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‘Orange is the New Black’ star touches on living her dreams, breaking barriers for transgender people and becoming an icon

Laverne Cox speaks to Missouri State students and Springfield citizens about her experiences as a transgender woman during her speech on Tuesday, Jan. 20.

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Alliance club, was starstruck and overjoyed by Cox’s speech.

“It’s so cliche, but I was getting stars in my eyes every time she said something so inspirational,” Fuller said. “Then she talked about needing and building a community around yourself… It just made me feel really happy.”

MSU students were also in awe after the lecture.

“I thought she was absolutely amazing, and props to Missouri State for getting her; she is more high profile than a lot of people know,” Courtney Clark, a junior entertainment management major, said. “I thought she had great insights on the LGBT community and just opened your insights about transgender (communities) because a lot of people don’t even think about that. She was an amazing speaker.”

Kelsey Engle, a senior operations management major, added that Cox gave her opinion in a pleasant way.

— Laverne Cox “It wasn’t harsh and she didn’t force it on anyone,” Engle said. “It just made you think of her side of the story.”

Time magazine’s cover and being the first transgender Brianna Duda, a sophomore socio-political communiPrimetime Emmy nominee. cation major, was shocked by the vast amount of people SAC President Grace Chang was pleased to have final- who came to Cox’s lecture. ly booked Cox’s lecture for the MSU campus and sur“There was not an empty seat in the house, and for rounding community as the final event of Winter Week.

Springfield, that’s a really big deal,” Duda said. “I think a “Laverne Cox is a huge icon right now with ‘Orange is lot of people came to Laverne Cox because they know the New Black’ — she has a book coming out, all of these ‘Orange is the New Black,’ but hearing her story is what things that she’s doing, fighting for transgender rights,” really gets to people.”

Chang said. “We talk a lot about LBGTQ topics, but we As the transgender advocate exited the stage, the crowd tend to overlook the transgender and non-binary stan- whistled and applauded as the night came to a close. dards.”

Directly following the lecture, Cox tweeted, “Thanks so Groups from around Springfield attended the lecture, much #MissouriStateUniversity. I was feeling down today including Central High School. Sarah Fuller, a high school and your love and support lifted me up. You mean the junior and vice president of Central’s Gay-Straight world to me.”

Being transgender is beautiful. I believe calling a transgender woman a man is an act of violence.

“Human beings aren't supposed to live like this,” Sophia Burset said while facing the hardships of incarceration as a transgender black woman. Burset is Laverne Cox’s character on the Netflix series, “Orange is the New Black.” Much like Burset on the show, Cox has been seeking justice and awareness for the transgender community.

Cox spoke to a sold-out crowd at Juanita K. Hammons Hall on Jan. 20. The lecture was sponsored by MSU’s Student Activities Council, the MSU Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center, Springfield Pride, the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of the Ozarks and One Springfield.

“Being transgender is beautiful. I believe calling a transgender woman a man is an act of violence,” Cox said during her highly-anticipated speech.

There was nothing but love for the actress; she received three standing ovations and endless applause from the audience. Cox’s speech lasted an hour with a brief question and answer session from students.

During the Q&A session, Cox said she has had many rewarding experiences as a transgender woman.

“I’m very blessed. I have a lot, and honestly, just being here tonight and seeing all of your faces,” she said. “I get to live my dreams publicly. I always dreamed and talked about being an actress. Now I can make a living as an actress — like, on my tax return it says ‘actress’.”

Cox has been recognized all over the world as an influential transgender person, including being the first to grace

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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Tuesday, Jan. 27

U.N. Holocaust Memorial Day, all day Resume Madness, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Glass Hall 103 and Meyer Library

Wednesday, Jan. 28 Resume Madness, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Glass Hall 103 and Meyer Library

Thursday, Jan. 29

Harlem Globetrotters, 7-10:30 p.m., JQH Arena

Friday, Jan. 30

Mahayana New Year, all day Cultural Corner, 4:45-6:15 p.m., Jim D. Morris Center

Saturday, Jan. 31

MSU Film Series: “Two Step” with Director Alex R. Johnson, 7-9:30 p.m., PSU Theater

Sunday, Feb. 1

African-American History Month, all day

Monday, Feb. 2

SOFAC Training Presentation, 910 a.m., PSU 308 A&B

Briefs

Award-winning professor

Missouri State English professor, Jane Hoogestraat, has recently won a prize for her poetry collection.

Her book, “Border States,” is “a 72-page poetry collection that was inspired by her experiences growing up in rural South Dakota,” according to a press release.

Hoogestraat received a $1,000 reward after winning the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry by BkMk Press.

SPD officer shot, in stable conditon

Springfield police officer Aaron Pearson, who was shot early Monday morning, remains in serious but stable condition, according to a press release from Police Chief Paul Williams.

Pearson was shot as he and other officers questioned subjects after noticing suspicious activity near the intersection of Glenstone Avenue and Chestnut Expressway.

Joshua Hagood was arrested later that morning after officers searched nearby businesses. He was eventually found in a car lot near the intersection and is being held in custody for questioning.

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Culley’s serves another round

Friends enjoy the newly opened Culley’s Pub. Tim Bair, owner of Bair’s Sports Grill, opened Culley’s Pub on Jan. 15 on Madison Street.

Culley’s Pub returns to Springfield, re-opens near campus

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The legendary Springfield bar, Culley’s Pub, reopened on Jan. 15 for a new generation of students.

Tim Bair, owner of Bair’s Sports Grill, reopened Culley’s Pub after it closed several years ago. The pub was originally located downtown and was a popular place between the 1980s and early 2000s for college students.

Bair said he thought it would be fun to bring Culley’s back, especially since the location was available to lease after KimBrew Jazz Lounge closed over a month ago.

Nicholas Stratmann, a senior English and political science major, said he liked the location of Culley’s because it is between the campus and downtown. The pub is also right across the street from several apartments, which will attract students.

With Culley’s new location being close to campus and apartments, Bair said students will be able to walk to and from the bar without having to worry about driving.

Zach Patton, the bar manager, said they are going to keep some nostalgic parts of the old establishment for the new Culley’s in order to attract former patrons. He will also try to bring in the younger crowd by offering drink specials such as $3 pitchers on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Several students think the drink specials and the atmosphere will make Culley’s stand out compared to other bars.

“We saw they had $3 pitchers, and we couldn’t pass that up,” Stratmann said.

Caleb Holder, a MSU alumnus with a degree in cell and molecular biology, said, “I think the drink specials are definitely competing with the other bars. Culley’s also seems to tailor toward a younger crowd, and I think students will like that kind of atmosphere.”

