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Papa’s Cat Café gives Columbians a unique dining experience.
AASB establishes a new MU tradition.
Updates on this season’s volleyball team.
The Briefing: Results from the Aug. 7 primary elections Citizens voted for state and local elections and two propositions. CAITLYN ROSEN
Student Politics Editor Boone County and the rest of Missouri turned out to polls on Aug. 7 for various state and local elections, as well as two propositions. Total voter turnout came out 37.33 percent for Boone County. All Boone County voting results were gathered from the Boone County Clerk’s website, and statewide results come from the Secretary of State’s website.
Statewide Results Incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill won the Democratic primary with 82.6 percent of the Missouri vote and Josh Hawley won the Republican primary with 58.6 percent of the vote, according to the Secretary of State’s website.
Local Results Presiding Commissioner Primary Daniel K. Atwill received 63.4 percent of the Boone County vote for the Democratic primary, while David Seamon received 36.6 percent of the vote. Matthew Cavanaugh won the Republican primary with 100 percent of the vote. He ran uncontested. US House of Representatives: District 4 Vicky Hartzler won the Republican primary with 76.79 percent of the Boone County vote, with her opponent John Webb receiving 23.21 percent of the vote. Likewise, Renee Hoagenson won the Democratic primary
with 57.66 percent of the Boone County vote, while opponent Hallie Thompson received 42.34 percent of the vote.
Propositions Boone County voters also voted on two propositions in the Aug. 7 election, Proposition A: Right to Work and Proposition 1: Water Bond. Proposition A would make it illegal for unions to force workers to join or pay dues, according to the Secretary of State’s website. This proposition failed to pass, as 35 percent of Boone County citizens voted yes and 65 percent voted no. Meaning that 65 percent of Boone County citizens voted against the ban on mandated union joining and dues. Proposition 1, the water bond, calls for water system improvements using bond funds, according to the city of Columbia website. It passed with 81.57 percent of Boone County voting yes and 18.43 voting no. Edited by Anne Clinkenbeard aclinkenbeard@themaneater.com
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Online this week: Read more about back-to-school changes at themaneater.com. POLICIES
New changes to MIP policy include alcohol abuse prevention In years past, students charged with MIPs would first be sent to court, and then risk up to a year in prison and a $1,000 fine.
by university students and employees on university property and at events,” according to the Office of the Registrar. In the past, law enforcement officers have first issued a summons to first-time MIP offenders, which then followed with a trip to court and a referral to the Office of Student Accountability & Support, since an MIP is a misdemeanor. If convicted, a student could be fined up to $1,000 and risks imprisonment for up to one year, according to the same stature. Students would also be responsible for any court costs or attorney fees and if the violation occurred on campus, their parents would be notified, Sara Diedrich, public safety information specialist with MUPD, said. Instead, students will first be notified about MIP specifics and how violating the policy again could result in fines and a trip to court, Diedrich said. MUPD Chief Douglas Schwandt said this new policy aims to help students using non-punitive measures. “The new policy is an opportunity for our officers to educate underage students about the MIP policy and to give those students an opportunity to change their behavior and make better choices before sending them into the court system,” Schwandt said.
STEPHI SMITH
Managing Editor
MUPD has recently made changes to how first-time offenders are charged with minor in possession or minor in possession by consumption laws. As of this fall, any student under 21 who is a first-time offender will first be referred to the Office of Accountability & Support where each case will be reviewed, according to MUPD. If a student is found to be in violation of MU’s Standard of Conduct, then he or she will be required to complete education sanctions, including an alcohol education program. In Missouri, it is illegal for any person younger than 21 years old to possess, purchase or attempt to purchase any intoxicating liquor, according to the Missouri Rev. Stat. 311.325.1. MIPs also apply to any minor who appears “visibly intoxicated” or has a blood alcohol level of more than two hundredths of one percent. MU regulations “prohibit the unlawful possession, use, distribution and sale of alcohol and illicit drugs
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WELCOME WEEK
BRIEFING
Step Forward Day sends students into service
Briefing: enrollment, retention and Welcome Week
The annual Welcome Week event sent students around the city to help with projects at different service agencies.
Both enrollment and retention rates are up as well as the number of returning students living on campus.
CHRISTINA LONG
Staff Writer
Students gathered outside the MU Student Center at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday for MU’s annual Step Forward Day. The event was hosted by the Service Programs department of the Office of Student Engagement as part of Welcome Week. Small groups, each led by one or two upperclassmen students, ventured out into Columbia to participate in one-day service projects, giving new students a chance to serve in the community they’ll call home for four years. After participating as a freshman in 2017, MU sophomore Erin Davis served as a site leader this year. “When I did it my freshman year,
I made a couple new friends that I still have,” Davis said. “My site leader gave me so much advice and I wanted to do the same.” Davis led a group that went to the Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri. She said they spent 3 hours at the food bank packing rice krispies for donation. Site leader Madison Helms said her group planted lettuce and turnips with the Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture, a cause that was particularly of interest to her. “I’m involved in agriculture at home and I love that I have the chance to do it here and for a great cause,” Helms said. “The Center for Urban Agriculture has a huge impact on the city of Columbia produce large amounts of produce for families that can’t afford it.” Other groups spent the day on activities like baking cookies with veterans at Truman Veterans’ Hospital and playing trivia with
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MORGAN SMITH
University News Editor Students are back on campus, and they are as busy as can be. Welcome Week traditions and new events ushered in both returning students and MU’s class of 2022. Here’s a review of the biggest news headlines this past week. Move-in Though various student groups moved in on other days, Aug. 15 served as MU’s official move-in day for those living on campus. This year, students were required to check in at the Hearnes Center prior to arriving at their designated hall to unload.
