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HEALTH

Mizzou Public Health Club Tiger Tailgate Recycling program expects larger partnering crowds, more trash for Homecoming game with Like every other home game, Tiger Tailgate Recycling Columbia volunteers will help tailgaters recycle, this time charities during Homecoming, one of the most attended games of to make a the season. change HOMECOMING

ALEX FULTON

University News Staff Writer

Before the football game, sophomore Scott Heckman finds himself under a canopy tent on the northside of Faurot Field. Surrounded by fellow MU fans, Heckman participates in a different kind of tailgating, one that doesn’t involve alcoholic beverages or games of cornhole.

Since 2005, family members, friends and students like Heckman have participated in Tiger Tailgate Recycling.

Through the Sustainability Office, the program aims to encourage tailgaters within a one mile radius of Faurot Field to recycle through passing out recycling bags.

Two or three hours before the game, volunteers walk different routes to target various areas like the Hearnes Center or further areas like Greektown or the MU Health Care buildings, which

Through their volunteer work with local organizations, the MPHC is looking to make a difference.

JOSHUA RENEAU

Student Politics Reporter

to readers that the Washington D.C. and New York City "establishment" already knew.

“At a time when Americans were trying to decide whether or not to support an impeachment investigation against the president of the United States, I thought people had the right to know,” Baquet said. “I think to sit on information like that, when everybody else in the process knows, is not journalistic.”

Baquet, one of four 2019 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service recipients, led a master class called “Why Reporting Matters in an Age of Opinion and Snark.”

Baquet answered audience questions for the bulk of the class. Audience members asked him for career advice and pressed him on the economic uncertainty of the current

Despite only being eight weeks into the school year, the Mizzou Public Health Club is already on track and making an impact in the community.

After taking the reins this year, club president Sydney Jones is hoping to prioritize the service aspect of the club. This year, it is planning on working with a different volunteer organization around Columbia each month.

“We want to show that public health is very intersectional,” Jones said.

“It’s not just looking at nutrition and doing random stuff like that but it can also be things like working with immigrants and refugees who have very specific barriers in their health.”

In September, the club worked with local organization City of Refuge, which is, according to its website, a “501(c)(3) nonprofit organization created to help refugees and immigrants in mid-Missouri.”

After working with City of

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Tiger Tailgate Recycling increases recycling efforts by visitng tailgates to pass out recycling bags to fans. | COURTESY OF THE MU SUSTAINABILITY OFFICE

they drive out to on golf carts. In exchange for their help, volunteers are given a complimentary ticket to the game.

“We'll park the golf cart, walk down the aisles handing out recycling bags

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MASTER CLASS

New York Times executive editor addresses whistleblower controversy at master class Dean Baquet held a master class at Gannett Hall, where he answered audience questions about the condition of journalism.

ANNA COWDEN

Student Politics Reporter Dean Baquet felt his decision to publish information about the Ukraine whistleblower’s employment was easy, he told the packed Fisher Auditorium of mostly students on Wednesday Oct. 2.

The Pulitzer-winning executive editor of The New York Times came under fire after the publication reported the whistleblower worked for the CIA. Baquet said concealing this information was a matter of suppressing information

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BLOOD DRIVE

MU blood drive helps bring in thousands of units for Missouri hospitals Even though the MU blood drive receives thousands of units each year, the biggest challenge for blood drives is retaining donors.

LAUREN HINES

University News Reporter The largest student-run blood drive in the country was held in the Hearnes Center from Sept. 30 to Oct. 3 to start off Homecoming week.

The blood drive receives on average 3,600 to 4,000 donations a year, which helps provide blood to hospitals all over Missouri and parts of Illinois. Hospitals need at least a five-day supply to be prepared for a disaster and for daily needs.

In addition to needing blood yearround, the hardest challenge for blood drives is retaining donors.

Over the four days, the blood drive collected over 3,200 donations.

“Because we can get that much over a course of four days, I mean that’s a huge boost for us,” Joe Zydlo, Red Cross external communications manager, said. “And we have to collect about anywhere from 16,500 to 17,000 units of blood every month.

That’s just our region.”

That blood goes toward daily hospital needs and disasters in the region and across the country. Procedures will be stalled if the hospital doesn’t have the right blood type.

“It seems like we’ve always had a struggle with making sure we have a five-day supply throughout the whole year, this year,” Zydlo said.

While people should donate blood during a disaster, the best time to donate is January and early June.

“Usually we have slower times during the year, which is right after Thanksgiving through [the] Christmas holiday,” Zydlo said. “That usually leads [us] to issue Students volunteer to donate blood at the 34th annual MU blood drive on the week of Sept. 28. The blood an emergency appeal. People drive is one of the first events to kick off Homecoming during the month of October. don’t think of donating blood | PHOTO BY PHOTOGRAPHER NATALIE RADT around Thanksgiving or Christmas, Hanukkah — whatever three months until school is back in you are presenting for your sorority, fraternity or whatever organization you celebrate. They’re thinking about session.

Even though a person can donate you are trying to get points for, if getting together with family, but the every 56 days, or seven times a year, you donate here today, can we get need for blood is constant.” the biggest challenge the Red Cross you to come back two months from Since the Red Cross does 20% faces is retaining donors. of its blood drives at schools, it “So if you come here today and has to catch up on donations for BLOOD |Page 5

ABILITY WEEK

PROVOST

Annual State of Accessibility address kicks off MU Celebrate Ability Week

Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award recipients emphasize collaborative learning

MU’s disability organizations discuss progress, future plans and award leaders in accessibility.

WESLEY WARD

Student Politics Reporter MU’s Celebrate Ability Week kicked off on Oct. 1 with the annual State of Accessibility address hosted in the MU Student Center.

The event is hosted once a year to discuss the progress that MU’s disability and accessibility departments have made in making MU more inclusive and accessible for disabled students and faculty. Those departments include MU’s Disability Center, the Adaptive Computing Technology Center and the Office of Accessibility and ADA. This year’s event discussed the addition of accessibility as a priority to MU’s campus master plan, securing funding to improve accessibility in many parking lots across campus and the creation of a new scholarship for disabled students.

Future accessibility plans were also discussed at the meeting, with the various

organizations at MU hoping to improve restrooms, elevator services, classroom and event venue accessibility, travel paths between buildings and wayfinding signage to benefit all students.

The meeting concluded with the announcement of the winners of the Lee Henson Access Award, which is named after the first coordinator for the Americans with Disabilities Act at MU and is given to faculty and students who have shown excellence in promoting accessibility and inclusivity for disabled students.

Among the winners was MU senior Emily Reuther, president of Mizzou Disability Coalition and accessibility chair for the Panhellenic Association, an organization committed to making fraternities and sororities more accessible.

In addition to accessibility, another major concern for MU’s disability organizations is inclusion.

“They’re just a part of our academic community as anyone else,” John Bowders, former chairman of the chancellor’s Persons

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Three junior faculty members in the School of Medicine, the School of Health Professions and the Department of Learning, Teaching and Curriculum received the award.