Similar to the old downtown Culley’s, the new pub will host live music every Thursday, Friday and Saturday, according to Bair.

“There’s not a lot of bars downtown that have a lot of live music options other than PBar, which is the same thing every time,” Brett Lawless, a senior majoring in finance, said. “If Culley’s brings out new bands and constantly changes it up, I think it will be something new and fresh to Springfield.”

Zachary Fletcher/THE STANDARD “The location and the live music will defiNostalgia abounds at Culley’s Pub, which nitely separate Culley’s from a lot of the other used to be a college hot spot for Missouri bars downtown,” Holder said. “It’ll be a great local bar that will add some characterization to State between the 1980s and the 2000s. the city of Springfield.”

Bair said he wants Culley’s to have a dif- Bair said. ferent feeling than the other bars.

Culley’s will serve drinks, individual piz“I want Culley’s Pub to be seen as the zas, soft pretzels and nachos. ‘your campus pub,’ ‘your neighborhood Culley’s Pub is located next to Text Bucks place.’ We’re trying to make a place that will at 607 E. Madison St. be around for years to come. We want people to come in and feel like this is their place,”

Hardee’s near campus closes down, CVS to move in

By Sofia Caito The Standard @SofiaCaito

As many of you have probably noticed by now, the Hardee’s at the corner of National and Elm has closed down. The restaurant closed the first week of January and came as a surprise to the Springfield community, as well as the restaurant’s employees.

The existing building will soon be demolished to make way for CVS. This CVS will be the fifth in Springfield and is moving in to compete with Walgreens, which has 10 locations in the area.

The building permit was filed in October and the Greene County Recorder states that the property was transferred officially on Jan. 7. The grantor of the land is Shay Mac.

Mike DeAngelis, the Director of PR for CVS Pharmacy says that they expect to begin construction next month and to open in November.

Neither employees nor a spokesperson from Hardee’s was available to comment on the shutting down of the restaurant.

David Sears, a senior theater and psychology double major, thinks that CVS will be a good thing for Missouri State students.

“It’ll be a lot more convenient for people on campus who don’t have a car to walk to,” Sears said.

The new CVS will also provide more jobs to people in Springfield.

“More jobs and better jobs than Hardee’s,” Asher Allman, a second-year global studies graduate student, said.

“Closer to campus for students and Greeks in particular.”

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This sign was posted in the front window of Hardee’s at National and Elm the day it closed in early January.

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By Lindsey Kolb Guest Columnist @lindsey_kolb Another January quickly flew by this year, but not without having another State of the Union address made by President Barack Obama for the sixth year in a row. As I sat around my TV with my fellow College Republicans, we started to keep track of the lies and offensive remarks our president made. Here’s just a few observations about Obama’s address: He needs a fact-checker. Obama claimed that the economy has been flourishing since he’s been in office. In fact, he skipped over the topic of national debt entirely. In reality, if Obama would have just asked Siri about national debt, he would have found out the real answer — that America is trillions of dollars in debt and hasn’t even begun to make a dent in paying it off. Realistically, the national debt increased by $7.6 trillion over the six years Obama has been in office.

He doesn’t have his priorities in check. Obama claimed that climate change is the biggest threat to our generation. In a world where nuclear bombs are being created by terrorists, violence is an ever-growing issue in our communities and other countries are threatening cyber-attacks on the United States, Obama still thinks that the “eminent” danger of a climate change is much more important and threatening. I would disagree.

He didn’t have the full healthcare story straight. Obama claimed that, “In the past year alone, about 10 million uninsured Americans finally gained the security of health coverage.” This is a drastic understatement and doesn’t mean the quality of health insurance has become better. Remember when he claimed that if you pass his healthcare plan that you could keep your doctor? Once the plans actually started being implemented in the U.S., the insurance premiums and costs went up drastically.

This means that people who typically had great health insurance were forced to drop their plans and change doctors. Once again, another lie by our president. This doesn’t even begin the topic of the dysfunctional Obamacare website that crashed on and off again for the first full year it was live.

He is classless. Obama threw his 2012 campaign success in the Republicans’ faces and failed to even recognize the Republican Party’s success in winning a majority in both the House and the Senate. Former President George W. Bush made a point to congratulate the Democratic Party for winning the majority in his 2007 State of the Union.

He needs a dictionary. Obama claimed that his plan to give students two years of community college would be free. However, the word “free” means that something doesn’t cost anything. This plan would come to a drastic cost of $60 billion. Time magazine reports that, “Of all of the students who enrolled in public community college for the first time in the fall of 2003, only one-quarter earned any kind of certificate or associate’s degree within six years.” This expensive program wouldn’t be very fruitful anyway.

Thank goodness Obama has only one more State of the Union address to give. Hopefully, the year after that we will have a new president who is full of integrity and will not deliberately mislead the American people.

By Spencer Martin Columnist @Spencer_XC

The end is nigh.

Or maybe it isn’t. We won’t really know until it’s already happening and the walkers start roaming our neighborhoods. But until then, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists remains one of our most reliable sources of doomsday proximity.

The Bulletin has been evaluating the state of nuclear weaponry around the world and the subsequent chance of “apocalypse” or “doomsday” — the end of civilized humanity as we know it and the beginning of the Thunderdome era — since 1947. “The Doomsday Clock” has depicted the relative closeness to doomsday in terms of minutes until midnight, with midnight being doomsday.

Since 1947, the clock has been as close as two minutes until midnight — in 1953 when the United States and Russia tested nuclear bombs within nine months of each other — and as far as 17 minutes — in 1991 when the Soviet Union officially collapsed

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O F T H E U N I O N I S D I V I D E D

Every year the rebuttal is slightly different, but as an avid watcher of the State of the Union, I thoroughly enjoy them because of their different opinions. It allows us, as a nation, to decide who we believe is right and where we believe the nation is headed. Below, I will outline my response to the Republican rebuttal of the 2015 State of the Union Address.

My initial reactions were that Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, failed to hit a single point of accuracy in her rebuttal. It sounded more like a hopeful campaign speech than a rebuttal to the most important address of the year.

“As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm,” Ernst said.

“I worked construction with my dad. To save for college, I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardee’s.” This line may strike home for some, but she should have it memorized by now; it was a frequent statement in her 2014 campaign for Senate.

Additionally, Ernst spoke about a number of issues that the new Republican majority will take care of in the coming year: Keystone XL: Ernst blames President Barack Obama for delaying the measure; however, it was still in the Senate when she made the claim.

