey Scherzer was drafted 11th overall by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 2006 MLB First Year Players’ Draft.

BEN RAMIREZ

Staff Writer

The growing legacy of Washington Nationals ace Max Scherzer took another leap with the retirement of his No. 31 jersey at Missouri baseball’s annual First Pitch Dinner Friday.

With former St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny, father of junior catcher Jake Matheny, in attendance as a guest speaker, the St. Louis native became the fourth person to have a number retired in Mizzou baseball history, following Phil Bradley (no. 15), coach Gene McArtor (no. 33) and coach John Simmons (no. 34).

Inducted into the MU Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame in 2011, Scherzer already had his name etched into Missouri history.

Over his three seasons at MU, Scherzer had a 2.60 earned-run average while amassing 226 strikeouts. His sophomore season, he helped lead Missouri to its first 40-win season since 1991 while leading the Big 12 in ERA (1.86) and strikeouts (131). His dominant performance resulted in him being named Big 12 Pitcher of the Year.

The following year, Scherzer went 7-2 en route to the Tigers making a Super Regional appearance, including a win against No. 1 Florida.

He was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks 11th overall in the 2006 MLB First Year Players’ Draft, the second highest Missouri baseball player picked to date — pitcher Aaron Crow was drafted ninth overall in the 2008 draft.

Since going pro, Scherzer has pitched for the Diamondbacks, Detroit Tigers and is now preparing to enter his fifth year with the Nationals. He has

Current Washington National and former Missouri Tigers pitcher Max Scherzer speaks to those in attendance at his jersey retirement on Friday, Jan. 17, 2018. | COURTESY OF MIZZOU ATHLETICS

a career .322 ERA with 2,449 strikeouts and has finished the last four seasons in the top-two in total strikeouts.

At 34 years old, Scherzer has already had a Hall of Fame caliber career. The three-time Cy Young Award winner is the 11th pitcher in MLB History to record 1,000 strikeouts in both the National and American Leagues. He has also been an All-Star each of the last six seasons, including three AllStar Game starts (2013, 2017-18).

Scherzer and the Nationals will open spring training workouts in less than a month at the team facilities in West Palm Beach, Florida, while – four hours north in Jacksonville, Florida – his alma mater will begin its 2019 campaign on Feb. 15 with a three-game series at North Florida.

Edited by Adam Cole acole@themaneater.com

BASKETBALL

Missouri wins big over Texas A&M on the road, 66-43 The Tigers topped the Aggies for their first SEC win of the 2019 season, led by Jordan Geist, Jeremiah Tilmon and Mark Smith.

EMILY LEIKER

Assistant Sports Editor Jeremiah Tilmon strutted into the locker room Saturday afternoon in Reed Arena with a first half statline that listed zero fouls.

Zero fouls for the sophomore forward who fouled out in Missouri’s first two conference games this season, and who logged two fouls in the first half of Wednesday’s loss to Alabama.

Missouri (10-6, 1-3), however, won this time around and defeated the Texas A&M Aggies (7-9, 1-4) 66-43 for its first SEC win of the season.

The win was in large part because of Tilmon, who finished the game with 13 points, six rebounds and only one foul. After losing their first three SEC games by double digit deficits, the Tigers needed to win Saturday to avoid becoming one of only two SEC teams without a conference win.

Senior guard Jordan Geist also made his impact felt Saturday. With 17 points and five defensive rebounds, he led the team after underperforming in the Alabama game. Sophomore guard Mark Smith also put on a show, scoring 13 points and keeping up his impressive 3-point percentage. He’s shooting 47.3 percent from behind the line this season.

Senior forward Kevin Puryear spearheaded the defensive front for the Tigers, logging nine defensive rebounds as well as one on offense.

Texas A&M has also struggled in conference play so far, its only win born from a buzzer beater against Alabama on Jan. 12. Otherwise, the Aggies have suffered losses at home to Arkansas, No. 14 Auburn and now Missouri, as well as a road loss

Missouri guard Jordan Geist shoots a 3-pointer over Tennessee guard Jordan Bowden in the first half of the Tigers’ 87-63 loss to Tennessee on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, at Mizzou Arena in Columbia, Missouri. | PHOTO BY SPORTS EDITOR ADAM COLE

to No. 12 Kentucky. Their first half performance against Missouri was their lowest-scoring of the entire season, at just 21 points.

The Aggies didn’t do much better in the second half, adding another 22 points to their score.

Sophomore guards Brandon Mahan and Savion Flagg recorded the only two 3-pointers of the second half for Texas A&M. Overall, the Aggies shot just 18 percent on 3s, while Missouri, ranked 16th nationally for its 3-point percentage, shot 40 percent.

Flagg was expected to light up the court for the Aggies, but Missouri held him to just 5 points late

in the second half, the first of which came at the charity stripe. He averaged 18 points per game heading into the matchup against the Tigers.