LUCY CAILE

University News Reporter The three faculty who won this year’s Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award placed an emphasis on collaborative student-teacher relationships as the main reason for their success. The recipient announcements went out in the middle of September.

The award recognizes junior faculty for superior teaching and advising on MU’s campus. The winners are nominated by faculty, departments of schools and colleges through letters of recommendation from alumni and a list of the faculty’s

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and talk to some people for a little bit,” Heckman said.

“People are always very nice.

If people ask if we have any information, we have flyers that we also hand out about what to recycle, where to leave the bags, that sort of deal.”

With the upcoming Homecoming game, the program anticipates more recycling bags being handed out. Additionally, more volunteer slots are allocated for the increased number of tailgaters.

“I definitely think people get a little bit more careless when it comes to Homecoming just because it's a bigger party time,” Zoë Westhoff, student intern in the Sustainability Office, said. “There's definitely a lot more you have to make up for. But if you anticipate it, it ends up being the same amount as every other game because we can collect it and fix it.”

For larger games like Homecoming and Family Weekend, the program tends to have more volunteers sign up, whereas smaller ones like the Sept. 21 game against South Carolina tend to require less. Recruiting isn’t much of an issue for these larger games, Westhoff said.

“Usually the bigger games kind of recruit themselves,” Westhoff said.

“Parents weekend, we actually had to expand the amount of people that we had sign-up and then the same thing for Homecoming.”

Heckman began volunteering with Tiger Tailgate Recycling to fulfill his Business Administration 2500 course requirement of volunteering 15 hours with a nonprofit service organization. The Homecoming game will be Heckman’s fourth time helping out the program.

With many alumni coming back, Heckman sees an added

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T H E M A N E AT E R | N E W S | O CTO B E R 9, 2 0 1 9 pressure volunteering at the upcoming game. “[There is pressure] especially after the game to have that whole, nice, clean parking lot and not trash everywhere,” Heckman said. “It's really great to have alumni see clean places around campus to show that we are taking care of where they graduated from and making sure that we keep the place nice.”

While Tiger Tailgate Recycling focuses primarily on game day cleanup, the Sustainability Office works with other organizations like the Homecoming Steering Committee to offer insight on how to clean up other festivities like the Homecoming parade.

“We act as the mentor or the helping hands if somebody needs some guidance,” Ashley Craft, the MU Sustainability programs assistant, said. “We are also working with some individuals from the arts and sciences department.

They're doing a Homecoming trash cleanup and asking for guidance on how they can best be of service. There's a lot of neat initiatives that are going into Homecoming weekend, and our office is being there to help in any way we can.”

Tailgaters often tell volunteers things like, “we’ve been expecting you,” or offer them food and drinks for their service. Through the program, volunteers begin to develop a sense of community with the tailgaters while at the same time maximizing the amount of materials sent to recycling.

“I feel like programs like TTR can help divert a lot of materials from the landfill, materials that can be recycled,” Craft said. “At the sustainability office, we look at environmental, social and economic issues as a whole.

TTR really helps encompass the environmental issues that we're faced with and helps us do our part as best as we can.”

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The current state of local journalism makes him anxious — the idea of state-funded

journalism, too.

“We’ve seen the government doesn’t like the press,” Baquet said. “Politicians are not to be trusted in that regard.”

When asked by an audience member if he felt big publications like The New York Times have a responsibility in helping save local journalism, he said yes. But while the Times is big, he said it will never be big enough to cover all communities, especially low-income communities without local papers.

To help struggling local newspapers, Baquet said he wants to train journalists who can take the training they learned from the Times to other

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Refuge for a service-learning opportunity through the university, Jones found that the organization was in need of some help.

“It’s an organization that has a lot of love going into it but they don’t make a lot of money,” Jones said.

donations that go unsold, we are donating to City of Refuge.”

In October, the club will be working with Woodhaven, an organization dedicated to helping adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities succeed.

Partnering alongside Woodhaven and the Mizzou Disability Coalition, the MPHC is volunteering to help

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public health,” Jones said.

“There’s a lot of things that young people are very disturbed about in our society and our politics and most of them you can tie back to public health.”

In addition to working with local charities, the club offers other opportunities for students to get involved.

These include a semesterlong book club with Dr. Michelle Teti of the Missouri

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“Most people there are parttime and so they rely really heavily on volunteers.”

Teaming up with another local organization, Just Between Friends, the MPHC volunteered at the Just Between Friends Columbia Fall Sale 2019, an event hosted in the Hearnes Center Sept. 26-28. The event focused on selling supplies that are needed for families raising children, such as maternity wear, toys and clothes for newborns to juniors.

“The sale is primarily geared towards mid-Missouri families looking for items for their families at a lower price,” coordinator for JBF, Nichole Clark said. “The

at the Woodhaven Family Luncheon on Oct. 19 to serve lunch to the residents of Woodhaven.

“A lot of people with disabilities are older and don’t have family that comes out and sees them all the time so we’re gonna provide a meal for them … and then we’ll just sit with them and talk and be with them like a family,” Jones said.

As a service-oriented organization, the MPHC also seeks to advocate the importance of health literacy.

It views education, awareness and disease prevention as key components for creating a change in the world.

“I can look at everything around me and tie it into

newsrooms. He also said partnering with smaller news organizations and universities would help.

With the decline of print journalism, Baquet said the traditional pipeline of hiring new reporters has shifted from traditional city papers to new organizations like BuzzFeed.

Baquet urged his audience to ignore social media hate and focus on the work itself.

“Your goal is to publish,” Baquet said. “That’s the business we’re in, the craft we’ve chosen.

There should be very, very little that I know that you don’t get to know. That’s the rule. The more I know that you don’t know, the more I’m just another power player in New York and Washington who gets to smooze about all the cool stuff I know.

The three other recipients were Burrell Communications Group, Stanley Nelson and Marina Walker Guevara.

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School of Health Professions looking at a book through a public health narrative. This semester they are reading “Nomadland” by Jessica Bruder.

The MPHC meets on the first Wednesday of every month in Clark Hall Room 616 to discuss their plans for the month and hold discussions on current public health issues.

With a long year ahead, Jones is hopeful for the future of the organization and believes in its mission.

“We can’t just expect the health industry to change on its own,” she said.

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Dean Baquet, executive editor of The New York Times and one of four recipients of the 2019 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service, held a journalism master class for the public. | PHOTO BY PHOTOGRAPHER DANIEL DAUGHERTY

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now when there’s not

an incentive?” Zydlo said.

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The Red Cross’ main

donor base are people in

their 40s to 60s, according to Zydlo. As the donor base gets older, they face more health problems, resulting in more deferrals.

“So it’s a challenge because you can’t make blood,” Zydlo

said. “It’s not something you can create synthetically. It has to come from us.”

According to the MU News Bureau, 50,000 people have

been helped by 17,000 units of blood from the MU blood drive since 2015.

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teaching qualities.

The winners of

It was late one Friday night when Henderson found out she won the award, and she spoke

2019

award

of being very grateful and humbled when

Cheryl

Hill,

it happened. She spoke fondly of watching

Whitney Henderson and Mike Metz. Through

students learn and grow from when they first

conversations with all three recipients,

enter the program to when they leave.