Upon arrival, new residents were met by teams of volunteers to assist in taking their belongings to their rooms. Chancellor Alexander Cartwright and new provost Latha Ramchand served alongside roughly 900 other participants there to help. This year all 21 residence halls are in use, reopening five that were left vacant in 2017. Occupancy is at 93.4 percent for the fall semester, an increase from 77 percent in 2017. Additionally, on-campus housing is becoming an increasingly popular option for returning students. The university reported that it witnessed a 29 percent increase in the number of upperclassmen choosing to live on campus after their freshman year. Welcome Events This year, MU’s Welcome Week expanded to host 200 events put
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WELCOME WEEK
‘First Roar’ introduces freshmen to MU tradition The class of 2022 marched together across campus to Mizzou Arena to learn athletic traditions and hear from the chancellor, coaches and the MSA president. MICHAEL WILMARTH
Staff Writer
This year’s incoming freshmen marched together across campus to Mizzou Arena Aug. 15 to meet coaches and school officials and to learn their first Mizzou traditions at First Roar. 4,173 students seated themselves in the stands behind the hoop and listened to a list of speakers including coaches Cuonzo Martin and Barry Odom, Chancellor Alexander Cartwright and Missouri Students Association president Julia Wopata. First Roar is the newest addition to Mizzou’s ‘Welcome Week.’ The Alumni Association Student Board founded the event in hope of beginning another strong Mizzou tradition, one of the few where an entire class will come together. New Student Programs and AASB worked together on First Roar, with AASB handing out T-shirts and getting students excited for the event. Galen Bacharier, a sophomore journalism student, works in the external committee of AASB, which helps coordinate sponsorships for events. “A lot of students come here and they’ve never attended a Mizzou football game, they’ve never attended a Mizzou basketball game,” Bacharier said. “They come in and there are all these sorts of things they’re doing during the game, traditions wise — the alma mater, the fight song — and they have no idea what any of these are.” Alongside traditions education, another aim of First Roar, like most Welcome Week traditions, is to get incoming students excited about the community. “That should be a goal of every event in the first few weeks — getting people out and meeting
Initiated by the Alumni Association Student Board, First Roar is a new tradition held in Mizzou Arena that introduces freshmen to MU. | COURTESY OF FACEBOOK.COM
others, and forming those bonds early on through a common event,” Bacharier said. “We have stuff like that but it doesn’t happen very often. Pretty much Senior Sendoff, Tiger Walk and not even really graduation. Those are the few times you see pretty much your whole class in one place, and I think we saw that at First Roar.” Freshman Michela Saverino, a pre-nursing major from Kansas City, attended First Roar and walked
from Tiger Plaza to Mizzou Arena with friends she had made during sorority recruitment. “They got us a T-shirt and we all put them on together," Saverino said. “We were all unified and it made us feel like we were at home. Everyone’s there for the first time just like you are, and that’s really comforting.” Edited by Caitlyn Rosen crosen@themaneater.com
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MSA president Julia Wopata transitions into her role Despite being in Colorado for the summer, she was able to work toward her platform’s goals and improve relationships between MSA senators and the executive branch. CAITLYN ROSEN
Student Politics Editor Although Missouri Students Association president Julia Wopata wasn’t in Columbia this summer, she still worked toward accomplishing her platform’s goals and improving relationships between MSA senators and the executive branch. She spent the summer in Boulder, Colorado working as a software engineering intern for Google. Still, she was able to communicate with administration and MSA members to accomplish her goals for the year. One of these goals was to improve mental health resources for students, a goal which Wopata said is possible thanks to the help and cooperation of administrators. Wopata said administration is working to improve the communication between resources like the Counseling Center, the Student Health Center and the Wellness Resource Center. Along with the goals from her platform, Wopata has also made improvements in terms of MSA relationships. “I think that there has been a significant improvement because Connor [McAteer] and I came in eager to talk to them,” Wopata said. She credits much of the improved relationships
The president of MSA along with other Executive Cabinet members and senators traveled to Kentucky for an all SEC schools conference. | COURTESY OF TWITTER.COM
to the SEC exchange conference, where MSA members traveled to Lexington, Kentucky in July to work with other SEC student governments on ideas to better the university. “I went to the SEC exchange with all of the senators and that was a great experience to catch up with people,” Wopata said. “It was also great to strategize on where we hope to see the year go and get inspiration from the other student governments. Really, I learned that we all have a lot of similar issues that we’re dealing with because of the nature of student government.” Senate speaker Jacob Addington said that by bettering communication between the executive
branch and senate, MSA will function better overall. “One of the big reasons I see is in years past it seems like exec is working on one project and they don’t want senate to be involved and senate will do the same thing,” Addington said. “In actuality they’re really trying to accomplish the same thing and if they would’ve teamed up things would be accomplished a lot quicker. I think that’s gonna be the biggest change that we see this year, with collaboration on both sides we’ll be able to get a lot more done and work more effectively.” Edited by Morgan Smith mosmith@themaneater.com
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residents at Candlelight Lodge Assisted Living. Davis said she plans to apply to be a site leader again next year because of Step Forward Day’s
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In 2016, there were 158 reported on-campus liquor law violation arrests and 32 public liquor law violation arrests. In total, there were 196 liquor law violation arrests in 2016. A majority of these 196 total arrests were minor in possession charges, according to Kevin Rodgers of MUPD Support Services. Diedrich said the university wants to take proactive and helpful steps before immediately
sending students to courts and having them pay major fines. “Everything MU does is focused on helping our students be successful,� Diedrich said. “Our hope is students will ultimately make different choices in the future and realize that some decisions can have a long-term, negative impact on their lives.� Edited by Morgan Smith mosmith@themaneater.com
impact on both the community and MU students. “I think it helps new students meet new people who also enjoy volunteering,� Davis said. “[It] gets people involved not only on campus but in the city of Columbia. We’re all going to live here for a while, so it’s nice to give back.� Helms echoed Davis’ sentiment, saying that community service is an important way for college students to connect with their town and their
peers. “Giving back whenever you have the chance is the greatest feeling anyone could ever have, in my opinion,� Helms said. “To me, new MU students getting involved in the community gives them a chance to make it feel like home, not just somewhere they go to school.� Edited by Morgan Smith mosmith@themaneater.com
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Retention
The MU News Bureau also announced a retention rate of 87.3 percent, the highest in MU history. The retention rate measures the number of students from the freshman class of 2017-18 who enrolled again this fall. Additionally, 1,000 students transferred to campus for the semester, increasing by nearly 5 percent since last year. Diversity continues to increase at MU as well; the university reported minority enrollment had seen a jump by 29.7 percent in the freshman class.
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Classes began Monday, allowing MU to release the official report of enrollment and retention on campus for the new semester. The freshman class, consisting of 4,696 students, saw a 13.1 percent increase compared to 2018. This increase is the largest to occur at the university in 10 years.
MU’s newest freshman class painted the “M� on Faurot Field during Welcome Week. | COURTESY OF TWITTER.COM
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on by the 120 students serving as Welcome Week leaders. Incoming, transferring and returning students were all invited to traditions new and old to ease their transition into the new semester. Returning events included the Midnight BBQ, Painting the M, Tiger Walk and Step Forward Day. Additionally, the coordinators provided new opportunities for students to get to know one another during their last week of summer. First Roar, a new event the night of move-in, invited incoming students to learn about MU traditions as well as hear from various speakers. These included Chancellor Cartwright, MSA president Julia Wopata and MU athletic coaches, among other guests. Participants also received T-shirts and took a class photo. The newly instated neighborhoods hosted RHAsponsored Block Parties following the end of First Roar. Here all students were welcomed to spend the evening at various neighboring residence halls. The Welcome Week concert this year featured American Authors Saturday night at Carnahan Quad. Not all events and activities remained on MU’s campus. On Thursday and Saturday free shuttles ran from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. to and from Walmart, Kohl’s, Target and the Columbia Mall.
message to students in the form of a video and
written tips to his website and student emails on Monday.
His suggestions include checking emails, getting
involved and finding time to relax. During his
video address, he urges students to realize the opportunities for friendship with not only their peers, but faculty, staff and all of the people on campus who have their “best interests at heart.� Edited by Stephi Smith
Cartwright’s Message Chancellor Cartwright also released a welcome
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Find your feline fix at Papa’s Cat Café Papa’s Cat Café caters to many different crowds of people who, in the end, just want to spend some time with cats. MADALYNN OWENS
Reporter
Columbia’s first cat cafe is here. Whether you’re a cat lover, a coffee connoisseur, or a true book worm, Papa’s Cat Café is your next destination. Papa’s Cat Café is located just minutes from downtown Columbia, attracting both native Columbians and students alike. The cafe has a substantial variety of coffee and pastry offerings from Fretboard Coffee, a local coffee shop in Columbia. Time in the cat room can be booked for half an hour or by the hour. Hour long reservations for the cat room at just $10 also include a complimentary cup of coffee. Customers can also watch the cats through a large window with bar seating from the cafe while they enjoy their coffee. Yellow Dog Bookshop, another local downtown business, supplies books for customers to read in the cafe. Papa’s Cat Café partners with Boone County Animal Care to provide anywhere from 12 to 20 friendly cats that can also be adopted from the cafe. The cafe also has two resident cats that are not available for adoption. BCAC is a local non-profit dedicated to finding perfect homes for cats and kittens. BCAC also focuses on education as well as spaying/ neutering to limit the overpopulation of cats in the community.