There is much debate in the Senate over the jobs portion of the bill. The State Department has claimed that the pipeline will create thousands of temporary jobs (in one to two years) but will fall to 50 permanent jobs.

It’s a far cry from the job-growth impact Ernst claims.

Healthcare: Same old, same old. Republicans think it’s a terrible policy. Not surprising that it was included. However, the claim that it is a failed policy is erroneous. In the third quarter of 2014, the number of people uninsured had dropped from 13.4 percent to 5 percent. It’s hard to prove that a program that has insured over 10 million people from Oct. 2013 to June 2014 is a failure.

Terrorism: First off, I do want to commend Ernst for her service and believe that her two decades of service is very honorable. However, she should fact-check her own party before passing claims that the United States is under threat from ISIS on our own soil. Ernst used information from the office of Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., in which he exaggerated the threat and the officials he cited state that the role of ISIS was more indirect and less immediate than Graham would have us believe.

Executive Overreach: Ernst, and the Republican right, believes that the president has overused his power. Isn’t that apparent by the lawsuit?

But a chain email claims that Obama has issued more than 1,000 executive orders — more than any other president. As of Jan. 20, he was at 168. The email also infers that Obama has far surpassed his predecessors in using his executive powers. That, too, is way off. FDR signed off on more than 3,500 executive orders, and, in fact, Obama is on pace to issue fewer executive orders than any two-term president since 1900.

Obviously, I could cover every part of the rebuttal, but I leave it up to each of you to fact-check what you hear and read.

and disbanded. More recently though, the clock has been moved two minutes closer to midnight, making the time 11:57 p.m.

So, if humanity is on the verge of annihilation, is there anything we can do? Yes. The two primary factors monitored by the doomsday clock are nuclear arms and climate change – both of these indicators have an element of human control.

Climate change does exist, and it is a problem. As a result of varying forms of pollution, volcanic activity and solar output, the trend of various climates around the world changing to more extreme and unpredictable weather poses a dangerous threat to humanity. A changing climate lends itself toward longer droughts, more destructive tornadoes and even more intense and frequent wildfires.

That said, I’m by no means an environmental scientist, so I’ll offer an interesting alternative to nuclear weaponry.

In 2010, General Atomics began testing on a railgun weapon system — and more recently, the U.S. Navy released video footage of their BAE Systems railgun system undergoing testing.

This weapon system uses an electromagnetic current to launch a projectile from the parallel conducting rails. The amount of kinetic energy generated from a railgun can launch the projectile to speeds faster than seven times the speed of sound and has an effective

range of over 100 miles.

While there’s nothing wrong with disarmament of nuclear arms — as the United States’ nuclear stockpile could blow up the Earth multiple times over. But a weapon that provides extreme accuracy, is blazing fast and provides incredible power without the use of chemical propellants would be a great reason to reduce the number of nuclear arms at least a little bit.

The railgun is also designed to not only hit targets on land and at sea, but also in the air. Air targets could be anything from an enemy fighter, to a bomber or even an incoming Intercontinental Ballistic Missile.

That’s a nuke for us regular people.

With the capability of the railgun as both an offensive and a defensive weapon, the concept of reducing our nuclear stockpile becomes a much more appealing idea. We would by no means be leaving ourselves exposed by eliminating a few hundred nuclear devices and also implementing railgun systems both on land and at sea.

Even with this in mind, there are still plenty of opportunities for humanity to make a quick turnaround and bring everyone back from the brink of extinction.

I have no problem with adapting to the rules of Thunderdome, and I am fully prepared to spin the wheel if need be — but I would rather that not be anytime soon.

And yet the Doomsday Clock keeps ticking.

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Missouri State students perform at Springfield Little Theatre Peyson Shields Play Reviewer

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“Our next speller is Peyson Shields!” announced Ms. Rona Lisa Peretti, one of the announcers for this year’s bee. As I approached the microphone, Ms. Peretti was giving the audience a little background on me, explaining how I’ve claimed to have been abducted by aliens more than a dozen times — but that’s beside the point.

“Miss Shields, your word is ‘fandango,’” said the other announcer, Mr. Douglas Panch. As I pondered the word, I fidgeted with my number 27 lanyard and regretted the fact that I didn’t put on SPF 50 to account for the bright stage lights.

Eventually, I asked for the word’s definition and for it to be used in a sentence — a trick my buddy, Chip Tolentino, told me to always follow. “Fandango,” I repeated, “F-A-N-D-AN-G-O, fandango.”

“Correct!” exclaimed Ms. Peretti. As a smile took over my face, I walked back to the bleachers where all of the spellers were waiting their turn to prove their smarts. Chip, last year’s winner, gave me a fat high-five and showed me where he had written spelling tips in my notebook. All of the spellers had their own spelling style, but he was taking me under his wing so I was definitely going to listen to him throughout this competition. *** “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” is a musical-comedy being put on by the Springfield Little Theatre.

The production is made up of a small nine-person cast, featuring four Missouri State students: junior musical theater major Alec Brown, senior musical theater major Jalen Lee, senior musical theater major Ellen Spann and junior speech and theater education major Zoe Zelonky.

“There are two nights of auditions and separate nights for callbacks,” Spann explained of the casting process. Although Spann (Olive Ostrovsky) has never participated in community theater, she said that she loved her experience and working with the entire cast.

The other MSU students have performed in community theater shows at the Lander’s (another name for SLT) before.

Brown (Leaf Coneybear) has been in “Shrek,” along with Zelonky (Marcy Park) who has also been in “Legally Blonde” and “Seussical Jr.” Lee (William Barfee) has performed in

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Life editor, Peyson Shields, participates in a rehearsal for “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” “Spamalot.”

The rest of the cast includes: Amelia Jo Parrish (Logainne Schwartzandgrubinierre) and Matthew Schimmer (Chip Tolentino) both portraying spellers, Ryan Mattix (Douglas Panch) and Tara Lewis (Rona Lisa Peretti) working as coannouncers and Derrick Devonne King (Mitch Mahoney) plays a felon on parole.

The raunchy comedy takes a middle-school spelling bee to another level with witty jokes and not-so-appropriate humor.

“Every night (of the production) is totally different,” Lee said.

Each evening, four lucky members of the audience get the opportunity to participate in the production by being spellers.

As a guest speller during a rehearsal, I can attest to the fact that this adds to the laughs. *** “Miss Shields,” announced Ms. Peretti. Round two of spelling, here I come. I’ve got this. I went to gifted and talented elementary school back in the day; there is nothing I can’t do. Except spell, I’m actually a very poor verbal speller.