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the are

an overarching message of gratitude and

“Students step into our program, and they

humility was present, as well as a prevalent

are very young and naive about what their

love of their work and students.

Dr. Hill is a morphologist and anatomist as well as an assistant professor at the School of Medicine. When she first found out she won the award she was surprised, but also

“Hospitals in Missouri are the ones that count on us,”

profession is, and they are not sure if they’re gonna make it,” Henderson said. “But then they progress, and you see them develop into really awesome human beings and young professionals. They’re prepared to go out and do great things in practice and in society, so I

Maddie Kaiser, blood drive steering committee member, said.

“If they don’t get the blood, it’s really kind of on us.”

The Blood Drive Steering Committee has been planning the

blood drive for a year.

“We do a ton of PR to make sure that not just people from

Greek life come and donate,” Kaiser said. “We want the whole community to come.”

The committee’s goal is to collect 1,000 donations a day,

according to Kaiser.

“[I’m donating] partially because I’m scared of needles,”

freshman Joshua Dowell said. “This is my way of trying to conquer that fear.”

After his second time donating, Dowell learned that the

blood drive is the largest student-run drive in the country.

“It’s kind of cool that I’m a part of it,” Dowell said.

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with Disabilities Committee, said. “What they do might look a little different, but they’re still trying to be students, to be faculty, to be staff and do their jobs accordingly.”

Bowders also said it’s important to recognize psychological disabilities as

The Thompson Center for Autism & Neurodevelopmental Disorders was established at MU in 2005 for students with neurological disorders, and its Division of Applied Behavior Intervention Services was also recognized for a Lee Henson Access Award. “[Our goal] is to increase access to behavior analytic services for not only

Whitney Henderson, one of the winners of the 2019 Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award, is an occupational therapist and associate clinical professor in the School of Health Professions. | COURTESY OF MU SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROVISIONS

Cheryl Hill, who was awarded the 2019 Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award, is a morphologist and anatomist as well as an assistant professor at the School of Medicine. | COURTESY OF MU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

honored.

“It’s nice because it means that people appreciate what I’m trying to do here,” Hill said. “I’m really trying to help the students learn their anatomy because it is so important for their health and their future patient’s health.”

One-on-one relationships with the students are at the center of what Hill appreciates most about her work. She values getting to know students more in office hours and some extracurricular activities.

“I teach really large classes, so when they come into my office hours it’s great because they teach me stuff,” Hill said. “I learn things about injuries that I didn’t know about and random pop culture stuff — like they were helping me figure out Instagram last week.”

Whitney Henderson, another recipient of

The MU Disabilities Center celebrates Ability Week, introducing students to perspectives on accessibility and inclusion during the week of Sept. 28.

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well as physical ones.

“More than half of the people who come to the disability center don’t have a physically noticeable disability,”Bowders said. “Rather they have a neurological or other problem or a disability.

So when you walk around campus you don’t see all those people, you don’t notice all those people that have some disability, but it’s important to recognize that and accommodate them.”

individuals with autism but also for developmental disabilities across Missouri,” DABIS representative Casey Clay said.

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the award, shares this same appreciation of teachers learning from students. Henderson, an occupational therapist and associate clinical professor in the School of Health Professions, spoke of how the award is not only a gift to her, but a gift to everyone in her department.

“It’s an honor,” Henderson said. “I think it’s more for our department. I just like that our department is getting the recognition they deserve because they support me and our colleagues support me. It’s about our students who come to class every day excited to learn.”

Mike Metz, a winner of the 2019 Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award, is an assistant professor of English Education in the Department of Learning, Teaching and Curriculum. | COURTESY OF THE MU COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

think the growth is the biggest and most rewarding factor.”

The third recipient of the award, Mike Metz, assistant professor of English Education in the Department of Learning, Teaching and Curriculum, not only emphasized the importance of a strong relationship with the students, but also being able to learn from other faculty members as well.

“I think there is something important even at the undergraduate and graduate level that I’m still teaching people,” Metz said. “I’m teaching people some content, but I’m still teaching people. It’s that relationship that is the most important thing.”

All three teachers emphasized that learning is a collaborative process, and therefore the award should represent a celebration of the process and not solely their work. Their work is fulfilled each day through sharing knowledge and understanding the value of strong relationships among faculty members as well as students.

“The work that we do is that we teach teachers,” Metz said. “I think a lot of my colleagues are amazing teachers, and I’m learning from them all the time. So as an early faculty member, I think that’s nice, and I can look to my more senior faculty members as people that I’m learning from all the time too.”

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Legion of Black Collegians homecoming traditions offers space to uplift black students Through debates, a ball and its own homecoming court, LBC hosts its annual homecoming events.

RACHEL BEHRNDT MOVE Culture Reporter MU's Homecoming is widely considered the first in the nation. Historically, though, some black students have been left out by the annual celebration.

The Legion of Black Collegians is the black student government at MU and its mission is to develop a lasting appreciation of values that will uplift black students while they're involved in academia. The group also hopes to heighten the cultural consciousness of all MU students to promote positive change.

One of the ways LBC works to uplift black students at MU is through its Homecoming events.

These allow black students a level of participation in homecoming they have been denied in the past.

The LBC homecoming shares some similarities with campus-wide homecoming, including an LBC Royalty Court. Its court is open to students of all grades, rather than just seniors.

The LBC Royalty Court has a different category

for all age groups ranging from Count and Countess, the freshman category, to King and Queen, the senior category.

LBC’s homecoming festivities are also similar in

its commitment to community service but differ in its addition of a homecoming ball. Candidates

why LBC having its own court enriches the MU community and lifts black students.

“It's a great thing because it just shows how

special a certain group can lead in a certain area,” Sweezer said.

While LBC Royalty Court and the campus-wide

participate in a series of events that challenge their

homecoming court are similar in a lot of ways,

include a debate and a pop culture discussion.

its unique role.

public speaking and communication skills. These Gabriella Salinas, who along with being a

Sweezer also explained how the LBC’s court plays

“It’s never a separation, but you get to do

student has her own photography business, is a

something that makes you feel like you’re in your

Salinas said her participation in the debate will

Brandon Rollie, who is also running for Duke,

candidate for Duchess, the sophomore category. help her grow.

“Seeing how I can communicate and build my

self-esteem will be interesting,” Salinas said.

For Salinas, LBC is more than a way for her

to grow personally. She says that its presence on

campus plays a vital role for black students in the MU community.

place,” Sweezer said.

explained how being a part of the court has impacted his life positively.

“My favorite part has been networking,” Rollie

said. “I’ve met new people that I didn't know or

wanted to know and I just feel like I'm getting myself out there more.”

LBC Homecoming will culminate with the LBC

“If we ever feel uncomfortable or ever want

Homecoming Ball where students can get dressed

personal, they’re there for us and there to support

court is crowned. The ball will take place from

to voice an opinion, whether it be political or the community,” Salinas said.