A resident cat takes a nap on a shelf in the sitting area. | PHOTO BY PHOTOGRAPHER JESSICA KRAMER
The cafe is inspired by the widely popular cat cafes in Seoul, South Korea. Ryan Kennedy, founder, visited Seoul in 2016 and was struck by the idea to open a cat cafe in Columbia. Kennedy and his wife, MacKenzie Everett-Kennedy, launched a Kickstarter in December of 2017 with a goal of $15,000. The Kickstarter raised $15,865 in 13 months. The Kennedy family used the funds to find a location that would allow them to have a large amount of cats as well as to create the necessary construction to house both a cat playroom and a cafe. The cat room
is separated by a double door from the cafe and the two areas also have separate HVAC units. The playroom is perfect for both the cats and customers. It’s a spacious area with many options for the cats to sleep, scratch, play and, of course, interact with humans. You can enjoy your coffee in the playroom after a waiver is signed. Papa’s only allows up to 20 guests into the cat room at one time, so they prefer a reservation in advance. Papa’s Cat Café got its namesake from Kennedy’s daughter, who calls him Papa. It was also inspired by
Kennedy’s favorite author, Ernest Hemingway, who was nicknamed Papa by his fishing friends. The author was also a cat lover and owned a six-toed, or polydactyl, cat. The decor and some of the pastry items are inspired by Hemingway and his love for cats and Spain. Papa’s Cat Café is located at 14 S. 2nd St. and is open Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The cafe is closed on Sundays and Mondays for cat recuperation time. Edited by Siena DeBolt sdebolt@themaneater.com
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CONCERTS
American Authors performs this year’s free Fall Welcome Concert MU students danced at Mel Carnahan Quadrangle to the beat of songs like “Best Day Of My Life” and “Believer” for this year’s Fall Welcome Concert. MARIANA LABBATE
Senior Staff Writer
Wrapping up Welcome Week events, the class of 2022 had the chance to go to an American Authors concert last Saturday night at the Mel Carnahan Quadrangle. Along with returning MU students, the new tigers kept the free Fall Welcome Concert tradition alive. Starting out with the upbeat song “Go Big Or Go Home” from their album “What We Live For,” the quartet from Brooklyn, New York got the crowd dancing from the very beginning of the show. The band’s setlist also included works like their new single “Deep Water” and “Believer,” another well-known song from their first album “Oh, What A Life”. The most awaited moment of the concert, however, was their number one hit “Best Day Of My Life,” also from the band’s first
album, that got everyone dancing to its chorus. They also had the crowd singing along to a cover of “Yellow” by Coldplay in their own version of the song. “We try to think about what students would like, and what we always ask ourselves when we’re looking through bands is ‘Would we go see them?’” said Laura Bartig, assistant director of finance for the Campus Activities programming board. “It’s the kind of music that everyone can listen to and enjoy.” According to Bartig, the expected attendance of the concert was between three and four thousand students. MU Stuff to Do also had stands distributing water bottles and hand sanitizers to help everyone at Carnahan Quad deal with the hot weather and also get to know about their work. The show was part of Welcome Week, which is made mainly to introduce the incoming freshmen to MU’s campus. However, any MU student was welcome to attend. From freshmen to seniors, many in the crowd enjoyed the energetic set performed by the band, especially as the performers took their time to get to know the audience. “We look for artists that engage with the crowd, which is a really
Zac Barnett of American Authors performs for Mizzou students. The band previewed several new songs from an upcoming album. | PHOTO BY STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER EMMALEE REED
cool thing since this is an event that is attended predominantly by freshmen,” Bartig said. “They can have this experience, feel the atmosphere winding down summer and [get] ready for school to start.” Zac Barnett, American Authors’ lead vocalist, asked the audience about life at MU and places to go in Columbia, promoted their third album — which they’re releasing this fall — and joked around with
the crowd. As one of the closing events of this Fall Welcome Week, the concert got the class of 2022 excited and ready for the new school year ahead. The week was officially over after this Sunday’s Tiger Walk when freshmen ran through the Columns as the last of the welcoming events. Edited by Alexandra Sharp asharp@themaneater.com
MOVIES
‘Eighth Grade’ probes adolescent anxiety in the digital age Elsie Fisher is heartshattering in her portrayal of Kayla Day, a shy YouTuber navigating the hellscape of her titular time period. JESSE BAALMAN
Staff Writer
At first, the idea of a movie being made about an awkward girl in junior high by a comedian who is widely known from YouTube sounded strange. Then I thought about how director Bo Burnham started out just like the kids in his movie: young, nervous, embarrassing and constantly posting all of it into the endless void of internet. It turns out he does know a thing or two about coming of age in a digitized society as well as the resulting sideeffects such as attention deficits, low self-esteem and anxiety. There’s a simple scene midway through “Eighth Grade” that ends on an image which convinced me of Burnham’s directing ability as well as his depiction of the time period. The shot begins as a medium closeup of Elsie Fisher and reverse zooms to reveal the slow-mo ruckus of a pool party that awaits her. Set to the pounding of Anna Meredith’s electronic score, it effectively induced a wave of panic I thought I had hidden deep in the depths of my brain. It turns out I remember exactly what this fictionalized scenario feels like in real life - and that’s how a movie becomes more than a movie. Protagonist Kayla Day is often
shockingly relatable, a testament not only to Burnham’s winning script, but the aptitude of Fisher’s breakout performance. She somehow manages to be impressively calculative in voice and gesture yet genuinely unrefined in a way that is frank and resonant. The scenes featuring Josh Hamilton as her biggest fan and concerned father are particularly enjoyable to watch on screen; it’s always exciting to see new talent ushered in by veteran performers. This really is some of the best acting I’ve seen all year, something I hope voters keep in mind when positioning this movie in the post-”Lady Bird” awards circuit. While Burnham’s script does draw obvious comparisons to Greta Gerwig’s coming-of-age hit, his is free of nostalgia and feels right up to the minute in terms of culture. It’s a sleek 90-minute exploration of middle school life complete with selfies, pool parties, sex education and active shooter drills. There’s big and broad comedy throughout with just enough cringe to make anyone over the age of 13 feel relieved they aren’t going through this seminal experience in 2018. That’s the genius of this whole story; it’s about eighth graders and the weird changes they go through, but it’s also about the world and the weird changes it’s going through. This Sundance sensation is required viewing for any adolescents, but it’s also a must-see for all ages of moviegoers. School, work and even life can feel like a jungle at times, so I found myself connecting with Kayla in ways that any college kid could. The empathetic “Eighth Grade” is a much-needed reminder
Bo Burham’s “Eighth Grade” shows the ups and downs of the middle school life. | COURTESY OF IMDB
that confidence comes from within and sometimes all it takes is telling yourself over and over inside your head like Kayla does.