I always replace S’s with C’s and flip-flop letters and it’s just tough. I’m much more of a pen and paper kind of girl. But hey, that’s okay. You can visualize this, Peyson. Chip has your back! Round two ain’t got nothing on you.

“Your word is ‘push,’” said Mr. Panch.

“Seriously?!?” my brain screamed. This is awesome, I’m

Tap that app Popular mobile applications for everything from procrastination to relaxation

By Zachary Fletcher The Standard @ZachSFletcher The world of smartphone apps is in a constant state of transition. One month it seems like everyone is playing Angry Birds or Words With Friends, the next no one spares them a thought. But for each Draw Something or Temple Run that falls out of vogue, something fresh and exciting rises to take its place. With a new year and new semester underway, a couple of new apps have also taken the spotlight on MSU’s campus.

If phone games are your preferred method of relaxation or procrastination, you’re probably already familiar with Trivia Crack. Developed by the Argentinian company Etermax, Trivia Crack was iTunes’ most-downloaded app of 2014 — and if its popularity at MSU is any indication, it hasn’t slowed

down. As the name suggests, it is a competitive trivia game with a quite literal new “spin”: rather than simply alternating turns, players are at the mercy of a Wheel of Fortune-esque spinner. The spinner determines the question’s category (geography, science, history, sports, art or entertainment) and provides opportunities to win “characters” in each of these subjects. Once a player has won all six characters, the game is over. A particularly skilled — or lucky — player might win in a single turn.

“I guess it’s going to sound cheesy, but I feel like I’m broadening my horizons,” says junior geotourism major Sydney Smith. “Like, I’m learning things when I do it.”

For those more interested in the social side of the app spectrum, Yik Yak is the current download of choice. Created by Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffing-

ton, Yik Yak is like a portable version of online pages such as Springfield Bear Confessions. Users create anonymous “Yaks” — short, often-juicy statements about local parties, romantic hang-ups, or even drug deals — which can then be viewed and replied to by anyone within a ten-mile radius. It’s not hard to see the appeal in this blending of the public and the private.

“I just read it, (I don’t) post,” freshman professional writing major Brooke Hoerr was quick to clarify. “It’s entertaining.”

Trivia Crack and Yik Yak are both free to download and are available on Apple and Android. But don’t wait around to download them: Smith gives Trivia Crack another four or five months months before it falls out of fashion, adding that “I’ve already started using it less.” If history follows its course, Yik Yak probably won’t be far behind.

totally going to win the 25th annual Putnam County spelling bee and my mom is going to be so proud. But I couldn’t get a big head about this, so I still used Chip’s rules and asked for a definition and for the word to be used in a sentence.

My confidence shone, “Push, P-U-S-H, push.” *Ding!* rang the bell. “Incorrect,” said Mr. Panch.

What? I’m sorry, what? My word was “push” and I spelled it right and now Mitch Mahoney is singing me off stage while pushing a Capri-Sun into my hands. The cast is singing and I’m being eliminated for missing a silent letter that doesn’t even exist. But hey, this Capri-Sun is fruit punch flavored so everything might be all right. *** “This has been such a great experience,” said Zelonky. “I push myself every night because the cast is so talented.”

So when push comes to shove and you spell a word wrong, at least you’ll be laughing the whole time.

“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” runs from Jan. 23-Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m. On Sunday, there’s a 2:30 p.m. show, as well as a matinee on Saturday, Jan. 31. The Springfield Little Theatre is located at 311 E. Walnut Ave.. Student rush tickets are available at the door each night for $10. For tickets or more information call 417-869-1334.

Winterfresh

Farmers markets provide local food when temperatures drop Farmers Market of the Ozarks is one of the Rose Marthis/THE STANDARD

local markets open during the winter.

By Rose Marthis The Standard @RoseMarthis

Another cold winter night. Another microwave TV dinner, right? Wrong.

Finding fresh food that’s good for you isn’t impossible when temperatures drop.

Springfield has multiple farmers markets that thrive in the winter and make it easier than ever to bring the farm to your table.

The two most popular farmers markets in Springfield are the Farmers Market of the Ozarks in Farmers Park off Republic Road and the Greater Springfield Farmers’ Market in the parking lot of Battlefield Mall at Glenstone and Battlefield.

Both have winter hours that are reduced from summer hours but still make it easy to get fresh produce all year long.

Though it seems like there is less to choose from in the winter than in the summer, Greater Springfield Farmers’ Market manager Brad Gray says there are just different types of fresh food available.

“There’s a lot more available locally even in the winter than what folks probably think,” he said. “It’s worth a trip out.”

Gray said the selection changes by season because produce varies, but winter isn’t barren of all-natural goods.

Greater Springfield Farmers’ Market

Intersection of South Glenstone Avenue and East Battlefield Road Winter Hours: Saturdays 9 a.m.-noon www.springfieldfarmersmarket.com

“We have primarily meat goods, baked goods, homemade jams and jellies, tamales, raviolis, bread dough and specialty products like honey. We also have winter squash and peppers early in the season,” Gray said.

Both markets have a lot more than dinner ingredients to offer shoppers.

Farmer’s Market of the Ozarks has vendors selling homemade jewelry and gifts.

Shopping while hungry? Farmers Market of the Ozarks has vendors from all over the region bringing everything from pastries to Peruvian food, sea food to sweet goods.

Gray said the market also reduces hours to give farmers a break from the busy schedule. “We want to give our vendors a chance to rest and prepare for spring,” he said.

Many farmers are adapting to consumer needs and finding ways to extend growing seasons, Gray said. Some farmers experiment with greenhouse technologies to grow leafy greens and root vegetables all year round, and Gray puts heaters in vendor trailers.

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Tuesday, Jan. 27

Shattering the Silences Series: Giving Voice, 1-3 p.m., Plaster Student Union 303 Ji — pianist, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts, $20

Wednesday, Jan. 28

SAC Films presents: “The Parent Trap,” 9-11 p.m., Plaster Student Union Theater

Thursday, Jan. 29

SAC After Hours Presents: As Seen on TV Bingo, 9 p.m.-midnight, Plaster Student Union Food Court

Friday, Jan. 30

Video Game Rock ‘n’ Bowl, 7:3010:30 p.m., Level 1 Game Center

Saturday, Jan. 31

Farmers Market of the Ozarks, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., 2144 E. Republic Road MSU Film Series: “Two Step,” 79:30 p.m., Plaster Student Union Theater

Sunday, Feb. 1

SAC Films presents: “The Parent Trap,” 9-11 p.m., Plaster Student Union Theater

Monday, Feb. 2

Department of Art and Design: Biennial Exhibition, TBA, Student Exhibition Center

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Get the most bang for your buck with Springfield grocers

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By Callie Dunaway The Standard @Callie_Dunaway

With the closing of Dillons, there has been quite a buzz about where college students should shop for their groceries.