Diondre Sweezer, owner of Sweet LuvX clothing

and peer mentor in the Mizzou Black Men's

Initiative, is running for Duke. Sweezer explained

up, enjoy a meal and dance as the homecoming 6 to 10:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Courtyard Marriott.

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MU Greek Life crafts creative floats for Homecoming MU students bring the silver screen to life with movie-themed floats.

BEN WICHE MOVE Culture Writer As MU prepares for

Homecoming, students

some

are

putting

their creative skills to

good use. Students from various

organizations,

including and

fraternities

sororities,

are

working diligently to craft floats for the MU Homecoming

Parade.

This year, the floats will all be movie themed.

Mason

Karpinske,

The floats created for homecoming reflect each year’s Homecoming theme. This year’s floats are in the process of being decorated for the Homecoming parade, which will take place on Oct. 12, and will follow the theme “Tradition Stands Forever.” | MANEATER PHOTO ARCHIVE

head float liaison for

good team building,” Karpinske said.

float plan into motion.

electronics into a float. Last year he led AKL in

be moving,” Karpinske said. “There’s gonna be a

Robots” as a float.

Alpha Kappa Lambda, helped to put AKL’s “Grease” “There’s gonna be a Ferris wheel that’s gonna

dunk tank as well, with Truman dunking Ole Miss’

This isn’t Karpinske’s first time incorporating

building a moving game of “Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em “We have high hopes that it’s going to be just as

mascot.”

good, if not better,” Karpinske said.

lot of work and a lot of time. Karpinske thinks that

will have floats in the Homecoming Parade. Since

an MU tradition.

Association and the Alumni Association Student

Making a float with working electronics takes a

the hard work is worth it in order to be a part of “Towards the end, it’s 40-hour weeks working

on the float, but it’s all for a good cause [and] it’s

Greek Houses aren’t the only student orgs that

2016, organizations like the Catholic Student Board have crafted floats for the parade.

“We really want to make sure that the parade

entries reflect the diversity of our campus and the community,” former Steering Committee tri-director Elle Miller said in an interview with Mizzou Mag. As float liaison Olivia Land works on Phi Mu and Delta Kappa Epsilon’s “Up” themed float, she tries to incorporate not just the iconic house and Paradise Falls location, but also the iconic columns in front of Jesse Hall.

Land enjoys working on the float, even though she knows it will only be appreciated for a short amount of time during

the parade.

“I wish there was some way for it to be appreciated more, but I think all the traditions that go along with Homecoming are really important to Mizzou and the community that we have here,” Land says. “Even though it doesn’t last a while … what would Homecoming be without it?”

The floats will be on display Friday as part of Campus Decorations in Greek Town, before hitting the road to join in the Homecoming parade on Saturday.

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FOOD

Downtown Columbia restaurants offer tastes from around the world MU students don’t have to step too far off campus to taste recipes brought to Columbia by international families.

MADDIE SCHUCK

MOVE Culture Reporter A walk to downtown Columbia proves that students don’t need to sign up to study abroad or go on a Mizzou Alternative Break trip to satisfy their exotic appetites. Crossing Elm Street can be a portal to the many flavors of the world if you know where to look.

International Cafe International Cafe has a long history in Columbia, occupying a few locations before settling on Ninth Street. Here they have built a strong customer base over the last nine years. Stepping into the cafe plays a trick on the senses with sounds,

smells and sights that match that of a Mediterranean eatery.

“We have Greek and Middle East[ern] food, it’s kind of a mix of international,” owner Mohamed Gumati said. “Most of the food we make from scratch … our recipes are consistent.”

Gumati hails from Libya and his wife, Elizabeth, was born in Venezuela. Their roots allow them to create an interesting dining experience. The cafe offers options for everyone, from gyros fresh off the spit to a vegetarian hummus plate.

Cafe Poland Around the corner on Locust Street, another classic provides a taste of the unusual. Cafe Poland offers exactly what one would expect: traditional Polish meals. The menu includes Polish sausages, salads and breakfast options to complement their coffee selection.

“Everything is from scratch, made here. It’s all original Polish recipe,” co-owner Robert Burlinski said. “The

food is like family, homemade food.”

The building itself offers a welcoming energy, adding to the homestyle feel. The somewhat famous sign outside reads “Coffee and Pierogies,” advertising the cafe’s most popular dish, a dumpling filled with potatoes, cheese or meat. Lit up day and night, the sign is a reflection of the roots the family has planted in Columbia since traveling here from Poland.

“My mom is always saying that the customers are our family because we don’t have anyone here. Just me, my mom and my brother … the people are our friends,” Burlinski said.

Sagua La Grande New to the scene, Cuban cafe Sagua La Grande is already earning a unique reputation. The restaurant, named after co-owner Katy Ugalde’s home town and reflecting the culture of that area, opened Sept. 5.

“These are all of Katy’s recipes from her growing up in Cuba,” Greg Butler, co-owner and husband to

Katy, said. “Cuban cooking relies on root vegetables, onions, garlic … you get a lot of good savory, smoky flavors out of those natural ingredients.”

Since opening, Sagua La Grande’s most popular menu item has been the national dish of Cuba, Ropa Vieja.

This is a dish of slow cooked and shredded meat in a tomato sauce with a variety of vegetables. To the couple, the fresh ingredients and labors of love that go into the food are what makes Cuban cuisine so special.

“It’s healthy, it’s real, it’s not plastic, it’s not frozen,” Ugalde said.

“It is unique. That is where I was born, this is what I do, and nobody can copy me.”

These locations are just the tip of the iceberg that is Columbia’s ethnic food scene. Students wanting to try something new have options from every corner of the world brought to them just steps off campus.

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FILM

MOVE’s fall movie preview: five films we’re looking forward to Kick off awards season with a look ahead to the upcoming movies we’re most excited for.

JOE CROSS MOVE Angles Editor The first weekend of October usually signals the arrival of awards season. Last year, Oscar-favorite “A Star is Born” arrived in theaters, and this year, the controversial “Joker” debuted. Here are some of the films MOVE is looking forward to seeing this fall.

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”The Lighthouse” (Oct. 18) This summer’s divisive “Midsommar” proved that A24’s brand of arthouse horror isn’t for everyone, and “The Lighthouse” looks to alienate audiences even further. Shot in black and white and featuring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson as dueling lighthouse keepers, the film seems like a far cry from a typical October horror movie. ”Knives Out” (Nov. 27) Despite the mixed audience reaction to Rian Johnson’s “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” the film was a critical and commercial triumph, and now the director has crafted a smaller feature before returning to “Star Wars.” “Knives Out” boasts a stacked ensemble cast and a murder-mystery premise that looks equal parts inspired by Agatha Christie and “Clue.” ”Uncut Gems” (in limited release Dec. 13; everywhere Dec. 25) Featuring one of the strangest casts in recent memory (including Adam Sandler, Kevin Garnett and Idina Menzel) and from the directors of 2017’s anxiety-inducing “Good Time,” “Uncut Gems” is certainly a unique choice for a Christmas Day release. The film follows Sandler as a diamond dealer who makes a risky bet that sends him spiraling throughout New York. From the film’s trailer, it looks to be a similar affair to “Good Time,” featuring neon lights, pulsing synths and lots of shouting. ”Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” (Dec. 20) The lastest Star Wars film, 2017’s “The Last Jedi,” completely subverted narrative expectations and divided fans. Now, the sequel trilogy, back in the hands of “The Force Awakens” director J.J. Abrams, will come to a close. Whether Abrams is able to stick the landing remains to be seen, as he’s famously been criticized for his endings before. What we do know is that the apparent return of Emperor Palpatine has been heavily hinted by the marketing, and that the film takes place approximately a year after the events of “The Last Jedi.” We’ll have to wait until December to find out this installment similarly causes a theater to riot. ”Cats” (Dec. 20) Following in the footsteps of cinematic landmarks like “Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Road Chip” and “Ferdinand,” Tom Hooper’s “Cats” will open the same day as “Star Wars.”