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PROGRAMS
Organize your year with MU’s Office 365 Office 365 breaks down into five commonly used programs that will keep your grade at a happy letter. ALEX WILSON
Reporter
MU offers its students a plethora of programs to make sure they succeed during their rigorous academic year. Tutoring programs, freshman interest groups, study spaces and Office 365 are all examples of MU’s plan for student success. Of these, the one resource that can tend to be more convoluted is Office 365 due to its sheer content volume and how its different tools can be tricky to use. Office 365 is given free to every enrolled MU student and can be downloaded with your MU email address. The first thing to understand about Office 365 is that it is a collection of programs bundled by Microsoft including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Outlook. Once you get the know how of using all five programs within Office 365, it will help you keep your grade at a happy letter.
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word has been every student’s go-to word processing program, or “essay writer,” since before Google became the top search engine and far before Google Documents. Many of the tips and tricks to making Microsoft Word work for you lie in its ability to manage, edit and format your paper. By using tools such as custom margins, the review tab and custom heading, you can get any essay paper formatted in no time at all. Using each tab and exploring this program can make your paper writing go much smoother.
Microsoft Excel
Excel is Microsoft’s spreadsheet program meant to help keep data in order and categorize and manage complex equations. Using this system, you can take the individual boxes, or cells as the spreadsheet calls them, and run them through equations and synthesize new data. Excel is one of the most condensed programs in the bundle, and it offers a breadth of usability to match. Learn to use Excel well and numbers will become a breeze.
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint is the most well known application that Microsoft provides, aside from Word, due to its common use in projects starting back in elementary school. PowerPoint is just as complex as other programs like Word and Excel, but its area is more visual than the rest. From setting specific slide times so that your project goes smoothly to a visual style that packs a punch, using the design, animation and slide show tabs of PowerPoint can increase the effectiveness of any presentation and move the feel of the project up to the level you need for a college course.
Microsoft OneNote
OneNote is a special program that rests a tad outside the use of PowerPoint, Word and Excel. OneNote is a note-taking program released in 2016. It serves the same function as Notes, the Mac program and iPhone app. It offers a large variety of formatting in a similar but smaller way than Word by allowing for several notation styles. Using OneNote can help organize your binders and notebooks. Not only does it keep them in a safe place, but it also allows you to highlight, bold and italicize
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the important parts and give your studying a boost.
Microsoft Outlook
Last but not least is Microsoft Outlook. Outlook is part of the Office 365 bundle, and is the email address that is given out to each student by the school. Outlook works in a similar manner to Gmail or Yahoo but has several distinct functions. For one, it is an application on the computer and is also accessible online. Alongside its email functionality,Microsoft
Outlook comes with an in app calendar and planner, allowing for even more organization. The calendar functions as any other would, incorporating the Microsoft drop down menu at the top of the screen. This lets you do all sorts of interesting and helpful things such as setting reminders to ring across devices or creating Skype meetings. Outlook also comes with a to-do list for smaller tasks and a contact sheet to keep track of everyone you meet. Edited by Alexandra Sharp asharp@themaneater.com
ONE-READ
Author comes to MU to give speech on Cambodian genocide Loung Ung discusses “First They Killed My Father,” her memoir about her experiences during the Cambodian genocide. SKYLAR LAIRD
Reporter
The entire audience stood as Loung Ung, author of the memoir “First They Killed My Father,” took the stage at the Missouri Theatre on Aug. 16. Immediately, her hands came to her face and tears welled in her eyes. As soon as the audience took their seats again, she launched into a speech about her memoir, which detailed her experience as a survivor of the Cambodian genocide in all its horrors. “First They Killed My Father” was this year’s required Honors College One Read book. Past books have included Louise Erdrich’s “The Round House,” Bryan Stevenson’s “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption” and G. Willow
Wilson and Adrian Alphona’s “Ms. Marvel: No Normal” Volume 1. According to J.D. Bowers, Honors College director, there are a number of characteristics the honors board looks for when selecting each year’s book. “We choose a book that we feel will have great resonance with our incoming students,” Bowers said. “We are looking for a book that has a compelling story/narrative, that has a broad collection of themes, that is of great contemporary relevance and one for which having the author appear on campus can be a valuable part of our engagement.” According to a review from Publishers Weekly, this memoir is an excellent choice for any reader due to its attention to detail and account of a gruesome time in Cambodian history. “Skillfully constructed, this account…stands as an eyewitness history of the period because as a child, Ung was so aware of her surroundings, and because as an adult writer, she adds details to clarify the family’s moves and separations,”
Publishers Weekly wrote. “Twenty-five years after the rise of the Khmer Rouge, this powerful account is a triumph.” In her speech, Ung discussed the process behind her writing of the memoir, including 100 plus interviews of family members and neighbors in order to get every single detail as correct as possible, since the events in the book occurred when she was ages 5 to 10. Honors College freshman Eleanor McCrary believed the speech was incredibly moving, especially after reading about all the tragedies Ung endured. “I loved listening to Mrs. Loung Ung talk about her experiences because it really made me realize how close those events actually were, that she was living proof that things like genocide are not too far into our past,” McCrary said. “I felt like I got to see the person I was able to intimately connect with through reading the memoir.” Bowers believes this connection is important for students as it can open
Loung Ung author of memoir, “First they Killed My Father,” spoke to the Honors College at MU on August 16, 2018. | COURTESY OF MU HONORS COLLEGE FACEBOOK
their eyes to the atrocities happening in the world and cause them to take action. “We hoped that [the memoir] would resonate with our students based on [Ung’s] age when she went through the genocide, the fact that while we sat through her speech, more children were transformed as she [went] through ongoing genocides and mass atrocities and that we can no longer just sit by as we have mostly done and condone through silence
or inaction these kinds of events,” Bowers said. “If students learned more about Cambodia, its genocide, its links to other genocides and what victims suffer, then our goals were met.” Loung Ung’s memoir and other books, as well as more information about her life and the movie adaptation of it made by Angelina Jolie, are available on her website loungung.com. Edited by Alexandra Sharp asharp@themaneater.com
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Involvement at MU is simple: It’s all about balance While balancing being a student and active in campus life can be a challenge, there are a few ways to make it manageable. KATELYNN MCILWAIN
Reporter
With over 600 organizations to choose from, and an opportunity to create an organization all on your own, MU makes it impossible to say, “There’s nothing to do here.” This plethora of activities fosters a welcoming, thriving environment that ensures us there is a place where students belong. At the same time, choosing among these organizations can be difficult, especially for incoming freshmen. We’re still trying to figure out how to balance being a full-time student with contributing to a university that has already given us so much. It all boils down to this simple fact: We all want to be plugged in. We want to be full-fledged Tigers who earn our stripes by being active members of campus life. We’ve traveled miles, in some cases, to be here and it would be a waste not to engage in our new community. So some of us sign up for five different clubs, each having a meeting on different days of the week, making it just possible to be at least semi-committed to all of them. However, going on like this will eventually burn us out. We’ll rush from class to meeting to class, not allowing ourselves a chance to breathe. This lifestyle may have been more common in high school, but this is an entirely new ballgame now and there’s a lot more on the line if over-involvement leads to so much stress that we can hardly function. Worried, we consider a different