Price Cutter has announced that they will be moving into the old Dillons location on National. As college students, we have tight budgets and want the cheapest prices for the best quality.

Even though some may be mourning the loss of Dillons, there are several other options when it comes to purchasing affordable food.

Based on the findings to the right, Walmart is the cheapest place to get your food. It is possible to eat healthy on a tight budget, if you know what to buy.

Sticking to generic brands for certain food products is always a good way to go, too.

Spending time in ‘Detention’ Trevor Mitchell Movie Reviewer

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“Detention,” a 2011 film starring Josh Hutcherson that’s easily available on Netflix, is absolutely the next thing you should watch whenever you don’t feel like doing homework or studying.

At its heart, “Detention” is what

“Scream” would look like if you mixed it with a healthy dose of “Airplane.” It’s a horror movie, but sometimes it’s an 80s teen comedy, a science-fiction film — director Joseph Kahn (director of the video, “Blank Space”) deftly fits them all together, giving the movie a great sense of energy without ever letting it spiral out of control. If you enjoyed “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” you’ll love “Detention.”

It would be nearly impossible to accurately describe the plot of the movie to someone who hasn’t seen it — it’d either spoil it or make no sense whatsoever. Suffice it to say that in the hour and a half running

time, you’ll witness time travel, a horror movie villain only referred to as “Cinderhella,” an equation predicting the end of the world and a jock whose father made him wear a TV on his hand as a child in order to hide his meteor-given fly mutations.

It’s a weird movie.

Hutcherson, who also served as executive producer for the film, does well as a slacker kid who skateboards through the hallways of the school avoiding homework, and the rest of the cast — though almost certainly no one you’ve ever heard of, save for Dane Cook as the loser principal — manage to be absolutely hilarious.

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35 "Ice Loves -" 36 Eat 37 Bribe 38 Yoko of music 40 In the offing 42 Core of a PC 44 Autograph 46 In the thick of 50 Smack, so to speak 52 Basic drive 54 Gave out 55 Up 56 Verse 57 Actress Naomi DOWN 1 Marsh bird 2 Castle protector 3 Chasm 4 Fish eggs 5 - soul (person with angst) 6 Shrek, e.g.

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8 - Diego 9 Things 10 Con game 11 Actress Ward 12 Telly option 18 Pruritic 21 Buddy 23 Do sum work?

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destiny 49 Dress in 51 Chic no more 53 Playwright Levin

It’s an out-of-control ride that might not be for everyone, but it’s the kind of movie that you could be watching for the fifth time and still be noticing jokes that you’ve never seen before. Whether you love it or hate it — I bought it from Amazon on Blu-Ray during the ending credits the first time I watched it — you will never see anything else quite like “Detention.”

If the movie sounds like your kind of thing, get a few friends together and check it out. It’ll definitely be something to talk about, if you aren’t already crying from laughter.

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Duel in the Pool part deux The second half of MSU’s crosstown rivalry against Drury ends with same result

Men’s basketball (8-12, 2-6) Wednesday, Jan. 21 Missouri State 33 20 - 53 Wichita State 39 37 - 76 Saturday, Jan. 24 Missouri State Bradley

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25 34 - 59 35 26 - 61

Women’s basketball (8-10, 5-2) Friday, Jan. 23 Missouri State 28 33 - 61 Southern Illinois 26 31 - 57 Sunday, Jan. 25 Missouri State Illinois State

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Ice hockey (20-7-1, 10-2) Friday, Jan. 23 Missouri State 4 1 Missouri 0 0 Saturday, Jan. 24 Missouri State Missouri

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Wednesday, Jan. 28 Men’s basketball: 7 p.m. vs. Illinois State at Normal, Illinois

Friday, Jan. 30

Men’s Swimming and diving: 4 p.m. vs. Shamrock Invitational at South Bend, Indiana Women’s basketball: 7:05 p.m. vs. Drake at Des Moines, Iowa

Saturday, Jan. 31

Men’s swimming and diving: 9 a.m. vs. Shamrock Invitational at South Bend, Indiana Men’s basketball: 7:05 p.m. vs.

Southern Illinois at home

Sunday, Feb.1

Tennis: noon vs. SIU-Edwardsville at Edwardsville, Illinois Women’s baskeball: 2 p.m. vs.

Northern Iowa at Cedar Falls, Iowa Super Bowl: 5:30 p.m. Seattle vs.

New England at Glendale, Arizona

Briefs

Track and field finishes fourth

The Missouri State track and field Bears finished fourth at the UAB Green and Gold Invite on Jan. 24 in Birmingam, Alabama.

Results for this meet can be viewed when made available on the Missouri State University athletic website, http://www.missouristatebears.com.

Swimming and diving breaks pool records in Rolla

The Missouri State men’s swimming and diving team broke four pool records at S&T Pool during a meet against Missouri S&T on Friday, Jan. 23 in Rolla, Missouri.

Seniors Paul Le and Vitalii Baryshok teamed up with juniors Isaac Springer and Uvis Kalnins to set a new pool record (1:31.75) enroute to a win in the 200 medley relay. Junior Miguel Davila (9:25.14) set a new record in the 1000 free.

Le set another record (1:50.79) in the 200 individual medley, and Kalnins set a new record (1:52.01) in the 200 back.

Softball pitcher earns preseason All-MVC honors

Not in our woods!

Sophomore pitcher Erin Struemph was named to the preseason All-MVC team on Jan. 21.

Struemph led MSU with a 3.35 ERA and 155 strikeouts during the 2014 season.

MSU was picked to finish seventh in a recent MVC poll.

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Sophomore forward Brendan McClew scores a goal while stretched out on the ice during Game 2 of the series against the Missouri Tigers on Jan. 24 at Mediacom Ice Park. MSU won this game 12-4 to complete the sweep.

Ice Bears sweep Mizzou in Springfield during latest chapter of in-state rivalry

By Mike Ursery The Standard @MikeUrsery

If every battle has a hero, then senior forward Jack Ryan certainly played the role during the Battle for Missouri at Mediacom Ice Park on Jan. 23-24.