The trailer sent shockwaves through the film world back in July due to its use of “digital fur technology,” which rendered acting giants like Sir Ian McKellan as Cronenbergian CGI nightmares. It feels impossible at this point to speculate whether this film will be a surprise hit or deeply loathed, but based on the extreme reaction to the trailer, it’ll certainly be one to talk about.

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Columbia Entertainment Co. VP gives insight on creative inclusion Derek Shoults, local actor and CEC VP, has evolved greatly with the power of creative versatility and has carved out a place in Columbia’s theater scene.

GEORGE FREY

MOVE Culture Reporter Columbia Entertainment Co. has been in operation since 1979.

CEC has provided Columbia residents with various theatrical performances and has fostered creativity for those who have taken part in CEC’s projects over the years.

Vice President Derek Shoults said CEC has been an outlet for him to express himself as a visionary.

On the road to acting and producing, Shoults had to face the many Catch-22s that came with being a creator.

However, he has managed to come away with a broader understanding of what he is passionate about and the importance of flexibility as an artist.

Shoults joined CEC in 2014. His first performance was in the Monty Python musical, “Spamalot.”

It was with this performance that Shoults began to lay the foundations to cement himself as a permanent fixture at CEC. “I was a huge Monty Python nerd, and back in the day I knew most of it by heart,” Shoults said. “So, I went out and auditioned for it and got the part of the Knight who says ‘Ni.’ I also played a Laker Girl, where I was in drag for that role and I’ve been doing shows ever since. Last June, I joined the board of directors, because I wanted to get more involved with the theater and decision making.”

Before his time at CEC, Shoults was a student at MU who had a passion for screenwriting. The prospect of creating something has been a major appeal for him for much of his life, but it was in college when he really began to find his voice.

Shoults’ overall creative process focuses not only on his individual thoughts, but

also naturally includes others’ thoughts. For any project Shoults takes on, he not only gives it a unique spin, but also puts other people’s ideas forward and adds them to his overall creative narrative.

As reported by Inside Columbia, Shoults and his wife, Kate, have become what the magazine called “a staging power couple.”

The two helped produce and direct CEC’s January 2019 production of the 2008 Tony Award-winning musical “Next to Normal,” which follows the story of a typical suburban family with emotions boiling beneath the surface. Unlike the musical, however, Shoults has found liberation via the arts; Nothing is left below the surface.

Ryan DeLeon, a fellow CEC board member and actor, has witnessed the evolution of Shoults’ creative process over a period of four years. Shoults and DeLeon met during the CEC’s musical adaptation of the 80s high school drama “Heathers the Musical.” They have since been able to unite their creative energies to perform in a variety of projects, such as a satirical podcast reading Craigslist posts called “For Sale by Owner.” It was in this collaboration DeLeon realized how Shoults opened him up to a whole new way of thinking.

"Derek is always fantasizing of different ideas and how to turn them into their own universes,” DeLeon said. "I’ve always found that fascinating about him. With the podcast, he roped me into opening up and showed me how easy it was to be funny and be myself."

For much of his life, Shoults said his ultimate lifetime goal was, for him, set in stone. He would not be deterred from his passions.

At the same time, however, what Shoults has found is that, in life, one of the best things a person can be is flexible. To approach one’s ideas from a different angle if they don’t work the first time, or to be able to find satisfaction in an entirely different path is a crucial skill.

“My goal was screenwriting,

that was where I was headed,” Shoults said. “I actually got into a master’s program for screenwriting in Los Angeles.

I was there for a semester, and it did not agree with me.

I transferred that [credit] when I came back to Mizzou and began to work on prose, fictional

writing,

instead

of writing of the screen. I have always had a heart for written fiction. Influences can come from all over, and it’s great to diversify what you’re willing to do, as that will open up many avenues for you.”

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CULTURE

MU Language Partners bridges gap between cultures Program pairs non-native English speaking students with native English speakers to help practice conversational English and learn about new cultures.

SOPHIE STEPHENS MOVE Culture Reporter Communication is one of the most important parts of building relationships. It can be challenging enough moving to a new place and making friends in college, but for students who are not fluent in English, it can be even more intimidating. Not only is there the difficulty of being in a new place, there can also be the challenge of communication because of language.

Language Partners, an organization in the MU Women’s Center, works to help non-native English speakers practice conversational English while on campus. The program helps with both language connection as well as the overall acclimation to Columbia.

Language Partners pairs one non-native English speaker with a native English speaker on campus to meet once a week for an hour and practice conversational English together. Partners can talk about whatever they want, whether it be academics related, culture related or just about daily life.

Emily Tarby, the MU Women’s Center graduate assistant in charge of Language Partners, has been with the program since last year when she began working in the Women’s Center. Tarby says the purpose of the program is not only to help nonnative speakers practice English, but also to allow both students involved to learn about a different culture.

“Native English speakers, especially on campus in the midwestern U.S., don’t really have significant exposure to people of different backgrounds and cultures,” Tarby said. “I could only imagine what it would be like to come from a completely

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job is watching relationships blossom between

Korea and Cross’s language partner for the year,

the partners despite the cultural and language

says she most enjoys talking with Cross about

differences.

daily life and American culture.

Sophomore Shakira Cross signed up for Language

“Last time we talked about some policy, like

Partners last year as part of her Women’s Center

Kim Jong-un and Trump,” Jeon said. “We talk

volunteer application. Although it was initially required, Cross decided to sign up again this year because of the personal connection she felt with her partner.

Cross credits her connection with her partner last year to growing up with her mother, who is an immigrant. Her experience with her mother, who is not fluent in English, helped Cross form a connection both with her language partner last year and her partner this year, while also motivating her to explore her own culture she grew up in. Cross appreciates the cultural awareness she gets from being a partner despite any differences in language, age or culture.

“I don’t think there should be a barrier in order to have a meaningful conversation,” Cross said.

“It’s not because you don’t understand that person and what they’re saying, it’s because you aren’t taking the time to carefully listen to that person that may not be able to speak English well. Just because a non-native English speaker cannot speak English to a standard that American people have doesn’t mean that they’re dumb or that they’re uneducated.”

about food and just the difference of culture. Last time we talked about K-pop. It’s just daily life. I learned about many useful words such as retail therapy and freshman 15. These words that aren’t in the dictionary.”