approach altogether: staying in our rooms with Crunch Berries and Cheez-Its as our sole lifeline … or is that just me? Knowing classes are inevitable, we decide to hunker down and turn our backs on the constant invitations to join an organization, keeping Canvas open and our doors closed so that we don’t miss a thing or fall behind. However, this sort of seclusion could keep us from discovering our true passions, making lifelong friends, meeting our soulmate or just having a genuinely good time. And no one wants that. So what do we do? How do we even begin to balance the two MU pillars of Responsibility and Discovery? When in doubt, let your major be your guide As a freshman still trying to decide if I want to pursue magazine writing, I’ve found myself here. This could be the job that inspires me to take the magazine route or it could be the job that confirms in my mind that I’d rather pursue radio or documentary instead. Only time will tell. Keep in mind that by the end of your four years here, you won’t be graduating with a degree in undecided. If you’re not sure yet, occupy your free time trying an activity that speaks to you and doing so may end up guiding you in the right direction academically. Only commit to a maximum of two activities for right now You can add or subtract later, but give yourself some time to adjust to your class schedule so you can accurately gauge how much time you can devote outside of class. Remember, there’s always a second semester if you want to try something new! By then, you should be fairly in the swing of things. Be all-in Involvement isn’t fun when you can’t give meaningful attention to
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your activities. If you’re spread thin, you’ll only gain a fraction of value from something that should genuinely enrich your experience here. Also, your club leaders will be able to notice if you’re halfheartedly participating. If you’re truly passionate about something, let that show during the course of the activity. If you’re too fatigued, you won’t be having any fun; that fatigue may be an indicator that you’re committing yourself to too much. Don’t feel guilty if you have to turn someone down It’s recruitment season. Clubs want to see freshmen sign up and give it their all for four years and that’s understandable, but not every activity was built for you. Saying “no” should not weigh so heavily on yourself that you say “yes” to a club that isn’t a good fit. It’s okay to consider yourself first in these cases. You won’t hurt anyone’s feelings that much, because every group understands that not everyone will
want to be a part. It all comes with the recruitment process. So, be kind to yourself! Rest is important Having a free afternoon or evening isn’t a bad thing! Your worth should not be found in your productivity, not the amount of stuff you can do in one day. Breathe. Relax. Being completely booked isn’t healthy. Idleness is not bad. You need to recharge. Believe me, I’m nervous about missing out on something. I’m also nervous about being dangerously spread thin and stressed out by the end of the semester. But that’s okay. We’re all new at this. And we’re not going to get it perfect on the first try. Remember that you’re a student first. Work hard and let the activities fall into place as you pursue the things you love. You’re doing great. Edited by Siena DeBolt sdebolt@themaneater.com
FALL
Fall in love with autumn using these fall tips Here are five ways to dive into autumn headfirst. ELIZABETH PRICE
Reporter
Each season has its own distinct characteristics. For summer, it’s warm weather, traveling and beaches. Winter boasts snow and holidays. Spring is all about pastels, flowers and allergies. Fall, however, is the season that kickstarts us into school. Always a busy time of year, fall is the time for new beginnings and comfort. The weather changes, the school year begins, and with that, there are many things that need to be done. Get oriented The fall semester has started and thousands of students, new and returning, are attempting to make their way through campus. Avoid the confusion and chaos by running through your classes and the areas around campus and town that you will frequently visit. Gather seasonal clothes
Cold, rainy weather is on the horizon. Be prepared for this early by ensuring you have the proper garments for the changes. With the rain, rain jackets and boots are a necessity. There is nothing worse than having to walk across campus in the pouring rain without a line of defense. Additionally, sweaters will come in handy for those chilly days when you don’t want to layer with jackets. Football season Football is definitely a big part of college life, and this year’s season starts Sept. 1. Excitement for the season is noticeable as the wait grows shorter. Tailgates and parties are on the way, and to ensure you get the maximum experience, student season tickets are available online Store up on fall scents If you’re feeling a little homesick, or just sick of the smells dorm life has to offer, try purchasing fallthemed room fragrances. The scent of pumpkin or pine has a calming effect. Warm autumnal scents give
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you a sense of nostalgia that bring you back to home and make you feel cozy. Binge-watch iconic shows Autumn is curling up in bed and watching shows like Gilmore
Girls and childhood movies like Halloweentown. On the off chance of free-time in college, sit down with a Pumpkin Spice Latte and hit play on your favorite seasonal show. Edited by Alexandra Sharp asharp@themaneater.com
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COREY’S CORNER
Column: It’s not how much you can lift, it’s how much you look like you know what you’re doing
One of the many rooms at MizzouRec, the cardio room has many machines to get a great workout on. | COURTESY OF MIZZOUREC.COM
It’s good to know what to do, but more important to know what not to do. COREY DAVIDSON
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Corey Davidson is a junior journalism major at MU. He is an opinion columnist who writes about student life and politics for The Maneater. The American wild west is probably the most recent example we have of people truly practicing self-governance. In the era of tumbleweeds and saloons, the only law was six-shooters and sheriffs. The modern gym is much the same. While MizzouRec has a handful of rules and regulations, patrons decide among themselves what is acceptable, and, more importantly, what is to be avoided. This column will cover a handful of practices to avoid on your fitness journey. Turning Into Gym Iron Man Out of all of the Avengers, Iron Man is the biggest playboy. He suits up, fires lasers and is arguably one of the strongest on the team. However, the gym iron man is much the opposite. Gym iron man sprawls out all of his gear in the line space, spends tons of money on athletic equipment and ends up not even moving that much weight. Even worse, gym iron man acts like some sort of gym brand
ambassador, endlessly speaking to the merits of his $180 weightlifting shoes. Individual pieces of gear are okay. Lifting belts are good for squatting or deadlifting heavy, and wrist wraps are good for things like power cleaning or incline bench. However, it’s hard to justify these plus knee wraps, weightlifting shoes and an elevation training mask while curling 20 pounds. You may think you’re about to save New York City, when in reality you’re not even able to get into the YMCA. Being a Deer in the Headlights If you have ever driven on Rock Quarry road, you have probably seen a deer in the headlights. Deer have a questionable defense mechanism in which they completely freeze in the wake of an oncoming car. This look is also shared by gym novices being asked “How many sets do you have left?” Don’t be a deer in the headlights. When relaying information to other meatheads, one should speak with complete conviction. This isn’t ninth grade speech class; stammering, looking around and being unsure of your own workout routine is beta. Let them know you’ll be on the cable cross for six more sets, and pump them out, as you now have an audience. Hosting Improv Night at the Rec Arnold Schwarzenegger is perhaps
the most iconic bodybuilder of all time. When it comes to passing on his expertise, Schwarzenegger’s most important focus for beginners is on good form. Most exercises are easy to do and hard to master. For example, the bench press looks simple, but experienced lifters can attest to the finesse in proper foot placement, gripping the bar and breathing. Improper form is among the most disturbing things to witness, especially in the pump room. Seeing somebody squat incorrectly is like watching bad high school improv; it’s awkward to watch, you’re afraid the person will get hurt and the performer has to be feeling uncomfortable. Lack of experience is one thing, but when somebody is clearly pushing more weight than they can handle with improper form, it becomes a problem. For example, benching extra weight by bending your back like a glow stick is both unsafe and unimpressive. Improv is okay because a performer who is aware of their shortcomings can regain the respect of the crowd; the same is not true for being aware of your bad form. You may think it was awesome, but everyone else is in some awe that your spine is still intact. Coaching The Game Not Being Played One of the main reasons to go to the gym is simply to find some peace and quiet during the day. When you approach somebody with their headphones on at the gym, it should
only be because either somebody’s dying, or you’re complimenting their pump. Otherwise, it can wait. One of the most infuriating things at the gym is being interrupted and given unsolicited advice. What is either person gaining from this interaction? Coaching a complete stranger may seem like a good idea, but should only be done if they ask you for it. The old saying “coaches don’t play” also seems to apply in this situation. If I’m bigger than you and you tell me I should be holding my lat pulldowns longer, you lose all credibility. Either get your whistle and give advice to somebody who wants it, or back off while I finish my workout. Finally, Overstaying Your Welcome The gym is supposed to be an inclusive and welcoming environment. However, some patrons tend to take the “welcoming” aspect a bit too far. Particularly, pairing up with a buddy and hogging the leg press machine for twenty minutes while you talk about Chad from apple berry pie. Some people are on tight schedules and it can be obnoxious when groups take their sweet time working in and having personal conversations, holding machines hostage and disrupting workout schemes. There’s a time and place for everything, and the gym is not the place for messing around.