Ryan recorded a hat trick in both MSU victories to help the Ice Bears complete the two-game sweep, winning Game 1 7-0, and Game 2 12-4, both played in front of a soldout crowd.

“Since my freshman year, this is definitely my favorite weekend of the year,” Ryan said. “There's just something about playing in front of a packed house. This is probably my last time to ever play in front of a crowd like this.”

In Game 1, the Ice Bears established a lead less than a minute after the opening

face off. Junior forward Brian Leslie scored the opening goal — which could be counted as the game-winner — just 55 seconds into the game when he took a pass from freshman forward Andrew Kovacich and put it past the Missouri goaltender. MSU scored three more times in the first period, including two from Ryan, with one being an unassisted goal.

Ryan completed his first hat trick late in the second period off of an assist from senior defenseman Justin Buchheit. The Ice Bears led 5-0 going into the final period.

Sophomore forwards Brendan McClew and Ryan Hogland each scored a goal in the third period as the Ice Bears cruised to an easy victory, 7-0.

Game 2 featured even more scoring, and it was full of aggression, Both teams provided their fair share of violence. In all, u See BATTLE, page 7

This season’s second Duel in the Pool ended the same way the first one did in October. The MSU swimming and diving team split the duel Thursday night at Drury’s Breech Pool. The men won 126-108, while the women fell to Drury 169-72.

The win for the men evened the all-time series with Drury at 15 wins apiece.

“It was a good meet as always,” said swimming and diving head coach Dave Collins. “I think that our men really responded well to the challenge of racing tired.

It was a little tougher for the women, but swimming fast tired is something we’ve got to continue to work on as the season winds down.”

The duel started with an MSU win in the men’s 200 medley relay, which was quickly followed by a win from junior Miguel Davila in the 1000 free. After a few losses, MSU bounced back with a first- and secondplace finish in the 200 IM from junior Uvis Kalnins and freshman Kacper Cwiek.

Having arrived in January, Cwiek has already begun to positively impact the team.

“We’re still figuring things out with Kacper and what he’s capable of,”

Collins said. “That one-two finish in the 200 IM really set the tone for the remainder of the meet, because the team scores were really tight at that point.”

The MSU diving team dominated its event. Then, the men’s side jumped out ahead after senior Vitalii Baryshok won in the 100 fly and freshman Ethan Bresette won the 500 free. After no MSU victories in the 100 breast, the duel came down to the final event, the 200 free relay, to determine which men’s team would win.

The race started in Drury’s favor as both of their relay teams pulled away early and looked to take all the points. Senior Caleb Schuermann dove in for the final leg of the relay, swam his team back into second place and secured a men’s team win by stopping Drury from finishing one-two in the 200 free relay.

“It’s a big rival and we all got each other pumped up,” said Schuermann. “With conference being right around the corner, this meet is a big motivation.”

On Jan. 30, the swimming and diving team travels to South Bend, Indiana, for the Shamrock Invitational.

The women will head to Carbondale, Illinois, on Feb. 18 for the MVC Championships. The men will wait until March 4 to go to Geneva, Ohio, for the MAC Championships.

MSU Boxing ready to make a knock out New organization has been training in lieu of first annual boxing event taking place in McDonald Arena

By Mike Ursery The Standard @MikeUrsery “First rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club. Second rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club.”

This was a scene from “Fight Club,” a novel

by Chuck Palahniuk, which later became a popular motion picture released in 1999.

A small number of students at Missouri State happen to have their own fight club, but they don’t want it to be kept secret from anyone.

The Missouri State boxing team, an affiliate of USA Boxing, can be found training at the Police Activities League gym at the Willard Police Department on Tuesday and Thursday nights. The team was started by Patrick Gartin, an associate professor in the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department, and Glenn Cozzens, a Willard police officer.

“We started this just last semester,” Gartin said. “I had some interest expressed by students at the university, so we got the team started and worked out an arrangement to train here (at the Willard Police Department).”

One of those students who expressed interest to Garkin was Melanie Nelgner, a sophomore English major who currently serves as president

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Melanie Nelgner, a sophomore education major, is the president of MSU Boxing. of the MSU boxing team. “(Garkin and Cozzens) sent an email out to a bunch of different organizations on campus saying they wanted to get a team going,” Nelgner said. “I happened to get that email trickled down to me, so I decided to check it out.”

Nelgner also said that becoming president isn’t something that happened right away for her.

While Garkin was taking the necessary steps to

get the team recognized as an official campus organization, he had someone placed in the position so the organization could be considered valid.

“After a couple of weeks of the team actually going, the president told (Garkin) that he wasn’t interested in actually being a part of the team but only wanted to help get everything going,” she said. “So, I volunteered.”

From the time the team was formed, the only thing that fighters have done is train in the PAL gym. However, the team plans on bringing something new to the MSU campus very soon.

The MSU Boxing Team placed an announcement on its Campus Link page for Bear Brawl I, an amateur boxing event that will be held inside of McDonald Arena on March 21.

Nelgner said that the event will consist of fighters from the MSU boxing team and the PAL program. However, they are also going to open it up to volunteers who wish to participate in one of the 24 bouts during Bear Brawl I. “The goal for that is to talk to fraternities, sororities and other organizations about getting involved,” she said. “We’re hoping that it will be a fun… brawl.”

Bear Brawl I will last 4-11 p.m. on March 21 with free admission for all MSU students, faculty and staff, according to the boxing team’s Campus Link profile page.

Climbing higher in the Valley Lady Bears extend winning streak to four games, move into fourth place in conference standings

By John Robinson The Standard @SaxmanJohn It wasn’t easy, it wasn’t clean and it certainly wasn’t high scoring, but the Missouri State Lady Bears (8-10, 2-5 MVC) took care of business at home over the weekend to extend their win streak to four games.

“I think if you watch us play, even in our wins, it’s not always pretty,” head coach Kellie Harper said. “It may not be the cleanest at times, but when the going gets tough, our kids are finding ways to make plays.”

In their wins over Southern Illinois (9-9, 2-5 MVC) and Illinois State (0-18, 0-8 MVC), the Lady Bears only made 38 percent and 35 percent of their shots, respectively, in each game. So how did they manage to come away with wins? They played defense.

Against the Salukis of SIU, the Lady Bears took the ball away 21 times. They nabbed the ball 24 times against the Redbirds.

“We weren’t shooting the ball well or getting the stops we needed,” redshirt junior guard Kenzie Williams said after facing Illinois State. “We started feeding off our defense at that point, getting steals and rebounding better.”