Missouri stays on the road for its next game, this time playing the Arkansas Razorbacks (10-7, 1-4) on Jan. 23. Arkansas is currently on a four game losing streak after opening conference play with a road win over Texas A&M. The Tigers will return home a week from Saturday to play LSU Tigers (13-3, 3-0) on Jan. 26.

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Tigers shot just 35.7 percent from the field in the opening frame and were behind 24-14 entering the second.

Turnovers and rebounding have been among Missouri’s weak spots all season, and South Carolina exploited both to keep the Tigers at arm’s length the rest of the game. The Gamecocks forced 16 turnovers and

trouble and attracting plenty of jeers

star senior A’ja Wilson fouled out for

leading

from the home fans. However, the

the visitors.

which passed without any notable

Tigers struggled to find contributions

Three

weeks

later

in

South

across the roster. After junior guard

Carolina, the Gamecocks evened the

Amber Smith and freshman guard

season series with a 64-54 win. A brief

Akira Levy – who combined for 28

scuffle late in the first half led to a

points – no Tiger managed to score

lengthy review and unsportsmanlike

more than 5 points.

calls against Cunningham and South

The Gamecocks finished with four

Carolina’s Doniyah Cliney.

players in double figures, led by

On Jan. 30, 2018, Missouri athletic

Mikiah Herbert Harrigan and Tyasha

director Jim Sterk accused Staley

Harris with 16 points each.

of promoting a hostile environment

outrebounded Missouri by a 35-29

Much was made before the game

toward Missouri’s players. Staley

of how the teams would respond to

sued Sterk for defamation, resulting

margin, including 14-7 on offensive

the bad blood left behind by two

in a $50,000 settlement last May.

rebounds.

tense games last season. On Jan. 7,

The SEC also fined Sterk $25,000.

Missouri

senior

into

spectacular technical

Monday’s

incidents.

foul

against

A

game, double

Missouri’s

Akira Levy and South Carolina’s Lele Grissett after a third quarter tussle was the extent of the drama.

The Tigers dropped to 0-4 all-time at South Carolina, which took sole possession of second place in the SEC with the victory.

The road ahead will not get much easier for the Tigers, who play at No. 15 Kentucky on Thursday. It will be Missouri’s third top-25 road game this month.

Sophie

2018, the Tigers upset the Gamecocks

Missouri coach Robin Pingeton

Cunningham scored a game-high

at Mizzou Arena as South Carolina

and Staley each downplayed the

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24 points despite running into foul

coach Dawn Staley was ejected and

importance of last year’s controversies

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“Beauty

and

the

Beast”

event.

Competing simultaneously next to the No. 20 Missouri gymnastics team, the wrestling squad thumped Central Michigan 32-15.

Despite losing the 125 round on a takedown in sudden death, Missouri was able to control the middle weight rounds, winning the next 4 out of 5 bouts by fall or technical fall.

In the 133 round, Erneste pinned Deven Perez of Central Michigan early in the first period by using his legs to get his opponent’s back on the mat. Erneste’s pin gave Missouri a 6-3 lead and the Tigers did not look back.

“It felt good to get the pin and get the team momentum going in the right direction,” Erneste said.

All-American and No. 3 Jaydin Eierman avenged his loss on Thursday with

an

aggressive,

performance

dominating

against

Central

Michigan’s Drew Marten.

After seven takedowns, a reversal and a four-point near fall, Eierman finally pinned Marten late in the third period. It was his 10th pin of the season.

Despite distractions

all

the

taking

music place

and inside

Mizzou Arena, coach Brian Smith knows how valuable a rambunctious environment can be in preparing his team for nationals.

Jaydin Eierman, Missouri wrestler, wins a match over a competitor from Central Michigan on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019. | COURTESY OF MIZZOU ATHLETICS

“This atmosphere gets them to

I’m glad we didn’t have to put him

practice that for NCAAs where they’ll

out there because he’s under the

have 20,000 people and the place is

weather badly,” Smith said.

going crazy,” Smith said.

A close win by a score of 5-3 for

win in dual play.

“It’s one of our team goals to win the regular season, so it’s another trophy in the case,”coach Smith said

Following two more pins from his

Wyatt Koelling put things away for

squad, Smith and the Tigers had a

the Tigers despite freshman Zach

Next up, Missouri heads north to

29-3 lead heading into the 184 bout.

Elam losing by fall in the third period

take on Northern Illinois (5-6) on

Similar to Thursday night, Smith

of the heavyweight bout.

Friday, Jan. 25 at 7.

decided to forfeit the match to rest his star senior Daniel Lewis.

of the conference title.

With the win, Missouri clinched its

eighth

straight

conference

“[Lewis] said he would weigh in

championship in the Mid-American

and wrestle if we needed him, but

Conference, and its 33rd consecutive

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