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Vol. 85, Issue 23
Mar. 13, 2019
MSA
HEALTH
‘Show Your Stripes’ wins thinmargined MSA presidential election
RED process optimizes discharge process in nursing homes, MU researchers find
The ‘Show Your Stripes’ slate received 120 more votes than ‘All In Mizzou’ in an election that was one day longer than usual. ETHAN BROWN
Student Politics Editor Jennifer Sutterer and Mary O’Brien, the presidential and vice presidential candidates from the “Show Your Stripes” slate, will be the next leaders of the Missouri Students Association’s executive branch. The victory for Sutterer and O’Brien comes after the MSA court decided to extend the election’s voting period by 24 hours. This resulted in a voting period of 72 hours, instead of the regular 48 that the MSA election code outlines. The MSA presidential election came down to a margin of 120 votes, according to a tweet from the Board of Elections Commissioners.
President Jennifer Sutterer and Vice President Mary O’Brien at The Maneater debate on Feb. 27, 2019. | PHOTO BY PHOTOGRAPHER MADELINE CARTER
The “Show Your Stripes” slate received 51.6 percent of the vote, or 1,905 votes. The “All In Mizzou” slate — comprised of MSA senate External Affairs Chair Solomon Davis and Briana Dinwiddie — received 48.4 percent of the vote, or 1,785 votes. In a statement from "Show Your Stripes," Sutterer and O'Brien thanked the "All In
Mizzou" slate and said they hope to run a representative administration. "At the beginning of this campaign, we made promise to work with and a for all students," Sutterer and O'Brien wrote. "We intend to carry that promise throughout the duration of our administration as we work for and with the entire Mizzou student body.”
Davis, on his Twitter account, said he would continue to work toward the solutions he campaigned on, despite the election loss. “We all have gripes about this university, whether it is affordability, lighting, resources, or even just snow removal,” Davis wrote. “But staying silent won’t fix it for
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“Being confronted with those challenges helped the facilities come up with innovative solutions and gave them a better idea of how to meet their obligations to their patients for a safe and effective discharge,” Lori Popejoy, associate professor at Sinclair School of Nursing, said. ADELE DU
Staff Writer
PETITION
Cyclists speak out against MU land sale The land at stake is in St. Charles County and is next to the Katy Trail, the Weldon Spring Conservation Area and Busch Greenway. LAURA EVANS
University News Assistant Editor Five cyclists gathered in Flat Branch Park Monday morning before cycling off to deliver a petition to UM
A petition event was held at Flat Branch Park on Monday March 11, 2019, to protect the Katy Trail. | PHOTO BY UNIVERSITY NEWS ASSISTANT EDITOR LAURA EVANS
System President Mun Choi. The petition, signed by 555 people at the time of the event, was an attempt to dissuade Choi and the UM System from selling a portion of land in St. Charles County. The petition had 2,074 signatures as of March 12 according to Add Up, the website the Sierra Club used to host the petition. The Missouri chapter of the Sierra Club, a national grassroots environmental association, organized the event in hopes of preserving the land, which is around the
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A research team at Sinclair School of Nursing recently adapted a discharge process, known as Reengineered Discharge, traditionally used in hospitals to fit in the needs of short stay nursing home patients. The research was led by Lori Popejoy, associate professor at Sinclair School of Nursing and other faculty members from the School of Nursing, School of Social Work, School of Medicine as well as graduate and doctoral students from correlated departments. The Reengineered Discharge was first created by professor Brian Jack’s research team. Jack is the chair of the Department of
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