William’s 23 total points over the weekend were the most from any Lady Bear.

One of the biggest factors in the turnover game was junior guard Tyonna Snow. Snow collected 10 steals on the night to move into the top10 all-time steals list at Missouri State.

“That’s kind of my thing,” Snow said. “It’s what I do. I know my teammates have my back if I go for it and I miss.”

For a team who started the year on a brutal six-game road stretch — which saw zero wins — the fact they now sit two games below .500 and at fourth place in the Missouri Valley is encouraging.

“I feel like we’re starting to put everything together,” junior center Hillary Chvatal, who had Maddy Cushman/THE STANDARD a double-double against Southern Illinois with 14 Junior guard Tyonna Snow drives through the lane during a game against Southern Illiu See STREAK, page 7 nois on Jan. 23 at JQH Arena.

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Undermanned and overwhelmed Bears continue slide with sixth straight conference loss; MSU sitting seventh in Valley standings, looking at play-in scenario

By Eli Wohlenhaus The Standard @eliwohlenhaus

Fueled by free popcorn, the desire to see a top 25-ranked team and the promise of a free T-shirt, the student section quickly filled up for the Missouri State Bears (8-12, 2-6) versus No. 14 Wichita State (18-2, 8-0).

JQH Arena was electric, and for the first half of play it propelled the Bears to 52 percent shooting from the field. MSU had nine assists and only two turnovers through the first half, yet trailed 39-33 despite the solid outing.

WSU hit six first half 3-pointers and grabbed eight offensive rebounds, giving the Shockers the advantage.

That shooting continued into the second half for the Shockers, but not for the Bears. WSU finished shooting 52 percent from the 3-point line, making 11 of 21. MSU only made two of 10, going 0-4 in the second half.

Deadly shooting and a 40-24 rebounding advantage sent the Shockers into cruise control on their way to a 76-53 rout.

Sophomore guard Austin Ruder earned the title of “sharpshooter” for the Bears last season, setting a program record for 72 made 3-pointers as a freshman. So far this season, he has been stifled, including an 0-4 night beyond the arc.

“Just getting a catch was difficult to initiate the offense,” said Ruder. “I’ve got to find more ways to get open.”

The Shockers have now won 25 straight Missouri Valley Conference games. Their league supremacy is not an acci-

dent.

“We recruit kids that want to work hard,” said Wichita State’s head coach Gregg Marshall. “We also compete. We compete in practice… We push them every day to get better individually and collectively.”

MSU has now lost six straight games following a 61-59 loss to the Bradley Braves (7-14, 2-6) on Saturday, Jan. 24.

The Bears do not return to JQH Arena until Jan. 31 when they host Southern Illinois (9-11, 2-5) at 7 p.m. Prior to that game, MSU plays at Illinois State (12-8, 4-4) to face the Redbirds on Wednesday, Jan. 28, at 7 p.m.

The home game against the Salukis has been deemed a “blackout” game, encouraging fans to wear all black to support the Bears.

Eli’s Extras

•Allowing a team to shoot 52 percent from the 3-point line is unacceptable. It is very rare a team will shoot that well, but once it became obvious that was where the Shockers were hot, the Bears should have worked harder to stop it.

•Fouls continue to be an issue for the Bears. Officials did make bad calls, but this has been a consistent issue all season.

•MSU continues to have a positive assist-to-turnover ratio, but it doesn’t seem that way. Is it because they do not extend possessions with offensive rebounds? Maybe. Bears also lack a lot of set offenses.

•Free throws are not hard to practice, but they do take selfdiscipline. MSU players need to stay in the gym a little while

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MSU freshman guard and forward Chris Kendrix drives through the lane while being guarded by Ron Baker of Wichita State on Jan. 21. The Shockers won 76-53.

longer and work on this necessity. MSU went 11-19. Those misses add up.

•Losing six in a row hurts, especially when three of those came at home. The Bears need a win in Springfield badly.

They have a good chance at that on Jan. 31 when the SIU Salukis come to town.

to see if this is their moment with one of the toughest road stretches in conference play on the horizon. Three straight road games and all against the top three teams in the conference: Drake (12-6 7Continued from page 6 0 MVC), the University of Northern points and 10 rebounds, said. “Every- Iowa (10-8 6-1 MVC) and a rematch one is healthy and it’s all coming with Wichita State (16-3 7-0 MCV), together for conference play.” who beat the Lady Bears at home 71-59.

The Lady Bears will have a chance To compare their next three oppo-

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MSU and Missouri totalled 81 minutes in the penalty box.

Buchheit opened the scoring with an even strength goal after a roughing penalty was charged to Missouri and a holding penalty charged to MSU freshman forward Connor Millard.

MSU went on the penalty kill less than three minutes later after senior forward Miguel Franco was called for tripping. However, the Ice Bears killed off the penalty successfully, with senior goaltender Steve Lombardo making three saves.

The Ice Bears jumped out to a huge lead after two periods, going ahead 7-2. The only response from Missouri was to bait MSU into committing more penalties — a

strategy that did not work but only resulted in sending the Tigers to the penalty box.

“We expected that. We knew it was coming,” Buchheit said. “They were getting frustrated out there. It benefits us when they commit those penalties because it allows us to keep scoring.”

Scoring was exactly what MSU did in the final period.

Ryan scored first in the third for his second goal of the game before completing his hat trick with just over two minutes remaining, and finished the scoring with his fourth goal, which came with just 19 seconds left. McClew and senior forward Adam Otten also added goals to finish the 12-4 victory for the Ice Bears.

MSU plays its final home series against Illinois on Jan. 30-31 as part of senior weekend. That weekend, a bittersweet one for head coach Bob Bucher, will honor seven seniors.

nents’ conference records to the four the Lady Bears have played on this win streak, it looks to be a bit steeper of a challenge. Twenty wins and one loss between the three vs. three combined wins and 25 combined losses between the four.

The Lady Bears will begin their road stretch with a stop in Des Moines, Iowa, on Friday, Jan. 30, at 7:05 p.m.

“I came to this program three years ago,” Bucher said. “I'm so blessed to be here because of these guys.”

The upcoming series is also critical for MSU in regards to where it currently stands in the American Collegiate Hockey Association Central Region rankings, which were released on Jan. 23.

The Ice Bears sit at No. 3, sitting beneath only Lindenwood-Belleville (No. 1), and Grand Valley State (No. 2).

Once the regular season ends, the teams ranked in the top-10 will have an opportunity to advance to the ACHA Central Region playoffs with an invite to the ACHA National Tournament on the line.