For Cross and Jeon, the cultural differences are what makes the language partner program fun, not challenging, as both see it as a way to learn more about a different, new culture. Cross hopes to learn more about South Korean culture to limit and correct assumptions or stereotypes that may come up. For Jeon, she’s hoping to make a native friend outside of her academic studies.

“It’s a really good opportunity for international students,” Jeon said. “In my department it’s hard to make friends because they’re really busy and they have to study their area, so it’s very difficult to meet friends in other departments.”

Friendships are the main goal of Language Partners in Tarby’s mind. In her time with the program, she has seen several relationships form, some of which take native English speakers to their partner’s home country. Seeing those relationships bloom is what Tarby finds the most rewarding.

different country and not know anybody and not

Cross and her language partners spend their

know any customs or culture. Giving them this

weekly hour simply exchanging cultures. Last

space to be able to learn about the country they

year, Cross and her language partner did a cultural

will be learning and living in for a while … makes

exchange with food, where Cross ate traditional

them feel connected to our community here at

Chinese food and her partner experienced an

every participant can at least create some sort of

Mizzou.”

American burger. Cross says that with her language

relationship or connection with somebody else in

partner this year, food and hobbies are common

the program, whether it be their partner or not.”

Tarby says although she’s worked hard to improve outreach for the program and grow the organization overall, her favorite part of the

conversation topics.

Younghyeon Jeon, a Ph.D. student from South

“I’m a huge proponent of human connection,” Tarby said. “I love the fact that relationships have totally blossomed in this program and I hope that

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Editorial: CDS has to do more if they want to be considered “sustainable” Despite its website and outdated statistics, Campus Dining Services isn’t as sustainable as it claims to be.

“Knowledge is the key to success in developing positive habits. Commitment begins with a personal understanding of the social and environmental impact we have, and the roles we play individually and as a community.” From this statement written about MU’s sustainability efforts, one would think that Campus Dining Services and the university are doing all that they can to make campus greener. However, when you look past wellworded statements, as well as outdated stats and webpages, it’s clear that CDS is doing very little to live up to their promises.

In the past, CDS has been more proactive in its efforts to be more sustainable, but in recent years those efforts have been reduced significantly.

According to its Pride Points webpage, CDS composts its food waste with Bradford Research Farm. However, in an article by the Columbia Missourian the department has decreased the amount of material it sends to Bradford by 40%.

The use of plastic is also something that has many students at MU confused. Reusable plates, cups and silverware are only available when big tour groups are expected to come through the dining halls. Other days, disposable cutlery, dishes and cups are utilized equalling up to at least 250

tons of waste per year.

Furthermore, the lack of vegan options in dining halls is uninspired. According to Global Citizen, growing more plants and reducing the demand of meat and factory farming can help clean soil, reduce energy consumption and purify the air.

There are also many that are looking to a vegan diet for its health and environmental benefits, with “12% of Millennials [describing] themselves as vegetarians or vegans, 11% of boomers, 8% of Gen Xers and 7% of Gen Z,” according to Forbes. Restaurant chains are also looking at more vegan options, with Burger King releasing their Impossible Whopper and KFC testing out Beyond Chicken.

With many looking to veganism as a lifestyle, why can’t CDS take note? On its website, CDS has a page dedicated to helping plant based students navigate vegan options at various locations, saying that “Campus Dining Services has options at every location to meet a wide range of dietary preferences, restrictions and allergies.” On PETA’s Vegan Report Card website, however, MU has a 45% student satisfaction rating. One student wrote, “Short of a very basic salad bar, the university offers no hot [vegan] food prepared by staff. The mini fridge holds a large variety of processed foods like dairy free muffins, breads, pastas, veggie patties, and burritos. The lack of options makes it very difficult to enjoy being vegan here.”

With all of this being said, why is it important

that we’re talking about MU’s sustainability efforts — or lack thereof? Broadly speaking, if nothing is done on a global scale to help our planet we won’t have it for much longer. Also, we need to talk about it because MU won’t. CDS’s website is swamped with pages dating back to 2013 and is riddled with stats that are in no way relevant to campus anymore. The charade that is reusable cutlery and plates on tour days is disingenuous.

Equating plant based eating to a salad bar is lazy.

And above all, none of this is showing dedication to sustainability and a “personal understanding of the social and environmental impact we have, and the roles we play individually and as a community.”

EnvironmentalScience.org defines sustainability as “[looking] to protect our natural environment, human and ecological health, while driving innovation and not compromising our way of life.” Google also says that it is “the ability to be maintained at a certain level or rate.” What CDS has done in the past, while it should be celebrated, doesn’t align with the above definition. Most importantly, it doesn’t align with the desires and needs of MU students. If it did, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. The ask isn’t that CDS start up programs and initiatives that aren’t feasible, but rather focus on one effort at a time, do it well, do it honestly and transparently.

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L E T T E R TO T H E E D ITO R LETTERS DO NOT REPRESENT THE OPINIONS OF THE MANEATER OR ITS EDITORIAL BOARD Climate politics is partisan, but climate science is not To drop the politicized divide between conservatives and liberals, let’s just refer to people in terms of their level of investment in the future climate on Earth. To start, the congresspeople who met with the American Conservation Coalition Campus are not on the side of climate activism.

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst has extremely close ties to the Koch Brothers, saying herself that the petroleum billionaires set her on her path to the Senate. Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell took until February of this year to admit humans are causing climate change, and only admitting as much to disagree with the Green New Deal. Roy Blunt, one of our dear Senators, proposed the only amendment to the Keystone XL pipeline project out of three that didn’t take the position that humans cause climate change. Not only that, the amendment nullified a November agreement with China to reduce emissions. The amendment was voted down, but the entire bill was set to be vetoed

by President Obama. The pomp and circumstance surrounding the bill and the amendments was to

force Senators to state definitively whether they did or did not trust climate scientists’ analysis on man-made climate change. Revering these people as role models in the fight for our future is misguided at best, bordering on a serious mistake. These facts can be easily found online, just spend a minute on Google. Our Senators aren’t doing enough, if anything at all. According to the 4th National Climate Assessment Report, even if we completely stop emitting CO2 and other greenhouse gases tomorrow, there will still be a .6°C increase in climate temperature for the rest of the century. That doesn’t sound like a lot, but we’re already seeing the effects. We’re seeing more severe storms more frequently, mass flooding, more heatwaves and cold snaps which will only get worse the longer we don’t cut emissions. We don’t have the luxury of time anymore and we certainly cannot stop being activists for lowering emissions because we had our feelings hurt.