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COLUMN: As fraternities ramp up their partying, there must be something done to prevent sexual assault Real action should be taken against campus sexual assault. TATYANA MONNAY
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Tatyana Monnay is a sophomore journalism major at MU. She is an opinion columnist who writes about politics for The Maneater. As fall semester begins, MU’s Greek life partying is at an all time high. With recruitment, there is an unbelievable amount of excessive drinking. Students tend to go overboard with their drinking, making it easier for them to act on their bad decisions. In some cases, it’s texting their ex. In more serious cases, it’s much more sinister. The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), an organization that fights against sexual abuse and assault, reports that more than 50 percent of college sexual assaults happen in either August, September, October or November. This increased rate can be attributed to all the events that go on during fall semester, such as tailgating, football games and more. In just one year, I was warned multiple times to avoid multiple fraternities by other students who have either been assaulted themselves or know someone who has been at that fraternity. I was warned one time too many. I can guarantee that I am not the only student who received these ominous warnings. To put it simply, it is just not right, nor is it fair. Students should be able to go to a party and have a fun, safe night. The thought of being a possible sexual assault victim should not even be in the back of students’ minds. There are too many cases of students having been assaulted and not enough being done to
The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) is an organization that helps fight against sexual assault. | COURTESY OF RAINN.COM
prevent it. It has been proven time and time again that students are being taken advantage of by their own peers. An estimated 30.8 percent of senior female MU students were victim to some kind of unwanted sexual activity, according to a 2015 Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct. Sexual assault stems from the fact that students do not have a clear concept of consent, either because they have never been taught or they simply do not care. In a 2015 report from Violence and Gender, about a third of male university students did not have a clear understanding of
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what constitutes as rape. Additionally, campus authorities should continue to take multiple courses and workshops to help them understand how to properly speak about sexual violence with victims. This will encourage victims to report their assault. This school year, all colleges and universities should continue to promote a safer environment, stop contributing to rape culture and take serious actions to keep their campuses safe for all students. Either way, the university is morally obligated to seriously fix this issue.
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Reflecting on up-and-down career at Missouri, Cam Hilton embraces leadership as secondary’s lone senior “I feel way more ready to play than any other year,” the free safety said of his senior season at training camp. BENNETT DURANDO
Sports Editor
Cam Hilton’s two longest trips across a football field should come with an asterisk denoting their entirely distinct contexts. The second trek lacked all the momentous swagger — and literal length — of the first, a complete diagonal from pylon to pylon. One hundred yards-plus, the stat sheet might as well have read of the fourstar recruit’s elusive interception return for a game-tying touchdown in his high school district championship. “My friends say that was my ‘scholarship game,’” he says five years later. The second didn’t take quite so much evasion or speed. Ejected for helmet-to-helmet targeting in the
third quarter of Missouri’s 2017 season opener against Missouri State, Hilton made the long walk back to the locker room. It was the culmination of a frustrating mental stretch for the then-junior defensive back. “From camp to season, it was just not there,” he said. “I was just going through it and just everything was going south. I just wasn’t ready to be a leader, I wasn’t doing things right. I was walking around here not talking to anybody.” But as he was interviewed at a cafeteria table after Friday morning’s practice at 2018 football training camp, Missouri’s prospective starting free safety got plenty of talk from teammates. Fellow rising senior Terry Beckner, Jr. jokingly rubbed his hair while walking past, and still others stopped on their way by to mimic him. So what makes this year’s camp different for Hilton? Well, that targeting penalty for starters. Hilton remembers he “didn’t even touch the field” the next week against South Carolina. Miscues such
Senior Cam Hilton has had many ups and downs with Mizzou football, but is now more than ready to take on this upcoming season. | COURTESY OF MIZZOU ATHLETICS
as that one and other lapses in coverage early in the season led to increased sideline time for him, while
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VOLLEYBALL
Three takeaways from Missouri volleyball’s Black and Gold Scrimmage Friday’s exhibition highlighted developing chemistry, injury cover for the middle blocker position and areas left for improvement before the season starts.
tallied at least three kills. However, having so many attacking options means that the competition for playing time will be fierce once the season starts. Deberg made a strong argument for a starting place in the lineup with her performance on Friday, posting a team-high 16 kills on a .303 hitting percentage. But the 6-foot-4 outside hitter knows that she will have to keep performing at that level to earn significant time. “It’s all up in the air because everyone’s just really good,” Deberg said. “So we always have to prove that we want to be over there and that we’re the best.”