The top two teams in the ACHA Central Region rankings receive an automatic bid to the National Tournament, while the other eight teams will battle it out for the third and final spot to round out

ACHA Central Region representation.

Normally, the Ice Bears would have to fight their way through the regional playoffs since they are No. 3. However, Lindenwood-Belleville is disqualified due to violating ACHA rules. Due to this disqualification, Grand Valley State moves to No. 1 and MSU becomes No. 2 based on the technicality.

Winning the next four games becomes crucial for the Ice Bears. Finishing the last four games on a high note guarantees them clinching an automatic bid to the ACHA National Tournament.

“That regional tournament is going to be tough,” Bucher said. “Right now, one through ten, anybody could beat anybody. What this means for us is that we have to take care of business.”

Both games against Illinois are scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. at Mediacom Ice Park.

Men’s Basketball Standings ST TANDINGS

CONF

OVERALL

Wichita State

8-0

18-2

Indiana State Evansville

6-2

10-10

5-3

15-5

4-4

12-8

2-6

9-12

Nothern Iowa

Illinois State Loyola Southern Illinois Missouri State

Bradley Drake

18-2

7-1

3-5

13-7

2-6

8-12

2-6

7-14

1-7

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Near the halfway point of the conference schedule, MSU sits tied for seventh with 10 games left.

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“If all you did was eat from the farmers market and not eat out at restaurants or grocery stores at all, you might find it’s cheaper and healthier,” he said.

Gray said that the vendors in Greater Springfield Farmers’ Market are able to stay competitive with commercial prices when market demands are stable and transportation costs are cut by the farmer bringing them to the markets themselves each week.

Shopping at farmers markets also make it easy for consumers to know the source of their food and which communities they are supporting.

Farmers Market of the Ozarks hosts farmers from all over Missouri who are able to inform buyers what goes into their food every step of the way.

“Consumers do tend to forget that there are farmers doing this yearround,” Gray said. “Find what’s available and use local resources as much as possible.”

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Take Note: the importance of marginalia Keenan Andrea

When I’m in the market for used books, a good majority of my time is spent comparison-shopping for the book with the most abnor-

Guest Columnist mally mish-mashed marginalia.

We’ve all seen it. That raggedy paperback all about a handwritten patchwork of contrasting perspectives that regard the text of an author too incommunicado, or too dead, to respond.

Those are the books for me. The hell with a barebacked, dog-earless novel stark empty in its birthday suit. I want the strokes of another’s pen swimming, teeming, drowning the borders of every page. I want a novel so heavily sleeved in opinionated tattoos that you can barely tell if it’s a work of fiction or a paradigm of slam poetry.

The chief reason for the why behind my wanting of marginalia footprints in every book I own is imagination. Almost all the scrawling jots and tidy dashes I see while leafing through a used book lend themselves to an imaginable character. The possibilities are limitless, what with handwriting being so undoubtedly robust and unique, I can imagine that

the ravishing cursive on a T.S. Eliot came from some bearded septuagenarian while he was closeted in a candlelit study upon a winter evening. It’s simple to fabricate a picture of some college woman behind the neat, organized and multicolored writing filling the frame of a human anatomy textbook. On a copy of Orwell’s “1984,” what look to be the marinara droplets of a spaghetti sauce must’ve originated from a mother reading during dinner because she had no time and needed to finish the novel before book club on Sunday.

I like to think that my own notes portray a simple-minded reader whose plain goal is finding the most jaw-droppingly beautiful sentences and committing them to memory to later be recycled into his own writing.

Sometimes the marginalia scribbles are brief asides, one or two words modestly noted beside the topic in review; maybe accompanied by a questionmark, or two or several.

Other times the writings are more zealous, furious scrawling, barreling down the length of a page on a bushwhacking toward the discovery of deeper answers.

We’ve all done it. Whether encouraged by our professors or simply needing a thorough overhaul of mental information, we’ve all commandeered that blank white space. So remember, dear readers, whenever you’re thumbing through the pages of any varied print, please, leave word.

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Friendzone: more of an excuse than a reality

Being friends with a substantial number of guys lends itself to a bevy of interesting conCaleb Hearon versations. Heterosexual men, like any group Guest of people, are considerColumnist ably unique and varied in their outlook on the world and its happenings.

There are, however, some things that I notice more often than not around the straight guys with whom I hangout. (Note: I make the distinction because I also hangout with a number of guys who identify as something other than heterosexual – these particular thoughts aren’t about them) One of the observations I’ve made and thought quite extensively about is the idea of the “friendzone”. For those who are unfamiliar with the friend zone –think of it as a purgatory of sorts.

It’s a reportedly awful and inescapable place wherein straight men have acquired the attention of a female companion but in a way that is neither romantic nor physical.

More often than not, when I hear the conversation among friends it goes something like, “Yeah dude, she’s always

telling me about her guy problems and I always do stuff for her but she’s not into me.”

Of course, what this really means is, “Yeah dude, she trusts me as a person and I treat her as I should any friend, but she hasn’t displayed any interest in my genitalia yet.” Which is apparently quite alarming because being thought of as a friend seems to be the ultimate insult from what I can tell.

The issue with the friendzone is the underlying assumptions it presents to men who are attracted to women. The idea is that, if you are a Simply, there is no friendman who zone and perpetuating that happens to be attractis disrespectful to women.” ed to women – they owe you something. The audacity of a woman to think of you as merely a close friend is outrageous because we all know you deserve more for your heroic gestures.

After all, you emailed her your notes that one time she missed class. Between the notes and that time you liked her

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Instagram picture, how could she not want to end up on your futon bed this weekend?

Naturally, not all men think this way, but these are the ideas implicit in the friendzone which I’ve heard so much about. Simply, there is no friend zone and perpetuating that is disrespectful to women. There should be no time-bound constraint on how long you will be kind to her, respect her and treat her with dignity before you ultimately give up because the relationship hasn’t become romantic.

A woman is capable, and worthy, of being just your friend without the incessant and misguided hope that someday you’ll be able to tell the world how you broke free from the darkness of the friend zone like Bane in The Dark Knight Rises.

Outside of just being disrespectful to women, the friendzone operates under a mentality of faking niceties up front and ultimately achieving an orgasm. Which, as a general rule, will never result in a healthy and successful relationship.

Learn to be okay with the fact that some women you encounter in life will give you the huge compliment of wanting to be your friend.

More importantly, unlearn the idea that the most valuable a thing awoman has to offer you is underneath her clothes.

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