We are endangering our lives and those of our children. We are making strides, coal is on the decline and it’s becoming more and more unviable in the market. Unfortunately, it’s not happening

fast enough. Even the most progressive plan for mitigating climate change is a decade away from halting all greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. alone. With an administration vehemently opposed to any sort of climate change acknowledgment, cattle farmers burning the Amazon, and no solution in sight, the writing is on the wall. When I was about 10, my dad, a moderate conservative, taught me about climate change. I was so lucky to have someone that didn’t try to obscure the issue or frame it through a political lens. He told me it wasn’t something I would have to deal with, but we can all see the damage hurricanes, floods and fires are doing now. We need someone to tell us the horrible truth, all of it. Climate change will impact all of us, and we will have to face it one way or another and petty politics surrounding the issue do nothing to solve the problem before us. The clock is ticking and your future is being stolen in front of you. You should be angry; say the f-word.

- ETHAN CALFEE, MU STUDENT Edited by Leah Glasser lglasser@themaneater.com

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COLUMN: Natural solutions to mental health issues should be treated as supplements — not treatments When it comes to mental

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care is vital, but so is the recognition that lifestyle medicine is somewhat important to treatment.

ABIGAIL RUHMAN Abigail Ruhman is a sophomore journalism and political science major at MU. She is an opinion columnist who writes about student life, politics and social issues for The Maneater.

While great strides have been made for mental health awareness, there is still a lot that researchers and care providers don’t know. Mental health can be uniquely difficult to diagnose and treat. This lack of understanding has led to harmful stigmas and a community response that can be just as dangerous. While lifestyle medicine isn’t a cure, it is a supplemental way to support your mental wellness.

An important thing to understand is that mental health problems are very real and extremely stigmatized.

The typical belief is that mental health can easily be fixed by growing

explain possible alternatives. The popular ones are typically yoga, breathing exercises and mindfulness.

In religious families, mental health is often met with the responsibility to pray it away. Rather than recognizing that mental health issues aren’t just failed attempts at being a person, people will dole out advice about how to best fix the problem. These options aren’t offered as ways to help — they are offered as alternatives.

In addition, taking medication can be met with the belief that drugs turn people into zombies. If you’re the creative type and you start looking into treatment, the story of Vincent Van Gogh seems to become the main factor in each conversation. Many people believe that Van Gogh had to suffer to make such awe-inspiring work, but that isn’t true. Van Gogh created Starry Night, arguably his most famous painting, while in treatment for his mental health.

At the time that it was created, Van Gogh was actually proving that suffering wasn’t required for art.

Being told to do anything except seek medical treatment can take its toll. It can feel like you’re always fighting just to feel normal. This is where the community creates its

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Tiger Ticket-Holders: Missouri football tailgates become Arens family tradition over more than 50 years Couple Dick and Shirley Arens has tailgated before Missouri football games since the 1950s, a tradition that now includes their children and grandchildren.

line.

“I was on the last row screaming because I knew it was fifth down,” Shirley said.

Each of Dick and Shirley’s three kids still remember when the family would tailgate in Lot D, the current Mizzou Athletic Training Complex parking lot. They point the spot out to me from their current location EMILY LEIKER right outside gate 2W of Memorial Stadium. No one can quite seem Sports Editor to remember when they made the Dick Arens remembers buying his switch though. Dick just decided one first tickets to a Missouri football year they were finally going to make game in 1949 as a high schooler it.

Lot D was where pretty much every at Montgomery County R-II High Arens family tailgating tradition School.

Fast forward 70 years and at 86 started. One of those in particular is years old, Dick and his wife, Shirley, “The Pot,” a collection of $1 bids on sit underneath tents in the parking the final score of each game. Dick was lot of Memorial Stadium tailgating the first to keep track of participants’ before Missouri’s game against Troy. bids and money, sometimes even on They’re joined by their three the bills themselves. He likes to joke children, Kim, Brad and Jeff, as well about how he’d pay for his own kids as their respective spouses, Paul, to participate.

Eventually he passed on the number Lynn and Amanda. Jeff and Amanda’s youngest son, Lafe, is also there, as and money handling to Kim, who in well as a number of other extended turn passed it on to her daughter relatives and family friends. Former Erin. With most of the grandchildren Missouri Director of Athletics Mike in different parts of the country now, Alden even makes an appearance, the responsibility bounces around to different parties. For the most part, now a close friend of the family.

I’m greeted by everyone I’m though, the responsibility lies with introduced to with a handshake and Kim. At its largest, the Arens’ think a big smile.

Most of them are season ticket the pot probably reached anywhere holders like Dick and Shirley, and from $80 to $100. On Saturday, it have been since before any student rests somewhere around $20, which currently enrolled as an undergrad means that almost every person I can at MU was born. Many of them were count in attendance is participating.

Missouri football is so important also Tigers themselves, if even for just a year. Shirley attended MU for to the Arens family that in 2012 one year from 1950-51, and Dick — the same year the Tigers joined graduated in 1956. He and Shirley the Southeastern Conference — they married in 1957. They’ll celebrate took family pictures on Faurot Field for Dick and Shirley’s 55th wedding their 62nd anniversary on Nov. 2.

Kim, the oldest, attended MU anniversary.

They even got to kiss the 50 from 1977-1981. Brad did not attend MU, but his wife, Lynn, earned her yard line, knocking the popular MU masters as a Tiger. Jeff attended MU tradition not many complete off of from 1983-84 before transferring to their lists.

Amanda shows me the pictures, Columbia College. His wife, Amanda, earned both her undergraduate and scrolling through a Facebook album on her phone. She tells me it was masters at MU. Over the years, the family has incredibly hot the day they took witnessed many important Missouri them, and Jeff points out that it’s games. Of course, they were there also always 10 to 15 degrees hotter in 1990 for the infamous Fifth Down on turf fields.

It was brand new turf as well, Game against Colorado. Both Shirley and Kim specifically remember the installed fresh with the brand new way they reacted to the extra down SEC logo on the field. Both Jeff and Amanda remember watching that gave the Buffaloes a win.

At the time, Dick and Shirley’s the field maintenance crew clipping season-ticket seats were at the very the blades with scissors. By the top of the stadium on the 50 yard time they started taking pictures

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though, they had the whole place to themselves.

Lafe Arens is the only member of the family left at MU. The youngest of the grandchildren, he’s in his senior year, but still spends game days with his parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles. Once the game starts however, you’ll find Lafe in Tiger’s Lair, MU’s designated student section. He’s been a proud member for four years, and has painted up more than 14 times.

He’s also a member of Hitt Street Harmony, a vocal jazz ensemble run through the School of Music.

Coincidentally, the group is a sort of reincarnation of the one his parents, Jeff and Amanda, met in during their time at MU, called Singsations.

“It’s not the same group now, but it’s the precursor to what he sings in now,” Jeff said. “It’s

pretty cool to go back and to watch them sing and to go ‘we did that.’”

Jeff comes up and asks how long I’m sticking around. Apparently Lafe invited some of his choir friends at the request of his parents, and the group is planning on singing the alma mater.

They aren’t lying. When three of Lafe’s friends finally arrive, the group of six moves off to the side to practice their harmonies before gathering everyone under the tents for the performance.

There’s an abundance of food at the Arens’ tailgate, much more than the group, which hits about 23 at its peak, will be able to finish before heading into the game.

Paul, Kim’s husband, spends the most time at the grill. The family

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Missouri baseball, softball ‘beat hunger’ in third annual charity match The Fight Hunger Charity Game raised around $1,000 for people in need.