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Missouri volleyball played its annual Black & Gold Scrimmage on Friday, Aug. 17 at Hearnes Center in a tune-up for the 2018 season that starts in a week. Head coach Wayne Kreklow enjoyed watching his team play in a more competitive environment in front of a home crowd of almost 1,500. “I felt a little bit better after tonight,” Kreklow said. “I was starting to wonder in practice a little bit, but we needed this as a group because we had been through almost two weeks of preseason practice and it starts to drag. Mentally, physically, everybody gets worn down, so to come out here in front of people was good. I was pleasantly surprised because I saw I little bit more life out of them than what I’ve seen the last few days of practice.” Here are three takeaways from the
Middle hitters prepare to replace injured Caffey
Mizzou volleyball held its annual Black & Gold Scrimmage to help prepare for the new season. | COURTESY OF MIZZOU ATHLETICS
2018 curtain-raiser:
Team chemistry improving as depth chart takes shape Half of the squad had its first-ever official practice with Missouri just two weeks ago, so team chemistry was one of the question marks for the Tigers heading into the 2018 season. You wouldn’t have known that based on Friday’s scrimmage. “It’s improved so much,”
sophomore Kylie Deberg said. “Over the summer we were kind of iffy with each other, but we’ve all clicked really well and it’s just all gone really well.” With so many new pieces to the puzzle this season, it’s important that the players strike up connections early on, and the exhibition match was full of effective combinations. Setters Andrea Fuentes and Jaden Newsome had 25 and 24 assists, respectively, while every hitter
Redshirt sophomore middle blocker Kayla Caffey sat out the scrimmage due to an injury. Caffey finished top five in the SEC for blocks last season, totaling 130. With Caffey potentially on the bench for the start of the season and longer, freshman Brynn Paumen and sophomore Tyanna Omazic had the opportunity to prove themselves throughout the scrimmage. Paumen, the team’s only true freshman, hit .667 on the night. “I think Brynn has made a lot of progress in just two weeks,” Kreklow
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Missouri volleyball primed for season openers at James Madison Invitational
This weekend the Mizzou volleyball team travels to Virginia to compete in the James Madison invitational. | COURTESY OF MIZZOU ATHLETICS
The Tigers play their first matches this weekend against Delaware State, Fairfield and James Madison. LIAD LERNER
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The overwhelming sense at Missouri volleyball’s final preseason media availability Tuesday afternoon was one of eager anticipation. The Tigers can’t wait to start the 2018 campaign this Friday. “I’m so excited for the season to start,” redshirt junior Riley Sents said. “We’ve been putting in a lot of work this whole summer with 6:30 a.m. workouts and open gyms everyday. We’re finally gonna play someone other than ourselves and I think we’re all really excited.” Sophomore Kylie Deberg shares her teammate’s enthusiasm, as this weekend will be the first time Deberg officially lines up with Sents and the rest of the Missouri squad. In fact, this weekend will be the first time seven of the Tigers line up
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for Missouri, who added six transfers and a true freshman to its roster in the offseason. Coach Wayne Kreklow opened up on Tuesday about his initial struggles trying to get his new team on the same page. “You have to remind everybody we have a lot of new people,” Kreklow said. “The last couple of years we’ve been really fortunate, because for two years in a row we had the bulk of the team pretty intact coming back from the year before. [This year] we’re just at a way different place. I think right now, they have high expectations for themselves and sometimes it gets a little ugly out here right now. Kreklow has preached patience with the team’s acclimation since the beginning of practices earlier in August. “There is a ton of potential out there obviously, but unfortunately it moves at its own pace and you can’t force that,” he said. “It just takes reps and it takes time. You can’t cheat it, it just is what it is.” The potential is indeed there, but Missouri’s young team needs leadership to reach it. Enter Sents and senior Alyssa Munlyn, the team’s only
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returning starters who are upperclassmen. “That’s the one thing that’s been really valuable for us,” Kreklow said. “In Alyssa and Riley, you have two people that have played quite a bit, that are also pretty solid and steady on the court. Alyssa’s kind of the composed, steady [player]. Riley’s kind of the upbeat, bubbly, positive kind of person. That’s really valuable, because you’ve got Leketor [Member-Meneh] out there who’s a sophomore, you’ve got two freshmen who have never set a collegiate match before, and you’ve got Tyanna [Omazic], Kylie, all these [new] people.” Sents has noticed this transition into being one of the leaders on the team, and has embraced her new role. “I think I have a big vocal responsibility,” Sents said. “If you watch us play I really am the type of person just naturally to be jumping up and down and to be excited, so I think that’s the biggest responsibility that I’ve felt, to bring a voice to the team and have energy. [Coach Kreklow] has kind of talked to me about being that vocal leader. I think it’s kind of a natural thing for me.” Deberg says that Sents and the other veterans have also been key in integrating the staggering amount of new transfers and making them feel at home in their team and new school. “They helped right away,” Deberg said. “Right when we got here, anything that we needed we would just ask them, and they would help us no matter what. I think we’ve been able to fit right in and super easily.” Amid all this chaos of transfers, chemistry and leadership, it’s easy to forget that Missouri will travel to Harrisonburg, Virginia this weekend to play in the James Madison Invitational. Kreklow of course would like to record three victories against Delaware State, Fairfield and James Madison, respectively, but the results are not the most important thing for him. “It’s just getting more comfortable playing with each other,” Kreklow said. “Even today, we’re coming down [to practice] with three different lineups we need to look at, so trying to figure out who best fits where. Part of that is just you have to go out and play.” Don’t tell that to Deberg and the Tigers, though. Their excitement for these matches stems from the fact that they can finally put all of these questions about inexperience and cohesion behind them, and instead let their play do the talking. What would Deberg consider a successful tournament? “To win them all.” Edited by Bennett Durando bdurando@themaneater.com
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SOCCER
Missouri grabs win on own goal, starts 1-0-1 on Iowa road trip Goalkeeper Kelsey Dossey made eight saves for the Tigers in a close contest against Iowa State. OWEN KRUCOFF
Senior Staff Writer
For the second straight game to start the season, Missouri found itself playing deep into overtime in a deadlocked match. This time, however, the contest ended differently, with an Iowa State University own goal handing the Tigers their first win of the season, 2-1. After playing out two 10-minute overtimes in a 0-0 tie against the University of Iowa on Friday, Missouri (1-0-1) traveled from Iowa City to Ames, Iowa to meet the Cyclones, who had begun their season with a much more comfortable 2-0 home win over South Dakota State University. Junior forward Sarah Luebbert, Missouri’s top goalscorer in 2017, had two scoring chances stopped in a scoreless first half. But it was a freshman connection in the 58th minute that gave Mizzou its first goal and lead of the new season. Blythe Beldner, who had hit the post with
a shot of her own in the first half, served up Skye Kingsley for a header that broke the tie. The Cyclones (1-1) drew level in the 80th minute when a free kick into the box by midfielder Hannah Cade found the head of fellow midfielder Kasey Opfer. Opfer directed the ball just beyond senior goalkeeper Kelsey Dossey’s reaching hand for the Tigers’ first conceded goal of the year. Dossey, who led Missouri in minutes played in goal in 2017, was making her first start of the season after a seven-save shutout performance on Friday from redshirt sophomore Mercedes Sapp. Apart from allowing the Iowa State goal, Dossey put on a show with eight saves, including a remarkable stop to send the game to overtime. In the final seconds of the second half, Cyclone midfielder Taylor Wagner received a backwards pass well outside the 18-yard box. With no time to spare, she hit a one-time shot that arced toward the top of the Missouri net, where Dossey pushed it up and over the bar just as time expired. The first overtime period was scoreless, and after seven more minutes in the second overtime, a Beldner ball into the box found the foot of a Cyclone defender and
Mizzou women’s soccer got their first win of the season against Iowa State on August 19, 2018 . | COURTESY OF MIZZOU ATHLETICS
wound up in the net to end the game. “I am excited that our team showed grit against a good Iowa State team,” head coach Bryan Blitz said in a press release. “Two overtime games on the road and to find a way to win in the last [minutes] like that, we will absolutely take that.” With the opening weekend of the
season in the books, Missouri will be back in action next Saturday as it travels to play at Colorado. The Buffaloes, who received 17 votes in the preseason United Soccer Coaches top 25 poll, will likely be the Tigers’ toughest test of the season so far. Edited by Bennett Durando bdurando@themaneater.com
FOOTBALL
Mizzou Camp: Odom emphasizes depth following second scrimmage The Tigers are aiming to work in freshmen to their sets as the season moves within two weeks. BENNETT DURANDO
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Barry Odom and others on the Missouri football coaching staff didn’t hesitate last Friday to stress the importance of the Tigers’ upcoming scrimmage. That pivotal scrimmage, the second of 2018 fall training camp, took place Saturday night and was closed to media, but Odom spoke about it for the first time after Tuesday’s practice. “‘2s’ did some good things on being able to offensively manage and move the football,” he said. “Defensively I thought we tackled well and were assignment-sound. We did some things to really help guys get some game experience that really hadn’t had that much.” The scrimmage was designed to feature and test Missouri’s backups and freshmen in an effort to establish roster depth, so starters and veterans saw limited action, Odom said. It was a point he drilled home on Tuesday. One of the biggest questions going in — who will serve as Drew Lock’s second-string quarterback — remains unanswered. With Micah Wilson, Lindsey Scott Jr. and Jack Lowary each lobbying for the position, Odom hopes to use the final days of camp this week and next before reaching a decision. Odom also confirmed Tuesday that redshirt sophomore tailback Dawson
Downing will be on scholarship after spending his first two years as a walkon. Downing will join freshman Tyler Badie as options for the Tigers’ thirdstring running back behind Damarea Crockett and Larry Rountree III, who appear positioned to split time in the backfield. Walk-ons were a prominent talking point for Odom and players who each praised their importance, especially throughout the preseason camp process. “I tell walk-ons all the time I couldn’t do what they do,” offensive lineman Kevin Pendleton said. “They have a chip on their shoulder because they’re asked to do some of the most work on the team and yet it’s little reward. Those guys are the lifeline and the backbone of college football.” Pendleton is a senior left guard and one of five returning starters on the offensive line. Odom spoke highly about the value of Missouri’s experience in the trenches, a crucial factor toward protecting a Heisman candidate in Lock and that plethora of running backs. “They’ve got a calmness about them, and also they understand the looks with the experience that they’ve had,” Odom said. “There is a feeling of comfort for the running backs, for Drew … just because [the offensive line have] played so well together. They understand. They speak the same language. It’s a good group. We’ve got to keep them healthy and keep pushing.” Defensively, all three of last year’s starting linebackers are returning — Terez Hall, Cale Garrett and Brandon Lee — though Hall has dealt with a
Mizzou football is gearing up for the new season with many practices and scrimmages. | COURTESY OF TWITTER.COM nagging hamstring injury at camp and will miss time early in his senior season. Dynamic freshman Nick Bolton will help cover for Hall while Aubrey Miller Jr. and Jamal Brooks will provide added depth at the position. “We’re anticipating [Bolton] playing real snaps on defense,” Odom said. The secondary will be highlighted by returners Adam Sparks and DeMarkus Acy playing wide at the cornerback spots, and the defensive line sports a secure interior with seniors Terry Beckner Jr. and Walter Palmore. One defensive line spot seems to be up in the air still between
Tre Williams and Nate Anderson, but the core remains similar with Chris Turner likely to be the other defensive end. The biggest difference from last year will ultimately be the playcalling shift to Ryan Walters, who was promoted from within as the former secondary coach. That similar player personnel — as well as new redshirting rules — is why Odom is so intent on working in freshmen and creating depth. “At this point,” Odom said, “a majority of the freshmen are gonna have action.” Edited by Adam Cole acole@themaneater.com
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trusts it won’t be anymore under the continuing guidance of a promoted Walters. And in turn, Walters and head coach Barry Odom seem to trust the experienced Hilton with a solidified starting position at free safety on the depth chart. “The best is gonna be out there,” Ulmer said. “[Hilton] has gotten more vocal. We really push each other to be the best we can be.” For a senior who’s been from safety to wide receiver and back, winning and losing starting roles along the way, that job security was a long time coming. “Everything’s different,” Hilton said. “I think having my spot already secured, it allows you to focus. You know exactly where you’re supposed to be. I feel way more ready to play than any other year.” Edited by Adam Cole acole@themaneater.com
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said. “She can get a lot better at a lot of little things.” Omazic, a transfer from Illinois, had 85 blocks and 114 kills for the Illini last season. “Tyanna has obviously got a little bit more advantage in terms of experience, playing about half the season at Illinois last year,” Kreklow said. “She is just super fast
Still clean-up work to be done Despite the impressive play, there are still small improvements that need to be made prior to the start of the season. The team had a total of 24 errors through the three sets. “We’ve gotta work on eliminating a lot of the unforced errors,” Kreklow said. “Some of that is because we were in front of people and we were pushing the envelope, but I think we’ll continue to work with our serving and passing game in that
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and athletic. I think right now she does so much off one foot behind the setter. That’s usually one of the harder things to try to work between those two, a setter and a middle that does that, so I think it will take a little bit of time, but I saw some flashes of that.” With Caffey’s status for the beginning of the season still in question, Kreklow is prepared to utilize his other middle hitters. “I think we are going to be okay there if Kayla is going to be out for an extended period,” he said.
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then-freshman Jordan Ulmer and Kansas State transfer Kaleb Prewett overtook him as starting safeties. For someone who had grown used to starting the previous season, even after multiple switches between offense and defense, it also led to a period of self-reflection. “Toward the middle of last year, I started to figure it out,” Hilton said. “And then when this year came around, I kind of put it all together and finally got back on track, just doing me and how it was supposed to be the whole time.” Reflecting on his time at Missouri — on the times he’s sensed growth and on those he hasn’t — is important to Hilton. And as the 2018 season came around, doing so took on a new meaning under a unique mantle. Hilton is the only senior in the
“Every year, day one, I pick Drew off,” Hilton said, “then he stops throwing it my way.” This year though, Lock has continued challenging the free safety and throwing into his coverage areas. Hilton has counted three interceptions. He predicts he’ll finish the preseason with just one more, though. “[Lock’s] a smart quarterback,” he said, laughing. Hilton will also see defensive playcalling under a new coordinator, his former secondary coach Ryan Walters. “Me and [Walters] have come a long way,” Hilton said. “He’s been with me since the beginning. He’s developed me into the person and player I am now. He’s big on technique. My technique’s pretty good, but when I get tired, he tries to tell me to focus. When I get tired, I get a little sloppy, but I’m working on that.” If being lulled into complacency was Hilton’s problem in the past, he
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Missouri secondary. “It’s a lot of weight,” he said. “This is my first year taking that role as a leader. I’ve always been trying to be a leader, but this year it was kind of forced upon me, and I took it and just ran with it.” Run with it he has, becoming a forerunner not just among his fellow defensive backs, he says, but to the entire team. His credibility even amid the offense is reinforced most notably by his close-knit friendship with quarterback Drew Lock that dates back to their freshman year as roommates. “A brother for a long time, a brother for years to come,” Hilton calls the quarterback. “We talk on the field about how do you see things, how do I see things, just to help each other out to be the best players we could be.” But Hilton insists they don’t overindulge just yet, since they have to go up against each other in training camp. He claims the two of them even have a tradition.
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