BEN PFEIFER Sports Reporter There was an aura emanating from the Mizzou Softball Stadium.

Both dugouts chomping their hands along to “Baby Shark” in between at-bats. The crowd belting the chorus of “Country Roads” after the opening line plays. It was pure, unbridled joy.

the two teams, this game raised a projected $1,000 to fight hunger.

Every fall, the two Missouri squads team up and face off in a fast-pitch softball match for charity.

Fans are encouraged to bring canned food or cash donations for Tiger Pantry and The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri.

Even though this game is for the community, the teams’ competitive instincts shined through.

Neither team is a pushover; softball made the NCAA Tournament, and baseball narrowly missed out last season.

2019 marked the third outing between the two teams. Softball took the inaugural matchup and

to open up the scoring. The next batter, junior Clayton Peterson, mashed a two-run bomb to give baseball a commanding lead that it would not relinquish. “[It is a] very fun hearted game we play and I know for them it’s probably a little more serious because it's their sport,” Bieser said. “It’s a good feeling whenever you see guys that take this game seriously. They get a chance to come out and celebrate it and have a good time.”

The Fight Hunger Charity Game is, unmistakably, a celebration. The softball team sings and dances in the dugout. “Sweet Caroline” is infectiously

Missouri’s baseball team does the hand motions to popular song “Baby Shark” during Friday’s annual Fight Hunger Charity Game. The baseball team beat Missouri’s softball team 4-0. | PHOTO BY PHOTOGRAPHER KIRUBEL MESFIN

The atmosphere at the Missouri baseball versus softball Fight Hunger Charity Game on Friday Oct. 4 was as relaxing and carefree as a sporting event can be. Childlike, even.

“I think a big thing is like they’re kids again,” Steve Bieser, Missouri baseball head coach, said.

“I mean, they're just out on the ball field having a great time, relaxing and playing their game.”

The impact of this simple fall evening goes beyond the apparent liveliness of its inter-squad scrimmage. More than playful competition between

baseball knotted up the series last year. Baseball captured the throne once again this year, shutting out softball en route to a 4-0 victory.

“Whenever we come out to play this game, the one thing I want to see us play is really good defense and to see our infielders make a couple plays,” Bieser said. “It’s a different ball, a different distance that they're away from the ball, but [I] see them react well.”

In the second inning, sophomore Cameron Swanger laced a two-RBI single into the outfield

jolly. It’s a celebration of baseball and softball and a celebration of life.

It’s also a celebration of community as well as a way of giving back to it.

“That's definitely the underlying meaning behind this game, to raise money for the food bank, food pantry and also to give our time,” Bieser said. “The one thing we can do very well is give our time to the food bank and continue to support them.”

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is breaking in a

80s and ending in the Chase Daniel era — that the

new

Arens’ started to step up their tailgating cuisine.

one

after

using their old

Dick and Shirley begin walking towards their

grill for 20 years.

entrance gate about 45 minutes before the game

He keeps breaking

starts. It takes them a little longer to get there now,

off bits of steak to hand to me as I stand and talk. u n d e r s t a n d a b l y , Ribeye steaks are the main course, sliced thin

and Shirley warns

for sandwiches. There’s also a rack of ribs. And

me that she’ll have

baked potatoes. And caesar salad, broccoli salad,

to take a break

chips, vegetables and deviled eggs. Some sort of

about halfway.

apple-cinnamon crumble that’s a new recipe. Of up

brands of beer and other drinks as well.

though,

tailgate. Or at least, they have at some point.

he said. “As far as the rest of us? I don’t know, it’ll be tough. It’ll be tough.”

The topic is a sensitive one of course, but Kim said it didn’t really hit her until I asked. She tears up talking about the tradition her parents have created.

“We are here for my mom and dad,”

She doesn’t end

course, there’s two coolers filled with different You name it, the Arens family has it at their

“It’s probably their last year, we’re pretty sure,”

needing

waves

as

Kim said. “Always

to,

have been, always

Dick

down

will. It’s hard for

a

us to think that this

club car roaming

There’s been king crab legs, beef tenderloin and

the parking lot for

cranberry sauce, omelets in a bag, and Taco Bell.

this exact reason.

They used to pick up a bucket or two of chicken

We climb on, and I

from the now-gone KFC on Providence. Jeff jokes

sit next to Shirley

that once they stopped going there, the place went

in the second row.

out of business.

She leans over to

Patsy and Brent Speight, who brought the steak

explain to me that

this week and are longtime friends of Dick and

the couple moved

Shirley, said they even remember having fajitas

their seats to the

once.

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might be their last year. The idea that they’re still here and they’re both 86 is phenomenal.

still get up and go.

They are still the leaders of the pack.

My brothers and I are still true Mizzou

The one consistent main dish is chili dogs,

or five years ago

which the family does once a season, usually when

when it became

it starts to get cold out. This year, they’re planning

too

on making them before the Nov. 16 game against

Shirley to walk down the steps in the stands. She

hard

for

Shirley Arens (left) and Dick Arens (right) greet former Missouri Director of Athletics Mike Alden (center) at the Arens family’s tailgate on Oct. 5. | PHOTO BY PHOTOGRAPHER MICHELLE GUTIERREZ

Florida, when all of

“Just Missouri and mom and dad, it means a lot to me,” he says.

The three siblings aren’t ready to let Dick

over

and Shirley’s tradition simply end, though.

whether it actually

After more than 50 years of an Arens family

the

member attending every Missouri football game

day of the Fifth

— with the exception of the two years Dick

Down Game against

served in the army — there’s too much love for

Colorado, the Arens family

got

Tiger football in the family’s DNA.

early

“Fall Saturdays, it’s Missouri football,” Brad

revenge on some Colorado by

said. “Didn’t matter where it was. If it was

natives

serving

away, we were watching it on TV or radio. I’ve

them

been to seven or eight away games. Like to go

buffalo — without

to more. One of these days I will be able to.”

telling them.

When next season rolls around, there’s still

Food at the Arens family

uncertainty if the Arens family will be at their

tailgate

hasn’t always been so fancy, though.

The rule used to be

that part will never

Brad shares the sentiment most concisely.

Although there’s

on

that giving it up —

may change.”

be in town.

occurred

fans, so I’m not sure

be an option. Where we tailgate, how we tailgate

the grandkids will

dispute

They

spot outside gate 2W. No matter where they are Jeff Arens takes a photo of (from left to right) Kim Flake, Amanda Arens, Lynn Arens and Kristine Smiley at the Arens family’s tailgate on Oct. 5. | PHOTO BY PHOTOGRAPHER MICHELLE GUTIERREZ

that everyone would bring their own sandwich. It wasn’t until Missouri hit what they referred to as a “14 year drought” — starting sometime in the late-

smiles.

Jeff was the first to tell me that he thinks this is Dick and Shirley’s last year tailgating.

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though, Kim is certain of one thing.

“Even when we’re not here, even when my

mom and dad aren’t here, they’ll be here.”

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